A demonstration about clearing obstacles and mines with explosives in Florida, United States. A sign on a paper reads 'Project 122 LVT (2) Drone '. A radar guided LVT (2) Drone female boat loaded with explosives underway at sea towards a target. A man aboard a male boat guides the course of the female boat as he works on the controls. The female LVT ( Lading Vehicle Tracked ) changes its course. The man aboard the male LVT looks at the female LVT through binoculars. The female LVT Drone reaches a beach and heads towards a pill box. The female LVT stops near the pill box and 6000 pound explosives loaded onto it get detonated. An explosion occurs and a seal on a paper reads ' 40 % completed '.
A demonstration of explosive devices used to clear beach obstacles in Florida, United States. A Conger, a British canvas hose device. The hose is filled with liquid explosives being laid out by a rocket and detonated. An explosion occurs. A rocket propelled M-3 being driven towards the beachhead. A project line charge being fired by a rocket and climbs up as smoke rises. A progress report of JANET ( Joint Army Navy Experimental and Testing ) Board. (World War II period).
Montage of Americana spanning parts of the 1950s and 1960s. Science and technology in the United States. Scientists work in laboratories and conduct various experiments. Scientists look into microscopes and treat patients with scientific medical equipment. People relax at a beach and amusement park. People watch a baseball game. Spectators from behind the fences watch bucking horses in a rodeo. Playing golf. Ten pin bowling. Motorboats race in water. Water skiing. View at a football game, horse race, basketball game, and Joe Louis boxing. Ice skating with sails. Swimming pool and high dive. 1940s fashion scenes: Juke box; Pegged pants; bobby sox;saddle shoes and dancing to an orchestra. People Square dancing, fishing, throwing horse shoes, playing shuffle board and lunching in backyard. Americans enjoying parks with lakes, swimmers, boaters and lots of park benches, where they sit and relax. Contrasting scenes of poverty in America: poor tenement and slum housing; bread line food relief for the poor; criminals being apprehended by police in paddy wagons; African American and some white American people demonstrate by the reflecting pool near Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC, during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Demonstrators holding signs protesting racism, low wages, and poor housing; and advocating civil rights. Travel by Americans: People boarding an Air France airplane, airport scenes and people boarding a Pan Am (Pan American) passenger jet airplane. Ground level shot between art deco sleek passenger railroad trains in motion. People unload luggage from parked passenger bus. Aerial views of American highways with traffic and lots of mostly 1950s era cars and trucks. View of RV trailer park or camping area. Scene from moving car of undeveloped land and then of city at night with many neon signs for hotels, motels, food, and businesses. Vintage American suburban or small town scenes of families in front of houses, tending their neighborhood yards,cutting their lawns, and raking leaves on yards of homes.
Japanese aircraft attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States during World War II. Times Square marquee announces the attack at Pearl Harbor. Newspaper headlines read: "Japs bomb Hawaii" and "War is declared on U.S. by Japs." Close-up views of radio news commentators and reporters at their microphones as they report the story of the attack to radio listeners. Scenes from Pearl Harbor after the attack as soldiers and civilans help the wounded reach safe places. Children in a nursery school building. Rubbled houses and buildings in the area. Wrecked vehicles, equipment and wrecked ships in the Pearl Harbor area after the attack. A Japanese midget submarine involved in the attack is seen beached. From a May 1963 newsreel recounting the events from years prior.
Fifteen thousand spectators gather to watch the Flamingo Stakes at the Hialeah Park Racetrack (2200 E 4th Avenue Hialeah, Florida) in Miami, Florida. Lawrin, a three-year-old American thoroughbred, gallops from back and emerges a proud winner. The jockey on back of Lawrin poses for camera after victory. January 1938.
Young sculptors emulate the work of Cellini - kin of Augustus St. Gaudens. Sculptors showcase their versatility to attract attention of the art world in Miami, Florida. 23 March 1931.
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