Summary

Universal Newsreel

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Universal Newsreel
File Number: DN-LB-551 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1945
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 00:01:20:00 B W 1945 11Oct45 Sd Title: Universal Newsreel logo w moving searchlights & music under. (NOTE: this opening logo is unique to this reel in our collection excellent newsreel logo). 00:01:32:00 B W 1945 Sd New York City Gotham Cheers Nimitz. Parade up lower Broadway with HA geometric pattern of marching Marines. Admiral Chester Nimitz waving from convertible in tickertape parade. 350,000 gathered at City Hall watch Mayor LaGuardia make him Honorary Citizen of New York City. Rides on up Fifth Avenue, Archbishop Spellman on steps of St. Patricks Honor Guard of Sailors & Marines in dress uniforms. Post-WWII Celebration Hero Welcome. 00:02:42:00 B W 1945 Sd Nuremberg, Germany Stage Set For Nazi War Trial. Rubble and ruins of city w MCU of `Nurnberger' over doorway of ruined courthouse. Boy climbing thru debris. MCU Robert H. Jackson walks with 2 others. Interior of courtroom being repaired by German POWs. Men painting and repairing inside. High angle of jail next door and long covered passage way being built. 2 MPs walking thru. Interior of jail with steel doors and guards patrolling. Seen through wire. Guards inspecting through windows in door and handing in food. Names on doors including Karl Doenitz. MP patrolling on 2nd or 3rd floor. War Crimes Trial Preparations Prison Military. 00:04:02:00 B W 1945 Sd Gilbertsville, Kentucky President Dedicates Power Dam. LS of dam. President Truman and others shaking hands viewing dam that is last of 16 on Tennessee River. Tennessee Valley Authority. Hydroelectric Power. Flood Control. Government Program. Depression. 00:04:33:00 B W 1945 Sd Northampton, Massachusetts Education's A Pleasure. Airman Meredith Stiles is the first male to enroll at Smith College. Walking on campus with several women students, into building. Sitting in Spanish class, eating in dining room. Post-WWII GI-Bill Lectures Oddities Women's College. 00:05:16:00 B W 1945 Sd New York City War Fund Block Party. Night and street filled in front of JP Morgan Townhouse for United Seamen's Service sponsored `Night In Paradise' party, one of 22 held throughout the country to raise money for service men and aid to Allies. Dancing, Eating, and Jitterbugging. Sailors Dance. Post-WWII Homefront. 00:05:54:00 B W 1945 Sd Madison Square Garden, New York City Cowboys Invade New York. Riders in spotlights, spectators, bareback bucking and cowboys thrown. Bullriding on Brahma Bulls scatter cowboys around ring. Sports Rodeo Entertainment. 00:07:04:00 B W 1945 Sd Chicago, Illinois Tigers Win 1945 Series. Packed stadium for 7th Game. Good spectator shots and hitting. Detroit gets 5 runs in first inning. Detroit 9, Chicago 3 final score. Sports Professional Baseball 1945 World Series Hal Newhauser. 00:09:00:00 B W 1945 Si Title: The End Buy Bonds. End: 00:09:06:00 00:09:12:00 B W 1945 15Oct45 Sd Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York PostWar Flattop Launched. USS Oriskany, 27,000 ton Essex Carrier, named for Revolutionary War battle with crowd around it. Mrs. Clarence Cannon wife of Missouri Congressman sponsors & christens with good champagne splash. Aircraft carrier down and into water. Cold War Post-WWII Navy. 00:09:48:00 B W 1945 Sd Hollywood, California Secret Maps Guided US Bombers. 3 officers looking at maps to Japan. Army artists make a mock-up pieced together for larger contour map. Wood constructed, covered, painted and put together for 80 feet by 60 feet and then shot from AV camera that moved at same speed as B-29 bomber. View seen from camera platform & bombsight. 