Summary

Universal Newsreels

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Title: Universal Newsreels
File Number: DN-LB-536 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1948
Description: 19:36:21:00 B W 1948 23Feb48 Sd Si Washington, DC. 'Politics: Truman Keynotes his Party's '48 Campaign.' Truman speaks to the Jackson Day Dinner. Guests give him standing ovation. VS dining room, diners. (19:36:42) Sd, Truman speech. 2 men behind him light up cigarettes. Talks about inflation, drinks water from glass, 10-year program, man behind him at ABC microphone reads. Mentions Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt. WA dining hall with chandliers, people applauding. Policy. Agenda. Politics. Democratic Party. Politicians. Reporters. 19:38:05:00 B W 1948 Sd Shanghai, China 'China Fights Hunger.' Coolies carry sacks of US relief aid flour from SS California. One man stamps each sack. Cuts to Peiping, refugees stand in line for rice, mostly women and children. Freezing cold winter weather. CU children, old woman with heavily lined face. PAN across line, VO '...Twice a day they are fed a mixture of corn and red bean gruel.' MCU of steaming pot of food being distributed. CU people eating food. Famine. Hunger. Charity. Relief. Beijing. Cold War. Post WWII. Anti Communism End: 19:39:1?:00 19:39:18:00 B W 1948 01Mar48 Sd West Palm Beach, Florida. Connie Mack, aka Cornelius McGillicuddy, talking to team, Philadelphia Athletics. Team training, pitching, batting. VO mentions pitcher McCann and newcomer Leyland Brissey, rookie from Savannah, Bob Wellman. Connie gives pitching lesson, good. Sports. Baseball Spring Training. 19:40:09:00 B W 1948 15Mar48 Sd Charleston, South Carolina 'World Affairs Russian Moves Cause Deep ? US.' Former Secretary of State, James F Byrnes reviews cadets at the Citadel military academy, walking briskly towards camera. MCU of Byrnes speaking, mentions 'reign of terror' in Czechoslovakia. He's pushing universal military training in the face of Communist threat. Says, 'Mister Molotov does not understand English but to him actions speak louder than words in any language.' Cold War. Propaganda. Policy. Politics. Lobbying. Anti Communism Speech. 19:42:40:00 B W 1948 Sd Boston, Massachusetts 'Movies Britain Cancels Tax Boston ? Rank.' J Arthur Rank receives honorary degree at Founders Day Observance at Boston University. President Marsh of BU confers. Motion Pictures Business Producer. 19:43:16:00 B W 1948 Sd London, England. Eric Johnston of MPA and Harold Wilson of the Board of Trade sign reciprocal film agreement. WA of men seated at long table, framed clock hanging on wall behind them, wood panelling. Very young Harold Wilson, MCU of signing. Handshake after signing. Wilson has mustache. Johnston makes speech about American and British victory in film war. Trade. Economics. Motion Picture Business Exporting Importing. Post WWII. 19:44:13:00 B W 1948 Sd Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic. Spring training for Brooklyn Dodgers. CU of Leo Durocher, manager. MCU of catchers Bregin, Hodges and Edwards chatting. Side profile of Ralph Branca. Hugh Casey pitching. MCU Peewee Reese and Jackie Robinson. Robinson signing autographs. Ray Sanders chewing gum. Eddie Stankie in bed recuperating from pneumonia with wife and friend. Team at pool side at Jaragua Hotel. Woman doing acrobatic trick, team applauds. Jumping into pool from diving board. Palm trees. 19:45:30:00 B W 1948 Sd New York City. Veterans from Halloran and Cushing Army Hospitals play game of wheelchair basketball in Madison Square Garden. VO calls them 'Paraplegic veterans of WWII.' Players doing lay-ups. WA of spectators. Men in wheelchairs on sideline applaud score. VS of game. Sports Handicapped Post WWII. 19:46:58:00 B W 1948 Sd Seattle, Washington Olympic Club members doing water skiing tricks, gag of woman sits on stove carried by men, (because so cold). Skiing up ramps. One man skiis up to bank, toward camera. Speed boat does fancy turn. Stunts Oddities End: 19:47:5?:00 19:48:00:00 B W 1948 19Mar48 Si New York City LA shot of Saint Patrick's Day Parade making its way up Fifth Avenue, sunny. Children standing on sideline, one with Erin go Bragh flag, shamrocks and harp in middle. Cardinal Spellman greets dignitaries at steps of St Patrick's Cathedral. POV people on roof. Car with President Truman pulls in beside reviewing stand, people waving and clapping. CU little girl. Truman on reviewing stand shaking hands, man from Ancient Order of Hibernians escorts him, wearing top hat and sash. NYPD, army march. VIPs include Governor Dewey and James Farley. Flag-American. Ethnic Irish-Americans Political Power Religion Catholic Archdiocese Fraternal Organization. Immigrants. 