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Early attempts to fly various heavier than air contraptions. Later use of rockets for propulsion; GE jet engines circa 1951.

Early history of flight with various ornithopters and flying contraptions. A bicycle-powered 8-winged airplane collapses in front of a hangar during takeoff attempt. Man wearing a set of wings, and a tail, tries to fly by running and also by jumping off a large rock. The so-called Pitt Sky Car in action. A car equipped with an umbrella-like rotor intended for vertical takeoff. It simply jumps up and down. A man riding a bicycle being propelled in part by a pack of rockets burning behind his seat. It gets too hot and he abandons the bicycle just before the rocket pack explodes. Animated discussion of Newton's 3rd law of motion and its relevance to the jet airplane engine. Diagrams and illustrations. A Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star aircraft taking off, and in flight, with its speed brake extended. View of General Electric jet engine, circa 1951, that delivers over 5800 pounds of thrust. These engines being produced in the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts and the new (1951) GE plant at Lockland Ohio.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063987
Treaty of San Francisco signed September 8, 1951, ending Military Occupation of Japan, effective April 28, 1952.

Signing of the Treaty of San Francisco by the Allied Powers and Japan, September 8, 1951 in San Francisco, California. Secretary of State Dean Rusk is seen shaking hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Okazaki Katsuo, in 1952. American troops remaining in Japan engage in training for Defense. They practice assaults from small boats, charge overland, simulate fighting in empty industrial sites. Flag of Japan being raised while Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and officials stand at attention and American officers salute. American troops in formation salute. Japanese troops march in parade.

Date: 1951, September 8
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024882
Scenes of baseball stars Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio , Mickey Mantle, and others, in 1951 World Series

Start of baseball game in Yankee Stadium. New York Giants rookie star Willie Mays catches fly ball, runs to infield. Yankee great Joe DiMaggio catches fly ball near 461 Ft. sign and center field monuments. DiMaggio fields a single. Interior shot of Yankee Stadium with packed stands. Exterior shots of Yankee Stadium with crowd filing in. Brief shots of several players swinging bats, including Giants' Davey Williams, Yankees' Johnny Hopp, DiMaggio, and Yankees rookie star Mickey Mantle. All film presumably shot during the Yankees-Giants 1951 World Series.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032385
New York Yankees, New York Giants tied 2-2 after four games of 1951 baseball World Series

Newsreel clip entitled "World Series: Yanks and Giants Tied Up at Two Games Each." Highlights from games three and four of baseball's 1951 World Series at the New York Giants' stadium in Manhattan, the Polo Grounds. Many fans chomping on snacks, smoking cigars or cigarettes. Fans dangle their feet over edge of the upper deck. Close up of Giants rookie star and future Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Mays singles to right field, scoring Bobby Thomson from second base. Giants fans stand and cheer; African American man in hat shouts "That's my boy!" Later, Giants' Eddie Stanky kicks ball out of the glove of Yankees' Phil Rizzuto's glove, advances to third. Giants' Monte Irvin drives in Alvin Dark with infield hit. Giants' Whitey Lockman hits three-run homer. Fans cheer, teammates welcome Lockman at home plate. Giants win game 6-2. Action shifts to game four, still at Polo Grounds. Yankees' Bobby Brown hits long fly to center field. Willie Mays catches it but falls down, allowing Yankees' Gene Woodling to run to third. Joe Collins scores Woodling with a single. In the fifth inning, Yankees' Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio hits a home run to left field, scoring himself and fellow Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, who jumps excitedly as he runs around the bases. Fans cheer as Yankees greet DiMaggio in dugout. Yankees win game, 6-2, and would go on to win the series, four games to two.

Date: 1951, October 6
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035474
United Nations forces engage North Korean forces in 1951 during the Korean War

Operations of United Nations troops in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Army Major General, William K. Harrison, Jr, and U.S. Navy Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, arrive at Panmunjom for initial peace talks with North Korean military officials. They walk past several tents and enter one. North Korean Officers walk across a field, with other structures and tents visible in background. In complete, unrelated change of scene, a contingent of the Philippine Expeditionary force is welcomed by Maj Gen Robert H Soule, Commanding General, 3rd Division and Philippine Colonel Dionisio Ojeda, who both exchange salutes with the troops on September 5, 1951. Various views of the Philippine troops being reviewed by General Soule, and in several formations. Closeup of a Philippine Captain at the front of some troops. General Soule and Colonel Ojeda standing in front of a tent, accompanied by other Philippine officers and a military photographer. Infantrymen of the 3rd Division firing rifles and M1919 Browning .30 caliber medium machine guns from cover in brush. Allied troops walk along the sides of a road. (Narrator says "A brief lull came to an end with Operation Cleanup.") A Patton tank loaded with infantrymen getting a lift uphill. Another moving downhill. Views of American tanks firing rounds in hilly terrain. An American soldier using a periscopic artillery range finder. Aircraft making bombing runs over the ridgeline. Next, United Nations forces are seen establishing defensive positions along the so-called Jamestown line. Tanks and infantry are deployed and seen in hardened bunker positions.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061711
Dust storm and scenes of abandoned ranch structures in the western United States, 1951

Taken from the introduction of "Your Enemy the Grasshopper," a Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine short film on grasshopper plagues, made in 1951. Intro sequence with close up of grasshopper. Dust storms during the Dust Bowl period in America, and views of dry, arid ground in the western United States. Cattle being herded by men on horses. Close up of a train passing by. Scenes of damaged or destroyed structures including a gate, ranch houses and sheds, and a windmill. Open shot of cloudy sky and blowing trees. Scenes of derelict, abandoned structures. Narrator and music.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675081009