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Hungarian refugees cross a canal in nigh, hide in marshlands and arrive at Austrian refugee camp in Austria.

Hungarian refugees arrive in Austria, fleeing violence in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (also called the Hungarian Uprising) against the Soviets. The Hungarian refugees cross a canal in night. A red Hungarian border guard crosses the canal. The Hungarian guard waves to them. The refugees hide in marshland. The refugees cross the marshland. An Austrian guard stand at the border signal them. The refugees enter in Austria. Several views of the Hungarian families entering Austria. The refugees crowd outside the swamp rescue agency. Several close up of the refugees. The refugees at the Austrian refugee camps.

Date: 1956, October 26
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069745
The Marshall Plan is implemented in different European nations so that they can recover from economic problems.

A documentary reviews the beginning of the Marshall Plan in response to the post war (World War II) needs of Europeans. It depicts its effect on the lives of people during the first year of its implementation. People on a street. A map of Europe. Animation depicts the production of textile, output of coal, requirement of manufacturing industries, and declined food production. U.S. Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall, Jr., tells the people of Europe that if they work together the U.S. will supply money for food and raw material. People read about Marshall's appeal in the newspapers. Traffic on the streets in Paris, France. Foreign Minsters of Great Britain, France and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov arrive for a meeting to discuss the Marshall Plan. The delegates and representatives at the meeting. Molotov comes out from the meeting. Animated map depicts 16 European nations which get together to work for economic development. The delegates seated in a hall in Paris. The Organization for Economic Co-operation is formed. Delegates of European nations signing a document. A view of Norway. A book on a table reads 'First Annual Requirements Program Submitted to O.E.E.C.'. The Marshall Aid provided to Italy. The Marshall Plan implemented in Ireland. Traffic and people on a road. The U.S. Capitol in Washington DC. A meeting of the Congress for the Marshall Plan. Paul G. Hoffman is appointed the administrator of the Marshall Plan. People listen to news about the European Recover Program (ERP) on radios. Men unload food supplies sent by the U.S. from ships at a dock. People listen to a dignitary. Men unload machines from the ship. Workers in Holland ride bicycles. A man unloads cotton from a freight car. A sign for ERP on the freight car. Men at work in a mill. A coal hoist is delivered in Britain. The miners dig out coal and use the hoist. The coal is loaded aboard a ship for trade. Building of automobiles at a plant in Italy.

Date: 1950
Duration: 6 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069771
A resistance fighter dismantles the Communist Red Star on a building in Budapest, Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Pedestrians along a road in Budapest, Hungary. Debris on a field. Soviet vehicles on a street. A resistance fighter dismantles the Communist Red Star on the top of a building near the National Museum, in the Kalvin Square (Budapest, Kálvin tér 12, 1088 Hungary). Derailed trams in front of the Hungarian National Museum. Hungarian civilians look on. Interiors of a damaged building. Civilians gather along a street.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070128
Information about unidentified airplanes is transmitted in the United States.

A public television program by the U.S. Army entitled 'The Big Picture.' U.S. troops are seen hunkered down and looking through binoculars in a defensive position in Korea, during the Korean War. American soldiers riding atop a Sherman tank on a city street in Germany, during World War II. Ski troops moving across snowy hill in Alaska. U.S. Army amphibious assault training on a beach in Puerto Rico. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, narrator, speaks about America's defense against threat of atomic attack in these times of lukewarm peace. View of mountainous region in Alaska. A cluster of Cup'it Eskimo dwellings is seen on Nunivak Island, in the Bering Sea. Several of the local inhabitants are fishing through holes cut in the ice. Vapor trails are seen from Soviet aircraft flying at high altitude. A sign on a tarpaulin displaying logo of the Army Signal Corps, reads,"Alaska Communication System, Long Distance Commercial Telephone-Telegraph." A tracked vehicle carries a soldier to a facility posting a sign reading, "Alaska Communications System Receiver Station." Several tall antennas loom above the site. The soldier, dressed in arctic gear, steps from the tracked vehicle and walks past several snow shoes, standing upright in the snow, to enter a white wooden building. Inside, a man in civilian clothes works at a battery of telecomunications equipment. He transmits a message about the aircraft sighting, to the Alaska Communication System facility in Fairbanks Alaska (briefly shown) by means of a telegraph key. From there it is relayed to a Signal Corps facility, shown, in Washington, DC. A soldier is seen Inside that facility, in a room filled with computers and telecommunications equipment. A Sergeant handles paper tape messages being sent and received by teletype. Another soldier plugs connections into a communications switchboard. Next, the camera pans over the entrance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. More views of soldiers attending banks of teletype machines. Animated map displays paths of orders being transmitted to U.S. Air Defense Centers in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta. View from control room, of several U.S. Air Force F-94 Fighter Interceptor aircraft on an airfield ramp. A controller activates a Klaxon horn and pilots on alert, in the Fighter Interceptor Squadron ready room, jump up and scramble to their aircraft. A pair of F-94s taking off. One is number 51-5385. Next, a U.S. Navy F-9 fighter plane is seen taking off from an airfield. It displays tail code AE. It is followed by another F-9 aircraft.

Date: 1954
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070284
American astronaut John Glenn's teachers, friends and other people speak about him in New Concord, Ohio.

A film titled 'The John Glenn Story' on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. U.S. President John F Kennedy seated at a desk in his office. He says that John Glenn "is an inspiration to all Americans." A radar locates an aircraft. View from cockpit or gun camera of a U.S. aircraft firing on a Soviet MiG-15 or MiG-17aircraft in flight. An American F-86 aircraft spinning. The launch of a NASA rocket. Point of view from a moving car driving through New Concord, Ohio. Aerial view suburban houses of New Concord. Boy throws rocks into pond and runs through field. Boy running under bridge and looking through stone foundation. Boy riding a bike. Boy running through field with arms outstretched as if flying. Boy waving to train pulled by diesel electric locomotive as train runs by New Concord railroad station. Mayor Taylor of New Concord Ohio speaks about John Glenn. External view New Concord High School. Teach Harvard Steele speaks about John Glenn. External view of newly constructed John Glenn High School. First graduates of John Glenn High School during graduation ceremony. View of Glenn Plumbing building in New Concord. Muskingum College in New Concord Ohio. Shots of high school age teenage boys playing football, basketball in a gymnasium, track, and baseball. Young men do calisthenics while Muskingum coach Ed Sherman speaks about John Glenn's athletic accomplishments. Students sit on bench at Muskingum College and talk about John Glenn.

Date: 1963
Duration: 6 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070445
Three Russian aviators, who spanned the North Pole in a flight from Moscow to the US, receive official welcome in New York.

Soviet Fliers are greeted in New York. Men pose for a camera with three Russian aviators who spanned the North Pole in a flight from Moscow to the U.S. The three aviators. They receive official reception at the City Hall by New York Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. A large crowd at the City Hall to welcome the three aviators.

Date: 1937, June 30
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070575