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Aviation history; historic early flight scenes; first hand accounts from persons who knew and worked with the Wright brothers.

Views of traffic on a city street around the turn of the 20th century. A mix of horse and buggies and motorcars and bicycles. People waiting for a trolley car. Reenactment of persons using an early telephone and of early filmmakers at work with camera on motion picture film. The Wright brothers home at 7 Hawthorne Street, West Dayton, Ohio. The Wrights' former housekeeper, Carrie Grumbach, recalls December 17, 1903, a telegram arriving about the Wright brothers successful first powered flight. Glimpse of Wright brothers machine shop. Charlie Taylor, who had worked in their shop, speaks of being pleased at their accomplishment. View of the Wrights flying gliders at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Charlie Taylor describing how he machined and built the motor for the Wright brothers airplane. Glimpse of that motor or a facsimile. Men positioning the Wright brothers airplane for launching, and French citizens gathered to watch a demonstration of their airplane in France. French aviation pioneer, Henri Farman with two other men in his Voisin-Farman I airplane. They begin takeoff. Closeup of Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont. Other early aircraft in flight. A Wright Flyer passing over the Fort Myer drill ground in Virginia. An Army balloon in the background. Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General, Frank P. Lahm, walks across the tarmac on an airport and speaks for interviewer (unseen). He speaks about the difficulty the Wright brothers had in convincing the U.S. Army of the value of their airplane. He tells that in December, 1907, Wilbur Wright was finally granted an interview with the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, which led to a contract, in 1908, with the Signal Corps. Moving imagesof Orville Wright and assistants bringing a Wright Flyer to Fort Myer, Virginia, to conduct flight trials for the Army. Views of the airplane being flown all around the area, watched by spectators. (This footage is a mix of 1909 footage where the aircraft shows two half-rounds of canvas in the front elevator, and 1908 footage, taking off and flying, where the aircraft has a single half-round of canvas in the front elevator.) After landing on the 9th of September, 1908, then, Lieutenant Lahm, accepts Orville Wright's offer to fly with him. Lahm climbs aboard the airplane, sits next to Orville Wright, and they are seen taking off and flying about for six minutes and forty seconds. (Lahm is the first. military officer to ever fly in an airplane.) The next scene shows the wreck of a Wright Flyer, in which Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge was killed and Orville Wright injured, on September 17, 1908.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068445
First Atomic submarine USS Nautilus underway and at sea in 1956; also scenes of SSM-N-8 Regulus cruise missile

United states Navy submarine SSN-571, the USS Nautilus, introduced in 1956. The nuclear powered USS Nautilus submarine underway at sea in United States. Men at controls as the first nuclear submarine is tested. SSN-571 in New York Harbor with Manhattan Island skyline of New York City in background. Next scene shows the guided cruise missile SSM-N-8 Regulus, also introduced in 1956, being fired from a ship, and an aerial view is seen of the Regulus guided missile in flight.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1956, December 24
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049133
Hungarian refugees escaping from 1956 Hungarian Revolution arrive in Camp Kilmer; President Eisenhower during his second inaugural speech.

Hungarian refugees from the October 1956 Hungarian Revolution (also called Hungarian Uprising) disembark from an American Airlines plane after landing safely in the United States. Entrance to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where the Hungarian refugees were resettled. Hungarian refugees get off a bus. A Hungarian man holds his infant daughter with a pacifier. The camera moves to another Hungarian man, wearing a black hat. A Hungarian girl smiles, some of her front teeth missing. United States Army Sergeant Stuart Queen speaks to the camera. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks during his Second Inaugural Address at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. View of a radio tower. Radio tower view from the inside. View of the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Cars pass by modern apartment blocks with antennas on top of building. Television antenna on house roof. Man adjusts television as his wife watches from their couch in living room. A man and his wife, holding their baby, watches the inauguration speech of United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower on television from their family living room. Two women and a child watch United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s speech on television. Family of a woman and her children listen to Eisenhower’s speech from a radio in their living room. Bombing on a street in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Men firing in Budapest. A tank fires in a park. Apartments getting devastated from firing. Hungarian man aims his gun and fires at a car. Men fire on a Budapest street. Doctor and paramedics carry an injured on a stretcher behind a tank. “Budapest is no longer merely the name of a city, henceforth it is a new and shining symbol of man’s yearning to be free”, said United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower from his second inaugural speech.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1956, October
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079029
Crash of U.S. Air Force F-100 Super Sabre aircraft, at dusk, Edwards Air Force Base, California

During period of semidarkness, at dusk, blinking red lights are seen. Then an aircraft is silhouetted low over the runway. It proceeds slowly, only a few feet above the runway, and then crashes in a spectacular ball of flames, followed by a huge cloud of black smoke. (Note: The aircraft, an F-100 Supersabre was being ferried from Palmdale, California, when the pilot elected to make an emergency landing at Edwards AFB.)

Location: California USA
Date: 1956, January 10
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045361
Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, Sammy Davis Jr., and political supporters, at informal gathering in California.

U.S. President Democratic party candidate Adlai Stevenson attends an informal backyard gathering of supporters in California. He accepts a donut from woman who wears a campaign button with "Adlai" written on it. Mr. Stevenson dunks his donut in a cup of coffee, as he converses with the woman. American singer and actor Sammy Davis Jr. comes over and shakes Adlai Stevenson's hand and they converse. Several other participants are seen.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056026
America's amateur divers dive at a pool in Palm Springs, California, United States; also Aquazanies perform.

America's amateur divers dive at a pool in Palm Springs, California, United States. Somersaults, flips and twist dives performed by the athletes. Champion Garry Tobia gets injured while performing a dive. Several other amateur divers dive from a high platform into the pool. Comedy group the Aquazanies demonstrates funny group dives during a show.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1956, May 21
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029894
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