An animated map showing course of the river Columbia. Map also locates Bonneville, Grand Coulee, The Dallas, Priest Rapids, John Day, Chief Josef and McNary Dams on the Columbia River and Lower Monumental, Little Goose, Ice Harbor and Lower Granite Dams on the snake river. Views of the river, valleys and mountains surrounding the river. A barge can be seen in the river. Interior of an industry, men at work. Water flowing out of a dam. Views of calm water in the river.
Several notable persons including James F. Byrnes and Senator Vandenberg receive honorary degrees at a commencement exercise at Columbia University in New York. Byrnes and Vandenburg, in academic regalia, descend from the steps of the Low Memorial Library (535 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027, USA). Commencement ceremony in front of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library. General Eisenhower also attends the ceremony.
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
The Columbia River in Bonneville, Oregon opens for navigation. People line the banks of the Columbia River as freighter SS Charles L. Wheeler, Jr. passes the sea locks at the Bonneville Dam.
Astronauts on lunar surface during Apollo 11 mission, launched from Complex 39 at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. On July 19 Apollo 11 passes behind the Moon. View of the earth from space. On July 20, 1969, the lunar module (LM) Eagle separated from the command module Columbia. The lunar module (LM) Eagle after separation from the command module Columbia. The lunar module (LM) Eagle descends toward the surface of moon and achieves the first successful manned moon landing.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) tests flight mission STS-3 of Space Shuttle Columbia in the United States. Tail Service Mast (TSM), LH2 umbilical release at launch. Orbiter and Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) during the launch. Orbiter and SRB lift off. A fiery flare is emitted as the Space Shuttle Columbia takes off.