18th AAF Training. Bombing Japan Practice WWII Post-WWII. 00:11:18:00 B W 1945 Sd White House, Washington, DC President Decorates War Heroes. Army officers seated on lawn. President Truman pins medal on Corporal Clarence B. Craft (sp?), Santa Ana, California for his actions on Okinawa.. VIPS applaud. Forrestal, Byrnes, etc. seen. Corporal Desmond T. Doss (sp?), Lynchburg, Virginia, a conscientious objector medical corpsman who lost an arm gets handshake from Gen. Marshall. 15 were honored. Post-WWII. 00:12:00:00 B W 1945 Sd Hull, Massachusetts First Freight Glider. Glider loaded with lobsters on beach and waiting for pickup plane. Black glider pilot. Towed to Teeterboro, New Jersey airport, glider seen landing and stopping near camera. Lobsters out of box. Previously approx. 30 per cent losses resulted from lobsters drinking water from melting ice however at altitude icing is not necessary. Post-WWII aviation seafood delivery. Speed. 00:13:18:00 B W 1945 Sd Columbus, Ohio Ohio State 12, Wisconsin 0. College football. Sports. Fisher passes several times for touchdown early. Fisher and others running. 00:14:19:00 B W 1945 Sd Yankee Stadium, New York City Army Defeats Michigan 28-7. Cadets put on marching show into the stadium. Doc Blanchard runs 68 yards for touchdown in Second Quarter. Applauding cadets. Tananga runs 30 yards for Michigan. Other good running plays. Governor Dewey standing watching. Tananga pass tipped into hands of Davis for Army touchdown. Sports College Football. End: 00:15:50:00 00:15:58:00 B W 1945 05Nov45 Si Duke Trips Georgia Tech. Football in rain on muddy field. Long runs and sliding tackles. 00:17:09:00 B W 1945 Si California St. Mary Tops USC. Long pass and nearly touchdown run. Short touchdown run. Good broken field running. End: 00:18:29:00 00:18:35:00 B W 1945 Si Canada [First Post-War Automobiles] Motors moved to frames bodies lowered on and welded by hand. Doors attached and windows installed. Painting body without breathing protection. Management men watching as first automobile comes off the line and driven off assembly line & out the door. Chevrolet (?) written on side. Post-WWII Automobile Manufacturing Economics. End 00:19:46:00 00:19:51:00 B W 1945 13Nov45 Title: Universal Newsreel `Covers World-Wide Events' with moving flags and music under (clean). Track late by approx. 2 seconds. 00:20:05:00 B W 1945 13Nov45 Sd Washington, DC Attlee Here For Parley. Off plane and receiving handshakes with Secretary Byrnes, Military VIP and Molotov (?). Arriving at White House and shakes hands with President Truman. Lord Hallifax is present. Pres. Truman, Attlee & MacKenzie King place wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier, as does Prime Minister King. Atomic Bomb Conference Arrival Post-WWII. 00:21:31:00 B W 1945 Sd Portsmouth, Virginia President's New Yacht. USS Williamsburg sitting by dock. CU of runabout on board, polishing brass plate `President's Quarters'. Interior of quarters with piano. 240 ft & built in 1931 as a sea going yacht & used as a gunboat during the war. View of yacht from water. Recreation. 00:22:22:00 B W 1945 Sd Los Angeles, California 3-Wheeled Car Tested. Car pulls up to camera, man out & opens grill showing front wheel turning. 40 miles to the gallon. Man out and in to the convertible. 14 ft. car turns in 30 ft circle. POV from in car. 58 horsepower makes 60 mph cruising speed and 100 mph tops. Driving along coastal cliffs. Post-WWII Invention Automobile Oddities. 00:23:23:00 B W 1945 Sd London, England Jet Aircraft Sets Record. British Brittania, England's meteor plane that holds worlds speed record. Capt. H.J. Wilson piloted at 606 mph. At Hern Bay off England's South Coast, timing cameras are set up and clocking over 70 mph. Jet setting 606 mph record. Post-WWII Aviation Records Jet Airplane. 