A training film in the United States on tactical operations of U.S. Air Force UH-1 Iroquois helicopters. Mini guns are fired from a helicopter. The helicopter in flight over an enemy territory. The gunner fires side firing guns and other ammunition from the helicopter. Smoke rises due to the firing. A pilot at the controls. He gives a command to fire. The gunner fires at the target. Heavy columns of smoke rise due to the firing.
A film titled 'The Message' on technological advancements in the United States. An Indian runs through woods. Different forms of signaling are used for short distance communication. Native American Indian sends smoke signals. Three sailors send signals with semaphore flags from the top of a building. Mail delivery system. Mailmen in horse-drawn sleighs. Actor portraying Benjamin Franklin looks out of a window at lightning. He discovered electricity. He stands in an open field with a kite and a key. Other great inventors utilize electricity to develop telegraph, telephone, wireless and the like. A ticker tape, a telephone switchboard and a radio in operation.
A film on technological advancements in the United States. Use of belts to convey messages from an operating table to a central point. Women operate a multiplex system. They put a messages on a belt. Telegrams are routed by use of pigeon holes. The telegrams are dropped down a chute and are pigeon holed by a woman. Time is stamped on all the telegrams with an electric clock. A woman stamps the telegrams. Women put the routed telegrams in a carrier. The transmission of a message.
A film on technological advancements, innovations, and inventions in the United States during the industrial age and industrial revolution. An actor portraying Benjamin Franklin talks to other men. A man explains to him how a wireless is operated. Benjamin Franklin actor at a telephone switchboard. An operator hands him earphones. Franklin listens. A radiophone in operation. A recording being played on a phonograph. Closeup view of the needle on the phonograph while the record is playing. Franklin listens to radio. Two men, standing near a biplane aircraft, operate a battery-powered Aldis lamp. (Slate incorrectly refers to Heliograph, which uses the sun as light source.) One man uses a sight to aim the lamp at the intended recipient of the message. The other man, holding the battery, sends coded message by operating a key on the battery box. Biplane in flight overhead signals back. Franklin seated at a desk writes in candlelight.
A film titled ' The second revolution in banking' on bookkeeping services and computer improved banking services in the United States. A Titan rocket is launched from a launching pad. Heavy columns of smoke rise as the rocket is launched. Narrator indicates the launching of the rocket implies electronic and technological advancements. The Titan rocket ascends in the sky. The first revolution in banking is book keeping machines during World War I. A man seated at a desk works. Several men and women seated at desks in an office. They work on book keeping machines. The machines are clumsy and use lots of papers. A man empties a sack of bundles of paper on a table. The second revolution is electronic computers. These computers can read, sort, print, process check numbers, record and store customer account information which can be retrieved in record time. The Merchandise National Bank of Chicago installs electronic computers. Men work on the computers in a computer room. Several symbols printed in magnetic ink on a check. The symbols enable the computer system to read information faster and accurately. A man works on a typewriter. He types customer information. Other men work on a machine. The machine reads the information. A reader sorter in operation. A woman at work. The information is read, sorted and interpreted.
Hereford cattle farming in the United States. Cattle graze on the farm. A barn, a windmill and a farmhouse are seen in the background. A cowboy seated on horseback. Cowboys herd the cattle back to the corral. A cowboy on horseback looks on. Hereford cows moving on the field, tended by cowboys.
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