1936-19481940s NEWSREELS
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"DEWEY WINS!". "NEW YORK GOVERNOR NOMINATED BY REPUBLICANS". VARIOUS SCENES THOUSANDS OF DELEGATES AT 24TH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA. JUNE 25, 1948.
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UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN PUTS FLORA; WREATH (LEI) AROUND NECK OF JOE MARTIN, WHO TAKES OVER AS PERMANENT CHAIRMAN OF CONVENTION. HE PLANTS KISS ON HER CHEEK.
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| 01:32:55 33.93 |
ELDER STATESMAN AND FORMER PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER IS WILDLY CHEERED AS HE APPEARS AT PODIUM WITH MARTIN. HOOVER MAKES SPEECH. DELEGATES CHEER, THROW CONFETTI IN AIR.
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| 01:33:44 82.93 |
JOE MARTIN POUNDS GAVEL TO GET CROWD TO CALM DOWN.
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| 01:33:52 90.93 |
SENATOR MARTIN FROM PENNSYLVANIA SPEAKS AT PODIUM.
MARTIN NOMINATES THOMAS E. DEWEY AS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. CROWD HOLDS UP PLACARDS WITH DEWEY'S PICTURE ON THEM. OTHERS WAVE SIGNS WITH NAMES OF STATES THEY REPRESENT. |
| 01:34:24 121.93 |
SENATOR BRICKER MAKES FORCEFUL SPEAKS FROM PODIUM, NOMINATES SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT OF OHIO, FOR PRESIDENT. CROWD OF DELEGATES HOLD UP "TAFT"
PLACARDS. |
| 01:34:54 152.93 |
REPRESENTATIVE WALTER JUDD DRAMATICALLY NOMINATES HAROLD E. STASSEN FOR PRESIDENT. "STASSEN"
PLACARDS |
| 01:35:26 183.93 |
CLERK READS RESULTS TO SUPER-CHARGED AUDIENCE:
"DEWEY-515; "STASSEN"-149; "TAFT"-274; "BALDWIN"-19; "MACARTHUR"-7; VANDENBERG"-62; "WARREN"-57; "MARTIN"- 10; REESE"-1." |
| 01:36:08 225.93 |
CALIFORNIA DELEGATES RE-CONVENE, GO INTO HUDDLE, CHANGE tHEIR VOTE FOR DEWEY. SENATOR BRICKER ANNOUNCES TAFT'S WITHDRAWAL. SENATOR KNOWLAND OF CALIFORNIA READS GOVERNOR WARREN'S DECISION TO BACK DEWEY.
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| 01:37:07 284.93 |
SENATOR STASSEN APPEARS PERSONALLY TO GET ON DEWEY BANDWAGON. SPEAKER MARTIN POUNDS GAVEL, MAKES IT OFFICIAL.
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| 01:38:21 358.93 |
THOMAS E. DEWEY APPEARS WITH WIFE, IS GREETED BY WILD OVATION. HE SPEAKS, ACCEPTS NOMINATION AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR SECOND TIME. MAKES SPEECH.
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| 01:39:45 442.93 |
DEWEY, WIFE AND TWO SONS POSE IN LIVING ROOM.
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| 01:40:06 463.93 |
"NORMANDIE" JOINS U. S. NAVY"
VARIOUS SCENES FRENCH QUEEN OF THE SEA, "NORMANDIE" IS PAINTED, RE-FITTED, AND RE-NAMED, S.S. LAFAYETTE", BEFORE DISASTROUS FIRE AT ITS BERTH IN NEW YORK CITY PIER ON 2/9/42. |
| 01:40:08 465.93 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS SCENES WORKMEN ON SCAFFOLDS PAINTING HULL, SMOKE STACKS, AND WELDING ITS MANY PORT HOLES SHUT AS IT IS BEING TRANSFORMED INTO NAVAL AUXILIARY SHIP.
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| 01:40:32 490.93 |
LETTERS FROM NAME "NORMANDIE" ARE REMOVED FROM HULL AND REPLACED WITH "LAFAYETTE" LETTERS.
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| 01:40:39 497.93 |
"FIRE SWEEPS NORMANDIE AT NEW YORK PIER"
SCENES FROM VARIOUS ANGLES OF DISASTROUS FIRE ON FRENCH LINER DOCKED AT NEW YORK CITY PIER. 2/9/42. DISASTER |
| 01:40:46 504.93 |
HEAVY SMOKE INUNDATES LINER NORMANDIE OBSCURING THE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE IN BKGD. *(REMINDER OF 9/11/2001 NEW YORK TRADE CENTER DISASTER SCENE).
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| 01:41:06 523.93 |
FIREBOATS POUR WATER ONTO LINER.
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| 01:41:11 528.93 |
AERIAL VIEW OF LINER SMOKING HEAVILY AND BEGINNING TO LIST ALONGSIDE PIER. AS SEEN FROM PLANE AS IT CIRCLES SCENE.
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| 01:41:24 541.93 |
MONTAGE GROUND LEVEL SCENES OF SMOKE AND FLAMES BELLOWING FROM SHIP. FIREMEN ON TOP DECK.
