Officer Young demonstrates the use of J-38 Hand key for good hand sending of morse code via telegraph. He shows an enlarged model of the J-38 key for demonstration. He explains that the gap between the controls has to be right. The other officer opens the screws to loosen spring and align contact. The gap is set to a thickness of four folds of paper. Officer Jones tunes the hand key. Officer Young explains importance of developing technique. Woman plays piano to demonstrate technique. Man demonstrates technique through drum.
Army Master Sergeant, in training film about telegraphy. He illustrates proper position of telegraphers hand on telegraph key, with the help of a large dummy hand. Index and middle finger hold the button. Thumb on side with ring and little finger curled inside. Movements made with fingers keeping thumb steady. Third step being practice given on screen. A Sergeant listens to the recorded tape and uses RD-60 code recorder. Screen displays a good and bad example of using hand key. That soldier sits in a jeep and demonstrates use of a field telegraph key strapped to his leg. He transmits invitation to a woman, to dine with him. She imitates his Morse code message on a piano.. She agrees to join him for dinner. The soldier sends the letter "V" (for victory) repeatedly over the telegraph. Film ends with the couple dining in a restaurant.
Numerous 1960s fashions and decor in the United States. CU autoclave sterilizer in use. Girl using washing machine. POV girl opens refrigerator door to grab food. Girl in room with her Raggedy Ann doll. Girl brushing her hair. Teenage girl watching TV (television) while eating popcorn. Futuristic furniture of 1960s. Teenage girl talking on the phone with camera pan to radio. Woman decorates a modern white Christmas tree. Woman secretary typing on an IBM Selectric typewriter with large IBM reel to reel drive running in background. Leslie Franzos...woman housewife frying eggs in an electric pan while checking oven in background. . Hair dryer shows glowing coils while woman manicures her finger nails. Meat on electric shish kabob machine. Blender in foreground as woman serves drinks to cocktail party. Closeup of lights, dials, and knobs on power plant control panel. External views coal fired power plants. High tension electric towers. External view nuclear power plant. Animated view of an atom. Kite with Thomas Edison bust. Model steam engine running to power a light bulb. Woman dressed in period clothing demonstrates power usage through time. Hydroelectric dams running. Pieces of coal close up. Close up of refined oil. Steam at power plant turning a turbine. MS high power electric tower. White River Junction train station. Aerial view of Providence, Rhode Island. High tension power lines and tower. Close up view of dials and controls for power plant. Animated atom superimposed on a microscope. Woman dances while looking through microscope.
Map of United States showing location of a power plant of Connecticut. A woman in 1960's dress (Leslie Franzos) dances happily in her living room in front of a window air conditioner. Electric supply lines and power plants showing growth in the sector. Sunset and a graph with wavy lines depicting the limitation of non-renewable sources of power. Views of coal and oil production, pipeline, and transportation facilities including rail trains moving on tracks. Narrator describes fossil fuel supplies as abundant but finite. 1960's woman dances in front of graph depicting rising power demand through the decades ahead. Animation of names of various electricity producing companies. Model of the nuclear power plant of the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company. 1960's fashion woman dances in front of model holding blueprints. Animation of map showing location of the plant. Aerial view of actual site of the plant. Sketch of the plant. Animated model of the functioning reactor and cooling system to be used by the plant. A submarine with reactor fitted. Pictures of nuclear power plants in use at Rowe Massachusetts and Shippingport Pennsylvania. Knobs and on-off of lights on a panel. View of interior control room at the Yankee Rowe nuclear power station. Group of executives in suits touring the Yankee Rowe nuclear plant grounds. Design architect at desk in an office reviews blueprints for nuclear plant.
Men and vehicles moving on beach ramp. Supplies stacked on beach ramp. A (Land Ship Tank) LST-1141 (USS Stone County)up to the beach ramp. A fork lift with load enters the LST. Stacks of lumber lying in the beach area. Men assist in loading the lumber to the fork-truck. They chain the stack to the fork. The fork-truck moves with stack to the ship. The heavy wheels of the fork-truck moves up the ramp of LST. The fork-truck moving into tank deck of LST.
Two men chain lumber stack to fork of the fork-truck. Pier team cargo handlers give hand signals to the fork-truck operator. The truck operator at the steering controls the uploading. The fork-truck moves lumber stacks to the ship. A fork-truck enters the lowered bow of the LST. It unloads the lumber stack at the base of the tank deck. A fork-truck slides its fork under a lumber stack and lowers it to ground on wooden bases. LST-1141 with its bow down in the beach area