- Title: VM-337
- Summary: MOVIETONEWS: NEWSREEL STORIES FROM 1947-1948
- Description:00:00:55 - THE ROYAL WEDDING. PRINCESS ELIZABETH & PRINCE PHILIP MARRIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. (11/24/47) 21-YEAR-OLD HEIRESS TO BRITISH THRONE WEDS LT. MOUNTBATTEN, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. 00:01:00 - MONTAGE YOUNG BOY IS PASSED OVERHEAD IN HUGE CROWD OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS LINING THE STREETS IN LONDON TO SEE THE COLORFUL PAGEANT OF POMP. 00:01:11 - CU DUKE OF EDINBURGH & BEST MAN CHECK TIME BEFORE ENTERING CHAPEL. CHEERS GO UP AS BRIDEGROOM RIDES TO THE ABBEY 00:01:48 - MONTAGE HORSE BACKGUARD FOLLOW CARRIAGE BEARING PRINCESS MARGARET. QUEEN ELIZABETH & PRINCESS MARGARET ARE HAILED AS THEY DRIVE BY IN THE GLASS COACH, ESCORTED BY HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY IN FULL DRESS UNIFORM. THUNDEROUS ACCLAIM IS GIVEN KING GEORGE & THE BRIDE IN THE IRISH STATE COACH. 00:03:05 - AERIAL COUPLE BEFORE ALTAR AT ABBEY 00:03:45 - MONTAGE PRINCESS & DUKE EXIT ABBEY AMID POMP 00:04:17 - KING GEORGE & QUEEN ELIZABETH FOLLOW. TRIP BACK TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE IS MARKED BY A ROARING RECEPTION AS THE PEOPLE CHEER. 00:04:20 - MONTAGE ROYALTY OF ALL COUNTRIES FOLLOW INCLUDING CHURCHILL. ATTENDED BY KINGS & QUEENS OF EUROPE, PRINCES & PRINCESSES, THE LEADERS OF GOVERNMENTS, STATESMEN, AND A WHOLE GALAXY OF DIGNITARIES. 00:06:27 - ROYAL FAMILY WAVE TO PEOPLE FROM PALACE BALCONY 00:08:13 - MONTAGE PRINCESS & DUKE RIDE TO WATERLOO STATION, BOARD TRAIN FOR HONEYMOON. 00:08:52 - UN VOTES TO DIVIDE PALESTINE INTO ARAB & JEWISH STATES. (12/2/47) 00:08:59 - THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS MEETS TO MAKE FINAL DECISION IN THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE. 00:09:07 - CU MAP SHOWS ARAB & JEWISH ZONES 00:09:20 - DELEGATE FROM SAUDI ARABIA VOWS VIOLENCE IF JEWS GET STATE. THE PLAN FOR A JEWISH STATE IS BITTERLY OPPOSED BY ARAB COUNTRIES WHO THREATEN VIOLENT RESISTANCE. 00:09:44 - AFTER MUCH ANGRY DEBATE THE NATIONS ARE CALLED UPON TO VOTE BY PRESIDING OFFICER ARANHA OF BRAZIL 00:09:54 - UN LISTS NAMES OF COUNTRIES VOTING YES AND NO. FINAL VOTE TO ADOPT PARTITION: 33 IN FAVOR, 13 AGAINST, 10 ABSTAINING. DECREEING A JEWISH STATE IN PALESTINE. 00:10:40 - FRENCH CRISIS POINTS EAST-WEST CONFLICT ON MARSHALL PLAN. (12/8/47) 00:10:53 - BIG 4 PARLEY IN DEADLOCK. THE LONDON CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTERS STALEMATED BY SOVIET DEMANDS MADE BY MOLOTOV. SECY OF STATE MARSHALL 00:11:09 - JOHN FOSTER DULLES & FRENCH PREMIER SHUMAN CONFER IN PARIS. 00:11:21 - FRENCH COMMUNISTS ASK CONTINUATION OF STRIKES. 00:11:47 - FRENCH COMMUNIST LEADER THOREZ RETURNS FROM MOSCOW. SPEAKS TO HUGE CROWD. CALLS FOR NATIONAL TIE-UP 00:11:51 - PARIS EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED BY COMMUNIST SABOTAGE. 