Explains how the newspaper printing process works and allows the distribution of millions of copies of the Detroit News newspaper in a single day. High speed newspaper printing press running as workers look on. Tons of ink is consumed. Interiors of the Detroit News press company is shown where the whole process is being carried out using huge paper rolls that are cut, folded and counted faster. Printing presses running. Then these papers are bundled and distributed. Newspaper delivery boys boxing and cheering while they await arrival of papers. Other boys cheering the boxers. A police officer looks on and serves as referee during the boxing match. Views of the color presses running, tended by an operator. Operator checking an edition of the "funnies" comic section created using the color presses. Newspaper men playing tennis on the roof of a tall building. Newspapers with pictorials are shown. Group of ladies receiving calls to place classified advertisements at a newspaper agency. Group of civilians reading newspapers while seated on a park bench that appears to be gender segregated, with "Ladies Only" and "Men Only" signs.
Community fallout shelters being stocked. Lorries and trucks on road carry supplies. View of Red Ball trucking line truck. Aerial, exterior view of United Nations Building in New York City. View inside United Nations building. United Nation Ambassador Stevenson asks the USSR delegate whether there are missile bases on Cuba. President Kennedy signs Quarantine order on what materials may be shipped to Cuba, to begin 10am on October 24, 1962. B-52 bombers take off, taking 24 hour missions. Interceptors and fighters take off. Views on aircraft carriers with fueling and takeoff operations on flight deck. Radar dishes and radio communications. U.S. battleship at sea. U.S. intercepts Soviet tanker and allows her to proceed. Reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba. Views of White House. SAC bombers and anti aircraft missiles on 5 to 15 minute alert to handle any critical situation. Interiors of control room inside the Headquarters of American Air Defense Command.
General Bernard Law Montgomery with British and American correspondents in Normandy. General Montgomery discusses news on World War II with correspondents. One man in the group wears a French officer's cap. Two U.S. 9th Air Force soldiers ride horses bareback on highway. U.S. military Jeeps can be seen passing.
U.S. Air Force munitions handlers unload M117 General Purpose Bombs from a flat bed truck trailer. They roll them by their tail fins and then strap them one by one onto an MJ-1A/B Aerial Stores Lift Truck (Jammer) which they then use to raise each bomb up into a slot in a multi-bomb storage rack. View from storage rack as the team of two handlers approaches transporting an M117 bomb to be placed in the rack. Another munitions handler helps secure the bomb into the rack. The team continues to move bombs into the rack. View of a fully loaded rack of bombs on its low mobile trailer, and then view of being pulled from the area by a tractor truck.
View of assembly area at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. A trailer-truck with load of bombs stops at assembly area where United States Air Force airmen and Thai personnel are installing fuzes. Thai worker, uses a type of lug wrench on fuze wells of M117 bomb bodies. On another truck load of M82 bombs, a Thai worker performs the same work on M82 bomb fuze wells while US Air Force munitions handlers insert nose fuzes in them. Extreme closeup of a Thai young man working on munitions.
U.S. Army Signal Corps soldier working on U.S. Army Signal Corps radio set. Views of soldier talking on SCR (Signal Corps Radio) set. Aerial view of dense forest. View across coconut trees. Bits of wire covered with fungus shown. Moisture and fungus on Signal Corps Radio equipment, test instruments and leather case shown. View of Technical Bulletin booklets. Signal Corps soldier working with MKL/GSM kit for step by step processing of units. (World War II period).
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