View at Westminster Kennel Club's event of Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York. Many varieties of dogs walking. Crowd watching the show. For the first time a Springer spaniel is best in show at the Westminster kennel club dog show event. Wakefield's Black Knight, the new top dog, the new best dog is a Black Knight. Crowd applauds. Photographers taking photos.
New Helicopter for sea rescues which acts like a flying boat and can land in 10 feet seas during recue efforts. View of helicopter in sky and then landing in water for demonstrating rescue operations.
Shows air raid drill in New York City. Demonstration of defense against air attacks is shown. Civilian spotters on roof locating position of enemy bomber planes and control informing fighter squadron. Aircraft P-40Cs taking off, B-18As in air and anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns firing. (World War II period).
Shows aircraft Curtiss CW-20B ready to take off. Crowd watching. Curtiss BW-20B taxiing out and taking off. Aircraft in flight.
Men near gas cylinders to inflate barrage balloon. Views of men inflating balloons and raising it using winch. Narrator talking of every major U.S. city soon having such protection (early in World War 2)
Los Alamos Atomic Energy Commission Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico and mountains in the background. Scientists work with diagrams of nuclear reactors. Different equipment and nuclear rocket designs. Prototype of Nuclear reactor is made. Technicians work with KIWI experimental reactors. Towers and buildings in desert. KIWI reactor is checked in nuclear assembly. Reactor is taken to the testing area on a special rail car. Man works at a remote station to control the car. Liquid hydrogen is pumped into the reactor on rail car from near by storage tanks. Reactor tested on test stand shows flaming torch. Reactor transported for disassembly and inspection on car by remote control. Men use remote control manipulators for inspection. Exhaust gas from other reactor on test stand. Men work on diagrams. Narrator discusses next step as the NERVA program (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications), a combined government and private industry (Aerojet and Westinghouse) effort headed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO). Animated nuclear thermal rocket shown with NERVA technology ( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application), given the letter designation NRX.
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