https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c0378389-5b48-475f-a46d-5cb076dac7b4 This color educational film is about how important graduating high school is. This film is from 1958. Opening titles: United States Navy presents Stay in School and Graduate (:09-:33). A car drives and backs up, a teacher sees some boys in the sand dunes, walks over to see what they're doing. The boys have a firecracker, the explosive is very dangerous. The teacher speaks to the boys, gets them to not set it off. He takes the boys over to the Naval base. Boys and girls, a class, visit the Naval base. A Petty Officer walks up the stairs and has the class follow (:34-3:23). A Navy battleship docked. The class walk by the gun turrets. They then look inside of them. A fire controlman shows how the gun is automatically loaded. A Navy man explains how radar works to the class, the students look in awe. A radar man at work. The class looks around the room. Engineering room. A man types, another looks in a microscope. The class walks on the stern, they see a real guided missile. The boys look on in awe. An officer explains how the missile works. One of the boys takes an interest in speaking with an enlisted man (3:24-6:24). Navy men stare out across the Mediterranean, a picturesque canal. Visiting Greece, tall columns all around. A visit to the orient, tall statues all around. In Australia, an officer has koalas all over him. The class walks down a set of stairs, the teacher counts and is missing a student. He goes with an officer in search of him. The officer uses a phone to see if he can locate the student. Naval Base Gate 2 sign. A guard at the gate cannot locate the student. The officer calls another man with no luck. He tries other parts of the ship as well and can't find the boy. Then a call comes in, an officer has located him and calls it in. The officer sits and talks with the boy, talks about how graduating is important, he makes the boy laugh (6:25-12:02). The class sits in a theatre watching a movie. The boy, who was missing, joins the group. The movie shows a Terrier missile being fired, probably from USS Long Beach. Then another, Regulus missile is fired, probably from USS Macon, USS Los Angeles or USS Helena. A rocket takes off for outer space. The class heads for the bus and leave (12:03-13:50). End credits (13:51-13:58). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkUfmgrxXdg Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:28:23 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c0378389-5b48-475f-a46d-5cb076dac7b4 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.