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Comic balloon characters, a train and Santa Claus in fourth annual Santa Claus Parade in Seattle, Washington.

Fourth annual Santa Claus Parade in the holiday season in Seattle, Washington. Comic balloon characters in the parade. Children cheer and watch them. Floats in the parade. A large crowd watches the parade. A balloon train passes through the streets of the city. Passengers (comic balloon characters) hanging out of the windows of the train. A large number of children near the train and the comic characters. Santa Claus in the parade.

Date: 1952, November 26
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070969
A tramway carries passengers and scientists study possible effects of cosmic rays in the observatory in France.

An observatory to studies cosmic rays in the French Alpine, France. An aerial tramway begins operation, supplying one of Europe's most famous observatories atop the Pic du Midi. View of the observatory. Men work in the observatory. Scientists from many countries study possible effects of the cosmic rays and atomic forces. The scientists work on a control panel for weather reports. View of the French Alps.

Date: 1952, November 26
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070970
Personnel place monkeys strapped with recording instruments inside rocket chambers at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. A section of a rocket with various compartments and recording instruments placed horizontally on the ground. A monkey secured inside the rocket compartment. Another monkey placed in the other compartment. Recording instruments fastened to the monkeys. A group of personnel inspects the tip of the rocket. A man holds a parachute. A monkey placed in the rocket chamber.

Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065002
Laboratory technicians perform experiments at Aero-Medical Field Laboratory of Holloman Air Force Base

Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Interiors of a laboratory shows technicians looking through microscopes. An airman operates a balance scale. Bottles on a shelf in the background. A technician places a cylinder in a horizontal position.

Date: 1952
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065003
Personnel place a monkey in a rocket chamber and a doctor examines it at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, U.S.

Aero-Medical Field Laboratory tests at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. A section of a rocket with various compartments and recording instruments placed horizontally on the ground. A group of personnel inspects the tip of the rocket. Recording instruments fastened to a monkey. It is secured inside the rocket compartment. A doctor examines the monkey and administers an injection in the leg.

Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065004
Morrison-Knudsen construction company builds dams and irrigation canals in Afghanistan

Opening scene shows the Boghra diversion dam and associated irrigation canal built by Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company (MK) along the Helmand River in Afghanistan. Three MKA (Morrison-Knudsen-Afghanistan) engineers stand on the bank of the new irrigation canal of this project. Glimpse of a small power plant built on the canal. A man turns a large wheel releasing water from lateral canals into the main canal which would irrigate an experimental farming area. An MKA yellow truck,carrying three Afghans in the back, drives through an ancient gate to the headquarters for this experimental farm at an ancient caravan fortress named Nad-e Ali. Next, an Afghan is seen driving a tractor pulling a set of harrows to till the soil. A field where seed was planted. Scene shifts to later when the seeds have grown and an Afghan farmers are seen harvesting the new grain by hand. The next year, fields of alfalfa are seen from the first year's seeding. Another tractor is seen working at the edge of a field of crop. Afghan farmers use hand cultivators to tend the crops. View of large fields of crops. An Afghan boy stands on the bank of the Boghra canal. View of camels grazing in sparse desert area. Scene shifts to Afghan and MKA officials negotiating another contract. View of brass sign on the Export Import Bank in Washington, DC. Inside, officials of the Bank are seated around a table. (Narrator states the Bank provided a 22 million dollar loan for the new extended construction contract.) View of the Helmand River (and its deep canyon Northwest of Kandahar) and the Arghandab River, where large dams were to be constructed. Dump trucks are next seen commencing work at the Arghandab site, building a work road atop a dike along the side of the river. Camera pans across the broad sweep of the project underway. Construction equipment of all types seen moving along the work road and at work atop the dam. Afghan workers operating power shovels. Earth and stones moving on a conveyor belt. Wooden forms being built and steel reinforcing bars being installed. Afghans clearing areas for drilling operations. Afghan powder men ram charges into areas to be blasted. View of man pushing handle to ignite the charges. Explosion raises smoke, debris and dust. More views of construction equipment in operation Views of the dam at about the 200 foot height.

Date: 1952
Duration: 5 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066744