Summary

DOCUMENTARIES & NEWSREELS

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Title: DOCUMENTARIES & NEWSREELS
File Number: DN-ZLB-007 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Subjects: Aerials
Description: B W 1962 Universal-International Newsreel, volume 35, #92, November 1962. 07:01:10:00 B W 1962 RED WITHDRAWAL - SHIPS SAIL WITH CUBAN MISSILES: VS POV AV a flotilla USSR Soviet military freighter ships carrying military equipment and possibly missiles away from Cuba. 07:02:02:00 B W 1962 FINAL TRIBUTE - MRS ROOSEVELT LAID TO REST: VS funeral ceremony at St James Church in Hyde Park, New York VS Eleanor Roosevelt's coffin is laid to rest by pallbearers in the rose garden of the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park CU the grave headstones of both FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt among those in attendance are President JFK, Jackie Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Vice President LBJ, Earl Warren, Harry Truman and Ike Eisenhower. 07:03:56:00 B W 1962 "STAR OF THE YEAR" - THEATERS HONOR GREGORY PECK: at a convention of the Theater Owners of America in Florida, trophy awards are presented to Peck and actress Suzanne Pleshette. 07:04:40:00 B W 1962 SPORTS - COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Air Force defeats UCLA 17-11, VS highlight plays from the game Wisconsin defeats Northwestern 37-6, VS highlight plays from the game. volume 35, #95, November 1962. 07:07:19:00 B W 1962 BLOCKADE LIFTED - PRESIDENT REVEALS RED PLANE PULLOUT: President JFK speaks at news conference and announces the USSR's withdrawal of bomber planes from Cuba and the end of the US Naval blockade (sync-sound). 07:09:03:00 B W 1962 PEACE OR WAR? - CHINA TALKS TRUCE, INDIA MASSES TROOPS: VS Indian military parade - artillery pieces and marching soldiers Prime Minister Nehru makes speech from dais to assembled soldiers and officials. [China-India War]. 07:09:58:00 B W 1962 FASHION PARADE: VS women model various dresses and gowns in Highclere Castle, England. 07:11:44:00 B W 1962 MILTON RACKMIL IS HONORED BY MOVIE PIONEERS: Herman Robbins, President of the Motion Picture Pioneers, presents award plaque to Milton Rackmil among the Hollywood celebrities in attendance are Alfred Hitchcock, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Erich von Stroheim, Ross Hunter, Bobby Darin, Gregory Peck, Adolph Zukor and one or two others (?). volume 35, #101, December 1962. 07:13:33:00 B W 1962 "SKYBOLT" DECISION - PRESIDENT SAYS MISSILE IS FAILURE: President JFK answers reporters' questions at a news conference about the Skybolt missile, gets a laugh from the crowd when he comments on a comedy record that spoofs the Kennedy family also shots of a Skybolt missile being loaded onto the undercarriage of a bomber plane. 07:15:42:00 B W 1962 NEWS BLACKOUT - New York City NEWSPAPERS FACE LONG STRIKE: VS closed sidewalk newsstands VS striking newspaper workers wearing sandwich boards walk the picket lines in front of various newspaper office buildings VS empty newspaper newsroom offices and idle typewriters on desks stacks of the Philadelphia Enquirer, Newark Star-Ldger, etc. at newsstand emblazoned "Out-of-Town Newspapers." 07:16:38:00 B W 1962 "FREUD" PREMIERE - NEW BIOGRAPHY HAILED AT OPENING: appearing outside of the movie theater cinema for the premiere screening of the film are Montgomery Clift, Fanny Hearst, Mrs Walter Huston, Shelly Winters, Tony Randall, Susan Kohner and Eileen Hurley. 07:17:27:00 B W 1937 25 YEARS AGO (1937): road and car damage in aftermath of landslide in Los Angeles an upturned house and damaged cars around the flooded Potomac River in Maryland Mussolini addresses a large, cheering crowd in Rome on the 15th anniversary of his fascist rise to power a powerful propeller-driven bomber plane taking off and in flight MS a 77-year-old General John Pershing wacky invention: police in Portland, Oregon demonstrate the use of a grappling hook intended to latch onto speeding cars two men get out of car with their hands up, surrender to police. volume 36, #48, June 1963. 07:19:47:00 B W 1963 END A-TESTS - US BAN UNTIL "BIG THREE" TALKS: President JFK makes commencement speech at graduation ceremony of American University, announcing a unilateral moratorium on above-ground nuclear bomb testing and plans for an upcoming conference for a Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. 07:21:54:00 B W 1963 "WILD AND WONDERFUL" - VIPS ATTEND PARTY ON PARISIAN SET: VS a Hollywood party on the imitation-Montmartre set of the movie "Wild and Wonderful" Tony Curtis and wife Christine Kauffman crown Vivian LaFargue (sp?) as "Miss France in America" also in attendance are Fifi d'Orsay (sp?) and French poodle dog Bernardo Barkalot (who performs a dog trick). 