United States Marines work at a repair shop in Naktong River Area, Korea, during the Korean War. Marines saw wood. Marines use acetylene torch on axle and bottom part of a small trailer. Men working around repair a shop. Mountains in the background. Man straightens metal on an anvil. Man uses a hammer on a piece of steel and bangs it on the anvil. Trailers lay all around. Trucks near a camp. Tents set up on the ground. Marines bathe in outdoor showers made of long pipes.
Taxicabs coming and going in front of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Night-time with marquee illuminated. Doormen open the doors of the cars arriving. Patrons, in formal attire, men in top hats and ladies in long gowns and furs, step from cars and enter the building. Interior views of the staircases and halls of the Opera House. Waist-down views of patrons walking, showing the beautiful gowns and other clothing of the patrons. People climb the stairs. Audience seated in the boxes and loges. Curtains on the stage. The performance of Verdi's Aida begins with two singers on stage.
American veterans of World War 1 return to Paris not long after the war's end. They fill two open buses, each containing a cinematographer with camera, recording the events. A few women are included in the groups. They drive down the Boulevard Champs Elysees. Arc de Triomphe seen behind them.
Electric power lines and insulators. A bridge across a river in United States. Cars pass on it in wintertime, with snow at edge of road on a cold morning. High voltage long distance electric transmission lines and towers. Statue of Liberty from behind, with helicopter flying past it. Series of very close-up views of appliances and conveniences that use electricity: Chicken roasting on electric powered rotisserie. Clock hands moving on electric powered clock. Person turns on electric desk lamp. Electric powered beaters spinning. Electric powered industrial machining operation. A couple dancing to music powered by electricity. Several kinds of electric transmission lines. Electricity in the 1960s office environment: Hand dialing a rotary dial telephone; adding machine; close-up views of typewriter in operation; punch card sorter for punch cards of early computer; early computer tape drive spinning; warning lights. Closeup views of fingers pressing keys and dialing. Night view of Times Square on Manhattan Island, New York City with many illuminated commercial signs and neon signs.
Views of various sources of electric power generation in America, with emphasis on nuclear being cleaner and more efficient than other methods such as coal. Opening shot is a dam generating hydroelectric power, and its associated electric power substations. Coal fired power plant, with mountain of coal, railroad, and associated electrical switch yard. Spherical gas tanks holding fuel for power generation. Natural gas storage tanks and electric generator cables. Smoke, steam, and a mountain of coal, associated with electric power generation. Cranes off-loading coal from train cars onto conveyors feeding a power plant with smoke stacks emitting fumes. Cranes with clamshell buckets leaking coal as they offload it from barges in a river. Coal being transported on conveyor belts at a plant. Fire burning in the furnace of coal-fired power plant. Clean Control room of a power plant, with technician monitoring instruments and adjusting control settings.View of pristine turbine deck in a power plant, with several steam turbines visible. Contrasting view of coal-fired power plant exterior, with smoke seen near transmission lines and incredibly long trains filled with coal move on railroad. Nuclear fuel fabricators seen placing nuclear fuel rods into assemblies bearing Westinghouse name, covering them with plastic and preparing them for shipment in large steel containers. The containers of fuel rod assemblies are loaded into a truck.
Atomic energy production. Animated diagram of fission occurring in a nuclear reactor. Television monitor view inside reactor. Technicians place radioactive material, underwater, into a heavy shielded cask for transportation. The cask is then raised out of the water pool and moved by cranes to a truck, which transports it a long distance. Nuclear power plant exterior is seen. View of technician taking monitoring sample and checking it for radioactivity. Exterior views of the nuclear station -- clean, quiet, unobtrusive. Interior views showing piping, controls, fuel rods, fuel assembly under water, control room and instrumentation, and general plant appearance.
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