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Firefighters extinguish blaze near wrecked airplane after it crashed at Idlewild Airport in New York, United States.

Remains of a a cargo aircraft that crashed in flames during taxi for takeoff at Idlewild Airport in New York, United States. The wrecked aircraft on the tarmac with firefighters standing nearby. The plane had nearly crashed into the Terminal building, seen in the background, but had been slowed enough to stop when it struck the tail of a nearby empty passenger airplane.

Date: 1958, November
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077062
People gather to watch the parade at the 41st Anniversary of the Soviet Union in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Celebrations on the 41st Anniversary of the Soviet Union (following 1917 revolution) in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soldiers parade on a street. Officers and dignitaries including First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev review the parade. A large crowd gathers on the street. Armored vehicles and weapons in the parade. Large balloons shaped like rockets herald the Soviet's Sputnik space program.

Date: 1958, November
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077063
Chinese parade with flags in Beijing, China; signs urge U.S. to leave Taiwan.

Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Communist People's Republic of China during the "Great Leap Forward." Beijing skyline and its surrounding suburbs. Crowds carrying banners and marching during a rehearsal for the People’s Republic of China’s National Day. Chinese young men carrying banners translate to, "Taiwan must be liberated" and "United States must get out of Taiwan." A young Chinese woman smiles while holding a red banner. Buses, bicycles, horse drawn carts, and cars pass through Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s “Red Square”. The western and eastern walls have giant placards that read "Long Live the People's Republic of China" and "Long Live the Great Unity of the World's Peoples". A man pushes a cart full of bricks. A man slides bricks down a wooden chute at a construction site where a sewer is being built. A construction site building a sewer.

Date: 1958, September
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079763
Chinese Militia in Tiananmen Square during Great Leap Forward.

Young militia during the Great Leap Forward in Beijing, China. Men posting and reading anti-American protest letters on a red cloth bulletin board in Tiananmen Square. Communist Chinese and anti-American/Capitalist murals in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. A sports-themed propaganda mural advertising the Great Leap Forward policy. Two Chinese militia women stand in Tiananmen Square. Militia rifles stacked in the square. A Chinese militia man reads a newspaper in front of the rifles. Chinese Militia (Minbing) men playing cards. Militia men wearing sashes at Tiananmen Square play a game of tag and laugh. A young Chinese Militia woman with rifle talks to a man. Chinese women reading recruitment notices for the Militia and auxiliary and reserve force for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079764
Street scenes in Beijing, China during the Great Leap Forward.

Life in Beijing, China during the Great Leap Forward. Chinese men stand with their bicycles in Beijing traffic. Bicycles, cars and pedicabs with heavy sacks on the street. A Chinese man pushes a baby in a stroller made of wicker. A wood burning bus with wood gasifier mounted on back. A large, dilapidated Chinese building with signage as seen from a moving car. Pedestrians run while crossing the street. A traffic officer stands under an umbrella as he directs passing vehicles. A truck pulls a string of trailers carrying a load of coal and decorated with banners and paper flowers celebrating the Great Leap Forward. A stupa, possibly The White Dagoba Stupa, Beihai Park. Chinese family including grandparents and children. Young men digging with shovels in front of a Chinese pagoda. Chinese men with bicycles waiting to cross the road. People visit the Monument to the People's Heroes (Tiananmen Square, Dongcheng, Beijing, China). A girl walking outside St. Joseph’s Church (74 Wangfujing, Dong Dan, Dongcheng, China) in Beijing. Bicycles pass apartment buildings and government offices in Beijing.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079765
Chinese woman factory workers and families in China.

Chinese women in the workforce during the Great Leap Forward. The newly built observatory of Beijing Planetarium (138 Xizhimen Outer St, Dong Wu Yuan, Xicheng District, Beijing, China). Men working at construction site near the Beijing Planetarium. Laborers pulling a cart on the street. A floral red fabric running through a weaving machine at a textile factory. Chinese women working at combing machines in textile factory. Chinese women factory workers share a meal together, eating noodles from bowls. A Chinese factory worker nurses her child during her break time. Chinese boys wearing red scarves and holding flowers. A maternity hospital in Beijing, possibly the Beijing Obstetrics Gynecology Hospital. Hospital clinic windows in Beijing. A female Chinese doctor working at a community clinic stamps a document. A worker’s family grandmother holding a granddaughter in her arms. A woman cooks in the courtyard of a factory workers' apartment building.

Date: 1958
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079766