Dramatization of Fire Emergency in a house in the United States. Family members relaxing in their home. Mother and her son in living room, with mother sewing and boy laying on floor reading newspaper in front of fireplace. Man smoking types a document in the study. He carelessly allows a smoldering cigarette to fall from an ash tray into some papers. Woman embroidering in the living room, smells smoke and phones the fire department. Firemen arrive in a white fire truck and extinguish the blaze.
Aerial view of a large Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) radar antenna array for strategic missile defense in the United States during the Cold War. Two large towers at the station. Animation shows satellites for early warning detection of missile launch. Sprint and Spartan defensive missiles, part of the U.S. Sentinel Program, are seen and test fired.
SAC (Strategic Air Command) alert air crews respond to Klaxon horn and run from building to their B-47 bombers. View of feet of running United States Air Force crews as they scramble for a mission during Cold War timeframe. Pilots run to their aircraft. The B-47s take off. B-52s on alert, are also dispatched and take off. A B-52 soars overhead at low altitude during takeoff. Another B-52 is seen as it taxis and prepares for takeoff.
The Great Depression in the United States. (Most scenes circa 1932, but produced in 1967). A woman hangs out clothes beside a water pump. View of slum and tenement homes beside railroad tracks. A sad-looking child. Unemployed and homeless men in a queue wait to get food in a soup kitchen line. Men sorting through trash among shacks and tenements. Americans converse and read newspapers. A campaign parade and men holding a large sign, "Abolish Bread Lines Vote For Roosevelt." The Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to a large crowd. He encourages people during the Great Depression. While seated in his open car, Roosevelt pets a horse that is beside the car. Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago accepting the nomination of his party for President.
Integrated high school classroom in the United States during time of civil rights unrest and widespread racial segregation. African American girls and boys seated in class room with white students. A black teacher takes attendance. Examples of Jim Crow laws being retired and ended, as well as some Jim Crow laws still in place. Following integration, Jim Crow law signs that have been taken down are seen in a trash basket. Some of the discarded signs read 'White Women" and "White Men'. Other Jim Crow signs still in place on commercial establishments are seen, including some that read "Colored" and "White Only" showing continued segregation practices.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare during World War I. The "Collective Protector" enables a general and the staff to work on their maps and orders without gas masks at the Division Headquarters. Two soldiers outside the headquarters wearing gas masks. They guard a low entrance doorway and enclosed tunnel with a heavy, flexible door designed to keep out gas. A soldier lifts the flap of the door and enters. Officers converse with each other while looking at a map on a wall. Soldier stands by rotating a handle on a device continuously. It has a long wide pipe connected to it, perhaps managing fresh air intake or air exchange. U.S. soldiers wearing gas masks load ammunition onto trucks. "Enemy" aircraft flies overhead throwing a cloud of poisonous gas that quickly envelops the area. A soldier wearing a gas mask fires his rifle into the air at the aircraft, through the heavy smoke screen. Gas sentries neutralize the gas around a dump. They dig in the ground with pick axes and mattocks, and then spread a white powder over the area. They then cover the area with a thin layer of the dirt they had dug up.
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