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Huge effigies and walking statues during Mardi Gras in Viareggio, Italy.

Huge effigies and walking statues during Mardi Gras in Viareggio, Italy. People roaming in fair. Various floats passing. A float depicting Egyptian culture passes.

Date: 1953, February 9
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034642
The carnival of Viareggio is held in the Tuscan city of Viareggio, Italy.

A huge crowd attends the annual carnival in seaside town of Viareggio, Italy. Floats with mechanized effigies and dancers in elaborate costumes proceed the Viale Daniele Manin. Papier-mâché effigies depicting animals such as peacocks and elephants moving their heads. Women stand on a float with mermaid effigies. Men wearing giant p Papier-mâché effigies walking on the street. A float with a giant devil effigy passes by. Costumed men dancing on a float with mechanized demon effigies. Spectators stand on both the sides of the road. The words 'carro' and 'piccolo' are seen on one of the floats.

Date: 1931, August 27
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037101
Floats of different forms featured in the procession of a carnival in Viareggio, Italy.

Carnival day in Viareggio, Italy. The town of Viareggio holds a Carnival street celebration a day before the beginning of Lent (a solemn period of penitential commemoration until Easter for Roman Catholics). A giant float with a giant papier-mâché effigy depicting an old man and a mouse moves along a road in the carnival. Men dancing on the float. Gigantic papier-mâché cartoon figures are on display in floats. A large group of people on both sides of the float move with the procession. Buildings on both sides of the road. Caricaturized African tribesmen effigies are displayed on a float. Men in stereotypical African costumes dancing on African float. Gigantic papier-mâché effigies moving mechanically on floats. Crowds gathered on the sides watch the procession. Several floats of different forms move in the procession. Men dancing while perched on floats. Papier-mâché effigy’s eyebrows moving upward mechanically.

Date: 1934, February 19
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055021
Workmen during construction of different figures to be decorated in carriages of a carnival parade in Viareggio, Italy.

Construction of figures for floats for a carnival parade in Viareggio, Italy. Workmen during the construction of different figures to be decorated in the carriages of the carnival parade in Viareggio. Views of different giant figures.

Date: 1935, February 4
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055055
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
On 8 December, 1944, U.S. soldiers test a new type rocket launcher at Viareggio, Italy, during World War II

U.S. soldiers insert charges into rockets and then load them into a multi-barrel rocket launcher mounted on a 37mm gun carriage, set up on the shore at Viareggio, Italy in World War 2. They load the 4.5 mm rockets into the firing tubes. Next the rockets are seen being fired by a soldier from a remote position. (Ordnance and Artillery Sections of the U.S. 5th Army developed this rocket launcher.)

Date: 1944, December 8
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044516
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