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Women and children on floral floats participate in National Cherry Festival parade in Traverse City, Michigan.

The 1939 National Cherry festival in Traverse City, Michigan. Trees of cherries covered with cherry flowers and fruit. Girls stand on ladder and pluck cherries. Cherries being put into boxes. Parade goes down a road. Women seated on a float at the parade. A model of a cherry made up of flowers placed on a float. A girl seated on a floral float holding harness. A young child seated on a toy car placed atop a float in the National Cherry Festival parade.

Date: 1939, July 14
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046712
Three prisoners escape from Alcatraz prison, warden shows their pictures to the press in California.

Three bank robbers escape from Alcatraz prison in California on June 11, 1962. Escape proof Alcatraz prison at Island. Drainage pipe opening into the sea. Sign reads 'Keep Out'. People outside the prison. Official seated at a table, while photographers click pictures. Warden with pictures of three prisoners; Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin. Dummies in beds of the prisoners. Drain pipes at the top of a cell block. Coast guard watch looks through binoculars as San Francisco bay is searched. A helicopter flies overhead during the search.

Date: 1962, June 14
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046759
New 57 mm and 75 mm kickless and portable rifles being displayed at Fort Benning, Georgia.

The U.S. infantry school displays new 57mm and 75mm kickless and portable rifles at Fort Benning, Georgia. Two U.S. troops sit near a gun. Magazines lay near the gun and troops load guns. A rifle and a mortar hung as a soldier stands near it. Soldier loads mortar and it is fired. Soldiers fire recoilless gun. Blast occurs at target. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, April 9
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046770
Boxers punch each other during Golden Glove boxing championship in New York City.

Golden Glove boxing championship in New York. Boxers punch each other in a ring. People cheer from stand. One boxer falls down. Boxers box. A boxer falls down and referee looks at him. Other boxers box they both fall.

Date: 1950, January 12
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046785
Ben Hogan and Sam Snead tie for the first place at Los Angeles open Golf Championship in Los Angels.

Ben Hogan plays in Los Angeles open Golf Championship in Los Angels. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead Plays. Hogan poses and removes his hat. He walks in the golf course. Hogan makes stroke Sam makes stroke as hogan poses. Hogan and Sam play as spectators walk across the course and watch the game.

Date: 1950, January 12
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046786
U.S. Nuclear test "MET", during Operation Teapot, at Frenchman Flats in Nye County Nevada

Ground-level view of April 15, 1955 atomic test at Frenchman Flats, Nevada Test Site in Nye County Nevada. Test code-named "MET" -- Military Effects Test. In this footage, the 400 foot shot-tower on which the 22 kiloton nuclear device is set can be seen in the foreground prior to detonation. Rocket trails or "streamers" become visible to the right of the shot tower before the explosion. After the brilliant flash, which completely vaporizes the shot tower, an immense fireball becomes visible, which churns skyward and begins to cool and blacken. The fireball quickly begins to develop into a mushroom cloud.

Date: 1955, April 15
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046788