Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.
During post World War II reconstruction years of early 1950s in Germany. German police officer stands on a square in Berlin, Germany. A man with a briefcase asks directions from him. Pedestrians pass by. Another police officer gives direction to the traffic. Traffic passes by on a busy road. German gasoline station or petrol station in background with sign "Tank" and sign "Gasolin". Cars, buses and a horse driven cart pass by.
A guide and students from American Dependent School visit Museum of the Palatinate (Kurpfälzisches Museum, Hauptstraße 97, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany) in Heidelberg, Germany. Female guide removes jawbone of the Heidelberg man (Homo heidelbergensis) from a showcase of the Museum of Palatinate and shows it to group of students. Students and the guide enter a room and gather in front of a showcase.
Activities of students at the Heidelberg American High School in Germany. A student group enters the Museum of the Palatinate (Hauptstrasse 97, 69117 Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany). The student group exits. Two students pause to examine a large display of meat in a butcher shop window. A student enters "German-American Teenagers Club".
Elections to choose between the leaders of Germany and the French faction in Saarland, Germany. People enter a building to vote. People cast their votes. Placing of the votes in the ballot box. Men count the votes. People give a large support to the French faction.
Kalmyk youth activities in Ingolstadt Displaced Persons Camp, West Germany after World War II. A Kalmyk couple dancing at a bar in the Ingolstadt, Germany Displaced Persons Camp. A group of Kalmyk men play billiards in the background. A young Kalmyk girl plays a musical instrument. Kalmyks watch dancers perform traditional dances. The man dancing wears a chokha, also known as a cherkeska. Faces of happy Kalmyk elders. A smiling Kalmyk girl. A man climbs up stairs and walks in an empty corridor.
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