- Title: VM-586B
- Summary: POWER ON THE DOOR STEP: LOOKS AT VARIOUS TYPES OF POWER, SOLAR, WIND, HYDROELECTRIC, GEOTHERMAL, COAL, OIL, ATOMIC. NATURAL DISASTERS SUCH AS HURRICANES, ELECTRICAL STORMS, VOLCANOES. GEYSERS. HOT SPRINGS. CONFERENCE ON NEW SOURCES OF ENERGY.
- Description:03:59:18 - CHILDREN RUNNING INTO POOL ON A FROSTY WINTER DAY, ADULT COUPLE IN WINTER COATS SUPERVISING. POOL HEATED BY SOLAR POWER 04:00:30 - CU FINGER FLIPPING WALL SWITCH TO ON POSITION 04:01:53 - MS INDIAN USING ELEPHANT TO HAUL CUT TREES 04:02:00 - OXEN TEAM PULLING PLOW 04:02:11 - CAMEL PULLING PLOW 04:02:16 - AFRICAN FARMERS HUNCHED OVER HAND PICKING GRASSES HARVEST 04:02:30 - INDIAN CAMP, TENTS BIVOUAC. MS SURVEYOR LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS, SURVEYING EQUIPMENT, 04:02:53 - MEN DIGGING FOR PETROLEUM, OIL UNDER GROUND 04:02:59 - FOREMAN LOOKING OVER LOAD OF COAL 04:03:03 - SCENIC NATURE BEAUTY SHOT, WATERFALL IN EXOTIC SETTING 04:03:09 - TILT UP NUCLEAR REACTOR 04:03:14 - MONTAGE ATOMIC POWER STATIONS IN UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES & SOVIET UNION 04:04:11 - VIOLENT ELECTRICAL STORM, HITS TREE, KNOCKING IT DOWN 04:04:17 - VOLCANO ERUPTING, ACTIVE VOLCANO, FIRE ENGULFING NEARBY BUILDINGS 04:04:30 - HURRICANE DESTROYING COASTAL TOWN, TREES BLOWING VIOLENTLY, VIOLENT OCEAN WATERS RISING 04:04:52 - MOON ILLUMINATING SHIP AT SEA, WATER GLISTENING IN THE MOONLIGHT 04:05:04 - VIOLENT OCEAN WAVES CRASHING ON BOAT, VIOLENT OCEAN STORM 04:05:11 - LS GEYSER SENDING UP FOUNTAIN LIKE JET OF HOT WATER & STEAM UP IN THE AIR 04:05:20 - MS DESERT DWELLER ON HORSE SHIELDS EYES FROM THE SUN 04:05:23 - POV LOOKING UP AT THE SUN SHROUDED IN CLOUDS 04:05:31 - RAY OF SUN, SUN BEAM HITTING RIVER IN THE MOUNTAINS 04:07:03 - ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS, WEATHERMEN & GEOLOGISTS FROM 74 COUNTRIES & TERRITORIES ARRIVING IN ROME, SUMMER, 1961. UN CONFERENCES ON NEW SOURCES OF ENERGY 04:07:53 - INDIAN WOMAN EXPERIMENTING WITH DEVICE FOR COOKING FOOD USING SOLAR ENERGY. ALTERNATIVE COOKING STOVE. CONSERVING ENERGY. DEMONSTRATOR SHOWING CURIOUS ONLOOKERS HOW STOVE WORKS. MS FACTORY WORKER SANDING DOWN SIDES OF STOVE, PRODUCTION LINE 04:08:14 - SCIENCE REPORTER INTERVIEWING INDIAN SCIENTIST ON WHY STOVES DIDN'T WORK, SOLAR POWER IN INDIA 04:10:57 - SCIENTIST EXPLAINING CONCEPT OF HEAT TRAP, USING HEAT POOL TO HARNESS ENERGY 04:12:37 - SCIENTISTS EXPERIMENTING WITH ENERGY SOURCES 04:13:16 - ISOLATED FARM USING WIND POWER, SMALL WINDMILL. ENERGY SOURCE 04:13:40 - MONTAGE HUGE POWERFUL WINDMILL 04:14:21 - MONTAGE