Francais
Deutsch
Italiano
Refine Your Search
Quonset Point Rhode Island USA 1960 stock footage and images
- Showing 7 to 12 of 29368 results
more
Hide
Consumer uses of electric power; Coal power plants, hydroelectric dams, high tension towers, power plant controls.
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.
Cars driving on American highways; tree falling and planting; family disassembles a large tent
Point of view shots from moving car on highways in America in the late 1960s. Various 1960s cars and trucks on highway. Rear view of people riding in a convertible car with the top down. A brown Ford Mustang. Cars driving under stacked highway overpass. Red light and “Signal Ahead” signs. An two-seater dune buggy vehicle driving on highway. Highway lights and signs at night as seen from a moving car. Plastic garlands hanging over roads. Electric power transmission towers. Pipes at a gas or oil refinery. Network of pipes at the refinery. Scene change to coniferous evergreen trees in forest. A lumber jack wearing a helmet watches as a tree falls after he cuts it. A Caterpillar 651 Wheel Tractor Scraper moving. A wooden frame construction at a job site. A man planting a small evergreen tree in his yard. A family at a camping site come out of a large tent. The man and his wife put luggage into the back of a station wagon. Two boy children roll up a green artificial grass or turf mat facing the car and turn to a load a potted bush into the car. The man and the woman disassemble the tent (like a folding Quonset hut) at their camping area. The man and woman get inside their station wagon car and the car drives away.
Cartoon animation “Private Snafu” depicts living conditions for soldiers posted in the Aleutian islands during WWII
Private Snafu Title Sequence. Cartoon animation “Private Snafu” depicts living conditions for soldiers posted in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. A view of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. A Japanese soldier hops on the Aleutian Islands after emerging from the Pacific Ocean, only for a strong American soldier to stomp his feet when he opened “the backdoor to the United States”. Japanese soldier hops and dives back to the Pacific Ocean. View of Tokyo, Japan from the “Back door to the United States”. The cartoon depicts how harsh and challenging the environment in Aleutian Islands- having rain, snow, thunder and whirlwind gales. A seal resembling The Great Schnozzola (Jimmy Durante) replies with the Lower East Side accent, “Nevertheless, that’s the conditions that prevail.” View of a GI camp in the Aleutian Islands. Private Snafu sets out on an important mission, he changes his outfit according to weather. View of the vegetation of the Aleutian Islands, only grass in the tundra environment. After the narrator stated, “There are no trees”, a rabbit replied sarcastically “You’re telling me!”. United States Army Camp in Aleutian Islands covered in thick, gummy, mud. A serviceman is riding on two servicemen submerged in the mud. Inside a Quonset hut, American soldiers are playing dice. An earthquake rattles the Quonset hut and changes the position of the dice. Strong winds in the Aleutian Islands uproot Quonset huts, military installations and even the mountains. Soldiers struggle walking through a “Williwaw” (or strong winds in the Aleutian Islands) until it stopped, causing the soldiers to fall to the ground and the eggs a soldier was carrying to break. Private Snafu walks in the Aleutian Islands through different weather conditions in different outfits. Soldier drives a military jeep with skis in the snow. A cartoon B-17 covered in snow as it flies above the Aleutian Islands. An Eskimo sits around an ice fishing hole in the snow-covered B-17 wing. Private Snafu is wearing a steam whistle as he walks. Private Snafu changes his outfits according to weather condition while walking. Airmen run out of the Briefing Hut and dive in the watery air strip. Private Snafu dons a scuba diving suit to retrieve a B-17 submerged in the watery air strip. Private Snafu inside aircraft with fish. Private Snafu ejects the fish out of the aircraft. The fish activates a parachute to fall safely, only for it to drop into the gaping maw of the Schnozzola seal. The Schnozzola seal repeats his earlier dialogue to describe life in the Aleutian Islands.
President Kennedy receives Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Ms. Indira Gandhi at Newport and in Washington.
U.S. President John F Kennedy receives Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Ms. Indira Gandhi at Newport airport, Rhode Island. American ambassador to India John Galbraith, Indian students from Brown University and the press are also present. Military honor guard holding flags stands with airport terminal in background. Scene changes to Washington DC. Daytime view of exterior of U.S. Capitol building under a bright blue sky. Wide view of Washington Monument and reflecting pool. Scene in a park with yellow and orange colored autumn leaves on trees and ground, and adults and children walking in the park, wearing typical early 1960s fashions. Wide view of tidal basin and Jefferson Memorial in the distance. Arrival of President and Mrs. Kennedy accompany the visiting Prime Minister and his daughter on Air Force One aircraft as it arrives in Washington DC. Military honor guard holds flags and military band members play music, including the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets fanfare ensemble. The arriving officials are received by Vice President and Mrs. Lyndon B Johnson, Secretary of State and Mrs. Dean Rusk, and other dignitaries. President Kennedy speaks at a podium with microphone and welcomes the Prime Minister on his third visit to the U.S. Prime Minister Nehru then speaks and expresses gratitude for the welcome and for the friendship expressed by the President. View of Air Force helicopter taking off to fly the guests and the President to the White House after the ceremony.
Coast Guard Rescue Stations along the Eastern and Southern coasts of the United States
After extensive slate of historical information, this film shows U.S. Coast Guard personnel launching a large dory (life boat) from the U.S. Coast Guard Gloucester Station in Gloucester, Massachusetts (Old House Cove, westerly side Gloucester Harbor). They slide the boat down rails, launching it directly into the water. Coast Guardsmen in foul weather gear are seen rowing a large lifeboat in rough waters near rocky shores. Eight men row, sitting in four pairs side-by-side on fixed thwarts (benches) and one stands in the stern (a coxwain) steering with a 16’ oar. A powered life boat is seen briefly, in extremely rough waters. Remainder of the film shows an animated map of the East and South coasts of the United States with dots identifying Coast Guard Stations on those coasts. At this point, the film concentrates on Rescue Stations in the Boston Division. A beached two-masted sailing ship is shown. A large steamship emitting black smoke from her funnel, is seen beached and listing on a shore. Aerial view of Light House on Block Island, off Rhode Island. Aerial view of a freighter run aground just off shore. Aerial view of a Coast Guard Station with a highway running past it. Aerial view of another Coast Guard Station located where narrator says is a dangerous point.
Wounded American soldiers are evacuated from Attu Island in the Aleutians, during World War II
Sailors aboard the troop transport ship, USS Harris (APA-2), receive wounded American soldiers evacuated during the battle of Attu Island in the Aleutians, during World War 2. Wounded, strapped on a platform, are raised from a Higgins boat, by rope sling, and gently placed on the ship's deck. A sailor carries one wounded soldier on his back. Another helps him onto a litter. Scene shifts to Attu Island, where an American soldier mans a 40 mm Bofors anti aircraft gun at a high point overlooking a harbor. A quonset hut and radio station, with tall antenna, are in background. What appears to be a steel pier extends into the bay below. Snow covers mountains in far background. The soldier loads shells into the gun and fires it.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Links ©2024 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2024 CriticalPast LLC.
