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Committee Meeting at Tenth International Conference of American States

A committee meeting during the 10th International Conference of American States (aka Pan-American Conference, or Decima Conferencia Interamicana) in Caracas, Venezuela, March, 1954. A delegate speaking from a podium. Other speakers seated behind at a long table. Views of delegates in the audience. Translators in booths behind main speakers table. Signs above translators booths indicate the channels for Spanish and English, reading, respectively: "Espanol-3," and "English-5." Attendees wear individual identification tags, and use headsets. Some remove their headsets when they are readily able to understand the speaker's language. Delegates applauding a speaker. View of some interior features of the meeting hall. A fully lit chandelier and curtained archway,behind speakers table, with banner reading 10th annual assembly, in Spanish and English. The center of the banner displays a circle enclosing image of North, Central, and South America. Elegant buildings along a beach road, with sand beach in foreground, and hills in the background. Exterior of the hotel in which the conference is being held. Broader view of committee meeting room in the hotel, with delegates seated. Stenographers writing notes at table below speakers. Scene shifts to a reception line in the hotel, at which delegates are greeted, individually, by a Venezuelan official (probably Dr. Aureliano Otanez,Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Relations). Scene shifts again to the meeting room where some delegates are seen closeup.

Location: Caracas Venezuela
Date: 1954, March
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067987
School children and civilians participate in a war time "jalopy parade" to encourage donations of junk cars and other scrap metal in Decatur, Illinois.

Scenes of a a "jalopy and general salvage parade" in an American city during World War 2, to support the war effort. Parade floats that use scrap materials simulate the finished products of war like vehicles and airplanes. Civil Air Patrol airplanes fly over the parade route reminding citizens of the need for scrap metal in manufacturing and producing airplanes for war. Narrator describes need for inclusion of many needed scrap materials in the parade such as tin cans, silk, nylons, fats, greases, etc. and that "jalopies make jeeps." Narrator, on behalf of the United States War Production Board, gives specific instructions of how to hold such a parade in any town in the United States and encourages viewers to hold such parades in their towns all over America to help the home-front war effort. The parade heads down main streets of Decatur, Illinois, with many shops and buildings seen along the route. People stand on roadside to watch the parade. Cars driven at the parade. School children ride on cars, many bearing wartime victory slogans. Man works on a vehicle carried on a truck. A float decorated with papers. School children march. A man pushes a trolley. Girls ride bicycles. Officers address parade attendees as livestock is auctioned off to raise funds for the war effort. Junk yard cars that are candidates for scrap recycling are seen in the backyards of houses. Clip concludes with a message from Mr. Eugene Dunne, District Chief, Scrap Processors Branch, War Production Board, Chicago. Mr. Dunne encourages viewers to hold jalopy parades like the one seen in Decatur, Illinois.

Location: Decatur Illinois USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067990
Lieutenant Larkin is sworn and commission looks at photographs along with a witness in Manila, Philippines.

War crime trials of World War II in Manila, Philippines. The commission seated includes Commanding Officer Brigadier General Arthur G. Trudeau,Colonel Henry W. Holt,Philippine Army General Basilio Valdes,Colonel Richard G. Stickney. Interpreter leans over a table and questions the defendants. U.S. Graves Registration Lieutenant Larkin is sworn in. Commission looks at photos. Filipino witness Julian Leo on stand. Courtroom during the trial. Court is adjourned. Commission and defendants leave.

Location: Manila Philippines
Date: 1945, November 23
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067993
Parachutists prepare and jump from a biplane in flight over Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois.

U.S. Army Air Corps men perform air stunts over Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. Lieutenant Hamilton, Sergeants Kamemsky and Shoemaker, and pilots Carter and Weddington get ready. Army Air Corps personnel inspect the service men's parachutes. The men board a small biplane. Biplane takes off with two parachutists on top of the aircraft. One jumper is on each wing of the biplane. The third jumper is at the back of the cockpit waiting for signal. Aerial view of the plane in flight. Parachutists jump from aircraft and descend in air. Army Air Corps personnel meet parachutists as they land. Officers greet paratroopers.

Location: Rantoul Illinois USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068000
Views of Planet Earth taken from earth orbit. NASA Gemini spacecraft maneuvering and Astronauts working outside them.

Views from NASA Gemini spacecraft maneuvering close to Agena vehicle in space. A dacron tether attaching a Gemini craft to the Agena space vehicle. The tether held taut by the differential gravitational pull on the two space vehicles (Agena being closer to earth). Astronaut Ed White, performing the first extra vehicular activity (space walk) during the Gemini IV mission in June 1965. His overglove is seen floating past him. He performs work in space using special tools. Views of other astronauts having difficulties during subsequent space walks. Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, pilot of Gemini XII, performs a series of tasks during a space walk test, proving the value of rest breaks, tethers, and handholds to facilitate such work in the weightlessness of space. He removes a hatch, that flies away. He tightens bolts.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 5 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068014
Technicians remove cover silver sheet and fix crane on Apollo 1 capsule in Florida, United States.

Apollo 204 (Apollo 1) review board documentary film in the United States. Technicians remove silver sheet cover from the capsule at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. A man on a crane removes the silver sheet. An overhead crane being lowered. The technicians fix the screws into holes attaching the crane with the capsule. The technician places a belt in a groove. He uses a screw driver to tighten the fittings. The capsule is being lifted.

Location: Florida United States USA
Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068020
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