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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
United States Air Force deploys squadrons of tactical (Matador) missiles in West Germany during the Cold War

Film begins showing view from a motor vehicle (unseen) as it drives toward a gateway lightly covered by snow, in places. A car and a motorcycle with sidecar pass in the opposite direction. The camera vehicle continues through the gateway , past an an ancient structure and courtyard leading to a tunnel that opens onto a street in the city of Bitburg, Germany. Several parked cars are seen along with several pedestrians. Classic old houses line the street, with narrow sidewalks between them and the roadway. A team of horses slowly pulls a covered wagon along an otherwise deserted section of the street. A few pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. A tall structure, topped by a decorative tower, looms in the background. Scene changes to a U.S. soldier standing next to a TM-61 Matador tactical missile on a launch rail. View from vehicle driving past former German Luftwaffe (Air Force) Headquarters, now the U.S. 12th Air Force headquarters. It comprises several numbered entrances bunkered deep into the side of a hillside. An Air Force truck is parked outside of entrance number 3, and several U.S. Air Force airmen are also seen. One walks into the entrance, showing his identification to an Air Policeman at the door. Inside the complex, several U.S. Air Force officers discuss deployment of guided missiles in West Germany as part of West German defenses. One refers to a wall map as they converse. Lt. General William H. Tunner, Jr. speaks about the Tactical Missile Squadrons (Matador Squadrons) based in West Germany to counter aggression.

Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069385
A Matador convoy moving along a road and animation depicts the dispersion of combat units in pre-planned war time area,Europe.

A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron in Europe. An animated map shows tactical missile squadron locations in Europe. A Matador convoy moving along a road in Germany. Animation depicts the dispersion of combat units in pre-planned war time area to support base giving number of operational and training missiles.

Date: 1955
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069386
Lt. Colonel Mulling speaks and uses a pointer at a wall map in a War Room at Headquarters building at Ramstein AB,Germany.

A film shows training and alert drills for the Martin TM-61A Matador First Tactical Missile Squadron at Ramstein Air Base and NATO command base in Germany. A truck leaving the missile instantiation. A semi trailer loaded with large boxes entering the missile instantiation. Matador assembly and testing area in the background. A matador wing being mated to fuselage and jet engine being lifted by a crane from truck. The crane operator and an airman give directions. Enlisted men push missile guidance shelf on a trailer into the building. Fuselage of Matador on zero-length launcher in the background. Matador engine run up test. A hand flipping switch on test console. A covered Matador on mobile zero-length launcher moves along a road in a wooded area and parks beside four other covered Matadors on launchers. Several rows of warheads in armament storage area. A convoy of trucks transporting war heads in Germany. The entrance gate to a city in Germany. Two German civilians pull a wagon on a street. Trucks, trailers, truck mounted crane and mobile zero-length launcher with covered Matador on a ground. TM-61A in launch position in clearing. The entrance to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. U.S. 12th Air Force Headquarters building at Ramstein AB. A command car stops. Two officers leave the car and walk up the steps. A Military Policeman stands outside a War Room. A 'War Room' sign on the door. Officers seated around a table in the War Room. Lt. Colonel Mulling speaking and using a pointer at a wall map. Local and FEAF clocks in the background. Two airmen using computers. A target folder is handed to a personnel and filed in safe. USAF (United States Air Force) Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star parked on a ramp. The pilot and the instructors board the aircraft. TM-61A in launch position on a launcher.

Date: 1955
Duration: 7 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069387