This 1970s era, color film explains how the U.S. Navy not only protects us militarily but also protects our way of life by protecting our merchant ships and valuable importing and exporting industries which affect every American citizen in everyday life. The movie opens with a man holding an American flag on top of the submarine. Military dock with warships. A tugboat pushes a carrier out to sea. A submarine heads out to sea. The Navy ships head out to see 1:00. A tugboat returns to port 1:10. Different types of Navy ships are seen 1:32. Equipment and provisions are loaded onto boats 1:45. Sailors throw the lines from a destroyer 2:15. Carriers, destroyers and submarines head out to sea 2:37. The United States Navy presents, “of Ships and Butter” 3:40. Sailor climbs a ladder and boards a merchant ship 3:50. Different merchant ships are shown 4:15. Tugboats assist a merchant ship 4:37. Container ships come in to dock 5:00. A machine hooks and pulls containers off the ship 5:27. Different machines and cranes move containers off the deck 5:5 to. Containers are dropped onto the back of trucks 5:56. Tugboat guides a merchant ship laden with cargo 6:15. Products are unloaded from the ships 6:30. Products from around the world are shown 7:00. Trucks arrive at the dock 7:20. Metals, rubber, sugar, asbestos and other raw materials in warehouses 7:45. Train rolls down the tracks 8:05. High test metal alloys are created in the factory 8:30. Plastics and exotic fuels are imported from around the world 8:42. Tire industry is dependent on imported rubber 8:52. Delicate pieces in our electronic sub-assemblies come from overseas 9:02. Matches are brightened by antimony 9:28. Asbestos is used for building 9:30. Floor coverings, pots and pans, children’s toys and auto parts all use imported metals and alloys 9:51. Chromite in stainless steel, copper in our coins 10:02. A rocket takes off 10:10. Iron ore, fibers, lead, zinc, rubber, sugar, tin – all make the products that we use every day 11:00. Containers are moved around the docks 11:10. American-made products are also shipped around the world 11:30. Trains move toward the port 11:40. Jeeps are parked along the waterfront 11:50 Hapag Lloyd company containers 12:03. Commercial ships in port 12:25. Railcars full of ores and metal are stored on the ships 12:40. A John Deere package gets loaded onto a ship 12:51. Medallion Apricot boxes 13:00. BF Goodrich products are loaded onto a ship 13:30. A tugboat turns a commercial ship 13:56. Commercial ships move in and out of Port 14:30. A Navy destroyer comes into the bay 15:00. A submarine skims across the sea 15:33. Internal view of the submarine 15:39. Plane lands on an aircraft carrier 15:55. Plane takes off from an aircraft carrier 16:02. Naval Ship Research and Development Center, 8 and 10-Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnels and Transonic Wind Tunnels 16:40. Paintings of schooners, steam ships and steel hulled ships 16:45. Wooden models of airplanes and other vehicles are tested 17:04. Wind tunnel control center 17:15. Special photographic techniques are devised and medical technologies are advanced 17:40. American industries – Allied Chemical and Packard Bell are shown 17:59. Mini submarines including Alvin are moved 18:26. A hovercraft skims across the land and over the water 18:30. Navy research and development program laboratories 18:48. Submarines wait in port with sailors aboard 19:16. An aircraft carrier on the high seas 19:18. Corsair II jet fighters fly in unison 19:25. An instructor teaches Navy personnel at the Learning Center 19:49. Navy cadets enter university building 20:18. Navy personnel learning electronics 20:46. Navy veterans eventually return to civilian life and bring their knowledge and skills 21:20. Repairman, mechanics, dentists – many have been enlisted in the Navy 21:50. The equipment that they use also is brought to you with the help of the Navy 22:11. Man reads a paper on an airplane 22:17. All the parts in the cab you take home from the airport contain parts from overseas that were helped brought to you by the U.S. Navy. Litton Industries 23:10. Man takes a call in his office 23:36. Operation Sea Lab 23:54. The Navy tests the depths of the ocean 24:26. Navy personnel swim underwater 24:45. The Navy sets all clocks with the atomic clock 25:15. Television control center and traffic control 25:45. Computer databanks 26:00. Hurricane damage 26:18. Rough seas 26:30. Hurricane hunters track storms 26:45. Whether planes sore overhead 27:00 aerial view of Navy ships and submarines 27:20. Little girl walks a toy dog 28:00. Presented by the Chief of Naval Operations. Produced by Cascade California, MCMLXX. MN 10513.

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