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Flight test of a rotary-wing aircraft designed by Canadian designers.

A group of Canadian designers come up with rotary-wing aircraft that combines a conventional engine with free-spinning rotors. Technicians examine the plane while pilot boards for take off. Aircraft taxies, hangar in the background. Aircraft takes off from runway. Aircraft flies on airfield.

Date: 1964, July 30
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052052
Jimmie Caras wins Billiard championship. Various players take part in the contest. Trick shots displayed.

A man plays pocket billiards. Various views of shots being made. Audience watches in the background. Men at desk watch. Winner, Jimmie Caras, is presented with prize. Audience claps for the Caras. Other experts put on demonstrations for the audience. Player tries trick shots using two cues. Audience surrounds the player and table. Man hits the ball without using cue. Close view of player smiling.

Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052054
Photograph transferred through ordinary telephone wires in early turntable wire photo system, 1936.

Wire photo system to send a photo through ordinary telephone wire. Interiors of office show a man working on a turntable-based device. Man speaks into telephone mouthpiece. Photograph revolves on one turntable, the transmission is sent via telephone wires, and a copy of the photograph is developed on another, remote turntable. From a newsreel in 1961 recounting events roughly 25 years earlier.

Date: 1936
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052224
A fashion show named 'Tales of Tomorrow'

A science fiction themed fashion show named 'Tales of Tomorrow'. Models dressed in futuristic modern dresses with wire loops and wearing head gear made of loops. The costumes invoke themes of space travel, the space age, and astronauts. A male model wears space-suit-like outfit. A card on a table reads "Tales of Tomorrow Buffet." Small tomato "pills" an display. A card reads 'Tomatoes of tomorrow'. Model picks up another pill-like item called the "'hot dog of tomorrow' conveying the idea of food in a pill. Models drink beverages, served by people in laboratory smocks.

Date: 1951
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041141
Accused men and counsel in front of the New York courthouse where the Kefauver Committee hearings took place

Crowd stands in front of courthouse in New York City. Taxis and other cars are parked on the roads in front of the skyscraper. Lawyer George Levy, of Nassau Trotting Association, being interviewed and photographed, on courthouse steps. Frank Erickson, bookmaker for Frank Costello, leaves courthouse, with several others, after testifying before the Kefauver Committee. They are photographed by cameramen. Frank Erickson, followed by a companion, enters a 1947 Chrysler Crown Imperial Limousine, which drives away with them in the back seat. A momentary glimpse of Frank Costello, with several others in the hall of the courthouse.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041148
A safer car with its engine in the rear, resembling a bug.

An inventor and his safer automobile that resembles an insect. The designer of the car stands near it. The engine of the car is in the rear and it has a single front seat that holds 5 passengers, but no backseat for additional safety. The number plate of the car reads '8P 58 39'. man seated in the car. The car on the roads with other vehicles. From an April 27, 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1936
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041173