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| 01:41:39 557.93 |
MAYOR LAGUARDIA, NAVAL OFFICER, ALL BUNDLED UP FOR THE COLD WEATHER, WATCH HELPLESSLY.
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| 01:41:43 561.93 |
AERIAL LADDERS ARE USED TO REACH DECK AT BOW OF LINER TO RESCUE TRAPPED CREW MEMBERS. FIREMEN CAUTIOUSLY, SLOWLY TAKE CREWMEN DOWN AERIAL LADDERS. SAILORS CARRY INJURED ON STRETCHERS TO AMBULANCES ON PIER.
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| 01:42:09 586.93 |
PAN MORE SCENES OF HUGE SHIP WITH FIRE, SMOKE BELLOWING FROM ITS DECKS. TUG BOATS ALONGSIDE TO KEEP IT FROM CAPSIZING IN DIRECTION OF LIST, WHICH IS CAUSED BY THE HUGE MASS OF WATER POURED ON IT TO QUENCH THE FLAMES.
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| 01:42:20 597.93 |
CATASTROPHE AS SEEN FROM SEA WITH NEW YORK SKYLINE IN BKGD. WATERS AROUND SMOLDERING SHIP BEGIN TO ICE UP DUE TO FREEZING WEATHER. VARIOUS ANGLE SHOTS. DAMAGE IN THE MILLIONS.
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| 01:43:09 646.93 |
BOW SHOT OF NORMANDIE SHOWS HOW BADLY IT BEGINS TO LIST. GREAT SHOT.
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| 01:43:13 650.93 |
"GIANT NORMANDIE CAPSIZES AT PIER AFTER HUGE FIRE"
VARIOUS SCENES OF NORMANDIE ARRIVING IN NEW YORK HARBOR ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE, MAY 1936, AND CAPSIZING AFTER BURNING IN A CATASTROPHE OF FIRE WHICH STARTED ON 2/14/42 WHILE BEING REFITTED FOR USE IN WAR. |
| 01:43:20 657.93 |
AERIAL VIEWS OF MAGNIFICENT LUXURY FRENCH LINER "NORMANDIE" ARRIVING IN NEW YORK HARBOR ON MAIDEN VOYAGE. HUGE CROWD ON PIER IN FRGD WATCH THE HUGE LINER BEING TOWED TO PIER.
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| 01:43:37 674.93 |
HIGH ANGLE MASSIVE HULK CAPSIZED ON ITS SIDE ALONGSIDE PIER, TRAFFIC ON WEST SIDE HIGHWAY IN F/G.
VIEWS FROM ALL ANGLES OF THE CAPSIZED SHIP. 83,423 TONS OF SHIP TURNED ON ITS SIDE AT NEW YORK PIER. THE SHIP TURNED OVER BECAUSE OF THE ENORMOUS TONNAGE OF WATER THEY POURED INTO HER, MAKING IT TOP HEAVY. |
| 01:44:13 710.93 |
FIREBOATS STILL POUR WATER ON CAPSIZED HULK. NAVY BELIEVES THEY CAN UPRIGHT AND FLOAT THE SHIP AGAIN.
IT WILL BE THE GREATEST SALVAGE JOB EVER ACCOMPLISHED. |
| 01:44:25 722.93 |
"U.S. OUTPOSTS OF WAR": "PANAMA"
ISTHMUSIAN HIGHWAY, A ROAD PARALLEL TO PANAMA CANAL IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION THROUGH RUGGED MOUNTAIN COUNTRY. |
| 01:44:45 742.93 |
BULLDOZER PUSHES HUGE ROOTS TO CLEAR ROAD. HIGH ANGLE OF HEAVY-DUTY EARTH MOVERS, TRACTORS CLEARING PATH.
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| 01:44:53 751.93 |
DOZENS OF WORKERS SET FORMS IN ROAD READY FOR POURING FOR CEMENT ROAD. CEMENT IS POURED AND GIANT LEVELING MACHINE GOES TO WORK. CONSTRUCTION; ROAD BUILDING;
ENGINEERING |
| 01:45:16 773.93 |
"ICELAND"
VARIOUS SCENES AMERICAN GIS FACE SCENES GALE FORCE WINDS ON OUTPOST IN ICELAND. QUANTSET HUT BARRACKS ARE RIPPED APART, MEN SLIP, SLIDE AND FIND IT HARD TO WALK AGAINST THE WIND. EXTREME WEATHER. |
| 01:45:46 803.93 |
GI, COMING TOWARDS CAMERA, HEAD DOWN IS BARELY ABLE TO WALK. TWO MEN TRY TO WALK DOWN PATH HAVE TO BRACE THEIR FEET AGAINST A CURB AND WAIT FOR WIND TO DIE DOWN.
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| 01:46:10 827.93 |
"AMERICA'S BATTLE OF PRODUCTION"
"NEW ARMY PONTOON BRIDGE. SOLDIERS FROM FORT BENNING, GEORGIA DEMONSTRATE HOW PONTOON BRIDGE IS BUILT ACROSS RIVER. BRIDGE BUILDING; ENGINEERING |
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ARMY TANKS CROSS RIVER ON PONTOON BRIDGE, WHICH ROLLS WITH THE WAVES.
