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Marines board the U.S. Marine Corps twin engined Sikorsky XHR2S helicopter at an airbase in California.
A new Marine helicopter takes off from Connecticut in the United States. The twin engined Sikorsky XHR2S helicopter parked on the airbase. Marines board and a jeep is loaded in the helicopter. Officers watching the helicopter. The helicopter takes off.
A Yosemite Transport System (YTS) stage driving from a day trip in Yosemite, California
A Yosemite Transport System (YTS) stage drives up a rock-lined road from Yosemite. Conifer trees surround the mountainous roads. Scenic views of mountains and surrounding forests at Yosemite.
A driver falls asleep while driving on the California Interstate 15 at night.
Man yawning while driving at night. Close up tire driving on night highway. Painted highway lines seen from moving car at night. Driver rubbing face and opening up eyes wide to stay awake at night. Highway lights becoming blurry as driver falls asleep. Close up tired driver eyes closing. Tired driver lights and smokes a cigarette. Narrator notes, "if he thinks a cigarette's going to pep him up at a time like this, he's got another thing coming." Highway road sign reads “San Bernardino 36 Los Angeles 91” at night. The Volkswagen station wagon exits road as camera pans to road sign that reads “Norton AFB 17 Miles”. Driver dozing off at the wheel. The Volkswagen station wagon drifting in lane at night. Driver’s eyes close and falls asleep while driving. A casino dealer sits at Craps table while noting, "I don't feel sorry for gamblers. They're suckers. Professionals don't gamble. In the end, there's only two kinds of people in the world...the pros, and the suckers. " Casino dealer rolls dice. Close up of dice on Craps table showing "snake eyes."
Early nuclear power plants for peaceful generation of electrical energy in the United States
Animation of a family presenting the increasing power supply demand from1500 KW/Hr to 3000 KW/Hr in homes. Similar animation for factories. Animation of coal power plant dependent on coal supply. Animation of atomic power plant as a renewable source of energy. View of technician climbing atop the small U.S. Army SM-1 (2-megawatt ) nuclear reactor at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. More views of the reactor facility seen through woods. Change of scene to the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) nuclear facility, built by Southern California Edison and Atomics International, at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the Simi hills near Moorpark, Ventura County California. Scene shifts again to the Vallecitos Nuclear Power Plant near Pleasanton, California, built jointly by PG&E and General Electric Company. (It is the first privately funded plant to supply power in megawatt amounts to the electric utility grid.) Inside the plant, a technician is seen in its control room. View of the reactor containment vessel. Film shifts to aerial view of the first full-scale PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) nuclear power plant in the United States, under construction at Shippingport, Pennsylvania on the banks of the Ohio river. The site is busy with construction activity. View from ground of a large container of fresh concrete being moved by a crane to be poured as workmen adjust its position, before releasing the contents. More views of the construction site, with cranes and numerous constructions workers engaged.
Howard Hughes flies a Northrup Gamma airplane from Chicago to Los Angeles in less than half a day
A newsreel titled 'Lunches in Chi. Hops to L.A. For his dinner.' Howard Hughes, famed industrialist and aviator, is seen dressed in a suit and tie, seated in a Chicago restaurant having lunch. He finishes and leaves. The next scene shows nose of a Northrop Gamma 2G airplane with engine running. A brief glimpse of Hughes,still in suit and tie, wearing leather flying helmet with goggles pushed up on his forehead. With Hughes piloting, the airplane taxis and takes off from Chicago. It is seen in a gentle left bank as it departs. Later, Hughes is seen landing at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California. Hughes is seen in opened cockpit as he taxis in to the parking ramp. He taxis past a Stinson hangar, parks, and climbs down from the aircraft. He is accompanied by a number of men as he walks across the parking ramp. (Note: Howard Hughes is flying a modified Gamma 2G airplane, number NC13761,that he leased from famous woman aviator, Jacqueline Cochran, who ordered it powered by a liquid-cooled 700-hp Curtiss Conqueror engine,driving a two-blade propeller. Hughes modified it with a 1000-hp Wright SR-1820-G2 radial engine, driving a three-blade constant speed propeller, and used it to set a new transcontinental nonstop record, flying from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 9 hours 26 minutes 10 seconds with an average speed of 259 mph, on 13-14 January 1936. The flight shown here set a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California.)
A cat named Izaak Walton catch fish in a tank with her paw in Hollywood, California.
A cat sits on a stone in a tank. It keenly watches in water and catches a fish with its paw. It jumps out of the tank and runs to bushes.