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President Eisenhower celebrates his 63rd birthday with a large crowd in Pennsylvania.

20,000 guests gather at a party to celebrate President Dwight D Eisenhower's birthday in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Guests enter a tent with signs "The GREATEST TENT on ... to attend the GREATEST BUFFET ... For the GREATEST GUY". President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, arrive at the party in a traditional Pennsylvanian Dutch buggy drawn by a dapple gray mare. Crowd greets him. He arrives with Mrs Eisenhower and cuts a 25 foot cake.

Date: 1953, October 15
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045446
A small home-built bantam biplane makes its first flight in California.

A small biplane parked on the ground in California. John Pontius, the pilot and the manufacturer of the plane pulls the plane. He sits in the cockpit. The plane takes off.

Date: 1953, October 15
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045448
People gather to watch the vision of Virgin Mary at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, United States.

People gather at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, United States. It was reported that children saw a vision of Virgin Mary in the bushes of the park. The bush is converted into a shrine, hung with many rosaries and medals. People watch the bush and pray.

Date: 1953, November 5
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045456
U.S. Navy Lockheed XFV and the Convair XFY Pogo, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are shown to the public

First public films showing the U.S. Navy Lockheed XFV experimental vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. It is seen sitting sideways, on wheels, although it is intended to take off and land vertically, from a tail down position. Next the Convair XFY "Pogo" VTOL aircraft is shown. Convair techinician makes some adjustments to it. The XFY is slowly tilted to a tail down position. Its cockpit canopy is slowly opened and a pilot climbs aboard. Animated film shows image of a VTOL aircraft taking off and landing,vertically, from the deck of a freighter ship. Another view of the Convair XFY standing on its tail.

Date: 1954, March 18
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045461
Scientists work on the 'Bevatron' at the University of California in California, United States.

Scientists at the University of California in United States. They discuss a document. 'Bevatron', the atom smasher aids scientists in probing the fundamental mysteries of the universe.

Date: 1954, March 18
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045462
Figure Skater Mike Kirby trains children at a skating school in Chicago, United States.

Children learn skating at a skating school in Chicago, United States. Figure Skater Mike Kirby trains the children. He helps the children in putting on their skates. They practice in front of a mirror in a hall. A child falls down during practicing. Mike holds the child.

Date: 1954, March 18
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045467