A film 'Over Sapphire Seas' shows the voyage of the Panama Pacific ocean liner from New York City to San Francisco. The cruise ship leaves New York. A crowd waves as the ocean liner departs from the harbor. The captain and other naval officers look through a sextant. A couple view a map showing the ship's route. A woman in a gymnasium on board the ship does weightlifting and strengthening drills pulling on weighted ropes in the gym. A group of passengers on deck does group stretching and calisthenics. A woman is served breakfast in bed. Women shop aboard the ship. Children play musical chairs and other children enjoy an activity room and riding on hobby horses. Other children toss a ball over a net. A waiter distributes sandwiches to the children. Passengers play table tennis and shuffle board. The captain takes a round of the ship. Passengers relax and enjoy the refreshments. Women swim in a pool. And underwater picture view, with underwater photos offered as a novelty to passengers on the Panama Pacific Line. A fat man jumps into the pool. Through the underwater cameras a boy is seen picking up plates from the bottom of the 8 foot deep pool to win a contest. Passengers in black tie and formal evening wear drink and dine on the luxury ship at the end of the day. A butcher cuts beef steak and roasts it on charcoal. Cooks cook food in a kitchen using electric utensils. Bakers make fresh bread. Fancy desserts and pastries are prepared and served to guests. Men and women dance in costumes at a party. The captain sings a sailor song.
Actor Raymond Massey introducing the subject of North American Air Defense, which is a joint enterprise of Canada and the United States. A map of the United States, Canada and the Arctic. Animation shows radar sites comprising the Dew Line, Mid Canada Line and Pine Tree Line in Canada, as well as coastal and ship borne sites around the United States. Internal U.S. sites tied to the automated SAGE system (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) are shown. SAGE is a computerized control system for tracking and intercepting enemy bombers. The headquarters of NORAD (North American Air Defense) is shown, at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. Mr. Massey points out models of new antiaircraft missiles displayed on his desk. Animation shows how these can be fired from the ships at sea.
An animated map of Canada and the United States. Radio communications Tower over hilltop. Workmen installing underground communications cables. Telephone communications in everyday life. Men and women working in an office. United Press International teletypewriters on a desk. Man looks at a screen and speaks over the phone. A cable-laying ship in operation at sea. An animated map showing the undersea cable connections to various places.
Air Defense displays in NORAD (North American Air Defense) Command Post, Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Airmen updating the displays. NORAD commander, General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy, are in the Control Room. General Kuter uses telephone. Technicians in radar warning site detect two target missile returns on their scope. U.S. ship at sea detects target returns on its radar. EC-121 aircraft aloft detects radar returns. All this information is reported and consolidated at NORAD command post. Views of hands closeup on typewriter and teletype machines. View of vintage punch tape or ticker tape moving through a machine to be read. Close-up views of hand reaching for phones with choice of yellow phone, black phone, or red phone. Canadian and American officers report. General Kuter and Canadian deputy consult.
Senior Japanese Naval Officers make inspection visit on a warship. Japanese warships underway at sea. A Japanese destroyer. Numerous Japanese warships with several formations of Naval aircraft overhead. A loose formation of Kawanishi H6K Naval flying boats in flight. Japanese light and medium tanks on parade, including Type 95 Ha-Go tanks (some with offset turrets). Many tanks cross a field. In Japan, Emperor Hirohito, riding a white horse, reviews Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks as their crews stand at attention. Tanks create clouds of dust as they move on a road and a field. Japanese infantry soldiers march in review past Emperor Hirohito on his white horse. Large formation of Japanese infantry marching. High-stepping Japanese infantry compared to Italian infantry goosestepping. Benito Mussolini speaking to Italians from his balcony on the Palazzo Venezia of Rome on November 4th, 1938. Numerous Italian Army SPAD XIII biplanes parked in a large field. Ethiopia's Emperor, Haile Selassie, speaks from a shelter and invokes tribesmen fight invasion by Italian forces. Tribesmen are in tribal dress, armed with spears and ancient rifles, as they rally to their Emperor. Italian L3 light tanks being used in the Ethiopian campaign. Contingent of Italian cavalry charging and infantry advancing. Italian Caproni Ca.111bis light bomber in flight. Bombs falling. Italian artillery firing and shells striking a hilltop fortress. Japanese attendees waving Japanese flags in a large stadium in Italy. A Japanese statesman reading a speech in Japanese. Most of the stadium is filled with Italians. "Saluti" is written at the section occupied by Japanese attendees. An Italian spokesman welcomes the Japanese participants. A Japanese translator is beside him. Japanese cheer as they hear the translated greeting.
Bow view of Allied destroyer plunging through seas during World War 2. A supply ship sinking in the Atlantic. A lifeboat filled with survivors from a sunken ship. A freighter with stern in the air as she sinks. Survivors in the water and on a lifeboat. French troops deploying into the Maginot Line. They ride narrow gauge subway cars inside the fortress complex. View of Copenhagen, Denmark. German troops marching into Denmark. Smoke rising from bombed areas of Norway. Norwegians watch from sidewalk as German troops march into their city. Fires burning at night in Norway. German self-propelled heavy guns during invasion of Holland and Belgium, on May 9, 1940. They are followed by numerous Panzer II tanks. German trucks and motorized weapons moving through the low countries and from behind, past dragon's teeth antitank barriers, of the Maginot Line. German soldiers with machine guns aboard a train headed toward France. German troops destroying border barriers as they proceed through Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. They pass a large windmill. German motorcycle troops. A formation of German single-engine twin-tailed aircraft in flight overhead. (possibly early versions of Ju-87?)
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