Summary

MISC NEWSREELS #18

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: MISC NEWSREELS #18
File Number: ARI-18 Beta SP (PAL)
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 00:56:56:00 B W 1920s TORNADO LEAVES WOODVILLE, VIRGINIA IN RUINS, 1920s: wrecked houses of small country town, PAN man stands on second floor of a ripped-open house, EXT is gone. 00:57:29:00 B W 1928 KELLOGG IN LE HAVRE, FRANCE TO FINALIZE THE KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT, 1928: Frank Kellogg and Ambassador Myron Herrick on gangplank Kellogg and French President Aristide Briand get into car together after conference. 00:57:57:00 B W 1920s AMERICAN INDIANS MARCH IN PARADE IN ALBUQUERQUE, circa 1920s: Indians march down street, most wear feather headdresses, traditional clothing and masks with some appropriated Western clothing, some play Western musical instruments, women support beatiful pottery vessels on their heads the Mayor of Albuquerque and Governor of New Mexico smoke peace pipe with several Chiefs elders, VS excellent shots, not exploitative - a comaderie of sorts is evoked. 00:58:30:00 B W 1928 THE CURTISS MARINE TROPHY RACE, 1928: seaplanes rest on the water of the Potomac River just outside of Navy Hangars low-flying seaplanes in race race winner Major Charles Lutz is given trophy by Secy of Navy Curtis Wilbur. 00:59:22:00 B W 1920s ICE JAM IN THE FROZEN ST LAWRENCE RIVER PREVENTS SHIPS FROM LEAVING PORT OF MONTREAL, 1920s: docked freighter ships surrounded by thick ice men chop and saw through the ice around ship's hull in effort to free it man walks across frozen harbor, WS. 01:00:09:00 B W 1920s GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND ALBERT RITCHIE IS INAUGURATED FOR A THIRD TERM, 1920s: soldiers dressed in colonial-style unifirms march through the quanit streets of Baltimore or Annapolis VS Ritchie is sworn in by a judge, MS Ritchie, wears pince-nez glasses, CU. 01:01:10:00 B W 1930s JOHN D ROCKEFELLER IN ORMOND BEACH, FLORIDA, circa 1930: Rockefeller walks slowly down well-groomed front yard path toward waiting car, MS. 01:01:27:00 B W 1920s MARY PICKFORD PLANTS A TREE, 1920s: a jocular, good-natured Pickford digs a small planting hole in the "forest of fame" in Los angeles acting as is she's tired, she removes hat and stole, spits into her hands and rubs them, then places sapling in hole and makes a muscle all to the delight of crowd in BG. [Hollywood publicity stunt]. 01:01:55:00 B W 1920s HORTICULTURIST LUTHER BURBANK PLANTS TREE ALONG NEW HIGHWAY IN SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, 1920s: Burbank and other men hold hands with little children dressed smartly in white, walk in procession the elderly Burbank holds boy in sailor outfit on lap, CU the group plants sapling ceremoniously. 01:02:19:00 B W 1930s THE RECENTLY BUILT LAFAYETTE DAM IN CALIFORNIA IS DESTROYED, 1930s: surveyor men walk alongside, peer into and climb down into a fissure crevasse created by a landslide. Sure don't look like no dam now. 01:02:52:00 B W 1920s BALLOON RACE STARTS OFF FROM DETROIT, 1920s: balloons on ground before race, PAN man (RG Hill ?) shakes hands with a row of women, kisses their hands Henry Ford stands under umbrella, MS ? shot of his balloonist son, Edsel Ford possibly the young man in white sport shirt ? balloon ascends through sky, dirigible flies in BG balloons take off, balloonists wave from the gondola basket, VS. 01:04:00:00 B W 1920s NEW YEAR'S EVE EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICALI AND IMPERIAL VALLEY, 1920s: men (mostly white) on streets of small town whose buildings lie half-collapsed, broken windows, rubble. 01:04:37:00 B W 1920s RIN TIN TIN VISITS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, 1920s: the superbly trained and groomed Rin Tin Tin plays with children and performs dog tricks: dog licks boys face, MS boy holds dog tenderly dog jumps over small table at which the children sit reads a book with two boys rest paws on seated boy's shoulders Rin Tin Tin, CU. Good shots. 