Donald Campbell sets a new speed record in England. Campbell rides his jet powered Bluebird II on Lake Coniston. He sets a speed record of 260 miles per hour. Photographer takes picture.
Dwight D Eisenhower at an intimate dinner with Senior U. S. Republican Senators. To his right is Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, and at his left is Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, his principal opponent for the Presidential nomination. Eisenhower and Taft converse.
New fire fighter demonstrated by Army Air Force. Tests conducted by Air Force fire truck that extinguishes fire by carbon dioxide. Long pipe on truck throws carbon dioxide on fire and extinguishes it. (World War II period).
Ringling Brothers Circus on road in Sarasota, Florida. Winter quarters of Ringling Brothers Circus prepares for a new show. Elephants and trick horses perform stunts. Face and back of a hippopotamus.
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.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Britain sits pensively at his desk. Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, walking together in London. King George VI stepping from a car and entering 10 Downing Street. Mobilization of British forces for war. British civilians marching casually wearing steel army helmets. A man volunteering for the Army. New recruits being issued uniforms. Others, in civilian clothes, learning to drill with rifles and then marching away from a village. Recruits in bayonet practice. Winston Churchill speaking about the tragedy brought upon Europe by Hitler (this Churchill speech was at St. James's Place, London, June 12, 1941, in an address to Allied delegates). Aerial views of the destruction of Poland by Luftwaffe aircraft of Germany. Civilian Polish victims of German bombardment. A boy and women mourning over the dead. A child being held near a bonfire to warm her. Children rescuing a few possessions from a destroyed home. Parents carrying children. Women and girls crying and in mourning for the loss of loved ones and destruction from war.
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