Electric power lines and insulators. A bridge across a river in United States. Cars pass on it in wintertime, with snow at edge of road on a cold morning. High voltage long distance electric transmission lines and towers. Statue of Liberty from behind, with helicopter flying past it. Series of very close-up views of appliances and conveniences that use electricity: Chicken roasting on electric powered rotisserie. Clock hands moving on electric powered clock. Person turns on electric desk lamp. Electric powered beaters spinning. Electric powered industrial machining operation. A couple dancing to music powered by electricity. Several kinds of electric transmission lines. Electricity in the 1960s office environment: Hand dialing a rotary dial telephone; adding machine; close-up views of typewriter in operation; punch card sorter for punch cards of early computer; early computer tape drive spinning; warning lights. Closeup views of fingers pressing keys and dialing. Night view of Times Square on Manhattan Island, New York City with many illuminated commercial signs and neon signs.
Search and rescue efforts after the destruction of Texas Tower Number 4, a U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command Offshore Radar station, in 1961. It was located off Long Island (39degrees48'N 72degrees40'W) and operated by airmen of the 646th Radar Squadron. It had experienced structural difficulties including damage from Hurricane Donna, on September 12, 1960 and was being scheduled for repair or dismantling. The USNS New Bedford and the USS Wasp were in the vicinity, on January 15, 1961, when the storm caused the Tower to collapse and sink.But they were unable to save anyone. In subsequent search and rescue operations, after the storm, The USS Sunbird (ASR-15) submarine rescue ship is seen at the site, along with sailors in a motor whaleboat from the USS Blandy (DD-943). A helicopter from the USS Wasp (CV-18)flies overhead. A scuba diver surfaces near the whaleboat and is taken aboard. A motor whaleboat from the USS Sunbird maneuvers in rough water. Whaleboats seen returning sailors and divers to the Sunbird.
Flying flivvers in flight in United States in 1935. A man works on a small, light Flivver aircraft. View of a Weick W-1 "everyman" aircraft operating its controls on an airfield. It was the winner of Department of Commerce competition for a "foolproof airplane." It is seen moving quickly around other parked aircraft on an airfield using its tricycle landing gear. Narrator says it was priced at $700 to be "everyman's airplane." The Weick W-1 takes off and is seen in flight. From a 25 year retrospective newsreel released July 14, 1960.
Flexible glass (plexiglass) and its varied uses being tested soon after its invention. A man works on a flexible glass. Flexible glass used at various places. A glass at a diving platform as a diver dives into the pool. A car moves over a flexible glass embedded in a wooden frame. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.
People demonstrate in New York City, United States. Communists, Pacifists and other liberal anti-war demonstrators protest against war in general and Italy's aggression against Ethiopia (Italo-Ethiopian war). People carrying banners move on streets of New York. Banners read ' stop war' ' Unite against war'. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.
Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. First batch of 15,000 workers who were employed under the Works Progress Administration at a construction site in Birmingham, Alabama. Workers line up as their names are entered in a roll register. A worker wears a pair of tattered shoes. A man drinks from a mug. Workers construct houses. Houses after their completion. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.