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German V-2 rockets at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.

Shows the White Sands Proving Ground ( White Sands Missile Range), a rocket range in New Mexico. The sign on the entrance reads ' U.S. Naval Unit White Sands Proving Ground '. German V-2 rocket parts at the facility. An erected tail section of the V-2 rocket and a rocket launch(firing) platform. Rocket reads 'German V-2 rocket,Ordnance Department, White Sands Proving Ground ,New Mexico'.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029065
Colonel Joseph Kittinger puts on a suit and enters the gondola of a balloon while working on Project Excelsior in New Mexico.

United States Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger makes the longest jump during Project Excelsior in New Mexico. Colonel Kittinger puts on a suit for the jump and enters a balloon gondola. Men help him. The balloon rises from New Mexico. An automatic camera in the gondola records the whole event. The colonel jumps out of the gondola and descends towards the land. People watch the colonel descending. He is helped out of the suit as he lands.

Date: 1960, August 18
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061726
U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers drop bombs over target during a practice mission in New Mexico.

U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft on a practice mission in New Mexico during World War II. Bombardiers load bombs on B-24 Liberator bombers. The bombers drop bombs over target in New Mexico. Bomb bursts on target.

Date: 1942
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074805
Historical events of 1935 including Stresa Front, U.S. anti-war demonstrations, FDR in Jacksonville, Easter Parade, Female flyers

Scenes showing various historical events that took place in April 1935, during the Great Depression. In Stresa, Italy, on the banks of Lake Maggiore, leaders of Britain, France and Italy confer on German rearmament, in violation and defiance of the Versailles Treaty. (There they sign the "Stresa Front"). Images show the French and British delegations arriving by boat and walking near the port at Stresa, including British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, French Prime Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, and French Foreign Minister (President of the Council of Ministers) Pierre Laval. U.S. College students across the country join in anti-war, pacifist demonstrations. They are seen marching with banners and anti-war signs and cartoons. One banner reads, "It is the task of the 20th century to make this world a brotherhood." Also "War is Hell....Who want to go to hell?" and "War is Stupid". President Franklin Roosevelt returns from a two week cruise. He arrives in Jacksonville Florida. Local officials and crowds in Jacksonville greet him and cheer. Boy Scouts in a line greet the President. Views of Franklin Roosevelt in an open car and on ships and docks. Al Smith and Herbert Hoover share the speaker's stage in New York lending their support for the Salvation Army during the Depression. Scenes from the Easter Parade in New York City. Crowds gather, filling double-decker open air buses. Al Smith seen with his wife. Postmaster General James Farley and Irish tenor singer John McCormack are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York. Amelia Earhart completes a 1700-mile flight from Burbank, California to Mexico City. Scenes of her in Mexico City in a car laden down with celebrating Mexican officials. Aviatrix Bernadine King sets a new record for upside down endurance flying. She is seen getting into her plane, and her plane is seen upside down in the air.

Date: 1935, April
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029310
People on Park Avenue waiting to enter General Motor's Motorama show in New York; also dancers performing at the show

People line up in large number to enter Hotel Waldorf Astoria to view General Motor's auto show Motorama in New York City, United States. Sign reads “GM General Motors Motorama of 1953” at the entrance of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Men form long lines on Park Avenue. Dancers perform a ballet in front of a large audience during the motor show.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037642
LSD tests conducted on unwilling and powerless victims including prostitutes and drug addicts by the CIA in the United States.

A documentary depicts administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. A part time chemist for CIA, Dr. James Moore. A mushroom expert is asked to get a magic mushroom and turn it into a drug. He talks about how they got the mushroom. Local shaman or magical priests perform rituals. Dr. James helps CIA in producing new chemicals. Dr. James along with Wilson went to Mexico to get the mushroom. Mexicans prepare food. News correspondent Paul Atmeyer questions Dr. James about the kind of mushroom they are looking for and the effects of the drug. Testing of the drug. A statement of the CIA officers who worked on the experiments describes how the decision was made. The decisions was made and tests conducted on unwilling and powerless victims including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. CIA took help of a high ranking narcotics official George White. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, talks about White. Traffic on streets. Safe houses set up by White for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and clubs. Exterior of a Motel Hotel in San Fransisco and a view of San Fransisco bay from an apartment. The former CIA official who worked in the safe houses studies sexual behavior and how it is used to manipulate people. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Effects of LSD. LSD research is done in American Universities. LSD researcher Dr. Timothy Leary talks about the consciousness movement in the 60s.

Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 7 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047228