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The F-84G Thunderjet being tested on inflated pads at the Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The accidents and the unusual occurrences at the Air Force flight test center at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. The inflated pads being tested for arrester hook landings. The United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft F-84G Thunderjet makes a zero length launch. The United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft F-84G Thunderjet makes approach to the pad and overshooting to belly landing. The F-84G Thunderjet makes a pass with no hookup. The United States Air Force(USAF) aircraft F-84G Thunderjet makes belly lading on pads. Aerial view of the F-84G Thunderjet nose during approach and landing on pads.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067055
USIA operations like radio broadcast, press edition and Director Streibert explains mission to a committee in U.S.

United States Information Agency (USIA) radio operators operate radio studio controls and set frequencies for transmission and receiving. USIA staff work on gathering additional facts, with newsroom reporters and editors in a press room typing and working on stories, a woman editing motion pictures, typing, printing at USIA. Exterior view of headquarters building of United States Information Service or USIS. People enter and exit the building of USIS. Members of a Citizens Committee and Director Streibert enter into a room. Map of world in room. Citizens seated on sofa. Director Streibert explains U.S.I.A. mission to a citizens' committee and talks about America's history and involvement in the world. One Citizen Committee member smokes a pipe. The Director shows a chart of how "communist propaganda is spread by a vast worldwide machine." Director Streibert explains (via anti-communist propaganda, or reverse propaganda...during Cold War) its mechanism and control exerted via the presidium of the Soviet communist party. View of Soviet Union leaders watching a military parade in Red Square, Moscow, Russia. Khrushchev is among the leaders. Next scenes show Communist rallies and speakers in Korea and then in China. At the Chinese rally, a scene of unrest unfolds as a group filling a large truck enters a rally, jumps down, and inflames the crowd. Communist leader Khrushchev with other Soviet officials debarks an airplane and meets leaders in India. He waves at a welcoming crowd during a visit. View of piles of Motion picture canisters ,magazines, pamphlets and books distributed as propaganda by Soviet Union. High production quality of paper shown. Industrial equipment and industrial farming equipment is displayed in a large exhibit hall for visiting foreign governments and dignitaries to view and consider investment. The Director states that long term Communist goals are world domination, and short term goals include the encouragement of neutralism, dividing and confusing American allies, and isolation of the United States. Director Streibert explains how the USIS works together with the Department of State to communicate American information. He ends the explanation by giving the USIA campaign pamphlets "Atoms for Peace" and "Atomic Power for Peace" ( The Eisenhower plan) to citizens of committee as example of a communication.

Date: 1956
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024533
Hungarian refugees working in factories, attending school in Chicago.

Sign reads “State of Illinois Department of Labor Division of Unemployment Compensation Illinois State Employment Service Affiliated with United States Employment Service”. An Illinois State Employment Agency officer picks up a rotary dial phone to make calls. Employee making calls and inspecting files. A Hungarian refugee who has immigrated to the United States talking on phone and smiling. State Employment Agency Officer reads a file on his desk while talking on the phone. A worker lifts a cogwheel and puts it on a bench. Worker grinding teeth on a cogwheel. Hungarian immigrant cleaning a lathe at the Jones-Dabney Co. factory in Chicago. Hungarian refugee wears a white “Jones-Dabney Co.” cap while working. A Hungarian woman works as a draftsman. Draftsmen drawing at drafting tables. External view of a Chicago area Catholic school. Elementary students attend class at a Catholic school in Chicago. Views of children seated at their desks in the classroom, facing the teacher during class. Hungarian refugees attend Catholic school. A priest teaches students reading. “My Captain Boy Savior” is written above the blackboard. Hungarian refugee girls listening in class. Hungarian girl reading a Catholic children’s book, “This is our Town: Faith and Freedom” (by M.A. Sister M. Marguerite, S.N.D.). “Boy Savior Our Guiding Star” written on the wall of the classroom. First grade students learn to write using crayons.

Date: 1956, December
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079692
Football match draws between Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers as both the teams score 14-14 in Oregon, United States.

American football match between Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers in Oregon, United States. The players on the ground in starting position. The match starts. The players playing. The spectators seated in a stand cheer for their teams. The players playing. The spectators in the stand watch the players play on the ground. The match draws as both the teams score 14-14.

Date: 1956, October 26
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069750
New Beacon lights atop the Empire State Building in New York, United States.

Beacons atop the Empire State Building in New York, United States. Three flash lights lit at the top of the building. Lights revolve around in the sky. Lights atop the building flash at night.

Date: 1956, April 12
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046955
Recruitment and training of personnel to form effective army units in the United States.

Military training of United States armed forces. A recruitment process underway. Men who are new recruits for the U.S. Army enter a building during draft or enlistment procedures. The recruited personnel taken to training grounds. Men get off a bus. They learn to march on the parade grounds. Men exercise for their physical fitness. They practice rifle shooing and marksmanship with various targets.

Date: 1956
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061667