Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska. Oil over the shore line of a beach. Men sprays water to clean up the oil. Oil containment booms being deployed from fishing boats. A dead bird floats in water. A man holds dead birds. An eagle on tree. Volunteers treat sea animals. An animal carried in a net. Animals in cages. Pinnipeds in water tanks in the rehabilitation camps. Officials discuss in a room. A Russian oil skimmer in the Prince William Sound. A variety of skimmers deployed at the shore line. A man walks near an oil containment boom deployed at the shore.
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska. USS Juneau (LPD-10) arrives for clean up operation. A crane loads equipment onto the ships. Motors covered with snow. Women load equipment onto the ship. Women watch the bunk beds on the ship. People eat on the ship. USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) arrives for clean up operation. People spray water from pressurized water hoses on shore lines. Viscous oil absorbed by vacuum pump. Workers spray water for oil clean up. men sleep and relax on cars. Aerial view of the houses set up for the workers. Vehicles driven on road. People carry equipment for clean up. tent houses set up. Aircraft and helicopters on airport. Aerial views of houses and cars parked in front. Bears on a hill. Helicopters and other equipment during the clean up. men of landing crafts clean a beach. Men carry animals in cages towards a helicopter.
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska. Layer of oil on rocks on a beach. People spray water from pressurized water hoses on shore lines. Commandant of the United States Coast Guard Paul Alexander Yost, Jr. speaks about the Exxon Valdez oil spill and efforts made for clean up. The Exxon Baton Rouge attempts to offload crude oil from the Exxon Valdez in the Prince William Sound.
A film 'We saw it happen' about the history of aviation in the United States. In Dayton, Ohio: Houses seen along Hawthorn Street. A still picture shows the Wright brothers in their youth. View down Hawthorn Street with several 1940s and early 1950s cars parked along the Dayton street. Exterior view of 7 Hawthorn Street, home of the Wright Brothers. Interiors of the Wright home in Dayton. The workshop of the Wright brothers. Machines in the workshop. The "Wright Cycle Co" and Wright Museum (moved from Dayton to Greenfield village in Dearborn, Michigan.) A powered engine prepared in the workshop. Sweeping view of windswept beach area of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright brothers conducted test flights in 1900-1902. Another view of Hawthorn Street in Dayton. A boy on the sidewalk. View of the 4 cylinder airplane engine first designed by the Wright Brothers. Narrator speaks of December 17, 1903 Wright Brothers flight. View of the Wright Flyer in flight overhead. Scene changes to aerial side view of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight (this is aircraft YB-52,the second XB-52). The B-52 banks left and away.
Soong Mei-ling or Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, leaves for Chongqing (Chungking), China from the United States. Madame Chiang with American Red Cross girls. She walks and speaks to the girls. Madame Chiang and the girls standing at the shore of a beach. Soong Mei-ling meets the U.S. officers and Generals. She is escorted by a Chinese official. Soong Mei-ling enters a car. She gets out of the car and climbs up a ladder. Soong Mei-ling boards C-54 Skymaster. The C-54 takes off for Chongqing. The aircraft in flight. A pilot and crew at controls. A crew member plotting a graph. The pilot at the controls talks. The crew members and the pilot talking.
The second annual mobilization and review of U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Division Two, in the 13th Naval District, during World War 2. The first thing seen is a portion of a letter from a Coast Guard SPARS woman to someone at home. She mentions having spoken to Mrs. F.D.R. Scene shifts to The mobilization and review event on Lake Washington, in Seattle, Washington which involves some 300 boats belonging to members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, that parade in review. Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox (not seen) along with high ranking naval officers, and the First Lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, are part of the reviewing party, as guests of Mr. O.D. Fisher, aboard his yacht. (The Coast Guard Auxiliary identification, CGA 2444, is seen clearly painted on its bow.) It is anchored off the north shore of Madronna Park Beach in Lake Washington. Views of the yacht with Mrs. Roosevelt and several admirals aboard. A woman officer, in the Coast Guard SPARS, is invited to chat with Mrs. Roosevelt. She sits down next to her. At one point, they both wave toward the camera. Later, two women SPARS stand on shore and converse with Mrs. Roosevelt, as she stands aboard the yacht.
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