19451940s NEWSREELS
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"REST IN PEACE, PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT 1882-1945". FUNERAL, BURIAL CEREMONIES FOR A PRESIDENT.
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CHILDREN ARE ROLLED OUT IN WHEELCHAIRS AT INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN WARM SPRINGS, GEORGIA CLINIC, TO WATCH FUNERAL CAR WITH BODY OF THEIR FRIEND FDR PASS. HE WAS STRICKEN WITH THE DISEASE.
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| 00:00:45 18.9 |
MONTAGE PEOPLE STAND ALONG TRACKS TO WATCH FUNERAL TRAIN ROLLING ALONG SOUTHERN COUNTRYSIDE
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| 00:00:57 30.9 |
IN WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT TRUMAN, SECRETARY OF COMMERCE WALLACE AND WHITE HOUSE ADVISER BYRNE ARRIVE AT UNION STATION IN SAME LIMO.
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| 00:01:08 40.9 |
SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON, ADMIRAL LEAHY AND PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT OSMENA GREET EACH OTHER.
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| 00:01:13 45.9 |
MEMBERS OF ROOSEVELT FAMILY INCLUDING JAMES, FRANKLIN, JR. AND WIVES AMONG OTHERS POSE.
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CAISSON WITH FLAG-COVERED CASKET & HONOR GUARD WALKING ALONGSIDE, ROLLS DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
CAPITOL BUILDING IN BKGD. AERIAL VIEW OF FUNERAL PARADE WITH MILITARY UNITS, VEHICLES. |
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PAN SOLDIERS AT ATTENTION WITH RIFLES IN REST POSITION LINE THE ENTIRE ROUTE, CROWDS ON SIDEWALKS BEHIND THEM.
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| 00:01:36 68.9 |
CU SMALL BLACK GIRL AND TWO WHITE BOYS SIT ON CURB AND WATCH. CU ELDERLY MAN AND WOMAN WEEP WITH HANDS TO THEIR MOUTHS.
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| 00:01:44 76.9 |
MAN IN CROWD WIPES HIS TEARS. AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN WAVES "GOODBYE", WITH HANDKERCHIEF AS SHE CRIES.
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| 00:01:49 81.9 |
AERIAL CAISSON WITH CASKET DRIVEN BY WHITE HORSES & LINES OF MOTORCYCLE POLICE ON EACH SIDE.
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| 00:01:52 85.9 |
CROWDS ON STEPS OF CAPITAL BUILDING TO GET A GLIMPSE OF PROCESSION. CU FACES OF WOMEN SOLEMNLY WATCHING.
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| 00:02:06 98.9 |
MARINES CARRY CASKET INTO WHITE HOUSE, FOLLOWED BY MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, MEMBERS OF FAMILY.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOLLOW. EARL OF AFLONE, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA, HARRY HOPKINS, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FRIEND AND ADVISER ENTER WHITE HOUSE. |
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CU CASKET WITH HONOR GUARD LIES IN STATE IN WHITE HOUSE.
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| 00:02:40 132.9 |
MRS. WOODROW WILSON, WIDOW OF FIRST WORLD WAR PRESIDENT IS ACCOMPANIED BY BYRNE.
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| 00:02:42 134.9 |
BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY SIR ANTHONY EDEN ENTERS, AS DOES CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT.
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| 00:02:51 143.9 |
BERNARD BARUCH, ADVISOR TO FDR IS THERE.
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1944 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE THOMAS E. DEWEY.
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| 00:03:04 156.9 |
WEST POINT HONOR GUARD STAND AT ATTENTION AS FDR IS BROUGHT TO HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE AT HIS HOME IN HYDE PARK.
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| 00:03:08 160.9 |
PRESIDENT AND MRS. TRUMAN STAND AT BURIAL SITE, AS DOES CHIEF OF STAFF GENERAL MARSHAL, FLEET COMMANDER ADMIRAL KING, JAMES A. FARLEY, WAR SECRETARY STIMSON, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER MCKENZIE KING, SECRETARY OF STATE STETTINIUS, FORMER GOVERNOR LEHMAN AND SECRETARY OF TREASURY MORGENTHAU ARE ALL THERE..
