Summary

Universal Newsreels

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Title: Universal Newsreels
File Number: DN-LB-534 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1949
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 15:01:19:00 B W 1949 22Aug49 Si Glen Burnie, MD. 'Flying Saucer Air Force Uncovers Mo??? Ship.' (TC covering title) Shot of old tobacco shed. Police pull up in car and go into shed, poke around. Cops and men check out round white flying contraption, turn it on its side to show some type of propellor, otherwise supposed UFO is wrecked. Paranoia. UFO. Scare. Cold War. Gag. Stunt. 15:02:16:00 B W 1949 Si Switzerland. Soldiers remove camouflage from Alpine 'Maginot' fort, great doors open and truck drives in. Int, dark and cave-like, soldiers pull supplies thru tunnels on carts. One soldier unloads and shelves shells. Operations, communications, machine rooms. Mess room, MCU soldiers eating at table. Checking out gun view. Cut to ext, lake and mountains. Protection. 15:03:29:00 B W 1949 Si Miami Beach, Florida. Gar Wood explains his new 'Venturi' twin-hulled craft. He sits by pool in swimming trunks with wooden model and shoves it out to float. Cuts to Wood at wheel of Venturi, VS of elevated vessel, including good POV from back of fast- moving boat. Oddity. Invention. 15:04:18:00 B W 1949 Si Canada. Sophie Tucker's induction into the Mohawk tribe. CUs of her speaking. She wears Mohawk head dress and joins men in dance. She laughs a lot and makes fun of the dancing, pulling up the hem of her dress and exposing her knees. MCU of her sticking her head thru teepee door and posing. Canadian Mounties. Performance. Racism. Oddities. Promotion. Gag. Indians. Native Americans. 15:04:56:00 B W 1949 Si New York. Parade up Broadway for baseball's Connie Mack. 50 years as a manager. He stands up in convertible and waves to onlookers. Baseball teams in gear march, some tickertape. Spectators barricaded in off Broadway by wooden police horses. Cop on motorbike. Good MCUs of Mack's face, smiling. Reception on packed City Hall steps. Joe DiMaggio clapping. Mack is also honored at Yankee Stadium. Posing for photos with plaque. Sports 15:06:25:00 B W 1949 Si Los Angeles, CA. Japanese male swim team pose for cameras with their arms around each other. Hironoshin Furuhashi of Tokyo breaks four records as Japanese win AAU meet. Men dive off blocks and race up pool. MCU one swimmer speeding up lane #4. Slow motion diving competition. Good. 15:08:35:00 B W 1949 Si Wichita, Kansas. 'Batter Up! Baseball Congress ?' Night, PAN across stadium and spectators. Pitching for real and then fooling around with Joe E Brown and other VIP celebrities. Brown hits ball with over-sized bat. He's given award. Convention, Meeting. Sports. Promotion. Gag, Stunts, End: 15:09:??:00 15:09:34:00 B W 1949 29Aug49 Si Sd Philadelphia, PA. Pres. Truman Legion Meeting Hears World Peace...Plan.' American Legion men in uniforms, some smoking, walk up street. Ext, Convention Hall, American flag. CU of men wearing state hats, New York, Hawaii, Florida, Missouri (the only Black man), Michigan, Tennessee, Montana, Indiana, France (man with very long hair and beard.) LA of hall full of delegates. (15:10:02) sound begins as Truman is given Legion's Distinguished Service Medal. Audience applaud. Truman's speech about WWI and WWII veterans: 'the welfare of the United States of America, that comes first.' He thanks Legion. 15:11:33 sound ends. Cold War. Elitism. 15:11:37:00 B W 1949 Si Florida. 'Hurricane Hits Florida Twice. $40,000,000 Damage.' Two dead, winds of 150 per hour. Palm trees blown about by strong wind, WA and CU, good. Trees blown about in residential area, street flooded with cars driving thru water. Rain and wind, trees down in front of house. Rough sea. Gales. Post- Hurricane destruction. Uprooted trees, one on house, one on roof of car. VS property damage. Good. People walking thru ruins, still windy. Storm, Weather, Destruction. 15:13:11:00 B W 1949 Si Portland, Oregon 'Little Bear Great Grand- child Born to Roosevelt Family.' Nicholas Delano Roosevelt, three weeks old, is carried by his mother into garden, sunny. MCU of mother and child. Cuts to footage of FDR in car with grandchildren, pulling girl's hair, she keeps smiling, missing her two front teeth. Very playful and sweet FDR. Cuts back to garden, maybe the new mother was the little girl in car with FDR? Her husband, Van Seagraves, is on his knees beside her now, cameramen and reporters working. Family. 