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Various home made kites and people on grounds of Washington Monument during Kite Carnival in Washington DC.

The first annual Kite Carnival sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution on the grounds of the Washington Monument. People with home made kites. Man ties string to kite. Photographer clicks pictures. Children watch and hold kites. Man runs and tries to fly a kite. Little girl holds kite's string and fly kite. Notice on tree reads 'Beware, kite eating tree' and a torn kite hung on the trunk of tree. Eagle shaped kite in air.

Date: 1967, March 28
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026441
Dying procedure of narrow palm leaves strips using aniline dye in Mexico.

Mexican Indians use reed and palm to make objects of everyday use in Mexico. Woman puts vessel on to temporary stove. Man cuts wooden logs. Woman puts logs into stove and blows air from mouth to light stove. She puts aniline dye into water and stirs it. Then she puts narrow striped Palm leaves into boiling water. She folds leaves into water. Woman waves mat to light the stove. Then she takes out the leaves from water and hung on ropes to dry.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026509
Wright Brothers demonstrate flight with a passenger in Le Mans, France.

Wright Brothers demonstrate their airplane in public at Hunaudieres horse racing track near the town of Le Mans, France. The "Wright Flyer" is brought to the field in center of the track, by horses. French audience sits and talks. Two men rotate blades of the "flyer" to start it. A team of men pull a rope to raise a weight in a launching derrick. When the weight drops it catapults the airplane into the air. Views of the airplane in flight, with Wilbur Wright at the controls accompanied by a passenger.

Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026656
Security Escort procedures for access to unmanned Minuteman Missile sites

Security system and procedures for access to unmanned Minuteman Missile sites of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). Shown are procedures used by Security escort accompanying a maintenance team to a site. View of soldier typing on a typewriter and answering phone at the security dispatch office. The security form, called the 'pre-dispatch security notification' is shown. Military escort receiving codes on a card given to him at the dispatch window is also issued and M-16 rifle with 54 rounds. The military escort, dressed in a winter parka, shows that he knows the lock combination using a simulated lock at the dispatch desk. A separate detail goes through similar measures at a separate dispatch desk. Map shows radio check points that will be used by the escort during the missile maintenance activity. Green M1 Dodge truck driving in the desert to missile silo site. Military escort and maintenance crew dressed in winter coats arrive at chain link fence surrounding missile silo in the desert. They unlock the chain link fence gate. They open ground level security hatch. Soldier at missile command answers phone call from them and authorizes. Close up of combination lock set into the ground of the missile silo. Guard unlocks the combination lock and lifts the tube door cover out of the ground. Soldier wearing winter parka with M16 rifle watches as men open hatches to missile silo and descend into silo to perform maintenance. After procedure, men get into the back of the military truck and leave the missile area. Aerial view of minuteman missile site. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)

Date: 1966
Duration: 7 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026705
Italian bombers from Sicily, attack British warships at sea.

An Italian military airfield in Sicily. A flight of 7 fighter aircraft in formation, abreast, flies over the field. A row of Macchi C.200 Saetta aircraft parked in front of a hangar (also variously called MC.200 or Macchi 200). A row of Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero Trimotor bombers parked across from them. Ground crews loading torpedoes on the bombers. A Reggiane Re.2001 Falco II airplane being serviced. Ground crewman reports to pilots that their bomber is ready. They board and ground crew pulls chocks as the engines are running. View inside the S.79 cockpit with pilot's hand on the triple throttles. The bomber takes off raising lots of dust as it goes. Italian aircraft in flight. British ships sighted below. The Italian bombers attack. Flak bursts in the air. One S-79 skimming the water surface. Other S-79s dropping torpedoes from relatively high altitudes (perhaps 1500 feet). A British warship is struck with large explosion. Italian planes returning with at least two burning British warships left behind. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675026799
A family group of nine unicyclists perform in Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate, atop very high unicycles.

Family group of nine mono-cyclists (or unicycle) performing on the streets in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. View of buses cars and other vehicles seen passing by. People are thrilled to see the performance. Some of the unicycles are very high in the air. Mono- cyclists dismount and bow after performing.

Date: 1930, December 8
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026884