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A man demonstrates and controls a wingless aircraft in a model form in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

A wingless aircraft, the 'Aerodyne' based on aerodynamic principle is demonstrated in a model form at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A man demonstrates and controls the wingless aircraft. The aircraft in a model form in flight.

Date: 1956, January 9
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044715
The 1956 Chrysler Plainsman concept car station wagon includes features like powered folding seats, powered rear door, and retracting tail lights.

A modern automated station wagon automobile with many new features is shown in Chicago. It is a 1956 Chrysler Plymouth Plainsman, designed by David Scott and built by Ghia as an experimental Station Wagon. The car displays a Texas longhorn cattle emblem. Various modern and inventive features of the car are shown, such as a tail light that moves forward to reveal the gas tank filling tube, a powered rear door, a powered retracting step for children to enter the rear of the car, power folding seats, and unique taillight design. A woman with children stands beside the car. The boy and girl children climb up in the back of the car and sit facing toward the back. The car drives away and the children smile as the automatic rear window closes.

Date: 1956, January 9
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044718
Local boys build a steam powered automobile, automobile drives down a road in Jamesburg, New Jersey.

Local boys build a steam-powered automobile in Jamesburg, New Jersey. Three boys make the amateur version of a Stanley Steamer auto. The boys use kindling wood to stoke a fire for steam power. Steam rises from the device. The boys hop onto their car and drive it down a road in before a gathered crowd. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, March 13
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044738
Eleven year old Song Yong Cho arrives in America to begin a new life in Seattle, Washington.

Eleven year old Song Yong Cho, a legless orphan of the Korean war, arrives in America to begin a new life in Boystown. Song Yong Cho disembarks a plane and is greeted by his adoptive mother. He walks with his adoptive mother. Signs : 'Entrance', 'U.S. Customs', 'U.S. Immigration', 'U.S. Public Health', 'Dept. of Agriculture'. Song Cho's luggage is inspected by a custom guard. He stands with a man near a counter and then moves.

Date: 1953, May 28
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044742
Citizens carry out civil self defense exercise to meet the threat of H-bomb attack in Spokane, Washington.

Civil self defense exercise carried out by citizens of Spokane, Washington to meet the potential threat of nuclear bomb or hydrogen bomb attack during the Cold War. Mass evacuation by all citizens. Business area; women working at office, citizens and school children are guided to walk out and proceed to bomb shelters. Citizens standing near a bridge. A man in an operations center presses a button to sound the all clear signal at the end of the drill. Views of outdoor address loudspeakers sounding the drill sounds.

Date: 1954, April 29
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044816
Seattle Cycle Club members participate in a motorcycle mud race to celebrate the spring in Seattle, Washington.

The Seattle Cycle Club celebrates the coming of spring with a motorcycle dirt and mud race in Seattle, Washington. Members of the Seattle Cycle Club start the race on motorbikes. They go through water and a mired course. Tire stuck in mud. All participants ooze a thick coat of mud. Spectators watch the mud race.

Date: 1954, April 29
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044819