Summary

UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS
File Number: DN-LB-605 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1963
Description: 10:01:19 V28 #653, 1955 Dulles & SE Asia Treaty pact Japanese elections & Japanese naval maneuvers Boston pier burns Ben Gurion resumes post of Defense minister Shoe fashions Baseball Spring training Gary Cooper for Red Cross fund drive. 10:10:24 V28 #654, 1955 Si. USSR expels Father Bissonette Tower tests parachutes Formosa military maneuvers San Francisco parking garage Amateur rocketeers testing designs Yankees & Dodgers in Spring training Richards sets pole vault record in track meet. 10:17:14 V28 #655, 1955 Si. Jet fighters coast to coast in less than 4 hrs Army folding bridge demonstrated Fashions for plump teen-age girls Car of the Future shown on New York City streets Olympic bobsled trials New York City Golden Gloves boxing Canada wins World's amateur hockey Milwaukee & Kansas City Spring training. 10:23:48 V28 #658, 1955 Si. Troops in Nevada atomic tests California uranium rush Animal PATSY award to Francis the talking mule England's 65 ton tank Funeral ship with ashes of 5,000 dead reaches Japan NCAA championship with Bill Russell starring Pan American Games w bob Richards. 10:30:46 V28 #664, 1955 Si. Easter in Hollywood Bowl, St. Peter's Square World's biggest Easter egg New York City Easter Parade Navy experimental circular "flying saucer" plane Loggers topping trees Eisenhower throws out first baseball Congressmen tie in baseball AAU diving championships. 10:37:22 V28 #679, 1955 HAWAII. 4 US fliers freed by Red China after imprisonment for up to three years set foot on US soil again. They tell of the trial in which they were found guilty of attacking Chinese territory north of the Yalu, and of long terms of solitary confinement, with brainwashing attempts made. REDS WOO TITO - YUGOSLAVIA. Seeking to end the 7 year old split between Yugoslavia and Russia's Communist bloc of nations, Kremlin Boss Khrushchev makes an abject apology to Marshal Tito, a startling diplomatic move. But the Yugoslavian leader remains impassive, and, say diplomats, unmoved. REDS RIOT IN BERLIN - BERLIN. Communist youth groups from East Germany storm into Berlin in an attempt to break up the first German military reunion permitted since war's end. A savage hour-long melee, Berlin's worst in months. BRITISH RAIL STRIKE - ENGLAND. 70,000 trainmen walk off the job, the country's worst rail strike since 1926. Highways are jammed, busses and other transport facilities overcrowded as a state of emergency is declared. J. EDGAR HOOVER HONORED - WASHINGTON, DC President Eisenhower awards the National Security Medal to J. Edgar Hoover, honoring his 31 years of brilliant leadership of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. SPORTS - 3 MILERS BREAK 4 MINUTE MARK IN LONDON. 3 runners in one race better the long unattainable 4 minute mile. Hungary's Laszlo Tabori finishes first at 3:59, one second slower than Bannister's record, closely followed by Britishers Brian Hewson and Chris Chataway. A triple miracle mile. DEATH RIDES THE RACEWAY IN INDIANAPOLIS. Death rides the Indianapolis Speedway, the most tragic 500 in a quarter of a century. Two time winner Bill Vukovich is seeking his third straight victory when disaster strikes. The camera shows his car skidding off the track, bouncing and twisting erratically through the air in the shocking accident that takes his life. 10:43:54 V17 #356, 1944 Si. Bombing of Tokyo Japs raid Saipan Bombing of Manila USAF tests ground pickup by plane Canada blizzard Greenbay 14, New York Giants 7. 10:51:20 V18 #361, 1945 Si. Nazi spies seized in USA after being landed in Maine Tulsa 26, Georgia Tech 12 in Orange Bowl Duke 29, Alabama 26 in Sugar Bowl. 10:56:01 V20 #081, 1947 Si. Canada, McGill honors Marshall. 10:57:06 V20 #086, 1947 Si. USC 39, California 14. 10:58:11 V22 #254, 1949 Si. Canadian international trade show w Eric Johnson present viewing autos, printing, linoleum, fabrics, watches. 11:00:31 V27 #552, 1954 Holy Cross 71, Duquesne 62 in NIT championship Family rescued from Communists Mass naturalization for GIS from communist countries Farm equipment shipped to Philippines from California Supplies to North Sea isolated island US movie stars at Brazil Carnival Whales lead to herring catch off BC, Canada Australian kids stage show for Queen Elizabeth. 11:07:17 V33 #097, 1960 Kasavubu welcomed in Congo Churchill 86th birthday Moscow Circus International hair do contest Central Park skiing Chimp ice skater 49er 30, Baltimore Colts 22 June Allyson for Savings Bonds. 11:14:36 V33 #104, 1960 Sports Highlights of 1960. 1960 sees the greatest snow sports spectacle ever held in North America, the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California. Carl Heiss wins America's first gold medal, and the hockey sextet goes on to a sensational triumph, downing the Soviet to take first place. At San Francisco, Ohio State outscores California to win the NCAA basketball championship. The Kentucky Derby is won by Venetian Way in a stirring come-from-behind finish. In the US Open, Masters' winner Arnold Palmer stages one of the greatest rallies ever seen on the links, coming from 7 strokes behind to win the Open crown on the last 18 holes. In the Summer Olympics in Rome, Germany's Ingrid Kramer sweeps diving honors, but America's swimmers win more gold medals than all the other countries together. John Thomas fails to win the high jump, dashing expectations. In the broad jump, Jesse Owens' 26-year old record is bested at last by Ralph Boston. In the hurdles Lee Calhoun butts the tape to take first place. Otis Davis wins the 400 meters despite a lunge a la Lee Calhoun by Carl Kaufman of Germany. Heroine of the Olympics is Wilma Rudolph of Tennessee, the only competitor to win three gold medals. Don Bragg sets a new record for the pole vault. In the World Series, the Pirates cap one of the wildest October Classics in the annals of the game with the sensationally exciting seventh game against the Yankees. The score seesaws incredibly until they go into the bottom of the tenth all tied up, and Bill Mazeroski hits a fateful home run to bring Pittsburgh its first World Series in 35 years. On the gridiron, scenes show Bill Hagberg of Minnesota, Jim Anderson of Mississippi, the 102-yard touchdown run by Bill Wentz of Ohio State, and college grid's Man of the Year, Joe Bellino in the Army-Navy game. 11:20:42 V34 #033, 1961 JFK on Cuba Union goods exhibited Academy Awards Oscars, Spartacus takes 4 w Ustinov, Shirley Jones, Burt Lancaster, Eliz. Taylor, Billy Wilder. 11:27:01 V36 #075, 1963 Vietnam fighting on Mekong Delta, Madame Nhu & husband US honors Bob Hope Professional Football Hall of Fame dedicated.
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