Oath taking ceremony of Stanley Woodward for the U.S. ambassador to Canada in the United States. Stanley Woodward takes oath and is greeted by another official and his wife. Photographers take photos and cameramen record the event.
British conducts hydrogen bomb test over the Christmas Islands during atomic bomb testing. Explosion and smoke rises. Views of mushroom cloud. This test marks Britain's first hydrogen bomb test, cementing its nuclear weapons power in the world.
USAF Major General Reuben Columbus Hood Jr. visits Cuba during his goodwill tour. A banquet table with VIPs seated around it. Cuban and American flags in the background. General Hood is given an award and handed his certificate. Major Chuck Yeager holding a cake. Interior of building, a band seated in the building. Naval Building, sign over doorway: Circulo Military Naval.
Celebrated Strong Man, Friedrich Muller (Stage name: Eugen Sandow), one of the first famous bodybuilders, displays his body building physique: flexing his biceps, abdominal muscles and triceps and other muscles, for the Edison Company cameraman in Edison's Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey.
Scene from fight between James J. Corbett, former champion of the world (AKA "Gentleman Jim" Corbett) and Peter Courtney, staged and recorded at the Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A..
Native American Indian dancers from the Buffalo Bill Wild West show, perform the Sioux Ghost Dance, as recorded by Edison Company at the Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey. (Reportedly this is the first instance of Native American Indians appearing in a motion picture.)
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