Dwight David Eisenhower being inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States. Exterior of the Capitol building. Vehicular traffic passing on the street. An airplane lands at the airbase. Officials and dignitaries coming out of the airplane. Exterior of the White House. People gather on the street in front of the White House. Eisenhower comes out of the building and meets President Harry Truman. Cameramen taking their photographs. People standing in a large number behind roped off area. motorcade passing on the street. Dignitaries seated in a car arrive at the Capitol for the inauguration ceremony. Aerial view of the crowd gathered on the street in front of the Capitol. Eisenhower arrives in the balcony of the building. The crowd applauds. Richard Nixon is sworn in as the Vice President. Eisenhower is sworn in as the President of the United States. President Eisenhower takes the oath. Truman and Nixon shakes hands with the new President. President Eisenhower arrives at the podium and addresses the crowd. He talks about peace and warns the aggressors.
Dwight David Eisenhower being inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States. The inauguration ceremony in Washington DC. Band marching on the street. People gather in a large number on the street to watch the ceremony. President Eisenhower seated in a car moving on the street. He waves towards the cheering crowd. People throw confetti from a building. People applauding. various military units marching. Cavalry units passing on the street. Cameramen recording the event. President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon watching the ceremony.
A film titled 'Seconds for Survival' depicts the techniques used by people in case of emergency for their safety in the United States. American actor Raymond Hart Massey talks about the safety techniques. Men aboard sailing boats underway at sea. Warning about an upcoming storm in the sea arises on a teletypewriter. Sailors aboard a motorboat warns the people about the storm. Everybody is safe because of the quick warning and actions. Men and women working in a bank. A man arrives at the counter and shows a pistol to the employee during a bank robbery. He asks him to give all the money. The employee presses the button of a silent alarm to call the police. The man comes out of the bank with the money. The police arrives in time and captures the criminal.
Safety in everyday life in the United States. Exterior of a house in upscale suburb in the United States. Man, woman and their child inside the house. Housewife sitting in chair sewing, and a boy child lying on the rug in a room, reading. A man working in office in another room. He carelessly throws a cigarette in an ash tray and comes out of the room. He sits with his family. The other room catches fire because of the burning cigarette. The woman calls the fire department. Firemen arrive and fire fighters extinguish the fire with water from fire hoses.
Narrator, actor Raymond Massey, sitting at a desk, covered with models of intercepter missiles, discusses the role played by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its subsidiaries, Bell telephone, and Western Electric, in creating the communications undergirding the North American Air Defense System. Scene shifts to arctic and view of a Dew Line site in the snow. A Pacific Western DC-3 airplane lands on snow runway, and a ship moves through icy waters, both carrying personnel and equipment for construction of the polar early warning system. A tractor hauls cargo for the project over snowy terrain. Supplies being air-dropped from a commercial C-82 Packet aircraft. Aerial view of a depot filled with supples for the DEW line project. Carpenters and other construction workers employed on the project in severe cold and windy conditions. A man making his way toward a wooden building, during a blizzard. Men installing tall steel towers at a DEW line site on a sunny day in summer. Exterior panels being placed on the geodesic dome covering a DEW line radar antenna.
Command and control center in headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense), at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. NORAD Commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, USAF, and NORAD Deputy Commander, Canadian Air Marshal Roy Slemon, Chief of the Canadian Air Staff, step into the Center, to observe activities. Based on teletype messages, U.S. airman marks aircraft positions on plexiglass overlay of NORAD area map. Staff of the center phone information to other elements of NORAD. View of concrete SAGE combat center with staff at large radar monitors. USAF Convair F-102 Delta Dagger aircraft take off on an interception exercise. They are seen at altitude, firing air-to-air munitions, under command of the SAGE combat center. A CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missile is raised at a NORAD site and then launched. View inside the underground Command Control Center of the U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska. Officers oversee the operation. B-47, B-52, and B-58 bombers are seen taking off. A SAC Major General at desk with a "Red Phone" connecting all SAC elements and the White House (shown). Control room of a ballistic missile center. View of SM-65 Atlas intercontinetal ballistic missile on launch pad and then launching. Civil defense officials man phones of national warning system, from NORAD headquarters. The system's links to North American cities shown on map. City street scenes.
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