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Scenes from parade celebrating General Douglas MacArthur in 1951 and from his funeral procession in 1964

Opening scene shows ticker tape parade for U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur underway in New York City on April 20, 1951. General MacArthur waves to parade goers from back of an open car. Scene shifts to funeral procession for General MacArthur on April 11, 1964, in Norfolk Virginia. Honor guard accompanies his caisson. Mourners including his wife Jean MacArthur and son Arthur MacArthur IV walk in a procession during the funeral ceremony. The casket of General MacArthur covered by a U.S. National Flag.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1964, April 11
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056491
Cars checked by Mexican inspectors at Immigration Office of the USA-Mexico international border at Tijuana

The international border between United States and Mexico at Tijuana. The check point of Immigration and Custom Department of Mexico. First scene shot from the Mexican side shows cars entering Mexico from USA, motioned on by Mexican inspectors, the building with arches is the Mexican Customs office, The two story building behind Mexican inspector is the USA Customs office, Scene with cars shot from behind was taken from the USA side of the border and shows cars entering Tijuana. ( Note: The USA Customs office shown here still exists today but no longer functions as such, the Mexican customs office building was demolished.)

Location: Tijuana Mexico
Date: 1939, January
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035920
LSD tests conducted on unwilling and powerless victims including prostitutes and drug addicts by the CIA in the United States.

A documentary depicts administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. A part time chemist for CIA, Dr. James Moore. A mushroom expert is asked to get a magic mushroom and turn it into a drug. He talks about how they got the mushroom. Local shaman or magical priests perform rituals. Dr. James helps CIA in producing new chemicals. Dr. James along with Wilson went to Mexico to get the mushroom. Mexicans prepare food. News correspondent Paul Atmeyer questions Dr. James about the kind of mushroom they are looking for and the effects of the drug. Testing of the drug. A statement of the CIA officers who worked on the experiments describes how the decision was made. The decisions was made and tests conducted on unwilling and powerless victims including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. CIA took help of a high ranking narcotics official George White. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, talks about White. Traffic on streets. Safe houses set up by White for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and clubs. Exterior of a Motel Hotel in San Fransisco and a view of San Fransisco bay from an apartment. The former CIA official who worked in the safe houses studies sexual behavior and how it is used to manipulate people. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Effects of LSD. LSD research is done in American Universities. LSD researcher Dr. Timothy Leary talks about the consciousness movement in the 60s.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 7 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047228
Forest rangers and soldiers fight fire at Gila National Park in New Mexico

Forest rangers and soldiers fight forest fire at Gila National Park in New Mexico. Planes drop supplies to fire fighters.

Location: New Mexico United States USA
Date: 1951, July 2
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025743
Kefauver Committee probes into relations between underworlds in United States.

Major events of the year 1951. A Kefauver Committee appointed by the Senate probes into the nexus between the underworld and the politics in United States. Committee headed by Estes Kefauver holds its hearings. Former Mayor of New York, William O' Dwyer testifies before the committee. Frank Costello smokes a cigarette during one of the committee's hearings.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951, December 24
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049178
Montage of images chronicling the settlement and development of the United States of America over many years.

The last portion of Emma Lazarus’sonnet,"The New Colossus," is shown as engraved on a tablet inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Illustrations of immigrants arriving and felling trees to build dwellings in America. Reenactments of early English, Scottish, and Dutch settlers building houses and working at crafts in New England. Italian sulphur mine workers in Louisiana. Immigrants, from France and Switzerland, planting vineyards in California and New York State. Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes, sowing seed and cultivating crops in the Midwest. Polish and Welsh immigrants in American coal mines. African Americans harvesting cotton on farm fields in the United States south, including a woman picking cotton with her baby riding on her long collecting bag. A Spaniard on horseback in the Southwest. Mexicans working in Texas oil fields and on ranches of New Mexico. Greek and Portuguese fishermen with huge catches of fish. A German technician working with fine instruments. Hungarian and Russian immigrants working in steel mills. Irish, Slavs, and Chinese, building railroads. Closeup of lumberjack's axes and saws cutting trees. A forge and a blacksmith shoeing a horse with horseshoes. A woman at work with a spinning wheel. Railroad ties and rails being placed. An antique railroad workman's locomotive and car. Men installing telegraph wire on rough poles. A early historic railroad 0-4-0 steam locomotive (appears to be one of the few replicas of "The Atlantic" which had been built in the 1830s) pulling a single small passenger train car. Cowboys on horseback rounding up steers. Herds of cattle,sheep, and pigs, bound to market. Farmers tilling soil with horse-drawn cultivators, preparing tobacco leaves for drying, and loading cotton bales. Machines spinning thread in a textile mill or factory. Fabric weaving machines at work. An early steam boat underway in a river. Early model automobile driving on dirt road. Wright Brothers' Wright Flyer airplane in flight with several persons on board. Early tractors and harvester machinery working on a farm. Glimpses of American industrial plants and transportation in rapid succession (some of it showing building of Hoover Dam and building of the Chrysler Building in New York City). Oil well drilling and a "gusher" oil well spouting oil upward. Steel mills, locomotive trains, and then a scientist in a laboratory working with beakers and a solution. Dynamite charges blasting away sides of mountains and gorges, and scenes of dam construction and dams opening to allow water gushing. Large electrical control levers being thrown to run electricity, and scenes of electric transmission towers and facilities. Natural gas storage areas. Golden Gate bridge under construction and high rise skyscraper buildings being constructed, including the Chrysler Building circa 1930 while still under construction in New York City. Aerial view of New York City. Camera panning over the gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046104
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