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Deserted streets and closed shops during afternoon in Saigon, Vietnam.

Deserted streets at noon in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. Minimal traffic with only a few pedestrians walking. Caltex billboard on display. Most of the shops are closed. A hawker sleeps at the pavement with his feet under his stall and a Non La conical hat over his face. Few Vietnamese children near parked cycles. An old man wearing a white safari suit passes by.

Date: 1955, November 10
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028885
A fountain in the center of a busy street in Saigon,Vietnam.

A fountain in the center of a busy street in Saigon,Vietnam. Saigon City Hall with a large photo of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem over the front entrance.Few women mongers with their baskets sit on pavement. A hawker's stall in background.

Date: 1955, November 10
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028886
Cars moving through a street during heavy rain in Saigon,Vietnam.

Cars moving through street during heavy rain in Saigon,Vietnam. A native paddles a three wheel cart through the rain.Few natives take shelter under shops on a pavement.

Date: 1955, November 10
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028887
Communist troops poise on the outskirts of Haiphong ready to take over the city as the French troops leave

Refugees scramble for freedom soon after First Indochina War. Children seen in huge crowd. People carry a banner reading 'Long live mutual assistance, Spirit of Western Powers'. People wear local hats. Red troops poise on the outskirts of Haiphong ready to take over the city as the French troops leave Vietnam. Red troops march in the streets.

Date: 1955, May 19
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041482
U.S. Nuclear test "MET", during Operation Teapot, at Frenchman Flats in Nye County Nevada

Ground-level view of April 15, 1955 atomic test at Frenchman Flats, Nevada Test Site in Nye County Nevada. Test code-named "MET" -- Military Effects Test. In this footage, the 400 foot shot-tower on which the 22 kiloton nuclear device is set can be seen in the foreground prior to detonation. Rocket trails or "streamers" become visible to the right of the shot tower before the explosion. After the brilliant flash, which completely vaporizes the shot tower, an immense fireball becomes visible, which churns skyward and begins to cool and blacken. The fireball quickly begins to develop into a mushroom cloud.

Date: 1955, April 15
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046788
Judge Louis E. Goodman dismisses Justice Department's civil action to denaturalize ILWU President, Harry Bridgers.

Opening scene shows dimly lit hallway of Federal District Court building in San Francisco. Camera focuses on a courtroom door inscribed as " U.S. District Court, 258, Louis E. Goodman." Officials are seen escorting International Longshoreman's Union (ILWU) President, Harry Bridgers, along a hallway, accompanied by many photographers. Bridger's lawyer, Carol Weiss King and her co-counsel, wearing dark rimmed glasses, are seen standing in the hallway. Closeup of them. He holds up a copy of legal papers. View from further down the hall as Bridgers stops briefly to converse with them. Another closeup of Bridger's lawyers. (Note: Harry Bridgers was prosecuted for his labor organizing and supposed subversive status by the Justice Department in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with the goal of deportation. This was never achieved. Bridges became a naturalized citizen in 1945. A final effort by the Justice Dept. to deport Bridges ended in 1955 when Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the department's civil action to denaturalize him)

Date: 1955, July
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037528