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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.
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.
Montage of U.S. Strategic Air Command activities
U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) Bombardier leaning over bombsight. Several small explosions in circular pattern on SAC bombing range in flat open desert. Mountains in background. A SAC Convair B-36 bomber in flight. Two U.S. Airmen remove camera from RB-36 aircraft and holding up large still photo aerial camera with large lens. Animation of flight of B-36 on practice bombing exercise in the United States . Formation of four B-50 Superfortress aircraft of the 43rd Bomb Wing, stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona.They are escorted by two straight-wing F-84 Thunderjets. View of single Convair B-36 in flight. Circle R tail code indicates it belongs to the 6th Bomb Group stationed at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico.
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.
Traffic near the Zócalo, the main plaza of Mexico City. Scenes of busy streets in Mexico City
View of the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City, and the Mexico City Cathedral from across the street (Plaza de la Constitución S/N, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico). Midcentury cars and a streetcar pass by the street of the Zócalo. View of Mexico City Cathedral Tower. View of busy street in Mexico City, possibly in the Condesa tourist district. Entrance to a park, possibly the Parque España, can be seen. A shopping street in Mexico City with people and buses. Two Mexican women walking briefly look behind at the camera.
President Lopez Portillo welcomes Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and Princess Beatrix of Netherlands in Mexico.
Aerial view of Mexico City and a large crowd awaits the royal family of Netherlands. President Lopez Portillo welcomes Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. President Portillo shake hands with Prince Bernhard. Cheering crowd and a band of musicians in the background. The royal family and other dignitaries accompany and walk towards the official cars. The procession of dignitaries in cars moves on the crowded streets. Mexican guards in motorcycles in convoy with the Dutch royal family. Confetti falling from buildings during motorcade for the Dutch royal family in Mexico City. The Mexican people wildly cheer their guests holding welcome banners in Dutch and Spanish. People gathered outside the National Palace (P.za de la Constitución S/N, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06066 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico) in Mexico City. Queen Juliana along with her daughter Princess Beatrix and Prince Bernhard visits several historical places such as the Teotihuacan pyramid (Teotihuacán, State of Mexico, Mexico).
