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Band and dancers of Oklahoma Sooners, and clowns performing on New Years Eve during 1958 Orange Bowl parade.
A huge gathering present for the 1958 Orange Bowl parade associated with the January 1, 1958 Orange Bowl game between the University of Oklahoma "Sooners" and the Duke University "Blue Devils" college football teams. Dancers and band of the Oklahoma Sooners perform at the parade. Girls dancing, instrumentalists pass by, a clown on a canoe with wheels and another clown on snow skis with wheels. Police motorcyclists perform a drill. Girls in dresses (Orange Bowl queen and court) ride by on a parade float.
A review of modern U.S. Army field weapons (circa 1955) showing some in tests and exercises
A U.S. Army Sergeant at a blackboard explains the concept of moments in mathematical terms to a classroom of soldiers. Next, soldiers are seen in a shop equipped with electronic equipment. An oficer watches as a soldier removes a motherboard from a bank of early computers. As the officer refers to a wiring diagram, the soldier checks the board. Scene changes to outdoors where several infantrymen are seen running alongside an M4A3E8 76 mm armed Sherman tank, as it climbs up from a ravine and moves forward. Next, two views of a Flame Thrower Tank M67 are seen as it fires a jet of flaming fluid. Field artillery pieces and tank guns and machine guns fire and destroy various targets on a field. A soldier presses plunger to remotely launch a tactical rocket. More views of tactical rockets being fired. A mushroom cloud created by the explosion of a tactical nuclear weapon. Camera pans over a variety of Army artillery, tanks, self-propelled guns, missiles and other field weapons.
Oklahoma Aggies play DePaul in 1940 National Invitation Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York
Excerpts from the 1940 National Invitation Basketball Tournament Quarterfinal game already underway between Oklahoma Aggies and DePaul at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Numerous scoring scenes are shown in the course of the film, many of them involving long set shots. (Oklahoma won 23 to 22 and advanced to the Semifinals.)
USAF and NOAA collaborate to identify and track severe storms and tornadoes with Doppler radar in the United States.
Scenes of actual tornadoes photographed in the United States. View inside the U.S.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Center at Norman Oklahoma. Meteorologists at desks and monitoring radar screens. A radar dome and view of antenna rotating inside. A U.S. Air Force RF-4c aircraft in flight providing observations to the Weather Center, where meteorologists are tracking severe weather returns on radar.
Varying sentiments about war and labor in lead up to World War 2. Roosevelt delivers his war message in the United States.
Disturbances and conflicting views about war versus isolationist approach in the United States prior to World War II. Officials speak about lend lease and officials with anti-war involvement stance advocate protectionism. Speakers include Senator Gerald P. Nye. and Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Wendell Willkie speak advocating a unified approach. Senator Joshua B. Lee of Oklahoma speaks. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress and delivers his war message. Pacifist student protestors on street in front of the White House with anti-war banners that read 'Peace Mobilization'. Counter demonstrators also picket, including a man with a sign, "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." Vehicles drive past in front of the White House. A group of women anti-war protestors are seen seated at an event, and together they pull down black veils in front of their faces. German Bund officials (German-American Bund) are seen meeting at an outdoor rally, and then again at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1939. A band plays and the leader Fritz Julius Kuhn gives a brief speech during which a protestor leaps the stage and is beaten down by Bund members. Workers on streets protesting for various labor rights. They march and picket on a street. Demonstrators for other causes in American society in the early 1940s, including a woman demonstrator who carries a sign advocating civil rights or equal rights that says "Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?" Clip ends with scenes of violence at various labor strikes, including scabs (strike-breakers) being attacked, beaten, and hit by strikers, and authorities directing water hoses on strikers to repel them away from a building gate.
Eisenhower is greeted by a crowd after his recovery and Paul Dudley White addresses a press conference in Washington DC.
U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower in Washington DC after his recovery from his 1955 heart attack. The President followed by officials waves to people. The President enters a car. Paul Dudley White, American physician and cardiologist, addresses a press conference stating that the condition of the President is fit for another 5 to 10 years. The President and the First Lady of the United States Mamie Doud Eisenhower disembark from an aircraft at an airport. A crowd waves to the president. The car is driven on a road with the crowd gathered on either side to greet the President.
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