00:24:23:00 B W 1945 Sd New York City Football - Army 48, Notre Dame 0. Cadets march onto field and salute. Spectators. 2 cheer leaders ride mascot mule. Junior Davis runs for s number of touchdowns. With Doc Blanchard. Sports College Football. 00:25:56:00 B W 1945 Sd Baltimore, Maryland Navy 33, Michigan 7. Smith long pass intercepted by Taninga. Elliot's pass intercepted by Navy Jenkins. Cheering and waving hats. 00:27:28:00 B W 1945 Sd Title: The End Buy Bonds w sound under. End: 00:27:34:00 00:27:39:00 B W 1945 13Nov45 Si Georgia Tech Tops Tulane. Sunny day. Several touchdown passes and several by running. End: 00:28:57:00 00:29:03:00 B W 1945 13Nov45 Si Montreal (?), Canada [Ford Motor Company (?) Strike] Cars blocking road in tunnel. Workers marching Union officials in mcu. Men reading strike bulletins. Pickets with placards: ~Labours Battle To Win The Peace', `The Ford Strike Is The National Battlefield.' Post-WWII Economics Automobile Strike. 00:30:03:00 B W 1945 Si Canada {Funeral Of General Stuart (?), War Hero]. Casket with flag over carried out of church, honor guard of soldiers marching slowly accompanying it riderless horse led behind. Coffin lowered into the grave. Chaplain saying prayer Burial. 00:31:13:00 B W 1945 Si Canada Two men standing on pontoon-like hull made out of staves with mast on top and small opening into it. Seen from water. Front is fitted with metal shield and is pointed. Men look at motorcycle on dock. Wind sail around pole. CU of both men. Father and son? Inventions. Oddities. End: 00:32:15:00 00:32:22:00 B W 1945 26Nov45 Si Canada [Planes For Civilians] Small diameter tubular frames on factory work floor. Men welding. Moving full frame of fuselage. Man spray painting wing. Lowering motor into place. Rolling piper-cub like plane out as men watch. Man breaks champagne bottle over nose of plane with Miss Winnepeg on it. Old woman (?) waves handkerchief. Plane circles over airport. Post-WWII Consumerism Manufacturing. 00:33:34:00 B W 1945 Si Canada [Black Watch Returns] Various shots of tickertape and paper falling on marching soldiers between lines of spectators. Flags waved & carried. Sign: `Welcome Home 1st Bn. Black Watch' above doorway & men marching in. Post-WWII returning veterans. 00:34:29:00 B W 1945 Si Ottawa, Canada [Attlee Visits MacKenzie King]. Both out of building past camera and flashbulbs. Square & Attlee laying wreath with CU of card from the people of the United Kingdom. Motorcade pulls up and Attlee applauded by people on steps. Ushered inside by MacKenzie King. Clock tower. Attlee standing in MCU at top of steps. Diplomacy. End: 00:35:38:00 00:35:44:00 B W 1945 29Nov45 Canada East Holds Rugby Trials Stadium with kickoff. Light snow covering on the ground. Players slide and slip. End: 00:37:22:00 00:37:28:00 B W 1945 03Dec45 Long Beach, California Married 150 Years. Three (3) sisters married on same day in 1895 pose with husbands. Each gets kiss. CU of wedding photo. Slicing large anniversary cake. Wedding anniversary celebration. Couples. 00:38:02:00 B W 1945 Si Atlanta, Georgia Georgia Rips Georgia Tech. Jump pass and run for touchdown. Other good running and jump pass plays. Cheer leaders. Led by Charlie Trippi, Georgia sweeps to 33 to 0 victory. Sports College football. End: 00:39:24:00 00:39:29:00 B W 1945 03Dec45 Canada [Ships For Peace] Shipyard with large sheets of steel moved into place. rivets heated and thrown. MCU of sailor on front waving. Knocking supports out and ship sliding down ways into water. View of drydocks from water. Post-WWII. 00:40:29:00 B W 1945 Si Canada [Dominion Football Windup] Snowy field and running, falling and sliding. Touchdown run. One player tries to tackle too hard. Crowd onto field at end. Sports. End: 00:42:08:00 00:42:14:00 B W 1945 13Dec45 Canada [President Truman Gets Indian Gift]. Indian turning wheel to card wool, another spinning and another woman knitting sweater with US Eagle emblem on it. Note in Chinook with translation in MCU. Indians dancing with spears wearing feathered costumes. Woman laughing. Dancer hands man sweater and book, Shake hands. Audience applauds. Man looks at sweater held by 2 women. Oddities Crafts Ethnic Native Americans. 