A Japanese family makes an excursion to a Hanami (cherry blossoms viewing) festival to view Sakura cherry blossom trees in Japan during World War 2. A Japanese woman dresses her young daughter in a kimono. A Japanese boy dresses up on his own. A Japanese family goes out of the house for Hanami. The father and sons are dressed in Western attire while the mother, grandmother and daughter are wearing kimonos. People crowd the Nishinomaru Garden to watch cherry blossom trees. People crossing a bridge. The Osaka Castle (1-1 Osakajo, Chuo Ward, Osaka, 540-0002, Japan) is seen nearby. The family visits a Shinto shrine on its way to the festival. Japanese boy pulls the bell cord. Coin offerings are tossed to a box in a Shinto shrine. Japanese family clapping their hands and bowing in front of the shrine. Sakura cherry blossom tree viewing in Osaka. Japanese man takes pictures of the cherry blossoms with his camera. Closer view of Sakura blossoms in full bloom. A Japanese storyteller entertains children he uses picture cards to illustrate his story. A Japanese man treats his children with cotton candy. Japanese family have dinner at home. Family eats meat, sashimi (sliced raw fish), cooked vegetables and steamed rice in a bowl with chopsticks. Japanese girl eats a bowl of rice using her chopsticks. Japanese man eating. House maid watches rice steamer in kitchen. Japanese housemaid adds coal to fire that heats water for the ofuro (Japanese bathtub). Japanese boy takes bath. Japanese boy scrubbing his face, lathers and rinses body before entering the ofuro. Japanese boy inside an ofuro bathtub. Japanese woman and house maid prepare futon beds on the floor. Japanese man in a kimono reads newspaper and smokes cigarette before bedtime. Children are asleep. Japanese boy sleeps with a stuffed toy dog. View of Mt. Fuji at night.
U.S. C-119 Fairchild Flying Boxcar' planes taxi. Newspaper clip calling carrier reservists. C-119 planes in flight. U.S. paratroopers jump from C-119 planes during training exercises. Parachutes open and paratoopers descend. Events during Cuban Crisis.1962.
View of spacelog hours on a space graph that contrasts man hours in space by the United States and by the Soviet Union (during the "Space Race.") NASA Gemini XII astronauts Lovell and Aldrin are greeted after their flight. View from spacecraft in space. View from capsule with Earth below, as rendezvous and docking with Agena vehicle takes place. Gemini astronauts enter elevator to ascend to capsule before launch. View of a unmanned ICBM missile lift off at night and an explosion. NASA Gemini successful lift off, and view of NASA mission control room. Gemini capsule on deck of USS Wasp is opened by a McDonnell employee, and astronaut shakes hands after recovery. Technical briefing in which Integrated Testing Sequence GT-4 is explained to U.S. Air Force personnel. Camera pans upward from base to top of a NASA Gemini missile and capsule. Gemini capsule is installed atop rocket. Model of Gemini rocket seen in conference room during meeting. Gemini components in large factory. A Titan II missile launch serving as a Gemini flight test shows telemetry instruments including dish and antenna tracking the launch. Close and long shots of Titan II missile in flight. Installation of flight control, pressure oscillation suppressors, and guidance systems on Titan ll to allow for man rating on Gemini. Gemini launch vehicle engines fired on Aerojet general test stand. Critical parts for Gemini are examined at the U.S. government quality assurance area. Engineers work on rocket parts and tie wrapping electrical components. View of radio guidance system module being tested. Gemini launch vehicle on launch pad and views of control room.
Chief "Aims Back" introduces himself to tribal council using sign language. He belongs to tribe Blackfeet or Southern Piegan who belong to Montana, USA. Chief Aims Back wears a feather headdress. Chief Back uses hand signals for passing his message to other delegates.
Views from side and partial rear of a Caprioni heavy bomber, showing its three engines driving two tractor and one pusher propellers. Other features are twin fuselage and triple tail. Number SC 40070 painted on fuselage. Crowd watches as the Caprioni takes off in a cloud of dust. Among the spectators is U.S. Army Air Services Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who mingles with the crowd and poses for pictures with a boy and a U.S. Navy Lieutenant. Rickenbacker shakes hands with the Navy Lieutenant and the boy.
U.S. airmen and Vietnamese worker sandbag a cargo container. Sign on a building reads 'Post Office APO 96368'. RMK Staff and 819th Civil Engineering Squadron staff mess building at Phu Cat Air Force Base. Sign on the mess building reads 'Lunch Schedule Breakfast 0500-0630 Lunch 1130-1300 Dinner 1630-1930 Midnight 2300-2330'. Air tank near the mess building. U.S. Airman and Vietnamese worker dig ground with shovel near billet under construction. (Vietnam War period).
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