Summary

UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS

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Title: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS
File Number: DN-LB-590 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1966
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 04:01:19 1966, GEMINI IX triumph, astronauts Tom Stafford, Eugene Cernan, astronauts ready for flight, blast-off, capsule recovered. Joaquin Balaguer wins Dominican Republic presidential election. Pat Cardi at Albuquerque, New Mexico premiere of the film, AND NOW MIGUEL. Track meet at Los Angeles Coliseum, Jim Ryun from Kansas wins mile race. Belmont Stakes, "Amberoid" wins. 04:08:47 1966, Hurricane Alma in Florida, winds, rain, destruction. Air Force XB-70 and F-104 Chase plane crash, planes collided, two men killed, one of them is Joe Walker, holder of the world's altitude and speed records. Ronald Reagan nominated for Governor of California, votes, Governor Pat Brown. GEMINI IX triumph, Tom Stafford & Eugene Cernan return, film of outer space, Cernan walks in space, re-entry, splash down. 04:15:00 1966, Huge 5-Alarm fire at night in Toledo, Ohio paint factory gutted. Newport to Bermuda yacht race. Skydiving meet in Winnipeg, Canada, skydivers compete, people look up, binoculars, heads turn, parachuting championships. Speed-boat race disaster: A triple-fatality, the worst in speed boat racing's history, marks the President's Cup Regatta on the Potomac River in Washington . "Miss Bardahl", driven by national champ Ron Musson, explodes, and, later drivers Rex Manchester and Don Wilson are killed when their boats collide. 04:21:17 1966, Vietnam War action, troops shot, LBJ awards Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Charles Williams Vietnam heroes, "Screaming Eagles" and Green Berets. BROOKLYN NAVY YARD closes, shipyard closes after 165 years, empty, archival film of old ship launches, welders, fire, LBJ's daughters. AAU Track championships at Randall's Island, New York, Ed Burke hammer throws, beats Harold Connolly, Bob Seagren pole vaults, Willie Davenport in high hurdles, Jim Ryun wins mile run. 04:27:07 1966, JFK memorial in Israel dedicated outside Jerusalem, financed by the Jewish National Fund Chief Justice Earl Warren at dedication. Berlin Wall moved, guards & dogs, new wall built, old Reichstag building. Circus parade (Milwaukee, Wisconsin): horse-drawn wagons, animals. Wimbledon tennis tourney, Dennis Ralston beats Manuel Santana Billie Jean King beats Maria Bueno. 04:33:24 1966, "Nation Sizzles" Record Heat Wave Staggers US New York, Bryant Park. People seated on benches or strolling in park's north walkway. People seated about the park's fountain. Woman fondles the soothing water. Very fat man wipes perspiration, seated on grass. Rooftop open pool in luxury building. People swimming in pool or lounging on chaise lounge chairs - New York City skyline seen from the roof. Empire State building in distance. McGraw Hill Building. INT a control room. Switchboard complex. AV of beaches teeming with people on beach and bathing. *Very good AV. People on the packed beach. Giant temperature gauge shows 103.5 degrees. Grass cut to the packed beach. Young boys surround a giant of ice on the beach. Boys, with clothes on, jump into water off a pier. Young boy with a giant ice cream cone. "Wingless Aircraft: Future Space Ferry Tested." Test pilot, Milton Thompson, in bubble cockpit, CU aircrafts' underbelly fuselage. Aircraft streaks through the sky with jet trails, unloads the wingless craft. Wingless crafts floats downward in the sky and touches down on landing field. ALL-AMERICAN FOOTBALL in Atlanta, Georgia. West Beats East 24-7. Stadium filled with spectators, Randy "The Rifle" Johnson. ALL STAR BASEBALL game in St. Louis. EXT stadium. HA spectators in stands as broiling heat in St. Louis. Sandy Koufax pitches. Brooks Robinson swings and sends fly ball sinking in front of Hank Aaron in left field. National League scoring action as Maury Wills scores Tim McCarver with the winning run. 04:39:44 1966, Miss Universe. Margaretta Arvidson of Sweden wins title. Beauty contestants from varied nations parade down stage steps with water sprouting fountain in BG. Celebrity judges. Hitchcock on East Coast to promote his film, "Torn Curtain", his 50th film. EXT New York City City Hall. Alfred Hitchcock