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Members of the U.S. Army Air Corps 1934 Alaska Flight complete their photo-mapping mission and are ready to fly home

The U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) Alaska Flight of 1934. The YB-10 aircraft of the project after completing their photo-mapping of 21 thousand square miles of Alaska. The aircraft have each been named for leading Alaskan cities and are fueled and ready to fly home. View of the YB-10 flown by Expedition Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Arnold, displaying painted name "City of Fairbanks" and flag containing stars of Big Dipper and Polaris (North Star). The symbol of the expedition is also painted on the fuselages of all the airplanes, consisting of a totem pole topped by an Eagle with two arrows, superimposed on a map of Alaska. Names: Anchorage, Fort Yukon, Tanana, and Kodiak, are seen painted on airplanes. Aviators of the USAAC Alaska Flight pose for a picture in front of a YB-10 aircraft. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Arnold, Commander of the expedition, is in the center of the first row of men. To his right, is a pipe-smoking officer in a campaign hat, holding a puppy Husky dog. Arnold pets the puppy

Date: 1934
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064922
The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

October, 1962, U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, tail number 56-6707, of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, lands at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. View of Photographic evidence, brought back by the U-2, showing Soviet missiles being set up in Cuba. President John F. kennedy broadcasts to the nation about the crisis on October 22, 1962, announcing measures being taken by the USA to address the situation. A B-58 Hustler bomber landing. Airmen removing camera from nose of a reconnaissance aircraft. Air Force Sergeant, photo interpreter, reading wet film in a base laboratory. U.S. Naval officers and sailors in Command Center viewing large wall map of the world. U.S. Air Force SAC B-52 bombers taking off. View of United Nations Headquarters building in New York City. On October 25, 1962, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, confronts Soviet Ambassador Valerian Alexandrovich Zorin about missiles in Cuba.He looks at Zorin, and says,"Don't wait for the translation, yes, or no." Zorin smiles as the room fills with laughter. He then responds. View of a Soviet ship bound for Cuba being monitored by a U.S. aircraft overhead. Pilot in cockpit of the aircraft. View from U.S. aircraft flying low past a Soviet ship. Crew in cockpit of the aircraft. Soviet ships turning away. Helicopter flying over sandy beach area of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The helicopter parked and Undersecretary of State, Averell Harriman, steps from the helicopter and is later seen with President Kennedy, and Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, at the President's Weekend White House. Harriman reports on the successful negotiation of a limited nuclear test ban treaty. Glimpse of Moscow. U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, Soviet Foreign Minister,Andrei Gromyko, and British Foreign secretary, Alexander Douglas-Home, are seen signing the document for their respective nations, August 5, 1963.

Date: 1962, October
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037573
Planning, construction, and usage of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

