The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the Golden Gate in the United States. Workers paint suspensions of the bridge. Strands are wrapped with wires. The strands are lifted in a hydraulic jack. The strands on a cable saddle. The strands are adjusted at an anchorage. A strand shoe used to fix a strand in a perfect position. A solid pin is inserted by workers to fix the strand. Air circulation provided between the strands. Men come in a carriage after the completion of the bridge. Engineers stand on the bridge. A cable compacted by a machine. A steel ring clamped to the strands compact the cable. Workers work on compaction. An engineer checks the dimensions of the compacted cable. A cable casting tied over the strands.
A film about problems faced by working women in the United States. American sociologist Jessie Bernard and Edna G. Rostow, a mental hygiene consultant at the Yale University, discuss about the increased dependency age of children on their parents. Prolonged education and industrialization being one of the reasons for the dependence. Children leave home as they realize their dependence. They talk about the role of women in the society and the changes needed in women to cope up with their children and the society. They talk about broadening the life of a woman and expanding her role in the society and the change in the relationship between a man and a woman. Jessie Bernard shares her personal experience and difficulties in being a single mother. Edna G. Rostow talks about the understanding between a husband and a wife while sharing her personal experience.
View from aircraft landing at Leeward Point Airfield, Quantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. troops exiting C-135 transport aircraft. U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters charting planned airborne alert missions of SAC bombers, during Cuban Missile Crisis. SAC crews in briefing rooms. Aerial view of a United States Navy nuclear submarine partially submerged. Bomb and missiles being loaded on SAC aircraft. Flight of two F-104 starfighter aircraft taking off. B-52 Bomber taking off. B-47 Bomber landing with drag chute deployed. Ground crewman with lettering on shirt identifying location as Air National Guard Permanent Training Site, Volk Field, Wisconsin. Two F-104s parked. Air Force personnel going in and out of Air Field Headquarters building. Door marked: "Headquarters Air Defense Command." A C-121 Airborne Command aircraft, with large radar hump on top, is seen in flight. A sign reads: " Headquarters Montgomery Air Defense Sector" and Air Force personnel are seen at control stations inside. Sign at Langley Air Force Base, in Virginia, reads "Headquarters Tactical Air Command."
The orbital flight of friendship 7 under project Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying John Herschel Glenn Jr from the United States. The control tower and the control room at night. Technician in the communication room at the control panel and check the status of the Mercury-Atlas 6. technicians take out reports of the status of Mercury-Atlas 6. Gordon Cooper the capsule communicator studying the reports and finds the heat shield of the Mercury-Atlas 6 is loosened. View of the control station. Technicians in the communication room talk to John Herschel Glenn Jr in the spacecraft. View of mountains. A satellite dish over a communication tower in California. Gordon Cooper with others in communication room. People gathered at the tracking station. A radar rotates on a tower. Technicians at the mercury tracking station in Cape Canaveral in Florida. Officials work at desk. Technicians at control in a control room as the Retro Sequence starts. Men in the control room instruct John Herschel Glenn Jr in the spacecraft. John Herschel Glenn Jr reacts to the instructions.
Children given polio vaccination en masse in the United States. A doctor administers a vaccination. Nurses put ointment on hands of the children to be vaccinated. Mothers carry their children for polio vaccination. A boy smiles after his vaccination. A girl hugs the nurse as she is being vaccinated by a doctor. A nurse takes the medicine into a syringe from a bottle. A nurse applies heat to sterilize syringe needle before extracting vaccine from a vial. The children being vaccinated one after another.
American doughboy soldiers arriving home in the United States at the end of World War I. U.S. soldiers aboard USS Leviathan at dock. People walk on a railway platform holding American and red cross flag. U.S. Army soldiers walk towards a train. Soldiers wave from the train pulling out of the station.
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