receives award from Mayor John Lindsay. Newsreel cameraman. In Boston, young women hold banner reading "Welcome to Boston Alfred Hitchcock." Hitchcock deplanes from Northeast airplane. Shakes hands with Boston officials. Waves into CAM. Rides limousine from airport. Visits Massachusetts Governor Volpe. Receives memento. Theater marquee for "Torn Curtain" starring Julie Andrews and Paul Newman. Movie house ticket booth. Ticket line. Hitchcock cuts giant celebration with sword. The cake lists each of the 50 films. TD cake list of Hitchcock movie credits. * A celebration cake list of 50 films under Alfred Hitchcock direction. HA shot as crowds swarms around the giant celebration cake. Feast of San Fermin, the bulls of Pamplona, Spain. Signal goes off by a blast. Score of wild bulls pounce and charge from corral Mass of running townspeople in village streets. Bulls charging on the village streets chasing people. People tussle with rampaging bulls. Good HA shots of the street and crowd action. HA shot as bull pins some bystanders. Massive fleeing crowd. Loose bulls charge into arena and are soon surrounded by people who challenge and intimidate the bulls. A particular man "jousts" with a bull. Follows bull closely lifted by bull tossed. Trampled. Then man rises and shows bull his rear end. Bull is goaded to chase man. "Hollywood Gold Cup" horse race at Hollywood Park, "Native Diver" wins. Race track. Horses came out of the shoot. Crowd watches race. Crowd reaction. All-America track and field invitational meet in Berkeley, California. Jim Ryun sets new world record. Crowd reaction shot. Jim Ryun "walks off" the race. Smilingly jogs before crowds in stands. 04:47:38 1966, Gemini 10. Many space "firsts" in record flight. Astronauts, Michael Collins and John Young leave quarters at Cape Kennedy, shake hands and wave to crowd as they enter car on way to launching pad. Astronaut "ready room" INT. Astronauts in space suits. NASA truck pulls away. Gemini launching pad. Space capsule. Astronauts enter capsule elevator and rides up. Titan rocket on launching pad. Astronauts enter rocket nose and hatches are closed. Control room countdown for space capsules. Agenia space rocket capsule shoots off from landing pad. Titan space rocket capsule shoots off into space from its launching pad. Camera tracks the capsule rising into space and follows the trajectory. Gemini, 10 in orbit. Animated redeeming of the "docking." Art renderings of space vehicles in orbit. Astronaut space walk in slow motion film tracking. Reentry film and "splash down" into ocean waters. 04:53:49 1966, GEMINI 10 - 3 - Day Flight Big Success - July 18-21. Look at the planet Earth from 185 miles in space through the window of the capsule taken by Michael Collins and John Young, astronauts. The Agena #8 tanget rocket turns for docking. Gemini and Agena lock in link up. Separation of the rockets. Views of space taken from outside the capsule. re-entry, spacecraft falls to sea in the Atlantic Ocean on a parachute for splash down and astronaut retrieval. British Motorboat Racing Tommy Sopwith gets the checkered flag only to be disqualified for missing a buoy. Keith Horseman wins. Los Angeles Times International games. Pole vaulter, John Pennel, goes over the bar, breaks pole vault record. crowd reaction. 05:00:03 1966, FREE-FALL THRILLS. Army Team Tests New Parachute. Parachute test pilot gives thumbs up to cameraman and jumps from craft, facing camera. Camera follows parachutists free-fall as he circles in space, glides up and down, does a somersault, circles again, glides backward into another somersault. Death Valley desert hiker, Jean Pierre Marquaint finishes 7-day hike. He walks across the sands and rocks. Drinks from canteen. Desert stubble. He uses umbrella. Desert sand dunes. Monterey County Sheriff's Rodeo at Salinas, California. Stadium stands filled with spectators. Rodeo cowboy rides bronco and is thrown. Gates open for rodeo cowboy riding a bull. Rodeo cowboy thrown from high kicking bull. Bull chases cowboy. Swim meet in Moscow. Five Nations Meet. Women swimmers jump into pool lanes for breaststroke race. Galenie Prozumenshckikova wins the 100 meter race. Crowd reaction. Don Schollander, Olympic champ, wins both the 100 and 100-meter men's free-style events. 