Refine Your Search

Cuba 1959 stock footage and images

- Showing 775 to 780 of 821 results
Officers watch the preparations of the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, U.S.

Preparations for the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. Strategic Air Command (SAC) Commander in Chief General Thomas S. Power, Commander of the 1st Missile Division Vandenberg AFB Lieutenant General David Wade and Commander of the 15th Air Force Lieutenant General Archie J. Old Jr, and the staff watches the launch. SAC insignia and emblem on Atlas missile in the service structure. The missile on a launching pad. Mark II nose cone on the missile. Base of the missile and the service structure. Number 630 is visible on the missile. Airmen check parts and sections of the missile on the launch pad prior to the launch. Major Ernest E. Bankey Jr. is the officer in charge of the launching pad and procedures. The airmen check equipment and the missile at the launching platform.

Date: 1959, September 9
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070420
The launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States.

Preparations for the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. A service structure is backed away from the missile. The Mark II nose cone on the top of the missile. United States Air Force personnel operate control panels in the launch control room. The countdown clock and TV monitors in the background. The missile on the launching platform. LOX vapors stream from the missile. USAF personnels at the launch control panels and watch TV monitors. A countdown clock. Personnel at the control panels of the consoles. Atlas on launch pad. LOX vapors around the missile.

Date: 1959, September 9
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070421
People gather and Mamie Eisenhower christens the NS Savannah during its launching in the U.S.

Launching of the NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship in the United States. View of her bow, with banner reading: "New York Shipbuilding Corporation, NS Savannah." Spectators seated while a brass band plays. Shipyard crews knock supports out from beneath the Savannah's hull. U.S. First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower, swings bottle of champagne to christen the NS Savannah, and the ship slides down the ways, sternfirst. View of the Savannah in the river.

Date: 1959, July 21
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070688
A unit of engineers and officers assembles, places and checks the nuclear reactor and its parts on the NS Savannah in the U.S.

The nuclear reactor of the Nuclear Ship ( NS ) Savannah and its parts are assembled in the United States. The reactor component is lowered. A unit of engineers place the reactor. An engineer inspects the fitting of the parts. The engineers use specially designed handling tools to assemble and disassemble the reactor. They place the fuel container. A unit member lowers equipment with an electric chain. A component is lowered and placed. An engineer of the Savannah and a Coast Guard officer check the Savannah unit to convert the reactor power to ship power. A unit member takes readings for natural radiation level. A unit member checks a wheel by turning it. The final assembling and fueling takes place. All unit members wearing nylon suits, boots and caps work on the final assembling. A unit member speaks on headsets. The head of the reactor is installed. It is placed after completing the fueling. The reactor is ready for starting. An operator controls the dials in a control room. The power range is increased.

Date: 1959
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070689
United States Marine Corps Reserves advertisement presented by Dennis James

Television host, Dennis James, talks about the United States Marine Corps Reserves. United States Marine Corps reserves marching, standing in formation. A band plays while Marine Corps reserves march. Marine Corp reserves marching, salute to their officers, and hold their rifles.

Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078920
New FBI Academy students take the oath, arrive at dormitories .

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Academy trainees taking the Oath of Enlistment inside classroom. Tabletop laden with revolvers, FBI badges and briefcases for new FBI agents. Close up of FBI badge. FBI academy student shakes hands with instructor as he receives his badge and revolver. Close up revolver handed to agent. “Bus departs or Quantico at 12 noon”, words written on blackboard. FBI Academy student trainees inside a bus. Bus passing Iwo Jima statue at Quantico Marine Corps Base entrance. View of FBI Academy building in Quantico, VA (Range Rd, Quantico, VA 22135). Sign reads “FBI Academy”. Student trainees with suitcases get off the bus, enter the FBI Academy. FBI Academy student trainees in suit and tie walk hallway of academy to find their dormitory rooms. FBI agent student removes his belongings, arranges clothes from his suitcase. Close view of a photograph of a woman with two daughters. Student writes his name on his FBI Handbook. Professor lectures in class. Blackboard words written “Jurisdiction of the FBI 1. Statutes 2. Executive Orders 3. Constitutional Provisions”. Male FBI Academy students listen and write notes during lecture. Robbers make a getaway after a bank robbery. Kidnapper lures and captures a toddler into his car from a suburban street. A person mails a letter in a U.S. Mail mailbox. Close up view of a running wind up 16mm motion picture film camera. Nazi German spy Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne pulling out stolen documents from his sock and passing them to an undercover agent in 1941.

Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078759