Human astronaut test subject undergoes Mercury suit evaluations in United States. Human subject wears a latex suit, strapped in altitude chamber. Subject holds wire in hand lying in horizontal position. Man standing next to subject, observers him closely. During testing for NASA Project Mercury.
Destruction and blow up of Atlas missile 11F test number 71, from Atlantic Missile Range in United States. The missile explodes on the ground. Black smoke and fire from the explosion.
In a 1970 television program, host Lee Marvin talks about Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, in between Arizona and Nevada in the United States. Historical scenes from construction of the dam in the early 1930s. Crane lifts a number of workers on a raised platform. Worker comes down the mountain with the help of rope. Workers walk across bridge. Dynamite explosion dislodges rock for dam construction. The Hoover dam under construction. Rock blasting in the dam's diversion tunnels. Construction workers eat food in Anderson's Mess hall. Views of workers dining in the mess hall and the kitchen during food preparation. Includes interviews with workers Joe Kine, Tommy Nelson, and Doug Moore who participated in construction. Later aerial views of the Hoover Dam around 1970.
View of building and skyscrapers at a city in United States. Civilians seated in classroom listen to a lecture on civil defense. Woman instructor at blackboard points out to phonetic alphabet chart. Factory workers listen to the lecture and ask questions. A Sergeant with model planes in hand, explains and demonstrates to the class.
United States Airmen work at filter center. Men receive call at an Interceptor station. Officer speaks over phone. Pilots get into jeep and drive away. They get into cockpit of an airplane. Two jet planes speed along for take off on runway.
Posters of various Federal Theatre presentations by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States during the Great Depression. Posters of dramatic theater productions like Macbeth, Battle Hymn, Jefferson Davis, Taking the Air and The Mikado, at various theatres in New York and New Jersey. A painted truck of the Portable Theatre. A puppet show at the "Theatre of the Magic Strings". Children lined up at the theater entrance with the marquee seen announcing "Marionettes" and the box office area. Children laugh during the show with the marionette puppets. A performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan popular operetta Pinafore with actors singing on stage the song "For He Is An Englishman". Actors seen on stage for Sinclair Lewis play 'It Can't Happen Here'. A presentation of the William Shakespeare play "Macbeth" presented by an all African American cast (also termed "Voodoo" Macbeth).
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