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Models compete in Miss Modern Venus Beauty Contest at Steeplechase park on Coney Island.

Miss Modern Venus peagant undergoes at Steeplechase park. Glamorous models parade in swimsuits. First shots of girls filmed in distortion mirrors. Girls parade round ramp built on pool. Cameraman pulls on dolly along line. Girls are measured and judges mark them. Winner Anne Gervis of Brooklyn poses with cup for camera. July 1941.

Location: Coney Island New York USA
Date: 1941, July
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028752
Russia dismantles missile sites from the island of Cuba.

Population worldwide shown waiting for news about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Groups of people watching televisions and listening to radios. Press announcement in front of White House that President Kennedy has received message from Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, saying that Russia will dismantle missile sites in Cuba. Views of various ships in United States fleet. Military band playing at port as wives and children of U.S. military service men return to Guantanamo, hug and greet the service men, and celebrate. View of a small church and citizens entering the church. Americans going to work. Reconnaissance photos showing missiles dismantled, and showing shadow of the photographing aircraft, itself. Soviet ships carrying missiles out of Cuba. American men, women, and children pedestirans walking on sidewalks in the downtown area of a town, past shops and stores. A man entering a building beside a fallout shelter sign. Department of Defense logo is shown at end of film, followed by on screen text, "If our country should ever be attacked by nuclear weapons, people at ground zero would be lost. But millions more, outside these areas of complete destruction, would be spared, only to be imperiled by radioactive fallout. Today, the nation is better prepared to meet this threat, as the community fallout shelter program goes forward. But much work still remains to be done. Cuba may not be the last crisis we'll be called on to face. But let it be the last we'll face unprepared.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1962, October
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038968
Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, during World War II

Effects of Japanese air attack on Dutch Harbor early in World War 2. Oil supply burning in Aleutians. Large Mountain covered with snow. Foreground shows buildings like air base. Buildings seen burning. Men fighting fires in area. A boat seen burning in harbor. Destruction caused by fire in the area. Burned ship seen in harbor.

Location: Aleutian Islands
Date: 1942, June 4
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040823
U.S. Navy Seabee Construction Battalions build a base at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands during World War II.

Activities of the Seabees in the Aleutians, during World War II. Units of Seabees are ordered to the Aleutians. An animated map shows the Dutch Harbor. Ship carrying Seabees in a bay, with snow capped mountains in the background. The Seabee Battalions at the base construction site : Surveyers at work. Huge explosion demolishes a cliff. Steam shovels work on cliff face. Bulldozer creating a road. Concrete bucket being loaded. Seabees work on reinforced concrete wall, with frame of reinforcing bar visible. A huge yard filled with construction materials. Carpenters build a structure with lumber, using hand saw and hammer. View of the completed major U.S. Navy base. Seabees work to repair a damaged U.S. destroyer. The USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) seen at sea. Views of other ships in the region.

Location: Aleutian Islands
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044965
Operations Crossroads plutonium bomb nuclear test "ABLE" in Marshall Islands

U.S. Nuclear weapons test ABLE in Bikini Atoll also called Bikini Lagoon, on July 1, 1946. Ships anchored in the lagoon in the foreground are seen from aircraft flying above. The nuclear device with yield of 23 thousand tons of TNT equivalent, is dropped from the high flying B-29 bomber named Dave's Dream (not seen) and detonates at a height of 520 feet above sea level. The screen goes white from the light of the resulting fireball. As that light dissipates, the characteristic mushroom cloud is seen billowing upwards, at the same time as a surge of water occurs at the base of the explosion. The upper part of the mushroom begins to separate from the stem, below.

Location: Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046790
Operations Crossroads atomic test "BAKER" in Marshall Islands

Nuclear weapons test "BAKER" in Bikini Lagoon, on July 25, 1946. Ships anchored in the lagoon are seen from aircraft flying above. The nuclear device with yield of 23 thousand tons of TNT equivalent, is detonated from 90 feet below sea level. The screen goes white from the light of the resulting fireball. As that light dissipates, a huge wall of water is seen rising rapidly to create a mountainous ball of water, from which a mushroom cloud starts billowing upwards. A huge column of water is seen falling out of the mass, as the mushroom cloud continues to rise and spread.

Location: Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 25
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046792
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