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CI_20559
00:15:33
Chronicles the Los Angeles (California) County Fire Department's fight against a fire in the Newton Canyon area of the Malibu Mountains on December 26, 1956. The fire covered 26,000 acres before containment and involved 2,000 men fighting it over three days and night. The effects of Santa Ana winds on a wildfire are dramatically illustrated
CI_21425-1
00:02:30
Nuclear explosion Castle Bravo 1954. Largest Nuclear explosion by the United States.
CI_14246_2
00:00:25
Select Clip from House on Haunted Hill a horror film. A millionaire and his wife invite guests to stay in a haunted house overnight to earn $10,000. The guests are trapped in the house and experience all kinds of scary twists until the wife and her lover are killed in a dramatic ending. Full film available upon request.
CI_14246_1
00:01:31
Select Clip from House on Haunted Hill a horror film. A millionaire and his wife invite guests to stay in a haunted house overnight to earn $10,000. The guests are trapped in the house and experience all kinds of scary twists until the wife and her lover are killed in a dramatic ending. Full film available upon request.
CI-330-870041-11-14
00:01:10
Footage of the first test of a hydrogen bomb carried out by the United States in the Marshall Islands 1952. Operation Ivy Mike
CI-330-870041-11-13
00:00:38
Aerial shot of nuclear atomic bomb Operation Buster Jangle shot Easy. November 5, 1951 detonated in Area 7 of the Nevada Test Site
CI-330-870041-11-12
00:00:38
Aerial shot of nuclear atomic bomb Operation Buster Jangle shot Easy. November 5, 1951 detonated in Area 7 of the Nevada Test Site
CI_01195283-7
00:00:56
African American children in substandard slum apartment,Peeling Paint, hole in ceiling, insects in Chicago 1959
CI_01195283-5
00:01:04
Chicago Street at night, people walking and then interior of pool hall and guys playing pool 1959
CI-01195283-4
00:01:01
Black Pentecostal church in Chicago praying, singing, and speaking in tongues 1959
CI_01195283-18
00:00:58
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-17
00:01:04
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-16
00:00:59
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-15
00:00:52
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-14
00:00:44
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-13
00:00:58
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-12
00:01:01
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-11
00:00:47
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-10
00:00:56
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-9
00:01:04
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959
CI_01195283-8
00:01:01
Jazz performance Sun Ra and His Arkestra (Sun Ra (piano), Marshall Allen (alto sax), Robert Barry (drums), Ronnie Boykins (bass), William "Bugs" Cochran (drums), Charles Davis (baritone), Hobart Dotson (trumpet), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Jim Herndon (tympani), Art Hoyle (trumpet), Pat Patrick (baritone sax), Julian Priester (trombone), Luscious Randolph (trumpet), Victor Sproles (bass), BeBop Sam Thomas (electric guitar) 1959