A documentary on the growth and opportunities in television industry in the United States. Students at the New York University listening to a classroom lecture on how television signals are transmitted and received. Professor instructs the college students on the technical aspects of television, including an iconoscope. A class at NYU conducted in tandem with a local televsion studio briefs students interested in the creative side of television. Studio equipment is demonstrated including lights, microphone boom stands, and television cameras The equipment and the method of production and recordings are demonstrated. 'WPIX television' written on cameras. Students are coached in using the equipment, while other students prepare to stage a play for television that was written by one of the students. The director meeting with the student actors. Views of the play being filmed for television. Men working on television studio transmission equipment.
American models display a new collection in the United States. Models seated at a table. They wear different hats. One is wearing a glass-hat. Other models talking. They also display various bonnets. A chiffon turban is also displayed.
The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York City, United States. A dirigible flies overhead. Ships of the U.S. Navy Fleet in the Hudson Riverj. . A dirigible flies overhead. The USS Macon (CA-132) fires salutes. Guns on United States Enterprise (CVS-6) fire salutes, with sailors lined up on the flight deck. Dirigible flies overhead. Ships of U.S. Navy Fleet in the Hudson River. A bridge in the background. (World War II period).
The American campaign against the Japanese in the South West Pacific during World War II. United States troops loaded in landing crafts as they head towards New Guinea beach. The landing crafts hit the beach and the soldiers unload from the crafts and land. A number of landing crafts head towards the beach. The crafts at the beach as the soldiers land.
Olympic trials in California, United States. Athletes compete to make it to the Rome Olympics as they participate in sprints, pole vault and high jump. Don Bragg sets a new record in pole vault of 15 feet 9 and a quarter inches. In high jump John Thomas sets a new record.
Families move on to their new houses in the Forest Heights housing project of the Department of Housing and Urban Development , in Mississippi, United States. Houses in the background. Two men unload furniture from a truck. They take it inside a house. A woman puts clothes out to dry. An African American family moves to the house in the new suburban neighborhood. A lady holding a child. Various houses under the housing plan. A man and a girl stand near the window of a house. Two children clean window glass. Two children and a man outside a house. A man cutting grass. A family sits inside a house. Two children walking. A man working in the garden.
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