Report on the atom in Paris, France. Jean Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist in an office. He makes a speech on France's progress in the atomic energy. A man seated in front of Curie in his office.
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
A theater of Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel (Grossinger Golf Course Liberty, New York, 12754 United States) in Liberty, New York. Movie clip shows Magician Russell Swann and a woman as they prepare for their guillotine magical illusion on a stage in the theater. A man stands on the stage. The magician and his assistant joke and kid around with the man to the amusement of the audience. Finally, the man agrees to be the subject of an illusion. The audience is seen laughing and applauding. Several views of the audience reacting to the illusion. Shows faces of theater audience members paying close attention, smiling, being fearful, uncomfortable, nervous, squeamish, and laughing.
The swimming pool of Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel (Grossinger Golf Course Liberty, New York, 12754 United States) in Liberty, New York. View of swimming pool and people around the pool. People swim in the pool and move around it. Views of people talking in groups. A couple talks. A woman smokes and talks. An old couple seated in a chair near the pool. Women play card game of Rummy near the pool and people standing near them watch the game of cards.
Making Crucible steel in Bethlehem Steel company plant, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,during World War 1. View of the crucible steel shop. Men, each known as a "puller out " reach in with tongs and extract the crucibles from a furnace, below, raising them to the shop floor. The crucibles are then moved by dollies to the" teemers" who use their tongs to swing the crucibles toward the molds. View of Open Hearth furnace being tapped into a large crucible and poured from crucible into molds on mill floor. Large hot steel ingots being moved on rail flatcars pulled by locomotive. Many flat cars of ingots standing in steel mill yard. Hot ingots on rail cars being rearranged by large overhead cranes. Men look at and discuss an enormous steel forging on a rail car. Overhead crane moves iron ore and coke in the stockyard of the Bethlehem plant. A veritable mountain of iron ore in the background.
Steel worker cuts an artillery shell casing in half and displays the cross sections. Newly fabricated 14 inch shells are moved by crane. A machinist files surface of a shell being turned. Shells being moved over rollers on plant floor. Loading powder into shells. Moving shells with motorized cart and chain sling.
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