The 1968 Olympic games to be held in Mexico. The preparation for the Olympic games. Buildings and stadiums being constructed. Men work with bulldozers at the construction site. Stadium, pool-gymnasium and sports palace being constructed.
Telephone conversation between U.S. President Richard Nixon and the astronauts of Apollo 11, while they are on the moon, July 20th, 1969. President Nixon seated at a desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, United States. Technicians setting up video cameras. Nixon talks over a phone. Men setting up a monitor screen. Flickering moving images of the astronauts beside the Lunar Lander, on the surface of the moon. A camera focuses in on a document titled: DRAFT 'Talk to men on the moon' on the desk. The opening sentence reads: "This is an epic day in the history of man." A split image on the screen shows President Nixon talking and the astronauts on the moon. President Nixon talking to an astronaut on a phone at his desk in the Oval Office. Picture of "Earthrise" as seen from the moon, on wall in the Oval Office. NASA Astronaut, Frank Borman,who commanded the Apollo 8 mission,in 1968, comes before the cameras in the White House and makes speaks on behalf of NASA astronauts involved in the Apollo missions.
Musician plays a hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed musical instrument, near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Lynn Elder assembles body of a hurdy-gurdy. Lynn Elder bends wood for a dulcimer. A female student assembles a wooden body of a dulcimer. Student traces wood with pencil. Craftsman teaches a student how to carve wood. View of a rebec. Student carves wood to make instrument. A student tests a dulcimers sound using quill. Musicians play medieval instruments. “Magic Mountain Workshop 1968” sign. Lynn Elder drills a hole into wood and applies glue to a dulcimer. He puts metal string on dulcimer. A musician plays a medieval instrument. Various medieval instruments on display as Lynn Elder plays a hurdy-gurdy.
Security Council meeting on South Africa crisis at United Nations headquarters in New York, United States. Dignitary speaks during the council meeting. Name plates in front of him read 'President' and 'United States'. Dignitaries and personnel present at the meeting. The Security Council places South Africa's apartheid crisis on its agenda, over South Africa protests. Meanwhile in South Africa, the native work stoppage continues and thousands march in protest against government policies. Factories near sea. People stand in a line at a shop. Native black South African residents protest and carry caskets as they demonstrate on road.
Winners being welcomed at Rand Airport in Germiston, South Africa. Aircraft lands at the Rand Airport. Aviator Charles William Anderson Scott and his co-pilot Giles Guthrie disembark from an aircraft. People welcome them as they win the Britain- South Africa 6500 miles Air Race in 53 hours.
A newsreel titled 'Royal family arrives in South Africa' shows South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts welcoming the British Royal family into Cape Town, South Africa. The Royal family consisting of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Princess Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret moves across the city in a motorcade, as the people cheer them on. They attend a garden party where nearly five thousand people are gathered to pay their respects to them. Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon wears a hat that features ostrich feathers; other women present wear grand hats and carry parasols, influenced by the queen's fashion.
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