The United States aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA-42) commissioned in New York City, United States. A dirigible flies overhead. Ships of the U.S. Navy Fleet in the Hudson Riverj. . A dirigible flies overhead. The USS Macon (CA-132) fires salutes. Guns on United States Enterprise (CVS-6) fire salutes, with sailors lined up on the flight deck. Dirigible flies overhead. Ships of U.S. Navy Fleet in the Hudson River. A bridge in the background. (World War II period).
Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.
Shows the first atomic bomb explosion in history, on July 16, 1945, resulting from the work of the Manhattan Project. Atomic bomb tested at an experimental station in New Mexico, United States. Bomb explodes and a mushroom cloud forms, seen from cameras 6 miles away. Smoke and fire emerges. (World War II period).
Manufacturing of ordnance in United States. Men work building war materiel in Watervliet arsenal, New York. Men work on machine gun manufacture and assembly. Assembling aircraft machine guns by war production workers early during World War 2.
Trotters compete at Grand circuit meet in Goshen, New York. Horses compete on the track as crowds cheer. Mrs E Roland Harriman rides Calumet Erie after winning the race.
Fire in an oil refinery, Wellsville, New York. Oil refinery burns as it catches fire. Wrecked refinery due to fire and smoke rises. A man looks at the damage caused by the fire. Fire killed four people and injured many others.
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