01:05:09:00 B W 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s SNOW PLOW WITH SNOW BLOWER MAKES ITS WAY THOUGH SNOW DRIFT ON COLORADO HIGHWAY, VS. 01:05:34:00 B W 1920s JOHN PHILIP HOLLAND, FIRST 1879 SUBMARINE, 1920s: Sailor men and a few women stand on top of the submarine and wave man gets into the submarine, other man seals the hatch children sitting on top of the submarine slide off. 01:06:23:00 B W 1945 WAR REFUGEES DISPLACED PERSONS IN POLAND, 1945: musician men play violins or fiddles for crowd from open boxcar of stopped train people rest and sleep in cramped quarters procession of work men trudges along carrying equipment, expressionistic and iconic labor proletariat shot, looks like something out of "Metropolis" train locomotive car on pinning depot turntable, turntable stops and the train pulls out train pulls into station people crowd onto the platform, carry all their posessions in sacks and suitcases people desperate to get on the packed train enter through the windows the train pulls out of the station with people hanging on to every coneivable handle and ledge along its sides they hold on precariously as it travels speedily through countryside and rounds a bend people ride on the roofs of the cars, VS. Excellent shots. [WWII, post-war]. 01:09:14:00 B W 1940s - 1950s INDIA PAKISTAN BORDER DISPUTE IN KASHMIR, late 1940s, 1950: Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan deplanes in Washington, DC, and President Truman greets him on tarmac Pakistani flags decorate a street scenes of strife in Kashmir: fires and burned-out buildings after religous riots wailing women, etc. India and Pakistan at war in Kashmir: soldier in turban points AK-47 from foxhole general combat montage... machine gun is fired soldiers advance, etc. Prime Minister Khan and Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru sign document and shake hands, proboably peace treaty regarding Kashmir huge crowd of Muslim men engaged in a daily prayer, good shots, VS. 01:12:15:00 B W 1930s SCENES FROM ANDORRA, ONE OF EUROPE'S SMALLEST COUNTRIES, 1930s or 1940s: town on riverbank, WS people walking down the quaint, narrow streets people drop letters in mailbox, two shots town crier blows horn and makes an announcement liquor store display window delicatessen display window woman rolls a cigar bundles of hand-rolled cigars French police inspect luggage at border station man fits a messenger dog with parcel, dog runs off into the forest smuggler men hike up mountainside in Pyrenees. 01:14:26:00 B W 1949 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND IS ESTABLISHED, 1949: marching soldiers, armored vehicles, tanks and cannons in parade through Dublin streets a wreath is laid at a mamorial, soldiers shoot a 21-gun salute. 01:16:02:00 B W 1940s - 1950s POPE PIUS XII MAKES SPEECH ABOUT CARDINAL JOSEF MINDSZENTY 1940s 1950s: enormous crowd gathered in St Peter's Square, VS Pope speaks from balcony, VS. 01:17:25:00 B W 1940s METHANE NATURAL GAS WELL FIRE IN BORDOLANO, ITALY, 1940s: emergency crew operates and moves heavy equipment in their attempt to quell the geyser of flame illuminating the night sky a tank (military) heads toward the fire. 01:18:42:00 B W 1940s - 1950s ITALIAN COMMUNIST LEADER PALMIRO TOGLIATTI, 1940s 1950s: crowd of communist demonstrators Togliatti shakes hands with people Togliatti makes speech to crowd ??? people leaving hospital in which rests the recently shot Togliatti ??? communists in street march, bear USSR flags and hold fists in the air soldiers stand by as crowds move angrily through streets. Poor footage, marred by weird flicker effect, on master? 01:21:01:00 B W 1940s - 1950s New York City LOSES ITS TRUCKING BUSINESS DUE TO TEAMSTERS STRIKE, 1940s 1950s: idle parked trucks, VS loading bays of warehouses and piers inactive, no traffic, VS men stand over crates of fruit, unload them from truck, VS four men jokingly read a newspaper together on break from work, MS. 01:21:45:00 B W 1945 WWII ENDS AND USSR RUSSIAN SOLDIERS BEGIN TO COME HOME, 1945: train pulls into station with saluting soldiers and iconic portrait of Stalin decorating its engine car locomotive smiling soldiers get off train, shake hands with people, leave station, VS. 01:23:09:00 B W 1948 QUEEN WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS RETIRES, 1948: the Queen poses with FDR, MS crowd gathered in stadium to witness the pomp and pageantry of the Queen's retirement ceremony: cavalry procession the Queen speaks and applauds from her section of the grandstand the Queen waves her hand to the crowd joyfully there are a few shots of Juliana, heir to the throne etc. 01:25:36:00 B W 1940s JAN MASARYK, FOREIGN MINISTER OF THE CZECHOSLOVAKIA GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE AND UP TO 1948, WWII late 1940s: Masaryk confers with other officials at a conference soldiers lay wreath on memorial tomb, perhaps of Masaryk ??? Masaryk seated at desk reads speech. 