UNDERGROUND STEAM RISING FROM THE GROUND PEOPLE RUNNING AWAY FROM ERUPTING GEYSER, ICELAND. HOT SPRINGS. MS DANISH ATOMIC PHYSICIST NIELS BOHR 04:15:10 - ICELANDIC VOLCANO CALLED HECKLER, CIRCA 1949, VOLCANO ERUPTING, GAS, ASH CLIMBING AS HIGH AS 60,000 FEET 04:15:49 - GEOTHERMAL STEAM HEATING WATER, WOMEN SWIMMING IN WATER HEATED BY GEOTHERMAL STEAM, NATURE'S POOL. HEAT FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR 04:16:03 - WOMEN IN WHITE UNIFORMS COOKING BY BURYING FOOD IN GROUND HEATED GEOTHERMALLY. NATURE'S OVEN 04:16:12 - WOMEN DOING LAUNDRY IN BUCKETS OF HOT WATER 04:16:18 - ICELANDIC GREENHOUSE PRODUCING TROPICAL FRUITS SUCH AS BANANAS & FIGS 04:16:26 - GEOTHERMAL POWER STATION 04:16:31 - HS PAN REYKJAVIK, ICELAND 04:16:36 - MONTAGE HOT SPRINGS, GEYSERS IN NEW ZEALAND, HUGE POWER STATION RUN BY GEOTHERMAL POWER MONTAGE STEAM RISING FROM SMOKE STACKS 04:17:55 - MONTAGE TUSCANY, ITALY. LADARELLO ?SP. BOILING BUBBLING MUD, WATER. LS CASTLE SHROUDED IN MIST. POWER STATIONS, RIG DIGGING DOWN FOR USABLE STEAM. INTERIOR POWER STATION, TURBINES CONNECT TO GENERATORS. LS STEAM RISING FROM HUGE TOWERS MS UNDERNEATH TOWER, CONDENSED WATER RAINING DOWN 04:19:26 - LS LARDARELLO #3, MASSIVE GEOTHERMAL POWER STATION 04:19:37 - INTERIOR POWER STATION 04:19:48 - MONTAGE GEOTHERMAL POWER STATION, ITALY 04:20:40 - CU HAND TAKING NEWSPAPER OUT OF MAIL BOX IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE, WASHINGTON POST. PANS TO MODEST HOME. MAN WALKING BACK TO HIS HOUSE WITH THE NEWSPAPER 04:21:01 - TWO ANGLES OF SOLAR POWERED HOME. SOLAR HEAT COLLECTOR, GLASS PANELS. MS WATER RUNNING DOWN CORRUGATED METAL. CU TANK SURROUNDED BY STONES MS HOT AIR REGISTER INSIDE HOME. CU HOT WATER PUMP 04:22:27 - LARGE FAMILY, CHILDREN EATING BREAKFAST IN KITCHEN CIRCA 1959. CU HOUSEWIFE WASHING DISHES. DAUGHTER DRYING DISHES. 04:22:52 - TWO SISTERS DRAWING IN LIVING ROOM 04:23:04 - PRETEEN BOY WASHING HANDS WITH BAR OF SOAP. CU BARE FEET 04:23:20 - MOTHER SAYING GOODNIGHT TO DAUGHTERS SLEEPING IN BUNK BEDS. KISSING CHILDREN GOODNIGHT 04:23:50 - CU TWO SLEEPING GIRLS 04:23:58 - SOLAR POWERED HOUSE IN CLOUDY WEATHER 04:24:15 - CU AUXILIARY OIL BURNER IN BASEMENT, HOME OWNER CHECKING OIL BURNER 04:24:35 - ANIMATED MODEL OF SOLAR HOUSE. CU MINIATURE SWIMMING POOL 04:25:05 - HOME OWNER CHECKING TEMPERATURE OF SWIMMING POOL LOOKING AT THERMOMETER, CALLING CHILDREN OUT OF HOUSE, CHILDREN RUNNING INTO SWIMMING POOL IN COLD WEATHER, PARENTS BUNDLED UP IN WINTER COATS, KIDS PLAYING, SPLASHING EACH OTHER 04:26:22 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-586B