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| 01:46:46 863.93 |
"BOMBS FOR U. S. PLANES"
SKILLFUL WORKERS APPLY THE LATEST TECHNIQUES FOR BUILDING BOMBS AT PLANT. VARIOUS SCENES OF BOMBS BEING ASSEMBLED, EXAMINED ON ASSEMBLY LINE. |
| 01:47:23 900.93 |
"PLANE FACTORIES SPEED UP"
VARIOUS SCENES BOMBERS, FIGHTER PLANES BEING ASSEMBLED AT AIRCRAFT PLANT. MEN WORKING AT VARIOUS STAGES OF PLANE CONSTRUCTION. LONG LINES OF PLANES UNDER CONSTRUCTION. |
| 01:47:50 927.93 |
"BIG FLOOD IN HAVANA CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE"
VARIOUS SCENES HEAVY FLOODING IN STREETS OF HAVANA, CUBA RESULTING FROM DELUGE OF RAUN. AUTOS AND BUSES HALF INUNDATED IN WATER. PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG, UP TO THEIR CHESTS IN WATER MAKING THE BEST IT BY TREATING IT LIKE GIANT SWIMMING POOL. FLOODS; NATURAL DISASTER; EXTREME WEATHER. |
| 01:47:54 931.93 |
MONTAGE BUSES AND AUTOS HALF SUBMERGED IN WATER.
PEOPLE WALKING IN WATER UP TO THEIR WAISTS, NECKS. |
| 01:48:08 945.93 |
YOUNG PEOPLE FROLIC IN THE WATER. MOUNTED POLICEMAN HOLDS LITTLE BOY IN ARM, AS HORSE RIDES THEM THROUGH NECK HIGH WATER.
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| 01:48:20 957.93 |
YOUNG MEN PLAYING WATER SPORTS ON FLOODED STREET. MAN SWIMS DOWN AVENUE, TOWARDS CAMERA. ANOTHER DIVES INTO WATER FROM HIGH LEDGE.
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| 01:48:31 968.93 |
"SURVIVORS OF SHIP SUNK BY U-BOAT REACH NEW YORK"
VARIOUS SCENES CREW OF TANKER "NORNEZ" SANK OFF LONG ISLAND BY NAZI U-BOAT POSE, ONE GIVES VICTORY SIGN WITH FINGERS. CU CAPTAIN HAROLD HANSEN POSES. |
| 01:48:54 991.93 |
"PACIFIC COAST"
VARIOUS SCENES TUG BOATS TOWING SCHOONER, LOADED WITH LUMBER, AFTER IT WAS TORPEDOED BY JAPANESE SUBMARINE, BUT COULDN'T SINK IT. WATER OVERFLOWS ITS DECKS, BUT IT SURVIVES. |
| 01:49:33 1030.93 |
PAN SURVIVORS OF TANKER TORPEDOED OFF PACIFIC COAST POSE FOR GROUP SHOT. THEY WERE BLASTED BY SHELL FIRE FROM JAPANESE SUBMARINE, THEN TORPEDOED.
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| 01:49:40 1037.93 |
CREWMAN SITS IN HOSPITAL BED WITH ARM IN CAST, DRINKS GLASS OF WATER, THEN TELLS OF THE HARROWING STORY.
"IF WE'D HAD A GUN WE WOULD HAVE BLASTED THEM OUT OF THE WATER". |
| 01:49:56 1053.93 |
"AMERICA HONORS PRESIDENT ON 60TH BIRTHDAY"
CU GUEST OF HONOR AT WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESIDENT FDR 60TH BIRTHDAY, IS FOUR YEAR-OLD GARY KING, WHO WALKS UP WHITE HOUSE STEPS IN CRUTCHES, TOWARDS CAMERA, AFTER LEAVING CAB IN BKGD. |
| 01:50:13 1070.93 |
MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND HOST OF HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES POSE WITH GARY. MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS DOROTHY LAMOUR TRIES TO BABY GARY, IS GIVEN PLAYFUL PUNCH IN FACE.
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| 01:50:38 1096.93 |
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT CUTS BIRTHDAY CAKE, GIVES FIRST PIECE TO ACTRESS BETTY GRABLE AS OTHERS, INCLUDING DOROTHY LAMOUR, ROSALIND RUSSELL, PAT O'BRIEN, JOHN PAINE. MANY UNIDENTIFIED OTHERS, LOOK ON. LARGE CROWD IN ATTENDANCE APPLAUD.
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| 01:50:41 1099.93 |
PRESIDENT FDR MAKES SPEECH FROM HIS OFFICE DESK, "FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE, I AM VERY GRATEFUL".
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| 01:51:35 1153.93 |
ABOVE SHOT OF LARGE CROWD OF GUESTS DANCING AT "DIAMOND JUBILEE" BALL AT THE WALDORF IN NEW YORK.
BALLOONS COME RAINING DOWN FROM CEILING. |
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TAPE ENDS.
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