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Third session of World Council of Churches goes underway in New Delhi, India.

Sign reads 'World Council of Churches Third Session' in New Delhi, India. Interiors of building show delegates from fifty countries gathered at the session. Logo of the World Council of Churches “OIKOUMENE” displayed on stage. Official speaks at mike. Delegate from the United Church of Canada and Russian Orthodox Church attend the session. Various delegates seated in assembly.

Date: 1961, November 19
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052219
Bodybuilders perform for title of 'Mr Europe' in Germany.

Body building contest for the title of 'Mr Europe' held in Germany. Men perform on stage. Audience watches. Bodybuilders flexing their muscles. Crowd applauds and laughs. Winner and two runners-up hold trophy on stage. Old man at home strips himself to waist and sees in mirror, while her wife watches her from behind. Terrier pet dog at home.

Date: 1961, November 23
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052220
Horse Adios Don makes a come back in Harness Race at Long Island, New York.

Spectators during the Harness Race event at the Roosevelt Raceway in Long Island, New York. Race starts. Messenger Pacing Stakes racing. Crowd cheers. Horse Henry T. Adios takes a lead among eight other horses. Henry T. Adios wins the race. Yankee Express is in second place. Tarport Jimmy wins third place and Lang Hanover in fourth. Adios Don makes a comeback and wins fifth place.

Date: 1961, November 23
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052221
Berlin Crisis: Communists erecting Berlin wall in Berlin, Germany. Some East German citizens escape.

Communist guards armed at the border of West and East Berlin. Early construction scenes of the Berlin Wall, being erected by communist East Germany to restrict entry and exit. Gardens being cleared to create death strip. Photographers taking pictures of the wall building operations are sprayed by the military with high power water hoses from armored vehicles. American tanks roll out on streets as a security measure. Aerial views of additional newly constructed barbed wire runs encircling all East Berlin. People bid sad goodbye across the wall, shaking hands and exchanging words under watchful eyes of East German guards. Woman cries as she bids farewell to another woman from across barbed wire. Communist soldiers use reflective mirrors and tear gas smoke to block wall construction and eviction of persons at border. People living near the wall on Bernauer Strasse evacuate their apartments and some jump successfully out of windows into the West Berlin side. A couple is seen jumping from their low window into West Germany. A 76-year-old woman, Frieda Schulz, is seen escaping. She is being held at the same time by east German authorities who have her arms, while a West German crowd below tugs and frees her and she falls into a waiting rescue net on the West Berlin side. Still image seen of body of Günter Litfin as it is hauled from the Spree River following a failed escape attempt. Two women shake hands over the barbed wire and say goodbye. One of the women holds a handkerchief and cries as the other woman departs. Crowd at gate of a border cemetery encourages a 21-year-old East German soldier guard to escape. The soldier defects from East Berlin and is seen climbing the cemetery fence and he jumps to safety. A newlywed couple on their wedding day in West German is seen waving tearfully to an elderly couple in a high-rise apartment building on the East Berlin side. The couple is the parents of the bride and cannot be present for her wedding.

Date: 1961, August 13
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037560
NATO's efforts to attain advancement in aerial warfare and defense

A film titled 'Atlantic review # 2' shows NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) students in a radar class in Netherlands. A man marks path of an airplane on a large plotting board. Students of various countries at NATO aerodynamics school. Plane model placed in test chamber. Mock combat exercises take place as NATO servicemen operate radar and other equipment in control room. Students at Track and Beacon school in Holland as they learn about tactical air navigation. Radar blimp flies off from Lakehurst, New Jersey. Radar men work on controls to check radar screens.

Date: 1961
Duration: 6 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038291
NATO forward scatter system being used by officers to communicate across continents

An animated map shows Electronic Wall around North America and Europe. Officers at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) communicate with officers at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) through forward scatter system. View of NATO military officials in monitoring and control rooms during communciations. A man draws a diagram to explain the forward scatter system to a group of officials. Antenna and transmission towers at Norway and Holland. A Norwegian radar patrol ship.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038292