The U.S. Naval torpedo testing range in Montauk, Long Island. Interior of a torpedo shop. A man working on a part of torpedo. He turns the part and works on it. Other men working on different parts of the torpedoes.
SS Kronprinz Wilhelm at sea near the Virginia coast. Captain Thierichsen of the Eitel (left) Collector of the Port Hamilton, and Captain Thierfelder of the SS Kronprinz Wilhelm. Sailors demonstrate the firing of one of the Kronprinz's 3 1-2 inch guns. They pose with another 6 inch gun captured from a French ship. The crew assembled in uniforms, wearing patent leather shoes taken from a captured ship. The SS Crown Prince Wilhelm is interned in the then neutral USA during WWI.
Animation shows the location of Edison Battery (also known as nickel-iron battery or NiFe battery) as installed in an early EV trucks. Photos of early EV trucks include a ‘Beech-nut Packing Company delivery’ battery powered electric van and a ‘National Biscuit Company’ (Nabisco) electric delivery truck. Several ‘Ward’s Tip Top Bread’ battery electric delivery vans leave a building. A ‘Sunshine Biscuits’ battery electric delivery van drives out of a warehouse. An ‘Imperial Laundry Co.’ battery electric delivery van driving on the street. A driver reverses and parks a ‘Ward Baking Co.’ vintage EV delivery van. Close up of Thomas Alva Edison's hand writing a letter about battery electric power, in which he notes that his battery promises "actual savings in practically every industry." Thomas A. Edison signs a letter while sitting at his desk and smiles. His Edison battery is on the desk before him.
A feature on Jim Henson, creator of 'The Muppets'. The Muppets characters such as the Cookie Monster, Grover, and Herry Monster on display. Big Bird smiling. Oscar the Grouch hiding behind a tree. Cookie Monster holding an A-shaped cookie. The Muppets creator Jim Henson rehearses a Sesame Street sketch as Ernie. Another puppeteer playing as Simon Soundman rehearse alongside Jim Henson in front of a mirror. Jim Henson talks to a colleague beside a woman inside his Manhattan office. “It seems to me that it might be better to use the little guy Harvey Muskrat (sic) for that part” Jim Henson told his colleague. Puppet designers working at the Jim Henson Company studio. A female puppet designer adjusts the dress of Ma Otter from ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’. Another female designer cuts fabric from her desk. A female puppeteer moves the head of a Muppet puppet. Jim Henson performs as Emmet Otter from the Muppets movie ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’ (1977). Emmet Otter tells a joke to a woman, making her laugh. A puppet designer works to animate Ma Otter. Animatronics control Ma Otter as she uses a sewing machine. Emmet Otter rowing a boat. A puppet designer operates animatronics to make Emmet Otter move. Emmet Otter’s head moving automatically. The Howard Snake from ‘Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas’ moving his mouth. Jim Henson, producers, and puppeteers attend a script read-through. Jim Henson holding Fred Lizard. Puppeteers rehearse as the ‘Riverbottom Nightmare Band’ Muppets. Jim Henson performs as Howard Snake.
A USAAF B-17F is seen where it crash-landed in the desert near Biggs Army Air Field, El Paso, Texas, on February 18, 1943, in World War 2. The film was shot some time later when salvage operations are underway including removal of engines. As the camera pans around the plane, a bent propeller is seen in the sand. The tail number 25326 is seen, identifying it as Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress, 42-5326, of the 351st Bombardment Group, 511th Bomb Squadron, with home base at Biggs Field. The camera focuses on the plane's empennage.
Opening scene shows hands of a man, in overalls, as he sands a small wooden figure of a horse. Next, handicraft materials, including yarn and roughly cutout blocks of wood, are seen laid out on a table. The hands of a woman are seen as she marks with pencil where some further finishing is needed on a rough cutout wooden figure of a horse. Slate quotes a Brasstown worker about satisfaction from making something with your own hands.
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