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Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett are cheered and congratulated upon their return from the North Pole

As U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd, and pilot Floyd Bennett step from their Fokker airplane upon their return from overflight of the North Pole, they are greeted and congratulated by Norwegian explorer, Ronald Amundsen and American Lincoln Ellsworth (who, themselves, are preparing to fly, from Spitsbergen, to the North Pole, and beyond, in the airship Norge). Members of the Byrd expedition team rush to greet the returning aviators and huddle about them expressing congratulations. They lift Byrd and Bennett up on their shoulders. Crewmen are gather and celebrate, aboard the SS Chantier, as a sailor who wouldn't shave until the mission was complete, gets his 34-day beard shaved off, as one of the sailors plays a ukulele.

Date: 1926, May 9
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063334
Amundsen and Ellsworth wave to people as airship Norge takes off from Spitsbergen, Svalbard for a North Pole expedition.

A North Pole expedition undertaken by Captain Roald Amundsen and American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. Capt. Amundsen and Ellsworth aboard USS Knut Skaaloren arrive at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. They walk back and forth on the deck of the ship. Dirigible Norge arrives for a landing. A large hangar and snow covered mountains in background. A close up of Amundsen and Ellsworth. Airship Norge being backed out of a hangar. Snow clad hills in the background. A workman works on one of the motors on the side of the airship. Amundsen and Ellsworth in the gondola of the airship. They wave to the people around the gondola. Airship Norge takes off. 'Norge' written on the airship.

Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051109
New York City celebrates the arrival of LCDR Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett, after their historic flight over the North Pole

Crowds line the sidewalks of Broadway, in Manhattan, New York City, watching a ticker tape parade celebrating the arrival of the SS Chantier, carrying U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd, and pilot Floyd Bennett, home to America, after their successful flight over the North Pole. Byrd , in Navy uniform, and Bennett, at his left, in civilian clothes, march in the center of the parade. An echelon formation of six military aircraft flies over the scene. View of City Hall, with military honor guards in formation and crowds lining the sidewalks. The group of marchers, including Byrd and Bennett, turns toward the steps of the City Hall (Where they are to be officially greeted by New York Mayor, James Walker).

Date: 1926, June 23
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063337
Admiral Richard Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett, in Spitzbergen after ostensibly flying over North Pole in their Fokker F.VII

Admiral Richard E. Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett, in Spitzbergen, Norway, being congratulated by other expedition members, after ostensibly making a round-trip flight to the North Pole and back, in their Fokker F.VII trimotor airplane named: " Josephine Ford."

Date: 1926, May
Duration: 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074473
Defense Early Warning radar sites (DEW Line), White Alice communications systems, and North American Air Defense (NORAD)

Aerial views of Dew Line air defense radar installations in the Northern part of North America. Ground views of a man dressed in furs riding a dog sled. View from the sled of the dog team pulling it. The man and dog team moving in the snow past black microwave antennas of the "White Alice" Alaskan Communications system. Aerial view of a White Alice complex containing huge red and white checkered microwave antennas. Oil tanks and other facilities at the site. Scene shifts to closeup of receiving and relaying antennas of the White Alice system. View of a Dew Line radar site. Narrator explains how the Dew Line stations work in concert with the White Alice system. Closeup of radar antenna rotating and fade to a radar screen where a target is being painted by a sweeping beam. Operator at the radar screen picks up phone to inform NORAD (North American Air Defense Command). View of the NORAD Headquarters Building at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, with mountain in background and flags of the U.S. and Canada flying from flag poles in front of the building. View inside the command and control area of the headquarters. A large tracking board on which radar information is depicted. view of a radar station complex on land and one out at sea. A Lockheed EC-121 radar picket aircraft in flight and a radar picket ship at sea.

Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062845
Soviet military on parade in Red Square; U.S. Army placing gun batteries in U.S. residential areas during Cold War.

Opening scene shows animated map of northern part of the earth, centered on the North Pole. It depicts the shortened flitght paths between various parts of the Soviet Union, and the United States via polar routing. The Soviet Red flag flying on a flag pole. A large number of Soviet Tupolev Tu-2 bombers parked at an airfield. (They are equipped with four-bladed AV-9VF-21K variable pitch propellers.) Several Tu-2 aircraft in flight. Closeup of aircraft's twin tail showing dihedral angle between them, as viewed from tail of the aircraft. View of military parade in Red Square, Moscow. Numerous open army trucks, filled with Soviet troops, drive in formation. In a closeup, the Soviet State Museum building dominates the background. Closeup of Georgi Malenkov (who was named premier and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, upon the death of Joseph Stalin, in March 1953). He reviews the parade from the Kremlin. Soviet Secret Police Chief, Lavrentiy Beria, stands beside him. Army motorcycle troops pass in formation. Lenin Mausoleum and Kremlin Walls in background. Closeup of Soviet military veterans in civilian clothes, with medals, watching the parade. More troops in open trucks. They pass large posters of Lenin and Stalin. Closeups of Soviet civilians including women and children. A group of Asian persons watching the parade. View from a high point overlooking Red Square showing lines of army trucks snaking around both sides of St. Basil's Cathedral, as they leave the square, past Lenin's Tomb. Closeup of Soviet soldiers saluting with rifles as they pass reviewing stand. Their truck is towing a field howitzer equipped with two tires on each axle. Closeups of several towed howitzers. Scene shifts to Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States, where army jeeps and artillery pieces maneuver on the city streets, in preparedness exercises during the Cold War. A woman hanging laundry out to dry on a line. Artillery being placed in a vacant lot near a residential neighborhood. A woman looks out her apartment window at the gun being placed in the lot. Soldiers uncover it, revealing a 120 mm M1 anti-aircraft gun. Young boys watch the activity from a backyard, where clothes are on a line to dry. The soldiers erect a radar antenna on a fire control trailer. Two women watch the activity from their apartment window. Closeup of the gun installed and ready. A radar antenna rotating in the field. A battery of several antiaircraft guns installed in the field. Cars and pedestrians on busy streets and sidewalks in the city. Children playing on monkey bars in a park. Distant view of military temporary buildings and guns installed near apartment buildings. An alarm clock. A rotating radar antenna. A civilian asleep in his bed. A soldier steps from his unit's orderly room and blows a whistle. The disturbed civilian in bed looks at his clock reading 5:30 AM and expresses disgust. He is next seen with friends, registering a complaint with an Army Captain in his office, who agrees to resolve the matter. An Army Officer is seen standing at a large chalk board explaining how and why anti aircraft guns are being installed across the area, as civilians watch and listen to his explanation

Date: 1953
Duration: 5 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070286