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News stories of 1958 including polar cruise of USS Nautilus and statehood of Alaska

Aerial view of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, underway on the surface and then submerging. View of helmsman below in the Nautilus. Aerial view of frozen arctic ocean with deep crevasses, as narrator mentions the Nautilus traveling submerged, beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958. The boat's Captain, Commander William R. Anderson, is seen in uniform. More views of the Nautilus moving on the surface, including one with crew members standing on deck. Next, a newspaper headline is shown, announcing Alaska's statehood. Small boy and girl sitting in the grass holding a flag displaying map of Alaska and reading: "Alaska 49th State." Automobile traffic driving into Anchorage, Alaska. Banner stretched across the road reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Pedestrians jam the sidewalks as the city celebrates its new statehood. A float displaying a huge moose has sign on its side reading: "49th. Hey Texas. Now I'm the biggest Bull..." Young Alaskans ride in a convertible automobile. A huge 48-star American flag covers the front of a building. It has a large extra star appended to it. Closeup of the flag.

Date: 1958
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047397
American Forces led by General MacArthur land at the Lingayen Gulf and advance to Manila, Philippines during World War II.

The United States campaign against the Japanese in Luzon, Philippines during World War II. An Allied convoy of ships underway in the Pacific Ocean towards the Lingayen Gulf. Naval guns fire at the coast and at Japanese airplanes. U.S. Army Generals Walter Kruger and Douglas MacArthur keep a watch over the convoy of ships. General MacArthur and other officers come ashore at the Lingayen Gulf. Troops unload equipment at a beach. Infantrymen advance inland. The Filipinos greet the soldiers as they advance towards Manila. The soldiers with the Filipinos. People cheer as the American soldiers enter Manila. Animated map of the Philippines depicts the location of the Lingayen Gulf and the advance of American soldiers from the Lingayen Gulf to Manila.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059157
A ship's doctor and a hospital corpsman treat a patient aboard a U.S. ship underway in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Reconstruction of events that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. A U.S. ship underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. The ship's doctor and a hospital corpsman simulate giving aid and saline solution to an engine man who simulates collapse from heat during Gulf of Tonkin incident. The engine man on a stretcher. A respirator is held up to the man's mouth. Saline solution bottle hanging nearby. The engine man is wiped down with alcohol by the doctor. The hospital corpsman holds the respirator over the man's mouth.

Date: 1964, August
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065145
Travelogue of Pacific Northwest regions of the United States, including Seattle and Alaska.

1980s travelogue of Pacific Northwest regions of the United States and Alaska. Map highlights Pacific North West regions. Pictures show people and sites located in Mid West regions. View of oncoming Amtrak passenger railroad train approaching camera position as it crosses a bridge. Coast line views of ocean and inland views of waterfall. Elevated view of coastal areas in Washington state. A small waterway by a coastal village. A child is helped in reeling in a salmon fish catch on a boat. Ship crew nets the salmon. View of fresh salmon fish being grilled on barbecue grill. Views of ferry and ship in harbor at Seattle. View of space needle tower in Seattle. A lumber man competition shows hatchet or axe throwing contest, a two man sawing contest to cut a felled tree. Two young men in a log rolling contest in water. Ag group of people river rafting on rapids. Sled dogs running in snow pulling a sled. View from sled position of dogs pulling sled. View of Mount McKinley or Denali peak as seen from across a lake (possibly Wonder Lake). A group of native people, possibly eskimo, perform a traditional dance. View of a totem pole, two grizzly bears running on a shore line, big horn sheep in a herd, a passenger ship passing near a calving glacier. Passengers observe the glacial landscape. A glacier breaking (calving) and dropping a large piece into water. Orca or "killer whale" lightly breaching the surface of the water. View of a harbor with boats and low mountains in distance behind a bay area in Alaska. Wide view of a passenger bus traveling on a road in Alaska with a glacier in the distance behind. Yellow flowers close-up. A passenger ferry ship slowly moving on a bay of water.

Date: 1986
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039837
The course of the Mississippi river from the rocky mountains to the Gulf of Mexico in the United States

The film 'The River' about Mississippi river in the United States. View of the rocky mountains. The volume of water increases in the course of the river from the rocky mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. Several views of the flow of water in the river. Trees along the river side. A waterfall.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032218
Totem poles of Alaska with diffent figures representing different people and events.

Totem poles and large carvings made from trunks of trees by indigenous native Indians in Alaska. Different figures on poles represent different people or events. View of different totem poles in Alaska. Children listen to the story of totem poles from a carver. Many views of children looking at totem poles. A Tlingit Indian tribe totem house at the Totem Bight State Park near Ketchikan, Alaska. A man enters the community house. Scene changes to exterior of Tlingit Community House on Shakes Island in Wrangell, Alaska (now Chief Shakes Historic Site). Native people wearing chilkat blankets enter the house. View of a potlach ceremony with native instruments and dance outside the Chief Shakes Community House.

Date: 1960
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038983