Summary

1955 UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL 5

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Title: 1955 UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL 5
File Number: HD-90 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 01/01/1955
Description: 00:00:36:00 B W 1955 Vol. #28, Rel. #725 Eisenhower meets Guatemalan president in Denver hospital (one year after CIA coup d'etat deposed democratic leader there). Moroccan sultan regains power, supporters deluge him w letters & kiss his hands. New HONEST JOHN rocket fired in Japan. Ex POWs released, charges are dropped, they light cigars & drive away. Muscular Dystrophy boy w Nixon. Soviet embassy celebrates Bolshevik Revolution in Washington party. Boat breaks water speed record in Las Vegas. Film academy president talks. 00:07:45:00 B W 1955 Vol. #28, Rel. #726 Eisenhower returns to Washington, addresses crowd, sees Herbert Hoover, Nixon. New B-52 bomber. Football, UCLA beats Washington, Princeton beats Yale, Michigan State beats Minnesota. 00:14:49:00 B W 1955 Vol. #28, Rel. #727 Night fire destroys rug warehouse. Landslide buries Canada town. West Germany rearms. Adlai Stevenson announces candidacy for President. Hydroglider in Florida. Football: Notre Dame beats North Carolina, Hornung. Jet boat sets new water speed record, Donald Campbell, binoculars. 00:21:26:00 B W 1955 Vol. #28, Rel. #728 King Mohammed V greeted by mobs of Moroccans. Soldier's plane crash in Seattle, aftermath, survivors in hospital. Boston summer dresses & hats. Football, UCLA beats USC 17-7 Yale beats Harvard in snowstorm Ohio State beats Michigan, Hopalong Cassidy. 00:28:23:00 B W 1955 Vol. #28, Rel. #729 President Ike Eisenhower and his entire Cabinet meets at Camp David. English train wreck aftermath. Eskimos receive bravery medals in Washington. Seattle Christmas parade, balloons, children. Steve Allen gets award. Dress show. National boat show, Seattle, plaid waterskis. Giant hippopotamus in Spain fed & bathed. 00:35:06:00 B W 1955 Vol. #30, Rel. #730 Mrs. O'Leary's house set afire in Chicago. Soviet dam building, granite rocks dumped into water. Sea cow treated in San Francisco. Ohio safe driving contest. Football: Army beats Navy, cadets storm field USC beats Notre Dame
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