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Houses, people and vehicles in flooded waters in California.

A flooded area in California. An aerial view of a field. Water in the area. A van on a flooded road. Houses in the flooded waters. A woman carrying with her clothes wades out of her house through the flooded waters.

Date: 1958, April 7
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046598
Technician working with transmitter and recorder in Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California.

Technicians work with various instruments at Jet Propulsion Lab. Moving part observed in the Van Allen recorder. A technician assembles an instrument package containing high power transmitter, receiver and tape. Compares the instrument package with low power transmitter.

Date: 1958, February 25
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023674
A welder prepares shell for rocket motor case by welding a metal sheet at Jet Propulsion Laboratory California.

A welder takes a rolled metal sheet and fix it to a holder. Then he welds the rim of the sheet wearing helmet and gloves. Gas flame is used to create high temperature for welding. The welder takes out the cylinder from holder and examines the welded part. The resultant cylinder is probably the shell for rocket motor.

Date: 1958, February 26
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023677
Implementation of the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in Red China.

Postwar living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) photographed by Indians visiting the country. The film highlights China's problems of industry, agriculture, and excess population. Advertisements and posters for the Mao Zedong led economic and social plan titled the 'Great Leap Forward' in 1958. Objectives of the plan. Agriculture, industry, and education in China, including brief shot of men, women, and children in classroom, possibly for re-education. Men and women work in factories and plants. A Russian sign reads 'Made in the Soviet Union'. Workers inside a huge automatic automotive plant set up and supplies by the Soviet Union (SU). A steel and iron company rebuilt and enlarged with the aid of Soviet Union. A seamless steel tube mill supplied and erected by the SU. A plant designed, equipped, and built by SU technicians. A bridge over a river. Women work in a high voltage testing laboratory equipped by the East German government. A fully automatic petroleum refinery built by the Japanese. A heavy gilding machine plant started by the Japanese in 1937. Various factories, plants, and industries in China. Rural farmland and irrigation. People work in backyard furnaces, factories, presses, rolling mills and automotive factories. Deserted city streets with few cars. Workers inside an automotive plant. Communist Party of China Chairman Mao Zedong signs a pact with the Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. Newspaper headlines regarding the disagreements leading to rifts in the China-Soviet relations in 1960. The Soviet Union withdraws technicians and support from China resulting in closure of industries. Statistics highlight China's dropping industrial production in steel, coal, electricity, and petroleum compared to that of USA, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom.

Date: 1961
Duration: 6 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021675
Vice President Nixon standing beside X-15 and talking with personnel at NAA (North American Aviation), Los Angeles.

The first public showing of an X-15 rocket powered aircraft at the NAA (North American Aviation) facility in Los Angeles, California. Various military, U.S. and foreign officers sit in bleachers. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon gives a speech. The X-15 being towed out from a hangar by a tug. Vice President Nixon stands beside the nose of the X-15. He shakes hands with personnel and talks while looking at the X-15.

Date: 1958, October 15
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047511
Vice President Nixon speaks into a microphone at the NAA (North American Aviation) facility in Los Angeles.

The first public showing of an X-15 rocket powered aircraft at the NAA (North American Aviation) facility in Los Angeles, California. Various personnel sit in bleachers. A motion picture camera in action on top of a stand. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon speaks. The X-15 being towed out from a hangar by a tug. The Vice President looks at the X-15 parked in front of the reviewing stand.

Date: 1958, October 15
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047512