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Boston Celtics wins the match against St Louis Hawks during an East-West basketball match in New York.

An East-West basketball match in New York. Players of the Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks lined up before the match. The match in progress and the players playing. Scorers William Walton Sharman and Robert Joseph Cousy with the other team members lead the Boston Celtics to victory by a score of 100-91.

Date: 1955, January 20
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067834
The Bell Aircraft XV-3 "Convertiplane," precursor to the Osprey, is tested in Hurst, Texas.

The Bell XV-3 (Bell 200) tiltrotor aircraft, s/n 54-147, is tested in Hurst, Texas on August 11, 1954. This was the first of what would become a long line of Bell 'Osprey' tiltrotor planes. Bell Chief Test Pilot Floyd Carlson sits in the cockpit of the XV-3, also known as the "Convertiplane." Another man stands beside the cockpit and talks to Carlson. Wide shot shows the XV-3 hovering in front of the Bell Aircraft Corp. building. Three blade rotors mounted on the ends of the wing.

Date: 1955, August 11
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068824
Civilians on a street watch David's parade and traffic is blocked on a highway during the parade in San Fransisco.

David Steward's parade in San Fransisco, California. 14 year old David Steward in the center with his parents. Men play a band. Soldiers parade holding guns. Civilians on the street watch the parade. Traffic blocked on a highway due to the parade. A mayor tries putting a crown on a young girl. David on a horse back during the parade. Other children stand around the young girl. Men and women stand in the background. The girl with the crown.

Date: 1955, September 5
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068825
A group of persons traveling and camping outdoors with a Setra bus and trailer in Austria

A Setra bus is seen pulling a trailer along a country road in Austria. The recreational vehicle (RV) combination drives into a meadow or field, where men open up a side of the bus to form a roof held by metal props. They drop other panels to form a protected area with windows (Narrator calls it a kitchen.) A woman walks along a curtained corridor in the bus. (Narrator says it can sleep a dozen people.) Occupants wave from 10 windows at the side of the expanded bus. (Steel supports are seen installed below the expanded section.) A woman opens the curtains to her berth and greets a man arising from another berth below hers. She rustles the curtain to arouse two girls in berth next to hers. A man is seen shaving with an electric razor. A man and woman receive breakfast on trays from a woman preparing the meal in the kitchen. They join a large group of persons already seated and eating under the expanded roof.

Date: 1955, September 5
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068827
Women models wearing designer gowns by famous designers including Dior pose in Paris, France.

New creations by fashion designers in Paris, France include those of Christian Dior, Marc Bohan, Jacques Hine, and Pierre Bellman. A woman wearing a designer dress poses during fashion show. Another woman wearing a black cocktail dress. A woman in a dinner gown with buttons down at the back poses. A woman in an embroidered evening gown poses as she walks down the stairs. Two women wearing short Chinese gowns made up of white satin with embroidery on them. Both of them pose and show their gowns. Another woman displays a gown which has work done on it with golden jewels. Two women show their ball gowns which have bows on them.

Date: 1955, September 5
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068828
Students train at a bull fighting school in Caracas Venezuela

Aspiring matadors are seen swirling their capes at a bull ring in Caracas, Venezuela, while another student moves among them holding a set of bull's horns. Closeup of instructor speaking. Scene shifts to student working with a live bull, before spectators in the gallery. After a few moments, the bull tangles up the student matador's cape and he runs and jumps out of the ring into the spectator section. Other bullfighting personnel distract the bull as it runs around in the ring and jumps over the inner wall of the bull ring. Views of spectators applauding (possibly for the bull). Another student being roughed up by a bull as other men with capes hurry to distract the bull. Another student matador being bested by a bull that takes his cape and chases him. Audience members stand and cheer and wave handkerchiefs. The next student seems quite confident, and kneels close to his bull as he employs his cape. But, suddenly, the bull pulls the cape from him, and he too must retreat

Date: 1955, September 5
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068829