15:14:00:00 B W 1949 Si Forest Hills, New York. Ted Schroeder beats Frank Sedgman of Australia. Both approach the camera and smile. VS of game, spectators. HA of umpire with classic tennis head movements. Good. Men shake hands over net when game is over. US team holding Davis cup. Sports, Championship, Tennis. 15:15:21:00 B W 1949 Si Pendleton, Oregon 38th Jamboree. Indians in native dress parade on horses, boys dance, toddler dances. Rodeo. Spectators, some in sunglasses, watch. Cowboys bringing down bulls by horns. Bucking bronchos, good, teepees in background. American Indians. Ethnic. Sports. End: 15:16:??:00 15:16:37:00 B W 1949 31Aug49 Si Canada. AV of construction. Men work on ground with heavy equipment. Explosives placed in ground, man pushes lever, good explosions. Industry, could be hydro electricity, oil? End: 15:16:4?:00 15:17:41:00 B W 1949 02Sep49 Sd. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 'Craig Heads American Legion' Convention floor, banners, delegates with state signs, cheering and band playing. Men at podium in uniform, tickertape falling, shaking hands. (on and off sound) Celebration. Election. Voting. Winner. George N. Craig. Military Veterans. 15:18:32:00 B W 1949 Si Tibet. 'Pandit Nehru in Goodwill Visit to Tibet' Nehru gets off plane, salutes and shakes hands. He receives flowers, hung around his neck. Camels. Rides up narrow road on horse, stone walls. Watches parade, people wearing masks. Nehru presents gift to young boy, Dali Lama? LS of Nehru making speech to large crowd of people. He waves from plane before it takes off. China, Diplomacy, Diplomatic Visit. 15:19:47:00 B W 1949 Si 'News from Europe' Vienna, Austria. Obsolete New York City trolley cars arrive by train, good. Men working to get them onto tracks. Post-WWII Aid. Rebuilding Europe. Trollies. 15:20:35:00 B W 1949 Si Berlin, Germany. Woman and men preparing sticks of dynamite. Woman supervises the demolition of war-damaged buildings. She's known as 'Mrs. Dynamite.' MCU man sticking fuse in stick of dynamite, pouring liquid over sticks. Men carry smoking dynamite up rubble hill and place in wall. She fixes wire, fuse, runs thru ruins of building, she pushes lever on box, explosion, remains of buildings collapse, good. Gender roles. Post-WWII rebuilding, Explosives. Salvage 15:21:33:00 B W 1949 Si Kenosha, Wisconsin. Women in dressing room put on baseball uniforms, shoes. VS of game, pitching, running. Argument with referee. MCU women in dugout, cheering. One knitting. Sport, Women's Baseball. Gender. 15:22:47:00 B W 1949 Si Flushing, New York. High diving tricks. Man bounces on board before dive, group of men dive together. Special effect. Comedy routine. Acrobatics, diving on top of each other, VS. Man does belly flop. Oddity. Dangerous. Entertainment. End: 15:24:??:00 15:24:16:00 B W 1949 08Sep49 Si Canada. Men in bathing suits line up beside tent. Woman rubs grease or oil on one man. Diving into water, race. Rowboats stay close to swimmers. Two men covered in grease shiver with cold after rescue. Winner looks awful, in terrible pain, as he's congratulated and hugged. Masochism. Distance Swimming. Oddities End: 15:25:??:00 15:25:20:00 B W 1949 22Sep49 Si Sd New York. 'United Nations Acheson Asks Russian Cooperation...Atom.' Ext United Nations with flags. VIPs arrive for meeting, including Eleanor Roosevelt. LA shot of flags. WA into convention hall. (15:25:53) sd. Men up on podium. 'Dr Romolu' and applause. Sound cuts out. 15:26:07 sound, Dean Acheson speech about control over atomic energy and Soviet Union. LA WA delegates applaud. Cold War. Scare mongering, General Assembly, Politics. 15:26:47:00 B W 1949 Sd. London, England. 'Money Devaluation of Pound Shakes ?' '...to 2 dollars 80 cents.' Crowd standing on street, Chancellor of the Exchecquer walks past. Street sign: 'Downing St'. Chancellor speech at desk about economy. MCU bank names. Sign: 'Bank is Closed Today.' Man and woman read newspaper outdoors with Thames River and government buildings & Big Ben as backdrop. VS newspaper headlines, people reading. Ext, London Stock Exchange, street full of people, brokers and jobbers milling about. Int factory, industry, automobile assembly line. British Industry, Economics, Currency. 