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Attempts to fly a human-powered airplane or vintage flying machine

Early attempts of aviation. Views of a man using bicycle-type pedals to power an airplane. View of the machine atop a launching ramp. Two men assist as the operator pedals and the machine moves down the ramp. The would-be airplane simply falls off the end of the ramp onto the ground. The attempt is repeated with the same results.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042058
Early and historic flight: Attempts to fly ornithopters, including Gustav Lilienthal's large ornithopter.

Scenes of vintage, historic, early aviation flight attempts: Men at controls of several unsuccessful ornithopter aircraft, intended to fly by flapping wings. One man rides a bicycle equipped with wings that he flaps using sticks by his handle bars. Another sits in a tub-like machine with tricycle wheels, as it "flaps" its wings. In a third scene, men assist as operator moves very large wings on a machine. Although the wings move, the machine doesn't. This large machine might be Gustav Lilienthal's ornithopter. It had a 3 horse-power motor. Location might be Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, around 1927

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042059
Man attaches wings to his body in unsuccessful attempt to fly

A man, "wearing" large fabricated wings and a tail, walks along the ground. He mounts a large rock and jumps off in an attempt to fly, but simply falls on the ground.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042060
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) in operation. Approaching USS Saratoga (CV-3) to moor. Men atop USS Shenandoah in flight

Airship USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) taking off. Captain at controls in the command condola. The USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) in flight. Crewmen open hatch at top of the Shenandoah and one walks along top of the airship while in flight. USS Los Angeles approaches flight deck of USS Saratoga (CV-3) on January 28, 1928. Airship dumps water ballast that falls on mooring crew of ship, who scatter. Mooring cable seen stretched at right side of picture.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042062
Flexible glass being put to various uses around the time of its invention

Flexible glass (plexiglass) and its varied uses being tested soon after its invention. A man works on a flexible glass. Flexible glass used at various places. A glass at a diving platform as a diver dives into the pool. A car moves over a flexible glass embedded in a wooden frame. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935, July
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042247
Kennedy and Nixon campaign for the Presidential election of 1960 and give reasons to elect them as President.

Presidential election of 1960. Candidates for Presidential election race, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Kennedy being welcomed during his campaign. Confetti being poured as people cheer the Kennedy couple (then Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy) in a parade in New York City on October 19, 1960 during the Presidential campaign. Voters putting on Kennedy campaign buttons and showing Kennedy signs. Kennedy at the Democratic Convention in Los Angles along with his sister and mother after being declared the Presidential candidate. Kennedy as Senator as he attends Senate committee meetings, including one with Robert Kennedy speaking by his side. Kennedy with his running mate for Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson. Democratic Party's election campaign in Berlin, West Germany. Kennedy with wife Jacqueline Kennedy and daughter Caroline Kennedy, seated on a couch together. Republican party candidate Richard Nixon at Republican convention after being declared the party's Presidential candidate. Nixon with his running mate Henry Cabot Lodge, with both men talking to President Dwight Eisenhower. Nixon being welcomed in Poland by cheering crowds and he visits the Warsaw ghetto. He is seen climbing in and out of a window of the ghetto. Vice President Richard Nixon with Russian premier Khrushchev preparing for the so-called Kitchen Debates. View of the kitchen debate set. Nixon campaigns extensively and receive enthusiastic crowds in various cities. Both the candidates sum up giving reasons for choosing them as the next President. Kennedy says that he aims at making America a stronger country. Whereas Nixon speaks about the experience gained by him under President Eisenhower. He emphasizes maintaining peace without surrendering. Nixon and Kennedy after giving the reasons for their election. They shake hands as photographers take pictures.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1960, October 20
Duration: 6 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042263
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