Group of farm boys of Texas visit different state landmarks of United States. Dome of U.S. Capitol building seen framed by trees in Washington DC. Stream and a waterfall in Virginia. View of the Natural Bridge formation in Virginia. The farm boys stand at a long table outside and eat in Alabama. Two African American men stand and eat fried chicken. People stand at a train station in Texas, waiting for the railroad train. The train arrives. Boys hanging precariously from engine, cars, doors and windows. They wave happily and jump off the train as it arrives back in Texas.
Operation Head Start in United States. A volunteer at Head Start Pre-school, takes child with her. She pins name tag on the child's shirt. Two children walk towards their home in Manchester. Children play at church yard. Teacher reads aloud to children. A mother and her child watch from window of a house near church. Volunteers teach small groups of children. A child stands and watches others clown and play. An African American boy tosses a ball. Children dance. Boy plays with a bat. Children play on stairs out side a building. A little girl walks on long wooden board. Boy tries to balance on square wooden board. Children play on playground equipment such as jungle gym at outdoor playground.
Camper Alert Team vehicles of the SAC Minutemen Missile Security Police are parked in a llne at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming. They are ready to be dispatched with Security Police teams to protect missile launch sites, for as long as necessary. Launch Facility topside with security forces member seen from outside the fence with launcher closure in foreground. Interiors of camper van. Sleeping bed, refrigerator and stove in van. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
Five women holding the minute hand of the huge clock standing in a queue. Two of the artisans seen carrying the minute hand of the clock. The minute hand is cast in a solid bar of aluminum, weighing 87 pounds, and is 120 inches long. Artisans seen installing the minute hand on the clock face at the top of the 22-story city hall. Camden City Hall with a new clock. Powerful lights behind the dial would make the numerals visible at three miles. A person setting the timings of the clock at 3:14 which further shows time till 3:45.
Prince Charles and Princess Anne arrive at a shipyard, accompanied by the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in England. They get off the car and soldiers welcome them. Royal Yacht Britannia at the shipyard. The royals board the ship. Crew standing on the ship to welcome them. Queen bids good bye to the children. The ship begins its long journey to North Africa where the King and Queen are on tour.
An F6F Hellcat ditches in the sea. It floats long enough to allow pilot to abandon it before sinking. Next an A-4 Skyhawk ditches. Narrator remarks about the short time for escape from such aircraft on the surface of the water. Views of tests conducted by the U.S. Navy to test the sink rates of jet aircraft from various heights and attitudes. A dummy is placed in the cockpit of a derelict F9F Panther, which is lifted by a crane and is dropped into water from a low height. It is seen floating. (Narrator states that even with no structural damage, it sinks in less than a minute.) Next an FJ-2 Fury is dropped from about 55 feet. Due to structural damage, narrator states such an aircraft may sink in a few seconds, and generally between zero to 55 seconds. View of crane operator and then of an airplane sinking rapidly. Scene shifts to James F. Roth of U.S. Navy Attack Squadron 42,(VA-42) the "Green Pawns," in the closed cockpit of a Navy jet airplane. Next, an F-4 phantom jet is seen being catapulted from an aircraft carrier. Animation shows that the airplane falling into the sea right after takeoff will sink ballistically and can descend as deep as 100 feet in 10 seconds.
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