Anchor in Los Angeles reads news about accident at Three Mile Island nuclear station in Pennsylvania. He gives details of the accident. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Report about the accident. Aerial view of the TMI plant. Nuclear Regulatory Commission command post established. Inspection and enforcement trailers parked at the station. Evaluation done by NRC personnel. Pocket dosimeters and Film badges used by NRC staff are shown on table. Man works in a mobile laboratory. NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) member observes coordinated activities at control panel. Members work at NRC communication center. Machines inside the plant. Men stand while daily briefing. Data and information exchanged by members of investigating DOE and state agencies. Environmental briefing visiting personnel at station. Dr. Harold Denton of NRC and Governor of Pennsylvania Dick Thornburgh address journalists.
A Titan missile in vertical test position on the Denver test island. (This complex, contained captive test stands where the completed missiles' rocket engines could be test fired under controlled conditions.)
Group of German tourists visit an island with glaciers. Glaciers as seen from the deck of a ship. A white ship sails on clear blue sea. Shoreline with snowcapped mountains. Many glaciers at sea. Ship underway. Group of people with a German Shepherd dog on the shore. Glaciers in surrounding area. View from deck of a ship.
United States marines on their way to invade Tarawa Island in Pacific Theater during World War II. American Marines pray on board a ship during burial at sea. They stand with their heads lowered as a bugler blows a tap. An unidentified ship's stern underway in the sea. Cargo ship (AK) burns. Marines on a 20 mm gun on board a ship as the man to the right cocks the gun. Landing Ship Tank approaches. Marines in battle dress load in a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel and it moves towards the beach of Tarawa.
Aerial view of Jones Beach on Long Island, New York, and its modern access highway. Spectators with in high stadium seating on both sides of a Jones Beach swimming pool to watch swimmers race. Closeup of the swimmers in their respective lanes competing. Closeup of one swimmer. View of crowd in the stands. Change of scene shows a woman from the back, poised, and then executing a swan dive from a high platform. The beach and seashore are in the background. Scene shifts to below the platform as a man dives from it into the water. The Jones Beach water tower is seen in the background. A sailing regatta is seen. a triple funnel steam ship underway in waters off Jones Beach. A sign identifies the United States Coast Guard Jones Beach Station. Views of that station build of brick and stone consistent with Jones Beach architecture. Closeup of the station. A lifeboat being taken from the boathouse be a tractor that takes it down to the beach for launching. Responding to call from a further point on the beach, a lifeboat and 6 crew members are transported by a small pickup truck that carries the crew in its open cargo space and trailers the boat. View of them driving along the highway. Next, they drive onto the beach near the water's edge.
The Roosevelt family cottage on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Group of people on the lawn in front of the house. A car parked outside the main entrance. Flags flying from portico over the entrance. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt seated with friends and family on rocky shore of Herring Cove. Eleanor Roosevelt sitting on a rock above the President, who chats with Allison Dysart, Premier of New Brunswick, as they both light and smoke cigarettes. Mr. J.B. McNair, Attorney General of New Brunswick, also sits on the sand, with the President and the Premier. The president's mother, Sara Roosevelt, sitting with his son Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. and Curtis Dall. John Roosevelt talking to his sister, Anna Roosevelt Dall. Large group of local people gather to watch as photographers take pictures of the Roosevelt party. Later, the Roosevelts and their guests partake of an outdoor picnic from a buffet table set up and prepared by the staff from the Presidential yacht, USS Potomac.
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