20 ARE KILLED AS RAILS LOOSENED ON A CURVE CAUSE A RAILROAD DISASTER. 00:12:00 - MONTAGE TRAIN WRECK SABOTAGED BY FRENCH COMMUNISTS 00:12:23 - U.S. FRIENDSHIP TRAIN FOOD FOR FRANCE. CARGO OF STAPLES GOES TO EUROPE, PLAN BITTERLY OPPOSED BY COMMUNISTS. 00:12:35 - MONTAGE FOOD FOR FRANCE LOADED ON US FRIENDSHIP CARGO SHIP. SACKS & BOXES LOADED INTO SHIP'S HULL 00:13:09 - MICHAEL OF RUMANIA FORCED TO ABDICATE THRONE BY REDS. (1/8/48) 00:13:32 - MONTAGE YOUNG MICHAEL, BOY MONARCH, IN SMALL CARRIAGE BEARING PRINCESS MARGARET 00:13:44 - YOUNG MICHAEL IN BERET BEHIND WHEEL OF MOVIETONE TRUCK IN 1932 00:14:02 - YOUNG MICHAEL BEHIND DESK IN SCHOOLROOM 00:14:19 - PRINCE MICHAEL & KING CAROL AT DINNER 00:14:26 - KING MICHAEL & QUEEN MOTHER HELEN WALK THRU MARKETPLACE 00:14:52 - CU PHOTO OF PRINCESS ANNE OF BOURBON-PARMA, WHOM MICHAEL ABDICATED FOR LOVE. GIVING UP THRONE TO MARRY, PERMISSION FOR WHICH WAS REFUSED BY COMMUNIST OVERLORDS IN PUPPET-STATE OF RUMANIA. 00:15:16 - BURMESE CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE. (1/16/48) BURMA CELEBRATES NEW INDEPENDENCE IN RANGOON 00:15:25 - BRITISH FLAG LOWER & BURMESE FLAG RAISED AS GREAT BRITAIN GIVES UP ANOTHER OF ITS POSSESSIONS & ONE MORE REPUBLIC IS BORN IN THE ORIENT. 00:15:57 - MAN WITH UMBRELLA CARRIES NUDE BABY IN RANGOON 00:16:01 - MONTAGE NEW PRESIDENT SAILS ON ORNATE GOLDEN BARGE ON RIVER 00:16:15 - THE WORLD MOURNS MAHATMA GANDHI, SLAIN BY ASSASSIN (3/3/48). MONTAGE OF GANDHI'S LIFE& HIS LIFE-LONG FIGHT FOR INDIAN INDEPENDENCE. 00:16:29 - CROWDS OF PEOPLE IN THE STREETS IN 1931, AFTER GANDHI'S RELEASE FROM JAIL FOR AGITATING RESISTANCE TO BRITISH RULE IN INDIA. 00:16:39 - AERIAL GANDHI CLIMBS ONTO SEAT UNDER LARGE UMBRELLA IN DELHI SQUARE 00:16:52 - AERIAL VAST MASSES OF FOLLOWERS RALLY 00:16:58 - GANDHI DEBARKS SHIP IN FRANCE 00:17:07 - LEANING OUT OF WINDOW OF TRAIN 00:17:12 - MONTAGE OF SCENES OF GENTLE MAN 00:17:17 - BEING LEAD THROUGH CROWD IN ENGLAND 00:17:28 - GANDHI GIVES MESSAGE FOR BRITISH CHILDREN "I LOVE YOU ALL AS MY OWN CHILDREN" 00:17:42 - TREATY MAKING SESSION 00:18:00 - MONTAGE GANDHI ON PILGRIMAGE 00:18:38 - THE FUNERAL OF GANDHI AT DELHI (2/10/48) 00:18:43 - MORE THAN ONE MILLION MOURNERS, AMONG THEM THOUSANDS OF MOSLEMS, SWARM TO SEE THE FINAL RITUALS FOR GANDHI, THE LEADER OF INDIA WHO WAS REVERED AS SAINT. 00:19:00 - MONTAGE BODY OF GANDHI SURROUNDED BY FLOWERS IS DRIVEN THRU HUGE CROWD. 00:19:06 - FUNERAL PROCESSION STARTS FROM BIRLA HOUSE WHERE THE MAHATMA WAS ASSASSINATED & PASSES SOLEMLY TO THE CREMATION GROUND. 00:19:32 - EARL & LADY MOUNTBATTEN SIT ON GROUND WITH OTHER VIPS 00:19:40 - MINISTERS OF HINDU GOVERNMENT 00:19:44 - CU GANDHI STREWN WITH FLOWERS (ROSE PETALS) AT THE BURNING GHAT 00:19:46 - HINDU DEVOTEES SURGE FORWARD, ALMOST THREATING DISORDER 00:19:55 - SANDALWOOD FUNERAL PYRE IS LIGHTED AS BODY IS RITUALISTICALLY CREMATED, A FIRE OF WOOD, FRAGRANT OILS & INCENSE. 