15:28:02:00 B W 1949 Si France. {Huge fire engulfs alcohol refinery] after it is struck by lightning. VS of fire burning at night and fire firemen battling with hoses. Day time, still hosing with water, VS of devastation and damage. Disasters, Industrial Fires, Act of God. 15:28:53:00 B W 1949 Si New York. Ext, women on catwalk model sweaters, skyscrapers as backdrop including Chyrsler building. VS of models. Panel of judges sit at table. Press, reporters, photographers, cameramen at work. Fashion. Breasts. Rooftop. Stunts. Gags. Sweater Girls. 15:29:42:00 B W 1949 Si Sd. England. American golf team wins Ryder cup. Gold bag with 1943 Ryder cup team crest. Score board. VS golfing action. 15:29:53 sound, great sound of club whacking ball. Birdies. Umbrellas over crowd, raining. Spectators watching, appluading. Ceremony as victors get cup. Men posing and smiling for camera. Sport. 15:30:57:00 B W 1949 Si Nova Scotia, Canada Men in boat fishing for tuna. MCU one man winding and pulling in reel, bends back and forward, straining to hold line, good. Group of men hook and pull big fish on board. Fish squirms, man hits it with s-hook. CU winding reel, men hold huge fish, show off. CU fishing rod bending under pressure. Hauling huge fish into boat. Displaying and weighing fish. Largest weights 856 pounds. Size. 15:32:14:00 B W 1949 Si Canada. Catholic ritual with cross. Ship docked, name 'Empress of France'(?) Bald monk carries cross on his shoulder followed by group of men including priests. Ext, 'Ste Anne de Beaupre' church, procession slowly makes way thru grounds with cross up front. Crowds outside file into church or cathedral. Religion. End: 15:33:??:00 15:33:14:00 B W 1949 26Sep49 Si Canada. Boxing match. Knock out, good. Second match, boxers exhausted, hanging on ropes and each other. One dazed by punch, a few more & he falls down. He tries to get up but falls over. Sports. Violence. End: 15:34:??:00 15:34:23:00 B W 1949 03Oct49 Si St. Louis, Missouri. 'Pres Truman Has Busy Week with Masons,...?' Truman in suit and top hat walks towards camera with military and civilian men at convention of Masons & installation ceremonies. He waves hat as he enters building. Stands between two masons, each with elaborate chain around their necks, and shakes hands. PAN across huge dining room full of people, waiters walk thru room with trays, MCUs of VIPs and guests. Truman at podium makes speech, sound is inaudible. Cuts to back shot of president playing host to famous cartoonists. MCU of Truman talking, while artists quickly make their sketches, drawings and impressions. Truman is amused by them, laughs. Cartoonists stand in line beside Truman and show their work, all men. Ceremony. Religious Organization. Politics. President Truman. 15:36:04:00 B W 1949 Si WA of derelict steel mill. [500,000 out in USA steel strike]. Workers, some in hats, walk towards camera. Chimneys, smokeless. Rail yard is quiet, whole mill like ghost town. Labor, Unions, Industry. 15:36:43:00 B W 1949 Si London, England. [King's Nephew Weds] Cops link arms to keep onlookers on pavement. The Earl of Harewood weds Viennese concert pianist, commoner Marion Stein. Princess Elizabeth walks into St Mark's. King George with the Queen & Princess Margaret into church. LA of crowds outside. Married couple pose for photos outside of church and then into car. Fancy shoe hangs from back of car. Wedding. Royalty. Monarchy. Ceremony. 15:37:27:00 B W 1949 Si Seattle, Washington. [Notre Dame 27, U of Washington 7 College Football. Touch downs. Various plays, good crowd shots & good running. Michigan 27, Stanford 7 in Wolverines 25th straight win. Pass intercepted, good. Westpoint, New York [Army 41, Penn State 7]. Good CU action. Army cadets going wild in stadium. 15:41:07:00 B W 1949 Sd 'Pennsylvania Week' Propaganda. Montage of state buildings. Infrastructure, railway, highway. Cop gives motorist with map directions. POV into tunnel. Countryside, farmland, farming, plowing. Educational facilities. Montage of industry, good. LA bridge, city. Workers, in hard hats, miners? Street scene, busy street with lots of traffic and pedestrians. Playground, children on swings. Pollution, smoke stacks, chimneys puffing out smoke, clouds of it wafting across city. Good smog shot at 15:42:22. Universal? 