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Construction during Instant Rehabilitation Project by Housing and Urban Department in New York City

Instant Rehabilitation Project by Housing and Urban Department in New York City. Hands holdinga pamphlet entitled "Housing Act of 1961". Dilapidated and run down tenement buildings seen. Housing and Urban Department officials seen with contractors. Prefabricated core units of the buildings seen. Construction crew working. Kitchen and bathrooms seen in the renovated building. Families on a move are shown. Moving vans are seen.

Date: 1967
Duration: 5 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040515
United States Marines operate modern equipment as a part of a Combat Readiness Training in the United States.

United States Marines undergo Combat Readiness Training in the United States. A Marine operates a "Space Age" hovercraft vehicle that the narrator says is a "Air suspension platform" that travels on compressed air. 'United States Marine Corps' written on the hover craft vehicle seen as it flies in testing. A Marine seated in a one-man helicopter. The Marine in the solo, open helicopter performs maneuvers and training close to the ground. A U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky S-56 vertical assault helicopter in flight. A Marine Sikorsky H-34 helicopter in flight. View from inside the H-34 helicopter as a Marine on a ship gives hand signals as the H-34 helicopter approaches for landing on the ship deck.

Date: 1961
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064848
United States Marines advance towards a target area during a Combat Readiness Training in the United States.

United States Marines seen in Combat Readiness Training in the United States. A fleet of United States navy ships underway at sea. Ships with heavy equipment and Marines advance towards a target area. Refueling of a ship while at sea. The Marines on deck of ship readying for a combat drop. They put on combat gear. Scene on land of a Marine observing from a camouflaged position as a Sikorsky H-34 helicopter lands. Group of Marines run and get into the helicopter. Smaller boat at sea moving at high speed and then slowing and using a loop to grab a Navy frogman diver after an operation. Low aerial view of a number of folded wing aircraft on a ship deck. A submarine fires a Polaris missile from underwater. The Polaris missile rising into the sky. A radar on the ship in operation.

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064851
The President of the United States John F Kennedy addresses and answers about the army reservists in the United States.

Army reserves in the United States. The President of the United States John F Kennedy addresses the gathering. He answers questions affecting the lives of thousands of families across the nation and the status of the reservists of the armed forces. He declines the rumors that the armed forces will serve more than a year of duty.

Date: 1961, November 30
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055892
Berlin Crisis: The Western Powers respond to threats from the Soviet Union

Opening scene shows the Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) where Mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt addresses a large crowd of West Berlin citizens, concerned about the building of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet Union. Many carry placards and signs, including some in English, reading: "We trust Kennedy, Pay any price, Bear any burden, for survival of Liberty" and "Millions behind the Iron Curtain ask for help." Scene shifts to a limousine driving into the center of a crowd. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson steps from the car, accompanied by General Lucius D. Clay, who is seen next, with arm raised, acknowledging the crowd, while standing with Johnson and Brandt, at a podium cluttered with microphones. (Narrator refers to him as "Father of the Airlift.") The next day, British and American soldiers are seen driving in jeeps and trucks and M59 Armored Personnel Carriers, through cheering crowds, as they arrive to reinforce their Berlin garrisons. Closeup of cheering Berliners, waving handkerchiefs. Change of scene shows animated map of Europe illustrating the Westward expansion and growth of Soviet Communist occupation through World War II and the postwar era, concluding with East Berlin, in 1962. The threat to other Nations and regions is also illustrated. Legislators are seen in session in the plenary chamber of the German Bundestag in Bonn. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is addressing the assembly. He states that Germany does not stand alone in the world. In France, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou addresses the National Assembly, regarding the Berlin Wall. In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan addresses Parliament. In the United States, on September 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, is addressing the UN General Assembly, in New York, about the dangerous crisis in Berlin. Scenes of the Berlin wall and Checkpoint Charlie. Memorials to persons killed attempting to escape East Berlin, are seen along the wall.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037561
United States Marines fire sidewinder, Hawk, and other rockets and missiles during training in the United States.

A United States Marine aircraft in flight. The aircraft fires a sidewinder missile at a target in the air. The hit target in flames descends towards the ground. A Hawk missile in a ground launcher is seen as it is launched ground to air and strikes an aerial target. Marines fire a single rocket launcher. A Marine aims a Redeye launcher. Camera view as seen through launcher tube.

Date: 1961
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064847