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Aviation cadets take part in mass calisthenics and Sergeant Beranek demonstrates sit-ups in Yale Bowl, New Haven, Connecticut.
Aviation cadets do sit-ups at AAF Training Command School in Yale Bowl, New Haven, Connecticut. Army Air Force cadets at AAF Training Command School at Yale, take part in mass calisthenics in Yale Bowl. Sergeant Beranek demonstrates sit-ups. He demonstrates his techniques in setting his world record of 6034 sit-ups in 6 hours. Cadets do sit-ups.
Annie Oakley demonstrates her skills shooting with lever action rifle
Sharpshooter Annie Oakley, performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, displays her skills with a Marlin lever action rifle, by rapid fire shooting of glass balls on a board and coins tossed into the air. She is assisted in her demonstration by husband, Frank Butler. Filmed at the Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, United States
Effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II, and early international efforts to control atomic weapons
Film showing city of Hiroshima, Japan, before and after the August 6, 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb over the city in World War 2. Sequence opens on what the narrator says is August 5, 1945, the day before the event (but the footage is likely from before that date). Camera pans over the city of Hiroshima before the atomic bomb destroyed the city. Japanese air raid lookouts are seen on watch for allied bombers. View of atomic bomb detonation as seen from aircraft high overhead (this is actually a view of the Nagasaki blast, not the Hiroshima blast despite narrator's comments). Next, the complete destruction of the city of Hiroshima is seen from camera at low altitude showing the four and one half square miles of the city flattened and burned. A Japanese hospital still functioning, with red cross flag on it. Hospital workers retrieving wounded victims of the bombing. Ambulatory victims clustered in doorways and halls. Shadow image of a large industrial valve wheel burned onto wall behind it. Similar image of a ladder burned onto a wall. The decorative pattern on a woman's dress burned onto skin of her back. Japanese physicians treating victims of thermal and radiation burns. Views of various victims, including some children, and their respective injuries. Scene shifts forward one year, to August 6, 1946. Children are lined up outside a school building, and then seen inside their classroom. Disfiguration and wounds on children resulting from injuries are still evident on the children at their desks. Sequence shifts again, this time to an early United Nations meeting with delegates grappling with the issue of controlling nuclear power and atomic weapons. Closeup view of American delegates, including James F. Byrnes (Secretary of State)and James B. Conant, President of Harvard University in the assembly. Closeups of representatives from South Asian nations. Closeup of USSR delegation, headed by Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. Signs identifying delegates from Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Bolivia, China. Final sequence shows several U.S. atomic scientists in their respective laboratories, including Enrico Fermi and Vannevar Bush. United States representative to the UN, Warren Austin, speaking about the so-called Baruch Plan, for international control of atomic weapons. (Principal author, Bernard Baruch, is standing behind speaker's left shoulder.) USSR delegation, headed by permanent representative, Andrei Gromyko, who is seen presenting the Soviet plan. View of explosion and mushroom cloud during U.S. Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test in the Pacific.
American made automobiles are exported to foreign countries. A Studebaker sedan travels over dirt roads on Catalina Island off California.
Workers in a Studebaker automobile factory move a fully wooden crated new automobile on an overhead hoist. It is labeled "Studebaker Automobiles" on it's side. Views of crated cars bound for different destinations overseas. Seen are those headed to: Buenos Aires, Capetown, Melbourne, and Cairo. Next, a Studebaker sedan car is seen raising lots of dust as it races at high speed over a dirt road on Catalina Island, off the coast of California. The driver is trying to climb a 1500 foot hill over a distance of 3 miles, as fast as he can. His car is seen negotiating hairpin turns during the ascent and finally arriving at the summit.
Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Wilson inspect an airmail airplane as service is opened between Washington and New York, U.S.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson inaugurates airmail service as it commences in the U.S. A Curtis JN-4 airmail airplane parked on the Polo field, in Washington, DC.. Van of United States Air Mail Service arrives. Mail is loaded into the airplane. Pilots Lieutenant George L. Boyle and Major Reuben H. Fleet standing beside the airplane conferring over a map. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, and Post-master General Albert Sidney Burleson inspect the airmail airplane that will carry mail to New York. . A man shows first official piece of airmail. He and his wife greets pilot. Wilson talks with pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet . Pilot George L. Boyle gets into airplane. Airplane takes off. Airmail airplane piloted by lieutenant Webb leaves New York from Belmont Park and takes off. The airplane stops at Philadelphia to pick up more mail. Mail is loaded into the airplane. The airplane takes off. It arrives in Washington. Mail is unloaded from the airplane. Pilot gets out of the airplane.
Buses get anti-pollution mufflers to check their performance during a 6 month experiment in New York.
Anti-pollution mufflers in New York. View of a bus. A banner on the front of the bus reads "For Cleaner Air, We Are Testing A New Anti-pollution Muffler on This Bus'. People gather around the anti-pollution muffler. The muffler reduces diesel exhaust fumes and odors. The bus is driven away.
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