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Anastas Mikoyan, vice-prime minister of the Soviet Union, visits Cuba soon after the Castro revolution.

Statue of José Marti, designed by Enrique Luis Varela and sculpted by Juan José Sicre, at foot of Marti memorial monument in Revolution Square, Havana, Cuba. The Cuban flag on the Ministry of Interior building, across the square. Camilo Cienfuegos addresses people and Fidel Castro smiles in Havana, Cuba. A procession by people. Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos with others sitting. President Manuel Urrutia comes with others. Soviet vice-prime minister, Anastas Mikoyan, steps from Soviet plane. He meets President Urrutia. Mikoyan wearing a straw hat with "Cuba" written on it. Fidel Castro and leading revolutionary figures attend a formal reception for Mikoyan. A signboard reads 'INRA Cooperative Arroceru Jose Smith Comas Zona H-10 Cardenas'. Farmers in field with their cattle. Fidel Castro addresses the press. Cuban workmen handling lumber at a construction site. A board reads'Instituto Nacional de Ahorro y Vivienda,' and announces the construction of a planned city of 300 homes. Women parade holding rifles. The French freighter La Coubre exploding on March 4,1960, while being unloaded in Havana harbor, Cuba. Scenes of explosions and fire as people run to escape the area. Fire fighters trying to extinguish flames, and similar events are captured by the camera. Post accident scenes of Castro speaking to the populace and of mourners walking along the street in Havana. (Note: This French ship was carrying munitions from Antwerp.Approximately 100 people were killed and twice as many injured in this terrible accident.)

Date: 1959, February
Duration: 5 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675034280
United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull attends the Pan American Conference in Havana, Cuba

Pan American Conference in Havana, Cuba. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull shakes hands with officials. Conference in session. Troops marching during an ongoing parade.

Date: 1940, August
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064152
Cuban Chief of Army Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista honors officers and reviews Parade on Independence day in in Havana, Cuba

Ongoing parade on Cuban Independence day in in Havana, Cuba. Cuban officers stand in line saluting. Cuban Chief of Army Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista honors the officers. He pins badges on their uniforms. Ongoing parade on Cuban Independence day. Officers march on horseback. Troops march on road during the Independence Day Parade.

Date: 1940, October 10
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064154
Duke and Duchess of Windsor walk along the swimming pool in Havana, Cuba.

Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Havana, Cuba. Duke and Duchess walk along the swimming pool. Their dog walks along with them.

Date: 1940, August
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064155
American citizens leave the United States Embassy in Havana after the breakdown of US- Cuba diplomatic relations during the Cold War and the United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Title card reads, "The United States Breaks Diplomatic Relations with Cuba." View of the United States Embassy building (55 Calzada, La Habana, Cuba) in Havana, Cuba. Crowds gathering outside the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Family of African descent outside American Embassy. A woman of African descent holds her baby outside the United States Embassy. Two women in the American Embassy. A door in the American Embassy written in Spanish reads, "Aviso Cerrada-La Seccion De Visa Hoy" (Attention, Visa section closed today). Women leaving the American Embassy. A Catholic nun leaves the American Embassy. American citizens leave the United States Embassy. Staff load boxes into truck as Americans leave the United States embassy. Americans follow a man, with shades, outside United States Embassy. Americans board bus as they depart Havana. A Cuban female soldier guards the United States Embassy building.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078508
Ongoing parade on Cuban Independence day in in Havana, Cuba

Ongoing parade on Cuban Independence day. Cuban Chief of Army Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista in grandstand reviews parade. Troops march on road. Cuban crowd gathered to watch the parade. Artillery towed behind vehicles.

Date: 1940, October 10
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064153