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Glider flight in an Air show at Tokyo International Airport in Japan

Glider towed off for take off in an Air Show at Tokyo International Airport. View of glider in free flight as it climbs. Glider lands on the runway. Japanese glider takes off. Japanese glider in a free flight. Glider is placed in position for take off. Group of spectators rush as the glider lands.

Date: 1953, September 20
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025533
Emperor Hirohito's garden party is attended by foreign dignitaries and diplomats at his palace in Tokyo, Japan.

Emperor Hirohito's garden party at his palace in Tokyo, Japan. Emperor Hirohito's post war garden party is attended by 1500 guests. The Imperial family, government officials, foreign dignitaries and diplomats gather in the palace gardens. People talk and laugh. Traditional pageantry in view.

Date: 1953, November
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054574
Japanese students in front of a school building in Tokyo, Japan.

Japanese student protest at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. Banner in Japanese read “Chuo University Neighborhood Association”. Young boys throw stones and swing sticks. They listen to a young man speaking into microphone. Police arrives to control the mob. Students enter a building with flags in their hand.

Date: 1953
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043255
U.S. 35th air policemen get into a truck parked outside U.S. Army Far East Air Forces headquarters during riots in Tokyo, Japan.

U.S. 35th air policemen parked outside U.S. Army FEAF (Far East Air Forces) headquarters in Tokyo. American soldiers emerge from the FEAF headquarters building and line up with their gear on sidewalk across the street. It is raining. An officer reads orders to the soldiers and they get into a truck. An air police jeep backs up. The jeep and the truck pull away. View of top of the building, from which the United Nations and U.S. flags fly.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061420
Liberated POW get dressed in clean uniforms and Red Cross workers make tags for the returnees in Tokyo.

Operation Little Switch repatriation operation late in Korean War, in which released United States former POW (Prisoners Of War) are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tokyo, Japan. The liberated former prisoners get dressed in clean uniforms. Red Cross workers make tags for the returnees. A Red Cross nurse smiles. A Greek patient reading in bed. The patient smiles.

Date: 1953, April 28
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069616
America test fires the M65 atomic cannon in the Nevada Test Site; 1953 East German uprising and Trieste Crisis in Europe

Major events of the year 1953. The first atomic artillery test fired in United States on May 25, 1953. The M65 atomic cannon moving in the Nevada Test Site (specifically Frenchman Flat). A mushroom cloud rises after the M65 Atomic Cannon, sometimes called Atomic Annie, is fired and atomic bomb explodes. The M65 atomic cannon test is done as part of the Upshot–Knothole series of nuclear tests. East German uprising of 1953 (“Volksaufstand vom 17. Juni 1953”). Riots in East Germany against the increase in work quotas and withholding of American food. East German police escort a man away during a riot. People protest in streets as police try to crush the revolt. A stack of StarLac boxes bound for East Germany with sign in front. Sign reads “First Food Relief Shipment to East Germany by M.S.A. United States Lines S.S. American Inventor”. East Germans line up to receive food relief from the United States. An East German woman receives a food aid pack from the United States. The Trieste Crisis of 1953. Sign in front of a house reads “Trsta ne damo”. Officials inspect a car in the United Nations Security Council-controlled Free Territory of Trieste. Students riot in the streets of Trieste over the issue of Adriatic area between Italy and Yugoslavia.

Date: 1953, December 24
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049147