A sheath of ice formed by the spray of the Niagara Falls due to extremely cold temperature in winter. Frozen blocks jam the Niagara River. A bird sits on the snow. A view of the snow covered trees.
United States Air Force Falcon missile guided by a radar to its target in a test. The supersonic air-to-air missile fired from F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft. The missile fired in a demonstration of automatic electronic destruction.
Crewmen of the USS aircraft carrier Antietam line up on the flight deck to donate blood to the Red Cross. Men register for the blood donation. The donors lie on beds. Nurses stand near them. Nurses carry blood bottles.
The Niagara Falls freezes due to cold wave. Women and children look at the Niagara Falls which has frozen due to a cold wave. Ice accumulates against the wall. Ice floats in water. Ice walls hang from the rocks. A 30 feet thick bridge of ice at the bottom of the gorge.
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.
Experimenters place rocket plane (named Gloria), intended to carry postal mail, on a launch ramp. The rocket is ignited and the rocket aircraft rises but quickly falls to the frozen surface of the lake. It scoots along the ice.
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