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President Dwight D Eisenhower converses with Clare Booth Luce. President pardons a Thanksgiving turkey

U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower at the White House in Washington DC. President Eisenhower shakes hands with Clare Booth Luce, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. He looks at a Thanksgiving turkey presented to the White House for pardoning. A group of photographers takes pictures. The President strokes the turkey. View of the White House North elevation, with dry trees in foreground. Clare Booth Luce leaving the White House. She speaks to the media.

Date: 1955, November
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044047
Salvador Dali paints surrealist picture of a rhinoceros horn, at Vincennes Zoo, Paris, France.

Spanish artist Salvador Dali walks in Vincennes Zoo, Paris, France, holding a small canvas and easel. He is accompanied by several newsmen. Dali setting up his easel. Photographers take pictures. Dali paints seated in front of an open area separated by a wall and moat, from a rhinoceros standing in front of him. He paints a surrealistic picture of the rhinoceros' horn. A group of spectators watch from a distance. View of the artist with his painting. Two French zookeepers look at the painting and signify their lack of appreciation. Salvador Dali shows his painting in Vincennes Zoo (Paris Zoological Park, Av. Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France).

Date: 1955, May
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044048
Several visitors, including Missionaries, view Victoria Falls in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Africa

A guide, dressed in tropical khakis, escorts a clergyman near Victoria Falls. Two Missionaries in clerical collars, with a woman and two boys, view Victoria Falls in the British Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Africa.Several views of the principal and ancillary rivers and falls.

Date: 1955
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044049
French Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, meets with German President Konrad Adenauer, in Bonn, Germany

French diplomats arrive in several American cadillac automobiles at the office of President Konrad Adenauer, in Bonn, Germany. They are greeted by German officials as they leave their cars and enter the building. A German sentry with rifle, outside the entrance, poses for the camera. Views of the German Government Building with flags of Germany and France flying side-by-side on flag poles. The Palais Schaumburg (Adenauerallee 139, 53113 Bonn, Germany) in Bonn. German President Konrad Adenauer and French Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, emerge from building and mingle with officials and reporters, before returning to the building.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044051
Ho Chi Minh and other officials review parade on 10th anniversary of Independence Day. Grand celebrations In Vietnam.

Tenth anniversary of Independence Day in North Vietnam. A display of artillery. Vietnamese troops march with rifles and fixed bayonets. Vietnamese women march wearing black outfits. Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and other dignitaries watch the ongoing parade from a review stand. Vietnamese men and women wave their hands. Children stand with balloons. They release the balloons in the sky. Women clap hands. Vietnamese women dance wearing traditional costumes. Various other festivities including fireworks.

Date: 1955, September 2
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044104
Soviet leaders deliver speeches and attend the 37th anniversary celebrations of Soviet Army and Navy in Moscow, USSR.

37th anniversary of Soviet Army and Navy celebrated on February 22nd at Central Soviet Army theater in Moscow. Exterior of 2nd Soviet Army theater. Soviet Army and Navy Marshals, Generals and Admirals attend this event and are seated in the theater. Presiding committee include Nikolai Bulganin, Nikita Khrushchev , Marshal Vasilevsky and other ministers. The meeting is opened by USSR Defense Minister, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who congratulates Soviet Army and Navy on their 37th anniversary. Soviet Army and Navy were established by Congress party. The audience applaud. Speeches of Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the communist party, Ivan Marchenko; by the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League, and by Hero of Socialist Labor and chairman of the Lenin Collective Farm, Ivan Yubanov. At the end of the event, Marshal Zhukov delivers thanksgiving speech.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044643