15:43:06:00 B W 1949 Si Canada. WA barracks? Troops reviewed. Large iron gates with 'In commemoration' worked in on them. Man makes speech into microphone (MOS). Civilian men walk across yard. Procession with flag and commemorative plate leaves as planes fly over in formation. Post-WWII. Military Ceremony. 15:44:10:00 B W 1949 Si Canada. WA large building. Men march up driveway. Unveiling of monument or plaque. MCU young soldier salutes. Troops reviewed, then parade by. Military. Ceremony. End: 15:45:??:00 15:45:10:00 B W 1949 10Oct49 Si Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Army 21, Michigan 7] Break winning streak. College football. VS of game, tackling, runs, cadets cheering in stadium. Los Angeles, California. Ohio State & USC tie 13 all. VS game. Ball fumbled. Some kind of wave in stadium, brief. Good run and touchdown. 15:48:19:00 B W 1949 Sd. Annapolis, Maryland. [Navy 28, Duke 14] Great running. Scoreboard when teams tie 14 each, (15:49:23) Navy fans cheering, mass of white hats, good. 15:49:38 lose sound. 15:50:46:00 B W 1949 06Jan49 Si Canada [Polar Bear Club] Lac Des Sables & young women and men playing in snow wearing only bathing suits. Throw snowballs at each other. Playing leapfrog. MCU of leaping. Men in trench coats bury hotel employee Tommy Bruen of Ireland in snow, digging with shovels. Crowd down by water, watch men as they walk in for swim. One man holds up thermometer to camera, can't read temperature. Men and boys splashing each other while others look on wearing coats, suits and hats. Some women in water too. Men in swim trunks, one wearing swim cap, shake hands. Winter. Sport. Stunts, Gags, Oddities. End: 15:51:??:00 15:51:51:00 B W 1949 10Jan49 Si Tallahassee, Florida. [Gov. Fuller Warren Sworn In] Pan down white government building with flags and pillars. Huge crowds outside. Swearing in of Governor. He has his right hand raised during ceremony, can see microphones in foreground. Big party follows, stalls of food and drink. CU of new Governor eating. Boy in cowboy suit. Parade down street, soldiers march, Pinellas float with women. Lots of floats in parade, MCU couple, man and woman, eating. Reviewing stand with flags and sign re governor from 1949 to 1953. Cuts to meeting in plush wood-panelled room at long conference table. Men sit around with paper in their hands. Governor smiles for camera. Politics. Inauguration. 15:53:27:00 B W 1949 Si Canada. Int, men in Curling competition running ahead of the Curling pieces sweeping and brushing a path on the ice. Odd or ridiculous looking game. When it's over they throw in their brushes. Winter Sports. 15:54:31:00 B W 1949 13Jan49 Si 'Winter California Snowbound While Florida Sizzles' Suburban street in California with light snow covering palm trees and cars. Sign, 'Montrose 1, Pasadena 8, San Fernando 18', on roadside covered in snow. VS digging out of snow, good. Man and woman working in grove, maybe lemon trees. Children play in snow, boy aggressively throws snowballs at girl. Cuts to Florida street where the sun's shining. Palm trees line road. Shirtless man walks past camera with young woman in headscarf. Women sunbathing, in foreground, newspaper headline tell of snow in LA. WA of beach. Two women rub lotion on woman lying on sand. PAN across line of women in bathing suits, bathing beauties, models. Blond makes eyes at camera as she models by shore line. Next by pool in modest bikini. Angle up skirt of next suit, model bends over towards camera, holds her knees together and smiles. Weather Snowfall, Flirting, Coy, Oddities. Sex. 15:56:10:00 B W 1949 Si Le Havre, France. Train with many crests on it and a message that reads 'Train de la reconnaissance Francais.' 