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View of the impact of floods in Formosa (Taiwan)

Newsreel 'News in brief, Formosa'. Typhoon Ellen caused urban flooding in southern and central Formosa (Taiwan). Taiwanese civilians inspect damage and piles of debris from typhoon. Flooded areas and damaged buildings seen. Relief work and rescue work in progress. Native people seen. Several men wear local Taiwanese hats. Pedicabs seen on street.

Location: Formosa Taiwan
Date: 1959, August 13
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040725
Eighth Annual Junior Chamber of Commerce Safe Driving "Road-e-o"

Eighth Annual Junior Chamber of Commerce Safe Driving Road-e-o (rodeo). People stand in rows as a car passes. Top teenage drivers put the cars through demanding tests of skill and judgment. A driver seen in a car. Group of men seen clapping as a driver performs skillfully. The teenage drivers (all boys) meet United States President Eisenhower. Cameramen take photographs of President Eisenhower and the drivers.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1959, August 13
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040726
USS Independence (CV-62) in New York City's East River during its initial sea trials

U.S. Navy's new aircraft carrier USS Independence (CV-62) starts her first sea trial down New York's East River. Tugboat workers help the aircraft carrier out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and down the river. The carrier clears the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges by tilting its hinged mast.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1959, February 2
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040895
A view of thick fog in the UK from pollution, and also heavy rains, ice, and weather forecasting efforts.

A police officer directs traffic through thick fog pollution (sometimes called "London fog" of "Pea soup fog") in England, caused by burning of soft coal. Next seen shows a British man trying to walk against a heavy wind on an icy sidewalk with difficulty. Rain and ice are shown streaming off a roof top, and a man in a raincoat runs for cover on the streets of Britain. View of exterior of an Air Ministry building, and then of technicans inside using modern computers and tape reading devices to monitor and forecast weather for Britain. A man unloads a reel of data tape from a machine and loads it into a tape reader. View of hands on switch board of early computer device. Automated printer prints reports. Weather forecasters sit at a table together viewing weather pattern maps and hand drawing other weather maps. Seen returns to outdoors during a storm. View of a woman dropping some items that slide away from her on an icy sidewalk. She slips and slides on the ice behind them. Two other women are showing trying to walk on the ice. One woman falls down on the ice and high winds blow the other woman forward as she runs across the ice and then falls.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1959, February 2
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040896
Red Premier Nikita Khrushchev addresses Soviet Communist Congress

Red Premier Nikita Khrushchev addresses the delegates of Soviet Communist Congress in U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). He speaks about the mass production of ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile) in Russia. Delegates applaud him.

Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1959, February 2
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040897
Blasting of heavily damaged Bahnhof in West Berlin.

Blasting of heavily damaged Bahnhof in West Berlin. The damaged railroad station (Bahnhof) crumbles to rubble due to dynamite blasting. Wreckage of the great structure is seen.

Location: Berlin West Germany
Date: 1959, February 2
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040898
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