Refine Your Search

Bangkok Thailand 1966 stock footage and images

- Showing 7 to 12 of 1204 results
Shriver shows articles collected from various nations and tells the objectives of the USPC to an interviewer in Washington DC.

Director of Peace Corps Robert Sargent Shriver in Washington DC. Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. is interviewed as he prepares to leave his office. Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. shows slogans on a board. The slogans are 'Nice guys don't win ball games' and 'There is no place on the club for good losers'. He talks about the beginning of the United States Peace Corps (USPC) and its objectives. He talks about a musical instrument. He shows another musical instrument with an autograph of the President of Guinea, Africa. He shows a glass replica of a Buddhist temple (WAT) from the University of Bangkok and a honorary degree, Doctor of Political Science. Excerpt from a speech by the Foreign Minister of Thailand in his tribute to the USPC. He talks about his experiences as the Director of Peace Corps and works of the USPC.

Date: 1966
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071955
Women performing Siamese Ballet in Siam (Thailand) and The Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia

Women performing a Siamese Ballet, accompanied by youthful musicians in Siam, present day Thailand. Youths play a traditional instrument while a group of women in traditional Thai costumes dance. Boat sails in the Chao Praya River in Bangkok with Wat Arun Temple (158 Thanon Wang Doem, Wat Arun, Bangkok Yai, Bangkok 10600, Thailand) in the background. Scene shifts to Cambodia, where a man is seen drawing water from a river with the Angkor Wat Temple Complex in background. A Buddhist Monk standing and looking through a portal at part of Angkor Wat.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043497
King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit at the premier of a Hollywood movie 'The Ugly American' in Bangkok, Thailand.

Southeast Asia movie premiere of 'The Ugly American' in Bangkok, Thailand. Hollywood star Marlon Brando and producer-director George Englund arrive in Bangkok for the premiere. Marlon Brando and George Englund disembark from a SAS Convair CV-990A plane “Adils Viking” (SE-DAY) at Bangkok Don Mueang International Airport as photographers take pictures. President Milton Rackmill and Vice President Americo Aboaf of the Universal Pictures at the airport. Many distinguished guests at the premiere of the movie. King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit arrive for the premiere.

Date: 1963, April 1
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042827
Japanese forces entering Thailand during World War II

Japanese forces entering Thailand, December,1941, in World War 2. Views of trucks filled with Japanese troops making their way through the countryside and into the capital, Bangkok. Japanese flags are visible many places. Japanese troops take up positions throughout the city. A Japanese soldier distributes leaflets to a crowd of local people. Among landmarks seen in the capital, Bangkok, are the Democracy monument and the American Consulate. (Note: Thailand declared war on the United States,January 25, 1942. After brief incarceration, the U.S.Ambassador, Willys R. Peck, left Thailand on June 29, 1942.)

Date: 1941, December
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675046489
Soldiers and citizens fight fire caused by American bombing in Thailand.

Civilian citizens in Bangkok, Thailand in World War II. View of a street in Bangkok. Buses, streetcars, and vehicles on the road. Soldiers douse the fire caused by American bombing. Soldiers and civilians fight fire.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675024838
B-29 bombers being manufactured and they bombard the Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok, Thailand during World War II.

United States Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers in action in Thailand during World War II. Men work in a plant in the United States as they manufacture B-29 bombers. Men work on the body of the aircraft. In China, fuel barrels being loaded onto an aircraft for transporting. Chinese troops roll the barrels and pile them up at an air base for refueling B-29 aircraft. Fuel being unloaded from the barrels into a huge storage tank. Piled up barrels. A B-29 aircraft takes off and in flight. The Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok, Thailand being bombarded by the B-29s. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059155