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Wichita Kansas USA 1957 stock footage and images

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People talk about their experiences and tell how they escaped from a tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas.

A documentary titled 'Terrible Tuesday' about a tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas. A tornado hits the area. People inside a building. They kneel down. A man instructing a class of people about the tornado. He shows them a picture of a tornado. Cars passing on a street. A woman walking with the help of a stick. She was injured in the tornado. A church in the background. The woman speaks about the day on which the tornado hit the area and how she escaped. A man who escaped from the tornado talks about how he escaped. Damaged houses and buildings in the area. Wrecked cars and vehicles. A woman walking on a street. She also talks about her experience when the tornado occurred. A damaged bank. A woman stands nearby and speaks about the tornado. Wrecked vehicles and equipment. Rubbled buildings in the area.

Location: Wichita Falls Texas USA
Date: 1979
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076792
Sign for Wichita Mountains in Indian sign language by General Hugh L. Scott, United States.

General Hugh L. Scott of Smithsonian Institute, seated on a chair demonstrates Indian sign language. General Scott demonstrates a sign for Wichita Mountains.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033183
Demonstration of sign for Wichita in Indian sign language by General Hugh L. Scott, United States.

General Hugh L. Scott seated on a chair demonstrates Indian sign language. General demonstrates sign for Wichita, people tattooed around the eyes.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033001
Students participate in tornado drill at Ben Milam Elementary School in Wichita Falls, Texas

A documentary on occurrence of a tornado in the United States. Exterior of the Ben Milam School building in Wichita Falls Texas. The building was damaged by the tornado. A woman seated at a desk. A weather radio in operation. Warning being given from the radio. She gives the information to the school principal Bill Parks. Students come out of their classes. They kneel down along the walls of the building. A man instructs people. He holds a picture of a tornado. People taking notes. A man seated in a car talking over a radio. A tornado hits the area. The information is transmitted. Houses and buildings in the area. Information about the location and the directions in which the tornado is heading is given.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1979
Duration: 4 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076795
Bruce Dicky and CY Thomas speak on importance of Interstate highways in Kansas City, Kansas.

Bruce Dicky, of Farmer's State Bank in Lenexa, Kansas, speaks on importance of roads for prosperous growth of people. He comments about the growth of housing and industry in Lenexa since the I-35 interstate highway came to town. Scenes of a road, on a side of a lake. Traffic moving on roads. Houses in newly built suburbs are seen along sides of highways. View of industries and suburban shopping centers of the 1950's near Kansas City, with many 1950's cars parked in parking lots, made possible by expanding roads and highway systems in America. Building of a cancer research center. C Y Thomas, a doctor speaks on how I-35 highway access influenced the location of a new research center in Kansas City. Various manufacturing and light industry businesses are seen along American highways. Sign visible on one says "Electronic Specialty Co." Interstate 287 with traffic moving on it. Industries and buildings linked with roads.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023853
Park for couples in love urged by a judge in Kansas City, Kansas.

A judge seeks to have a park set aside for dating couples in love (a park for spooners, per the slate), in Kansas City, Kansas. Exteriors of Wyandotte County Courthouse building in Kansas City; and 1930's cars on the roads. Judge seated at his desk. Scene of a young man and young woman romantic couple in a park walking and sitting on a park bench together. Next scene shows a dating couple seated on a couch. The boy's young brother is seated in a chair beside them granting them no privacy. The older brother reaches in his pocket for money and pays his little brother so he will get up and leave the room. The dating couple hugs on the sofa.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1935, September 23
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060556
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