00:20:15 - THE NEXT MORNING FAMILY & FRIENDS WALK AROUND ASHES 3 TIMES ACCORDING TO ANCIENT RITUAL CUSTOM 00:20:43 - THE ASHES ARE GATHERED BY HINDU PRIESTS TO BE DEPOSITED INTO THE HOLY JUMNA RIVER, TO DRIFT DOWN TO THE SACRED GANGES. 00:21:07 - CZECHOSLOVAKIA TAKE OVER BY COMMUNISTS (2/27/48) EUROPEAN STRONGHOLD OF DEMOCRACY FALLS TO SOVIET UNION. 00:21:14 - AERIAL CITY OF PRAGUE 00:21:27 - PRESIDENT BENES & WIFE FORCED TO YIELD POWER AS COMMUNISTS SEIZE VITAL GOVERNMENT POSTS 00:21:40 - BENES SIGNS TREATY IN MOSCOW AS STALIN LOOKS ON ACCEPTING THE NEW CABINET DEMANDED BY RED PREMIER GOTTWALD 00:21:54 - CU MAP OF EUROPE SHOWS RED DOMINATION OF AREA 00:22:05 - CU PHOTO OF RED PREMIER GOTTWALD WHO TOOK OVER 00:22:07 - MILITARY TROOPS MARCH PAST IN FORMATION AS CZECHOSLOVAKIA BECOMES A POLICE STATE 00:22:27 - FIVE EUROPEAN NATIONS SIGN DEFENSE PACT (3/15/48) AT BRUSSELS CONFERENCE, BRITAIN, FRANCE, HOLLAND, BELGIUM, AND LUXEMBOURG FORM 50-YEAR ALLIANCE AGAINST THE SOVIETS. TREATY 00:23:04 - ITALY FACES CHOICE OF DICTATORSHIP OR DEMOCRACY (4/2/48) 00:23:14 - PREMIER DE GASPERI SPEAKS TO HUGE CROWD IN ROME ADDRESSING THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY. AT RALLY SUPPORTS AMERICAN MARSHALL PLAN, CALLS FOR VOTERS TO DEFEND FREEDOM & BEAT COMMUNISTS DURING ITALIAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN. 00:23:27 - COMMUNIST LEADER TOGLIATTI SPEAKS TO RALLY OF ITALIAN REDS IN ROME. HURLS PRO-RUSSIAN, ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA. 00:23:44 - AERIAL HUGE MULTITUDES JAM ST. PETERS SQUARE TO HEAR POPE PIUS XII 00:23:49 - POPE BEFORE MIKES SPEAKS TO THRONG FROM BALCONY AND WARNS OF THE RED PERIL. WHOLE WORD WATCHES AS ITALY PREPARES FOR THE CRUCIAL ELECTION 00:24:29 - DRAMATIC SCENES OF REVOLUTION IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (4/15/48) 00:24:30 - AERIAL MOB DRAGS BODY OF MURDERER OF LIBERAL RURAL LEADER GAITAN AFTER HIS ASSASSINATION. RIOTS 00:24:48 - AERIAL WILD INSURRECTION IN BOGOTA STREETS. DEVASTATION 00:25:13 - AERIAL VEHICLE SET ABLAZE IN STREET. CARS WRECKED & BURNED 00:25:36 - AERIAL PAPERS FLY OUT OF NEWSPAPER OFFICE WINDOWS WRECKED BY DEMONSTRATORS AS DEBRIS LITTERS STREET 00:25:42 - MONTAGE BUILDINGS LOOTED & DESTROYED BY FIRES SET BY MOB 00:25:48 - RUINS OF BUILDINGS & CITY AFTER RIOTS ARE OVER. SAID TO BE COMMUNIST-INSPIRED, RIOT INTERRUPTS INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE WHICH RESUMES ITS SESSION IN ANOTHER BUILDING. BOMBED-OUT BUILDINGS 00:26:22 - ITALIAN PEOPLE VOTE AGAINST COMMUNISM (4/20/48) 00:26:28 - MONTAGE VOTING PLACES GUARDED BY ARMY TROOPS & POLICE TO INSURE AN ORDERLY & PEACEFUL ELECTION 00:26:36 - PEOPLE LINE UP TO VOTE. UNIFORMED MEN IN LINE 00:26:46 - ANCIENT CATHEDRAL AT MILAN 00:26:55 - CARDINAL SHUSTER VOTES AS DOES THE AGED & SICK, LAYMEN & CLERGY, NUN VOTES. 00:27:14 - BALLOT BOX 00:27:20 - DE GASPERI CAST BALLOT
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1931
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-337