Pilot takes off from pasture field in an ultralight biplane. He successfully flies and lands in the pasture.
Historic early aviation and flight, and man's quest for flight: A man tries to glide with ornithopter type wings attached to his arms and back. He runs and is also helped by several men who pull on a rope attached to him. He falls and his aircraft wings collapse.
Agricultural progress in the America during World War II, with increased production to meet wartime needs. Pigs, hogs, and piglets on a farm. Trees in the background. Vehicles pass in front of a pork butcher and processing factory. Truck in front says "HH Green" on side. Sign in background of shot says "Morrell" (this is possibly the John Morrell & Co. Packing Plant in Ottumwa Iowa). Butcher workers with cleavers cut and process pork on moving assembly line. Beef cattle graze on a field. Tractor operated on a farm field. View of beef cattle stockyards at butcher and processing factories for meat. Butcher operations for beef cattle seen on moving assembly line. Farmers harvest feed crops for meat production. A feed shed filled to the top. Farmer harvests sugarcane and drives wagon filled with sugarcane, pulled by horses. Farmer on tractor on a sugarcane field. A tall harvesting machine cuts sugarcane in the field at harvest. Farmer on a sugar beet field. A mechanical seed splitting machine is shown. Farmer holding shafts with sugar beet seeds attached. Sorghum plants are shown and described as a new source of sugar. A man feeds harvested sorghum plants into a pressing machine to extract sorghum liquid for sugar.
Interior of a machine shop. Workers assemble a turbine. They assemble the maneuvering valves. The completed turbines and the reduction gear. A sign reads: '2500 horse power steam turbine engine used in eagle boats, Ford Motor Company'. Turbine and reduction gear ready for shipping. The turbine at work.
Activities aboard the USS Bayfield (APA 33) prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. Sea as seen from the USS Bayfield. Rigging on a life raft. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) is rigged out over the side in the foreground. A convoy of APs underway. An LCVP in right foreground. Three transporters underway. A 5 inch open gun mount 38 in the foreground.
Operation and the uses of the radar. A radar with 'XAF installed 1938' written on it. Allied civilian scientist Dr. Ad Hoi Tailor, Chief of Electronic Science Development and his assistant Mr. Lio Se Young at work. A diagram shows the operation of the radar. A dot of voltage barrier at a florescent screen. An animation shows how a radar traces an enemy plane. Radar equipped planes detect enemy fleet. A light mover in the radar. (World War II period).
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