Summary

MISC. NEWSREELS #4

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Title: MISC. NEWSREELS #4
File Number: ARI-4 Beta SP (PAL)
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Description: 00:53:32:00 B W 1954 SUPREME COURT HEARS BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION SEGREGATION CASE, 1954: John W Davis, lawyer for the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Thurgood Marshall, lawyer for Brown, and retinue, as they walk up stairs to the Supreme Court building Marshall speaks, CU. 00:54:52:00 B W 1940s-1950s SENATOR TAFT CRITICALLY ILL, 1940s 1950s: Robert Taft with his wife protesters hold signs demanding the repeal of the Taft-Hartley act Taft and Eisenhower speak to reporters together Taft and Eisenhower play golf, out of focus, poor Taft walks with crutches. 00:58:02:00 B W 1950 TRUMAN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, November 1950: still photographs of bullet hole in window of Blair House and of two men killed during attempt, one of whom is Puerto Rican nationalist Griselio Torrescola wounded nationalist Oscar Collazo is carried on stretcher into ambulance. 00:59:24:00 B W 1950s ANTHONY EDEN ENDS US VISIT, 1950s: Anthony Eden at microphone. 01:00:00:00 B W 1952 CHURCHILL AND TRUMAN MEET AT WHITE HOUSE, January 5, 1952: Churchill steps out of car shakes hands with Truman enters White House with Truman. 01:00:37:00 B W 1940s FRENCH POLITICIANS HOLS MEETING, 1940s: Rene Coty, Vincent Auriol and Joseph Laniel attend a meeting their wives greet each other. 01:01:29:00 B W 1940s-1950s COUNTERSPY GIVES ESPIONAGE TESTIMONY AT GENERAL ELECTRIC PLANTS: FBI counterspy William Teto testifies before HUAC? small McCarthyite committee in attendance are Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, Nathaniel Mills, Robert Goodwin and Herbert L Ross, a General Electric plant manager. 01:02:14:00 B W 1953 TORNADOES HIT WACO, TEXAS, May 1953: people explore the rubble in the streets and the ruined buildings in the aftermath of a tornado. PAN shots, sequence repeats. 01:05:08:00 B W 1950s FRANCE AND TUNISIA, circa 1950: United Nations Security Council meeting on French policy in Tunisia, in attendance are US Ambassador Warren Austin, Ahmed Bokhari of Pakistan and USSR Ambassador Jacob Malik Tunisia street scenes, including a trackless streetcar. 01:06:14:00 B W 1950s NAZI HUNTING, circa 1950: Czechoslovakian soldiers move through forest, searching for former Ukrainian Nazi Burlak (?). 01:07:35:00 B W 1952 FAROUK OUSTED, July 1952: tank convoy the ousted King Farouk and his family the ouster General Mohammed Naguib shakes hands with military officials jubilant crowds in streets cheer Naguib. 01:09:13:00 B W 1930s HITLER SCENES, 1930s: crowds waving small swastika flags cheer as Hitler and Mussolini, standing, pass in motorcade Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain are greeted by Nazi officials ride in motorcade and receive cheers from crowds officials get out of cars and walk up grandiose stairs to pompous, classical Nazi buildings guarded by soldiers. 01:11:50:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s MISCELLANY: Duke of Windsor sits with Wally Simpson Duchess of Windsor John L Lewis, CU FDR reads speech, CU Wendell Willkie goose-stepping soldiers FDR, VS Hitler, VS. 01:13:50:00 B W 1940s AIRPLANE CRASHES INTO HOUSE IN SEATTLE, 1940s: airplane and small house wreckage after plane crash people walk through the rubble. 01:14:55:00 B W 1949 JOE DIMAGGIO, June 28, 1949: DiMaggio at batting practice, Yankee Stadium. 01:15:27:00 B W 1940s ILSE KOCH APPEARS BEFORE MILITARY COURT, 1940s: Ilse Koch, the "bitch of Buchenwald" at her sentencing hearing for Nazi war crimes. 01:16:00:00 B W 1940s MARGARET TRUMAN VISITS HELSINKI, 1940s: Margaret Truman disembarks from ocean liner in Helsinki, Finland visits the home of US diplomat, John Cabot. 01:16:43:00 B W 1940s PRINCE AKIHITO NAMED HEIR, 1940s: a horse-drawn carriage leads Prince Akihito of Japan down crowd-lined streets to the Imperial Palace where he poses in fancy, loose-fitting royal kimono. 01:17:37:00 B W 1940s DE GAULLE RETURNS TO PUBLIC LIFE, 1940s: General Charles De Gaulle lays wreaths at memorial service for French Resistance heroes of WWII visits his native city, Lille, France and addresses audience. 