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| 00:03:31 183.9 |
COFFIN IS LOWERED INTO THE GROUND. WEST POINT CADETS FIRE SALUTE. TAPS IS PLAYED BY BUGLER.
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| 00:04:06 218.9 |
"PRESIDENT TRUMAN IN FIRST ADDRESS BEFORE CONGRESS". VARIOUS SCENES OF TRUMAN SPEAKING AT PODIUM IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SAYS HE WILL ALSO DEMAND "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER" FROM JAPAN.
"WE WILL FACE THE PROBLEMS OF PEACE WITH THE SAME COURAGE WE FACED THE PROBLEMS OF WAR". |
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"SHRINKING JAP EMPIRE". VARIOUS SCENES OF AERIAL PAN OF HONG KONG WHICH IS SURRENDERED TO THE BRITISH AND KOREA SURRENDERED TO AMERICANS.
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| 00:08:06 458.9 |
AERIAL VIEW OF GREAT SEAPORT OF HONG KONG WHICH WAS SURRENDERED TO BRITISH.
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| 00:08:10 462.9 |
TROOPS FROM INDIA GUARDING JAPANESE PRISONERS GIVE THEM A DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE. JAPANESE PRISONERS LINED UP FOR INSPECTION, ARE MAN-HANDLED BY THEIR INDIAN GUARDS.
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INDIAN GUARD WITH SUB MACHINE GUN IN HAND, COMING TOWARDS CAMERA, INSPECTS LONG LINE OF JAPANESE PRISONERS, STRIPPED ALMOST NAKED, WITH THEIR CLOTHING ON GROUND BEFORE THEM AS OTHER INDIAN SOLDIERS SEARCH THROUGH THEIR BELONGINGS.
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| 00:08:32 484.9 |
JAPANESE SOLDIERS ON WORK DETAIL, STRIPPED TO THEIR WAIST, SHOVELS IN HAND ARE FORCED TO RUN BACK AND FORTH WITH SHOVELS FULL OF DIRT, TO FILL A LARGE HOLE IN GROUND. THE PRISONERS CARRY CEMENT BLOCK ON THEIR SHOULDERS AND RUN DOUBLE-TIME WITH THEM.
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AERIAL VIEW OF SEOUL, KOREA.
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| 00:09:00 512.9 |
ALLIED OFFICERS LED BY U.S. GENERAL HODGE TAKE SIT ACROSS CONFERENCE TABLE FROM JAPANESE GENERALS WHO SIGN SURRENDER OF KOREA. GENERAL HODGE SIGNING.
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| 00:09:08 520.9 |
AMERICAN TROOPS MARCHING INTO SEOUL AS CROWDS WATCH FROM SIDELINES. AMERICAN SOLDIER SEARCHERS JAPANESE SOLDIERS AND DISARM THEM.
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| 00:09:26 538.9 |
AMERICAN SOLDIERS PILE UP QUANTITIES OF JAPANESE RIFLES AND SAMURAI SWORDS.
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| 00:09:34 546.9 |
JAPANESE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN IS HAULED DOWN IN FRONT OF CAPITAL BUILDING IN SEOUL. KOREAN PEOPLE APPLAUD. CU OLD KOREAN MAN WITH LONG WHITE BEARD, NATIVE DRESS, APPLAUDS FOR CAMERA, BIG SMILE ON FACE.
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| 00:09:44 556.9 |
GIS RAISE THE AMERICAN FLAG.
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"AVIATION". "NEW JET-PROPELLED FIGHTER PLANES.
VARIOUS SCENES OF AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANES WITH CONVENTIONAL PROPELLERS AND RETRO-FITTED WITH JET PROPULSION ENGINES PUT ON AERIAL DEMONSTRATION. |
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SQUADRON OF NAVY "FIREBALL" FIGHTERS IN FLIGHT.
BAZAAR SCENE AS THE PROPELLERS COME TO A HALT ON THE PLANES AND THE JETS TAKE OVER. |
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CAMERAMEN ON GROUND TAKE FILM AS JET SWOOP OVERHEAD.
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"BRITISH "VAMPIRE" - NEW BRITISH JET PLANE WHICH RUNS ENTIRELY ON JET PROPULSION IS TESTED.
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"VAMPIRE" TAKING OFF, "VAMPIRE IN FLIGHT MAKING DIVES AT MORE THAN 500 MILES PER HOUR.
