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World Motor Sports car show at Madison Square Garden in New York City; also a modern futuristic kitchen

"Things to come" opens with scenes from the World Motor Sports car show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. Foreign imported and domestic American cars, including many concept cars and futuristic space age cars, are being displayed at the 1950s automobile show. Young women get into cars to get a closer look at the new automobiles. Next scene shows a housewife in a modern, futuristic kitchen with many gadgets. A push button kitchen with an automatic refrigerator and cabinet is seen. The woman homemaker presses a button to raise the counter top height in the kitchen of the future. Woman wearing apron consults a revolving picture board of menus and recipes above the stove. Woman puts toast in hidden toaster recessed in stove top. She waves her hand and a cabinet lowers down containing dishes. A cook presses a button and a rotisserie oven raises up, and its door opens to reveal meat roasting inside.

Date: 1954, January 25
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037715
Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe dies at 36 after a successful career in films. Scenes from her professional life.

Famous Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe dies August 5, 1962 in United States. Marilyn Monroe dies at 36. Marilyn Monroe blows a kiss. Flashback shows Marilyn Monroe greeting Queen Elizabeth II of England. Monroe extends her hand to the British Queen. Marilyn Monroe in Korea on stage entertaining American soldiers during the Korean War in the early 1950s. Marilyn Monroe arrives for a USO show in a jeep. Monroe performs on the stage as Korean War soldiers look on. Marilyn Monroe kisses her second husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio. Marilyn Monroe with her third husband writer Arthur Miller. Wide shot of Times Square, New York City a night in the late 1950s or early 1960s, with neon lights and traffic. Marylin Monroe being cheered by crowds as she attends a premiere at Times Square. People hold pictures of Marylin Monroe. Marilyn Monroe on a balcony as she waves and smiles.

Date: 1962, August 5
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042219
Nikita Khrushchev visits Los Angeles and watches the filming of a movie sequence in Hollywood while on a visit to the U.S.

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on a visit to the United States. Animated map of the United States shows places visited by Mr. Khrushchev during his tour. A line on the map from New York to Los Angeles. An aircraft lands in Los Angeles, California. 'U.S. Air Force' written on the aircraft. Mrs. and Mr. Khrushchev disembark from the aircraft and are greeted by Los Angeles Mayor. Photographers click pictures. Mr. Khrushchev and party leave in cars for a tour of the city. General scenes of Los Angeles streets with 1950s cars, including a station wagon, driving on Wilshire Boulevard in front of the Brown Derby restaurant, and also scenes of 1950s automobiles driving on streets of Los Angeles lined by palm trees. View of motorcade accompanied by police escorts. Brief shot outside the Brown Derby at 1628 North Vine Street in Hollywood. Mr. Khrushchev's motorcade reaches Hollywood. Photographers click pictures. They are greeted by Hollywood film executives, including Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. They watch the filming of a movie sequence on a Hollywood movie set.

Date: 1959, September 19
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051168
Engineers, surgeons, nurses, carpenters and other workers at work in the United States.

Scenes of American people engaged in different occupations in the United States in the 1950s. African American surveyor looks through a survey transit instrument as they work on a construction project with Brooklyn Bridge of New York City in background. Men in suits examine blueprints at construction site of an interstate highway cloverleaf system. A man studies and works on the construction site of a bridge. Women nurses in a classroom take down notes. A redcap pulls baggage at a railway station. Men work on construction projects. Masons, carpenters work at construction site. Surgeons operate on patient in operating theater. Cowboys hold down a calf and brand it, A housewife prepares a meal. A man operates an automobile elevator parking lot and 1950's American automobiles are seen passing by his lift. A truck of the 'Sand and Gravel Corporation' at a construction site.

Date: 1958
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065927
American home life, focusing on women in Monroe, New York

A documentary titled 'Women and the Community'. Aerial view of city of Monroe New York. A railroad train runs on track carrying commuters. Closeup, from outside, of engineer seen through window of the train. Two men working as City Planners in an office. One is pointing at a region of Monroe on a wall map. Both are looking at the map on the wall. A sanitation worker man dumps garbage into a garbage truck. Postman making deliveries to houses in a neighborhood. Snow is on the ground but cleared from sidewalks and streets. At one house, the mailman knocks on the door and delivers the mail personally to a Mrs. Carter, the occupant. View of Mr. and Mrs. Carter at breakfast table with their two small daughters (depiction is classic family of 1950s with husband and his wife in homemaker or housewife role). Mr. Carter, a lawyer, is reading the morning paper, while Mrs. Carter opens the morning mail that includes a sample ballot for the upcoming local elections. She shares it with her husband. Their oldest girl in the family reaches for the ballot and knocks over her glass of milk, which Mrs. Carter quickly mops up. The postman is seen on his route into the shopping district, View of local grocer placing purchases of a customer in a paper bag. The mailman gives him his mail. He also gives a letter to a Mrs. Brown, who is in the store, shopping. The local dentist meets the mailman as he enters his office, and takes the mail from him. Inside his office, patients are waiting. He gives the mail to his secretary. A Mrs. Gates and her son accompany the dentist into his inner office. An elderly couple collect the mail from their rural outdoor mailbox. The mailman enters the local high school to deliver mail. Inside. students are seen using microscopes in a science lab class. Student, Mary Collins focuses her microscope. The science teacher checks the image in Mary's instrument .As the postman continues his rounds, a bus carrying voters lets them off at Fireman's hall, the local polling place, where they line up, outside. Mrs. Carter is seen in the queue, discussing her sample ballot with others.

Date: 1950
Duration: 5 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032769
Student visits Community Chest and social organizations to study social welfare problems in New York City, United States.

Exterior views of Columbia University buildings in New York City. People inside a Columbia University building. One student enters into classroom of social studies. Professor comes into the class. Students report on the subject that they have chosen. Student reports on his subject 'How social welfare problems to hand over in nearby community of New York'. Professor suggests the student to help the city's Community Chest. Student of Columbia University gets down from train and walks. He enters into building and talks to a man. He visits the industrial area of city to study the economic resources. The United Distillers of America building. He goes to market and watches men and women working in restaurants and markets of the city. A woman pushes a baby carriage. Student visits the residential area of city to know community awareness about human problems. He visits areas with modest apartment buildings and areas with slums, tenement housing, and poverty. Children play outside the residential area. Old woman seated outside the house. Student enters into telephone booth and talks to the Executive Director of city's Community Chest on phone. The Executive Director asks him to come in the office of Community Chest. He enters into the building of Community Chest. He meets with the Executive Director and talks to him. Posters of 'Pledge your help today' on wall. Executive Director points out at the posters on wall. He reads posters of 'Ready To Serve' and 'Give enough'. He notes down names of social organizations on a note pad. Student visits the Family Service agency. He meets the family who adopted a baby girl. Doctor examines baby girl to test the health of the baby. Student visits the room of orphan children. Children play in room, one boy paints on canvas while another irons. Couple brings the baby at their home and plays with her.

Date: 1950
Duration: 10 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024715