00:43:22:00 B W 1945 18Dec45 Sd New York City Adm. Halsey Gets Hero's Welcome. Soldiers marching up Broadway and riding on back of convertible thru confetti and tickertape. Stopping at City Hall and up steps. Into Council Chambers where Mayor LaGuardia makes him Honorary Citizen of New York. Post-WWII welcome Naval Hero Third Fleet. 00:44:32:00 B W 1945 Si GIs Rescued In Mid-Ocean. POV from plane flying over listing ship. View from ship of Henry Ward Beecher and men over side onto small boat. View of ship from distance. Boarding large ship through side door. Waving at snow covered Statue of Liberty and then people on dock waving at Army Transport USS Saturnia. GIs were rescued from several ships disabled enroute home. Welcome. Post-WWII Homecoming. Greetings. 00:45:52:00 B W 1945 Si Shanghai, China Shanghai Japs Repatriated. Crowd of first Japanese to be repatriated sitting on ground MCU eating Woman with baby on back. Many other children, blankets, etc. Police or army searching both civilians and ex-military for weapons or contraband. Truck loads through countryside with Chinese soldiers along road. Heavily loaded men onto boats from crowded docks. Post-WWII. Bags Bundles Boxes. 00:46:51:00 B W 1945 Si Los Angeles, California Engine Powers Glider. Glider fitted with plexiglass over pilot, small motor pushes it along runway and taking off past camera. View of it gliding or flying. 16 horsepower motor. Aviation Invention Civilian Airplane Post-WWII Consumerism. 00:47:41:00 B W 1945 Si Atlantic City, New Jersey. Navy Unveils Pilotless Aircraft. Radio controlled flying bomb hangs from hook and winched to wing of PBY. Inside cockpit and controls. Radar scope and blip. Released and falling toward ship, glides past stack and explodes in sea. 00:48:29:00 B W 1945 Swish pan, man out of Hellcat fighter pilot equipped with torpedo, man with controls sits on back of station wagon and guides. AV from another plane. Plane landed by remote control. Both were used in WWII. Military aviation inventions. Technology. 00:49:15:00 B W 1945 Sd Cleveland, Ohio Rams Win Pro Grid Title. Packed stadium and playing on field with some snow. Sliding. Bob Waterfield throws long pass for touchdown. Washington fans dancing on side. Long Waterfield pass to Gillette for second touchdown. Professional Football Sports. End: 00:50:40:00 00:50:46:00 B W 1945 20Dec45 Title: Universal Newsreel `Covers World-Wide Events' with moving flags and music under. 00:50:59:00 B W 1945 20Dec45 Sd Naples, Italy WASP Joins Magic Carpet. 5,500 troops board ship for trip home. Carrying bags. Deck covered with racks of bunks. Chow hall. Crowding Post-WWII European Front. 00:51:44:00 B W 1945 Sd Washington, DC Navy Spurs Bond Drive. Fleet of PT boats parades on Potomac River to spur Victory Loan drive. Led by John D. Buckley, hero of MacArthur's escape from the Philippines. Small dirigible overhead. MCU of boats going past. View of fleet from stern of another. Post-WWII Fund Raising Patriotism. 00:52:29:00 B W 1945 Sd Kingston, Ontario, Canada Aluminum Houses. Aluminum ingots stacked. Billet of alluminum rolled, formed and then assembly line of houses manufacturing homes. 24 ft by 32 foot model shown. Set up on sample lot with shrubs. Industry Manufacturing Prefabricated Homes Houses Post-WWII Housing Shortage. 