A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center( PIADC ) in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of foreign animal diseases. Removal of animal virus in a laboratory shows personnel in special rubber clothing inside an animal isolation unit. The rubber is disinfected with lie solution. Caustic solution in rinsed off in a shower. Clothing is cleaned using a brush. A man cleans the room with the lie solution. Sewage passed through welded lines to sewage decontamination building. Three holding tanks receive sewage. Sewage is heated to sterilizing temperature and discharged outside the laboratory. An officer inside research buildings looks at a light blinking on a central trouble panel. A technician takes a look at the diagram of the layout of the building and instructs over a telephone. A technician approaches an overheated motor. He inspects equipment of air control system of the laboratory. Technicians work on machines in a machine shop. A patient being treated in a first aid room. Service area for cleaning and sterilization of glassware and a laundry in the research building. A man cleans his nasal and throat passages, scrubs his hands and takes a shower. Employees board a bus. A guard looks through binoculars.
Interior view from right side of an aircraft taking off from Torokina Air Strip on Bougainville Island, during World War 2. Numerous aircraft are seen parked near trees beside the runway, including U.S. Marine Corps F4U Corsairs; P-38 Lightnings; RNZAF P-40s; and USAAF Piper L-4 Grasshoppers. F4U Corsairs are taxiing beside the runway. Aircraft interior backward view from the departing aircraft's tail, shows the runway below and behind, with water on two sides. Next, the narrow airstrip is seen as the camera airplane flies overhead, just offshore, parallel to the runway. The camera continues to focus on the airfield as the plane climbs to higher altitude. Aerial view of small islands below, with small boats leaving wakes as they speed across the water. Next is view at lower altitude as the camera plane flies offshore parallel to the airstrip runway, as if on a downwind leg for landing. Next scenes are from above nearby Piva Yoke fighter airstrip, and parallel Piva Uncle bomber airstrip, which appears to be under construction. It is cut out of jungle and no aircraft are seen on it. The camera airplane's right rear horizontal stabilizer is seen momentarily as it flies slowly over the site. Some smoke rises from the area. Views of mountain and a river, as the flight continues. The final view is from offshore, over the sea.
U.S. Army Engineers and their role in preparation for the nuclear bomb tests on at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, during Operation Sandstone. Bulldozer being driven up, large crane hoists construction material in the background. Engineers use construction equipment to level the land for atomic bombs testing. An engineer pushes construction material on metal conveyor. Engineers throw sacks on site from a truck trailer. They shovel soil. Front end loader levels the land. Engineers use hand tamper. Engineers work to construct an airstrip and parking area.
The Match Race for America's Cup in Newport, Rhode Island. Race between home-bred sailors and Captain John M. Vanderbilt and his crew for America's Cup. Sail boats of home-bred sailors, underway at sea during the race. Ships of Captain John M. Vanderbilt and his crew underway. Captain John M. Vanderbilt and his crew's ships win from home-bred sailors.
A U.S. Navy Task Force in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Saipan, Mariana Islands during the Battle of Saipan of World War 2. Heavy Cruiser, USS Indianapolis, CA-35,seen in camouflage paint. Smoke rising ashore, from naval guns firing. Shell splashes in water from Japanese shore battery. The U.S. cruiser and Japanese shore battery exchange fire. Much smoke rising on shore from naval gun strikes. A Tennessee class battleship in camouflage is illuminated by sunlight against dark background. Sunlight frames clouds.
Cruise of the whaler Herman to the Arctic. Polar bear hunting on Herschel Island. A Polar bear eating a seal on an ice floe. He jumps into the water and swims towards the shore. The bear comes ashore and runs inward. The crew in boats follow him ashore. They shoot the bear. Men hold the bear's mouth open. The dead bear. The dead seal on the floe.
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