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"PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS EXHIBIT PRIZE NE PICTURES IN NEW YORK".
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| 00:11:08 640.9 |
SECRETARY OF NAVY FORESTAL WHO IS THERE TO PRESENTS AWARDS, POINTS TO PHOTOS OF JAPANESE SURRENDER TO MACARTHUR.
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CU PHOTO OF GENERAL EISENHOWER WITH BROAD SMILE AS HE RIDES IN LIMO WITH MAYOR LAGUARDIA.
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"CHILDHOOD SCENE" PHOTO OF MOTHER WATCHING HER TRIPLETS STANDING AT RAIL OF CRIB.
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PHOTO: CHIMPANZEE WITH SAILOR HAT, SALUTING SAILOR.
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PHOTO: LITTLE GIRL PINNING FLOWER ON PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S (HST) LAPEL
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| 00:11:32 664.9 |
PHOTO; "A BOYS GRIEF" BOY HOLDS HAND TO BROW, CRIES, AS HE KNEELS BY HIS DEAD DOG.
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PHOTO: BOXER IN UNUSUAL POSITION AS HE IS KNOCKED TO CANVAS BY HIS OPPONENT. SPORTS, BOXING.
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SECRETARY FORRESTAL POSES WITH THE WINNING PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE PRESS, WHO HOLD THEIR PLAQUES.
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| 00:11:45 677.9 |
"FASHIONS FROM COAL". WOMEN MODEL DRESSES, JEWELRY, ACCESSORIES, MAKE-UP, MADE OF COAL.
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CU MODEL PICKS UP COMPACT FROM TABLE MADE OF TOP COAL, LOOKS INTO COMPACT MIRROR, PUTS ON FACE POWDER MADE OF COAL.
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MODELS MODEL PLAY SUITS, STYLED BY DORIS MARNHAM, MADE OF NYLON, WHICH IS MADE OF COAL. MODELS SHOW SWIM SUITS AND A VARIETY OF COSTUMES MADE OF SYNTHETIC MATERIALS
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"NEWSETTES". SHOT OF LEW LEHR IN SAILOR UNIFORM SHIRT WORN BACKWARD AS HE MAKES COMIC FACES WHILE NARRATING. COMIC ODDITIES. LEHR NARRATES AUSTRALIAN TROOPS RETURNING FROM EUROPE, ON TROOP SHIP CELEBRATE CROSSING OF THE EQUATOR WITH DUNKING INTO SWIMMING POOL FASHIONED OUT OF CANVAS
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| 00:12:57 750.9 |
AUSTRALIAN TROOPS DRESSED AS PIRATES, GIVE COMRADE HAIRCUT THEN TOSS HIM INTO POOL WHERE SIX MEN DUNK HIM IN AND OUT OF WATER.
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AUSTRALIAN NURSE IS NEXT. SHE IS TOSSED INTO POOL, AND AS MEN DUNK HER THE CANVAS GIVES WAY & POOL DISINTEGRATES.
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"SPORTS". HORSE RACING. "BELMONT FUTURITY". 66TH RUNNING OF "FUTURITY" PROVIDES UNEXPECTED UPSET.
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HORSES LEAVE THE GATE FOR START OF RACE. CAMERA FOLLOWS HORSES AROUND TRACK IN WORLD'S RICHEST RACE FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS.
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AS "BEAU GAY" RACES ALONG THE RAIL, THE HORSE CRASHES INTO RAIL, BREAKING IT, HORSE AND JOCKEY GO DOWN IN FRIGHTENING SPILL.
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AMAZINGLY, BOTH JOCKEY AND HORSE WALK OFF THE TRACK, HELPED BY TRAINERS. "STAR POWER", STABLE MATE OF "BEAU GAY" WINS RACE.
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"FOOTBALL". COLLEGE FOOTBALL: NAVY 49, VILLANOVA 0. VARIOUS SCENES OF GAME IN PROGRESS. WITH SCOTT OF NAVY RUNNING IN TWO TOUCHDOWNS.
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"NOTRE DAME 7, ILLINOIS 0. HIGH ANGLE ON VERY FIRST PLAY NOTRE DAME'S PHIL COLLARES STREAKS 76 YARDS FOR ONLY SCORE IN GAME, THE WINNING TD.
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