'Gratitude Train.' French regional crests, Corse, Berry, Vendee, Comte de Nice, Alsace. Hand shaking as train takes off. Train pulls up beside ship named Magellan, steam from train. Train cars loaded on to ship. French are sending goods to US in return for US friendship train of food sent to aid needy Europe. Cold War, Diplomacy, Post-WWII, Thanks, Aid 15:57:08:00 B W 1949 Si San Diego, California. WA of 400 destroyers ready for instant service. Sailors take protective covers off machinery on ships (de-mothballing). Crane lifting big lid. VS of destroyers. Cold War Military Navy Preparations Post-WWII. 15:57:58:00 B W 1949 Si Los Angeles, California. Lloyd Mangrum wins LA open golf tournament w 284.. Players tee off. Spectators follow ball and swing with their eyes, good. Putting, good. Players shake hands on green. Mangrum smiles into camera. 15:58:50:00 B W 1949 Si New York City. Madison Square Garden. World Champion figure skater, Dick Button, dazzles crowd with lots of jumps, toe loops, etc. Couple, Paul & Mickee Preston do tricks, he swings her all over, she holds on with one foot only, good. Acrobatic. Ice skating. Entertainment. Ice Show 16:00:25:00 B W 1949 Sd. Germany. Puppets Hidden Camera See Kids ? Show' German VO only. Punch and Judy show. Little girl picks her nose. MCU of children watching show, engrossed, trying to warn puppets. Expressions and emotions range from fear, horror, anxiety, excitement, terror, crying, relief, happiness, good. Study. Gag Comedy Humor Funny Children Hand puppets Audience Reactions. 16:02:04:00 B W 1949 Si. Canada. Man leads horse out of stable in snow storm. MCU of man fixing harness, trap attached to horse. Cameraman stands in trunk of car at rear and films horse race. VS of horses running course. CU of men dressed for cold and snow watching race. Oddities Gag Weather Winter Sports. 16:03:07:00 B W 1949 17Jan49 Si New York. 'Conspiracy Two Top Reds Accused of ? US' (scratches in print - bad quality) Pan down Federal Court on Center Street. Police line sidewalk, pedestrians pass. Press at bottom of court house steps taking photos. Men enter building, one with cigarette in his hand. Pompous looking man poses. Suitcases carried, evidence. Protesters outside, moving picket line, some hold up newspaper with headline, 'Frame up.' Men posing for photograph, maybe cops. Red scare. Anti-Communism. Cold War. Law. Propaganda. 16:04:26:00 B W 1949 Si. Canada. WA of snow-covered land. Loggers at work, MCU of chain saw cutting through trunk of tree. VS felling trees, good. Large tractors pull tree trunks to cutting machine. Man lowers circular electric blades and slices thru wood. WA stock pile of tree trunks, PAN across. Truck dumps new pile. Lumberjacks. Logging Industry Winter. 16:05:32:00 B W 1949 20Jan49 Si Canada. Striking workers march demanding more pay. Mostly men, some women. They carry home made placards, in French. 'Travail Identique Salaire Identique' Translates as Same Work Same Pay, or not so literally, as Equal Work for Equal Pay. They demonstrate outside of building, pan up, reveals workers waving out of windows at them. Signs, 'Justice Pour Nos Maitres' 'Admirons Leur Patience.' Shots of school building, carving of little boy holding books. Boys play hockey in street. Man hauling cart in background. Labor dispute. Equality. Protest. Unions. French Canadians. Ethnic. 16:06:26:00 B W 1949 Si Canada. Business men or politicians meet. Man signing document. Shot of large chimneys smoking and water tower. VIP shown around factory floor, military? In snow, gets out of car, shakes hands with soldiers. Waking down by side of stone building, snow covered steps up side. Some kind of tour. Laurent visit. Politics Politicians Labor Factories. 16:07:29:00 B W 1949 24Jan49 Sd. Mexico. Volcano Paracutin, in action. Spanish narration. Station wagon drives up dusty road. Shacks, with mountains in background. CU of hand sifting earth, dust. Night shot of smoke coming out of volcano. Man climbing up incline. MCU on dubious footing, feet sink in earth and steam comes out of it from heat. Dangerous. Spectacular shots of interior of volcano, over lip. Camera man takes photos, runs as eruption starts. LS of volcano. Geology Housing Peasants Volcanologist. 16:08:49:00 B W 1949 Si Washington, DC. Dean Acheson is sworn in as Secretary of State by Chief Justice Vinson to replace George Marshall. Judge shakes his hand after ceremony, President Truman in background with several women. Truman and Acheson shake. Ext, State building with sign, 'Department of State.' Acheson sits at his desk, American flag by him, looks at camera. Has one wild eyebrow, bushy. Mustache waxed at ends. Politics. Appointment. Ceremony. Vanity. Supreme Court Justice. 