19541950s NEWSREELS
Various Newstories: 1954 - National and International - Mostly no audio.
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WS Fighter jet, FC-787 circa 1950's parked on tarmac. this segment no audio
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| 01:00:03 3.89 |
CU nose of a Convair YF-102A fighter jet. slow pan and shots from various angles.
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| 01:00:19 19.62 |
Pilots climb into jet. Jet takes off.
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| 01:00:34 34.97 |
Three fighter jets flying - in unison / formation. Various shots of the planes in the sky including underbelly of plane.
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| 01:01:16 76.4 |
Promotional clip about the Polio vaccine.
Little boy and girl, victims of Polio, wear braces on their legs. Boy wears a cape and crown, and little girl in fancy dress wears a crown. |
| 01:01:33 93.43 |
'Fight Polio!' poster. A hand places coin in donation cup.
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| 01:01:39 99.15 |
Man talks about the evaluation of the polio vaccine, and if it actually prevents the disease. He states the National Foundation has purchased $9m of the vaccine in the hopes it can be given to 9 million children as a prevention program.
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| 01:02:45 165.06 |
Shots of (Unknown) male golfers as they tee off at golf tournament. Small audience in bkgd
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| 01:02:53 173.52 |
WS of the golf country club building (could be maybe Fox Hills or Riviera CC). Vintage cars parked. Cut away to sign on the building "25th Annual Los Angeles Open". Lists of the players hang on the wall, people read the names.
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| 01:03:20 200.76 |
WS onlookers follow the golfers on the course.
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| 01:03:24 204.73 |
CU golfer animated with eyes and mouth wide open is pleased at his shot
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| 01:03:27 207.22 |
Actor Dean Martin pulls up in his golf cart with a gal riding on the front, another walks alongside him and carries his clubs!
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| 01:03:33 213.26 |
CU Dean chooses a club with the help of his two blonde gals and swings.
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| 01:03:43 223.73 |
Two golfers including actor, Mickey Rooney, pose joking around
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| 01:04:36 276 |
A foreign diplomat visits India. A stone Indian monument (elephant) Unknown diplomat shakes hands with several other diplomats at the airport and expresses gratitude for the hospitality before taking off.
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| 01:05:54 354.63 |
CU of the hard covered books entitled, "Cell 2455 Death Row - a Condemned Man's Own Story", by Caryl Chessman.
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| 01:06:06 366.97 |
CU hand shows off book and flips through pages.
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| 01:06:12 372.97 |
Street sign: Outpost Dr, Mulholland Dr. Pan down from sign to vintage police car driving by in the night. Directional sign points to Outpost Heights.
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| 01:06:32 392.8 |
Ext. sign outside the Department of Corrections California State Prison San Quentin
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| 01:06:36 396.11 |
Poster of man holding a long pointer pointed at an Electric Chair.
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| 01:06:44 404.22 |
Signage reads: Window 5 - Records of Arrests - Please show Identification When Requesting Information
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| 01:06:48 408.54 |
Hand removes file folder out of file drawer and hand stamps the folder with the words, "Morgue File LA".
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| 01:07:19 439.15 |
"Isle of Capri Seattle" written on back of a docked boat. Shots of men loading boat with boxes of food, lumber to build a raft, large barrels and other equipment. Reporter on the boat speaks into camera and explains the boat is headed to Cocos Island Costa Rica with the equipment and a crew of 14 men and will be gone four months.
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| 01:08:30 510.73 |
Middle aged male victim speaks into mic and explains how he was forced into a car, at gunpoint, by two men who gagged and drugged him (using a drug in coffee) and used anti-semitic language against him, his family and all Jews.
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| 01:09:45 585.79 |
Firemen at the scene of a raging building fire use hoses to put out the flames. Buildings with Chinese writing and a Pagoda is seen in the bkgd. An Asian man carries his belongings. Billowing flames and black smoke emanate from the buildings.
