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Stanford Shopping Center - A new, contemporary shopping center in the Palo Alto, California, in the 1950s.
Cars fill the large, open surface parking lot at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, a new suburban shopping mall. People in front of the I. Magnin store at the shopping mall. Family in a convertible car arrives and stops in front of the mall. A man with two children looks at department store window where a mannequin displays clothes. Women in front of a suburban shopping center. Shoes and purses displayed in a shop window. Shop signs for smaller stores in an outdoor pedestrian mall layout. A woman sits on a bench at the mall. Another woman walks up to her. People walk in front of stores at the postwar, modern suburban shopping mall. Store signs seen in the clip include I. Magnin, Blum's, Haffner's Clothes, The Emporium, Donnelley’s Hardware Store, Fowler's Barber Shop, Irving Lundborg Company, Joseph Magnin (JM).
1950s homes, garages, suburban neighborhood, in northern California
Contemporary suburban homes in northern California in the United States. (possibly Palo Alto region as prior clip and subsequent clip on same film reel include Palo Alto shots.) A lemon tree in the front yard of a house. A woman comes out of the house. A man outside his house. A women walks with an umbrella. Various typical modern postwar homes and garden in front of the houses. A car driven out of a garage from underneath a modern suburban home. A man gets into his car in front of the garage of his house. Girls ride bicycles along suburban streets.
New Hewlett Packard offices and production floor at Stanford Industrial Park (later Stanford Research Park); other modern offices including General Electric
Modern new office building architecture in the United States in the late 1950s. Building of the Hewlett Packard Corporation at Stanford Industrial Park (later renamed Stanford Research Park) in Palo Alto, California, at the time of the birth of Silicon Valley. 1950s cars of Hewlett Packard (HP) workers in the parking lot. Exterior views of Hewlett Packard company buildings. A truck driven past the plant. A tile wall at the facility. Inside a building: View of a Hewlett Packard oscilloscope. Number "75452" seen in upper left of unit. Behind the unit is seen a production plant floor with women and men technicians building HP electronic equipment. Wider view of the production and assembly floor. A woman worker poses with a circuit board in her hands. Camera pans up to show her. Large painted abstract colors and artwork on walls of the production plant. The woman who had held the circuit board turns away and is seen operating a piece of equipment. Another view of the plant or factory floor with workers. Exterior view of a forklift loading boxes, with HP logo visible on them, into back of a waiting truck. Scene changes to exterior views of what appears to be a part of the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan: A surface parking lot filled with employee 1950s cars, a sloped berm up to office buildings, including a brick laboratory building with vertical fins, pedestrian approaches, and landscaped plazas. Additional shots show other modern corporate or institutional research buildings of similar mid-century American architectural style; exact locations unidentified. One of these mid 1950s U.S. buildings shows a General Electric (GE) logo.
German rocket physicist Wernher Von Braun lectures at press conference about space launch vehicles
German rocket physicist Wernher Von Braun gives recorded and broadcast lecture about Space Launch vehicles. He sits at a table containing models, including one of the Juno II space launch vehicle. Speaking in German, he addresses an audience, discussing capabilities of the Juno 2 vehicle and requirements for achieving escape velocity and other facets of space flight. He refers to the Explorer I satellite in his remarks. After Dr. Braun completes his comments, he stands and leaves, revealing a chart illustrating the ideas of his talk. Also seen is a blackboard listing velocities that have already been achieved by rockets and noting the escape velocity needed to achieve earth orbit. These blackboard notes are all written in English. German scientist, Albert Zeiler, is seen momentarily at a seat in front of the blackboard.
Old U.S. Military Payment Certificates (Scrip money) is disposed of in Germany
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany (Gerszewski Barracks, Knielingen) for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). Several shots of officers keeping money boxes on a trolley. The boxes with money are loaded in a truck. The officers keep a watch. Trucks carrying money drive on a road. The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The boxes are piled up. The money is burnt. Officers pick up MPCs and put them into the fire. The whole committee witnesses the burning of the scrip money. The officers collect money and put it into the fire.
The boxes of MPC are unloaded from a truck at the I.G. Farben Building and are burnt in Germany.
A committee of Army and Air Forces officers in Europe meet in Karlsruhe, Germany for the purpose of counting and disposing all old and worn out Military Payment Certificates (MPC). The money is convoyed under guard to the I.G. Farben Building where it is burnt. The money burning. An officer light a cigarette from burning bills. The officer uses a stick to put the money in fire. The money burning. The convoy met by MP car speeding on the icy autobahn. A U.S. truck carrying money backs up towards the building. A man directs the truck. The officer unload boxes. They open a box. Money inside the box. The officers look at the box. An officer pushes the money in fire. The officers one after the other sign on a document