Television broadcast shows the controversies regarding UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) in the United States. Men wearing Bell Rocket Belts fly in the air. They fly over traffic on road and land on roadside. Single engined biplane bomber Hawker Horsley British aircraft taxis and takes off. German jet fighter EWR VJ 101, United States Ryan XV-5A aircraft and M2-F2 Lifting Body in flight. NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Lunar Landing Research vehicle and XB-70A in flight.
Large ship approaches pier at U.S. military base. Snow capped mountains in the background. The ship docks and sailors with sea bags disembark. Trucks loaded with sailors and their sea bags pull away. Sailors with sea bags walk into barracks. Notice on building shows hours for serving "chow." Men enter the building for a meal. U.S. Navy clock shows past 1800 hours with sweep second hand moving.
Mixture of reenactments for older 18th and19th Century life scenes in America, and actual footage from the 20th century. Workers cut timber with an axe. Cattle-drawn carriage passes. Laying log roads. Building a railroad. View of Chinese railroad laborer. Stringing telegraph wire on log poles. Steam locomotive pulls passenger train and belches black smoke. Reenactment of farmers ("Minute Men") assembling and marching off to meet the British in American Revolutionary War. Facsimile of United States Declaration of Independence. Actual footage from the early 1900s (circa 1910) of newly arriving immigrants arriving at Ellis Island for processing, including men, women, and children. Two boys pose for the camera smiling. Immigrants with their luggage in hand walk on docks of Ellis Island to or from processing areas. View of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloes Island and the words inscribed on statue of Liberty. Immigrants at Ellis Island. Diverse group of peoples raising their right hands as they take oath and become U.S. Citizens. Myriad different faces of Americans, including men, women, and children and people of different ethnic backgrounds including Asian, African American, and white. Three children gathered around a seated elderly man as he reads to them. Citizens deliberating on local development matters. Congress in session. Women voting registrars checking names as as voters arrive to cast their ballots in an election, and people entering voting booths to vote. Views of new 1965 Ford and Chrysler and other automobiles including sedans and station wagons. New Ford tractors on display. 1965 "concept" and "space age" automobiles on display from General Motors at a car show. Reenactment of engineers using time and motion studies in a factory. Workers in different kinds of factories and manufacturing plants in the the early 20th century (1910s, 1920s, and 1930s) employing mass assembly line methods for the creation of goods. Various machines operated in factory. Workers engaged in mass production. Finished goods display in shops. Sales person selling curling irons. Another selling a flat iron.Two women and an early version clothes washer. A woman tries out vacuum cleaner as salesman helps her. Men making sinks and tubs. A crew of women tightens fasteners on assembly line, using "Yankee" screwdrivers. Warehouse men moving crates and a shipping warehouse filled with boxes and busy workers. One scoots with his foot on a hand cart. Workers leaving factory at end of work shift. Grain harvester at work. Laboratories for medicine, industrial, and plant research, with scenes of scientists and technicans running experiments and views of test tubes, beakers, flasks, and measurement apparatus. Image of globe spinning. An African city and women near a market selling goods and moving good held high on their heads. A Latin American city. American cooperation with hispanic people on civic projects. Families lined up at a health clinic for babies. One baby is being weighed. Americans including US Army soldiers working with Latin Americans on a construction project.
(Audio only). Radio reporter John Charles Daly reports on U.S. Navy operations in Pacific Front War under command of Admiral Chester W Nimitz in World War II. News about bombardment of Okinawa and attack on Japan by U.S. troops. New York weather report and news about Easter celebrations. News about war in Italy.
Production of helmets and shoes for U.S. soldiers in World War 1. Large crowd of war production workers outside plant, stockpile of materials in the background. Women workers in factory work at lathe. Pile of helmets put on racks. Helmets dipped in solution, hung up to dry. Workers fit linings into helmets. Soldier tries on helmet. Worker soles and heel shoes. Soldiers on parade ground. Soldiers hold U.S. flags.
During war ration period in the United States, women crowd around to buy silk stockings from stores in the U.S., during World War II. Women look at silk stockings in windows. Interiors of store. Crowd of women shoppers gathered at a store counter waiting to purchase silk stockings. Women buying stockings.
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