Traditional colorful Mexican Trajinera boats sail in the canals of Xochimilco, a tourist district in Mexico City. Mexican peddler displays shawls draping from his arms as he stands on a gondola. View of restaurants such as Restaurant Miramar by the canals of Xochimilco. Colorful Trajinera boats docked near a bridge. Trajinera boats sail in Xochimilco canal. View of open-air market by the canal in Xochimilco. Female tourist steps inside a simpler Trajinera boat. Two female tourists step out of a Trajinera boat. Both female tourists carry small bouquets. The younger female tourist, wearing a plaid summer dress and cat-eye sunglasses, smiles in front of the camera. The two female tourists walk together on the streets of Xochimilco after their Trajinera boat ride.
Promotional film for TAT-Maddux airlines shows shows the route of a Ford Trimotor from Waynoka to Clovis, New Mexico. Passengers disembark from a train and board a Ford Trimotor. Plane taxis along and then takes off. A map shows route from Clovis to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Plane flies over mountains,over Albuquerque and lands at an airport. Women look at Native American Indian wares and enter the terminal. Native American Indian family looks at the plane.
A film titled 'Victory' about the first ever atomic bomb test in New Mexico, United States. Exteriors of some of the secure manufacturing and factory buildings that were part of the Manhattan Project production efforts. Military guards watch over the factory. View of the desert in New Mexico. Cactus in the desert. Views of the nighttime first atomic bomb test explosion in history, known as the Trinity test, seen from different distances and camera positions. Smoke cloud rises up from the first ever atomic bomb explosion. (World War II period).
Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. A sign for the Irving Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research in New Mexico. A path leading to the site. A barrage balloon in the sky. A Mobile Station on a hill. 'Mobile Test Station, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory' sign on one of the trailers. The Test Station emblem. The landscape around the Station. Cimarron Range around the station. Bright yellow flowers at the Station. Tree covered hill. Scientists seated at the Station.
Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group at the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory Mobile Test Station on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. The Mobile Test Station on a hill. Clouds over the mountains. Various equipment set up near the Station. An antenna. View of the Langmuir Laboratory in New Mexico.
Impresario Mike Todd passes away in New Mexico, United States. He dies of a plane crash. Mike Todd with his wife actress Elizabeth Taylor. People greet them. Lockheed Lodestar passender airplane parked on runway. Close up view of airplane door with name "The Liz" being opened ("The Lucky Liz"). Mike Todd boards the plane. Buildings in the background. The parts of the crashed plane in a rural area of New Mexico where it crashed killing Mike Todd, Art Cohn, and pilots Bill Verner and Tom Barclay.