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Different activities at a phosphate mining site in Karatau Mountains, Kazakhstan.

Phosphate mines in Kazakhstan, Soviet Union. A man drives camels loaded with material at a mining site in Karatau Mountains. Explosive is detonated. Workers climb a hill. An equipment in operation on hillside. Interiors of an electric power station showing technicians at an instrument panel with gauges. Sprinklers in operation.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074204
Soviet Union Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, tours to investigate lagging agriculture production in Siberia.

Soviet Union Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, tours Siberia. Dignitaries hail the arrival of Premier Khrushchev in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan. They greet and present bouquets. The Premier tours to investigate lagging agriculture production. In a civic reception Khrushchev gives a speech to the local farmers. A man gives a sheep and a farmer presents corn to the Premier for demonstration.

Date: 1961, April 6
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055789
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace visits a copper mine and coal mine in Central Asia.

U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Kazakhstan. A man on a horseback. Sheep, camel and cattle graze in the field. Kazakh man uses a pole with a running noose on it to lasso a horse. The people cook donuts. The horsemen smoke American king size cigarettes for the first time. Women make tea in the open. The coal mine industry in Karaganda. Open cut coal pits. Bulldozers scoop of the earth to revile of coal. Tracks being laid and the trains moves into the cut coal pits. The equipment being used in the mines. Wallace speaks to the engineers. The machines and trains being operated by women. They then visit a copper mine also known as Soviet anaconda. A crane picks up the copper.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047179
An operator works on a tape recorder machine after the launch of Luna 2 from Russia.

The launch of Luna 2, the first rocket launched to reach the moon, from the Soviet Union. Luna 2 rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Russia. It is the first man made object to travel from one cosmic body to another. Craters seen on the surface of the moon. At a geographical center an operator works on a tape recorder machine. Demonstration of the accuracy and reliability of the rocket. Camera zooms close to the moon.

Date: 1959, September 12
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055804
Atoms for Peace. UN approves formation of IAEA. Nuclear scientists gather in Geneva Switzerland

UN General Assembly seen meeting in 1954 as it approves an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge II, and French ambassador, Henri Hoppenot, speaking. Finn Moe, of Norway, speaking. View of the city of Kjeller, Norway. Flags of Norway and the Netherlands at joint atomic laboratory. Scientists with various pieces of scientific equipment inside the facility. Indian ambassador, Krishna Menon, speaking at the United Nations. Atomic laboratory and a Government Teachers' Training College, in India. Indian scientists in a laboratory. Indian lecturer speaks to students. Brazil's Professor Ernesto Leme speaks at the UN. The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The University of Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Center for Physical Research. Clock tower of Brazil Central Station in Rio. Sutan Sjahrir,of Indonesia at the United Nations. An animated map shows nations interested in atomic energy. The UN Headquarters building on the East River in New York. A person looking through a microscope. Foreign scientists attending indoctrination courses at the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory. Diplomats sign agreement between the U.S. and Philippines on July 27, 1955, for the Philippines to lease uranium for a research nuclear reactor, and to receive technical assistance. Views of Geneva Switzerland in August 1955, including street views with pedestrians, and tram or streetcar on city streets. Exterior of Palace of Nations, then interior view with atomic science conference in progress. Indian nuclear physicist, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, presiding over conference of scientists and university representatives from 73 nations, including, inter alia, John Cockcroft, of Great Britain; Otto Hahn, of Germany; Willard Libby, of the U.S.A.; Vladimir Vexler of the Soviet Union; and Niels Bohr of Denmark. Views of exhibit hall at the conference, and displayed models of nuclear reactors, uranium ore refining exhibits, and accelerators. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower views swimming pool reactor, while visiting the exhibit hall. Site work and construction underway in Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland for a research laboratory for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Sitework seen for a facility of Euratom in Europe (European Atomic Energy Community). View of early sitework in Manila for an Asian nuclear center in the Philippines under the Colombo plan, for training personnel in nuclear science and technology.

Date: 1957
Duration: 7 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035402
Exchange of cultures and collaboration in science and arts between the Soviet Union and the United States

The Moscow summit between the U.S. and USSR in Moscow, Russia. Wyeth family artwork being packed in boxes for a visit to the Soviet Union. Various paintings being packed up. In exchange, some Russian paintings and artwork seen that will be displayed in America. General Secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev visits the United States during Glasnost efforts amid Perestroika reforms. People on the streets in what appears to be New York or possibly Washington DC are surprised when he exits his motorcade to shake hands directly with American citizens gathered on the sidewalks.The U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and his wife visiting Soviet Georgia and being greeted by Soviet citizens. Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan side by side at a summit in Washington DC. They stand together on the White House lawn as a band plays. Animation depicts the sharing of cultures between the two nations and the exchange of magazines. View of American rock star Billy Joel and his band performing at a concert in the Soviet Union on New Year's eve. A Moiseyev Dance Company folk troupe from Russia performing a dance in the United States. Cultural exchange between the two countries includes views of a piano performance by Vladimir Horowitz in Moscow and a ballet performance in the United States by the Bolshoi Ballet. Several Russian school children pose for pictures on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Soviet teenage children enjoy a elevated ropes course in an outdoor program. People sit in an amphitheater with officials at a Chautaqua Talk in 1987. A group of Soviet citizens view a touring "Information USA" exhibit in the Soviet Union that presents American culture. They view the program on an array of television monitors. A young Russian boy speaks in Russian about his interest in learning about American culture. People watch a science exhibition. Astronauts of the USA (NASA) and Soviet Union in a spacecraft. The astronauts open a connecting hatch and shake hands (possibly on a space station). Narrator describes collaboration of the two nations to monitor and study the depleting ozone layer of the earth and how to protect it. A man is shown sunbathing. Officials of the America and the Soviet Union sign an agreement relating to sharing information about safety of nuclear power plants. Soviet representatives and George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of State, inaugurate a new communication system that communicates nuclear dangers between the two countries. A woman in the communication room. Food grain pouring from a harvester, part of what is supplied to the Soviets. Soviet Union tanks and soldiers in Afghanistan. Soviet soldiers walking on a street in Afghanistan in front of a shop. Arrested American journalist Nicholas Daniloff disembarks an aircraft after his release. View of the exterior of the American Embassy in Russia. U.S. marine Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree being escorted under guard after having been accused of collaborating in a Soviet spy mission at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Scene inside a Voice of America radio broadcast studio. Sign indicates it is broadcasting in Russian. Close up of meter moving on a radio instrument during the broadcast. Dancers from the Dance Theatre of Harlem performing before their visit to the Soviet Union. A group of Soviet citizens including men, women and children walking outdoors. Mikhail Gorbachev with U.S. President Ronald Reagan at a ceremony on the White House grounds on December 8, 1987.

Date: 1987
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032115