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| 01:10:27 627.01 |
The Pope or Cardinal disembarks from a plane and is greeted by a crowd of mostly Asian folk. Large crowd at the airport greets him.
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| 01:11:16 676.32 |
Protestors carrying signs march down the streets of a city in Germany. A man with one leg on crutches walks beside a man in a motorized small three wheel cart, many signs and a dummy is seen - translation of one of the signs reads, "That's all the thanks one gets"...
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| 01:12:40 760.85 |
A U.S. helicopter is seen parked on a field and is surrounded by a crowd of of folk from the Philippines - cu's boxes of Care packages from the U.S.
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| 01:12:57 777.74 |
CU of a metal plaque marker reads "The Fall of Bataan 9 April 1942 ... dedicated 9 April 1952 to the memory of the gallant Filipino and American soldiers as well as civillians who fought and died side by side in the defense of Democracy."
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| 01:13:04 784.48 |
CU boxes of CARE from the United States stacked up.
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| 01:13:58 838.36 |
Ext. Pan American Union building cu
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| 01:14:00 840.76 |
Dozens of officials seated around a conference table, mics on table, and people standing at doorway
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| 01:16:10 970.51 |
Horse drawn flat bed cart carrying sacks of wheat or grain down a snowy road in the country. Two men on foot walk alongside the cart. Two country women come out of house, feed grain to chickens.
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| 01:16:38 998.5 |
workers sift through the rubble of a plane crash in a snowy wooded area. Debris and remains of the plane are seen as men look through the rubble.
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| 01:17:51 1071.05 |
Ext. Naval Air Test Center - Patuxent River, MD. An officer escorted by another officer carries a baby in his arms and a package of diapers (possibly)
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| 01:18:02 1082.97 |
Man holds up a large poster which reads, Welcome! Roni Marie and Diaper Donahoe from Chamber of Commerce Lexington Park MD.
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| 01:18:07 1087.86 |
CU adorable baby girl wearing a hat and winter coat. Man stands in front of the poster and proudly holds the child in his arms, he talks about how many diapers he has left.. Photographers take photos with vintage flash cameras.
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| 01:19:02 1142.65 |
A woman speaks from podium at a huge conference center. Audience seated around dining tables.
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| 01:19:42 1182.53 |
LS a prop cargo plane, parked. Men sitting on cargo boxes outside the plane. Two men study a map.
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| 01:19:54 1194.07 |
CU woman wearing a white fur trimmed hat, ties it with a big smile around her chin
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| 01:20:01 1201.38 |
Commander speaks into mic about the expedition - and the tool used for flying safety in civilian and military aircraft.
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| 01:20:20 1220.86 |
Same woman wearing a fur trimmed hood speaks into mic and christens the aircraft with a bottle of champagne. She bangs the bottle on the plane and it doesn't break, she keeps trying.
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| 01:20:55 1255.83 |
Ext. sign "Chicago Curling Club...members only"
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| 01:20:59 1259.42 |
LS building looks like an airplane hanger. Vintage cars parked. Int. male members of the Curling Club wear berets, drink coffee.
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| 01:21:17 1277.04 |
Men demonstrate the sport of curling. They show off the curling stones and brooms used to move the stones down the court.
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| 01:22:17 1337.23 |
Diplomat arrives at White House in limo. Men hold doors to car open as he gets out. Cameramen take photos. WS White House.
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| 01:22:42 1362.53 |
Crowd of media photographers clamor for photos use vintage flash cameras.
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| 01:23:03 1383.58 |
Sailors hang the letters U.S.N (Navy) on side of passenger train. Other sailors carrying suitcases and their families head toward the train. Kids look out window, a band plays, a man takes moving pictures as the train pulls away from the station.
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| 01:24:39 1479.13 |
Faded WS U.S. Capitol building in DC
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| 01:24:41 1481.26 |
CU Senator Joseph McCarthy talks into mics about the investigation into Communism, he welcomes Democrats and hopes they will join in .
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| 01:25:21 1521.53 |
Clip from the TV news show, "Face the Nation". jumpy camera
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