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Turmoil on May 1, 1952, in Tokyo, Japan created by factions objecting to the April 28, 1952 Treaty of San Francisco

Film starts showing United Press wire service receiver with report in it. "Tokyo" is superimposed on the image. A huge gathering of Japanese people is seen, most holding umbrellas on a rainy day. Camera view from behind some of the crowd, with the National Diet (Legislative) building in the background. Groups of men rush through the crowd creating disturbance. They protest the Treaty of San Francisco on April 28, 1952, which ended U.S. occupation, but levied heavy penalties on Japan including confiscation of all assets owned by the Japanese government, firms, organization and private citizens, in all colonized or occupied countries. Closeups of some surrounding a uniformed policemen and roughing him up. Views inside the House of representatives chamber, where members are in a state of turmoil. Member are dragging one legislator. Closeup of him sitting on the floor and of another legislator waving a fan to cool off. A cadre of uniformed officers enters the assembly room and forcibly removes several struggling legislators. Following that, a group of legislators forces another to the Chairman's position in the chamber. (Note: Political conflicts, between supporters of politician Hatoyama Ichiro and those of Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida resulted in the Prime Minister declaring an “Out of the blue” dissolution of the House of Representatives in August, 1952.)

Date: 1952, May 1
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043254
Devastation in Elizabeth, New Jersey residential neighborhood after American Airlines plane crash; also mid-air explosion of plane at British air show.

Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.

Date: 1952, January 23
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049157
Atomic testing in 1952 - Britain explodes its first atom bomb and America tests its first hydrogen bomb with Operation Ivy

Major nuclear testing events of the year 1952. Narrator indicates that the British detonated their first atomic bomb in 1952 (not shown). Aerial view of Enewetak Atoll area where United States testing took place for Operation Ivy. America tests its first hydrogen bomb. View of bomb apparatus on island. Massive explosion occurs during test shot Ivy MIKE, at the Enewetak atoll, on November 1, 1952.

Date: 1952, November 1
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049160
The leaders of African nations including Egypt, Ghana, Morocco and Algeria at the African summit meeting in Casablanca, Morocco

African summit meeting in Casablanca, Morocco. Gamal Abdel Nasser President of Egypt arrives by a yacht. King Mohammed V of Morocco receives President Nasser. Civilians cheer and greet the President. Kwame Nkrumah, leader of Ghana and Algerian leader Ferhat Abbas arrive by air. King Mohammed V receives them. The leaders and the President at around table meeting.

Date: 1961, January 9
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055700
Resident-General of French Morocco , Lieutenant General Pierre Boyer de Latour visits Berber tribes in mountains of Morocco

French Resident-General of Morocco, Lieutenant General Pierre Boyer de Latour, in exercise of diplomacy, visits Berber Tribes in middle atlas region of Morocco ( el mars boulmane ). He arrives in a 1953 Oldsmobile convertible automobile, driving up a rugged dirt road. The General greets several tribal leaders and converses with them. The tribal leaders escort General de Latour to a large tent, where he sits and converses with the most senior leaders. They talk and eat inside the tent. Crowds of tribesmen observe from around the tent, at some distance, outside. Mountains seen in the background. Tribesmen play musical instruments. Women in decorative costume dance.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055983
Sultan of Morocco, Mohammed V, participates in pageant and ceremony in Rabat, Morocco (WW2)

Moroccan infantry with rifles, led by military band, march through a gate near the Royal Palace and mosque, in Rabat, Morocco during World War II. The palace and mosque are seen in background. A drum and bugle corps, mounted on white horses, play their instruments as they ride through the gate. They are followed by a cadre of mounted Royal Lancers. Infantry perform coordinated drill. Royal Palace seen in background.Troops parade along with a procession, including Royal Guardsmen, dressed in white. Guardsmen escort the Sultan, riding in a Royal Coach pulled by horses. A Royal attendant steps into the courtyard of the palace, to meet the Sultan as he arrives on a white horse, accompanied by guardsmen. Palace attendants bow low, several times to the Sultan. In change of sequence, the Sultan, on horseback, proceeds between line of guards and groups of Moroccans, sitting and standing on a parade ground. View of muazzen standing on balcony of the Royal mosque. Sultan rides through gate of the mosque on a white horse, accompanied by guardsmen. Persons, lining the way, bow as he passes. Attendant shields the Sultan with a long-handled umbrella. The entire procession returns toward the palace.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067429