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How the automobile and new highways and roads changed life in America, up to 1953

Closeup of early 1900s Ford Model T wheels turning while car is moving. Scene opens to newly built modern highways of 1953 with lots of mixed traffic. Views from roadways of industrial plants, sheep grazing, and farmer plowing his land with a tractor. Close up views of 1950s car tires running on highway at high speed. A woman carrying groceries from her station wagon to her house. People outdoors in front of garden apartments. Children leaving school and boarding buses. View from car of an oil field worker driving to work. Modern apartment buildings.Scenic views from car driving along near lakes, hills, and ocean. Modern car passing a Model T on the road.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068823
American explorer, Ruth Harkness, brings a new baby panda to the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago,Illinois

Woman explorer, Ruth McCombs Harkness, (widow of explorer, William Harkness) brought the first live panda (named Su-Lin) into the United States, when she returned from an expedition, on December 18, 1936. Here she is seen in the Brookfield Zoo, in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois, where she is playing with a second baby panda (named Mei Mei) that she acquired in 1937. A large group of boys and girls, enjoy the antics as she plays with the baby panda. At one point, Mrs. Harkness lifts Mei Mei up close to the children. Next, she holds Mei Mei close to Su-Lin, as zookeeper Sam Parratt holds the larger panda. The two pandas nuzzle one another.

Location: Brookfield Illinois USA
Date: 1938, February 22
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069221
Men demonstrate the working of new tractors and bulldozers at Alliance of Progress exhibition in Mexico.

Alliance of Progress initiated by United States President John F. Kennedy to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. The exhibition of the program is inaugurated in Mexico City. Different pictures on a screen. The lights flashing. A woman inside the exhibition hall. Several machines are being exhibited. Visitors crowd to look at the machines on display. A machine functions. The people look at the functioning. Another machine on display. A man presses the buttons of the machine. The machine starts. A man speaks into a microphone. The people look at the machine. A man drives a small tractor. Another man standing in the background speaks into a microphone. Different cranes, tractors, and bulldozers are on display. A Michigan bulldozer. A man seated on a bulldozer shows the working. The visitors stand in the background. A demonstration of a mechanized conveyor belt in the exhibition. Machinery in operation. The visitors look at the machinery. A woman speaks into a microphone.

Location: Mexico
Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069812
The U.S. Army introduces new surface-to-air Hawk missile in the United States.

The U.S. Army introduces its newest air defense missile Hawk. Hawk missiles are launched from a launching carrier. Aircraft overhead being attacked by a missile. Hawk missiles launched from a carrier. The aircraft explodes after facing an attack and it comes down in flames.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1957, June 13
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070196
News reel entitled "Korea, Paratroops Active on Battle Front."

U.S. paratroopers active on a battle front in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Army paratroopers are seen lined up as they board a U.S.Air Force C-124 Cargo aircraft on an airfield. A C-119 airplane is parked in the background. Closer view of the C-124 with its large clam shell doors open. The troopers board on ramps lowered from the aircraft. Closeup of one trooper climbing a ladder to an aircraft. C-119 aircraft taking off and then in formation. View of pilot in cockpit of a C-119 in flight. Paratroopers jumping from C-46 aircraft. Their chutes deploying. Closeup of paratroopers exiting rear door of C-46 and delaying their chute openings. View from inside a C-46 as troopers jump and their chutes open when well clear of the aircraft. View from below of troopers dropping from C-46s with chutes deployed. More view from inside aircraft as troopers jump. A formation of C-119 (Flying Boxcars) dropping heavy equipment on skids with parachutes attached. View from ground of sky filled with parachutes. Closer views of some troopers as they approach the ground and land. Troops standing by as their equipment is dropped to them by parachutes. Equipment drops reaching the ground. Troops moving out from the landing area.

Location: Korea
Date: 1952, November 26
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070966
German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler addresses Reichstag proclaiming new laws for the protection of German blood and honor

Adolf Hitler speaking passionately at an outdoor Nazi Rally. Massed flags fill the background. Next Hitler speaks at an indoor auditorium. He concludes with a Nazi salute. View of Swastika flag flying furiously in a brisk breeze. It continues to be seen as background to several slates announcing passage in the Reichstag of laws for the protection of purity of Aryan German blood and German honor, including prohibition on Jews marrying outside their race, division of Germans into 'Citizens' and 'Members' with Jews as members only, and prohibition on Jews flying the German flag.

Location: Germany
Date: 1935, September
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071547
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