05:06:21 1966, VIETNAM AIR RESCUE. Air Force Pilot, Wayne Spelius, is rescued from the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin in North Vietnam. Navy sea airplane formation over Tonkin Gulf. Saved pilot deplanes and is greeted at airbase by senior officers. SOCIETY WEDDING in Newport, Rhode Island. It's the wedding of the wedding of Janet Auchincloss and Lewis Polk Rutherford. Attending were Jackie Kennedy, the bride's half sister, while Caroline and John Kennedy Jr were both included in the wedding party. People congregate outside Newport Church and await the bride and groom. Wedding party arrives, Jackie Kennedy arrives at the church to attend the ceremony along with Caroline Kennedy. FASHION PARADE in Jamaica. Fashion models step from Pan Am airplane. PAN clothes style of 1966. The outfits include skirts and sweaters, knit suits with dickeys and weskets and the widely- traveled poor boy sweater and skirt outfit. Children's styles of 1966. Sports: New York, Shea Stadium..."full house" of Mets fans. Casey Stengel tips hat to crowds on his 76th birthday. The birthday cake, Casey lifts the cake and shows it to the camera. Old Timers Game, National and American League All-Stars against one another. Carl Hubbell, Leo Durocher, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial. Roy Campanella in wheelchair, alongside Mets dugout. Leo Durocher chats with Yogi Berra. Joe DiMaggio alongside Miss Payson. 05:12:40 1966, TERROR IN TEXAS. Sniper kills 15, 33 wounded (8\1\'66). University of Texas (Austin) clocktower campus. Charles Whitman, student killer-sniper shoots from the clock tower, observation deck. Police carry victim. Camera records fleeing men. victims. Ambulance. People crouched on sidewalks. Victims carried off. The University of Texas clocktower. Crowds surround ambulances carrying the victims off. Cache of weapons rifles, carbine, shotgun, pistols. Students on campus. Camera tilts to the clocktower. LUCI & PAT PREVIEW. A pre-wedding reception at the Georgetown home of Ambassador W. Averell Harriman highlights a week of festivities for Luci Baines Johnson and Patrick Nugent. The party formally introduces the couple to Washington's diplomatic corps. White House invitation to wedding. The White House and grounds. Shrine of The Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC Luci Baines Johnson, Patrick Nugent, Averell Harriman, Lady Bird Johnson. Ceremonial wedding reception live. Dignitaries. Dean Rusk. Averell Harriman greets President LBJ. Garden reception. EXT and INT church. Luci and Pat together on a reception line. FASHION, Paris, fashion model shows dress of multicolored metal and plastic disks in medieval Spanish Italian styling, metallic dresses, resemble armor. Disk helmet headpiece with goggles. (Note: these are probably Paco Rabanne fashions see VTM-54M for comparison shots). SPORTS. Los Angeles swim meet, AAU National Outdoor Championships. Don Schollander breaks his own world record in the 200-meter men's freestyle. Pokey Watson ties the world record, winning the women's 200-meter freestyle. 05:18:59 1966, LUCI AND PAT WED. Wedding day for Luci Baines Johnson and Patrick John Nugent. Ceremony at Washington's National Shrine of The Immaculate Conception. Groom Pat Nugent and ushers arrive at church. Outdoor spectator crowd. President LBJ arrives with the bride. Both walk up church steps followed by entourage of assistants. They pose with Lady Bird for photos. Wedding party exits Church. Crowd reaction. Newlyweds wave to crowd and camera...drive off in bubble-limousine. Family on White House patio. LBJ, Lady Bird, Luci and John Nugent Talony with the groom's parents. Wedding cake, cutting the cake. Luci feeds the groom a slice of cake. Luci and Nugent stroll the White House portico and grounds, arm in arm. FOOTBALL. Green Bay Packers, 38, College All Stars, 0, Bart Starr and Jim Taylor 05:25:15 1966, "Modern Caveman": British man, David Lafferty, sets new world record for staying in cave Man enters cave, exits, mobs greet him. 35th Annual National Model Airplane Championships, toy airplane, man with radio controls, model airplane flies. First annual International Marathon held in Spain. Marathon "speed walking" race walkers in countryside cheered on, winner Abebe Bikila (includes shot of group of four men walking fast with hands on shoulders, aka "sticking together"). Four-day march in Holland. People marching.
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