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Film 'Milestone in Missilry' shows historic sequence of defensive missiles in operation in the U.S.A.

Film 'Milestone in Missilry' shows outdoor static display of many missiles near museum at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. A V-2 rocket on launch pad and then firing and launching. Nike Ajax antiaircraft missile is launched and destroys a QB-17 drone target aircraft. Technicians look through telescopic machine. Camera records the missile flight. Several more missile launches and strikes are recorded, including a couple targeting T-33 jet fighter drones. Nike Hercules missile strikes T-33 drone. All of the tests were monitored, tracked and filmed by elaborate machine.

Date: 1960
Duration: 9 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043564
Adolfo Lopez Mateos inaugurates the Alliance of Progress exhibition in Mexico.

Alliance of Progress initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. The exhibition of the program is inaugurated in Mexico City. Aerial view of the historical monuments in Mexico city. Aerial view of the Opera House, Torre Latinoamericana, Angel of Independence and other landmarks in the City. Traffic on streets. People crowd outside the exhibition hall. A poster of U.S. President John F. Kennedy at the entrance. President of Mexico Adolfo Lopez Mateos inaugurates the exhibition. Other dignitaries stand in the background. People stand in front of the Kennedy's poster. 'USA' hanged in between two poles. The dignitaries standing in front of the poster. A flag of Mexico flutters in the breeze. People inside the exhibition hall. A sign reads 'Alliance for Progress'. The poster of the President of Mexico Adolfo Lopez Mateos, U.S. President and other people the visitors look at the posters that are exhibited. The visitors looking at the posters. A model of an aircraft. Two women explaining to the visitors. A sign reads 'Visit United States'. People look at the U.S. from a screen. Two women distribute pamphlets. They promote tourism. A dignitary inaugurates the tourism department. People crowd outside the U.S. tourism department. A dignitary looks into a paper and speaks. A wall map in the background. The dignitary speaking and people listen to him. Posters on a revolving structure depicting the places that can be visited in the United Sates. Mexico President with other dignitaries look at the exhibition. The visitors visitors in the hall look at several things displayed.

Date: 1963
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675069808
Plants of Reed near Lerma River, Mexico City in Mexico.

Mexican Indians use reed and palm to make objects of everyday use in Mexico. Reed plants along Lerma River in Mexico. Map shows Mexico and Rio Grane. Mexico City in map. Location of Lerma River near Mexico City. Reed plants growth near by river. Men stand in water and cut plants. Man pushes bundle of Reed over water.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026500
Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile with his wife visits communist leaders in Mexico City, Mexico.

Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile visits Mexico City, Mexico. Leon Trotsky and his wife (Natalia Ivanovna Sedova) with several persons, including Diego Rivera, in a garden in Mexico City. A Lockheed Electra passenger aircraft taxis after landing and parks on a ramp in Mexico. The aircraft carries identification: "XA-BA," indicating it is registered in Mexico. it is being met by several persons including a military officer in uniform. Scene changes to Trotsky and his wife, being helped from the rear platform of a railroad passenger train. They are surrounded by greeters including several uniformed police officers. Next, Trotsky is seen in back seat of a car accompanied by a police officer. In next scene Trotsky and his wife pose with Diego Rivera and another man, in the garden seen at start of the film (possibly home of Diego Rivera, with whom Trotsky lived for a few months while in exile). Military officers are seen on patio in background. Closeup of Trotsky and then broader view of him standing under a tree speaking to several persons.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056640
Movie depicts Idyllic life in American New England village, circa 1800

From movie "La Ciudad" (The City). Credited to Pare Lorentz. Opening credits text in Spanish. A reenactment of 18th Century life in American New England village. Reflections in water. Water gushing over an old water wheel at a mill. A sign over a structure reads 'Sias Farm 1791'. Old covered bridge spans river and waterfalls. Boys skinny dip swim naked in lake. Farmer drives a horse- drawn wagon on a path. Boy lying down in the wagon with head resting on a gunny sack next to a barrel of apples. Boy looks up at clouds overhead, daydreaming. Engraved granite milestone points to "Shirley" 3 miles and to "Shirley Village" 4 miles, the opposite way. Boy jumps off wagon as it enters village. Wagon stops at blacksmith shop, where farmer and blacksmith unload a damaged wheel as two boys and an old man watch.Blacksmith and farmer use hand-operated rollers to true-up broken iron strap from wheel. Old woman doing needle work. Young woman working on a loom. Man weaving a basket. Water wheel turning in water. View, inside mill, shows millstone, turning,as miller grinds corn. Farmers harvesting grain with scythes. White Wooden church with steeple.Graveyard with old gravestones.One reads: "Mary Day,died March 18, 1829,Aged 43." Blacksmith, at forge, repairing broken iron strap for wheel.

Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675031536
Men work at the construction site of the Macagua dam in Venezuela.

The Macagua Dam, (also known as the Antonio José de Sucre) during construction onthe Caroní River in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar State, Venezuela. A waterfall in the region. The hydroelectric dam under construction in Venezuela. River flowing through jungle region. Infrastructure at the dam site. Large earth moving trucks carrying loads of dirt away during excavation. A man stands at the construction site. Men at work building the dam. A man welds a part of a machine.

Date: 1958, June
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046607