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1955 models of Chrysler Corporation automobiles being displayed at auto show.

1955 models of Chrysler Corporation autos on display drive through a tent into a very large tent..A sign on the back of one identifies it as a Chrysler Imperial Newport model.The parade of cars is heralded by four young women with trumpets. The cars circle around in the tent and then exit. Model names are shown: Belvedere and FireFlite. The cars circle outside in a parklike setting.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1954
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037650
International Longshoreman's Union President, Harry Bridges, is released from prison to appear before the U.S. District Court in San Francisco

Final attempts by Department of Justice, to deport International Longshoreman Union President Harry Bridges for labor organizing and alleged subversive activities. Film begins showing sign reading: "Department of Corrections,California State Prison, San Quentin." An automobile is seen driving toward the camera, out the gate of the prison. Guards open and close iron gates of the prison twice, as if for benefit of the camera. Distant view of front gates closed. Scene shifts to co-counsel of Harry Bridges legal defense team parking his car and stepping out carrying some legal papers. He walks to office at the entrance of San Quentin prison and speaks with guards. Scene shifts abruptly to Harry Bridges' lead defense attorney, Carol Weiss King, surrounded by reporters and others in the hall of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Francisco. Next a car is seen driving down a ramp to enter the court building parking garage. Harry Bridges steps from the car and is escorted by two uniformed guards and other persons. They all enter an elevator. Camera focuses on a room identified as "Number 203, U.S. Marshal, Criminal Dep't." Two men come out and join others escorting Harry Bridgers in the Court building hall. Closeup of Bridgers as he passes the camera. Photographers are busy taking pictures. Officials thoroughly search Bridgers, and then they all enter a room.

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037529
American children being vaccinated against polio in 1955

Children given polio vaccination en masse in the United States. A doctor administers a vaccination. Nurses put ointment on hands of the children to be vaccinated. Mothers carry their children for polio vaccination. A boy smiles after his vaccination. A girl hugs the nurse as she is being vaccinated by a doctor. A nurse takes the medicine into a syringe from a bottle. A nurse applies heat to sterilize syringe needle before extracting vaccine from a vial. The children being vaccinated one after another.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067765
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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073564
United Nations Security Council, 1955. Israeli envoy Abba Eban, Turkish envoy Salim Sarper, and UK envoy Sir Pierson Dixon

Turkey's ambassador to the UN, Salim Sarper, strikes a gavel, while seated at the delegate's table of the UN Security Council in New York, United States. Israeli delegate, Abba Eban is seen chatting with others. Abba Eban with British UN delegate, Sir Pierson Dixon, to his left. Scene of council room.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024227
U.S. Army Tactical nuclear weapons and preparations for Atomic Exercise Desert Rock VI at the Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Proving Grounds in 1955

United States Army cameraman seen recording Nike missile launch. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud in the distance. Army troops carried to a field by Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. U.S. infantry climb a hill firing their rifles. U.S. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen narrates the film. He speaks about the role of the soldier in the United States Army. Scientists inside a control room during a rocket launch. A rocket launch in the United States. Rocket tracker and telescope move to the rocket’s direction. Cameramen taking footage of rocket launch. Jet propulsion with rocket. A V2 rocket launch. A jet explodes after launching. A nuclear bomb explosion. A missile takes off. Devices and people track missile takeoff. A rocket launches from a ship. Midair explosion after a rocket hits a target aircraft.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061659
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