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The French paratroopers jump off the edge of the aircraft during a parachute training in Algeria.

A Parachute training in Algeria. The French paratroopers on the edge of the aircraft for the fifth jump. They jump one by one. They drop for ten seconds and then pull the rib chords. Then the chute opens.

Date: 1958
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055751
Story of Cuban missile crisis in the month of October.

Documentary "One Week in October." Aerial views of Russian missiles in Cuba. Columbus day parade with marching bands, Boy Scouts, troops. Brief excerpt from 1962 World Series Baseball game with New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry delivering to Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants, who hits a ball to the deep left corner that is caught. March of Dimes annual poster girl. Jackie Kennedy with children of foreign diplomats. Fireworks in Uganda celebrating its independence. View of Vatican Palace and a candlelight vigil. President John Kennedy with Ahmed Ben Bella, Premier of Algeria. Ben Bella is then seen with Cuban leader Castro who receives him in Cuba. U.S. moon rocket launch. Scientists in America reviewing designs for fallout shelters during Cold War, and visiting banks, stores, and municipal buildings and garages to assess them for worthiness as bomb fallout shelters. Views of various types of fallout shelters. Food, water drums, medical and sanitation supplies bound for civic fallout shelters are seen rolling off of assembly lines and being boxed. Radiological monitoring equipment on an assembly line. A woman packages a geiger counter into a box. Then the fallout shelter supplies are seen transported by rail to defense department warehouses for distribution by local authorities to Community Fallout Shelters. View of moving train seen from above and from sideview. View of new fallout shelter signs being mounted at fallout shelters. Forklifts working at Naval Supply Center Oakland in California to arrange supplies for shelters. View of American Legion meeting where former President Harry Truman makes a speech. Former President Eisenhower gives a speech in Connecticut endorsing some candidates. Air Force helicopter flies overhead and then seen landing on White House lawn. Beaches of Cuba. Marches in Cuba. Historic view of soldiers marching beside monument to Battleship Maine in Havana. Crane atop monument as a wing is cut off; scenes of destruction of monument to Battleship Maine in Havana. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara marching into Havana in 1959 with cheering throngs after succeeding in revolt against Batista. Fidel Castro and Soviet leader Khrushchev greeting one another at United Nations in 1961. Soviet deputy premier Anastas Mikoyin greeted by Castro and crowd at Havana airport in 1960. Trade agreement between Cuba and Havana signed. Soviet Russian cargo ships on way to Havana. Cuban refugees in small boats being rescued by U.S. Coast Guard. Views of military specialists examining films of aerial views of suspected missile installations in Cuba. U.S. military mobilization for possible war. Strategic Air Command begins dispersing aircraft to possible needed locations. B-52 Stratofortress aircraft takes off. Badge on plane: "Anywhere. Anytime." Destroyer USS Strong, DD-758, making way in heavy seas. An American Aircraft Carrier underway in the distance. Polaris submarine on surface. Officers of STRAC or Strategic Army Corps seen meeting after being assigned to the new command of U.S. Forces Atlantic. Alerted U.S Army units on training exercise to maintain combat readiness. American Army troops load into rear of transport plane . C-124 Globemaster taking off. Then a C-119 shortly after takeoff flying overhead. Then a MATS C-124 again is seen overhead. 1st Armored division tanks being loaded onto rail for transport from Fort Hood Texas to Fort Stewart Georgia.

Date: 1962
Duration: 11 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038963
Chinese laborers excavate and harvest commune crops in Shenyang, China

Chinese woman laborers near Shenyang excavating land by hand in preparation for building construction during the Communist Great Leap Forward. Women carry baskets of soil while others dig. A white American man helps women carry a basket. Chinese men herding cows on a dirt road. People riding donkey and oxcarts on the road as seen from a moving vehicle. Men standing in front of a newly built commune on the outskirts of Shenyang. Posters on display in front of the commune headquarters. Hogs at a commune. Farmers placing stacks of reeds to dry near a river. A man places a bunch of reeds on a horse cart. A man leads two donkeys on a muddy road to pull a car out of the mud.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079775
Re-emergence of General De Gaulle in France.

Aerial view of thousands of people gathered at the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. Scenes showing French President Coty and General De Gaulle in Paris. General De Gaulle being greeted by a large crowd. Algerian Nationalists revolt. Thousands of Muslims demonstrate in support of French General De Gaulle in Algiers, Algeria.

Date: 1958, May 29
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029298
White House Army Signal Agency members check communication connections and send coded messages in Washington DC.

The White House Army Signal Agency in Washington DC. The White House. The members of the White House Army Signal Agency check communication connections. They send coded message and receive encoded messages via radio teletype. A man operates a switch board ensuring direct communication to various federal agencies to and from the White House. The soldier makes announcements over a microphone. Other men operate television facilities. View of television camera as lens selection turret moves.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073540
Chinese commune workers near Beijing, China during Great Leap Forward.

Chinese farmers plowing a field at a commune north of Beijing. The farmers digging furrows deeper with shovels. "Plow deep to bury the American aggressor is the slogan,” says the narrator. Carpenters sawing wood outdoors. A man strips bark from lumber using a draw shave tool. Workers repairing roof of commune building. Chinese women and children picking vegetables, harvesting crops. Farmers examine heads of Chinese Cabbage. A blind folded donkey powers an irrigation pump. Chinese woman farmers threshing millet with help from children. Harvested corn hanging on poles and husked corn in baskets. “Their corn is very poor, some of it is fairly good.” says the narrator.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079770