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Royal Yacht "Britannia" opens St. Lawrence Seaway; Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower speak at Seaway opening ceremony

View from shore of newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway as the British Royal Yacht Britannia navigates a lock of the seaway canal. Crowd looks on from platforms and waves at the royal party aboard the ship. View switches to the grandstand at the opening ceremony for the St Lawrence Seaway. Britain's Queen Elizabeth approaches the podium to give remarks. Camera pans across grounds showing audience listening to the addresses from the ceremony grandstand. Candian police and mounted police in the foreground near the grandstand. United States President Dwight Eisenhower approaches the podium to make remarks.

Date: 1959, June 26
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078228
United States Marine Corps Reserves advertisement presented by Dennis James

Television host, Dennis James, talks about the United States Marine Corps Reserves. United States Marine Corps reserves marching, standing in formation. A band plays while Marine Corps reserves march. Marine Corp reserves marching, salute to their officers, and hold their rifles.

Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078920
New FBI Academy students take the oath, arrive at dormitories .

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Academy trainees taking the Oath of Enlistment inside classroom. Tabletop laden with revolvers, FBI badges and briefcases for new FBI agents. Close up of FBI badge. FBI academy student shakes hands with instructor as he receives his badge and revolver. Close up revolver handed to agent. “Bus departs or Quantico at 12 noon”, words written on blackboard. FBI Academy student trainees inside a bus. Bus passing Iwo Jima statue at Quantico Marine Corps Base entrance. View of FBI Academy building in Quantico, VA (Range Rd, Quantico, VA 22135). Sign reads “FBI Academy”. Student trainees with suitcases get off the bus, enter the FBI Academy. FBI Academy student trainees in suit and tie walk hallway of academy to find their dormitory rooms. FBI agent student removes his belongings, arranges clothes from his suitcase. Close view of a photograph of a woman with two daughters. Student writes his name on his FBI Handbook. Professor lectures in class. Blackboard words written “Jurisdiction of the FBI 1. Statutes 2. Executive Orders 3. Constitutional Provisions”. Male FBI Academy students listen and write notes during lecture. Robbers make a getaway after a bank robbery. Kidnapper lures and captures a toddler into his car from a suburban street. A person mails a letter in a U.S. Mail mailbox. Close up view of a running wind up 16mm motion picture film camera. Nazi German spy Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne pulling out stolen documents from his sock and passing them to an undercover agent in 1941.

Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078759
FBI student trainees attend lessons, lab technician demonstration in FBI laboratory

FBI agent trainees listen to professor giving lecture at the FBI Academy. Blackboard reads “Jurisdiction of the FBI 1. Statutes 2. Executive Orders 3. Constitutional Provisions”. External view of the U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington DC (950 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20535), original site of FBI headquarters. Sign reads “FBI Laboratory”. Sign reads, “Document Section 7613”. An FBI laboratory technician uses tweezers to reconstruct a piece of burned paper on a table. FBI Academy students observe FBI technician as he presses burned paper pieces between glass plates. FBI Laboratory technician mounting glass plate containing paper fragments on camera stand and taking photograph of it using a large format bellows still camera equipped with infrared film. View of upside document as seen through camera. Close up hands developing photograph that reveals message, "we will hit the bank at Middle Town."

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078760
FBI technicians test fire gun, examine paint chips and powder residue at spectrography laboratory.

Sign saying “Spectrography 7417”. A lab technician extracts paint chip samples from a sledgehammer. Lab technician examines paint chip samples under a microscope. Paint chips as seen through a microscope. A cartridge is inserted into an electron microscope. Lab technician demonstrates the electron microscope to two FBI trainees. Cartridge powder residue as seen via electron microscope. A gun forensic expert shoots revolver at a container filled with cotton batting and then retrieves bullet from the cotton. An FBI lab technician demonstrates his work to FBI trainees as he examines shoes from a crime scene.

Date: 1959
Duration: 32 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078761
FBI Academy students tour the fingerprint room at the Identification Division building.

FBI Academy student trainees enter the Identification Division building for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Plaque on building reads “Identification Division”. Female employee stamps a fingerprint card and staples receipt to it as FBI Academy trainees watch. FBI employees manually match incoming finger print cards again fingerprints from wanted files. An employee using a loupe magnifier to examine fingerprint. View of a fingerprint through loupe magnifying glass. Close up of fingerprint. Narrator notes that "no machine has yet been devised to classify fingerprints." Tour of fingerprint library as employees sort fingerprint files. FBI trainees pull out fingerprint cards from file cabinet and examine them. FBI Academy agents submit fingerprint cards to an operator running one of many large duplicating machines. Documents exiting duplicating machine handed to secretary. Female employee inserts documents into an envelope, places envelope in neatly arranged sets of envelopes to be mailed later. FBI agents walk through secretary pool at FBI Identification Division.

Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078762