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Castro, Raul Castro, Jose Miro Cardona and former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Revolution in Havana, Cuba.

The Cuban Revolution in Havana, Cuba. Peasants at work in sugar cane field. Clusters of huts in city slums. Poor people in the slums. Small huts along the slums. A girl bathing a child in front of a hut. Fidel Castro, a revolutionary leader, with other guerrillas in a hilly area. Castro, who supports the middle class people, in a crowd. People on streets applaud. Castro with Cuban people. His brother Raul Castro and his associate Che Guevara during a revolution in Guatemala. Castro speaking in a microphone. Other officials beside him. A large crowd listens to him and applauds. Fidel Castro with Cuban Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona, former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other officials after the overthrow of the Batista government. A Cuban firing squad executing a prisoner.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066496
Soviet Premier Anastas Mikoyan visits Cuba and Fidel Castro's government takes over Cuban agriculture and land.

Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visits Cuba. A Soviet airliner arrives at the airport. Mikoyan emerges from the aircraft and waves. A large crowd of people gathered to witness the event. The press awaits his arrival. They click photographs. Mikoyan meets President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado and other Cuban dignitaries. Ernesto Che Guevara takes snapshots of Premier Mikoyan in a native hat that reads 'Cuba'. A gathering of Cuban officials and dignitaries. Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro among the guests. The Russian Premier with Prime Minister Fidel Castro at a reception. People eating. Castro drinking wine. 'National Institute for Agrarian Reforms' sign board. A sugarcane plantation. Farmers load the harvested sugarcane into trucks. A farmer drives cattle. People on the cart. Fidel Castro with other officials in the building from where the National Institute for Agrarian Reforms is run. Men and women farmers applaud and greet him. Castro talks to a little girl. Castro's men work with wooden planks to build homes for workers. An unfinished East Havana Housing Project. 'National Institute of Savings and Housing' board.

Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033311
Fidel Castro riding through Havana and addressing the people after overthrowing the Batista government

Scenes of jubilant Cubans celebrating Fidel Castro and his rebels seizing power and evicting the Batista government in January 1959. Citizens talking happily in a doorway with bullet-ridden glass panes. Crowds gather around Castro and his rebels as they enter the city. The crowds of men, women, and children follow him walking on foot, and then cheer him as he rides atop a jeep waving to citizens. Excerpts of Castro giving a speech, gesturing forcefully, and the gathered crowd cheering his words. (Note: Sound is present only in final 20 seconds of clip during Castro's speech.)

Date: 1959, January 8
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675031122
Batista sympathizers and families imprisoned by Fidel Castro, execution of prisoner by firing squad in Havana, Cuba

Opening title “Purge of Batista War Criminals Continuing”. View of the La Cabana Fortress. Castro soldier with wearing cross and carrying rifle standing guard. Sympathizers of former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in prison. Batista sympathizers standing behind bars. A child of a Batista sympathizer looks at the camera behind bars. A family of Batista sympathizers behind bars, one of the women holding a baby. A panelist during a revolutionary tribunal trial against Batista sympathizers in La Cabana Fortress. A prisoner speaks before the revolutionary panel. A prisoner, wearing a hat, is marched to a wall. Prisoner waves his left arm. Prisoner is executed.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078506
American citizens leave the United States Embassy in Havana after the breakdown of US- Cuba diplomatic relations during the Cold War and the United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Title card reads, "The United States Breaks Diplomatic Relations with Cuba." View of the United States Embassy building (55 Calzada, La Habana, Cuba) in Havana, Cuba. Crowds gathering outside the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Family of African descent outside American Embassy. A woman of African descent holds her baby outside the United States Embassy. Two women in the American Embassy. A door in the American Embassy written in Spanish reads, "Aviso Cerrada-La Seccion De Visa Hoy" (Attention, Visa section closed today). Women leaving the American Embassy. A Catholic nun leaves the American Embassy. American citizens leave the United States Embassy. Staff load boxes into truck as Americans leave the United States embassy. Americans follow a man, with shades, outside United States Embassy. Americans board bus as they depart Havana. A Cuban female soldier guards the United States Embassy building.

Date: 1961
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078508
Prime Minister Fidel Castro appears before the Pan-American Youth Congress in Havana, Cuba.

Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba. Fidel Castro makes an appearance before the Pan-American Youth Congress in Havana. He announcers the seizure of three quarters of a billion dollars of U.S. property in Cuba. People hold banners of 'Havana' and 'Venezuela'. The crowd cheers.

Date: 1960, August 8
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044279