Newsreel 'Missile failure, Atlas explodes, capsules intact'. In a test before a man is launched into space an Atlas Missile is fired. The missile is fired from Cape Canaveral with the Mercury astronaut capsule in its nose. A defect in the guidance systems causes it to go off course. The missile is destroyed but the capsule is successfully parachuted on earth. Men stand near the intact capsule.
A large group of unemployed people in New Jersey march during Great Depression. Banners read 'We want immediate relief'. Unemployed citizens take over the State House in Trenton, New Jersey. Unemployed men sitting in the State House. The men sit in the house till the Legislators promise relief aid. From an April 27, 1961 newsreel depicting events 25 years earlier.
General Hugh L. Scott, General Frederick Funston and General Alvaro Obregon after a conference in El Paso in Texas. The conference held to arrange co-operation of troops against Mexican leader Pancho Villa's raids. Jeep and horses seen on field. War planes seen. Men firing artillery pieces. Explosions and smoke seen.
Treasury Secretary William McAdoo speaks at rally. A huge United States flag in the background. Surrounded by crowds, on Fifth Avenue, New York, First Lady, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, steps from vehicle to sidewalk. High-ranking Police Officers seen in uniform in the crowd.
The ocean liner Bremen underway. Smoke rises up from the stacks of the ship. Sailors aboard. Skyscrapers of New York City seen in background. Boxes containing gold bars move on conveyor belt from ship to dock. The liner Bremen brings more than $13,000,000 gold to United States following a sharp rise in the price of gold after passage of the Gold Reserve Act, and President Roosevelt setting the gold price much higher in the U.S. triggering exporters to send gold to the United States.
Inventor Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion streamlined automobile in a test ride on the streets of New York City. The automobile is a three wheeled motor car. The car's license plate reads: 'SL 187.' It's maneuverability is demonstrated by parking at a curbside, and by. making a 360-degree turn, spinning closely and smoothly around a New York City policeman standing in the center of an intersection.
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