Car with letters of radio station WMCA drives by. Announcer says baseball is one of the station's most popular programs; the station broadcasts home games of the New York Giants. Large crowds enter the Giants' stadium, the Polo Grounds. View of packed stands as announcer is seen talking into microphone. Fans enthusiastically cheer action from a Giants baseball game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Clip transitions to other WMCA programs. Announcer interviews man on busy sidewalk at dusk during program 'Man on the Street'. Theatre marquee in background advertises movie "Ten Tall Men" starring Burt Lancaster. Dancers in public park do a 'square dance' broadcast by the station. View of many couples participating in the square dance. Madison Square Garden marquee at night.
View from above of the U.S. Navy Gato class submarine Redfin, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where it is being converted to a radar picket boat. Workers stand above the hull, which has been cut in half. Next, the two halves of the hull are seen being moved apart to facilitate addition of a 34 foot extension in the hull between the control room and the forward batteries. View of derricks and cranes around the Redfin and of Workers standing atop the boat's hull. Camera pans to closeup of one half of the boat as it is being winched away from the other, along a steel rail. View from below the bow. View from floor showing the two halves of the hull separated. Workers sketch diagram in chalk on floor of drydock. Scaffolding shown in place around the opening between the hull halves. Worker cutting steel plate with acetylene torch. A steel plate affixed to the hull, showing the name, USS Redfin (SSR-272) and the schedule for the project. The only item completed is the start date of May 1st. Workers engaged in fabricating the new section of hull.
U.S. Airman preparing a teletype message in Joint Hurricane Warning center. Two USAF weather officers plot hurricane weather data on a large map of the Atlantic. The hurricane is shown on the map as located Northeast of Cuba and East of Florida. One of the officers updates hurricane-related weather data based on report, from Hufficane Hunters, being read by the other. Closeup of recorded wind conditions being annotated on the chart by the weather officer. View of a U.S. Air Force WB-29A Hurricane Hunter aircraft, of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, flying in and out of stratiform clouds. Clear air view of the WB-29A.
Television reporter for Station WTVJ in Miami, Florida, seen in studio, broadcasting information about threatening weather. Behind him is a large wall map of the world, centered on America. An older couple are seen, in their home, discussing at a newspaper report. A young family watches the television broadcast in their living room.
Information being received from the Joint Hurricane Warning Center on teletype in the office of the WTVJ television station in Miami, Florida. A reporter in the TV studio broadcasts the latest information. A Miami resident placing protective plywood panels over windows of his home. A WB-29A of the USAF 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters) in flight over water.
Hurricane Warning flags (two gale warnings) hoisted atop a building in Miami, Florida. A WB-20A (tail number 42-94047) of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters) in flight. A beach filled with people sunbathing and swimming. A waterfront with small boats being tossed about by high winds and surf. A woman in her yard, trying to collect things thrown by wind. Fence and other items have been damaged. Momentary glimpse of destruction wrought by hurricane.
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