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Lt. Colonel Mulling speaks and uses a pointer at a wall map in a War Room at Headquarters building at Ramstein AB,Germany.

A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron at Ramstein Air Base and NATO command base in Germany. A truck leaving the missile instantiation. A semi trailer loaded with large boxes entering the missile instantiation. Matador assembly and testing area in the background. A matador wing being mated to fuselage and jet engine being lifted by a crane from truck. The crane operator and an airman give directions. Enlisted men push missile guidance shelf on a trailer into the building. Fuselage of Matador on zero-length launcher in the background. Matador engine run up test. A hand flipping switch on test console. A covered Matador on mobile zero-length launcher moves along a road in a wooded area and parks beside four other covered Matadors on launchers. Several rows of warheads in armament storage area. A convoy of trucks transporting war heads in Germany. The entrance gate to a city in Germany. Two German civilians pull a wagon on a street. Trucks, trailers, truck mounted crane and mobile zero-length launcher with covered Matador on a ground. TM-61A in launch position in clearing. The entrance to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. U.S. 12th Air Force Headquarters building at Ramstein AB. A command car stops. Two officers leave the car and walk up the steps. A Military Policeman stands outside a War Room. A 'War Room' sign on the door. Officers seated around a table in the War Room. Lt. Colonel Mulling speaking and using a pointer at a wall map. Local and FEAF clocks in the background. Two airmen using computers. A target folder is handed to a personnel and filed in safe. USAF (United States Air Force) Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star parked on a ramp. The pilot and the instructors board the aircraft. TM-61A in launch position on a launcher.

Date: 1955
Duration: 7 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069387
Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney at 1955 Disneyland opening ceremonies; and scenes from 35th Anniversary of Disneyland in 1990.

Circa-1990 aerial flyover of Disneyland, in Anaheim, California, followed by brief vintage footage of Walt Disney in an office in 1955, introducing Disneyland and showing a giant map of the theme park on his wall. Shots of July 1955 opening ceremony are presented along with shots of the Disneyland 35th anniversary celebration. Ronald Reagan is seen at both events. President Ronald Reagan in 1990 seen congratulating the park on it anniversary. Then a flashback shot to 1955, with Hollywood star actor Ronald Reagan leaning over a balcony of Main Street in Disneyland and talking about the opening celebration. Cutting back to 1990, Roy E. Disney is seen unveiling a plaque at the anniversary celebration. Scene shifts back to 1955, with Walt Disney welcoming visitors to Disneyland during its opening celebration, and a view of a plaque unveiled at the park's opening. In 1990 footage, Roy Disney notes that no one except Walt could have predicted the success of Disneyland. Views of visitors at contemporary Disneyland enjoying a teacup ride and on the Splash Mountain log flume ride, followed by scenes with colored confetti falling at the 35th anniversary celebration.

Date: 1990
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036380
French Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, meets with German President Konrad Adenauer, in Bonn, Germany

French diplomats arrive in several American cadillac automobiles at the office of President Konrad Adenauer, in Bonn, Germany. They are greeted by German officials as they leave their cars and enter the building. A German sentry with rifle, outside the entrance, poses for the camera. Views of the German Government Building with flags of Germany and France flying side-by-side on flag poles. The Palais Schaumburg (Adenauerallee 139, 53113 Bonn, Germany) in Bonn. German President Konrad Adenauer and French Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, emerge from building and mingle with officials and reporters, before returning to the building.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044051
United States Air Force deploys squadrons of tactical (Matador) missiles in West Germany during the Cold War

Film begins showing view from a motor vehicle (unseen) as it drives toward a gateway lightly covered by snow, in places. A car and a motorcycle with sidecar pass in the opposite direction. The camera vehicle continues through the gateway , past an an ancient structure and courtyard leading to a tunnel that opens onto a street in the city of Bitburg, Germany. Several parked cars are seen along with several pedestrians. Classic old houses line the street, with narrow sidewalks between them and the roadway. A team of horses slowly pulls a covered wagon along an otherwise deserted section of the street. A few pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. A tall structure, topped by a decorative tower, looms in the background. Scene changes to a U.S. soldier standing next to a TM-61 Matador tactical missile on a launch rail. View from vehicle driving past former German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Headquarters, now the U.S. 12th Air Force headquarters. It comprises several numbered entrances bunkered deep into the side of a hillside. An Air Force truck is parked outside of entrance number 3, and several U.S. Air Force airmen are also seen. One walks into the entrance, showing his identification to an Air Policeman at the door. Inside the complex, several U.S. Air Force officers discuss deployment of guided missiles in West Germany as part of West German defenses. One refers to a wall map as they converse. Lt. General William H. Tunner, Jr. speaks about the Tactical Missile Squadrons (Matador Squadrons) based in West Germany to counter aggression.

Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069385
James Bryant Conant, Civilian High Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany signs documents ending occupation

James Bryant Conant, Civilian High Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany, takes a seat opposite German official, across a long table. They each sign documents that are then exchanged and countersigned. This action appears to be related to the end of the Allied occupation of Germany, and changes Conant's status, from High Commissioner, to that of U.S. Ambassador to the now sovereign FRG. View of the signed document. Photographers take pictures.

Date: 1955, May 5
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044034
USAF T-33 Shooting Star takes off,and guidance officer at console in ground control room in Germany.

A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron in Germany. A pilot and instructor in the cockpit of the USAF (United States Air Force) T-33 Shooting Star and canopy is raised. The T-33 taxis onto runway. T-33 in flight. Air Force installation in Germany. A dish shaped radar antenna rotating atop a van. Two airmen at the console in the control room. A close up radarscope during tacking phase. TM-16A in launch position. The T-33 swoops down low over missile. T-33 in flight. The Guidance officer at the console in the ground control room. The dish shaped radar antenna rotating atop the van. Matador flight simulator panel in the rear seat of T-33 shows red and green light flashing on and off.

Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069388