1945-1946NEWSREELS
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PRESIDENT TRUMAN GETS REPORT FROM HOPKINS & DAVIES EMISSARIES RETURN FROM THEIR MISSIONS TO LONDON &
MOSCOW WITH ARRANGEMENTS FOR A TRUMAN-CHURCHILL-STALIN CONFERENCE |
| 00:00:57 16.03 |
TRUMAN AT DESK WITH HOPKINS & DAVIES STANDING AT EACH SIDE
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| 00:01:15 34.03 |
BIG FOUR GENERALS AGREE ON RULE IN GERMANY IKE, MONTGOMERY, ZHUKOV, DE TASSINGNY SIGN AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THE OCCUPATION OF GERMANY WILL BE ADMINISTERED
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| 00:01:20 39.03 |
MS MARSHALL ZHUKOV SIGNS FOR SOVIET
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| 00:01:32 51.03 |
MS FRENCH GENERAL DE TASSINGNY SIGNS
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| 00:01:40 59.03 |
MS FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY SIGNS FOR ENGLAND
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| 00:01:48 67.03 |
MS GENERAL EISENHOWER SIGNS FOR US
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| 00:01:56 75.03 |
MS 4 GENERALS POSE FOR CAMERA
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| 00:02:22 101.03 |
GENERAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK MOVES GOVERNMENT BACK TO NANKING. THE GENERALISSIMO LEADS A MASS PILGRIMAGE TO THE SHRINE OF SUN YAT SEN TO HONOR MEMORY OF FOUNDER OF CHINESE REPUBLIC.
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| 00:02:25 104.03 |
LS SHRINE OF SUN YAT SEN - PAGODA IN NANKING
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| 00:02:40 119.03 |
MS MADAME CHIANG & CHIANG KAI-SHEK ARRIVE WITH THOUSANDS OF DELEGATES
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| 00:03:37 176.03 |
ON TRIAL FOR MURDER. NAZIS FACE JUSTICE FOR MASSACRE OF US WAR PRISONERS IN BATTLE OF THE BULGE. MALMEDY TRIALS- GERMANS CHARGED WITH HAVING SHOT DOWN SCORES OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO WERE CAPTURED IN BELGIUM IN THE WINTER OF 1944.
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| 00:03:56 195.03 |
PAN GERMAN PRISONERS WITH HANDS UP ARE FORCED TO VIEW US PRISONERS MASSACRED IN SNOW AT MALMEDY
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| 00:04:18 217.03 |
CU NAZI DIETRICH ON TRIAL BEFORE U.S. ARMY COURT MILITARY TRIBUNAL IN DACHAU, THE SITE OF THE INFAMOUS CONCENTRATION CAMP.
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| 00:04:22 221.03 |
CU FRITZ KRAMER DIETRICH'S CHIEF OF STAFF
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| 00:04:27 226.03 |
AMERICAN LIEUTENANT LARRY, WHO SURVIVED MASSACRE, GIVES HIS ACCOUNT.
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| 00:04:41 240.03 |
LT. LARRY DESCRIBES HOW GERMANS FIRED AT PRISONERS
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| 00:05:14 273.03 |
LT. LARRY WALKS OVER TO DEFENDENT & POINTS HIM OUT IDENTIFIES COLD-BLOODED NAZI MURDERER WHO FIRED THE FIRST BULLETS AT UNARMED AMERICAN PRISONERS
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| 00:05:43 302.03 |
ATOMIC BOMB CONTROL PLAN
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| 00:05:47 306.03 |
MS BERNARD BARUCH ADDRESSES THE UNITED NATIONS ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL COMMISSION AT UN. SAYS U.S.
WILL RELEASE ATOMIC ENERGY SECRET IF THE WORLD WILL AGREE TO A PACT FOR ITS CONTROL. LAYS OUT PLAN FOR SUCH CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY |
| 00:08:22 461.03 |
INAUGURATION OF PERON IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA GENERAL JUAN PERON BECOMES THE PRESIDENT OF THE ARGENTINE.
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| 00:08:34 473.03 |
RETIRING PRESIDENT GIVES JUAN PERON THE BATON OF OFFICE
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| 00:08:53 492.03 |
MS PERON IN FULL UNIFORM SALUTES THE PEOPLE
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| 00:09:05 504.03 |
AERIAL MOTORCADE & PARADE CHEERED BY HUGE CROWD A COLORFUL CEREMONY & A SPECTACULAR PARADE MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW REGIME.
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| 00:09:30 529.03 |
SOVIET OFFERS OWN ATOM BOMB PLAN, UPHOLDING UN VETO. UNITED NATIONS ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION CONSIDERS ATOM BOMB CONTROL PLAN PROPOSED BY AMERICA'S DELEGATE, BERNARD BARUCH. ENGLAND, CANADA & CHINA BACK U.S. PROPOSAL, BUT SOVIET DELEGATE GROMYKO PRESENTS RUSSIAN PLAN WHICH CALLS UPON U.S. TO YIELD ALL ATOMIC BOMBS & SECRETS AS SOON AS AN AGREEMENT IS CONCLUDED BY THE U.N.
INSISTS ON RETAINING VETO IN CONTROL OF ATOMIC BOMB. |
| 00:11:25 644.03 |
FORMULA FOR INDIA. MAHATMA GANDHI & PANDIT NEHRU ATTEND THE SIMLA CONFERENCE WHERE THE INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA IS DEBATED. NEHRU ARRIVES AT CONFERENCE ON HORSEBACK
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| 00:11:40 659.03 |
BARE CHESTED GANDHI ARRIVES ASSISTED BY TWO YOUNG INDIAN WOMEN
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| 00:12:11 690.03 |
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. A NATION IS BORN, PHILIPPINES RECEIVE INDEPENDENCE FROM US - A PLEDGE KEPT
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| 00:12:33 712.03 |
SENATOR TYDINGS & PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT ROXAS AT CEREMONY IN MANILA WHERE A HUGE THRONG ATTENDS HISTORY-MAKING EVENT.
