Scenes during winter with heavy snow on the ground and covering cars and street. Traffic Department sign reads "Street closed 11:30 AM - 1 PM school days play area." in Harlem or East Harlem, New York City. Vehicles pass by on street. School children come out of a gate and start playing with snow. Mix of children of various ethnic backgrounds (Italian, Puerto Rican, African American) talk among themselves, smile, and play.
Formation of U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 bombers in flight over Germany during World War 2.Gunners firing 50 caliber machine guns from various positions in a B-17, as attacking German interceptor aircraft race past. One German aircraft is hit and pieces of it fall off. B-17 enters bombing run. View of bombardier and bomb sight image. German aircraft continue attacks and gunners continue defending as the bombardier announces "bombs away." This is a high altitude mission and all crew members are on oxygen. Glimpse of pilot and copilot in cockpit. Pilot alerts gunners to a German FW-190 aircraft attacking them. Waist gunners pause to look at a German fighter smoking, as it falls, and strikes the ground in an explosion. Sequence shifts to formation of B-24 Liberator bomber on a mission with bombs visible dropping from bomb bays. Sequence shifts again, rapidly, to a formation of B-29 Superfortress bombers dropping bombs. Nighttime view of incendiary clusters being dropped on Japan. (Note: One of the B-29s seen is serial number 42-24547, assigned to the 6th Bomb Group, 315th Bomb Wing. This B-29 crashed short of the runway on 31 Dec 1944, at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, where the 6th bomb Group underwent combat crew training. And the B-29s shown do not display any tail codes.)
In San Francisco California, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr. poses with his wife on dock after his return from scientific expedition to Indo-China and Tibet, San Francisco. The Colonel has recently been appointed as the Governor-General of Puerto Rico.
A promotional documentary titled ' Change is Gonna come' about fight against poverty in East Harlem, New York City. The skyline of New York City. A damaged building with broken glasses of the windows. Three boys playing near a building. One boy jumps down from an awning roof to the ground. View of buildings from moving car and gradually the view shows more damaged and older buildings. African American children play around debris of a damaged building. The boys throw rocks at a partially demolished building wall. A young African American girl walks over the rubble with some difficulty. View of the boys throwing more rocks, and then hitting the wall of the mostly demolished bulding and knocking more bricks from it. Two boys play "sword fighting" with sticks. A sign reads ' under construction'. African American youth (older boys and girls) work at a construction site as they cut wooden planks to help build a playground for youth. A young African American boy plays and sits on a toy fire truck. African American and Hispanic children (possibly Puerto Rican) play in and around an abandoned, wrecked car in a street. The group of children stand and jump on the roof of the car and hit the car with their sticks. View of a totally smashed and abandoned car on the side of a street. The toy truck lying on a street and missing a front wheel. Next scene shows and auditorium holding a community convention to fight poverty in New York. Sign says "New York City Council Against Poverty. Lower West Side." A woman at a podium addresses audiences at the convention. Men and women seated around a table as they work on documents.
In the context of Unidentifed Flying Object (UFO) research: Narrator describes the sixteen cameras of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) as camera shows one, of atop a multistory building. A map shows several locations in the state of Nebraska. Next, in a closeup, Dr. Richard E. McCrosky, Director of SAO, shows a model of a small building housing aerial mapping cameras. He removes the roof of the model to show how the cameras are installed and turned on by light sensors. He shows a film of a bright object photographed by such a camera installation. Asked about other inputs, Dr. McCrosky mentions the satellite tracking network, and a map shows the 12 stations about the world. McClosky shows a model of a tracking camera contained in those installations. He shows a photograph of the Gemini rendezvous, when the NASA Gemini spacecraft numbers 6 and 7 came close to each other on December 15, 1965. Scene shifts to views of large radar installations and observatories, including equipment inside one. Animated view of Mariner space probe passing the planet Venus. Giant radar antennas rotating. Views of the milky way galaxy and our solar system. Photos of nebulae from the Mount Palomar Telescope. Radio telescope installations, including the one in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
The Cincinnati Reds baseball team disembarks from a Pan American Sikorsky S-40 flying boat in Miami, after a flight from Puerto Rico, March 1936. Players in Reds uniforms climb off boat. Sign on flying boat reads "Pan American Airways System." Players toss and lightly hit baseballs on a field near the shore. Close up of Reds pitcher Paul Derringer (#25). (NOTES: This was one of the first times a baseball team traveled by air. The Reds held part of their spring training in San Juan in 1936.)
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