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Actor Jack Webb urges people in the United States to buy U.S. Saving Bonds.

Actor Jack Webb promotes U.S. Saving Bonds in the United State. Webb speaks about a true story that concerns arson. He speaks that a fire was started in an office building where $25,000 in savings bonds burned to ashes but the owner had a record of their serial numbers. He wrote to the Treasury Department and they sent duplicates. Webb says that the owner was saved from financial emergency and could start his business again. Webb speaks that people should buy bonds regularly.

Date: 1957, June 13
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070201
President Eisenhower addresses the nation and lights a spruce during the Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in the U.S.

The Annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in the United States. The President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie Eisenhower arrive for the ceremony. An officer greets and receives them. The Vice President of the United States Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon also arrive for the ceremony. The President addresses the nation that world peace is up to Russia. He lights a 60-foot spruce which is a symbol of world's hope for peace.

Date: 1957, December 26
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073128
U.S. Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker calls a conference for the senior commanders of all U.S. Army components in the U.S.

U.S. Army components in the United States. Aerial view of the Pentagon armed forces installation in Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington DC, and ground level views of the Pentagon from nearby roads such as the Shirley Highway (Interstate 395) and possibly the George Washington Memorial Parkway. A sign board in the Pentagon reads ' Department of Defense'. View of Secretary of the Army Wilbur M. Brucker. Two newspaper headlines about the Cold War, space race, and the space satellite programs of the Soviet Union. U.S. Army soldiers at attention during inspection in their barracks. Men of U.S. Army National Guard and Reserve Units march across a field. A formation of many L-2 observation planes flies very low over the marching troops. Close up views of faces of U.S. Army soldiers. They perform calisthenics exercise drills during their physical training and stand in formation.

Date: 1957
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073579
American models display a new collection of hats and bonnets in the United States.

American models display a new collection in the United States. Models seated at a table. They wear different hats. One is wearing a glass-hat. Other models talking. They also display various bonnets. A chiffon turban is also displayed.

Date: 1957, May 30
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077124
Students reading books on Italian heritage in the Casa Italiana Library at Columbia University, New York City

Italian studies and heritage of the Columbia University in New York City. A man reads a book while sitting under the statue, Alma Mater, in front of the Low Memorial Library of the Columbia University. People walking outside the Low Memorial Library and the grounds of the Columbia University (2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States). View of the Casa Italiana building (1151–1161 Amsterdam Ave., New York, New York) of the Columbia University. Entrances to the Casa Italiana and its library. Entrance reads “CASA ITALIANA LIBRARY DONATED BY CHARLES V. PATERNO M.D.”. Students and visitors study and read books inside the Casa Italiana Library. A teacher approaches a young woman reading a book. A bespectacled young man reading a thick book inside the library. A young man flipping through the pages of a book. A young woman reads a book about Italian historical figures such as Dante Alighieri and Giuseppe Garibaldi. A professor holding a lecture on Giuseppe Garibaldi at Columbia University. Male students listen to a lecture. Students viewing a portrait of Lorenzo Da Ponte, the first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. Students passing through the Morgan Gate of Harvard University. Widener Library (1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States) is in the background. A woman admires a vespa scooter parked outside Harvard University. Students walking on the grounds of Harvard University. Professor Charles S. Singleton, an American scholar who specializes in medieval Italian literature, speaks about Dante Alighieri in Italian. Professor Singleton talks about Italian culture in America while surrounded by many books.

Date: 1957
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675079455
A couple dines at a trattoria restaurant and plays a game of Morra

A couple dines at an Italian trattoria restaurant. A waiter, wearing folk attire, serves Fettucine Alfredo to the couple while musicians perform traditional Italian music. A young woman tosses a coin in a fountain inside the restaurant. A couple playing Morra- an Italian hand game similar to “Rock, Paper, Scissors”.

Date: 1957
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675079461