C-119J aircraft of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) supporting Project Discoverer, at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. View of the right engine on a C-119J aircraft starting up. A C-119J taxiing. A hangar with two C-124 aircraft and a T-33 jet trainer seen in the background. The taxiing C-119J is followed by another. The first reaches the active runway and takes off. Suddenly, a person's hand covers the camera lense, blocking out all other images. Next we see a glimpse of most, or all, of the C-119J aircraft of the 6593rd Test Squadron parked on a ramp.
Activities of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) stationed at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, as part of Project Discoverer. An airman stands fire guard, for an engine start (airplane not seen) on a ramp at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Airman seen pulling a chock from the wheels of a C-119J aircraft. Camera lense obscured by a human hand. View of a hangar door, partially open. Several airmen, carrying photographic equipment walk from the hangar. Pickup truck parked next to a C-119J of the 6593rd Squadron. A C-54 parked in background. Two Airmen with photographic equipment walk across a ramp toward parked C-119J aircraft of the 6593rd Test Squadron. A KC-135 tanker aircraft parked in background. One of the Airmen enters the first parked C-119J.
Invention of egg breaker and separator machine. Eggs run through a jig-saw, pulled through a vacuum in the factory. Eggs then pumped into a reservoir. Shells are discarded followed by diversification of yolk and egg-white into different compartments.
Speed boat racing at New Smyrna Beach in Volusian Country, Florida. Different views of boats racing and spectators cheering. Walter Widegren of Glen Cove, New York wins the race. Trophy presented to the winner.
A newsreel showing merchant ship building and role of merchant ships and liberty ships in World War 2. Launch of U.S. ship "SS Joseph N Teal" on September 23, 1942, just 10 days after its keel was laid at Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, owned by Henry Kaiser. A motorcade of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist and father of modern American shipbuilding industry. A huge gathering at the Kaiser shipyard in Portland for the launch of the merchant ship. Views of U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Cadets in officer training program practice emergency ship evacuation drills and diving drills. Civilian recruits in line at recruiting station to join the Merchant Marines. Factory and manufacturing scenes in war time industries, making bomber aircraft, artillery, patrol boats and tanks. War materials loaded on railroad cars and cargo vessels. View in ship engineering area below including view of ship engine fires burning for propulsion. Sign on wall "Alert! Your skill and devotion will win the war." Views of the ship galley kitchen, wheel house and sailors eating food prepared by ship cooks. A world map is shown. Scenes of victory fleet ships unloading cargo at ports worldwide.
The lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky, and how they cope with poverty and maintain their traditions and dignity through music. DAISY, Kentucky: Roscoe Holcomb, an unemployed construction worker seated on the swing in his house amidst the mountains. He smokes and talks about spiritual music, and how it is a God given gift. He begins to play his banjo. Dogs bark near a hand pump in the vicinity. Old houses nearby. Holcomb's family seated in the patio. He plays the banjo as a man tap dances beside him. Holcomb sings 'Little Bridge'. Clouds over the mountains, thick woods, a church nestled among the clouds. View of coal mine surface mined and strip mined areas on mountain tops and hill tops, with little or no vegetation on them.
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