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United States-Soviet Track Meet in Philadelphia.

US-Soviet Track Meet at Franklin field in Philadelphia . Shows women running on track. Broad jump by Greg Bell , Parry O'Brian in event of shot put, and Dyrol Burleson and Jim Grelle in the metric mile. Crowd cheering.

Date: 1959, July 20
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039452
Shows an unidentified flying object (UFO) in partially cloudy skies over Corpus Christi.

Shows an unidentified flying object (UFO) in partially cloudy skies over Corpus Christi. The object is a bright moving light. Contrail of an aircraft is seen as the aircraft appears to be approaching the UFO.

Date: 1959, July 28
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039964
President Eisenhower formally commences the construction of New York's Lincoln Square Art Center.

Crowd assembled for the commencement ceremony of New York's Lincoln Square Art Center. President Eisenhower and other VIPs on the stage. Designs of New York's Lincoln Square Art Center. Eisenhower holds a ceremonial shovel.

Date: 1959, May 14
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040106
Pope John XXIII prays before the caskets of St. Pius X and St. John Bosco.

Crowds assemble at St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. Pope John XXIII carried on the sedia gestatoria chair with large white ostrich fans (flabella) during a procession. Pope John XXIII wears the triple papal tiara during the procession. Papal Swiss Guards flank the Pope’s entourage during the procession. The glass caskets of two saints are on display inside St. Peter’s Basilica. The two caskets contain the bodies of St. Pius X and St. John Bosco, Catholic priest, educator, and founder of the Salesian Order. Priests watching the veneration of St. Pius X and St. John Bosco from the Saint Peter’s Square. Pope John XXIII prays before the coffins of St. Pius X and St. John Bosco.

Date: 1959, May 14
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040107
African men rescue wild life from the fast rising waters behind the new Zambezi River dam.

Cariba Dam in Africa. Men in motorboat run on water. African men hunt animals in water. Men set up net. Hunted animals put into motorboat and transported.

Date: 1959, May 14
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040108
Antics of college student "beatniks" in Paris

Paris collegiate students, termed "beatniks" by the narrator, crammed in a phone booth, dancing with some on top of others' feet, cramming into few chairs in a garden, and jumping into a tiny car as a group.

Date: 1959, May 14
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040114