00:53:36:00 B W 1945 Sd Cambodia, French Indo-China Indo Natives Hold Canoe Festival. Many people rowing past reviewing stand of VIPS. Large war canoes racing. Viewed from water. Ethnic Oddities Exotic. Post-WWII. 00:54:29:00 B W 1945 Sd New York City Shoes ???. Footwear designed by Delman for beaches and dress. Shoes on turning display. Delman (?) & model. Modeled by many women. Patent leather with bows satin sandals gold mesh royal blue suede Stained glass Tacky. Post-WWII. 00:55:57:00 B W 1945 Sd New York City Boxing. Small boys warmed up and then swing large gloves. Approximately 6 years old. Knockdown. Older kids applaud. Held up by soldier. Amateur Boxing School boys. Sports Oddities. Gags. 00:57:09:00 B W 1945 Sd Madison Square Garden, New York Hockey. Montreal Canadiens 4, New York Rangers 2. Fast skating and rough play. Camera at rink side. Falls. Good goal defenses. Man smoking cigar. Sports. End: 00:58:21:00 00:58:31:00 B W 1945 31Dec45 Si Beverly Hills, California Canada Honors Movies Banquet with wealthy & Hollywood movie stars. Shirley Temple (?), others. 3 men holding large plaques presented by Hollywood War Activities Committee & Hollywood Victory Committee. Ambassador Lester B. Pearson speaks: `We in Canada knew of course that if we called on the film industry for help in any good war cause, that help would come. Indeed, I should go further and say that whenever we asked for war cooperation and assistance from any quarter in this country, official or unofficial, that help would be granted. In our turn in Canada we have tried to reciprocate. In our smaller way of course, because we are a much smaller country. You in this country have quantity and quality. We in Canada have quality. Post-WWII Awards Rhetoric Speech. Thanks. 00:59:49:00 B W 1945 Sd New York City Fashions... Models with Spring print dresses, hats, parasols. Model winks. Veil and strange, odd patterned dress. Evening skirts Teasing Belt Flowers in hair Women's Fashions Tacky. Oddities Gag. 01:01:08:00 B W 1945 Sd Hollywood, California Behind The Hate Ball. Mail bags addressed to Jack Benny. Table with bundles of mail reading the mail to women sorting. He says: `Here's one from Fred Allen. He says: I can't stand Jack Benny because he can't stand me more than I can't stand him. Hmmm. Allen can't be in it because he's the final judge. Hey girls, isn't there one letter that says something nice about me? (in unison, NO). Oh, fine! Here's one from (interrupted by 2 men dumping more bags of mail) What's going on here? Hey, here's one from Maria Montez--say, she's nice. I can't stand Jack Benny because if it weren't for him I would be known as the body beautiful. Hey, I'm glad that someone admits it. Hey, here's one from Bob Hope: I can't stand Jack Benny because he wears a Bandage on his finger to make people think he can bleed. How do you like that! Here's one from Hank Greenberg, he says I can't stand Jack Benny because he keeps me on third base and I want to go home. Here's one, I can't stand Jack Benny because he tries to act as young as I am. Signed, Margaret O'Brien. Isn't that silly, I'm twice as old as she is! Radio actors comedian gags oddities. 01:02:39:00 B W 1945 Sd World of Sports Chicago, Illinois Skating. Large company of ice revue doing routine Sonja Henie with partner in fancy costume with feathers and doing solo. Duck and rabbit costumed skaters skating together with large crowd. Exhibition. Ice Skating. 01:03:41:00 B W 1945 Si Bear Mountain, New York Skiing. Ski-jumping practice seen from above and below. Good quality, good jumps. Good recovery by one jumpr, falls by several others. One bad. End: 01:04:37:00 Continued on 1946.
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