U.S. Navy conducts experiment underwater to test man's ability to live under water in the Atlantic Ocean. A sign 'SEALAB I' written on an underwater sea laboratory. A scuba diver wearing oxygen mask swims underwater near the laboratory. U.S. Navy written on SEALAB I. Fishes swim underwater. The scuba diver stands on a platform. The Augus Island platform. The men look at the close circuit television. A scuba diver with supplies descends in water. A sign reads 'Welcome to Inner Space'. Lieutenant Commander Robert Thompson, Medical Doctor seated on a chair inside SEALAB I. He checks the carbon dioxide level. Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning reads a book. Gunners Mate First Class Lester Anderson speaks into a microphone. He communicates with Commander of SEALAB I Captain George F. Bond. They both talk to each other. A man wearing special equipment leaves the underwater sea laboratory. He takes reading from a meter. The fishes swim in water. They approach the man.
Physical damage caused by the atomic bombings in Nagasaki, Japan during the end of World War II. A harbor shows small buildings and homes situated on the side of the hill. Boats on the shoreline with a building area of wooden ships. A Japanese lighthouse located at the end of a small island. A view of the harbor. Ships with gantry crane and sheet metal shop is viewed from the harbor. Two ships, a barge crane at the harbor. Minage Saki outfitting works located at the center of the harbor. Landing craft construction on a pier located on a dry dock at Nishi-Kotohiramchi on side of the harbor. A boat underway in the background.
A trip to Hawaii, United States. Passengers seated in a train that passes through a tunnel and over a high bridge along what would end up as part of the Hawaii Consolidated RR out of Hilo. (This line appears to be the one that ran along the northern shore of the "Big Island" to the west from Hilo.) Carabaos pull a plow in muddy water. A banana plantation.
U.S. Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bombers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The aircraft in flight over an island and water. A column of smoke rises from a target in water. The aircraft in flight over an ocean.
U.S. Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bombers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The aircraft in flight over an island. Huge columns of smoke rise from targets. Smoke rising from burning targets in water. The aircraft in flight over the Pacific Ocean. A group of TBF Avengers in flight over clouds.
A public television program by the U.S. Army entitled 'The Big Picture.' U.S. troops are seen hunkered down and looking through binoculars in a defensive position in Korea, during the Korean War. American soldiers riding atop a Sherman tank on a city street in Germany, during World War II. Ski troops moving across snowy hill in Alaska. U.S. Army amphibious assault training on a beach in Puerto Rico. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, narrator, speaks about America's defense against threat of atomic attack in these times of lukewarm peace. View of mountainous region in Alaska. A cluster of Cup'it Eskimo dwellings is seen on Nunivak Island, in the Bering Sea. Several of the local inhabitants are fishing through holes cut in the ice. Vapor trails are seen from Soviet aircraft flying at high altitude. A sign on a tarpaulin displaying logo of the Army Signal Corps, reads,"Alaska Communication System, Long Distance Commercial Telephone-Telegraph." A tracked vehicle carries a soldier to a facility posting a sign reading, "Alaska Communications System Receiver Station." Several tall antennas loom above the site. The soldier, dressed in arctic gear, steps from the tracked vehicle and walks past several snow shoes, standing upright in the snow, to enter a white wooden building. Inside, a man in civilian clothes works at a battery of telecomunications equipment. He transmits a message about the aircraft sighting, to the Alaska Communication System facility in Fairbanks Alaska (briefly shown) by means of a telegraph key. From there it is relayed to a Signal Corps facility, shown, in Washington, DC. A soldier is seen Inside that facility, in a room filled with computers and telecommunications equipment. A Sergeant handles paper tape messages being sent and received by teletype. Another soldier plugs connections into a communications switchboard. Next, the camera pans over the entrance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. More views of soldiers attending banks of teletype machines. Animated map displays paths of orders being transmitted to U.S. Air Defense Centers in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta. View from control room, of several U.S. Air Force F-94 Fighter Interceptor aircraft on an airfield ramp. A controller activates a Klaxon horn and pilots on alert, in the Fighter Interceptor Squadron ready room, jump up and scramble to their aircraft. A pair of F-94s taking off. One is number 51-5385. Next, a U.S. Navy F-9 fighter plane is seen taking off from an airfield. It displays tail code AE. It is followed by another F-9 aircraft.
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