A Vatican priest blesses new flag of an old tall wooden sailing vessel used as a training ship in Genoa, Italy.. The cadets wear their uniforms and are carrying guns on their shoulders. Cadets arrange themselves on elevated parts of the ship in a display.
Men playing chess and billiards. They are discussing the use of electricity generated by atomic power plant. A player hits the billiard ball and cleans the ferrule of the cue stick. Animation of a table spoon full of uranium atoms and comparison of that potential energy to the work of millions of people or hundreds of thousands of tons of coal. Cartoon animation showing a boy scout making fire, that makes steam to turn a pinwheel (turbine), then a magnet is attached to the pinwheel, and invisible lines of magnetic force cut across the lines in a coil, generating electricity (shown as a lit lightbulb)o. Animation of a moving train and lighted buildings. Animation to compare the generation of power by steam, boilers and atomic reactors. Electric supply lines reaching a house.
Animation of a family presenting the increasing power supply demand from1500 KW/Hr to 3000 KW/Hr in homes. Similar animation for factories. Animation of coal power plant dependent on coal supply. Animation of atomic power plant as a renewable source of energy. View of technician climbing atop the small U.S. Army SM-1 (2-megawatt ) nuclear reactor at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. More views of the reactor facility seen through woods. Change of scene to the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) nuclear facility, built by Southern California Edison and Atomics International, at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the Simi hills near Moorpark, Ventura County California. Scene shifts again to the Vallecitos Nuclear Power Plant near Pleasanton, California, built jointly by PG&E and General Electric Company. (It is the first privately funded plant to supply power in megawatt amounts to the electric utility grid.) Inside the plant, a technician is seen in its control room. View of the reactor containment vessel. Film shifts to aerial view of the first full-scale PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) nuclear power plant in the United States, under construction at Shippingport, Pennsylvania on the banks of the Ohio river. The site is busy with construction activity. View from ground of a large container of fresh concrete being moved by a crane to be poured as workmen adjust its position, before releasing the contents. More views of the construction site, with cranes and numerous constructions workers engaged.
A modern futuristic kitchen is displayed circa 1950. A rotisserie oven rises up from the counter. Housewife or home maker model displays the interior of the oven. She displays the containers arranged in a cupboard under the counter. A blender base rises up in the counter. She puts the container of the blender in the base and uses it. Then she moves to other part of the kitchen and displays electric burners that turn over to close up. The complete kitchen is covered with panels and no appliances are seen outside.
A freighter moving on calm water surface in Cam Ranh Bay during the Vietnam War. Mountains covered with vegetation are seen in the background. Smoke arises from the stacks of the freighter. Other ships are also present in the water including small speed boats moving quickly by, and partially visible U.S. military ships at harbor.
Ramp of LST-1141 (Land Ship Tank) is lowered. A 5 ton truck enters the ramp and moves to the main deck. "U.S. Navy 96-29416" is written on side of the truck. A 6 ton truck is backed on the deck. Driver positions truck into parking. Men secure lumber planks by chains and ropes. A man tightens the screws of jack securing the chains to deck. Other jacks are also tightened.
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