Alliance of Progress initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. The exhibition of the program is inaugurated in Mexico City. A target in the center. A man with a bow and arrow stands. People crowd around to look at the man shooting on the target. A woman throws rings and the man with the arrows hits the ring. A U.S. flag in the background. A speed boat being exhibited. The visitors look at the boat on display. A man with a child sleeping on his shoulder. A boy scout stands on a platform holding flags and giving a semaphore demonstration. A display of cooking and camping by Boy Scouts at the exposition.
A Bell Aerosystems Rocket belt is flown by pilot Bob Courter in Mexico as a demonstration for the Alliance of Progress initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. The jet pack demonstration takes place in Mexico City. The clip begins with a shot of a man holding balloons as he walks off. People and a helicopter in the foreground. Two technicians wearing Bell Aerosystems uniforms help pilot Bob Courter adjust the Bell Rocketbelt before he takes off in front of the assembled crowd, and flies over a field for the gathered crowd while wearing the jetpack.
Alliance of Progress initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. The exhibition of the program is inaugurated in Mexico City. A sign reads (translated) 'Exploration of Space'. A space craft on display. The visitors look at the spacecraft that is exhibited. A screen showing the launch of a missile of the NASA program. A group of men and women look at the screen. A man demonstrates the working of satellite. A group of boy and girl Mexican children view the display. In the United States, two boys wearing Boy Scout uniforms view a display of a satellite model spinning in space, and three adult stand behind them. The visitors entering the exhibition ground. A poster of Kennedy at the entrance.
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser visits Algerian Premier Mohamed Ahmed Ben Bella in Algeria. Nasser arrives aboard ex-King Farouk's former yacht. People stand at a dock to welcome Egyptian President. Premier Ben Bella and Nasser. Abdel Nasser waves to the people at the dock. The people greet him. Ben Bell and Nasser standing together. Algerian officials and dignitaries meet Nasser. Ben Bella, Nasser and other officials on a vehicle drive past the people on a street. The people on street cheer. Policemen ride motorbikes before the vehicle. Ben Bella, Nasser and other officials get off the vehicle. People gather in large number on a street. Nasser speaks into a microphone at a meeting. People gather to listen to him. Ben Bella and Nasser hug each other. They both raise their hands and look at the crowd.
Test drive of a Saunders Roe SRN2 (Saunders Roe Nautical Two) hovercraft in Canada. The hovercraft with lettering "Westland" (for Westland Aircraft Ltd.) moves over a marshy area. Men operate the controls of the hovercraft. The hovercraft underway in Saint Lawrence River. The passengers seated inside the hovercraft which can accommodate 70 persons. The hovercraft underway in the river. A head of a passenger inside the hovercraft. The hovercraft moving across the water
Aerial view of many helicopters parked on rain soaked ground at an air base in South Vietnam. American army officers (military advisers to South Vietnam) hold conversations while standing near a UH-1 Huey helicopter. Next, a group of ARVN (Army of Republic of Vietnam) troops boarding a U.S. Piasecki-H21 helicopter and a Sikorsky H-34. Armed ARVN troops are seated inside, on the floor of a helicopter. Aerial view from above, of UH-1 choppers flying low across the terrain near a coastline. View from helicopter flyiing low along a river. Closeup of a Piasecki-H21 flying past the camera. South Vietnamese soldier looking out the window of a chopper. ARVN exit a hovering helicopter into shallow water and slog towards their objective. View of jungle from helicopter in flight. U.S. officers confer as a wounded American adviser is carried, on a stretcher, from the jungle to a waiting UH-1 helicopter, for evacuation. He is placed in the medivac chopper next to a wounded ARVN soldier. Closeup of Two South Vietnamese navy officers standing on a boat. One points to a South Vietnamese river gunboat firing at the opposite shore. Gun are seen firing from another gunboat. ARVN troops charge the shore in an amphibious training exercise. They enter sandy areas and employ shrubbery as camouflage. View over shoulder of one firing his rifle. Views of ARVN troops firing weapons as they advance in jungles and firing a mortar. Closeup of a wounded South Vietnamese soldiers being tendedon a stretchers . Vietnamese women and girls dressed in ao dai waiting anxiously. A soldier burning incense and praying for a fallen comrade.
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