A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. Unmanned experimental flights. Launch of a spacecraft. Astronauts at work. Training of the astronauts. American astronaut Alan Shepard in a spacecraft. The Mercury-Atlas 6 mission underway. Men work on a spacecraft. Preparation for the launch of the spacecraft at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The spacecraft on a launch pad. Astronauts prepare for the spaceflight. Men at work in a building. The Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft is ready to be launched. John Glenn prepares for the flight. The spacecraft on a launch pad. A U.S. flag on the spacecraft. Glenn takes his position in Friendship 7. The countdown begins. People gather and look at the spacecraft. Glenn in the spacecraft. The spacecraft is launched. Vapors rise from the bottom of the spacecraft at liftoff. It ascends towards the sky. Technicians establish contact with Glenn. Views of mission control stations and countdown clocks. United States Air Force missile range instrumentation ship Rose Knot underway as it follows the course of the spacecraft.
A U.S. Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplane taxis and takes off from an airfield in the United States, that appears to have some construction work taking place on it (dump truck in background) during World War 2. The P-40's landing gear takes a long time to retract after takeoff, with the right gear lingering down, well after the left has retracted. Aloft, the P-40 maneuvers around a slow-moving light aircraft camera plane, joining up near it and flying rapidly away, and then diving toward it.
USS Akron dirigible airship in flight over the west coast of the United States. The control tower of USS Akron. U.S. Army soldiers at the controls of the dirigible. An officer stands nearby. Mail bags stacked aboard the dirigible. A cook roasts chicken in the galley. Stove and cooking utensils. Men peel onions and potatoes. Men seated at a table eat food.
People leave their homes in the Great Plains, United States. A tower and damaged houses in the Great Plains due to dust storm "dust bowl" conditions during the Great Depression. A girl walks near a house. People leave their homes with their belongings, loading them into a trailer towed by their car. They migrate west. Views of deserts. Vehicles driven on a road. People live in tent communities during westward migration in the United States. Vehicles arrive near a tent. Men sitting idle. Women unload carts. Two men seated outside the tent. Farm machinery and equipment on the ground. Useless farms and barren trees in the plains.
Treatment for combat exhaustion cases among U.S. soldiers following combat in World War II. U.S. officers talk about operation plan of a hospital and speak about three sections including admission, treatment and rehabilitation. A patient undergoes a physical examination. A dental survey and necessary laboratory studies. Doctors seated at table to perform an intelligence tests and mental examination. Psychiatric and other personality tests and intelligence test are administered including Rorschach test and Kohs block design test. The doctors check the psychiatric and physical report of the patient by looking at an X-ray. Patients receive sleep therapy: A nurse and an army doctor give narcosis therapy (continuous sleep treatment), by administering barbituates that keep a patient asleep for 18-20 hours per day for several days. Insulin is used on "loss of weight" cases: Combat exhausted soldiers lying on beds and receiving insulin before breakfast by nurses to stimulate their appetite. A nurse checks the weight of a patient during treatment. A nurse checks the diet which will be given to the patients in a kitchen. A patient receives an electric shock therapy treatment. A doctor injects a medicine into a patient. The patients go through physical exercises to maintain physical fitness. The patients are reeducated to know the causes of diseases. (Note: Clips deals with treatment for Combat Exhaustion, also later termed Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.)
A U.S. Navy training film "Submarine Escape" depicts rescue precautions in emergency for men if a submarine sinks. A sunken submarine in the United States. Operation officers check an operation board that the reporting time of the submarine has passed out. A man makes a radio call to the submarine but it does not answer. A squadron officer leaves the office of communication and contacts with an officer of Ships and Shore Station for aid. Two aircraft and an airship in flight to find the submarine and to rescue its crewmen. A ship at sea. Two methods of rescue to be followed in emergency: individual (S.E.A.) and collective (Rescue Chamber). Crewmen in the submarine as it goes down. They smoke. A man on a phone receives no answer. A man checks condition. Two men stand near a compartment. Floating debris in the sea. Men in a forward compartment to talk over the problems that the ship is encountering. Important steps to be followed in an emergency written on a board. Men follow the steps. A man gives a pack of absorbent powder. A man spreads a mattress cover on a lower bunk. He puts on rubber gloves. He pours the powder and spreads it in thin layer. Instructions are read by a man. Emergency drinking water, fruit juices and oxygen for safety. The man waits. Men rest. The men prepare for escape collectively. They wear the rescue gear. Men prepare for escape individually. A man wearing a rescue gear signals by gesturing. The men work with rescue gear and equipment.
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