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Static test of XLR-11 engine for X-15. January 13, 1959. Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Static test number 1044, of XLR-11 engine for X-15, January 13, 1959 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Heavy fumes fill area at startup of test and are dispelled as hot gases are generated by engine.

Date: 1959, January 13
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021342
Boys fight in junior boxing match.

A junior boxing match in Annapolis, Maryland. Two boys boxing inside a ring. Journalists take photographs. A referee stands close to the two young boxers, who are children of Navy men. Junior boxers take swipes with gusto and oversized gloves. Family members and other Navy children watch the match outside the ring. Boy stands up from his corner and knocks his opponent. The referee restrains a boy before resuming the fight. Junior boxers fight. Junior boxers hug each other after the fight. A boy rush to his parents after the boxing match.

Date: 1959, March
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079816
Steel Strike of 1959 ends with announcement from Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell.

WS building in Washington, D.C. , possibly the Department of Labor. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, steel industry chief negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, and Steelworkers Union leader David J. McDonald gathered at a table. James P. Mitchell announces settlement of the 116 day steel strike of 1959, which started on July 15, 1959 and ended with an October 21 court injunction which was upheld by the Supreme Court on November 7. Mitchell explains that a "recommendation for settlement" was made, but that his announcement was pending ratification. The three men shake hands after the announcement. The narrator explains that the pact has benefits "totaling some 39 cent an hour."

Date: 1960, January
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078297
Launch of the National Foundation's expanded 1959 Program for Victories Beyond Polio in New York.

The launch of the National Foundation's expanded 1959 Program for Victories Beyond Polio in New York. Children suffering from Polio, Arthritic disease and birth disease attend the launch of National Foundation's expanded 1959 Program. They move on crutches and wheelchair. Women accompany the children. The three children are the representatives of the March of Dimes Against Arthritis, birth defects and Polio. Women hold posters.

Date: 1958, December 4
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055670
A football game between University of Maryland and University of Missouri teams, at College Park Maryland

A college football game between the University of Maryland Terrapins and the University of Missouri (Mizzou) teams, held in College Park Maryland. A line of Scrimmage seen. The players of Maryland seen scoring points. The game is won by 5th ranked Maryland as they score 35 points against Missouri team with 'Zero' points. Huge crowd gathered to watch the game as Maryland strives for a berth in the Sugar Bowl. Crowd cheers the players.

Date: 1951, November 5
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040663
Soviet achievements in space race in 1959; NASA Astronauts trained for space flight in United States.

President Dwight D Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev shake hands in the White House during Khrushchev's visit in America, soon after recent Soviet advances in the "space race." Closeup images of the moon, and of images of far side of the moon recorded by Soviets, and also brief Soviet Russian science fiction animated scenes depicting space ships traveling toward the moon, and another space ship vessel in orbit near the moon. In United States two monkeys are shown, named Able and Baker who were part of rocket testing before human flights took place. View of a monkey strapped into a Jupiter rocket and launch is shown of a Jupiter rocket with the monkeys for their space flight. Seven astronauts of the Project Mercury program are shown in training in a weightless, or zero gravity chamber.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049182