U.S. Army Air Service engineers demonstrate the Ruggels Orientation which is used to check the fitness of applicants for flying in the United States. The engineers stand near the machine used for the Ruggels Orientation. An engineer sits on a three axes chair and demonstrate its operation. An engineer sits in the machine and demonstrates the examination.
'Faces of America' depicting life in the United States. View of grasslands or plains and a tractor pulling equipment near bales of hay. Scene changes to a building under construction just outside an urban area, with city skyline in background. Workers high atop steel girders. Fisherman at a dock raises his catch of oysters or clams in nets up a rope to the dock. Man golfing tees off. Two girls sitting in grass beside a building and enjoying a soda pop from a bottle. A man painting a building. Woman talking on a pay phone along a city street. A smiling African American man in a suit. A cowboy wearing hat and sunglasses. Rapid montage of people of various races including white, African American, Latino, various ethnic backgrounds, and ages, including children and adults and elderly people in the United States. Elderly, thin man farmer in overalls smokes a cigarette. Blond haired girl blowing up a pink balloon. Business man talking on telephone in office. Boy on Native American Indian reservation. Man ponders paperwork in his lap, as a woman plays with an infant in background on a ground-level bed in an apartment. Men and women walking and talking together among trees and on city streets. Angry people shouting and waving hands. Concerned and sad people being consoled as a person on a stretcher is loaded into emergency ambulance. Man consoles a sad elderly woman. Woman laying across park bench.
A crewman of U.S. Navy FBM (Fleet Ballistic Missile) Nuclear Submarine serving food. Eating food with other members of the crew in the submarine galley. A sailor talking to other crew members. Crew members have coffee. U.S. Navy sailor holds a guitar and plays it. Close up view of man playing guitar. The guitar has a civil war rebel flag on it. Submarine crew members play cards and watch a cartoon on television. A crewman dials phone. A crewman knocks and comes inside the room. Captain congratulates him. A man sleeps. Crewmen of nuclear submarine play a game. Crewmen talking and having coffee. A crewman reading.
United Nations approve the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Delegates from 82 countries gather at the United Nations headquarters for the Conference on the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency. UN delegates meet and shake hands outside the United Nations headquarters (405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, USA). The delegates enter the headquarters through a revolving door. Symbol of United Nations. Chairman Lewis L Strauss addresses UN meeting. Chairman Strauss delivers speech from United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Representatives of various nations seated and sign the charter. President of the Conference on the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency Joao Carlos Muniz addresses the delegates after signing of the charter. Delegates from Iraq, United Kingdom, Albania, United States and other countries are seen listening to Muniz.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the U.S. Congress in his "Four Freedoms" speech during the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941, in Washington DC, United States. During his address, various war production worker and war materiel manufacturing images are also shown (before the entry of America into World War 2, but during lend-lease production): Tanks, airplanes and flying boat aircraft are shown. Workers at war production factories making artillery shells and munitions. Scenes at a manufacturing plant building bomber aircraft warplanes during World War 2. They appear to be B-25 Mitchell bombers. Workers work installing plexiglass nose cone gunner shield. They assemble various parts of airplanes. Scenes of biplane aircraft in formation and diving. Large, flat landing barge filled with American soldiers approaches a landing area.
U.S. military technical report titled "Review of Guided Missiles-Guided Bomb GB-1". A GB-1 suspended for display. A B-17 Bomber of the U.S. Army Air Corps takes off with a GB-1 attached. Launching of GB-1. It follows a long aerial path and then hits the target. (World War II period).
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