Summary

MISC. NEWSREELS

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Title: MISC. NEWSREELS
File Number: DN-ZLB-087 Beta SP
Color: B W, Color
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1937 - 1958
Description: 17:01:15 1945. WWII. Yokohama, Japan. Primary phase of occupation. COLOR LS. docked historic battleship Makasa of Russian-Japanese War. Yokosuka Air Field w small planes taking off and Japanese planes on ground pan over wrecked planes. Bridge 1 1 2 km with men pulling cart, bicycle, horse & cart. Various signs in Japanese. Truck across. US soldier guarding w rifle. Yokahama Post Office, people outside, trolley past with people hanging on side and back. CU PO sign. Wreckage alongside factory, ls wreckage & pan over. Yokosuka Naval Air Station wind tunnel w plane facing. Man into & up & pan over entire bldg with large fan. Other wind tunnel building shots & convoy of Marines in trucks arriving & unloading. 17:10:10 1945, Color, Yokosuka, Japan outskirts. Marine occupation. 17:15:04 1945, Color, Katogshima, Japan. Japanese refugees & repatriation 17:20:42 1945, SCENES AROUND NAGASAKI, JAPAN, 09 13 1945 1) Japanese pilot talking to US Military personnel, destruction of Nagasaki, Japan showing destruction of bldg 2) Personnel alongside of PBY. 3) Wrecked Japanese plane. 4) LS-Pan Japanese aircraft on ground. 17:26:08 1945, Color, Ganossu Airfield & Fukuoka, Japan. Recovered Japanese material. R4D, Japanese Dinah 3 bomber, Nick Jap fighter, Japanese around pier, drydock. Various Australian, English military. Crowds of Koreans waiting on Fukuoka wharf. Train out of station. Japanese Hellen medium bomber Japanese Hamp fighter. Portions of Japanese dummy aircraft spread over field. 17:36:30 1937, B W, Silent, HIGH COURT JUSTICES VIEWED IN LAST-MINUTE PHOTOGRAPHS, Washington, DC. Supreme court justices. Shows Justices of the United States Supreme Court carrying on the duties of their high office while a controversy rages over the President's plan to reorganize the judiciary. FDR AT WAR COMMEMORATION, Washington, DC. FDR reviews Army Day parade, thousands of uniformed men and women parading down Constitution Avenue. Chicago, IL: A Big Parade recalling canine history for the last hundred years produces a new fillip of interest for dog-lovers. Pets fashionable during vast periods of the last century are introduced by owners wearing Old Time costumes. Dogs shown by models. New York: Emperor Mikado's brother visits US. Prince Chichibu and his Princess pay a visit to New York City as they pass through the Eastern US from Canada on their way to the Coronation of King George VI in London. Skagit River steelhead trout fishing. Fisherman demonstrate the thrill of hooking eighteen pounds of finny dynamite. 17:42:06 1944, Sd. "Nazi Horror is banished from France." Pontoon bridges hastily thrown across the Marne, speed the Allied attack on Reims, and its capture. The Fighting French assist in the conquest--then stand aside to pay honor to the advancing Allies. Adding splendor to the scene is the beautiful Reims cathedral, barricaded with huge earth works around its base. Back in Paris, a skulking truckload of Nazis is spied racing through the by-ways. A Frenchman accurately hurls a grenade in their midst and they are obliterated--one Nazi turns into a human torch. At the food depots long lines are formed--bread is being doled out. bread lines. Nazi torture chamber: The Nazis converted the rifle range at the Ministry of Aviation into a 20th Century, sound-proof, torture chamber where victims were shot or burned if they would not divulge secret information. Then they were buried there. Tank mounts new flame thrower, The British demonstrate one of their secret weapons- -the flame-throwing carrier. It scorches the earth for a distance of 100 yards. Miss America 1944. ATLANTIC CITY, NJ--The beauties come riding down the famed boardwalk in the annual beauty parade--then they wear sheer bathing suits. Venus Ramsey, 19 (Miss Washington, DC) is voted the Queen STUNTS: KOCHMAN'S HELL DRIVERS, Trenton, NJ. The New Jersey State Fair gets off to a flying start as the Hell Drivers go through their maddening paces. Their autos turn turtle, plunge through roaring flames, then pile up in a planned collision. 17:46:47 1957, US conquers Northwest Passage The Coast Guard Cutters Storis and Bramble receive a triumphal welcome as they enter Boston Harbor after circumnavigating North America via the legendary Northwest Passage--the first American vessels to complete the epic voyage, through ice jammed Arctic seas. Prince Charles attends public school, Cheam Plowing contest. Champion plowmen from 14 nations gather in Peebles, O., for the 5th annul world plowing contest. The winner, Holland's Willem DeLint. Universal Studio fire King Mohammed of Morocco, formerly the Sultan, calls for end to Algeria violence Vertical wind tunnel, At Wright Air Development Center, a unique wind tunnel is shown, with a vertical 80 m.p.h. air stream. Sports: Baseball: Braves clinch pennant, Hank Aaron home run Dodgers last game in Brooklyn's Ebbets Field New York City hosts World's Championship rodeo. 17:53:23 1958, Brussels Worlds Fair Museum of Modern Art fire Robot concert in France NCAA gymnastic championships Baseball: Dodgers v. Giants in the Giants new home town, San Francisco. First big league regular season game ever played on the West Coast. END 17:59
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