16:09:23:00 B W 1949 Si Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bull is led by rope thru crowd into china shop. Has ring through its nose. People looking through window, waiting to see what happens. Bull runs a little but mostly walks through shop, china breaking, broken on floor. Bull standing in the the middle of broken delph. Stunts Gags Metaphors Very limp. 16:09:56:00 B W 1949 Sd. Austria. Hunter walking through snow in Tyrolean Alps. Hunter with dog looking through binoculars at chamois. Man and dog on the trail, crouching behind rock, spying. Mountain goats are startled and run off up the side of mountain. Curious goat looking straight at camera, good. CU hunter with rifle, view finder, takes aim and fires. Goat rolls down snow-covered hill. Man pulls clump of goat hair and runs it through his fingers. Dog wagging tail. Going home with goat dragged by rope. Mountains. 16:10:54:00 B W 1949 Si Fox Lake, Illinois. WA shot of boats with white sails on ice. VS of racing, good. CU of man in goggles steering. Ice boat collision, crash. Accident. Winter Sports Ice Boat Racing 16:11:41:00 B W 1949 Si New York City. Hollywood Ice Review. Woman and men skate, dance on ice, executing complicated routine. Audience applauds. Ice-skating tricks, looks like two men. American football on ice. Clown. Spotlight follows clown as he grabs rope and swings across rink. Sonja Henie in glitter costume with sparkling tiara. VS of her especially rotating in one spot at high speed. Entertainment Ice Show. 16:13:36:00 B W 1949 Si New York City. Fight Ends Greek Cross Ceremony. Procession, Greek Orthodox. Men get on boat, spectators wait. Man in elaborate costume reads before throwing ribbon into water to start dive to find cross. Man emerges with cross. Fight breaks out and man who retrieved cross is held by police and hit on the head by shoes. Swimmers are escorted to police Harbor Precinct. Religion. Ritual. Aggression. Hostility. 16:15:03:00 B W 1949 27Jan49 Si Canada. WA snow scene with men and dogs standing around, bridge in background. MCU husky dogs and men in snow gear. Flag lowered and race begins. Teams of dogs pulling sleds. VS race, dogs pulling men, men hopping off and running thru snow. POV from sled, team of dogs running. Spectators wait at finishing line. MCU winner smiling. Woman dressed in long dress, cape and crown presents cup. Dog sled Racing Winter Sports. 16:16:18:00 B W 1949 07Feb49 Si Canada. Happy young men with skis. CU of face surrounded by fur hood. CO of feet on skis moving thru snow. Jumping competition, VS of coming down ramp, taking off, sailing thru air, falling in snow. Spectators watch. Number 39 smiling and hold- ing skis. Adolescents, male. Winter Sports Ski Jumping. 16:17:24:00 B W 1949 10Feb49 Si Canada. School boys march towards camera with brooms over shoulders. Sign, 'Welcome Ontario School Boy's to ? Curling Club.' Four boys stand in front of poster, with curling hats on. Boys slide on ice throwing curling game piece, others brush ice ahead of it frantically. Girls cheer on. They measure distance with broom handles and then shake hands. Winners are presented with curling trophy. Winter Sports. 16:18:36:00 B W 1949 14Feb49 Si Sd Washington, DC 'Accord Canada's Premier and Truman ? Defense.' Prime Minister Saint Laurent off plane at night and shakes hands with men. Ext, Canadian Embassy Chancery. Laurent out of car, takes off hat and waves, as he goes inside. WA shot of room with microphone at top. MCU of reporters writing notes. Sound (16:19:17) for Prime Minister's speech about how new he is to job and how he wants tips from Truman about doing job. (16:20:06) silent again. Laurent out of car again, waves, photo taken, walks up steps to building. Onlookers watch and smile. President Truman with Canadian PM shaking hands and chatting. Diplomacy. 16:20:32:00 B W 1949 Si St. Paul, Minnesota. Clarence A Maley is crowned King Boreas XII in famous winter pageant. Girls and women wearing head scarves, hats, and covered in blankets watch. Procession, men with
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