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Launch of the National Foundation's expanded 1959 Program for Victories Beyond Polio in New York.

The launch of the National Foundation's expanded 1959 Program for Victories Beyond Polio in New York. Children suffering from Polio, Arthritic disease and birth disease attend the launch of National Foundation's expanded 1959 Program. They move on crutches and wheelchair. Women accompany the children. The three children are the representatives of the March of Dimes Against Arthritis, birth defects and Polio. Women hold posters.

Date: 1958, December 4
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055670
A delegate speaks about Jewish settlement in Jerusalem during a U.S. Security Council session in Lake Success, New York.

A United Nations Security Council session held in Lake Success, New York during the Cold War. Representatives of different nations are seated. Britain's representative to the UN Alexander Cadogan and Soviet Union's representative on the United Nations Security Council Andrei Gromyko seated next to each other. A delegate speaks on the 1947 UN Partition Plan which recommended 'the creation of a special international regime in the City of Jerusalem, constituting it as a corpus separatum under the administration of the United Nations.' He speaks about Jewish settlement in Jerusalem. Representatives of different nations seated.

Date: 1948, May 25
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070161
Soviet achievements in space race in 1959; NASA Astronauts trained for space flight in United States.

President Dwight D Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev shake hands in the White House during Khrushchev's visit in America, soon after recent Soviet advances in the "space race." Closeup images of the moon, and of images of far side of the moon recorded by Soviets, and also brief Soviet Russian science fiction animated scenes depicting space ships traveling toward the moon, and another space ship vessel in orbit near the moon. In United States two monkeys are shown, named Able and Baker who were part of rocket testing before human flights took place. View of a monkey strapped into a Jupiter rocket and launch is shown of a Jupiter rocket with the monkeys for their space flight. Seven astronauts of the Project Mercury program are shown in training in a weightless, or zero gravity chamber.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049182
Group of farm boys from Texas depart College Station and visit agriculture operations in other states.

Documentary titled 'Farm Boys Abroad' depicts farm boys of Texas visiting different parts of the United States. View of the dome and the Academic Building of Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas. A group of boys gathered on the steps of the Academic Building are led in cheers by a leader. They tip and wave their hats. People stand beside a train at the railroad train station. Boys and young men from the Texas group are seen hanging out of the doors and windows of the train and waving as the train leaves the station. Boys from Texas look at cattle and horses at a farm in Kansas, inspecting the quality of the animals. Boys carry placards 'Texas farm boys'. A boy wearing a Texas arm band pats the side of a steer as he inspects it. Next scene is in Nebraska, showing a crop harvest at a farm, with a wheat harvesting machine in operation, and a horse drawn wagon from which a boy is throwing hay. Boys with cows and cattle milling about in a field in Iowa. Next scene shows a boy leading a giant boar pig outside a sty. Sign on pig sty reads, "The Rainbow, 329731,The Breed's Greatest Sire."

Date: 1920
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026607
A USAF B-58 Hustler aircraft flies from Carswell Air Force Base to Edwards Air Force Base and back in the United States.

A film titled 'B-58 Low altitude bombing capacity' about the low angle flying ability of U.S. Air Force B-58 Hustler aircraft. A B-58 Hustler aircraft takes off from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas. A flight crew in the cockpit of the aircraft. A map traces the route of the B-58 aircraft from Carswell Air Force Base to Edwards Air Force Base and back. The aircraft in flight. An airspeed meter on the control panel in the cockpit of the aircraft. The meter reads 600 knots. The aircraft in flight. Camera crew sets up camera equipment. The B-58 aircraft flies at a low altitude. The aircraft flies over a lake, a desert and mountains.

Date: 1959, September 18
Duration: 4 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066998
Victims of Hurricane Beulah in Red Cross shelters are being helped by volunteers in Texas, United States.

A documentary titled: 'It Happened in Texas', about the landfall and aftermath of Hurricane Beulah in Texas, United States. Doctors treating a wounded infant. Hurricane hits the area with high winds and high surf. Wind blown trees near Brownsville Texas. A flooded area. A ship submerged in water. Men working on an instrument. A man typing a document on a typewriter in offices of the Texas Department of Public Safety. People getting food inside a building during relief operations. People in Red Cross shelters. Wind blowing debris and roofing material along a city street in South Texas. Devastated buildings and debris in Port Isabelle area of South Padre Island. People listen to weather warnings from the weather bureau. Officers discussing among themselves. Rescue workers and other volunteers helping the victims. Damaged buildings and houses in an area. Clouds in the sky. A warning about a tornado is given to the people. Views of several tornadoes in south Texas, triggered by the hurricane. Tornado funnel clouds crossing land. The tornado hits the area. Rain and flooding in the area from 20-30 inches of rain over 4 days.

Date: 1967, September
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076802