Airfield at Walker Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Convair B-36 Peacemaker Aircraft parked on the airfield. Flight crews arrive in a truck with boxed supplies and flight packs. The crews prepare packs on the airstrip and put on packs. They stand in a line and check each others packs. They unload additional gear from the truck and board B-36 Bomber aircraft, preparing for takeoff.
Airman works inside office at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. He enters office of U.S. Air Force Captain Blake. Captain Blake seated at desk speaks on telephone and looks at a sheet of paper.
Convair B-36 Peacemaker takes off from Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. The aircrafts taxis into parking area. Convair B-36 Peacemaker aircrafts parked at Walker Air Force Base.
Atlantic City, New Jersey. Views of buildings in the city from a higher building, looking out over the city. View of the Atlantic City boardwalk, with walkers on it. Group of men playing a ball game on the Bathing Beach in Atlantic City. Then the men climb on top of each other, one on the shoulders of another. Pilings and rocks with the surf coming in. Buildings on the beach. Steel Pier is seen in the distance.
Hotels and boardwalk of Atlantic City. Men, women and children walk (or "promenade") on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey in front of the Ritz Hotel. The Hotel Traymore is also seen in the background. Many tourists are seated in 3-wheeled small vehicles or Rolling Chairs to take a tour of the boardwalk and city, each vehicle pushed by a man on foot. The tourists are well dressed in early 1900's fashions. Large billboard high in the background reads "Fatima". Groups of women walk arm-in-arm. Boys take interest in the camera and play near by. Store front sign for Adams Baths among the shops in the background, located on the Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue.
Narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. Light passes through a glass. Prism causes the light to reflect in other direction. Animated picture of magnifying lens. Workers making glassworks in the Bausch and Lomb Company in New York, mixing sand and glass and then stirring of the molten mass in a furnace. Prince Rupert test of a glass drop. The glass mixture is dropped on ground for test and hammered. Cooling of large pot containing molten glass. Large tongs used to remove clay pot from furnace, and then pot covered with insulating material. Pot broken away after glass is cooled . The big piece of glass is broken into small lenses. Workmen examining and choosing lenses for grinding. Grinding of lenses with polishing agents. Animated picture of lenses in a microscope and the change of the course of the rays of light to show the larger virtual image. Assembly of a microscope. Microscopic view of various germs including typhoid and diphtheria. An unborn chicken in an embryo, viewed through the microscope. Blood circulating in a frog's foot, through the microscope. Malignant blood cells. Crystallization of various chemical elements viewed in the microscope.
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