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Staff of NATO at work in Paris France in 1961

Representatives of the 15 nations comprising NATO are seen in a lobby setting. One woman makes an inquiry at a Security desk. Another distributes a publication into boxes, where each receives it in a different translation. Glimpse of a representatives seated on a couch being interviewed and televised. Scene inside a photo lab where new prints are hung to dry. A man reviewing film footage of the NATO Secretary General Dirk Stikker. Next, he is seen at his desk, reviewing documents. (Narrator notes his dual roles as Head of the International staff and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council.) He hands a document to a woman and leaves his office. Change of scene shows two farmers with machinery in a wheat field having their lunch with a young boy. A formation of six British de Havilland Sea Vixen twin boom jet fighter planes passes overhead.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034029
U.S. President Kennedy review Troops at Fliegerhorst Kaserne Post, Germany.

Scenes at Fliegerhorst Kaserne Post (Towergebäude, Zum Fliegerhorst, 63526 Erlensee, Germany) in Hanau, Germany showing USA, French, West German and British Air Force troops lined up on parade field. President's USA VH-3A coming in for landing. President Kennedy, General Landon and General Freeman, Commander U.S. Army in Europe walking to platform. U.S. President Kennedy takes 21 cannon salute. U.S. band in Europe playing national Anthems of four countries and military personnel saluting. President trooping line. Shows President with General Freeman and General Landon driving past camera and arriving at stand and President Kennedy reviewing troops. Scenes of president and party in open cars inspecting troops and equipment at USA Fliegerhorst Kaserne Post in Hanau. President Kennedy going to review stand, giving short address, and leaving by car with general Landon and others. Pan right across city of Wiesbaden shows St. Elizabeth's Church.

Date: 1963, June 26
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034045
Arms race between United States and the Soviet Union; Arms Control and Test ban Treaty.

Teletype machines in Washington DC and in Moscow, used for rapid communication between the two countries during Cold War. Scene of buildings with golden dome in Moscow, Soviet Union. U.S. Navy officers view a document on a teletype hotline machine. Scene of fountain and White House behind it in Washington Dc. United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko as they sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toasts with others include British statesman Edward Heath.

Date: 1963
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034069
U.S. President John F Kennedy at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany.

Scenes of persons moving a board on East Berlin side at Brandenburg Gate (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany). Scenes of press and official cars. President Kennedy arrives escorted by motorcycle police. President, British Army Commandant Major General David Peel-Yates, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Mayor Willy Brandt and USA Aide Brigadier General Clifton climbing steps to platform and overlooks East Berlin. Scenes of press, TV cameramen and spectators. President Kennedy's party and buses leaving. Spectators travel along the route.

Date: 1963, June 26
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034085
Testing of bomb proof Consol Shelter air raid shelters in Birmingham, England.

View of several dome shaped kiosks named Consol Shelter, or Personal ARP Protection shelters in Birmingham, England, early in World War 2. Smaller than an Anderson Shelter, holding just one person, they are designed to provide portable protection for "Key Personnel". During a demonstration of the shelters, a British woman enters inside. Man closing door of shelter. A floor of construction debris is seen crashing down upon the shelter, and then the woman emerges from the Console Shelter unharmed. Group of men officials watching the demonstration. People viewing the Console Shelter.

Date: 1939, February
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034112
Dominican leader Ramfis Trujillo after his father's death; Also scenes in South Africa as it is proclaimed a Republic.

Ramfis Trujillo, son of the assassinated Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, seated, and surrounded by dignitaries and the Press in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Among those with him is playboy, Porfirio Rubirosa, whom he assigns as an envoy to seek support from the United States. Reporters take notes and photographers click his pictures. Cathedral in San Cristobal, the scene of Trujillo's funeral. People cry as car with Rafael Trujillo's body passes by on street. Change of scene as next newsreel shows sweeping wide view of buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, and then scenes of a parade in Pretoria during holiday declared to mark its withdrawal from the British Commonwealth of Nations and establishment as an independent Republic. The parade includes Soldiers on horses. The new Coat of Arms of the South African Republic is shown. Former Governor General, now shifting to his role as the first President of South Africa, Charles Swart, addresses the public. Narrator indicates that Swart's comment include support for continued apartheid racial segregation in South Africa.

Date: 1961, May 31
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034148