Camper Alert Team vehicles of the SAC Minutemen Missile Security Police are parked in a llne at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming. They are ready to be dispatched with Security Police teams to protect missile launch sites, for as long as necessary. Launch Facility topside with security forces member seen from outside the fence with launcher closure in foreground. Interiors of camper van. Sleeping bed, refrigerator and stove in van. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
Five ladies holding the minute hand of the huge clock standing in a queue. Two of the artisans seen carrying the minute hand of the clock. The minute hand is cast in a solid bar of aluminum, weighing 87 pounds, and is 120 inches long. Artisans seen installing the minute hand on the clock face at the top of the 22 story city hall. Powerful lights behind the dial would make the numerals visible at three miles. A person setting the timings of the clock at 3:14 which further shows time till 3:45.
A huge crowd of men and women pedestrians is seen on the sidewalks and roads of New York city. Elevated views and street level views of busy New York City streets with buses, trolleys, and motor cars crawling their way around pedestrians in the rush and traffic. Jam packed streets and stores in Manhattan. 'Buy Now' scheme seems to attract people which would give them triple advantage of escaping the last minute rush, seizing on bargain prices and providing work opportunity for thousands during the Great Depression. Mass of shoppers seen on busy avenues and on lower east side neighborhood streets where push cart vendors sell many kinds of clothing and items. Men and women seen shopping buying things for holidays.
A tailless biplane taking off and flying up in the air. A derivative of early Burgess and Dunne designs, the 1930 Arrowhead Safety Airplane was also inherently stable, weighed only 850 pounds and landed at a low of 22 mph. It also claimed for a safe flight.
Kids sit in the field and wait for the start of the Junior Rodeo held in John Day, Oregon. Boys and girls of the age from 9 to 19 years participate in the event. Boys and girls look at a paper and discuss about it. Children have to control the steers and broncos. A girl tries to do the job and falls down. Many children try to do it, but all of them fall and fail to control the steers and broncos. People watch the children.
Twenty four suffragette women arrive in San Francisco, California, on their 3-week tour across the country during February, 1919, in a last-ditch effort to urge passage of the 19th amendment, which was being held up in the U.S. Senate. The women advocating women's suffrage are seen stepping from a train coach, wearing uniforms like they wore when imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse (Run by the District of Columbia, the Workhouse, in Laurel Hill, Virginia, was later called Lorton Reformatory. Over 150 women suffragists were eventually incarcerated there.) (Note: The Senate later passed the 19th amendment which was ratified on August 18, 1920.)
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