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Technicians at Los Alamos National Laboratory work with a water boiler reactor and handle nuclear material using robotic arms

A U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Plant at Los Alamos National Laboratory is opened to the public and news cameras to view some processes. Visitors go through the security check at one such plant. Interior of the facility. Scientists and technicians in white lab coats work at a Los Alamos water boiler reactor. A sign is seen that warns of danger and presence of Neutron and Gamma Rays. Technicians use complex and precise remote robot instruments and robotic arm gadgets to handle atomically hot material fresh from the atomic pile. 3 feet of shielding isolates the researchers from the harmful nuclear material. A remote controlled power saw is used to unseal a sample container. Artificial hot specimens of industrial metals are analyzed to determine loss or hardness in the material after nuclear exposure. A slave manipulator transfers the material to a standard hardness tester. The dial reading measures the strength of the metal after exposure. A microscopic view of the specimen. A secuirty guard at the plant door is seen, and then soldiers near an artillery piece that helps to guard the secure United States facility during the Cold War.

Date: 1953, February 22
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020713
Models display designer travel bags aboard the Italian luxury cruise liner Andrea Doria in New York.

Models display designer travel bags aboard the Italian luxury cruise liner Andrea Doria in New York. Models with various travel bags by Josef. A model opens a bag, displays the interiors and takes out a booklet from the same. New York port in the background. The bags are made of the finest Italian leather. They are of varied sizes for all purposes. Models with bucket bags, hooded bags, and tortoise shell bags.

Date: 1953, February 22
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020715
Dignitaries aboard ships arrive at the New York harbor.

Dignitaries arrive at the New York harbor. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer aboard the Superliner ship SS United States. Closeup of Chancellor Adenauer as he waves. He and his daughter talk to the press aboard the ship, as they arrive for a two week visit in the United States. Photographers take pictures and record the event. Next scene is a wide view of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth. British producer and director Sir Michael Balcon and his wife Lady Balcon aboard the Queen Elizabeth. The Duke of Windsor returns from the funeral of his mother, British monarch Queen Mary. The Duke talks to the press. People aboard the ship.

Date: 1953, April 6
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020731
President Dwight D Eisenhower meets Ambassadors to Russia and Italy at the White House.

President Dwight D Eisenhower meets United States diplomats at the White House. The President along with Secretary of State John Dulles talk to the newly confirmed Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Charles” Chip” E. Bohlen. Cameraman taking a video. Ambassador Charles Bohlen and President Eisenhower shakes hands before Ambassador Bohlen departs the White House. President Eisenhower meets the first female Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce. Ambassador Luce departs.

Date: 1953, April 6
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020732
President Dwight Eisenhower revives the custom of Easter egg rolling on the White House lawn.

President Dwight Eisenhower revives the custom of Easter egg rolling on the White House lawn. The White House in Washington DC. Children and adults gathered on the lawns. The President and his family join the celebration. His grandchildren Dwight David II and Barbara Ann take part in the egg rolling. His grand daughter Susan Elaine in Mamie Eisenhower's lap. A lady on a stretcher who fainted in the chaos to get close to the President. Children with baskets of eggs. A little girls eats an egg.

Date: 1953, April 6
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020734
President Harry S Truman awards Congressional Medals of Honor at the White House to Carl Sitter and Reginald Myers

President Harry S Truman awards Congressional Medals of Honor at the White House in Washington DC. A gathering at the White House. Officials and awardees with their families. The recipients are Marine Captain Carl Sitter (standing left of the President when all three men are together) and Reginald Myers (standing right of the President). The President awards the Medal of Honor to each of the two officers. The officers shake hands and pose with the President. Officers with their families after receiving the Medals. Sitter holding his son and pictured with his wife. Myers' wife, Margaret, and daughter, Susan, and son, Scott. Myers holding his son, Scott. Major Myers was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while serving as Executive Officer, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, in the vicinity of HAGARU-RI, KOREA, November 29, 1950, while commanding a group of 80 men who were stragglers and missing from other units. Major Myers' makeshift unit successfully denied the Chinese Communists the possession of EAST HILL, which dominated the key crossroads in the withdrawal -- attack in another direction -- by U.S. Marines and Army units from the Chosin Reservoir. Captain Sitter's unit relieved Major Myers' unit in the same battle. Sitter received e medal for his actions as a commanding officer during a two-day battle at Hagaru-Ki, Korea in November 1950. The fighting lasted 36 hours, and Sitter endured grenade burns to his face, arms and chest. He refused to evacuate as the fight continued. More than half of his company was killed, wounded or captured, but a successful defense of the area was mounted by U.S. soldiers.

Date: 1951, October 29
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020737