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Sunbathing on Ile du Levant, France, and rocket "Berenice" being launched from French aeronautics research center on the island.

One of 12 rockets named "Bérénice" being launched from a French island Île du Levant (Le Levant) on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Distant views of people sunbathing, some are topless or in the nude, on rock outcroppings near the beach. Engineers and scientists work in a French national study and research center for aeronautics on the other side of the island (O.N.E.R.A. (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales). Missile 'Berenice' being prepared for launch. It will be used to measure kinetic heat upon its reentry into the atmosphere. Men work on panels in mission control center and look through a telescope. Missile being launched. A woman in bikini walks with a dog.

Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046645
More than a dozen cars crack up in the 24 hours of Le Mans car race of 1963

View of Sports cars on the Le Mans race track in France. Crowd cheers. Cars running on race track to start the 24 Hours of Le Mans annual race. More than a dozen cars crack up in the race. One man is killed in a four-vehicle smash up as the Italian made Ferraris grabs the first six places in the 24-hour grind.

Date: 1963, June 20
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039158
John Pennel pole vaults for newsreel cameramen after setting a new world record over 17 feet.

Closeup of Pole Vaulter John Pennel the first man to pole vault over 17 feet (achieving a height of 17 feet ¾ inches, on August 24, 1963, at the Florida Gold Coast AAU meet in Coral Gables). Pennel pole vaults for the benefit of newsreel cameramen, shortly after setting the new record. He runs and plants his fiberglass pole, which bends in a wide arc, before he launches into the air and clears the bar. The vaulting sequence is repeated in slow motion. Pennel wears white shorts and shirt with the number 606 on his back.

Date: 1963, August
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039211
Deep diving Trieste moves underwater in the Atlantic Ocean during recovery work for USS Thresher submarine.

Deep diving bathyscaphe (deep Boat) Trieste moves underwater in Atlantic Ocean on September 25, 1963, during photography and recovery mission for the submarine USS Thresher (SS-593) that sunk off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Millions of tiny air bubbles seen as Trieste descends. View of dirt or mud stirred on floor of ocean. View of small sea life, sand, small rocks and pebbles as Trieste moves under water. A small asbestos pipe, believed to be from the USS Thresher, is seen on the ocean floor. An Eel fish moves in front of Trieste.

Date: 1963, September 25
Duration: 9 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043114
U.S. Coast Guards scrub the deck of a ship and relax while on their way to Normandy, France during World War II.

Allied fleet during the invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A man works to wire brush rust spots. Four Coast Guardsmen scrub the deck of a ship as water is being sprayed from a pipe. Men use wipers to scrub the deck. The deck house in the background. A U.S. Coast Guard man reads comics aboard the ship. Another Coast Guard relaxes. A Coast Guard reads a magazine.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058897
Allied forces preparing in England for the Invasion of Normandy.

A dramatized film entitled "Beachhead to Berlin" describes preparations for the Allied invasion of France and the drive toward Berlin. Film combines actors and actual footage. Harbor in Greenway England in July, 1944. U.S. Coast Guard Barracks. Coast Guard men playing cards. One on a bunk contemplating. Chaplain's office: Chaplain typing and smoking a pipe. Audio narration of his letter being read, describing how things transpired at the Normandy beaches during the Invasion of France. Then actual footage of wounded being transported on ships after D-Day Normandy invasion. In England, footage of LCIs, LCVPs, Coast Guard cutters, including the Flying Angel Rescue Cutter. All of these ships participating in "dry run" practices for the actual Normandy landing. Coast Guard crews on decks of ships. Infantry loading landing crafts in England for dry runs. Landing craft arriving on English beaches during dry runs. A jeep drives off a landing craft and gets stuck on metal mesh on the beach. A tank is driven off a landing craft. Men maintaining ships. Scraping rust from the deck, painting identifications on ships, repairing rope ladders, and welding. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 4 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031064