19:48:49:00 B W 1948 Si Lake Success, New York Protesters in moving picket line outside of guarded United Nations building. Carrying placards, 'Stop Stalin! Save Slovkia', 'American Friends of Slovak Freedom Ask Your Aid', 'Help Stop Russian Persecution', 'Stop Russian Imperialism.' Int, United Nations security council meeting, VS. Vote taken re Czech coup Czechoslovakia Demonstration Demonstrators. Cold War Anti Communism. 19:49:41:00 B W 1948 Si Canada Local. MCU streamers caught in tree. Parade, Women playing bagpipes in strong wind. Cameraman stands in middle of parade taking shots. Woman standing in convertible waving, holds on to hat a few times. VS of spectators. CU of convertible, woman, Barbara Ann Scott (?), smiling, very fake. Cuts to ice skating show, women in full length dresses glide around rink, then the star with spotlight on her jumps and rotates on the spot. Dramatic grand finale with skaters whizzing around huge cake-like platform, the star in the middle. Ice Skating Entertainment. End: 19:50:5?:00 19:51:04:00 B W 1948 25Mar48 Sd. Elgin Field, Florida 'Air Force Tests New Buzz Bomb.' Guided missile technology. Buzz bomb on launching ramp, soldiers working on it, weighs two and a half tons. Officer turns thing on nose of missile that controls range. VS of bomb. Pulse jet type of engine, fired up, heat waves blur shot. Four rockets used to launch missile. Missile moves up ramp and takes off over ocean. Rocket attachment falls off when missile's airborne. MCU of missile flying through air, land and ocean underneath. P-80 jet fighter follows missle and shoots it down, shot from plane above the action, good. Smoke. Military. Weapons. Defense. Cold War. Invention. 19:52:20:00 B W 1948 Sd. New York City. Golden Gloves Boxing. Wally Smith of Chicago against Louis Ortiz from New York punch it out. VS fight, fans. Smith knocks Ortiz down, his gum shield falls out. Amateur Sports. 19:53:16:00 B W 1948 Sd. Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. Snowmobiles hit 100 mph using airplane engines. Homemade snowmobiles called scoots. VS of race over snow. Winter sports. Oddities. End: 15:53:5?:00 19:54:06:00 B W 1948 29Mar48 Sd. Rome, Italy 'Easter Pope Warns World Against Red Menace.' Pope Pius XII urges Italy to shun communism. Huge crowd in square in front of Saint Peter's Cathedral. Pope blesses crowd. Pope carried through huge crowd, blessing and waving, people cheering. Religion Catholic Vatican City Anti Communism Politics Religious Holiday. 19:54:47:00 B W 1948 Sd. Glendale, CA. White cross lit up for Easter sunrise service. Forest Lawn Memorial Park service, crowd of people. Cross visible for far distance, daylight. VO talks about faith and hope. Religion Christian Religious Holiday Cemetery. 19:55:11:00 B W 1948 Sd. CU of composer, Dr Hans Eisler, and his wife before leaving US for London to avoid facing deportation proceedings. Eisler's brother, Gerhardt, and his wife see them off at airport. VO 'Gerhardt, sometimes known as America's number one communist is under bail awaiting deportation action. The one time composer of Soviet music leaves with words of bitter denunciation for the members of the Congressional Un-American Activities Committee.' Brothers embrace, waving from top of stairs before getting into plane. HUAC Music Anti Communist Hollywood Motion Pictures. 