01:27:12:00 B W 1920s MAHATMA GANDHI ATTENDS CONFERENCE AT ST JAMES PALACE IN ENGLAND, 192Os: Gandhi gets out of car Indian and British delegates converse outside building Gandhi gets into car. 01:27:51:00 B W 1948 ENGLAND GRANTS INDEPENDENCE TO MALAYA, 1948: officials of both countries speak and sign documents at long table. Malayans wear their traditional clothing. Marred by weird flicker effect, on master? [Malaysia]. 01:28:22:00 B W 1940s THE SOCIAL CLIMATE AND NIGHT LIFE OF ROME, 1940s: Pope Pius XII sits on throne, confers with advisers, speaks people sit at sidewalk cafes, VS proprietor tells poor beggar woman holding baby to move away from his cafe, she does couples slow-dance in night club man and woman seated at table sip drinks and kiss, MS a belly dancer woman, MS cabaret dancer woman wears furry bikini, MS. 01:29:52:00 B W 1940s VIENNA POLICE PATROL SEWERS FOR CRIMINALS (?), 1940s: policemen soldiers open a sidewalk manhole and descend into it the men wade through the knee-high "water" while holding torches the men patrol the dark tunnels, VS. Excellent sequence. It's hard to tell what they're doing, can read as any subterranean search or activity. 01:30:46:00 B W 1940s NAZI POWs ARE TRAINED TO BECOME MONKS IN FRENCH MONASTERY IN ALGERIA, LATE 1940s: farm workers till a field monk in cowl stands at classroom blackboard giving instruction to men seated at students' desks man pulls long cord which rings bell on roof of the monastery, TU (in this shot the "PG" letters on back of his shirt are prominent, identifying him as a POW) the prisoners students and monks file out of monastery and walk slowly in procession while praying, VS. 01:31:54:00 B W 1940s - 1950s ELECTRICITY IN FRANCE, 1940s 1950s: coal on power plant conveyor belt man stokes furnace power plant INT, turbines a hydroelectric dam, under construction VS and completed in operation VS a substation, a row of electrical switches circuit breakers moves and changes position power lines stretching from the substation, PAN. 01:33:06:00 B W 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s ???: white man in safari khaki clothes leads a caravan of black Africans bearing baskets and crates, playing small drums and chopping the savanna brush with machete white man uses surveying instrument to take measurements, probably preparation for building counstruction white man examines a baby, gives man a vaccination in stomach. 01:34:05:00 B W 1940s WWII-ERA BRITISH EMPIRE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: a multicultural contingent of WWII-era pilots walks toward airplanes on tarmac, men strap themselves into cockpits, VS squadron of airplanes flies over Asian peasants working in rice paddies Asian peasants look up at the sky, CU shots low-flying British fighter plane, pilot in open cockpit, MS, POV aiplane just above it a ruined, bombed-out city, POV AV group of Australian soldiers files through village, holds hands with children, walks past farmer women working in fields and paddies, the women look up at the passing soldiers woman stooped over harvests rice in mud Australian soldiers walk through mine tunnel, inspect machinery in a clearing, probably a Japanese military storage facility ammo dump soldier on beach lights fuse of detonation cord, retreats by rowboat to watch explosion. 01:36:49:00 B W 1930s - 1940s FLOOD IN EUROPEAN TOWN, 1930s 1940s: soldiers navigate the flooded streets by rowboat help people out of homes into rowboat lead farm animals out of dangter flooded town POV AV. 01:37:45:00 B W 1930s DIRIGIBLE, 1930s: large US Navy dirigible is rolled out of hangar dirigible takes off, flies dirigible with blinking nose lights in night sky. 01:38:42:00 B W 1930s GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1930s: Shaw with arm in a sling, MS Shaw being photographed, small group surrounds him, HS Shaw yawns, CU. 01:39:14:00 B W 1930s - 1940s A CITY IN CHINA (SHANGHAI? BEIJING?), 1930s 1940s: traffic on bridges spanning river which is crammed with idled skiffs, junks and all manner of boats pedicab traffic, crowded streets mannequins in store window huts in shantytown: poor women and children eat, VS. 01:40:30:00 B W 1930s - 1940s ???, 1930s 1940s: woman prays in namaste position in front of altar in temple (Buddhist? Shinto? Taoist?...) other people praying, they hold rosary-style beads in hands. Probably China. 