Launching of the "Myrina, " the largest tanker ship ever launched in the United Kingdom. The ship measures 1050 feet long and weighs 191thousand tons. She is seen going down the ways at Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast, Northern Ireland. During her launching, a gust of wind catches her, before tug boats can assist, and she goes aground. But she is quickly pulled free and proceeds on her way.
View of the National Portrait Gallery (St. Martin's Pl, London WC2H 0HE, United Kingdom) and Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ, United Kingdom), near Trafalgar Square, London, England. Among pedestrians seen are two young hippie men with long hair and dressed in hippie fashion. The camera focuses on them and their attire.
Home-made deep sea scuba diving suits in Venice Beach, California. Men don hot water boiler diving helmets and get into water. Women stand on beach and pump bicycle syle air pumps to provide air through long black tubes extending to the divers. Divers come out of the ocean water carrying a "treasure" box from bottom of the ocean floor. Woman comes out of the treasure box as they open it.
A rug factory on fire in Los Angeles. Fire men battle to get fire under control. View of wrecked building and topping walls after the fire. Wounded fireman brought out of the building. Fire rages through the block long factory building.
Part of Canadian town buried in a Leda clay landslide. Disaster in the small town of Nicolet, Quebec where an underground river undermines an area 40 feet long and 1000 Feet wide. The earth gave way engulfing houses and buildings. A van with 'Filature Nicolet' written on it was damaged. View of destroyed Nicolet St. John the Baptist Cathedral (671 Bd Louis Fréchette, Nicolet, QC J3T 1L6, Canada) and the Bishop's Palace. Building of Nicolet School destroyed. Car drives on street of other side of the town. Boat sails in river.
New fire fighter demonstrated by Army Air Force. Tests conducted by Air Force fire truck that extinguishes fire by carbon dioxide. Long pipe on truck throws carbon dioxide on fire and extinguishes it. (World War II period).
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