Footage from the world premier of the movie 'The War Lord' in Detroit, Michigan. Marquee board of the famous 3367 seat "Grand Circus Theatre" located at 1526 Broadway in Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan (now home of the Detroit Opera House). The marquee is advertising "The War Lord' world premier. Men dressed as knight warriors put on a mock fight scene in front of the theatre. Women stand holding cards with name of the movie and 'world premier". Main actors arrive at the premier: First Henry Wilcoxon, and then Guy Stockwell, and finally Charlton Heston are seen arriving at the theater and passing by the gathered crowd to enter the theatre. Women spectators watch and click pictures.
Construction site where the engineers work to build an apartment. They use a huge crane which they call "Little David" to build the apartment. They watch the crane. Man who operates the crane watches the working people from above. He presses a button in the crane. It fills the cement mixture into the appropriate place. Men watch the system of the crane. Men demonstrate the accuracy of crane, by bringing down a slab on to a beer mug without touching it.
Cars and buses on a busy street in Japan. A factory in which an old car is burnt. Iron parts of the car remain after burning. The burnt car is lifted with a pulley and kept into a big container made for this purpose. Men watch the car. Car is then pressed with the cover of the container to bring it down into cubes of iron.
Vintage footage from the 1890s of two women playing tennis on a grass court while spectators look on. The women players are wearing white ankle length dresses customary for the time. Next scene shows famous French woman tennis star Suzann Lenglen playing tennis in the 1920s wearing a shorter skirt. Next scene is indoors, showing a woman altering the skirt length of tennis star Gussie Moran. Scene changes to a designer studio in London in the 1960s. Designer Ted Tinling assists models with new mini skirts and other tennis fashions that he designed. Models in designer Teddy Tingling's creations. Girls in various tennis outfits including short skirts, shorts, stockings and trousers. Close up views of the various women's tennis fashions.
Winter sportsmen participating in bobsledding singles championship in Germany. People put skids under them. People are standing all the way en route to see the bobsledders. The winner of the race crosses photographers who are clicking pictures. Skiers compete in the Slalom Skiing Championship in Germany. The two Austrian finalists compete for the title. The skiers come down the snow, as people watch them.
An F6F Hellcat ditches in the sea. It floats long enough to allow pilot to abandon it before sinking. Next an A-4 Skyhawk ditches. Narrator remarks about the short time for escape from such aircraft on the surface of the water. Views of tests conducted by the U.S. Navy to test the sink rates of jet aircraft from various heights and attitudes. A dummy is placed in the cockpit of a derelict F9F Panther, which is lifted by a crane and is dropped into water from a low height. It is seen floating. (Narrator states that even with no structural damage, it sinks in less than a minute.) Next an FJ-2 Fury is dropped from about 55 feet. Due to structural damage, narrator states such an aircraft may sink in a few seconds, and generally between zero to 55 seconds. View of crane operator and then of an airplane sinking rapidly. Scene shifts to James F. Roth of U.S. Navy Attack Squadron 42,(VA-42) the "Green Pawns," in the closed cockpit of a Navy jet airplane. Next, an F-4 phantom jet is seen being catapulted from an aircraft carrier. Animation shows that the airplane falling into the sea right after takeoff will sink ballistically and can descend as deep as 100 feet in 10 seconds.
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