Warner Pathe #55

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1957

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Eisenhower welcomes the Sultan of Morocco. Vs. arrival at Washington National Air Force, Sultan and Ike in motorcade to White House. Ike leaving White House, White House, Ike's physician talking about Ike's stroke, Ike leaving church, Ike in Paris. 2. Scientist check America's first test satellite. Vs. satellite being placed in rocket, rocket explodes failing to launch, smoke and fire at Cape Canaveral. 3. French paratroopers over Algeria demonstrating freefall method. 4. 88th international livestock exposition in Chicago. Vs. 4H banners, winning cows, National 4H scholarship winner girls drinking a milk toast. 5. B-52s flying over Buenos Aires. Vs. refueling in midair. Voodoo photo reconnaissance jets leave from Ontario, Canada. Vs. refueling in mid air to complete flight to New York, maps of flights, landing in California, pilot giving victory shake. 6. 20,000 chickens at a poultry ranch in Port Williams, Nova Scotia. Vs. chickens being fed, round houses, eggs being collected, eggs being inspected, brushed, eggs being crated, chickens running. 7. New York City opens aquarium. Vs. pelican, visitors, seals, walrus, leopard shark, parrot fish, pump room, researchers in laboratory, box fish, moray eel, elephant fish, sea bass. 8. Tour and history of the Columbia River. Vs. Totem pole monument, freighter on river, pulp plant in Longview, WA, Japanese ship at port, saw mills, logs floating down river, logs being carried by cranes, Bonneville Hydroelectric Dam and Powerhouse, waterfall, Dallas Dam, Mount Hood, Crown Point, Grand Kule Dam, electric lines coming from dam, child looking over dam water fall. 9. China Lake rocket research center in the Mojave Desert. Vs. M45 tracking cameras, technicians, cameras being focused, supersonic rocket sled, ejection of dummy, 2 more angles, guided missile flight in slow motion by Boeing Camera, with special wide film, film being studied , aeroballistics laboratory, control room, missile being photographed 176 times in its flight, camera trigger systems flashing, test firing with flash of light, Escona camera in a revolving dome used to film missile, slow motion explosions of missiles, slow motion missile blowing up jeeps, photography of an air launched rocket, Navy fighter plane dropping missile, Terrier ballistic missile being fired, "harp" plotting device, airplane descent and crash.