01:18:39:00 B W 1953 MAIDEN TRIP OF ANDREA DORIA, January 24, 1953: The Andrea Doria ocean liner in New York Harbor Mayor Vincent Impellitteri greets captain Piero Calmai on deck Rafael-esque murals on INT walls. 01:19:38:00 B W 1940s - 1950s THE CROSS OF STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA, 1940s 1950s: Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members gathered under large burning cross in field children dressed in Klan robes, spooky in an initiation ceremony, long line of men hold each other's shoulders and wear masquerade face masks Grand Dragon Samuel Green, sans mask. 01:20:33:00 B W 1940s DE GAULLE GREETED BY CROWDS, 1940s: General Charles De Gaulle leads a procession through streets to the cheers of crowds toward memorials to French Resistance martyrs, where he lays wreaths. 01:21:20:00 B W 1953 THREE AFRICAN COUNTRIES UNITE, 1953: scenes from the recently formed Federation of Central Africa: molten metal poured into bar molds elephants on savanna land a load of sisal twine on longboat sacs sandbags on outdoor conveyor belt village scene, woman pounds grain in mortar etc. 01:23:20:00 B W 1951 "BIG 4" MEETING, 1951: In Paris, Dean Acheson of the US, Ernest Bevin of England, Andrey Vyshinsky of USSR and Robert Schuman of France get out of cars. 01:24:08:00 B W 1951 ILLEGAL DRUG USE, 1951: instruction in drug use and paraphernalia: hands open a hollowed-out book hiding small drug containers hands remove pills from inside cigarette lighter a marijuana plant marijuana joints hands hold spoon and give "cooking" instruction, then mimetically hold safety pin and eye-dropper to wrist for injection normal-looking addicts in room. 01:25:31:00 B W 1950s PROTEST IN TOKYO, circa 1950: police install barbed wire barricades and patrol Tokyo streets while students gather for a demonstration. 01:26:15:00 B W 1934 GERMANY MOURNS DEATH OF PAUL VON HINDENBURG, August 2, 1934: VS of Von Hindenburg from WWI to his funeral many short shots. 01:28:11:00 B W 1910s PICARDY BATTLEFIELD - WWI, 1910S: French soldiers at the front rest and eat cannons are fired from trenches British (?) soldiers on the march. 01:29:41:00 B W 1910s WWI FRENCH SOLDIERS, 1910s: French soldiers ride horses through town march through streets cannon fire etc. Good shots. 01:30:26:00 B W 1929 MADAME CURIE MEETS PRESIDENT HOOVER, 1929: President Hoover poses with Marie Curie as she receives $50,000 grant. 01:30:44:00 B W 1910s - 1920s TROLLEY STRIKE, 1910s 1920s: striking streetcar workers the streetcar on the Broadway line packed double-decker buses drive down crowded streets, one is the Fifth Avenue line. 01:31:13:00 B W 1920s CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, 1920s: Secretary of State Chief Justice Hughes walks in park with his wife. 01:31:45:00 B W 1920s MUSSOLINI, 1920s: crowded streets marching fascist soldiers Mussolini salutes marchers from horseback marching fascist soldiers raise arms in salute marching blackshirts a young Mussolini, before he came into power and with hair, makes speech before crowd, excellent shot. 01:34:01:00 B W 1930s ALEXANDER I, KING OF YUGOSLAVIA, circa 1930: King Alexander I inspects soldiers greets military officials rides in royal horse-drawn carriage with family walks with wife on snow-covered grounds of Tudor country home his son, King Peter II, salutes to CAM. 01:35:28:00 B W 1910s US SOLDIERS MARCH DOWN 5TH AVENUE, 1910s: WWI soldiers back from France march in parade General John J Pershing and Al Smith. 01:36:05:00 B W 1930s FORMER PRINCE OF WALES, THE DUKE OF WINDSOR, circa 1930: the Duke Edward, the Lord Mayor and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald exit church after a memorial service. 01:36:47:00 B W 1920s BILLY MITCHELL, 1920s: US WWI air force commander Billy Mitchell on airstrip with officials biplanes flying, one leaves trail of smoke. 01:37:20:00 B W 1920s AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LANGLEY, circa 1920 WWI: biplanes take off from and land on this first US aircraft carriers. 01:37:57:00 B W 1920s PAAVO NURMI, 1920s: the Finnish Olympic runner in race which he wins at podium receiving trophy. 