Oceanographic Prediction Systems in the United States. An IBM computer with tape reels in motion. The tape deck with two reels in motion. A technician in front of a machine. A reel of black tape comes out of a hole of the machine and drops on the floor. Hands working on buttons and switches on the machine. Black tape comes out of the machine. Buttons on the console read: 'Selective Jumps, Stops, Register'. A weather machine draws out a weather map. A bar across lower bottom reads: 'Calcomp 565'. A weather map is being drawn by an automatic remote controlled instrument moving across two sliding bars.
Oceanographic Prediction Systems in the United States. A civilian leans over a life line aboard a ship. The ship underway at sea. A technician stands on the deck holding a bathythermograph in his hand. He prepares to lower the device into water.
Allied campaign against the Axis in 1944 during World War II. Exteriors of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. Representatives of the United Nations at a meeting inside the mansion. A railroad train arrives and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gets off the train in Quebec, Canada for the Quebec Conference. Churchill confers with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt about Allied plans during the war. French FFI or Maquis groups in France. President Roosevelt, seated in front of a large celebrating crowd of people in the U.S., acknowledges them after being reelected President for a third term. People celebrate his victory and hold election victory signs as they cheer. American Civilians (mostly women war production workers) work in war production factories to produce aircraft, tanks and other equipment in the United States. Rows of aircraft engines, cockpits, and gun turrets being produced. On December 16, 1944, German forces launch a major-counter attack through the Ardennes forests, resulting in the "Battle of the Bulge" in Belgium. View of German soldiers and a German Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer rolling by. German soldiers advance past destroyed Allied tanks and trucks.
Various aircraft during a commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy in the United States. A biplane numbered 20 in front of a hangar. Closed cockpit of a bi plane numbered 27. A man stands near the propellers of the bi plane. A small one man monoplane numbered 24.
Various aircraft during a commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy in the United States. Spectators on a runway. Various bi planes being flagged off. A bi plane numbered 20 taxis and takes off. Another bi plane numbered 36 being flagged off.
Various aircraft during a commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy in the United States. A Fairchild FC-1 aircraft with its wings folded back and running parallel to the body. The motor of the aircraft. The wings and the struts of the aircraft. A side of the aircraft with open doors. 'Fairchild' aircraft with wings folded back being rolled out of a hangar. The wings being swung forward and secured. The wings being released and swung back.
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