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NATO staff in normal activities. Relationship between defense activities and broader commercial and exploratory advances

NATO staff taking advantage of nice weather to relax a few minutes after lunch. Several women staff members are seen seated on park benches. Two women on a park bench. One turns to lie down near her companion. Scene shifts to French fliers ralaxing in grass. Two in flying gear, including personal flotation vests, are playing chess. Several French Dassault MD.452 Mystere jet fighter planes are parked on a flight line in the background. Elsewhere, two NATO staff men play ping pong. Two others engage in a fencing match. On a sandy shore, two soldiers engage in hand-to-hand combat, while their comrades stand in a line watching. In a park-like setting, several men are playing bocce (bocci). Two men stroll together engaged in somewhat serious conversation. In a casual lounge area of the headquarters, several staff converse with foreign counterparts in the NATO staff. Scene shifts to view from above of open freight train moving along a track, next to an open air depot, where another train of supplies is parked and wheeled cargo handling equipment is stored on the train platform. Renault automobiles moving on an assembly line in a factory. Aircraft landing gears being lowered during testing at a factory. View from above of shadow on the ground cast by a French Caravelle jet transport plane in flight. Two specialists in serious conversation at a technical laboratory. Views of the laboratory and some experimental (seemingly atomic in nature) equipment. A technician engaged in ancillary activities in a laboratory. (Narrator comments about switching the Mark XYZ rocket from defense to space probes.) Next, Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., in his silver pressure suit with the helmet visor closed, steps from a trailer marked "NASA TV No 1." Scene shifts to the rocket launch control room, where NASA controllers at their respective stations monitor video images of Shepard boarding the Mercury capsule. They monitor data pertaining to the status of the rocket and capsule. The Mercury Redstone 3 rocket, carrying Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, is next seen in a fiery launch on May 5, 1961.at 9:34 a.m. from P:ad 5 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (It carried Shepard on a suborbital trajectory lasting 15 minutes and 22 seconds, making him the first American to fly into space.)

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034031
Preparation for next day's meeting at NATO headquarters, Paris.

Film opens showing silhouettes of NATO tanks (appear to be M-47 Patton tanks) moving backwards across a hilltop. Soldiers move about in foreground. A submarine partially submerged moving through water. A NATO jet fighter aircraft taking off at night. An aircraft carrier at sea. A radar scope showing line of rotating antenna. A huge fixed ground radar antenna rotating at sunrise (or sunset). An armed sentry walking his post in late sunset. Scene shifts to a large NATO assembly room, empty except for a person cleaning with a vacuum. Closeup of NATO symbol and Council for Defense written below it. A man checks the audio systems for the room. A man in a control booth above the room manipulates switches related to the audio.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034033
Council at Luxembourg Palace, Paris.

French Foreign Minister George Bidault, Russian Foreign Minister Molotov, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Bevin, United States Secretary of State James F Byrnes along with Senators Connally and Vandenberg arrives for the Foreign Ministers Council at Luxembourg Palace, Paris. They are having discussion in the conference room.

Date: 1946, April 25
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034490
Free French tank crew removing casualties from one of their Sherman tanks during World War II

French tank crew of the Free French Forces, leave their M4A2 Sherman tank to inspect another that has been knocked out. Both tanks display the logo of French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division Blindée, 2e DB), commanded by General Philippe Leclerc. The destroyed one belongs to the 501ème Régiment de Chars de Combat (501st RCC 3eC) and was knocked out, probably by an 88mm anti-tank shell, on August 13, 1944 in Ecouves forest. Closeups of huge holes penetrating the turret of the tank. The other tank's crew members begin recovering bodies of dead from the stricken tank, which has the name "l'Ourcq" stenciled on its side. They remove the body of one dead soldier and place it on a blanket. They also remove the headless body of another from the tank. (Note: Reportedly, the destroyed tank was number 420583.)

Date: 1944, August 13
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034886
Mr. Floyd Gibbons, World War 1 war correspondent, wounded at the front, passes through Paris enroute to the U.S.

Mr. Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I, standing in uniform and talking. He is seen following his wounding at the front. He is passing through Paris enroute to the United States. Gibbons is seen with a patch over his injured eye (permanently lost) and his hand fractured. He had been hit by German gunfire while attempting to rescue an American soldier during the Battle of Belleau Wood.

Date: 1918
Duration: 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035187
President Wilson and other dignitaries at the Palace of Versailles.

President Wodrow Wilson and the first lady of USA arrive at the Palace of Versailles to attend the Paris Peace Conference. They are greeted and escorted by the officials. Military generals of various nations arriving at the Palace of Versailles in their respective cars.

Date: 1919, June 28
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035878