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An elevator observatory being inaugurated at the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, California.

An elevator observatory at The El Cortez hotel (El Cortez Condominiums 702 Ash St, San Diego, CA 92101, United States) in San Diego, California. A woman dressed in a space cadet or astronaut-like uniform stands in the elevator, known as the "Starlight Express." Passengers seen boarding the all-glass elevator that rises outside the building to carries guests to a rooftop ballroom. The lift supported on a hydraulic ram 175 feet long, rises up to the roof of the hotel, Clip includes a brief elevated view of the city of San Diego as seen from the elevator.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1956, April 12
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046956
Bulls set free on the streets as part of the celebration of Feast Day of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain.

Celebration of Feast Day of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. Bulls set free on the streets. Group of people run in front of them. Crowd cheers. Huge crowd on an open ground with bulls running after them.

Location: Pamplona Spain
Date: 1956, July 16
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064636
Visitors view displays of medieval armor at the Royal Armory Museum (La Real Armeria) in Madrid, Spain

A group of visitors view the Medieval armor and weapons on display in the Royal Armory Museum (La Real Armeria, Royal Palace of Madrid, C. de Bailén, s/n, 28013 Madrid, Spain) in Madrid, Spain. A guide takes a group of visitors for a tour inside the Armory. Guide shows ancient books on display behind a glass case. Visitors view Medieval and Renaissance armors and weapons on display. Many of the artifacts show evidence of damage inflicted in actual armed combat. Armor of knights and horses is shown, along with various weapons.

Location: Madrid Spain
Date: 1956
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048293
Madrid fortifies and civilians evacuate during the Spanish Civil War

Scene opens showing the fly leaf of the book Don Quixote, De La Mancha. A hand flips to another illustrated page. Then camera focuses on statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the memorial to author, Cervantes, by sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera, on the Plaza Espana, in Madrid. Next is shown a building partially destroyed by bomb shelling. Citizens of Madrid are seen working to place protective walls around important monuments and buildings in the city. Masons work on the reinforcing walls, while citizens are seen busily going about their affairs in background. Several soldiers march into a guarded fortified area. A truck drives on a street, past a woman and small children sitting on some rubble. A streetcar moves along a street along with a horse-drawn covered wagon, and pedestrians, making their way past a long masonry protective wall. Two armed Republican soldiers ride on the roof of a bus. A Red Cross flag hangs beneath a Metro sign, above steps leading down into the subway. A long line of people waiting to buy vegetables at a small store. Masking tape crisscrossing the window of a shop to help proctect it. Pedestrians filling the sidewalks of a street walled by tall apartment buildings and shops. Some rubble in the street from rebel Nationalist shelling. A policeman armed with a rifle, directing pedestrians to move along. The covered body of a civilian lying amidst rubble from shelling, on a sidewalk. A Municipal Services truck pulling up to the spot. The city workers place the body in a wooden coffin and put it into their truck. A large poster urges all civlians to evacuate Madrid. View from moving vehicle of huge crowds of civilians on the sidewalks. A horse-drawn wagon, loaded down with household goods, moves along the street. Women carry bedsprings past stone bunkers. People standing about, with bundles of personal belongings, apparently waiting for transport of some sort. Women and children, with their belongings, being helped aboard a truck. The truck driving away.

Location: Madrid Spain
Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062083
USAFE and Spanish musicians perform John F. Kennedy March in San Sebastian, Spain

United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) band and a Spanish concert band joining for the first public performance of the "John F. Kennedy March" at San Sebastian, Spain. A USAFE soldier and a Spanish concert band member both play an oboe. The bands jointly play in front of the City Council of San Sebastian, also known as the Donostiako Udala (Ijentea Kalea, 1, 20003 Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Spain). The march’s composer, Jose Maria Bastida, leads the performance as a conductor. The conductor raises his baton. Jose Maria Bastida embraces the United States Consul General to Spain. American and Spanish officials clapping. An official speaks though an Altavoces Eguia microphone. USAFE and Spanish musicians play saxophones. A USAFE conductor with baton. Spanish musician plays a wind instrument. USAFE soldiers play with a Tuba and cymbals. Spanish musician hits a drum. Spectators clapping at the performance. Spectators crowd the plaza in front of the City Council of San Sebastian. Children hang on to railings in front of the City Council building to watch the orchestra concert performance. Spanish soldiers and children standing in the plaza. Faces of children attending the orchestra performance.

Location: San Sebastian Spain
Date: 1964, January 19
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079860
General Franco of Spain gives away in marriage his only daughter Carmen at the Palace of El Pardo

The marriage ceremony of Carmen Franco, the daughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain, to Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde. General Franco takes his daughter to her wedding. Wedding guests trail behind the bride and her father to the church. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toledo, Enrique Pla y Deniel, officiates the wedding. Carmen Franco kneels beside the groom during the wedding. The couple sign marriage documents. The lavish wedding ceremony takes place at the Palace of El Pardo in Madrid (Palacio del Pardo, C. Manuel Alonso, s/n, 28048 Madrid, Spain). Many guests attend the wedding.

Location: Madrid Spain
Date: 1950, April 13
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041465
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