19:55:56:00 B W 1948 Sd. New York City. LA Saint Patrick's Cathedral with crowd outside after Easter service. Easter parade, VS. Newsreel cameraman in top hat with cane under his arm as he works, good. VS of hats and fancy dress. Women turning heads to look at camera. Small black dog, spaniel maybe, wearing hat with feather. Spring. Millinery. Religious Holiday Religion Christian Fashions 19:57:23:00 B W 1948 Sd. Hyattsville, Maryland. Thousands of children run in park in Easter egg hunt, 3,000 eggs hidden in woods. VS of kids in woods rummaging thru ground, old leaves, under rocks, in grass. Girl poses with golden egg. Religious Holiday Religion Christian Tradition. 19:58:08:00 B W 1948 Sd. Coatsville, Indiana. Tornado destruction, VS, good. Town of Coatsville leveled, cars smashed, debris, trees, wood debris everywhere. 19 people died. People walking thru rubble. Dead trees, freight cars turned over. Main street of town destroyed, homes destroyed. Weather Aftermath 19:58:51:00 B W 1948 Sd. Memphis, Tennessee. Eddie Polo, movie stunt man, has his hair tied up by his wife and attached to hook. He is hauled up side of building by his hair, VS. Reads newspaper. Stops at window and buys bottle of milk. Stunt Oddities Gag Dangerous. Motion Pictures. Fund Raising Charity. 19:59:50:00 B W 1948 Sd. Inyokern, California 'Navy Weapons Developed at Rocket Town'. WA long shot of Rocket Town in middle of desert. Sign 'Stop Until Passed by Sentry.' Checkpoint, cars stopped, 'Stop' sign. Sign, 'Possession of Firearms Cameras and Liquor Prohibited.' Family in garden, watering lawn. Int, family in living room, man in armchair reading newspaper, woman on couch with boy reading magazine. Int, scientists in lab, fuel testing, good test tubes and bubbling bottles. Man tips substance in his palm with tip of cigarette and it puffs out smoke and disappears. Nose cone placed on rocket. Rocket fired up launching ramp, rail, comes at camera at very high speed, good. Explosion. Navy fighter plane takes off, in air. Corsair fires rockets, targets destroyed. Military tests. Propaganda Cold War Naval Research Station Science. 20:01:53:00 B W 1948 Si Canada. 'Ice-Jammed Rivers Cause Flood Havoc.' Boat coming thur ice, VS, MCU ice breaking. Man in duffle coat. Two passengers, woman and man peer over side of boat. River flows freely. Measuring ice. Flooded road with truck partly submerged. People row in boat in background. Dog sitting on pillar near entrance to house, surrounded by water. Man with cigarette hanging out of his mouth rows two women in boat. Natural Disaster Winter. 20:03:04:00 B W 1948 Si Canada. Ice hockey, VS. Player loses his stick. Fans get excited. Goal scoring. CU time clock. Very rough. Goal keeper furious, hits ice with stick. Winter Sports. End: 20:04:0?:00 20:04:14:00 B W 1948 05Apr48 Si Canada. 'Canadian Food for Britain and China.' Livestock, cows, loaded onto ship. Men standing by cows in stalls. CU cow chewing, eating hay. People in line. Sign, 'Bacon and Eggs from the people of Canada..' Women packing eggs, sticking 'egg' label on box. Boxes come down conveyor belt. CU shipping label Crates on conveyor belt loaded onto plane. Plane takes off. Charity. Generosity. Goodwill. Politics. Hunger. Food Aid. Post WWII. 20:05:26:00 B W 1948 Si Canada. 'US Honors Dominion Airman.' Man in civilian clothing has medal pinned to lapel of suit. His family is by his side, wife and two girls. MCU of citations. Man seated, woman has her hands on his shoulders, children touch the medal on his jacket. Nice shot of them smiling. Family. Post WWII. Award. End: 20:06:1?:00 20:06:26:00 B W 1948 12Apr48 Sd. Annapolis, Maryland Annual Navy Junior Boxing tournament. Group of little boys stretching their arms. Tiny blond is weighed. Two four-year-olds punch each other around the ring. One loses balance and falls. Boy recovers to beat oponent to ground twice. Sport. Gender-conditioning. Bully. Brutality. Violence. Gag Oddities Children. Sports. 20:07:31:00 B W 1948 Sd. Augusta, Georgia [Masters Golf Tournament] Claude Harmon wins title, Middlecoff is runner up. Bobby Jones, Harmon and Bobby Locke tee off. Fans, spectators follow ball, good. Sunny. Lloyd Mengrim drives ball. Henry Cotton, CU. Byron Nelson and Cary Middlecoff sink balls on green, good. Harmon kisses trophy, shakes hands. Sports. Winner. 