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A civil servant turns out portraits and bucolic scenery via a typewriter and proves his ingenuity in Spain.

Guillermo Mendana, a civil servant, makes a portrait with a typewriter in his office in Spain. He proves his ingenuity as an artist of the keyboard. Mendana shows a woman a portrait of a boy made using his typewriter. A Spanish boy’s portrait made by a typewriter and a magazine. Mendana places various typewriter-made portraits of various subjects including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Pope Pius XII, cats, and a famous Spanish arch. A typewriter-made portrait of the Big Ben in London, England.

Date: 1959
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047736
Christian missionaries treat Muslim patients in an outdoor clinic and girls take part in home making courses.

Day to day events happening in Moslem and Christian religion. The Patriarch of Jerusalem visits Bethlehem protected by Moslem police. Brief scene of American troops going "over the top" from a trench, amidst barbed wire, during a World War I battle. Chinese Moslems in a camel caravan. Polynesians in East India. Indian Moslems in India. Black Moslems in Nigeria. Christian missionaries in an outdoor clinic. Women nurses and doctors treat patients. Mission schools teach tradecrafts. Farmers use bulls to plow fields. A girls' school in Turkey shows girls taking part in home making courses. Girls manage their households.

Date: 1936
Duration: 5 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047743
Former President and Mrs. Harry Truman board the SS United States for a six week vacation trip to Europe.

Former U.S. President and Mrs. Harry Truman leave New York for a vacation in Europe. Harry Truman and his wife board the SS United States for a six week vacation trip to Europe. The former president's daughter sees them off. Harry Truman at a bank of microphones waves off. Newsmen record the event. SS United States off the coast of New York.

Date: 1956, May 14
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047747
Nixon, Governor Knight and Senator Knowland at the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace, San Francisco.

Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. The Chairman Joe Martin greets the arrivals. A cheering crowd on the street. Women hold signs reading 'I Like Ike' An overhead sign reads G.O.P. HEADQUARTERS HOTEL. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, Governor Goodwin Knight and Senator William F. Knowland talk together in a room. Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie delivers a keynote address at the Cow Palace.

Date: 1956, August 20
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047752
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser calls for a strike protesting the 22 nation foreign ministers' conference in London.

Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser calls for a strike in Cairo. A large crowd cheers the President in Cairo as he makes a public appearance following his seizure of the Suez Canal. President Nasser speaks into a microphone. Deserted streets in response to Nasser's call for a strike protesting the twenty-two nations foreign ministers' conference in London. Thirteen year old Denis Prioti of Massapequa, Long Island had been invited to Egypt as Nasser's personal guest before the Suez seizure and returned for a letter of good will. Denis Prioti shakes hands and talks with President Nasser. Delegates arrive at the conference in London. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dallas in discussion with other officials. Delegates seated around a table in conference.

Date: 1956, August 20
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047753
Ghana gains independence; UN Representative Ralph Bunch and PM Kwame Nkrumah at ceremony.

In Africa the nation of Gold Coast becomes Ghana in a ceremony. African people of Ghana celebrate the end of colonial rule and gain of independence. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and member of U.S. House of Representatives Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. talk together. The military army of soldiers from Ghana passes in parade review in front of UN Representative Ralph Bunch and Nkrumah. The festivities are followed by a beauty contest in which Miss Ghana is selected.

Date: 1957, March 7
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047758