07:22:57:00 B W 1963 SPORTS - SIX MEN RUN FOUR-MINUTE MILE: college runners compete in the Compton, California Mile-Run, Peter Snell wins, beating Jim Beatty and others Lionel Sternberg (sp?) breaks his own record at the pole vault THE BELMONT STAKES: VS the horse race, "Chateaugay" wins "Chateaugay" and jockey in the winner's circle. volume 36, #82, October 1963. 07:25:54:00 B W 1963 ATOMIC TEST BAN - PRESIDENT SIGNS NUCLEAR TREATY: in the White House Treaty Room, President JFK formally signs the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and makes brief speech among the politicians officials in attendance are Vice President LBJ and Senator Hubert Humphrey. 07:27:35:00 B W 1963 SPORTS: Illinois defeats Northwestern 10-9, VS from the college football game baseball - the 1963 World Series: VS from games 3 and 4, among the players featured are Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, Whitey Ford, Sandy Koufax, Tom Tresh, Victor Lopez, Junior Gilliam, Tommy Davis, Don Drysdale, Frank Howard and Mickey Mantle (who hits a home run) VS the Dodgers team celebrating together on the field after winning the championship, and in the locker room with bottles of champagne. volume 38, #7, January 1965. 07:31:52:00 B W 1965 INAUGURATION HIGHLIGHTS - LBJ PLEDGES END TO TYRANNY: Vice President Hubert Humphrey is sworn in by Speaker of the House John McCormack: President LBJ is sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren VS the inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. volume 38, #23, March 1965. (also on PA-0715, t c 08:00:55:00 - 08:07:11:25) 07:38:07:00 B W 1965 WALK IN SPACE - COSMONAUT LEAVES SPACE CAPSULE: a report on Alexei Leonov's space-walk, features archival footage of an earlier USSR rocket launch animation of cosmonaut taking a space-walk. 07:39:35:00 B W 1965 RIGHTS BILL - OPEN HEARINGS ON VOTE LEGISLATION: LBJ signs early draft of the Voting Rights Act (?) Attorney-General Nicholas Katzenbach discusses the measure at a press conference VS a civil rights march in Montgomery, Alabama led by Martin Luther King, Andrew Young and Ralph Abernathy. 07:41:22:00 B W 1965 KING FAROUK OF EGYPT DEAD AT AGE 45: VS archival footage of the young Farouk wearing a fez in the 1930s, through his exile in the 1950s. 07:41:58:00 B W 1965 FOOTBALL COACH AMOS ALONZO STAGG DEAD AT AGE 102: VS the elderly Stagg on the sidelines during stint as coach at University of the Pacific Stagg at his 100th birthday party. 07:43:06:00 B W 1965 SPORTS - DRAG-RACING: VS dragster cars race on the drag strip at the West Coast Championship in Fremont, California Don Garlits and Mike Snibbley (sp?) put on their protective head gear and race Snibbley receives large trophy. volume 38, #47, June 1965. 07:44:23:00 B W 1965 THE HISTORIC WALK: VS astronauts Ed White and James McDivitt are picked up by helicopter after splash-down of their Gemini IV space capsule VS the two haggard astronauts aboard the helicopter and cheerfully waving to the gathered sailors as they are returned to the aircraft carrier USS Wasp VS White's space walk. Good footage. volume 38, #62, August 1965. 07:50:39:00 B W 1965 MORE TROOPS ARRIVE - 101ST AIRBORNE LANDS IN VIETNAM: VS a troop transport ship arrives at Camranh Bay, soldiers of the Screaming Eagle Division take up positions in and around their new military base General Ambassador Maxwell Taylor reviews soldiers. 07:52:09:00 B W 1965 MEDICARE BILL SIGNED - TRUMAN IS WITNESS AT HISTORIC EVENT: President LBJ and Vice President Hubert Humphrey arrive at the Harry S Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, LBJ formally signs Medicare into law, the elderly Harry Truman in attendance as honorary guest. 07:53:08:00 B W 1965 NO LIFE ON MARS - MARINER IV PHOTOS SHOW BARREN PLANET: VS radar dish antennae at a ground tracking station in Spain VS technicians in the control room monitoring the flight of the Mariner IV satellite probe with computers, oscilloscopes, key-punch teletypes, etc. 07:55:13:00 B W 1965 SPORTS - GYMNASTICS IN VIENNA: opening ceremony calisthenics on stadium field tumbling women gymnasts spin inside of unusual "Rhonrad wheels" (wheel gymnastics) floor exercises trampoline dancing rhythmic gymnastics etc. volume 38, #64, August 1965. 07:56:46:00 B W 1965 HISTORIC CEREMONY - THE RIGHT TO VOTE SIGNED INTO LAW: LBJ makes speech at the White House about the 1965 Voter Registration Act LBJ formally signs the act, many officials and civil rights leaders are present, Martin Luther King among them. 07:58:47:00 B W 1965 US BUILD-UP - MORE TROOPS EMBARK FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA: rows of vehicles and supplies wait to be shipped out to Vietnam soldiers arrive by train with their duffel bags at staging area in Oakland soldiers gather at pier and board troop ship ship heads toward Vietnam beneath a fog-shrouded Golden Gate Bridge. 08:00:45:00 B W 1965 SPORTS: VS from the football game at Soldier Field in Chicago between the Cleveland Browns and the "College All-Stars," the Browns win 24-16
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