A television advertisement for Longines Watch Company in United States. Doll couple at table. Television host talks about souvenirs presented on weddings. He shows a pair of watch. Host tells that Longines Company has received many awards. He tells that it is world's most honored watch. He shows emblem of the company. Host explains about a watch of Longines Company - 'ATMOS', the perpetual motion clock. Host describes its functioning and about its maker.
French Union Para-troopers attack the outer ring of Communists besieging Dien Bien Phu in a new measure to relieve pressure on the isolated garrison during Operation Castor. Troops move ahead through fields. A map shows the area of battle. French Para-troopers jump from planes and ascend. Troops advance amidst machine gun and mortar fire. A soldier in position on the ground shoots. Smoke from firing and explosions. Soldiers fire from behind barricades. Soldiers discuss a map. View of the conflict area. Airplanes in the sky.
Cars in a parking lot in Seattle. Policeman checks pock marks on windshield of a car with a pen. A man covers his windshield to protect it from pock marks. Men sitting in a row, talk over telephones. Men observe a windshield and scientists study the marks through a microscope. Cars on a busy road.
People gather for the spring opening of Madurodam, a miniature park located in Scheveningen district of The Hague, in the Netherlands. The village is also described as the 'Lilliput of the lowlands in Holland' by the narrator. Two children observe moving miniature cars on the model road in Madurodam (George Maduroplein 1, 2584 RZ Den Haag, Netherlands). Small model houses in the small-scale surroundings, visited by people gathered for the opening. The crowd watches as a tall actor playing as 'Gulliver' awakes from his slumber. Gulliver gives children a tour of Madurodam. People observe a bridge amidst the model village as a train passes over it.
People waiting at a shipyard in New York. People holding placards, boards and banners welcome soldiers home coming. Soldiers of the 45th Thunderbird division return from Korea. Relatives and loved ones wait to greet them. Young soldiers kiss their wives on return. Family members hug the returned soldiers. Soldiers embrace their young children. A mother hugs her son on his return.
B-26C takes off. Planes drop bombs in the conflict area. The bombers are followed by C-47 planes marked with crosses and loaded with food and medical supplies for the wounded in the hospitals. Pilot talks on the radio. Men attach supplies to parachutes and drop them from the plane. Air planes flying to evacuate the most critically wounded fighting men captured by the Reds at Dien Bien Phu. People watch as a Sikorsky H-34 helicopter lands. Taking the wounded people on the stretchers to safety in Hanoi. Soldiers and medical personnel help transfer the wounded from the helicopter to hospital tents. Patients receive treatment at the hospital.
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