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U.S. Army Air Forces officers confer with General Electric executives about producing America's first turbojet airplane engine

Documentary film 'The Jet Engines' about the develpment of an American jet airplane, with help of the British who provide General Electric Company with a prototype engine developed by British RAF Group Captain Frank Whittle. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Vehicles carry U.S. Air Forces officers and civilian engineers to an airfield where a man stands with a gun next to a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. The visitors look at cargo containers being offloaded from the aircraft. They contain a prototype British Whittle turbojet engine. Scene shifts to meeting of executives of the General Electric Company with U.S. Army Air Forces officers. They look at schematic of the Whittle engine. GE officials commit to building an American turbojet engine to power U.S. Air Forces airplanes.

Date: 1941, October 4
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063980
Ambassador of Great Britain Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson embarks a British Airways aircraft at Heston Airport near London

Ambassador of Great Britain Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson gets out of a car and leaves in a British Airways aircraft at Heston Airport, near London. Ambassador of Great Britain Sir Nevile Henderson gets onto a car. A huge crowd gathered around the vehicle. Sir Nevile Henderson gets out of the car at an airfield. He embarks a British Airways aircraft. The British Airways Lockheed 14-WF62 Super Electra aircraft (G-AFGR) taxis and takes off from the runway.

Date: 1940
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064189
Berlin Wall separates East and West Berlin, Germany

Views of the Berlin Wall under construction in 1961. West Berlin street scene, contrasted to scenes of East Berlin across the border, still showing unrepaired damage from World War II and otherwise lacking development. Views of East German border guards retrieving the body of Gunter Litfin from the River Spree, after his unsuccessful attempt to flee East Germany. A floral tribute to Ida Siekmann, on barbed wire at the border. View of forests in mists. Refugees with their belongings walking from East Germany over a bridge to West Berlin. View of Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. A C-54 transport airplane taking off. Buildings along the border of East and West Berlin with windows cemented shut along the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire at the border. Armed East German border guards across the border. Views of the Berlin wall border wall. Views of the moon, and stars. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,making a forceful point while speaking at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, in October,1960. Seated beside him is Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addressing the UN. U.S. Sailors helping Vietnam refugees from an open stake truck. U.S. soldiers attacking and firing machine guns in Korean War. Two U.S. warships at sea. A physician attending a patient. U.S. representative providing advice and assistance to foreign farmers. The Washington Monument, in Washington, DC. Statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial. Statue of Thomas Jefferson.

Date: 1961
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064335
United States Marine Corps board USS Grant County at San Diego Harbor in California.

United Sates Support Ships docked at San Diego Harbor in California. View of the ships with palm tree branches in the foreground. An airfield near the San Diego Harbor. USS Grant County docked at the harbor. United States Marine Corps board the ship through its bow.

Date: 1966
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064380
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser welcomes Soviet minister Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov in Cairo, Egypt.

Visit of Dmitri Trofimovich Shepilov, the newly appointed Soviet Foreign Minister, in Cairo Egypt during "Evacuation Week" (Egypt celebrating the departure of the last British forces from the Suez Canal Zone). An aircraft taxis on a runway at an airfield. Soviet dignitaries including Soviet Foreign Minister Shepilov disembark from the aircraft. He reviews Egyptian troops. Brief view of a young woman (possibly daughter of Minister Shepilov, who is known to have been on the trip) greeting a young woman. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser seen beside Minister Shepilov (wearing white suit) in a later scene.

Date: 1956, June 16
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064677
Advertisement for U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. Views of F9F-6 Cougar jet fighter

Advertisement for the U.S. Marine Corps Air Reserve. Traffic on a highway in the U.S. Among cars seen is a 1954 Studebaker . A civilian is escorted to a parked Marine F9F-6 Cougar aircraft parked on an airfield ramp.(In background, a woman stands next to a 1954 Lincoln Capri Hardtop convertible car.) The civilian examines the cockpit while narrator humorously compares the aircraft's features, such as air conditioning, to an automobile. A properly equipped Marine pilot climbs into the cockpit and prepares to fly the aircraft, while narrator encourages listeners to join the Marine Corps Reserves.

Date: 1954
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064860