American sports persons show daring skills in the United States. A ski jumper loses control in mid air and crashes to the ground during competition. Another ski jumping man successfully lands a ski jump. An man athlete poses for camera slope side. People during small boat motor boat racing including a young woman riding on top of the boat bow and a boater going over a jump during a race around a curve. A man and a woman are shown water skiing and each one crashes as they negotiate a jump ramp. Men racing sail boats on ice. One of the ice sailing boats almost flips over on a sharp turn. Cowboys ride bucking horses and broncos during a rodeo, and fall from their rides. Car stunts being exhibited: Car on a football field drives up a ramp on the left side only and flips over. A Ford Model A Tudor car circa early 1930s is jumped over other parked cars, hits the last parked car in the line, and flips over dramatically. A car is driven through a wall of fire.
First air drop test of a thermonuclear weapon. The Hydrogen bomb nuclear weapon was dropped from a USAF B-52 bomber (not seen) that flew from Fred Island, Eniwetak (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok), on May 21, 1956. View appears to be from an aircraft flying above altocumulus clouds, below higher stratiform layers. The film begins with a complete whiteout from the initial fireball. As that subsides, local stratiform clouds take on a rosy hue and the center fireball is seen rising above them. As the fireball rises, it takes on a somewhat hemispherical shape, flat on the bottom, from which a straight stem-like column extends toward the ground. The light of the explosion slowly fades and complete darkness ensues. Official accounts state that the intended ground zero was directly over Namu Island, but the flight crew mistook an observation facility on a different island for their targeting beacon with the result that the weapon delivery was grossly in error. The bomb detonated some 4 miles off target over the ocean northeast of Namu. As a result essentially all of the weapons effects data was lost. ( Note: According to ancillary reports, the delivery error resulted in blast overpressures and thermal effects on the 6 structural response targets between Iroij and Namu Islands, greatly exceeding specifications for any use in scientific military modeling of high yield aerial detonations. Plans for graded damages analysis failed when all the structures collapsed. Effects cameras also failed from the intense fireball heat.)
U.S.Sailors on Liberty visit Portland, Dorset, England. U.S. sailors Harry Graham and Robert Silvertsen of the USS Holder (DD-819), talk to an English resident. Graham and Silvertsen stand at a corner. An elderly woman stands nearby, and talks with the two sailors. A man with a small dog walks past, behind them. Both sailors walk to and enter the doorway of the Brittania Inn, at 17 Fortuneswell. (This sequence is repeated four times). They stand at a railing overlooking a vacant area (where shops and homes had been destroyed in an air raid during World War 2). Several apartment buildings are seen on Hambro Road in the background. Ocean in far background.
A Victory Home advertisement in a store front window in Muncie, Indiana. A man looks at a window display. The display reads "This is a V home, Make yours a home too. Qualify for your V Home sticker." Poster displays advantages of the home described in 5 points. The display includes a home and sign V over it. People move past the display window. Two women stand and look at the window. Sign describes the five attributes of a Victory Home: "This home follows the instructions of its air raid warden. This home conserves food, clothing, transportation and health. This home salvages essentials for immediate contribution to war uses. This home refuses to spread rumors designed to divide our nation. This home buys war savings stamps and bonds regularly."
U.S. Air Force C-47 aircraft arrives in Hebei Province of China carrying Nurse Kathleen Hall of the New Zealand Anglican Church Mission in China during World War II. She and companions bring help and supplies for the Bethune International Peace Hospital.
Project Vanguard successfully launches United States satellite 'Moon' into an orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. A missile at a launch pad. A man stands with a model of the satellite. Men stand in the launching area. The missile is launched, it goes up. Fire flames at the tail of the missile. Fire dot of the missile in the sky with a smoke line behind it.
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