A documentary about Project Breakthrough by the office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program to teach preschool children language skills in the Chicago region (Cook County, Illinois.) African American children from poor families board the bus to go to school. View of black children boarding school bus. View of yellow school bus driving away. Children finger painting at school. At the school a child takes another child to introduce him to a talking typewriter. One of the project officials Pamela Jung speaks about the concept of children as tour guides who help others to get used to the talking typewriter. African American children at talking typewriter as they explore the keyboard.
Damage caused due to drought in Texas. Farmer walks on a barren field due to a drought. Close up view of weathered hands of a farmer as he runs his hands through dry earth. Cattle on a dry field. Cattle on a farm. Farmers drive trucks to a water tower in Stonewall Texas and use a coin-operated machine to fill water vessels. Empty stock pens due to losses of cattle from drought. A farmer brings some cattle to a small pond.
Footage from Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada. The test conducted to examine the effects of a nuclear bomb explosion on buildings and houses. A man walks inside a house and dummy or mannequin cars parked in front of the house during setup for the experiement. Next scene shows view from cameras as the house explodes from atomic bomb blast wave or shock wave, with fragments flying in the air. Exterior view as blast wave hits house. The impact of the explosion on the house. The impact on dummies and furniture inside the house as seen from an interior camera when the shock wave hits and windows blow in.
Speed and altitude tests being conducted by Bell X-1 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. U.S. Air Force B-29 Superfortess in flight with U.S. Air Force Bell X-1 under its wing. Speed and Mach attainment painted on fuselage of the aircraft. Bell X-1 aircraft releases from B-29 mid flight and begins a solo flight circa 1947. Next scene shows the X-2 released from a B-50 circa 1955. Animation shows radar tracking flight course details for the future X-15. It also depicts its course of flight and the landing of X-15.
Sled tests conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, California. North American test Pilot Al White dons X-15 pressure and space suit. Wind blast tests being conducted on rocket sled with the help of a dummy. Rocket sled run with dummy wearing an X-15 space suit testing the ejection escape system. Dummy inside X-15 nose section during another test. Pilot jumps with a parachute in case of an emergency. Fabrication and assembling of X-15 at North American Aviation Company. Technicians operate control panel. Engineers check the aircraft parts at the center. Pilot Scott Crossfield undergoes g-force training seated inside whirling centrifuge. (Early in NASA space program)
U.S. Reconnaissance Unit marines receiving underwater training at the U.S. Navy submarine school, New London, Groton, Connecticut. Inside the Buoyant Ascent, Submarine Escape Training Tower, marines equipped with breathing apparatus and flotation collars, are seen rising to the surface of the tank. Glimpse of a submarine on surface of water. Inside the submarine, marines in a platoon, assigned to a team, are briefed by an officer. Then the NCO in charge, carrying his swimming flippers, leads his team into the escape trunk, for their first training mission. View of the marines as water rises around them. Then they are seen making buoyant ascents from the submarine, with bubbles trailing as they rise. View at surface as the team members reach it. The team swims toward shore, pulling their equipment in waterproof bags. They land on a beach, and sweep away any landing marks in the sand. Inland, a team member removes a submachine gun from its waterproof bag. He gives the gun to another marine, fully dressed in camouflage fatigues,
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