Dr. Langmuir's Nobel Prize, industrial factories, 1939 World's Fair, and aerial views of cities.
United States USA Date:1945 Duration:4 min 56 sec Sound:Yes
Graphic: "This film is restricted". Group of industrial smoke stacks emitting smoke and pollution. Aerial view of Hoover Dam. Large power lines coming from Hoover Dam. View of George Washington Bridge with traffic. Aerial view of early highway interchange. Aerial view of Manhattan, New York. Aerial view of smoggy city with railroad switching yard in foreground. Early highway crowded with car traffic. People wading in water at the beach. People looking out from high vantage point. 1939 World's Fair Trylon and Perisphere. Interior view Grand Central or early Penn Station. Porters and travelers walking in train station. View of Egyptian ruins and pyramids. Ruins from 300 BC. Graphic: Dates of modern advances in geometry, arabic numberals, physics, electricity, chemistry, railroads, telegraph, and automobiles. Factory with smoke stacks, pollution, and view of a large grain elevator. Foundry with sparks flying. Line of turbine generators. General electric building with GE logo on top. Dr. Irving Langmuir works in a lab at the plant demonstrating creation of thin films of oil in a pan. View of Noble Prize won by him for his research about the basic structure and behavior of molecules. View of non-reflective glass demonstrated on General Electric meter. Men in laboratory and looking through microscopes.
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