Clip regarding excavation of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) combat operation center (COC) at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, United States. View of the NORAD Combat Operations Center (COC) at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Spring, Colorado. Trees in the foreground. View of an atomic bomb or nuclear blast. Mushroom cloud rising after blast. Next scene show ground breaking ceremony for the new NORAD COC. Spectators seated. View of mountain. Flags flutter in wind from flagpole. Artwork depicts passageways and three level building in hardsite. General Laurence S Kuter,NORAD Commander in Chief and Lieutenant General Robert M Lee,ADC Commander presses a button and activates charge on side of the mountain to begin excavation.
School children, people and traffic going about normal daily business in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Scene in front of General William J Palmer High School, at the intersection of Nevada Avenue and East Platte Avenue. Students crossing a street after school. A boy and girl teenage high school students walking together holding books. Each is dressed in typical clothing including boy wearing a cardigan letter sweater, and girl wearing skirt and an open sweater hanging from her shoulders. Both students are holding books as they walk and talk. Next scene is tree tops and two flag poles, with American flag on one pole and a different flag on the other pole that includes a union jack in the corner. Final scene shows elementary school age children at a street crossing. A fellow student, wearing a yellow hard hat, serves as school safety patrol crossing guard, and motions to hold the students on the sidewalk, and then helps the students cross the street after checking for traffic.
Scenic views in the early 1900s of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. Tourists go up and down a flight of stairs on the side of the South Cheyenne canyon wall near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Seven Springs waterfall of the South Cheyenne Creek is seen, with tourists and a burro at the bottom of the canyon. (Now known as the Broadmoor Seven Falls.) View of the deep gorge cut by Seven Falls. A 1000 feet high granite gorge. A man walks over a deeply eroded rock formation over snow and ice (has appearance of glacier) west of the foothills as the mountains become steeper. Steel beams over a railroad track in a canyon beside a river at the mouth of a mountain tunnel.
World Figure Skating Championship in Colorado. The greatest performers in the figure skating world compete for Champions at Colorado Springs. Petra Burka of Canada gives her outstanding performance and awarded with first position. Spectators clap. 16 Year old Ethan Allen of New Jersey takes second place in the men's event. Alain Calmat of France, second in the 1964 Olympics gives flawless performance to wind up King of the Ice.
Several cars at the bottom of steep hills at Colorado Springs. The drivers in the cars go almost straight up in an attempt to climb the steep hill. A car skids backward on the steep slope. A horse at the top of the hill. The cars of different make and vintage.
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses the graduating class of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cadets and officials in uniform listen to him. He speaks of the role of the U.S. military in the world and the role of American leadership and strength. He honors the war dead of the current generation. He finishes his speech and walks off the podium.
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