Backyard barbecue picnic at a private home near Seymour Johnson Air Force base. U.S. Air Force pilots and their wives at a barbecue and cookout in the backyard of a house in Goldsboro, North Carolina. People in typical 1960s fashions sitting on lawn chairs, drinks in hand, and talking. A man cooks on a grill.
Newsreel entitled "Babe Gets a New Bat." Shows American baseball legend Babe Ruth playing golf at a St. Petersburg Florida golf course in 1930 with his wife, the former Claire Hodgson. The couple exit clubhouse with unidentified man; pose for camera on a breezy, sunny day; Claire holds up flowers for Babe to smell; Babe takes first shot while others in the background watch; the Ruths walk across golf course. (NOTE: St. Petersburg was where Ruth's team, the New York Yankees, held spring training most of the time between 1925 and 1960.)
Preparations for launch of Soviet Union Voshkhod-2 spacecraft from Baikonur spaceport, during 1960s "space race" between Soviet Union and the United States. Voshkod 2 of R-7 family of rockets seen on a rail car. The rail car pulls up with spacecraft and rocket is loaded onto gantry. The space craft and the launch vehicle are erected. View of cosmonaut as he ascends stairs, enters an elevator and prepares for flight. A fiery flare emerges as the spacecraft is launched. (Note: Image of spacecraft during initial ascent appears to show a Vostok 3KA launcher, or Vostok-K, like that in which Yuri Gagarin was launched; not the Voskhod variant that carried Alexey Leonov and Pavel Belyayev.) Views of ignition and launch of spacecraft; view of it ascending. Next scene shows Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov conducting the first spacewalk by an astronaut, on March 18, 1965. Final scene shows Soviet cosmonauts at an award and recognition ceremony in Moscow on March 23, 1965. Leonov and Belyayev walk side by side on a red carpet toward a reviewing stand of Russian officials. They ascend stairs of platform and salute the Russian leaders.
A crashed U.S. Army Stinson L-5 Sentinel airplane, serial number 42-98969, upside down on a field in Italy, during World War 2. Pilot lying on ground checks his hand. Soldiers around flipped plane. The inverted plane is righted and set on its landing gear by soldiers using ropes. (Note: Opening slate, naming Lt. Montagne, refers to Lt. Ed Montagne, 196th Signal Photo Co, .who reportedly went on to produce the TV Series McHale's Navy during the 1960s.)
The Cold War. President Lyndon B Johnson addresses session of Congress. Maps of Communist countries. Maps of America's allies. Map of Africa. Representative of a nation of Africa addresses the United Nations Assembly. Delegates from Togo watch the speech. Scenes of poverty in area with simple shack homes in Africa. African government officials attend a conference as they work to found new African nations. Map of Cuba. Fidel Castro speaks at microphone. Crowd listens. Another view of Castro giving an address and speaking animatedly. Cameramen record event. Views of ordinary people in Third World countries working in tasks mostly agriculture related. Street scenes in U.S. cities with busy streets with cars and buses, and many pedestrians heading to shops and offices. Wide view of Great Plains in midwest U.S. People walking to church in small town. Aerial view of Queens, Manhattan and East River, in New York City. "New America" shows aerial view of suburbs located in outskirts of city. Street level scene in a vintage early 1960s suburban neighborhood. Boy and girl children in the front yard outside a house in the suburbs with a dog. A U.S. Department of Commerce display clock showing population growth. Doctors in hospital delivering babies. Newborn baby infants and young children seen playing and eating. Close up views of faces of American children, smiling.
A fashion show of 1960s era hats in New York City. Men and women seated in a room. The statue of a woman. A woman wearing a astro hat, of space age or space probe design, with thick skin edges with chin ties. Two models: The women on the left wears a hat with a knitted crown and a neck scarf and the woman on the right wears a deep crowned hat with a leather brim. A woman shows off a deep fitting hat with ostrich feathers. Two women wearing mink fur hats. A women wearing a hat. The crowd which includes fashion editors watch. The words 'Let's all go - Go in a Hat' written on the backdrop of the stage. Women wearing dresses and matching hats walk across the stage.