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"Owens" shot of Operation Plumbbob U.S. nuclear testing being conducted at Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada.

United States conducts nuclear test at Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada, during Operation Plumbbob. Desert floor, mountains in the background. Area obscured by the brightness as shot Owens blast goes off in the background. Circular ring of smoke covers the ground area. The fireball and smoke churns upward. The top part of the mushroom cloud rise slowly and moves outward. Cloud dissipates from the blast, it mingles in with natural clouds.

Date: 1957, July 25
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046804
An officer briefs the press after the testing of a nuclear device at Nevada test range outside Las Vegas, Nevada.

Nuclear device test on Nevada test range near Las Vegas, Nevada. Newsmen and U.S. Military officers at the test site. The newsmen gathered around an officer as they question him after the conduct of test. The officer briefs the press. An aircraft in flight.

Date: 1952, March 22
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059278
Donna Atwood and other figure skaters performing during the preview of the Ice Capades of 1956 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

A preview of the Ice Capades of 1956 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. People seated inside a theater. Girls performing ice skating in a rink. Figure skaters performing in front of the people. People applauding and cheering. American figure skater Donna Atwood performing.

Date: 1955, September 1
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076491
Cotton Carnival parade in Memphis Tennessee, USA

Cotton Carnival in Memphis. A series of parties staged at Carnival. Current year's selected King, Queen and Royal Court of carnival. Presentations and parade by all cotton producing states. Decorated floats go by in a night time parade as crowd cheers. Floats have elaborate artwork and kings and queens. Flags of cotton producing states seen on many floats, including Georgia 1956 flag incorporating the Confederate battle flag on the Georgia float.

Date: 1957, May 16
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040126
Views of various neon lights and signs at shops, casinos, clubs and motels in Las Vegas Nevada

Various types of neon lights and signs at Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada. Neon signs read as 'Slater Motel, Drive in Here', 'Fox Market', 'Sav-on Self Service Drug Store' and '3 Min'. Neon lights and signs on entrance of building. Neon lights and signs for Overland Hotel Las Vegas (20 E Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101, USA) and the Las Vegas Club Casino at Fremont Street, Las Vegas. Luck Strike Club neon sign is also seen.

Date: 1958
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072077
Various U.S. Air Force missiles and intercepter aircraft of 1956

U.S. Airmen uncrate an AIM-4 Falcon heat-seeking guided air-to-air missile. Closeup as they remove it from its box. Next, an animated segment shows a fighter interceptor firing such a missile at a high flying bomber. it strikes and destroys the bomber. A Falcon missile on a test stand. It is launched for a short distance and then hits the ground. A brief animated segment illustrates an airborne missile being fired at another airplane, from a fighter aircraft. Glimpse of an Air Force aircraft dropping a parachute delayed bomb. A Convair F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft parked on a ramp. A MGM-1 Matador Cruise Missile being launched from a test stand. An F-102 interceptor aircraft taking off and in flight. It fires a missile straight ahead. Another F-102 firing a missile in flight, and a target drone tumbling to the ground and exploding. Airmen drive a forklift truck up to a parked F-102 aircraft, and remove a crate containing a Hughes AIM-4 Falcon missile. They remove it and place it in a firing test stand. A suspended net target in the desert is destroyed by a missile passing through it. Air Force mechanics work on an F-102 aircraft. A MGM-1 Matador Cruise Missile being fired. It travels some distance before breaking up. View of Matador Cruise Missile in flight. A drone target aircraft being struck by a missile in flight, and falling to earth.

Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037534