Group of women on sidewalk with signs, including 'Welcome Women of the World to Mexico, Land of Liberty' (in Spanish). Delegates including Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of United Nations arrive on bus for International Woman's Year conference. View of delegates coming out of conference and trying to get into bus while the crowd gathers up. Kurt Waldheim talking with women and others outside the conference.
Women walking along sidewalk and viewing signs in shop window containing United Nations flag. Man getting shoe shine. Delegates of 'International Year of the Woman' conference in Mexico City walking out of the building and waiting at a bus stop at the corner of the building.
Flags of America, England and others wave in breeze. Fighter aircraft fly high overhead in sky. A NATO warship in sea. Combined NATO forces march together carrying various flags. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile or rocket ready for launch with emblem of U.S. Air Force on side. A B-52 high in sky with contrails behind. Crowd of American men, women and children in 1960's fashions looking upward at the sky. Night view of New York city. Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, seen with early 1960's cars passing by. Scene of the elaborately tiled library building with tile murals by Juan O'Gorman, at the University of Mexico in Mexico City (Biblioteca Central at the Ciudad Universitaria Campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico - UNAM). College students seated outside the library building. Farmer with two oxen yoked doing work. Men shoveling and moving material in wheel barrows perhaps in Latin America. Scene of a fair in India tents, vendors, and a small Ferris wheel ride. American children going round and round on a hand powered playground carousel.
First scene shows foredeck and bridge of USS New York (BB-34) in World War 1. Second scene shows U.S. New Mexico-class Battleship underway. In the next scene, a sailor is signaling with a blinker from the bridge of a battleship ( Pennsylvania or New Mexico). Line of battleships in formation with the USS Texas (BB-35) leading. Quarterdeck view of U.S. Navy Pennsylvania-class battleship. View from deck of the battleship USS Texas or USS New York, looking forward. The final scene is a view from the quarterdeck of the battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) looking out toward the SS George Washington (ID Number 3018) as they travel to France with President Woodrow Wilson on board in December 1918, for the Paris Peace Conference.
The B-29, "Dave's Dream," taking off from Roswell Air Base, New Mexico, for the Marshall Islands, to participate in Operations Crossroads. Major Woodrow P. Swancutt, pilot of the B-29 Superfortress bomber, "Dave's Dream," leads his crew as they all don their parachutes and survival gear prior to boarding the aircraft for takeoff. They then enter the aircraft via a crew ladder in the nose wheel well area.
Testing of flight engines of spacecraft. Sign of 'PHOEBUS IB' nuclear reactor. Phoebus IB reactor in testing area of Atomic Energy Commission facility at Los Alamos in New Mexico. Technicians work with NRX-A6 reactor. A recently developed new test stand and a nuclear engine carried by rail car. Test of engines in test area. Animation shows spacecraft in space.
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