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Two men duck hunting shoot birds in the United States.

A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. An enactment shows two men carrying rifles. A hunter uses a duck call sound to call birds. Birds in flight. Men fire rifles to shoot the ducks. Men fire rifles from bushes. A hunter retrieves a duck in shallow water. Another hunter carries two ducks across a field.

Date: 1955
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065963
A soldier demonstrates the use of an M-1 rifle as he fires at a gasoline can in the United States.

A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Men fire rifles during a competition in the United states. Men fire at trees. An instructor briefs soldiers about M-1 rifles. He weighs a rifle and speaks about the use of sling and means of firing the rifle. A soldier demonstrates the use of the rifle. An M-1 rifle being loaded and fired from a prone position. The soldier reloads the rifle and fires at a target. Cartridges being reloaded and fired at a gasoline can. Fire arises after firing.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065967
American soldier looks through a sniper scope to detect an enemy in the United States.

A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. A soldier looks through a sniper scope that uses infrared rays to detect the enemy at night. Point of view shot as seen through sniper scope of an armed soldier walking at night.

Date: 1955
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065969
Service men and civilians compete during NRA shooting events at Camp Perry, Ohio, and at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States.

A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Camp Perry in Ohio. Military Trophies and civilian National Rifle Association (NRA) trophies for world series in marksmanship placed on a table. Service personnel and civilians at Camp Perry. Insignia on the back of the shirt of a participant. A 5th Infantry Division insignia on the back of a man. National Small Arms School instructors brief civilians and personnel in operation and firing of M-1 rifles. Participants fire rifles at a range during a competition. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Matthew B. Ridgway presents trophies to winners of the competition at a ceremony in Washington DC. Scene changes to show a group of boys, all members of the Fairlington Junior Rifle Club in Arlington County, Virginia. The boys (and one girl also seen) wear shooting jackets with various patches commemorating NRA and other events. Boys seated on the ground. The boys and girls take prone position and fire rifles at a range at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, during an outing, supported by the U.S. Army. One boy wears a confederate soldier kepi style hat. Some of the children use their own rifles, modified for lighter weight. They cross the range together to look at targets. An instructor helps a boy. A boy loads a rifle and fires it. He looks through binoculars to check the accuracy of his shot. Sergent Stuart Queen at a desk as he speaks.

Date: 1955
Duration: 5 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065970
John Eisenhower and James Hagerty visit Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon takes over charge in the United States.

U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower suffers a heart attack during his holiday in Denver, Colorado. Dwight David Eisenhower stands. Exteriors of house of Elvira Mathilda Carlson-Doud where the President suffered the heart attack. A board outside the hospital where the President was rushed to reads' U.S. Army Fitzsimons Army Hospital Parking Area Straight ahead information desk located in lobby of main building'. John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower and White House Press Secretary James Campbell Hagerty visit the president. Newsmen wait for information. Newsmen work on typewriters in news room. People enter a church to offer prayers. U.S. Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon talks to officials and calls for a meeting. A cameraman clicks pictures. Richard Nixon addresses a press conference.

Date: 1955, September 26
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067496
Doctor with nurses administer the polio vaccination and people wait in a queue outside a building in the United States.

Children and adults given polio vaccination in the United States. Women with children arrive at the vaccination center. A nurse takes the medicine into a syringe from a bottle. A doctor laughs while administering the vaccination. Nurses help the doctor to administer the vaccination. People on a railway platform. A train on a track in the background. People walk to the polio vaccination center. A mother stands with her son. A board reads 'Polio shots here'. Polio vaccination being given. People in a garden outside the vaccination building. People stand in a queue on a sidewalk. People hand cards and register themselves at a counter in the building. A mother walks to the doctor with her daughter. The girl being vaccinated.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067766