Aerobic physical fitness exercises and its benefits. Aerobic exercises like walking, running, cycling, swimming, stationary running are required for physical fitness. Animation of human figure depicts heart beats and blood supply to heart mussels. An exhausted man moves in jungle and image showing elevated heart rate is superimposed. Animated diagram showing how exercise and cardiovascular fitness reduces heart disease and high blood pressure of human beings. It depicts how aerobic exercise reduces blood cholesterol accompanied by proper diet. A physically fit man in a business suit approaches a podium on stage. Audience in the foreground of the auditorium listens.
United States Air Force (USAF) Aerobic physical fitness programs and its benefits in the United States. Scenes of people doing water skiing, surfing, swimming, mountaineering and rock climbing. John F Kennedy's statement: 'Physical fitness is the most important key of helping body it is the basis of dynamic, creative and intellectual activities'. Personnel climb up and sit atop mountains. General John Dale Ryan, Chief of Staff of U.S. Air Force speaks about that USAF consists people and equipment to evaluate the performance of personnel and conducts aerobic physical fitness programs. He closes with a request that all air force personnel should participate in the program for world wide mission requirements.
Japanese films show school activities to explain the school system and deficiencies are noted by narrator. The films emphasize the school's role to develop nationalism in Japan. Lunch time: Children wash their hands and come out from the building to take lunch. Children served vegetables and fish in food. Emphasis on physical culture by calisthenics and gymnastics: Children run for exercise. Children do physical exercise. Children learn the correct methods of formal exercise. Children are taught to exercise for strong and good health, which is necessary for soldier. Children do calisthenics under trained teacher. Children do gymnastic to build body and make formation. Boys doing calisthenics. (World War II period; anti-Japanese propaganda).
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
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.
A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. View of a bridge. Displacement of the bridge towards the north. The south side of the bridge shows displacement over concrete support. The displacement on the back side of the bridge measures 2 inches and on the west side measures 6 inches. The pressure side of the bridge shows pylon nearest to zero. The underside of the bridge shows displacement. Displacement of girders on the abutment. Major Dragnet and Major Fletcher of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) physical damage team show flash burns on roof tiles found in a stream bed.
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