01:41:28:00 B W 1940s ???, 1940s: freighter ship "Suzanne" comes into dock on Staten Island, New York wounded men are helped down gangplank ambulance drives away. 01:42:44:00 B W 1940s ??? INCLEMENT WEATHER, 1940s: dead livestock animals on snow-covered field, starved or frozen to death truck on road loaded with animal corpses men on airplane toss bales of hay to ground a hurricane batters Florida city, palm trees bent over in the high winds collapsed houses in hurricane's aftermath. 01:44:10:00 B W 1940s BERLIN, late 1940s: people on train station platform waiter on platform serves drinks to passengers through train window soldier with wreath around neck welcomed by crowd in street, a returning soldier? 01:45:09:00 B W 1920s AFTERMATH OF EARTHQUAKE IN CENTRAL OR SOUTH AMERICA, 1920s: men begin to clean up a ruined church, pick up and carry a statue of Jesus peasant refugees walk along road with their belongings, chairs and rugs strapped to backs. 01:45:59:00 B W 1930s - 1940s ???, 1930s 1940s: firemen aboard ocean liner recently ravaged by fire, moored at pier somewhere in Canada the blackened, still-smoking INT, VS diver in old-fashioned diving suit apparatus descends into water. 01:46:53:00 B W 1949 UNITED NATIONS CONSTRUCTION, 1949: the half-completed United Nations main building, TD President Truman speaks at commemorative ceremony, outdoors, MS. 01:49:09:00 B W 1953 INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, 1953: Eisenhower is sworn in on the steps of the Capitol building Eisenhower salutes from motorcade Eisenhower poses with his cabinet, MS, PAN Eisenhower in meeting with officials. 01:50:15:00 B W 1950s ADLAI STEVENSON IN HAWAII, 1950s: Stevenson with leis around neck licks some poi or other food off his finger, expresses satisfaction and laughs, MS Stevenson rows in an outrigger canoe, MS. 01:50:30:00 B W 1953 DEATH OF STALIN, 1953: two soldiers with guns at the ready stand in front of large iconic portrait of Stalin people in Paris street respond to newspapers relating the news of Stalin's death, a woman cries Georgiy Malenkov makes speech to Politburo thousands gathered in Red Square (?) for the funeral service. 01:51:47:00 B W 1940s - 1950s EISENHOWER AND McCARTHY, LATE 1940s, 1950s: Dwight Eisenhower fly-fishing, nets his catch, MS Senator Joe McCarthy receives plaque from man representing the Joint Committee Against Communism, MS, 1952 McCarthy, CU Eisenhower delivers speech from podium, MS. 01:53:03:00 B W 1953 CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II, June 2, 1953: Elizabeth in royal carriage the coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, VS Elizabeth, Prince Philip and children wave to crowd from Buckingham Palace balcony, MS. 01:54:01:00 B W 1950s QUEEN ELIZABETH II REVIEWS MARCHING ROYAL GUARDS, 1950s: the Queen salutes as she sits on horse. 01:54:14:00 B W 1940s - 1950s ??? KENYA, 1940s 1950s: group of black men sits dejectedly on ground sign reads "the Kenya Police Uplands Police Station" black policeman, poor shot white woman takes a head-count of black women and children. [Mau Mau activity?]. 01:54:46:00 B W 1950s THE "GOTHIC," QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ROYAL YACHT, 1950s: poor shots. 01:55:10:00 B W 1940s - 1950s MISCELLANY, 1940s 1950s: montage of flooded streets, ruined buildings, piles of rubble, etc. in aftermath of floods and earthquakes, VS the caryatids of the Erectheum on the Acropolis, MS, brief weary farmer looks out upon his sand-covered field, uproots a tumbleweed with his hoe bricklayers at work on dike house construction, VS, AV. 01:57:27:00 B W 1953 THE BIG THREE MEET AT BERMUDA CONFERENCE, December 1953: Eisenhower, Churchill and Laniel sit together, MS General Mark Clark signs an armistice agreement in Korea wire fence marks the 38th parallel, PAN. 01:58:12:00 B W 1950s RIOTING IN TRIESTE OVER SOVEREIGNTY, 1950s: demonstrators wave Italian flags, scuffle with police police beat people savagely rioters overturn a police car. Good shots.
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