A chicken beauty contest in Petaluma, California. A flock of white chickens running. The women spray perfume on a chicken. Women painting nail polish on a chicken’s nails. Women in bathing suits hold up a mirror in front of the hen. A group of young women in bathing suits stand in a line, each with a hen for the “Ms. Slick Chick of 1947” contest. A man examines each hen. Two women in chicken costumes stand beside the judge. Judge disqualifies a contestant as it turned out to be a rooster. Judge declares a New Hampshire Red hen the winner of the contest. Judge hands over a box to the winner.
Russia's new Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov is present in the closing of three days Egyptian Celebration. Egyptian audience clapping during the parade. Egyptians celebrate as the last British Troops are withdrawn from Suez. An impressive parade of newly acquired Red tanks, guns and other war material. Parade presided over by the newly elected President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
A Steam shovel breaks ground at River Rouge Plant of Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Men watch as the steam shovel breaks ground for a new water tunnel for the power plant. Production plant buildings in the background. Steam rises up from chimneys.
Parade in residential area. Motorcycle police seen. Flag bearer, band and marching units in parade. Girls and boys dressed as Indians. Boys in colonial costumes. Pony drawn cart led by a man. A little girl and boy riding on it. Little girls in colonial costume. Groups of children in costumes of several lands. Old and new cars.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meeting with Prime Minister Hussein Ala at Sa’adabad Palace (Tehran Province, Tehran, District 1, Taheri St, RC8F+FJ7, Iran), in northern Tehran, Iran. Large garden by Palace and Alborz mountains in background. The Shah of Iran seats himself in a chair, at a desk. The Prime Minister sits and converses with him. Shah of Iran reads several official documents and annotates one. A paper on the desk is labeled: "US News Report."
In live fire practice,during World War 1, two French soldiers walk forward and hurl hand grenades, as several others watch from behind protective barricades. The grenade throwers hit the ground as soon as they release them. Others duck down behind their barricades. New scene from atop a building in a town, an artillery shell is seen bursting and smoke rising near a building by a distant road. Two shell explosions are seen on a hillside and one releasing white smoke (possibly gas). French soldiers busy themselves at their fortified positions on high ground above a plain, while an officer slowly rotates a large finned mortar shell on its shaft, vertically. (WWI; WW1)
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