- Title: VM-400
- Summary: MOVIETONEWS:
- Description:00:00:40 - THE NUREMBERG TRIAL (DECEMBER 1945) 00:01:15 - CU FAST-MOVING FINGERS TYPE ON STENOTYPE MACHINES AS TRANSLATORS WORK AT NAZI WAR CRIMINALS TRIAL 00:01:52 - SENATE COMMITTEE HEARS GENERAL GROVES ON ATOMIC BOMB 00:02:06 - CU MAJOR GENERAL LESLIE GROVES IN CHARGE OF BOMB PROJECT SPEAKS OF AWESOME RESULTS OF BOMBING OF JAPAN. RECOMMENDS SPECIAL COMMISSION BE ESTABLISHED 00:03:34 - FOUR BILLION DOLLAR LOAN TO BRITAIN SIGNED AT CAPITAL BY SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES WITH SECRETARY OF TREASURY VINSON, BRITISH AMBASSADOR LORD HALIFAX & HIS ECONOMIC ADVISOR LORD KEYNES 00:04:49 - YANKS DESTROY JAPANESE CYCLOTRONS (DECEMBER 1945) ATOM SMASHING MACHINES ARE DESTROYED IN TOKYO & OSAKA AS GIs WRECK JAPANESE LABORATORIES FACTORY & WAR EQUIPMENT. BUILDINGS BLOWN UP 00:06:27 - GENERAL MARSHALL MEDIATES END OF CHINA'S CIVIL WAR AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO CHINA ARRIVES AT NANKING. TO NEGOTIATE ARMISTICE BETWEEN CHINESE NATIONALISTS & COMMUNISTS. (JANUARY 1946) 00:06:38 - MONTAGE MARSHALL IS MET AT NANKING AIRPORT BY GENERALISSIMO & MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK 00:07:22 - UNO, MANKIND'S HOPE FOR PEACE, OPENS IN LONDON 00:08:00 - PRIME MINISTER ATLEE SPEAKS TO DELEGATES OF UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION ASSEMBLY. BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PAUL-HENRI SPAAK IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 00:08:46 - KING GEORGE'S RECEPTION FOR DELEGATION HEADS AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE 00:09:04 - GENERAL MARSHALL ARRANGES SIGNING OF PEACE IN CHINA. U.S. AMBASSADOR ACTS AS MEDIATOR BETWEEN THE NATIONALISTS & COMMUNISTS. 00:09:26 - MONTAGE NATIONALIST CHANG CHUNG & COMMUNIST CHOU EN LAI FOR COMMUNISTS SIGN AS MARSHALL LOOKS ON 00:09:45 - CHIANG KAI-SHEK SPEAKS AT PEOPLES CONSULTATION CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING DEMOCRATIC COALITION GOVERNMENT 00:10:16 - ARMY SCIENTISTS REACH THE MOON WITH RADAR (1/31/46) 00:10:21 - HIGH RADAR TOWER AT BELMAR, NEW JERSEY LABORATORY 00:10:51 - ANIMATED SIMULATION SHOWS HIGH FREQUENCY RADIO WAVE SIGNAL GOING TO MOON & RETURNING 00:11:17 - CU OSCILLAGRAPHY SHOW ELECTRICAL IMPULSES & BLIPS 00:11:36 - CU ARMY MAJOR TELLS OF VALUE OF TESTS 00:12:00 - HIROHITO STARTLES HIS SUBJECTS: GOES DEMOCRATIC ON TOUR (MARCH 5, 1946). EMPEROR VISITS WAR-TORN AREAS OF JAPAN INSPECTING BOMBED-OUT FACTORY & SPEAKING TO COMMON PEOPLE. 00:13:00 - BOWS TO REPATRIATED CHILDREN 00:13:38 - CHURCHILL URGES U.S.-BRITISH TIES FOR WORLD PEACE 00:14:08 - CHURCHILL SPEAKS AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE IN FULTON, MISSOURI 00:15:40 - PERON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA 00:15:50 - AERIAL HUGE CROWD AT CAMPAIGN RALLY FOR PERON 00:16:21 - CU DR. JOSE TAMBORINI AT TRAIN STATION 00:16:44 - AERIAL MOUNTED POLICE TAKE ACTION AGAINST STREET DEMONSTRATIONS 00:16:56 - MONTAGE CITIZENS LINE UP AT POLLS. SEARCHED FOR WEAPONS 00:17:17 - CU VOTER CASTS BALLOT 00:17:25 - MONTAGE BALLOT BOX CARRIERS ARE ESCORTED BY ARMED SOLDIERS 00:18:12 - UNO MEETS IN NEW YORK (MARCH 25, 1946) SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS SESSION AT HUNTER COLLEGE IN THE BRONX. 00:18:20 - SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES SPEAKS FOR LAW INSTEAD OF WAR 00:21:15 - MACARTHUR URGES UNITED NATIONS TO RENOUNCE WAR 00:21:39 - SUPREME COMMANDER MACARTHUR SPEAKS TO WORLD DELEGATES OF THE ALLIED CONTROL COUNCIL IN TOKYO 00:22:34 - ELECTIONS IN JAPAN THE DEMOCRATIC WAY (APRIL 23,1946) 00:23:08 - MONTAGE JAPANESE COMMUNISTS DEMONSTRATE & RIOT IN STREETS AGAINST PREMIER SHIDEHARA OVERWHELMING POLICE 00:24:00 - MONTAGE JAPANESE LINE UP AT POLLS & CAST BALLOTS INCLUDING LARGE NUMBER OF WOMEN VOTING FOR THE FIRST TIME 00:24:13 - MONTAGE HUGE BOX OF BALLOTS IS EMPTIED ON FLOOR & COUNTED 00:24:25 - AERIAL IMMENSE CROWDS AWAIT RESULTS 00:24:37 - MACARTHUR REVIEWS HONOR GUARD IN JAPAN 00:25:06 - BIG FOUR MEETING IN PARIS TO MAP PEACE TREATIES SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES & FOREIGN MINISTERS MOLOTOV, BEVIN & BIDAULT OF RUSSIA, BRITAIN & FRANCE MEET AT THE LUXEMBOURG PALACE TO SETTLE PROBLEMS OF THE SATELLITES OF NAZI GERMANY: ITALY, HUNGARY, ROMANIA, BULGARIA. (APRIL 29, 1946) 00:25:59 - CU MAP OF EUROPE SHOWS PLAN OF CONTROLS 00:26:50 - TOJO & 27 JAPANESE ON TRIAL IN TOKYO FOR WAR CRIMES INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST TRIES JAPANESE WAR MAKERS (MAY 14, 1946) 00:27:16 - AERIAL COURTROOM SPECTATORS & DEFENDANTS STAND AS JUDGES FILE IN 00:27:25 - CU TOJO IN COURT 00:27:42 - FELLOW WAR CRIMINAL SLAPS TOJO ON HIS BALD HEAD & IS RESTRAINED BY ARMY OFFICER. TOJO SMILES IN BEWILDERMENT 00:28:00 - PRISONERS DISCUSS SLAP ON TOJO'S HEAD & LAUGH
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-400