Centennial Celebrations in Canada. A Centennial memorial flame is lit on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson on New Year's Day 1967. View of the Peace Tower of Parliament Hill (Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A9, Canada) with fireworks. Canadian provinces celebrate the Centennial year with pomp and show. Fireworks, balloons, birthday cakes and parades are part of the celebrations.
Communist threat to Berlin, Germany as the Soviet Union presses for a unified Communist Berlin. Traffic signal man demonstrates hand signals on street in West Berlin. View of citizens in West Berlin shopping, engaging in commerce, and going to and from work among newly constructed buildings, improved roads, and wearing new fashions. Sign near the Brandenburg Gate. Contrast is made with East Berlin, East Germany where buildings still in ruin from World War II are shown, including on the famous Unter den Linden Boulevard. Communist East German troops march on road. Woman enters a building and writes on a note pad. East German workers dig with spades at a construction site. The Western Powers get out of free Berlin uniting with the East Berlin under communist rule. Social and economic differences seen contrasting communist versus capitalist systems in Berlin. A woman working alongside men at a construction site.
Jobless, destitute miners in Uniontown Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Miners and their families make their homes in idle, empty coal (coke) ovens. Children sit outside dwelling caves. Men eat food inside a coke oven cave. In second sequence: Men and women prepare new series of 'Baby Bonds' for lower wage earners rolling off Government presses. President Franklin D Roosevelt buys the first Baby Bond from postmaster-General Farley. From a February 11, 1960 Newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
William P Rogers sworn in as new Attorney General at White House in Washington DC. The Attorney General sworn in by Chief Justice Warren. William P Rogers's wife and family watch the ceremony. President Dwight D Eisenhower present during the oath taking ceremony.
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.
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).
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