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Pacers compete in harness race on Yonkers Raceway, New York, at end of 1958 season

At the end of the harness racing season in Yonkers Raceway, a moving car carries mobile starting gate with harness racers aligned across the track behind it. The gate folds up and the starter car speeds away allowing the race to get underway. Spectators in the stands are seen dressed warmly on this cold, damp December day. The horses, and drivers in sulkies,race around the water-covered track. Narrator comments that horses were meant to run, not swim.

Date: 1958, December 4
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055671
Implementation of the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in Red China.

Postwar living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) photographed by Indians visiting the country. The film highlights China's problems of industry, agriculture, and excess population. Advertisements and posters for the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in 1958. Objectives of the plan. Agriculture, industry, and education in China, including brief shot of men, women, and children in classroom, possibly for re-education. Men and women work in factories and plants. A Russian sign reads 'Made in the Soviet Union'. Workers inside a huge automatic automotive plant set up and supplies by the Soviet Union (SU). A steel and iron company rebuilt and enlarged with the aid of Soviet Union. A seamless steel tube mill supplied and erected by the SU. A plant designed, equipped, and built by SU technicians. A bridge over a river. Women work in a high voltage testing laboratory equipped by the East German government. A fully automatic petroleum refinery built by the Japanese. A heavy gilding machine plant started by the Japanese in 1937. Various factories, plants, and industries in China. Rural farmland and irrigation. People work in backyard furnaces, factories, presses, rolling mills and automotive factories. Deserted city streets with few cars. Workers inside an automotive plant. Communist Party of China Chairman Mao Zedong signs a pact with the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. Newspaper headlines regarding the disagreements leading to rifts in the China-Soviet relations in 1960. The Soviet Union withdraws technicians and support from China resulting in closure of industries. Statistics highlight China's dropping industrial production in steel, coal, electricity, and petroleum compared to that of USA, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.

Date: 1961
Duration: 6 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021675
The Maryland Terrapins and the University of Mississippi Rebels play a game of football at College Park, Maryland.

The 2nd place Maryland Terrapins team and the Mississippi Rebels play a game of football at College park in Maryland. Huge crowd gathered to watch the match. Cheerleaders seated next to the field. Maryland team wins by 38-0 over The Rebels from OleMiss.

Date: 1953, November 16
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023024
African American teachers trained at Maryland State Normal School, Colored, in Bowie Maryland

Training facility for African American teachers in Bowie, Maryland, United States. Houses at a distance on a farmland. Trees and tower in the background. Board on the farmland reads "Maryland State Normal School, Colored, Bowie Maryland, trains elementary teachers." School building with a flag on its top. House behind the trees.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031568
Maryland Governor Theodore McKeldin appeals for volunteers for the state's Civil Defense Program in Maryland, United States.

Governor of Maryland asks Civil Defense volunteers in Maryland, United States. Governor of Maryland Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin seated at the table in his office. Governor McKeldin appeals for volunteers for the state's Civil Defense Program.

Date: 1951, August 27
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071428
Charge placed on U.S. Mark VIII detonated and damage examined at Camp Meade in Maryland, USA.

U.S. Mark VIII tank on a hill side at Camp Meade in Maryland, USA. Demolition charge placed on the tank is detonated. Explosion on the tank. Soldiers examine the damage created by the explosions.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050331