Physical combat proficiency test (PCP Test) conducted to judge the level of physical fitness among cadets in Basic Training at a United States Army training academy. The cadets undergoing the test perform events like 40 yard low crawl, dodge run and jump test, 150 yard men carry, mile run. A Drill Sergeant makes the cadets perform exercises. Cadets trained in guerrilla warfare. Cadets undergo dual combat training and hand to hand combat training. They again undergo tests as officers judge them.
U.S. Army soldiers trained at unit level to maintain their fitness in the United States. Soldiers march, play team sports like rugby, run cross country, workout. At a swimming pool, they undergo water survival test and swim with a rifle for 15 meters in a pool. Soldiers learn hand to hand combat tactics. Soldiers and paratroopers in simulated combat situations.
Mostly reenactment footage showing how post-civil war Industrialization leads to a market surplus in United States giving a boost to commerce. (Film made in 1961) Development of communication system, system of sending mails by horsemen. Telegraph poles and cables set up. Construction of Transcontinental railroad tracks to develop a vast transport network. Sketches of men laying telegraph cable across Atlantic to set up link between east and west. Expansion of petroleum industry: Dramatization of an oil well "gusher" as it gushes oil upward and excited well workers celebrate. Following scene is of actual oil wells gushing and a field of oil wells and derricks in place.
Mix of dramatized and actual footage. Invention of telephone leads to an era of urbanization, industrialization, mass production, capitalism and more employment in United States. Dynamite explosion at a hillside making way for telephone wire network expansion in America. Workers employed in electric bulb and telephone manufacturing plants. Views of networks of telephone polls. Early telephone switchboard operators in an operations center. People in homes using early two piece telephones.
Machine shop at Wright engine plant in United States. Men at the plant check aircraft instruments. Turn and bank indicators checked. Two men enter Bendix plant.
Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat, in water at a port in California,United States Howard Hughes is seen on platform in top hatch of the flying boat, communicating by radio. Ship underway in the background.. A helicopter in flight overhead. View from inside through window shows engines starting , beginning with inboards and working outward until all 8 are running. Howard Hughes inside the cockpit at the controls. Engineers and technicians are also seen and a copilot in the right seat of the cockpit. Hughes speaks on radio and then removes his headset and looks around.
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