20:08:43:00 B W 1948 Sd. Seattle, Washington Sammamish Slough Outboard race. VO, 'They call it the crookedest race in the world and it's all above board..' VS of race, POVs, tracking, good. Driver having control problem, boat bouncing on surface of water, ends up on river bank, flames coming out of his engine. Cuts to cow grazing and running off when boats pass. Woman washing in tin basin, boat comes by and whips a piece of drying laundry from her line that crosses above river. Gag Oddities Sports Boat Racing. 20:09:54:00 B W 1948 Si Canada. Night shot, crowd into ice hockey game. VS game, goal scoring, falling, tackles. Violence. Winter Sports. 20:10:49:00 B W 1948 Si Canada. Banner 'Canada is proud of you RCAF Flyers.' Crowd of people wait. Flyers arrive, VS of them with families. Airman holds baby. Man kisses older woman, perhaps his mother, and lingers a bit too long if it is. Subtext incest. Small parade up road, convertibles, flags. Canadian Air Force Military Homecoming. Family. 20:11:40:00 B W 1948 Si Canada 'Canadian Retriever Finals.' Dog trainer sends black retriever running across field. Giving dog instructions by blowing whistle, pointing. Dog retrieves bird. Man throws duck into water, man beside him aims with rifle, dog runs into lake to retrieve duck. Dog swimming in lake. Winner and his owner together. Sport. Contest Bird Hunting. Recreation. Hobby End: 20:12:5?:00 20:12:58:00 B W 1948 15Apr98 Sd. Bogota, Colombia. 'Red Riots Interrupt Pan American Parley.' Ferocious rioting erupts following assassination of Liberal leader Gaitan. VS of demonstrators marching through streets. Violence erupts, men in suits and hats beating man in uniform. Naked body of assassin dragged thru streets. Man throws missile at building. Others march and face off with military, one man who's talking gets hit with rifle butt. Protesters move to conference location. Street cars overturned. Tanks brought out, driving thru smoke-filled street. Car turned on side and burning. Buildings and cars on fire. VO, 'Autos are fired in the insane fury of the mob. The streets of Bogota present scenes reminiscent of a Hitler putch? or a communist upheaval of a defenseless nation. The frenzied mauraders destroy valuable state records and turn Columbia's capitol city into a nightmare.' Papers being thrown out of windows, furniture too. Troops on balcony with rifles, and on street firing. City in ruins, gutted buildings, debris, ruins. 500 dead. Looks like war scene. VO re 'Red intent to sabotage the parley.' People wander thru rubble, VS of destruction. Civilian searched by soldier. Revolt. Riot. Flags fly at half mast in memory of slain Colombian leader. VS of unrest, soldiers in streets, firing rifles. Man carries wounded boy. Wounded man lying down. Buildings on fire. Woman trying to save furniture, Kellogs corn flakes box with her belongings. Men walk into street with their arms in the air in surrender. VS of soldiers on guard. VO '...ever present Red Menace.' People being searched by military. VS destruction. Propaganda Anti Communism. Rioting. Western Hemisphere. Cold War. 20:17:12:00 B W 1948 Si Canada. '18th Annual Empress Golf Tournament.' Man tees off, good. Rugged course, walking up hilly countryside, up steps. Sea in background, windy. VS of game. Lots of missed putts. Winner kisses trophy. Sports. End: 20:18:2?:?? 20:18:31:00 B W 1948 19Apr48 Sd. 'Italy Votes Fights to Prevent Communist Conquest.' WA of huge crowd of people. People file into building to vote. Two older women, one hobbling, on their way to vote, man with walking stick is helped by two women, one carrying infant. Person carried on stretcher and old woman carried on chair. Troops and police on alert. Ballots dropped into boxes. Cuts to ship in Trieste harbor. Massive demonstration over whether it should be returned to Italy, Russian says no. Prime Minister Di Gaspare voting, cameras flash. Church backs the Christian Democrats. Shot of monks or priests. Communist leader speaking into microphone. Communist Poster. VS Italian voters in lines. Checking ID. VO,'Italy stands at the crossroads of history as her millions of qualified voters stream to the polls to determine whether she shall remain a free republic or sink silently behind the iron curtain in the gray zone where slave nations are governed by Moscow's will.' More anti-communist propaganda VO thru out story. Red scare. Election Cold War. Democracy. Post WWII Europe 20:20:16:00 B W 1948 Sd. Bogota, Colombia. 