Liberty Loan bond drive in United States during World War 1. Large crowd gathered at a street in downtown Richmond, Virginia. World War I military equipment from ' Victory Loan' Train including vehicles and artillery parade on a street. A large mobile searchlight is seen and soldiers in a covered truck, followed by a truck pulling an artillery piece. People gathered on both sides of the street to watch the parade.
President Dwight D Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev shake hands in the White House during Khrushchev's visit in America, soon after recent Soviet advances in the "space race." Closeup images of the moon, and of images of far side of the moon recorded by Soviets, and also brief Soviet Russian science fiction animated scenes depicting space ships traveling toward the moon, and another space ship vessel in orbit near the moon. In United States two monkeys are shown, named Able and Baker who were part of rocket testing before human flights took place. View of a monkey strapped into a Jupiter rocket and launch is shown of a Jupiter rocket with the monkeys for their space flight. Seven astronauts of the Project Mercury program are shown in training in a weightless, or zero gravity chamber.
United States Navy divers undergo training. A Navy diver trainee aboard a boat. He goes over gunwale into water and man on the boat gives him diving helmet, connected to an air pump on the boat. The diver dons the helmet and then descends, under water, as the man on the boat plays out his breathing hose and security line.
United States Navy divers undergo training. Sailors aboard a boat. A Navy diver prepares to go underwater as he puts on his diving mask.
United States Navy divers undergo training. Navy diver at the bottom of the water body wearing a gas mask like helmet. He holds a rope. A diver descends along the rope underwater.
Pre-World War 2 training film contains animated description about control and operation of a mine field containing deep planted mines in domestic coastal waters. It shows observing stations on the shore sighting mine positions and that information being translated to a plotting board in a control room. Illustration of vessel being targeted by a controlled mine. Views of mines being tested against obsolete warships. Illustration of submerged submarine with planted mines in the vicinity. A mine explosion. Several battleships underway.
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