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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
Growth of interstate highways and road systems in the United States improving commerce and jobs

Gene Edward, General Manager and President of a truck sales and service company speaks on importance of new roads for his business in Kansas City. Sign board of Interstate Connecticut highway 91 (I-91) in Hartford, Connecticut. Work in progress building an overpass of I-91 in Hartford, with buildings of downtown Hartford, including the Travelers Tower, visible in background of highway construction site. An engineer looking through binoculars, mounted on a tripod stand. A crane moving material to a bridge in construction. Worker moving and working over the bridge in construction.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023854
Some news highlights of 1958 including launch of American Explorer I satellite and of an Atlas Missile.

America's first satellite, the Explorer I. It is seen on the launch pad atop the Redstone Juno I rocket that will carry it into orbit on January 31, 1958. The rocket engine fires and the Juno I speeds upward. Next an American Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile is seen being launched 0n 18 December 1958, to steer itself into orbit as a satellite, orbiting the Earth.

Date: 1958
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047396
Earl Baldwin inaugurates a new railroad and people enjoy traveling in it around Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut.

Lake Compounce's railway in Bristol, Connecticut, United States. Views of Lake Compounce. People standing beside the lake. Governor of Connecticut Raymond Earl Baldwin drives to inaugurate the service. People enjoy traveling in the kid's train around the lake. The train moves along tracks around the lake.

Date: 1944, May 8
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058149
Arnold Daniel Palmer hits a shot on a golf course,and talks about United States Coast Guard Academy in the United States.

Arnold Daniel Palmer on a golf course in the United States. Arnold Daniel Palmer, a golf player and enlisted in U.S. Coast Guard, hits a shot in the golf club, and stands on the golf course. Arnold Palmer talks about United States Coast Guard Academy. A sign reads : 'Director of Admissions, United States Coast Guard Academy New London, Connecticut 06320'.

Date: 1965
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071407
Electronic robot 'Unimate' works in a building in Connecticut, United States.

Electronic robot 'Unimate' in Connecticut, United States. The robot has an electronic memory of 200 separate movements and functions. The robot at work.

Date: 1967, December 26
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061807