NASA Project Mercury program in United States. Chimpanzee 'Ham' gets medical check up prior to being strapped onto a couch. The chimpanzee container is unloaded from a NASA van. A sign reads 'No Smoking In This Area'. The chimpanzee container is loaded into a gantry elevator and the elevator ascends. The chimpanzee is taken to Mercury Redston rocket and is put inside it. A sign reads ' McDonnell Aircraft Corp.' A technician at a control panel. Recovery ships leave dock. The space rocket is prepared for launch. Launch team technicians at the NASA mission control center. The countdown starts. The rocket is fueled with liquid oxygen. A tower. Men in a blockhouse. A man with headphones looks at the control panel. The countdown machine. A stand is removed from the rocket at a launch pad. The smoke comes out and the rocket lift-off. The rocket in flight. A technician monitors the respiration and heart of the chimpanzee. A man at a control panel. The mission event board shows the flight status. An airplane in flight locates the spacecraft. Recovery ship converges with the spacecraft. A helicopter retrieves the spacecraft and returns to a ship. The chimpanzee is taken out from the spacecraft and is examined by a doctor.
Animated scenes of a rocket launch in United states. The scenes depict a rocket in flight. Smoke comes out from the rocket. Tower jettison. Separation of a spacecraft from the rocket. Parachute deployment, descent, splashdown and recovery.
'Niagara Falls' depicts the Niagara Falls in the United States. Women look out of the windows of a boat at tree lined George river. Whirlpool rapids seen from above. View of an eddy from above.
U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary depicts how rural America used machines to achieve production at a terrible cost to the land and people including erosion and poverty. The Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. Top soil is blown away in a storm. Barren land. Soil washed into the Arkansas River. Layers of soil in the river. Wasted land and rivers due to sheet erosion. Soil destruction, barren land and farms. Texas: A town called "Go Forth" or "Goforth" founded by cotton farmers long ago. Abandoned houses, damaged roads, and unemployed desperate farmers are seen. Emaciated cows search for food. On the edge of the town, migrant landless farmers sit by a fire near a car. Rains and water erode the soil. A sign in a barren eroded patch reads 'Abernathy Furniture Co.'. The wind blows away the top soil.
Wide views of cotton fields with hills in the background, in the United States. Tents in the field for migrant farm labor workers during the Great Depression. Automobiles and carts nearby. A truck with trailers attached halts on a road. African American and foreign migrants, (Mexican and/or Latin American, primarily) climb into the trailers. Men, women and children cotton pickers picking cotton by hand. A farmer operates an automated cotton picker in a cotton field, showing how automation is displacing hand labor for cotton picking. The picked cotton held in the machine.
President De Gaulle speaking with Lady Bird Johnson and then shaking hands with Golda Meir, Foreign Minister of Israel. A translator from the U.S. State Department assists in the conversations. A French language interpreter of the State Department with the French President and First Lady. De Gaulle moves through the large room, shakes hands with the Foreign Minister of Israel Golda Meir. The French Ambassador in Washington is present at the event. Dignitaries served refreshments in the State Dining Room adjacent to the Jefferson Room. Policemen and civilians crowd outside the doors of a hall.
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