'Riot-Swept Bogota Still in Turmoil.' Anti Communism. Same story as second half of 15Apr98 at 20:21:29:00 B W 1948 Sd. Washington, DC Front view of White House with fountains in foreground. VS of house, especially President Trumman's new balcony that has been controversial topic. View from balcony of Washington monument, phallic symbol. Architecture. Remodeling. 20:21:59:00 B W 1948 Sd. Paris, France. [Canadian Aid To French] Mother and new born child in hospital bed, she kisses child on head. Other women in ward. Arrival of food package from Canada, nurse lays out goods on bed. Canadian ambassadors wife visits new mothers, she hugs one woman who cries. Post-natal depression, perhaps. Good will. Charity. Post WWII. 20:22:41:00 B W 1948 Si Canada. 'Aid US and Canada Sent Relief ? Europeans.' Grain or cereal being loaded into ship's hold, VS. Crew of Black workers shovel, white man standing supervising. Ship leaving dock. Cuts to Garden City, Long Island, New York. Children, middle class, going to school, carrying flat boxes. Boxes piled on top of each other. Racks of clothes hanging. Priest in store room full of boxes and clothes. Bishop visits, carries crosier in hand. Distribution. Loading truck with sign, 'Long Island to London Food & Clothing.' Three trucks pull out and drive off. Cathedral of the Incarnation. Charity Goodwill Christianity Politics. Aid. Post WWII. Religion Catholic. 20:24:09:00 B W 1948 Si Canada 'Stanley Cup Winners Get Big Welcome Home.' PAN across faces of hockey team TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS. Motorcade through streets lined with fans and spectators. Players packed into cars, boys ride on hood. Group of women run to car, one throws something on one of the players lap. One woman loses her shoe, the other nearly trample on her in their quest. She catches up, cop on motorbike arrives on scene. Streamers thrown across street, in shade. Motorcade stops outside building, in sunshine, press, photographers waiting. Team stands around on steps. Photo shoot of team TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS in uniform with Cup. Sports. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS. Professional Hockey Players. Winning Team. Welcome Parade. End: 20:25:1?:00 20:25:20:00 B W 1948 22Apr48 Sd. Sherman Oaks, California. Woman teaching young children how to swim. Group of three-year olds practice their breathing in pool, good. Technique instructor learned in Sweeden. She bring one child across pool keeping its face in the water while child kicks its legs. She brings child across pool moving arms in crawl stroke. She drags child by the head, while child lays on its back completely relaxed and supple. First race for three-year olds who jump in and swim 30 feet with one intake of breath. Girl wins. Shot of children standing in line, they all have trunks on, gender neutral. Next she drops or pushes them from diving board. Children bounce on board and jump. Instruction. Swimming Teacher. 20:26:49:00 B W 1948 Sd. White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. VIPs invited to re-opening of Greenbrier Hotel by Robert R Young. Guests include, Winstons, Mike Pipps, Fipps? Mrs Kelly, or Brenda Frasier, Count Jose DeRelis, John Jacob Astor, Octavia Prochet of Universal, J Arthur Rank, Senator Wheeler and Duke of Windsor. CU of host. Golf tournament begins. Duke of Windsor takes swing, cuts to Duchess, Mrs Simpson, good. Bing Crosby playing around for the camera. Scratched. He walks across green and stops ball heading for hole. Ball lands in pool of water. Crosby take his pants off and plays in shorts, takes swing, then poses in underpants. Celebrities. Humor-juvenile. Wealth. Motion Picture Actors Society. End: 20:28:40ca.
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