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Engineers and scientists in Station 2- Bermuda of the Mercury-Atlas 6 Network anticipate launch of “Friendship 7” in Cape Canaveral, Florida

View of Bermuda coast at sunrise, location of Station 2 of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. A scientist checks telemetry data coming from a teleprinter. View of stamping of document using automatic stamper, the scientist hands the printed data to a woman assistant. The woman assistant hands the document over to the tracking and telemetry control. Telemetry communicators speaks through microphone in headphones. Telemetry scientists and engineers work on computers in Station 2 of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network. Telemetry scientist, wearing headphones, jots down notes. Telemetry engineer, wearing headphones with a built-in microphone, speaks, saying, “Displays and recorders have been calibrated.” The telemetry communicator inside the control acknowledges with a “Roger, thank you; flight, this is MNO” A telemetry communicator with a British accent radios his colleague.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079052
Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Edwin Thompson, meets Mayor Jimmy Walker in New York City Hall during official visit

Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Ald. Edwin Thompson, talks with New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker while walking out of the New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) during the Lord Mayor’s visit to improve trade relations between Britain and the United States. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, the British commercial delegation, Mayor Walker, and other officials pose together for a group photograph outside the New York City Hall.

Date: 1931, May 2
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078525
Dramatization: David Livingstone falls from canoe, warns men of hippopotamus and Nile crocodile, admonishes hostile tribesmen

Dramatization: Dr. David Livingstone’s party paddles the Zambesi River in Mozambique. A hippopotamus swims nearby. David Livingstone’s canoe flips over, Livingstone falls, with Livingstone’s African attendants swim to an islet of reeds. David Livingstone emerges from river, calls his two attendants. A Nile crocodile opens its mouth. David Livingstone commands his attendants to swim back to land. African attendants swim back to Livingstone, evading the hippopotamus and the Nile crocodile. David Livingstone commands his African attendants sit with him near the river. David Livingstone’s party trek through tall jungle grass in Mozambique, on the way to the Indian Ocean. A hostile tribe confronts the party. Livingstone’s attendants run away. Hostile tribe archers attempt to shoot arrows at Livingstone. Tribesmen confront face-to-face with David Livingstone, who convinces them that he is not an Arab or Portuguese slave trader, but he is a “white man”, a term applied only to the British in Africa at that period. David Livingstone commands the Africans to sit down. David Livingstone admonishes the African tribesmen.

Date: 1925
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078563
Dramatization. David Livingstone reports to Queen Victoria, slave market business conducted by Arab traders in Zanzibar

Period dramatization. David Livingstone reports to British Queen Victoria in Windsor Castle. David Livingstone recounts slave trade run by Arab traders in Zanzibar. Arab traders conduct business in slave market in Zanzibar. Enslaved African natives sit nearby slave traders. An elderly Arab customer inspects an African slave’s physical attributes and health. Elderly Arab customer walks away dissatisfied. Two Arab slave traders argue. A wealthy Arab man inspects African slave’s physical attributes. Arab man checks African slave’s teeth, chest and arms. Arab man agrees to purchase the African slave. Enslaved African women, wearing hijab, sit nearby. David Livingstone speaks to slave traders. Queen Victoria asks David Livingstone a question.

Date: 1925
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078567
Queen Mary of England visits nurses, reviews an ambulance corps during WW1

King George V of the United Kingdom reviews children in uniform in France during World War 1. Queen Mary of Teck, the Queen consort of the United Kingdom, reviews women associated with an ambulance corps and reviews British nurses stationed in France with daughter, Princess Mary.

Date: 1916
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078703
Allied aircraft drop bombs, ships land in Normandy during D-Day in WW2

Allied ships and aircraft prepare land in Normandy during D-Day in World War 2. Formation of Allied gliders are towed towards the coast of Normandy. Douglas C-47 pulling a glider. Allied warships sailing in rough, choppy waters off the coast of Normandy. A Consolidated B-24 Liberator drops six bombs. Various United States Army aircraft fly with distinctive “D-Day markings” (three white stripes and two black on the wings and fuselages). Bombs explosion. A formation of Martin B-26 Marauders. A ship fires rockets while being covered by smoke. B-17 Flying Fortress in flight. British infantrymen, wearing Pith helmets, on an LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sailing towards Normandy. An LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) ship sailing. Allied aircraft flying over the English Channel.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078791