Little Creek Virginia USA 1951 stock video footage and royalty free HD video clips and photos.(page 6).

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.

Location: United States USA

Date: 1951

Duration: 2 min 28 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675063987

Interviews with former student member and adviser of the Little Rock Nine, of Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas

Interview with Ernest Green (one of the Little Rock Nine) who attended Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas during its integration in the civil rights movement. Interviewer questions Daisy Bates, adviser to the Little Rock Nine, and holds her book titled 'The Long Shadow of Little Rock'. She shows a rock that came through her window during the integration crisi period, and speaks about the rights of African Americans.

Location: Little Rock Arkansas USA

Date: 1963

Duration: 3 min 32 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: English

Clip: 65675029485

President Harry S Truman presenting Medals of Honor at White House, Washington DC.

President Harry S Truman presenting Medals of Honor to Captain Raymond Harvey, Captain Lewis L Millett, Master Sergeant Stanley T Adams, and Sergeant Einer H Ingman at Rose Garden, White House, Washington DC. Relatives and officials talk. General Omar N Bradley and George C Marshall with the men. They are congratulated by both. General J Lawton Collins speaking to one of the awardees, to relatives. Master Sergeant Stanley T Adams. The Sergeant holding a little boy. Sergeant Einer H Ingman. A Captain one of the awardees, congratulated by relatives. The two Captains posing with a woman.

Location: Washington DC White House USA

Date: 1951, July 5

Duration: 2 min 6 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675034421

Use of radio for communicating to the general public; behind the scenes aspects of radio broadcasting, and people listening to vintage radios.

Big clock illuminated at night. Pendulum swings on cuckoo clock. Woman darns a sock. Little boy rides on father's back as he crawls on all fours. Boys hands seen turning dials on vintage radio as family listens to radio in their living room. A wealthy high society couple pour themselves coffee from silver set. The man gets up and turns dial to listen to radio. Patient in hospital room with bed lamp lit and nurse touches patient's forehead. Patient wakes up and turns on the radio. Couple in a parked car. Man turns on radio. Announcer watches the wall clock ticking off seconds. An orchestra prepares to play in a radio studio. Panel on WNBC in group discussion. President Truman speaks. View of football game and a radio studio drama production underway. Fibber Magee opens his famous closet. Exterior view of Rockefeller Plaza and pan view of 30 Rockefeller Center building from ground level upward (RCA building entrance). Teletype machines, switchboards and wires of radio and television studio operations. NBC radio tower. Radio engineer with earphones works at a radio broadcast control panel. Interiors of WMCA lobby. Engineer at radio system controls. Woman in a room applies facial cream, walks up to the phone and dials. Girls at telephones near radio announcer in studio take orders.

Location: New York United States USA

Date: 1951

Duration: 5 min 44 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675039750

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.

Location: New York City USA

Date: 1951, October 6

Duration: 2 min 50 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675035474

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.

Location: San Francisco California USA

Date: 1951, September 8

Duration: 2 min 10 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675024882

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Little Creek Virginia USA 1951 stock footage and images

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

Interviews with former student member and adviser of the Little Rock Nine, of Little Rock Central High school in Arkansas

President Harry S Truman presenting Medals of Honor at White House, Washington DC.

Use of radio for communicating to the general public; behind the scenes aspects of radio broadcasting, and people listening to vintage radios.

New York Yankees, New York Giants tied 2-2 after four games of 1951 baseball World Series

Treaty of San Francisco signed September 8, 1951, ending Military Occupation of Japan, effective April 28, 1952.