Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California during World War II. A high altitude view of the area. Buildings of the unit sound stages. The stages are sound proof and air conditioned. Buildings along the sides of a street. Cars drive past on the street. A sign outside a building reads: 'Stage 5'. Men work on a training film project. Artists act in the film. Army artists and set designers work in the art department. They work for the conversion of scripts into sketches and models. The model of a squadron department. Men act in a film for the squadron department and discuss about army airplanes and officers.
Scenes from the second inauguration of President Franklin Roosevelt in Washington DC. Audio is part of his inaugural address speech, overlaid on images of the inaugural parade later that day on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, United States. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reviews parade units moving forward in the rain. The parade units include parade floats, marching troops, military vehicles, cavalry troops and bands.
Modern new office building architecture in the United States in the late 1950s. Building of the Hewlett Packard Corporation at Stanford Industrial Park (later renamed Stanford Research Park) in Palo Alto, California, at the time of the birth of Silicon Valley. 1950s cars of Hewlett Packard (HP) workers in the parking lot. Exterior views of Hewlett Packard company buildings. A truck driven past the plant. A tile wall at the facility. Inside a building: View of a Hewlett Packard oscilloscope. Number "75452" seen in upper left of unit. Behind the unit is seen a production plant floor with women and men technicians building HP electronic equipment. Wider view of the production and assembly floor. A woman worker poses with a circuit board in her hands. Camera pans up to show her. Large painted abstract colors and artwork on walls of the production plant. The woman who had held the circuit board turns away and is seen operating a piece of equipment. Another view of the plant or factory floor with workers. Exterior view of a forklift loading boxes, with HP logo visible on them, into back of a waiting truck. Scene changes to exterior views of what appears to be a part of the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan: A surface parking lot filled with employee 1950s cars, a sloped berm up to office buildings, including a brick laboratory building with vertical fins, pedestrian approaches, and landscaped plazas. Additional shots show other modern corporate or institutional research buildings of similar mid-century American architectural style; exact locations unidentified. One of these mid 1950s U.S. buildings shows a General Electric (GE) logo.
Crew board the United States Air Force B-52D Stratofortress aircraft on the U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand. B-52D aircraft tail gunner climbs into compartment and adjusts seat position. Flashing beacon of B-52D right wing tip. Airman operates Auxiliary power unit (APU) at nose of B-52D aircraft. He closes crew hatch door and removes Auxiliary power unit cable. Airman talks on headset during control checkout and removes chocks. B-52D aircraft taxis from revetment.
The presidential inauguration of U.S. President Richard Nixon in Washington DC, United States. Members of U.S. Old Guard, U.S. Coast Guard and civilian units on a street prior to the inaugural parade. Members of different units march along a street.
Premier of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz addressing the officials and dignitaries of the United Nations in New York, United States. Clip shows the first few minutes of the speech, which was the longest single speech ever to be delivered to the United Nations, at 269 minutes. Delegates applaud as Castro walks to the lectern to address the 872nd plenary meeting of the General Assembly on 26 September 1960. Castro addresses the officials. He begins his record speech, by saying, ironically, (translated), "Although it has been said that we speak at great length, don't worry, you may rest assured that we shall endeavor to be brief and to put before you what we consider it our duty to say."
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