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Princess Beatrix of Netherlands visits Curacao in Dutch West Indies

Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands visits Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies for a month. Her mother Queen Juliana bids farewell to Princess Beatrix. Princess Beatrix boards a KLM Douglas DC-6 “Prinses Marijke” (PJ-DPM). A huge crowd welcomes Princess Beatrix on the Curaçao International Airport (known at the time as “Dr. Albert Plesman airport”). Princess Beatrix climbs down a KLM airstair. The Governor of the Netherlands Antilles and other leaders welcome her on the airport. Princess Beatrix and Dutch Antilles leaders leave in an open car. Princess Beatrix waves to crowd gathered to welcome her.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040877
View of the Oostelijk Flevoland flood control project during construction. Queen Beatrix officially opens a dam of the project

Map depicting area of flood control activities in the Southeast part of the Ijsselmeer lake in the Netherlands. Spectators watch as a dredge deposits mud spoils to form storm surge barriers in the lake. Aerial views of the dredging operations. An excursion boat takes passengers near for a closer look at the operations. Passengers seen in various costumes. Tug boats and sail boats near the dredging site. Crowd of workers and spectators stand near and upon the newly dredged mud spoils. View of dredge operator. Several persons cross newly formed bridge between two spoils hills. Aerial views of new storm surge barriers taking form. Numerous working boats, barges and a few pleasure boats seen from the air. Boats tied up at dock next to a dam building. Visitors inside the building looking at lock controls and other items of interest. Decorative murals on the walls. Reporters and photographers on a steel landing above seated group of spectators. Queen Beatrix, of the Netherlands, formally opens the new dam by moving levers forward on stage. View of turbine generator sets rotating and engine tappets moving. Aerial view of the entire storm surge barrier in place around Oostelijk,Flevoland and of new lands under cultivation.

Date: 1957
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056031
Flood Control in the Netherlands.Dredging operations that create new lands: Oostelijk Flevoland in Ijsselmeer

Flood Control activities in the Netherlands. Dredges on barges seen at work. The spoils are deposited to create new land masses in the Southeastern portion of the IJsselmeer (Lake) which was created in the past by the damming off of the Zuiderzee, a shallow body of water, from the North Sea. Aerial views of the dredges at work. Views of new lands, dams and locks, part of the Delta Works projects. A building at a dam, with relief tablet inscribed "1956." Mural on a building showing farmer and fisherman shaking hands across the barriers. Views of dams and locks. Aerial views of dredges and spoils being deposited in barges.Map of the operations showing the Ijsselmeer lake and the constructions in and around the new land of Oostelijk, Flevoland.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056030
Queen Juliana opens the Velser tunnel to the public in the Netherlands

The Velser tunnel, a river crossing tunnel under the North Sea Canal in IJmuiden (part of the municipality of Velsen), North Holland, is inaugurated by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. Queen Juliana boards a train with Dutch officials. The train crosses the two-lane Velser tunnel to the other side. School children wave the Dutch flag upon the arrival of Queen Juliana’s train. Queen Juliana cuts the ribbon to open the Velser tunnel to the public. Vehicles begin to cross the Velser tunnel after the inauguration.

Date: 1957, September 28
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069672
Atoms for Peace. UN approves formation of IAEA. Nuclear scientists gather in Geneva Switzerland

UN General Assembly seen meeting in 1954 as it approves an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge II, and French ambassador, Henri Hoppenot, speaking. Finn Moe, of Norway, speaking. View of the city of Kjeller, Norway. Flags of Norway and the Netherlands at joint atomic laboratory. Scientists with various pieces of scientific equipment inside the facility. Indian ambassador, Krishna Menon, speaking at the United Nations. Atomic laboratory and a Government Teachers' Training College, in India. Indian scientists in a laboratory. Indian lecturer speaks to students. Brazil's Professor Ernesto Leme speaks at the UN. The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The University of Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Center for Physical Research. Clock tower of Brazil Central Station in Rio. Sutan Sjahrir,of Indonesia at the United Nations. An animated map shows nations interested in atomic energy. The UN Headquarters building on the East River in New York. A person looking through a microscope. Foreign scientists attending indoctrination courses at the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory. Diplomats sign agreement between the U.S. and Philippines on July 27, 1955, for the Philippines to lease uranium for a research nuclear reactor, and to receive technical assistance. Views of Geneva Switzerland in August 1955, including street views with pedestrians, and tram or streetcar on city streets. Exterior of Palace of Nations, then interior view with atomic science conference in progress. Indian nuclear physicist, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, presiding over conference of scientists and university representatives from 73 nations, including, inter alia, John Cockcroft, of Great Britain; Otto Hahn, of Germany; Willard Libby, of the U.S.A.; Vladimir Vexler of the Soviet Union; and Niels Bohr of Denmark. Views of exhibit hall at the conference, and displayed models of nuclear reactors, uranium ore refining exhibits, and accelerators. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower views swimming pool reactor, while visiting the exhibit hall. Site work and construction underway in Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland for a research laboratory for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Sitework seen for a facility of Euratom in Europe (European Atomic Energy Community). View of early sitework in Manila for an Asian nuclear center in the Philippines under the Colombo plan, for training personnel in nuclear science and technology.

Date: 1957
Duration: 7 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035402
Dwight D Eisenhower reviews Dutch troops and meets Prince Bernhard, Queen Juliana at Soestdijk Palace in Holland.

United States General (and future President) Dwight David Eisenhower visits the Netherlands. Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in the Netherlands with other military officers. Eisenhower reviews naval recruits standing at attention. Eisenhower looks through binoculars and observes Dutch Army soldiers performing drills and firing guns in training exercises. Army soldiers of the Netherlands climb barricades and perform other drills while practicing. Exteriors of Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, Netherlands. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, welcome Dwight David Eisenhower and his wife Mamie Doud Eisenhower.

Date: 1951, May 14
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068340
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