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| 00:12:39 718.03 |
GENERAL MACARTHUR SPEAKS AT CEREMONY. TELLS HOW THE U.S. REDEEMS A PLEDGE IT MADE 48 YEARS AGO WHEN THE PHILIPPINES WERE GOTTEN FROM SPAIN. HIGH COMMISSIONER PAUL V. MCNUTT DELIVERS PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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| 00:14:20 819.03 |
FLAGS ARE CHANGED; US COMES DOWN, PHILIPPINE FLAG HOISTED UP
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| 00:15:03 862.03 |
AT WHITE HOUSE, HARRY S. TRUMAN SIGNS LOAN TO ENGLAND USING SEVERAL PENS. CONTROVERSIAL $3,750,000,000 GRANT TO ENGLAND.
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| 00:15:47 906.03 |
THE AMAZING SPECTACLE AT BIKINI. REMARKABLE FILMS OF MAN'S 5TH ATOMIC BOMB EXPLODING IN UNDERWATER TEST
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| 00:16:03 922.03 |
THE U.S. NAVY, ARMY, AIR FORCES & NEWSREELS MOBILIZE BATTALIONS OF CAMERAMEN. SOLDIERS PREPARE CAMERAS ON TOWER OF BIKINI
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| 00:16:43 962.03 |
PARTLY SUBMERGED SUBMARINE IS USED TO TEST.
BATTLESHIPS, AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, SUBMARINES, & OTHER VESSELS ARE STATIONED. |
| 00:16:55 974.03 |
MS BADLY DAMAGED SHIP "SKATE," USED IN OTHER BLAST IS PUT IN PLACE
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| 00:17:13 992.03 |
MONTAGE MEN LEAVE SHIP BENEATH WHICH BOMB IS SUSPENDED. SCIENTISTS LEAVE THE "BOMB RAFT".
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| 00:18:20 1059.03 |
CU TWO MINUTE SWITCH IS SET. ADMIRAL BLANDY GETS GO-AHEAD SIGNAL & DR. HOLLOWAY & DR. TITTERTON START MECHANISM FOR DETONATING THE BOMB
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| 00:18:25 1064.03 |
MONTAGE MEN WATCH WITH BINOCULARS & CAMERAS
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| 00:18:26 1065.03 |
CU DIAL TICKS OFF TO ZERO & DETONATION
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| 00:18:58 1097.03 |
BOMB EXPLODES IN SPECTACULAR MUSHROOM CLOUD
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| 00:20:15 1174.03 |
AERIAL VIEW OF STUPENDOUS BLAST OF THE SHALLOW WATER TEST OF OPERATION CROSSROADS.
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| 00:20:45 1204.03 |
CU SHORT RANGE VIEW TAKEN FROM TOWER CLOSE BY. A BLAST WAVE COMPRESSES THE ATMOSPHERE INTO WHITE CLOUD, A BALL OF FLAME HURTLES UP INTO SPACE. A HUGH WATER SPOUT RISES ONE MILE INTO THE SKY.
MUSHROOM OF FIRE & SMOKE WIDENS ABOVE THE LAGOON. |
| 00:21:06 1225.03 |
GIANT WAVE MOVES TOWARDS SHIPS ENGULFING THEM.
THOUSANDS OF TONS OF WATER, HURLED UPWARD, POUR DOWN IN ENORMOUS CASCADE, A COLOSSAL WAVE OF WATER & STEAM OVERWHELMS TARGET VESSELS. |
| 00:21:25 1244.03 |
CU GEIGER COUNTER CHECKS FOR RADIOACTIVITY. SHOWS DANGER. HUGE TIDE OF DEADLY RADIO-ACTIVITY ROLLS OVER THE WATERS OF BIKINI, SMASHING NAVAL GIANTS
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| 00:21:57 1276.03 |
MONTAGE SINKING OLD BATTLESHIPS ARKANSAS & NAGATO, DESTROYER HUGHES & 5 SUBMARINES USED IN TEST.
OTHER SHIPS ARE TORN FROM THEIR MOORINGS & SMASHED DESTRUCTION |
| 00:22:23 1302.03 |
CARRIER USS SARATOGA SINKS
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| 00:22:42 1321.03 |
AERIAL CAMERAMAN IN PLANE PHOTO BLAST FROM HIGH ABOVE
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| 00:24:14 1413.03 |
V-2 ROCKET SOARS 75 MILES UP IN US ARMY TEST MADE OF PARTS FOUND IN GERMANY & SHIPPED TO THIS COUNTRY. THE HUGE 46 FOOT, 14 TON MISSILE UNDERGOES TRIAL FLIGHT IN NEW MEXICO DESERT.
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| 00:24:19 1418.03 |
MONTAGE V-2 ROCKET MOVED INTO POSITION BY ARMY TRUCK. FUELED WITH LIQUID OXYGEN & ALCOHOL, THE ROCKET CONTAINS SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT WHICH WILL RECORD & TRANSMIT INFORMATION ON CONDITIONS IN UPPER ATMOSPHERE
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| 00:25:03 1462.03 |
MONTAGE V-2 ROARS INTO SPACE, SOARS INTO THE STRATOSPHERE. CONTACT WITH THE V-2 IS MAINTAINED BY RADAR.
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| 00:25:34 1493.03 |
AERIAL VIEW OF EARTH AS TAKEN FROM V-2 AS IT RISES
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