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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Alaska Statehood Act in the White House allowing Alaska to become the 49th U.S. state.

Exteriors of the White House in Washington DC. Interior of the White House shows U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signing Alaska Statehood Act on July 7, 1958, granting Alaska status as the 49th state as of January 3, 1959. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and other officials surround President Eisenhower. Workers work with the U.S. flag showing 49th star added to new staggered star design.

Location: Washington DC White House USA
Date: 1959, January 3
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047730
U.S. rocket experimenters launch the world's first liquid fueled rocket in the United States.

Launching of first liquid fuel rocket on a Staten Island New York beach in 1933. U.S. rocket experimenters including George Edward Pendray launch the first liquid fuel missile. They prepare for launching of the rocket and fill fuel of rocket which is powered with gasoline and liquid oxygen. Missile being launched and its fuel tank explodes due to over heating. Rocket crashes down on beach. Experimenters stand with pieces of the broken rocket. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Location: Staten Island New York USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071118
Mickey Wright wins United States Women's Open Golf Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club, New Jersey.

United States Women's Open Golf Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club, New Jersey. Golf players hit ball with golf club on a golf course. Spectators watch the game. Mickey Wright, American professional golfer and winner of Women's Open 1958 and 1959 hits the ball. Mickey Wright wins the United States Women's Open Golf Championship and is greeted by another golf player. Mickey Wright smiles.

Location: New Jersey United States USA
Date: 1961, July 6
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071618
The agricultural reforms and people's communes under Mao Zedong's 'Great Leap Forward' plan in China.

Agricultural conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong photographed by an Indian delegation visiting the country. Mao Zedong implements the economic and social plan titled 'Great Leap Forward' with Soviet help in 1958. The agricultural aspects of the plan (during which the great famine in China took place). The Chinese countryside. Farmers use tractors, machines, and other equipment for farming. Farmers plow fields, thresh crop and make haystacks using pitchforks. Men and women dig farmland. Millions of Chinese peasant people are organized to work the land, clear land, build dams and dig canals. Peasants working in Communist government-organized People's Communes for farming. Farmers work, cultivate and harvest crops using human labor to make up for lack of machinery. Chinese peasants seen farming barren land also affected by floods and locust. People engaged in construction work. People's Republic of China Chairman Mao Zedong visits the communes. The commune system is abandoned in 1961 in favor of collective agriculture. Small units of 20 farm families cultivate land as directed by local farmers. Farmers cultivate land, harvest crops. Men and women pick cotton. Young Chinese boys and girls attend university in China. Young boys on bicycles. University students in a classroom. The university campus. Children on the playground in a school. They perform the 'Turnip Dance' on stage as other children and teachers watch.

Location: China
Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021676
Reforms and their consequences under Mao Zedong's 'Great Leap Forward' plan in China.

Living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong photographed by Indians visiting the country. Mao Zedong implements the economic and social plan titled 'Great Leap Forward' with Soviet help in 1958. People on the streets of China. Chinese women and children. Elderly Chinese revolutionaries pose. Cars and buses on the streets. Industries, factories, and plants. Young men and women participate in a festive parade. Men holding flags. The excessive population of China. Military leaders review a parade. An officer salutes. Tanks and artillery in the parade. Smoke from to an explosion during a war.

Location: China
Date: 1962
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021677
An experimental early helicopter sets a then-record altitude of 30 feet, Brussels Belgium.

An experimental helicopter with two sets of rotating blades sets record of a height of 30 feet. The helicopter with two sets of propellers takes off in front of a hangar and is airborne at a height 30 feet from ground. From a November 27, 1958 newsreel feature "25 years ago today".

Location: Brussels Belgium
Date: 1933, November
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022492
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