Film about the development of the XSM-65 Series A missile and the testing at Point Loma in San Diego, California. Animation depicts the nose of the XSM-65 Series A missile being separated and enters the earths atmosphere. The hydrogen oxygen wind tunnel being used to test the missile nose under specified temperature and wind velocity conditions. Another high power hydrogen oxygen wind tunnel used for testing. An arc heating apparatus used for testing. A resistance heating unit. A induction heater on stand. A technician works on a solar furnaces. A technician controls the pressure with which the water is forced into a porous metal. The water being converted to super heated steam in a furnace. Animation depicts the stem acting as an insulating layer. A scientist notes the water pressure and flow rate. A thermo couple device on table. A gauge. The scientist measures the heat transfer rate.
A film covers the progress in development of specialized communication,command and control hardware of the NASA Gemini Agena target vehicle in Sunnyvale California. Inspection of programmer, programmer circuitry,telemetry units,multiplexer and tape recorder on a Printed Circuit Board by a multimeter. Telemetry recorder in operation. Lockheed Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) 101 stored program ground station demonstration model shows left bay module,memory core,center bay,loading with punched tape and 30 channel analog bar chart. Anechoic chamber construction at Lockheed.
The Challenge Cup at Cowes Week in Cowes, England. Yachts at dock. King of the United Kingdom George V at controls of HMY Britannia. Yachts during the Challenge cup sailing boat race.
The 24th General Hospital (also known as the “Tulane Unit”) in Florence, Italy during World War II. Interiors of Clinical and Bacteriological section. Medical technicians at work. A man approached one of the technicians. Technician working with chemicals in beakers and flasks. Lab burner boils liquid from a flask. Technicians perform tests for determination of non-protein nitrogen in blood filtrate. A row of technicians examines specimens under microscopes. Technicians at work in the Parasitology and Hematology section.
The time is at end of World War 2. Slate describes this film as the Orphanage at Dachau. A bucolic scene shows horse-drawn wagon moving along country road, with twin spires of a church, visible in the background. Camera zooms in on church spires and roof, and then to a sign near the door reading,"DP Childrens Center, UNRRA, Team 182." (DP means Displaced Persons, UNRRA stands for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.) At the entrance, itself, a sign reads:"Ausländer Kinderstation, UNRRA, Ausschuss 182 (Foreign children's ward, UNRRA, committee 182). Children run down the stairs of the building and are seen, next, outdoors in a grassy churchyard of the camp, where they form a circle, hold hands, and dance and sing. Scene shifts to indoors in a high-ceilinged room filled with daylight from several large windows where the children sit for a nourishing mid-day meal. Men in military-like uniforms pass trays of food to children standing in line. A similarly-dressed woman helps several very small children down the stairs. A line of babies sit at a long table and are fed by a Nun in habit. Closeups of the babies trying to feed themselves. Next scene shows a Nun washing the babies, in a nursery, with cribs in the background. View of many pre-school age babies seated on the floor playing together with toys. Outside, in the grounds, school age boys play football (soccer), while schoolmates watch from the sidelines and cheer.
U.S. troops in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Soldiers assemble in formations for roll call. U.S. recruit Richard Gillispie in a formation. A non commissioned officer ( NCO ) calls out unit assignments. A loudspeaker on a pole. A sign reads 'Qui Nhon'. The soldiers attend the roll call.
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