A 3-inch anti-aircraft gun T1 fired in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The 3-inch mobile anti-aircraft gun T1 with a muzzle velocity of 2600 feet per second in a traveling position. The gun is emplaced by the members of the crew. A river can be seen in the background. The gun is fired at a towered target by the gun crew. The target is brought down from a height of 9000 feet. Members of the crew pose.
Large crowd gathers for the running of the 74th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Track, Baltimore Maryland, where they watch as the tree year old Citation, of Calumet Farms, ridden by Jockey Eddie Arcaro, wins the race by 51/2 lengths.
Research work by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Service (United States Department of Agriculture). Chief of the Bureau Dr. Hazel K Stiebeling talks about research in the field of food and nutrition at the Beltsville Research Center in Maryland. Laboratory technicians compare the nutritive value of foods. They measure the growth of a chicken using a machine, and that of a rat using an apparatus. A technician measures certain vitamins and amino acids using micro organisms in test tubes. Technicians use chemical methods to measure Vitamin C and small food proportions. A photoelectric calorimeter is used to measure carbohydrates in a food.
The Annual Junior Boxing Tournament in Annapolis, Maryland. Young boxers of naval families sit and receive instructions from a referee at an academy. The referee measures the weight of a young boxer on a weighting machine. Two boxers fight in a boxing ring. They display enthusiasm and display their skills during the match.
Congressman Richard Nixon and Chief Investigator Robert E. Stripling of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) examine evidence found at the Maryland farm of Whittaker Chambers. The microfilms were hidden in pumpkins at the farm and later became known as the "Pumpkin Papers." View of pumpkin patch at the farm and the farm house. View of Whittaker Chambers testifying before the committee. Stripling and Nixon seated together at a table. Nixon holds a magnifying glass that he is using the view the film strip.
A Native American adobe community in New Mexico. An alleyway between adobe homes. Wooden ladders against the buildings to provide access to roofs. A graveyard marked with dozens of crosses. A large structure stands in background beside a long tunnel-like structure. Out on the desert, bleached bones of animals are seen on the ground. A woman holds up an antler. Closeups of various bones held up for the camera. Views of artwork incorporating images as well as actual bones. Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe, in her studio. A closeup of one of her canvases. View of an artistic mobile suspended from a building beam. POV view from window in O'Keefe studio, of desert outside, as a car drives past. A small animal running across the ground. Goats in a pen. Panning views, from high rock formations, of desert below. A muddy creek beneath the hills, with simple bridge crossing it. The Rio Grande River running past a tree bent toward the water. Views of higher mountains (described by narrator as "mossy." Forests of various kinds in the mountains. Sheep grazing near a forest of aspen trees. Scenes of trees flowering in Spring. A fall of water from a mountain spring into a pool. Rivers and streams of water flowing into ever larger tributories toward the Rio Grande River. Diversion of water into irrigation ditches. Such a ditch circling a cultivated field, where two farmers are cutting a crop with a hand-held reaper. More views of landscape. A farmer uses a shovel to open path for water to flow into an irrigation ditch. The water seeping into field planted with crops. Closeups of various farm produce, including apples and various varieties of colored corn. Native American men, women, and children shucking corn. Irrigation water flowing into fields of crops. A man and woman hang peppers in the sun to dry. A wooden water wheel being turned by water. Worker inside small building housing a water-driven wheel in village of Barranca .He feeds grain into spout connected to grind stone.
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