The AFN (Armed Forces Network) staff including announcers, researchers and editors work at AFN radio station. Staff member types on a typewriter. Senior newscaster briefs announcer before a news broadcast. Announcer reading news from a sheet of paper, speaks over microphone. Clock on Wall with AFN Berlin written under it. Another announcer broadcasts news in Berlin.
Training film 'Troops Carrier Airplanes' shows carrier operations. Insignia of 89th Troop carrier group. Fleet of Aircraft in flight. Soldiers march and board C-47 Aircraft. Pilot and co-pilot seated in the cockpit. Soldiers strap themselves inside the airplane. Pilot and crew check the aircraft before its take off. Captain Mathew does a final check before boarding C-47 airplane. Captain Mathew assists Lieutenant inside the cockpit. He checks the landing gear, auto pilot hydraulic and operates control panel. Pilot starts the engine. (World War II period).
Captain Mathew of 89th Troop carrier group trains Lieutenant in aircraft flying. C-47 Skytrain in flight. Pilot and co pilot operate controls seated in cockpit of C-47 Skytrain. The aircraft lands on runway. C-47 in flight with fields on ground. Co pilot reads from a piece of paper and pilot checks the controls. They check the speed of aircraft and switch the ignition button. Co pilot checks stop watch. Pilot opens aircraft wheel and prepare to land. C-47 Skytrain lands on runway. Man gives hand signals. Pilots switch off the engine and check controls. They disembark from the aircraft. Soldiers seated inside C-47 Aircraft. Fleet of aircraft in flight. (World War II period).
Deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel, The Glomar Challenger is seen at sea, in fading light of dusk. View from aloft of Glomar Challenger deck below. A sample from deep ocean being placed on a glass for examination. Montage of events associated with geological formations. Hot molten lava flows, rough seas. Animated picture of planet earth and its oceans. The Glomar Challenger underway on a research mission.
Animated illustration of earth's crust and plate tectonics. it shows drift from the consolidated "Pangea" continent into the separate continents of the present and the way they would fit back together again. Pressure ridges in the ocean floor is shown between the American and African continents. Animation shows the Glomar Challenger towing instrumentation and mapping the details of the deep ocean floor. Illustration shows distortion of earth's magnetic field and potential for change in magnetic poles. Shown are illustrated cores bored, by the Glomar Challenger, from the deep ocean floor to gain information about the changes occuring over millions of years.
Scenes aboard the research ship "Glomar Challenger," as it commences drilling core samples from the deep ocean floor. View of the drill point being lowered from the ship's drill rig. Sections of drill pipe are connected to one another. Drilling proceeds and then the drill is retrieved. Crew extracts a drilling core which is registered, labeled, and weighed. It is examined by means of instruments. Drilling crew continues to retrieve and extract drilling cores, which are examined in detail in the shipboard laboratories.
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