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American Red Cross Field Director Hoops talks to soldiers in Taiwan during Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

Nike-Hercules missile site in Taiwan during Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. American Red Cross Field Director Howard D. Hoops walks up to a trailer and talks to an officer. He walks to the tracking radar and talks to personnel on duty at the radar. He shakes hands with a man. Nike-Hercules missiles as a jeep arrives. A U.S. Army officer shakes hands with an officer seated in the jeep. Jeep pulls away. Field Director Hoops comes out of a building. He talks to other officers. A sign reads 'C Batry 71st Art IFC' Field Director Hoops comes out of a building and gets in the jeep and drive away.

Location: Taiwan
Date: 1958, October 7
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077582
Demonstration of Communist China against United States peace bids in Taiwan Strait, China.

Supply convoy reaches Quemoy in China despite the communist Chinese blockade, during Cold War. Ships carry the supplies at sea. Men on landing craft at the sea. Men on deck. President Chiang Kai Shek arrives at a press conference in Formosa. He opposes reduction of garrisons on the off-shore islands. Mainland China rebuffs United States peace bids with an enormous Chinese propaganda demonstration in Peiping (Beijing) on the grounds of the old Imperial Palace. Communist Chinese demonstrate with boards, placards and flags in hand. A huge crowd gathers at the palace grounds and decries what it calls American aggression in the Taiwan strait. President Zhou Enlai addresses the massive crowd.

Location: China
Date: 1958, October 2
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027976
U.S. Army giant heliostat solar furnace produces extreme heat in Natick, Massachusetts, United States.

Solar energy furnace for production of enormous heat at Massachusetts, United States. The Army Quartermaster Corp shows a new solar furnace that captures the suns rays in a 1400 square foot heliostat. Situated at Lake Cochituate, it is capable of generating heat close to that of a nuclear explosion. Officers watch the furnace as it burn through a steel sample. It will be used to test effects of nuclear bombs on various materials, without the logistics and expense of nuclear test firings.

Location: Massachusetts United States USA
Date: 1958, October 2
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027977
Demonstration of military free fall parachuting at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.

Recon Marines from 1st Force Reconnaissance Company Test Unit 1 demonstrate free fall parachuting. A sign identifies the Auxiliary Landing Field at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. (Narrator refers to the marines as para-scouts of the 1st Marine Division.) The marines, wearing back and chest parachute packs, board a U.S. Navy Grumman S2F aircraft with tail code "RZ" and number 136777. It taxis on the ramp and is next seen taking off from the runway. Two helicopters are parked on the airfield ramp. Next, viewed from the aircraft, a marine is seen in free fall. Soon he appears as only a speck , approaching the ground. Next, he is seen, from the ground, as his chute finally opens, and he lands, and begins to spill air from his billowing chute on the ground.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027978
George Wilson Malon, Senator of the United States reports to voters in Nevada, United States.

George Wilson Malon, Senator of the United States gives a speech in his office in Nevada, United States. He reports to the voters. He talks about the war time excise taxes, live music taxes and their effects on the State of Nevada. He assures the people that he will work to aid the hotel and restaurant industry, and jobs for young people of Nevada.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1958, October 2
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027980
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru accompanied by his daughter Indira Gandhi trek North to visit Tibet.

Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visits Tibet. He also visits neighboring "Hermit Kingdom" of Bhutan. Prime Minister Nehru is accompanied by daughter Indira Gandhi on his trip. Bhutanese troops stand at attention. Prime Minister Nehru inspects the Bhutanese soldiers. They travel by Jeep on the street in Tibet. Other people also accompany them. Nehru rides a yak to the Himalayas. They again travel on mule on the lofty Himalayan ridges. Tibetan people gather to greet them. They again travel on yaks. Mountaineer warriors hail Nehru's arrival with clashing tambourines.

Location: Tibet
Date: 1958, October 30
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027981
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