A speech by U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in the United States. Vice President Richard Nixon and Mrs. Nixon arrive at a speaker stand at Edwards Air Force Base, California. They are escorted by other dignitaries. A flag of United States. People seated for the speech. Dignitaries on the stage. Vice President Nixon climbs up the steps of the stage and shakes hands with the dignitaries. Men take pictures. People seated on chairs at the base. Mr. Nixon; Mr. Kindelberger, President of North America; Mr. Horner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development make speechs. The dignitaries stand and applaud. X-15 is towed by a tug and is rolled out of a hangar. Insignia of United States. Dignitaries on either side of the X-15.
D-558-2 Skyrocket with a B-29 Superfortress in flight over Muroc Air Force Base (soon after renamed Edwards Air Force Base). A B-29 Superfortress in flight. A Skyrocket is attached to the belly of B-29. Insignia of United States. A chase plane flies on the left side of the B-29. The posterior part of D-558-2 and B-29. Jet is turned on and the Skyrocket is still attached to B-29. Vapor comes out from the jet line. U.S. Navy Skyrocket emits much vapor while still attached to B-29. The Skyrocket with B-29 in flight. The Skyrocket detaches from B-29 mother ship and is in flight. It flies over the mountains. The Skyrocket makes pass from the landing field. (Note: the Superfortress bomber seen here has the big WASP Major engines. So it is probably a B-50 - perhaps XB-50.)
Over supply of produce due to mechanization causes crisis for tenant farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. In Iowa: Farmland with a farm house, haystacks, cows and pigs. American farmer brings hay stacked in a wagon. A woman pulls a horse to haul the load up through an opening into the barn. Horses work on a farm, machines on a farm. A corn field. Farmers operate a corn harvester. A wheat harvester at work in a wheat field. Poor farmers and women of farm families wait outside a building to get government distributed food, due to Great Depression and glut in wheat and corn prices due to overproduction. Men, women and children stand in bread line seeing food aid. Close up views of tired and desperate farming men and women in need of relief. They fill their containers, sacks and bags with food and leave.
Drug testing experiments on animals, to learn the effects of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) on monkeys in a laboratory in San Francisco, California. A monkey in a cage. The monkey heavily drugged for experimentation with illegal drug LSD. He holds onto the cage side. An identification band on the monkey's stomach. The drugged monkey with closed eyes and rapid heart beat. Other monkeys in the cage jump up and down. The monkey with an identification band behaves in a different and disoriented manner. Other active monkeys jump and play about. They hang upside down on the cage ceiling.
Experiments to learn the effects of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) on monkeys in a laboratory in San Francisco, California. A monkey drugged with LSD illegal drug. An identification band around the monkey's stomach. A black laboratory technician with protective gloves on takes the experimental monkey off the cage side. He places him on a concrete ledge, and examines him. He then places the monkey on a pipe. The still and disoriented monkey rolls off the pipe. The technician holds him. The drugged monkey stretched out flat on the cage floor. The subject shows no activity or movement. Active control group monkeys at the top of the cage.
Experiments to learn the effects of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) and measure perception change on monkeys in a laboratory in San Francisco, California. A monkey looks out of a cage. An experimental apparatus moves towards the cage with the monkey. The hands of Doctor Otis operating the equipment back and forth. The monkey picks up the food kept on the machine and eats it. The experiment is repeated several times.
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