David Sarnoff of RCA makes predictions regarding telecommunications and consumer electronics during a filming in New York. Television crew at work. Boom moving microphone. Cameraman at work. Sarnoff speaks and says newspapers, mails, magazines and mails will be sent through air at lightning speed and reproduced at home (could be seen as foreshadowing or predicting facsimile use and the Internet). He speaks about pocket size radio instruments enabling people to communicate with anyone anywhere (possible early forecast of portable radio proliferation, and later cell phone, mobile phone and mobile device usage). Cameraman and boom operator at work. Close up view of motion picture camera front and camera lenses.
A family watches television at home in New York. Family members watch television at home. Woman, girl and a boy look at television screen. Girl laughs as she watches television. Woman seated on sofa watches television. Man smokes pipe. Television screen on set.
First color television broadcast from Columbia Broadcasting Systems. Color Television Monitor Tube photographed at the National Guard Armory in Washington DC. Television broadcast shows "Patty Painter," (real name Patricia Stinnette) displaying colored pieces of cloth. (Note: Reportedly, the U.S. Naval photographic unit that did these tests tried to record color images from all three of the proposed color systems at the time: the CBS field-sequential system, RCA's dot-sequential system and CTI's line-sequential system.)
U.S. Army Secretary Kenneth C Royall visits Japan. Constellation aircraft getting ready to take off. Honor Guard standing in formation. The aircraft taxis away towards the take off strip. The aircraft takes off. Army band playing music in the background. Color Guard marching. Cars arrive at the air base.
U.S. Air Force Aviation Cadets are seen relaxing at an airman's club on Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. One, a Cadet Colonel, is seated, reading a book. Another converses with an airman. Another cadet, accompanied by a woman airman, enters and introduces her to the others. Closeup of the cadet reading on the couch. The two cadets and two airmen are chatting amicably. The cadet, who arrived with the woman airman, leaves with her. Two more women airmen arrive and then leave with the other cadet and airman, as couples. Another woman airman arrives and joins the remaining cadet. They converse .
Report on the atom in Paris, France. Joliot-Curie's car enters AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) office. Signs "Commission", "Haute Cour De Justice, Dans Le Hall Ascenseur" and "Commissariat A Lenergie Atomique". Joliot-Curie and Bertrand Goldschmidt talk. Jean Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist in office talks with Pierre Biquard and dictates to a secretary. A meeting of French Scientific committee. Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Lew Kowarski, Francis Perrin are present. The members examine a piece of Uranium ore on a desk.
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