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U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson asks a Soviet representative in the U.S. if his country is installing missiles in Cuba.

Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. United Nations building in New York. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson asks Soviet representative to the UN Valerian Zorin if his country was installing missiles in Cuba. Following Zorin's refusal to answer the abrupt question, Stevenson retorts, 'I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over'.

Date: 1962, October 25
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070175
Orson Welles speaks at a press conference following his "War of the World's" broadcast that created mass hysteria.

After a radio play in New York terrifies the nation. Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller 'The War of the Worlds' as staged by Orson Welles, a young actor-manager. Orson Welles speaks at a press conference about the event. Media persons take notes during the press conference.

Date: 1938, October 31
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070522
U.S. rocket experimenters launch the world's first liquid fueled rocket in the United States.

Launching of first liquid fuel rocket on a Staten Island New York beach in 1933. U.S. rocket experimenters including George Edward Pendray launch the first liquid fuel missile. They prepare for launching of the rocket and fill fuel of rocket which is powered with gasoline and liquid oxygen. Missile being launched and its fuel tank explodes due to over heating. Rocket crashes down on beach. Experimenters stand with pieces of the broken rocket. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071118
Early Edison kinetoscopic moving image known as "The Sneeze," featuring Edison's assistant Fred Ott sneezing

Edison kinetoscopic record of a man, Fred Ott, sneezing. The record is commonly known as "The Sneeze." It was filmed at the Black Maria studio of the Edison Manufacturing Company in West Orange, New Jersey. Fred Ott takes a pinch of snuff and then sneezes.

Date: 1894, January 7
Duration: 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071486
Early Edison film of Athlete with a wand

A man exercises with wand in the U.S. Filmed in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, USA.

Date: 1894, February
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071487
Strong Man, Eugen Sandow, demonstrates his physique.

Celebrated Strong Man, Friedrich Muller (Stage name: Eugen Sandow), one of the first famous bodybuilders, displays his body building physique: flexing his biceps, abdominal muscles and triceps and other muscles, for the Edison Company cameraman in Edison's Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey.

Date: 1894, March 6
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071488