Montage opening shows various USA scenes. Aerial view of Manhattan before construction of the World Trade Center. Diagram showing future site of World Trade Center. Views of the Radio Row district that existed before World Trade Center construction. Model of future twin towers. Derelict abandoned buildings in World Trade Center construction zone. Sign on building reads, "Tubes Guaranteed." Zoom out of World Trade Center model. Sidewalk in front of Radio Row. Pan upward of World Trade Center model. Worker swings hammer to smash brick wall. Worker jack hammering building facade. Pedestrians on sidewalk in front of Leonard Radio at 65 Cortlandt St. Neon sign reads "daily auction." Bulldozer pushes building debris. Wide shot cleared World Trade Center construction site with highway in background. Steam shovel dumping load. Large pumps in line operate in unison. Men weld rebar. Large upright rebar mesh. Zoom in on machinery operator smoking a cigar. Ironwork being moved into position on north tower foundation of World Trade Center. Wrecking ball falls and hit ground. Zoom in on construction workers assembling decking. Concrete coming out of a concrete mixer. Aerial view of World Trade Center construction site. Steam shovel moving. Zoom in on crane. Aerial view of dump truck driving through World Trade Center construction site. Exterior upright ironwork. Zoom in on subterranean construction of north tower. Silhouette of workers from inside north tower. Wide shot first few stories of north tower under construction. Zoom in on external ironwork north tower of World Trade Center moving into place. Welder at work. Forklift operator delivering structural component through window and rotating into place. Pan from inside north tower emphasizes open design with no internal columns, as noted by narrator. Two workers guide external ironwork into place for north tower World Trade Center. Worker stands on top of ironwork in mid air. Pan of north tower under construction from ground to sky. External structural member rotated into place north tower. Brief aerial view of construction from moving plane. POV from north tower World Trade Center in late 1970 of the last piece of ironwork being lifted into place. Aerial view of completed north tower. Aerial view nearly completed north tower next to south tower under construction. USA flag raised alongside completed north tower World Trade Center during topping out ceremony December 23, 1970. Construction workers cheering during topping out ceremony. USA flag displayed at top of radio tower on the north tower. Women going through rotating door of World Trade Center. Pedestrians in World Trade Center hallway. Hundreds of pedestrians emerging from escalators into the World Trade Center circa 1973. Woman secretaries and administrative workers at desks in the World Trade Center. Elevator lobby of World Trade Center. Zoom out from sign that reads "The World Trade Institute at the World Trade Center in the Port of New York" to workers gathered at round conference table. Zoom out to view of completed World Trade Center twin towers as seen from ground.

Date: 1973
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078882
News stories of 1958 including polar cruise of USS Nautilus and statehood of Alaska

Aerial view of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, underway on the surface and then submerging. View of helmsman below in the Nautilus. Aerial view of frozen arctic ocean with deep crevasses, as narrator mentions the Nautilus traveling submerged, beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958. The boat's Captain, Commander William R. Anderson, is seen in uniform. More views of the Nautilus moving on the surface, including one with crew members standing on deck. Next, a newspaper headline is shown, announcing Alaska's statehood. Small boy and girl sitting in the grass holding a flag displaying map of Alaska and reading: "Alaska 49th State." Automobile traffic driving into Anchorage, Alaska. Banner stretched across the road reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Pedestrians jam the sidewalks as the city celebrates its new statehood. A float displaying a huge moose has sign on its side reading: "49th. Hey Texas. Now I'm the biggest Bull..." Young Alaskans ride in a convertible automobile. A huge 48-star American flag covers the front of a building. It has a large extra star appended to it. Closeup of the flag.

Date: 1958
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047397
Barrel jumping on ice at Grossinger's Resort in the Catskill's of New York State. Champion athletes are honorary judges

Seen in the stands, as honorary judges, are: Brooklyn Dodgers baseball star, Jackie Robinson (the first African American player in Major League Baseball); Florence Chadwick (first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions); and and Barney Ross (World Champion professional boxer). Competing skater-jumpers are seen clearing lines of barrels in early phase of the contest. Andre Marceau from Quebec, fails to clear 11 barrels. Another competitor fails at 12 barrels. Others fail, including Bob Bergen of Detroit, Michigan, who can't clear 14 barrels. The winner is Terry Brown, the visiting fireman who also won last year. His winning jump distance was 28 feet, 3 inches. Closeup of Terry Brown rubbing his bruised elbows..

Date: 1952, January 14
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034662
11th annual Barrel-Jumping competition, on ice, at Grossinger's Resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York State

Seventeen of the world's best ice skating barrel jumpers compete in the 11th annual competition at Grossinger's Catskill Resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York near the village of Liberty. Skaters are seen circling the ice rink to gain speed, and jumping over lines of barrels. Scenes of jumpers failing to clear all the barrels in their attempts. Only 3 contenders manage to clear 15 barrels. Only one, Jim Waldo, of Portland, Oregon, is seen successfully clearing 16 barrels to win the event. He receives his trophy from New York Yankees Baseball team's star catcher, Yogi Berra.

Date: 1961, January 9
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055703