View of Edo/Tokugawa period Ukiyo-e prints made by Harunobu Suzuki, Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige. “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” print by Hokusai. An artist carves a small wooden statue. Hand places wooden statuettes on display. Japanese men examine ceramics made by artisans. Dancers perform Odori and Mai dances. A Japanese dancer performs with a doll.
Film begins showing small children, receiving gifts. Babies in and around around a play pen. One sitting in a high chair with apron around his neck. View of flooded town in Holland. A stack of Care packages containing food and blankets. A man writes on a bundles of supplies: "Holland Relief." A DC 6 aircraft takes off to deliver supplies. Damaged buildings from an earth quake in Greece. Injured person being carried on a litter past a pile of Care stockpiles. Greek officers and sailors examine many boxes of Care supplies. People being evacuated from flood swept areas of Japan. Children lining up to receive drinks in Korea when the Korean War broke out. A child being fitted with shoes. Women and children in a shelter. Women and children suffering poverty in India. Care executives in a planning meeting at the U.S. headquarters (151 Ellis Street NE Atlanta, GA 30303). They obtain reports about crops and types of soil to design plows for use in various areas of the world. Pictures of farmers using plows in different countries. Care executives inspect sample of plows with technical assistance from Department of Agriculture experts. Closeup of the so-called CARE plow. Next, Care workers assemble collections of tools that might be sent abroad. Closeup of a box full of carpenter tools. Camera focuses on a simple high quality carpenter's plane. Outdoor tools for farm work are mounted on a display board. With advice from The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Men sort technical books for shipment to libraries abroad. Closeup of books being placed in CARE-labeled box. With advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Medical Association, Care planners design medical supply and equipment packages for shipment abroad. Closeup of a cart containing oxygen bottles and various medical instruments. A meeting of persons from agencies that make up CARE. Harold Minor, Treasurer of CARE, expresses support for new initiatives. CARE President, Murray Lincoln stands and receives from Paul French, a paper in which he writes the name: "Self Help." Mr. Lincoln writes it in chalk atop a list of items comprising the "package." Two planners review an advertisement for the program. A man and his wife and baby discuss making a contribution to CARE to fund a kit for midwives in India.
Flags of various NATO member countries. Flag of NATO. Film 'The Atlantic Community' introduces the United States as a NATO member. American landscape views. American men,women and children walk to church. Memorial marking first settlements in America. Back Bay neighborhood along bank of Charles River in Boston. Side and front view of Old State House in Boston. Pedestrians and traffic with 1940s automobiles on busy streets of Boston. Exterior view of Faneuil Hall and flower market in Boston. Civilians walk in street and cars drive by. Sweeping views of Harvard University campus buildings. View of New York city. Sweeping view from ground upward of Empire State building in midtown New York City. Manhattan Island New York City as seen from the water. Tall buildings and skyscrapers of Manhattan. Upward panning view from ground to top of Empire State Building in 1949. Busy street in New York city. American people at work including a man operating precision manufacturing equipment, a woman typing on a typewriter, and a man carpenter sawing wood. A seamstress sews clothing, an executive on the telephone in an office, factory workers at work; bricklayers working; women examine clothing designs, draftsmen at work on drawing plans. View inside a locomotive of the engineer operating a railroad train at high speed. View from exterior of passenger train as it approaches and passes by. Aerial views of farmland and hay in fields under a dusk sky. Elevated view of American industrial factories and smoke pouring from chimney stack pipes. Cowboys with herd of cows at the foothills of Rocky mountains. American dam on a massive lake. View of the Mormon Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Mormon temple from a distant elevated position with mountains in background, and then a street level view of Salt Lake Temple with statue of Brigham Young in foreground and 1940s vehicles. Aerial view of Lockheed Constellation aircraft in flight. American landscape views. Mountains and oceans. Golden Gate Bridge. Niagara Falls view. Fort Montgomery. The Rainbow Bridge from U.S. to Canada.
View of spacelog hours on a space graph that contrasts man hours in space by the United States and by the Soviet Union (during the "Space Race.") NASA Gemini XII astronauts Lovell and Aldrin are greeted after their flight. View from spacecraft in space. View from capsule with Earth below, as rendezvous and docking with Agena vehicle takes place. Gemini astronauts enter elevator to ascend to capsule before launch. View of a unmanned ICBM missile lift off at night and an explosion. NASA Gemini successful lift off, and view of NASA mission control room. Gemini capsule on deck of USS Wasp is opened by a McDonnell employee, and astronaut shakes hands after recovery. Technical briefing in which Integrated Testing Sequence GT-4 is explained to U.S. Air Force personnel. Camera pans upward from base to top of a NASA Gemini missile and capsule. Gemini capsule is installed atop rocket. Model of Gemini rocket seen in conference room during meeting. Gemini components in large factory. A Titan II missile launch serving as a Gemini flight test shows telemetry instruments including dish and antenna tracking the launch. Close and long shots of Titan II missile in flight. Installation of flight control, pressure oscillation suppressors, and guidance systems on Titan ll to allow for man rating on Gemini. Gemini launch vehicle engines fired on Aerojet general test stand. Critical parts for Gemini are examined at the U.S. government quality assurance area. Engineers work on rocket parts and tie wrapping electrical components. View of radio guidance system module being tested. Gemini launch vehicle on launch pad and views of control room.
A truck in the U.S. Army 1919 motor convoy, across America, is seen with its right rear wheel broken through the road bed of a wooden bridge across a dry creek, in Whyoming. The truck was heavily laden, carrying a Holt tractor in its bed. Soldiers stand about as an operator backs the tractor out of the truck. They then examine the situation. Closeup of the truck wheel broken through wooden floor boards of the bridge. They hook the rear of the truck to the Holt tractor and pull it out of the hole in the bridge. Next, the convoy is seen stopped at the bridge and for a long way in the distance, as soldiers lay coiled planking (sort of pre-fabricated corduroy road) at the dry creek to facilitate passage by trucks around the wooden bridge. A truck begins to drive up the embankment on the planking, with difficulty, as soldiers help push it. Scene shifts to two trucks slowly climbing a narrow dirt road.
A real meteorite found buried 4 feet under ground. It is a solid iron meteor that fell from space. Man kneels and examines the meteorite that has been excavated.
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