Summary

UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS
File Number: DN-ZLB-025 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Description: 01:01:19 1954, Extra! Shooting in Congress: 3 Puerto Rican nationalists open fire on Congressmen in the House of Representatives from the visitors' gallery 5 lawmakers are wounded (senators shown wounded and being lifted into ambulances [the old station wagon kind]) Suspects shown in homicide squad room guns laid atop Puerto Rican flag Believed to be an assassination attempt on President Truman Navy's new seaplane, the Tradewind flying boat is tested Greek POWs return from Communist camps Arabian leader, Sultan Sidi Ben Arafa, arrives in Morocco Cold weather military uniforms The Quartermaster Corps demonstrates the new Coldbar suits Baseball: Dodgers name Walt Alston as new manager, Carl Erskine, Don Newcombe Charlie Dressen oversees his new team, the Oakland Oaks Micro motor race (motorized go carts) good pov shots of go carts on track (pov rear of cart) Winner grabs the checkered flag while driving 01:08:10 1956, World Series (Yankees vs Dodgers), 5th game: ext and int of Yankee Stadium Famous sports event: Don Larsen pitches perfect game, Mickey Mantle, Don Larsen Princess Margaret tours Mauritius (East Indies), cuts ribbon Opens a children's orthopedic hospital NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY is shown in Philadelphia--the incredible tools and techniques that make possible the remote control craftsmanship of nuclear devices for peace-time applications in industry and science Door closes, machinery, robot hands SPANISH DP's return home from Russia, after 20 years in exile Boat Crimea returns Scenes of joyous, tearful reunion, family reunions New jet airplane (Caravelle twin-jet transport) is shown at air show in Holland The high-performance craft boasts sleek lines, and unorthodox design Football: Michigan vs Michigan State 01:14:45 1961, Geneva talks on Laos, US Ambassador-At-Large Averell Harriman meets Laotian, India Defense Minister Krishnaminof, Andrei Gromyko & Dean Rusk VP LBJ visits Southeast Asia Goes to South Vietnam, Formosa and Manila Disaster: Brush fire in Hollywood Luxury homes are damaged Gary Cooper dies, footage of his life & films Gary Cooper entertaining troops GIs during WWII, Cooper signing autographs for soldiers, Cooper (in tuxedo) meets Queen Elizabeth (1950s) Cooper & Charlton Heston in scuba gear making a film Navy parachuters (the Chuting Stars), paratroopers fall from airplane, use flares & land Horse race: Good Time Pace, Yonkers trotters race Australian, Ampat, wins 01:21:07 1961, JFK & Jackie Kennedy arrive in Paris, De Gaulle greets Yanks, Arc de Triomphe, motorcade Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo assassinated in Santo Domingo Indianapolis 500, AJ Foyt wins, 5-car pile-up, Foyt kissed for win Epsom derby at Epsom Downs, Queen Mother with Queen Elizabeth II, horse wins against 90-1 odds queen, upset, sighs 01:27:30 1961, In Sweden, State funeral for Hammarskjold King Gustaf Sixth Adolph leads the homage to Dag Hammarskjold At services in Upsala Cathedral, world leaders, including Vice-President Johnson and United Nations Ambassador Stevenson, pay final tribute Baseball: At Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris hits 61st home run, beating Babe Ruth's record Football: Ohio State 7, TCU 7 Georgia Tech 4, Rice 0 01:33:48 1964, Vol #37, Rel #3 LBJ prepares for State of the Union message to Congress, LBJ speech, LBJ with staff, speechwriter Ted Sorenson, LBJ leaves Oval Office, LBJ leaves White House with Lady Bird, applause in Congress, family watches as he declares War on Poverty in America Berlin Wall re-sealed, tearful farewells, people load up, sign: YOU ARE LEAVING AMERICAN SECTOR Barrel jumping in New York, Catskills Kenneth LeBel defends his title Miss America gives trophy 01:40:06 1964 New York World's Fair: rainy day at fair, big globe Unisphere, Disney parade, LBJ dedicates World's Fair, speech, mini world tour, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Japan, Thailand, India, Berlin, Hollywood, fountains at night 01:46:02 1966, New York City boat show New Secretary of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), Robert Weaver is sworn in He is the first African American to attain Cabinet rank German ocean liner, Europa, sails into New York City, Statue of Liberty, lower Manhattan The ocean liner was formerly the Kungsholm Whale watching off California, whale hunt, people with cameras, whale's tails, Grey Whale makes annual migration from Bering Sea to lower California Snow in Paris, polar bears, Paris landmarks in snow, officer tickets car buried in snow, car crash, car stuck in snow, man attempting to push car out of snow drift, skidding 01:52:23 1966, LBJ in Hawaii with General Westmoreland & a lei LBJ meets with Saigon leaders Soviets land moon vehicle, moon shots, man at controls, Lunar IX Japanese plane crash worst air disaster in history, 133 dead, wreckage, man with binoculars Film premiere: THE RARE BREED, Maureen O'Hara, James Stewart Tiny Tyke ice hockey in Canada Little kids play hockey
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