01:38:31:00 B W 1920s NEW FRENCH AIRCRAFT, circa 1927: pilot gets into and takes off an unusually designed airplane with a short body with long wide wings looks like one single wing. 01:39:10:00 B W 1920s PRINCE OF WALES IN US, circa 1920: Edward in motorcade procession with many police up Broadway and past City Hall the Prince is not prominent. 01:40:14:00 B W 1925 RAISING THE S-51, 1925: men attempt to raise the sunken S-51 submarine, off Block Island, New York. 01:40:43:00 B W 1920s GAR WOOD, 1920s: Gar Wood races his speed-boat "Baby Gar IV" in Miami, Florida. 01:41:34:00 B W 1920s EAST AND WEST COAST STORMS, 1920s: wrecked beach houses, knocked off their foundations wrack washes ashore amid rough surf ruined pier. 01:42:25:00 B W 1920s TANKER SINKS THE "WASHINGTON IRVING," 1920s: the New York City Hudson River dayliner excursion boat "Washington Irving" lies half submerged in the harbor after being struck by a tanker ship men in rowboats explore the wreck. 01:43:00:00 B W 1920s HENRY FORD SUES THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 1920s: Mt. Clemens, Michigan, as Ford's case against the Tribune opens: Judge Tucker, Tribune executive Robert McCormick, Tribune reporters Floyd Gibbons and Clifford Raymond, and various attorneys outside courthouse poor and scratchy footage. 01:43:43:00 B W 1910s - 1920s MEMORIAL TO EDITH CAVELL, 1910s 1920s: a memorial statue to Edith Cavell being erected in Trafalgar Square, London to men on scaffolding work on statue. 01:44:06:00 B W 1920s WILL ROGERS, 1920s : Will Rogers with wife, daughter, Tom Mix and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr, VS speaks at ceremony after being made Honorary Mayor of Beverly Hills. 01:44:54:00 B W 1914 BABE RUTH GETS MARRIED, 1914: Ruth and his new wife Helen Woodford kiss and play piano in their home. (Note: this may actually be footage of Babe Ruth's marriage to actress and model Claire Hodgson in 1929). 01:45:18:00 B W 1930s FIRST US CAR STILL RUNNING, circa 1930: an early "car" is revved up Ralph De Palma takes a ride on a tiny early "car", made in 1892, near Luna Park as boys follow him slowly down street. 01:45:59:00 B W 1925 "WORST TORNADO IN HISTORY," March 1925: fires and wrecked buildings mark the aftermath of storms which battered the Midwest. 01:46:43:00 B W 1920s PRESIDENT MACHADO OF CUBA VISITS PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, 1920s: President Gerardo Machado of Cuba with Calvin Coolidge in Washington, DC, VS. 01:47:13:00 B W 1930s THE DIRIGIBLE "AKRON," 1930s: The large dirigible is rolled out of its hangar, moored at its nose the cabin, with crew inside. 01:48:56:00 B W 1909 WILLIAM H TAFT INAUGURAL, 1909: marching soldiers and mounted soldiers parade the crowded pre-ceremony inaugural stands bleachers. 01:50:35:00 B W 1930s PIGGY-BACK PLANE, 1930s: large seaplane with smaller seaplane on top of it, riding piggy-back, takes off once at a high altitude, the smaller seaplane is released and takes flight. 01:51:12:00 B W 1910s - 1920s PUTNAM EXPEDITION TO GREENLAND, 1910s 1920s: George Putnam and other explorers disembark small motorboat onto village shore in Greenland the explorers and Eskimos haggle and trade various goods. 01:52:56:00 B W 1930 HINDENBURG AT FEDERATION CELEBRATION, 1930: German soldiers march during 60th anniversary celebration of the unification of Germany President Paul Von Hindenburg inspects soldiers. 01:53:44:00 B W 1910s RUSSIAN ENTRY INTO WWI, 1910s: poor children are served hot food in public square snow-capped cupolas of Red Square Lenin speaking. 01:54:09:00 B W 1920s TUNNEY HONEYMOON, 1920s: boxer Gene Tunney and his wife. 01:54:36:00 B W 1910s - 1920s KAISER WILHELM II, 1910s 1920s: shakes hands with row of men watches mounted soldiers pass. 01:55:47:00 B W 1934 ASSASSINATION OF KING ALEXANDER I OF YUGOSLAVIA, 1934: The King aboard his country's battleship Dubrovnik the King disembarks yacht in Marseilles harbor gets into car with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou assassination scene: King in car lies mortally wounded as crowds around the carriage swirl in frenzy man (assassin?) lies on ground, trampled police struggle with crowd.
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