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Background of the Castro revolution in Cuba

Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Montage of scenes including revolutionary casualties, burning buildings, Castro addressing his followers, revolutionaries carrying weapons, a revolutionary being shot, firemen fighting fire, Women parading with weapons,armed revolutionaries advancing through bush country, and Castro addressing hundreds of thousands of people. View of lighthouse at entrance to Havana harbor.Hotel Nacional de Cuba. The Capitol building. A fruit peddlar on the street in Havana. Workers in sugar cane fields.Views of Havana under the Batista regime, with hotels, and casinos with roulette wheels and other gambling paraphenilia. U.S. Navy ships at he U.S. Navy station at Guantanamo Bay and a large aircraft at the Leeward Point Field, Guantanamo Naval Air Station. Bastista military forces drawing weapons from armory and operating a tank.Pilots climb aboard Federal warplanes and start them up. Cuban police forces at work. Bastista followers in control throughout the country. View of the Presidential Palace surrounded by Batista armed forces. Fulgencio Batista surrounded by followers.The Cuban constitution of is suspended by Bastista and President Carlos Prío Socarrás and his family are seen leaving Havana. Bastista conducts a cabinet meeting. Disenchanted Cubans hold a mock funeral for their Constitution. University students assembling and taking to the streets in protest against the Batista regime. Police break up the demonstrations with force. Injured protesters are treated in hospital. Protesters carry coffin of one who was killed. University protesters march with arms linked and many others also march on the Police headquarters. They carry effigy of Batista. Opposition political leaders are arrested by the Batista police.

Date: 1953
Duration: 8 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675034272
People carry bags on shoulders and standing on sacks during hurricane in Europe

Scene of flooded water in Europe. Hurricane winds blowing. Houses surrounded by water. People carry bags on shoulders and standing on sacks. Scenes of water flowing with speed. Flooded water on a street. A man in boat on the street. Aerial view of a road and water destroying it. Cows going by side of houses. Dead animals on shore. Devastated houses. People leaving their native places. Scenes of rails surround by water. Scenes of destruction. Truck on a water filled road. A board shows "Straight on the sea". People with suitcases. Aerial view of the flooded area.

Date: 1953, February 5
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034635
Bob-sled team meets with an accident at practice run for the world's Bob-sled Championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Scenes of snow hills in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A sled slopes down on snow. Spectators click photos. The sled at Dead Man's curve. They meet with an accident. U.S. team in sled slopes down the snowy terrain. Spectators look on.

Date: 1953, February 5
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034636
Ex-Marine Sergeant Jay Hall tells how he learned about brotherhood in combat.

Ex Marine Sergeant Jay Hall comes to stage with a stick in hand and tells how he learned about brotherhood in combat. He urges support for President Eisenhower, Honorary Chairman of the Educational Brotherhood Week campaign.

Date: 1953, February 5
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034637
People rescued by helicopter of the U.S. Army during flood in Holland.

Aerial view of destruction by the hurricane in Holland. A fleet of ships at a port. Streets flooded with water. Plane drops drugs for people. Refugees on muddy roads. A soldier holds a child in his lap. People rescued by helicopter of the U.S. Army. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands meets refugees. She is accompanied by her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. A baby is seen at the refugee center. Queen Juliana looks at a child at a refugee center.

Date: 1953, February 9
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034638
Buildings devastated due to cyclone in Madagascar.

Scenes of buildings devastated due to cyclone in Madagascar. Wreckage near a coastal area. Historic churches demolished. Industrial establishments devastated.

Date: 1953, February 9
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034639