Water flowing over a long leveled stone under a covered bridge. A house with lot of greenery on its outer side. Boats in a harbor. Lighted sections in a building. Electrical towers and Power transmission and supply lines. Outdoor barbecue grilling of chicken and meat and its serving. View of a city at night. Leslie Franzos (from The Atom and Eve) singing in front of a white film projector. She is surrounded by 1960s electric kitchen appliances like refrigerator, cooking range, air conditioner, hot plate and other appliances and she dances around them wearing flowing 1960s fashions. A baby plays with toys. Animation of atomic structure. End of the presentation of Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company.
A 1957 Ford Fairlane convertible automobile with top down, pulls into a "Mobil gas" station, and an attendant comes out to serve the driver. He opens the hood revealing the engine which is dominated by a large air filter on its top. Next, the scene shifts to a V8 engine mounted on a test stand in an automotive laboratory . The engine parts have been irradiated so that the slightest wear will be detected in engine oil. Oil drained from engine is collected and passed to atomic scintillation counter. A graph showing wearing metals of the engine. Scene shifts back to the convertible in the gas station, where the little girl leans over to watch the service station attendant check the pressure on one of the white wall tires. This introduces the discussion and views of radioactive applications in tire manufacture. Nylon fabric woven into tires at a factory is shown being precisely measured using atomic radiation technology. Thickness of nylon tire fabric is graphed continuously as it passes measurement station in automated production process. And rubber being applied is constantly monitored. If out of specification, lights alert the operator to intervene and reset controls. Final scene shows the woman and girl, from the opening scene. driving their Ford Fairlane convertible in a residential town or suburban neighborhood.
People watch ski jumpers in Snoqualmie Pass. Ski jumpers slide in a lane, rise in air and fall ahead. The mountains all around covered with snow. Trees on sides and in background.
Men smash barrels and destroy beer at a brewery owned by Al Capone. Agents pouring off beer from large holding tanks. Other men break open the ends of barrels with sledge hammers or puncture the barrels with pick axes. Dozens of barrels spray their contents into the air, soaking the brewery with beer.
Bingham canyon mine in Utah. A worker drills with a piston air drill. A crane moves drilled ore to a railroad car of 80 ton capacity. The rail cars are driven by oil-electric locomotive. The rail car moves in the mine. Blasting in mine results in smoke and dust. A train carries 45 rail cars to a 20 mile distant factory
Airplane in air. Riggers with their parachutes. They jump from the plane and open their parachute. Riggers land on ground. A rigger removes his parachute after landing. Riggers sitting in maintenance shed. An instructor guides them to operate sewing machine through a model. A light duty sewing machine is used to patch canopy of parachute. A part of parachute canopy patched is displayed. Parker, a rigger operates a heavy duty sewing machine to repair harness of the parachute. Suspension lines are sown on a zigzag sewing machine. Hook is attached on a parachute on a hook and eye attachment sewing machine. The rib-cord is reinforced on a bar tacking machine. Holes are darned in the parachute canopy on a darning machine. Riggers darn holes with hands. They also replace hooks and harness assemblies. Parker works in the maintenance shed on a table. He checks canopy and notes on a pad. He also checks the suspension lines and harness assembly.
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