Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Nobel Prizes awarded to five Americans for physics and medicine on the 60th anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel
Title: "Nobel Prizes--Americans Share Awards in Sweden" superimposed over names of Nobel prize winners on medal boxes / VS of awards ceremony stage and audience / High angle Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf and Queen Louise seated with...
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Research lab using radioactive materials to study antibiotics; test monkey
Title "The Atom in Medicine-To Study How Antibiotics Perform" superimposed over men working in laboratory / technician walking to equipment / wipe; nurse holding patient's arm for man wearing headphones testing with maybe Geiger counter...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, reports on hydrogen bomb tests
"Paramount News Issue No. 66" / Titles superimposed on a hydrogen bomb mushroom cloud, "H-Bomb Special", "Paramount News Presents Operation Ivy, Pictures the World Waited to See", "Dawn of the Hydrogen Age" / VS photographs of different...
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USAF bomber in flight over US carries and then releases USAF jet fighter which then returns to bomber
Title "Mid-air launching links atom and jet ages" superimposed over bomber in flight with jet fighter attached underneath / bomber taking off / aerial shot from another plane of bomber in flight / row of jet fighters parked on tarmac at...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Full-scale model of man-made satellite on display at Hayden Planetarium in NY City
Title "Man-made satellite - Full-scale model displayed" superimposed over model of satellite on display / shot of exterior of Hayden Planetarium / animated display of satellites going around earth / clear model of satellite on top of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Color television is patented
Title: "Washington - The Story of a Patent (No 2,692,532)" / street scenes of Washington DC outside the Patent Office / engraving over Patent Office door / CU engraving / interiors of patent office, people at rows of long desks / man...
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Canada's Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission and the US Army Corps of Engineers launch $17.5 million project to stop soil erosion on Niagara Falls
Title: "Niagara Falls Face Lifting - Canada-U.S. Launch Program" superimposed over Niagara Falls / High angle MS buses drive around curve to overlook / Goat Island on the American side, speaker on platform in front of falls, US and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Inventors demonstrate solar battery
Title card: "Battery Powered by the Sun" / miniature Ferris wheel powered by a lamp aimed at a solar battery / CU battery / inventors - physicist Gerald Pearson, engineer Daryl Chapin and Calvin Fuller, chemist / demonstration of how...
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Rocket-powered sled sets record at 1560 m.p.h. at Mojave Desert in California
Title: "High-Speed Research - Rocket Sled Sets Record at 1560 M.P.H." superimposed over sled on track / MS group preparing sled for run with booster rockets / CU adjusting boosters to rockets / CU showing firing mechanism being screwed...
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Mirror for McDonald Observatory telescope being ground in Cleveland
Three shots of man standing next to machine as it grinds mirror and brushing liquid of some sort onto edge of mirror; the mirror is for the McDonald Observatory in Texas / close shot of model of observatory as its top part rotates / men...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Demo on the Rhine River of an amphibious tank that can transport 200 troops and up to 20 tons of equipment
Title: "French Engineers Show How River Crossing is Made Easy" superimposed over amphibious tank going into water / side view amphibious tank with man manning gun on top drives past camera / VS soldiers working on pontoons of tank / CU...
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Inventor Igor Bensen tests flying boat at Cypress Garden, FL
Title: "A Boat That Flies!" superimposed over boat being towed along water / MS boat on beach, people around boat / MS Igor B. Bensen, aviation inventor and President of the Bensen Aircraft Corp., Raleigh-Durham Airport, placing...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Lieutenant Commander James Verdin's Douglas F4D Skyray breaks speed record
Title card: "US Again Jet Leader! Navy Plane Sets Record" / Lt. Cmdr. James Verdin smiles and waves from the cockpit of the Skyray; its star insignia / Photographers working with striped tents, naval officers, and civilians / a shirtless...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Boeing USAF B-52 Stratofortress range extended by in-air refueling
Title superimposed on a USAF B-52 landing, "H-Bombers Show Global Punch" / An elevated view of the Boeing USAF B-52 Stratofortress jet aircraft at an airport / Men walk along the jet's massive wing with 4 engines / the jet takes off /...
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Researchers use man-made lightning to test electrical utility equipment
CU sphere gap / ECU sphere gap, man-made lightning flashes / MS three men behind protective barrier cover their ears as lighting stroke generator buzzes and pops / MS same, with two men this time / VS fuse gap cutout; buzzes, pops,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Professor Francis E. Lloyd of McGill University films microbes in Montreal lab
Title card: "Canadian Scientist Films Microbe Life - Professor Francis Ernest Lloyd of McGill University in Montreal uses camera for important experiment in biological laboratory" / MS Lloyd works in lab, puts film in camera / Lloyd...
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US plans to launch man-made satellite to outer space
Title: "Conquest of Space - U.S. Plans to Launch Man-Made Satellites" / View of ground from rocket lifting off / WS aerial view of ground / CU New York Herald Tribune headlines "U.S. To Build Tiny Moon to Circle Earth - Russia Joins in...
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Radiation dust inhalation pharmacology experiment at UCLA's Atomic Energy Project
Title card: "Atomic Energy Project, UCLA -- Pharmacology: Inhalation Studies with Radioactive Dust" / MS man in lab with respirator mask and gloves on, arms and head exposed, shakes dust from jar into funnel on apparatus then slides...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Effects of man-made lightning on wooden pole with and without transformer attached
/ VS wooden pole shows damage and small flames, partly shatters from electric explosion / VS new type of transformer on wooden pole, lighting causes no visible damage / Note: exact day not known; film has nitrate deterioration
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Water tanks on rails and containers hauled by pulley mechanism are used to transport spawning salmon around Baker River Dam in Washington
Title card: "Government runs odd railway for commuting fish - Specially-constructed road along Baker River, Wash, carries spawning salmon from lower rapids to Lake above high dam" / shot of dam and Baker River below it / two shots of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
First test of the Hydrogen Bomb at Enewetak Atoll
Title: "And now - The World's First Hydrogen Explosion" / Islands undergoing construction equipment with a dark building in the front that contains the bombs with a jeep driving to it / Helium Atmosphere Box across a causeway leading to...