Dating to 1948, this film produced for the U.S. Navy takes a look at advances in photography and filmmaking techniques, including advanced, high speed photography for scientific and industrial purposes.

Opening. Man takes camera plates into darkroom (00:06). Photographs in tray of developer (00:18). Kodak Special II 16mm motion picture camera tilts down (00:50). Three high speed motion picture cameras tilting up (1:02) 3 lens rotating turret on motion picture camera (1:06). Hand turning lens to open iris (01:10). Photographic process (01:19). Animated figure running on film strip (02:21). Oral camera (02:40). X-ray images of teeth (02:54). Adding lens to camera (03:10). Airman holding aerial camera (03:16). Chinook helicopter take off (03:24) B-24 Liberator (03:51). BAT radar guided missile dropped (04:05). Model plane in wind tunnel (04:20). Pilot in centrifuge (probably at Wright Field) testing gravitational strain (04:20). Man filming model ship in test basin (05:15). Rocket launching (05:55). Cinetheodolite at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (06:00). Men guiding rocket onto rail at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico (06:08). Rocket launched on rail (06:20) Explosion of structure (06:26). Sand forming patterns from ultrasonic vibrations (06:28). Man using oscilloscope for underwater sound detection (07:13). Sonic waves of porpoises, shrimp, and submarine (07:24). Slo-mo of molten steel (08:18). Optical chronograph of bullet (08:42). Strobe photograph of sound and shock waves from bullet (08:49), probably shot in the M.I.T. lab of Harold Eugene Edgerton, aka Doc Edgerton. Bullet in metal plate (08:56). Photo of projectile entering armor plate (09:07). Hammer smashing radio (09:17). Radio vibration test (09:27) Slow motion footage to assess effect of shock on vacuum tubes (09:33). Lowering diving bell into water (09:57). Man looks through porthole (10:14). Underwater explosions (10:16). Time-lapse of crystal growing (10:42). Crystal taken out of water (10:57). Luminescent materials make ultraviolet light visible (11:13). Bars of light determining materials’ degrees of phosphorescence (11:39). Turning camera lens (11:55). Rate of blood flow of brain’s circulatory system (12:01). Fluorescent solution injected in bloodstream determines flow rate (12:17). Man measuring base of x-ray camera or radiograph (12:28). X-ray camera used to find flaws in cast metals (12:43). Man holding hand up to x-ray machine (12:54). X-ray image of hand (13:03). Plastic model of machine part (13:10). Polarized light used to see points of stress on plastic model (13:21). Photo of supersonic shock waves using Schlieren system (13:50). Stroboscopic light used to make ship propeller stand still (14:07). Man working with electron diffraction camera (14:32). Concentric rings of crystal in vacuum chamber (14:47). Mt. Wilson Observatory roof opening (15:00). Astronomer (15:06). Moving telescope lens (15:30). Photo of spiral cluster (15:37). 40-inch lens telescope (15:47). Photos of Moon and craters (16:25). Bellows camera to photograph crystalline structure of metals (16:44). Example of macro-photography (17:00). Female scientist using micro photography camera (17:11). Microscopic image of metallic structure (17:24). Man using camera (17:31). Microscopic views of crystals (17:37). Magnified view of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasite (18:16). Man using electron microscope (18:39). Microscopic view of diatom (18:59). Magnified crystals (19:12). Man handling x-ray diffraction camera (19:21). Man looking at X-ray (19:35). Photo of atomic structure (20:01). Atomic bomb detonation (20:12). Sensors attached to Geiger counter (20:24). Geiger counter telescope (20:32). Film strip record of cosmic ray activity (20:46). Cloud chamber (21:00). Photo of cosmic rays in sealed water vapor chamber to show relationship with nuclear reactions (21:16). Naval Observatory clock (used before atomic clock) (21:40). Man with camera (21:52). Spinning mechanism of camera (22:02). Woman looking at glass slide in microscope (22:03). Timepiece (22:11). Women next to photoheliograph (22:17). Photo of sun spots (22:35). Man working with V-2 rocket spectrograph, which films in ionosphere (22:54). Spectrogram (23:19). Men working on V2 rocket (23:49). V-2 launch (24:14). Launchpad against sunset (24:24). V-2 rocket launch (24:30). Failed launches (24:51). Rocket falls over (25:09). Rocket launch (25:33). Shot of Earth’s surface from 100 miles up (25:46). THE END MN-5348 C; 1948; DE FRENES & COMPANY for U.S. Navy (26:09).

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