- Title: VM-407
- Summary: MOVIETONEWS:
- Description:00:00:37 - BRITISH-FRENCH TALK ON REBUILDING EUROPE (JUNE 1947). MR. BEVIN OF ENGLAND CONFERS WITH FRANCE'S RAMADIER & BIDAULT ON SECRETARY MARSHALL'S PLAN. 00:01:04 - MOLOTOV OF RUSSIA JOINS THEM IN PARIS 00:01:18 - A NATION IS BORN (AUGUST 1947) STREET SCENES IN KARACHI, CAPITAL OF MOSLEM PAKISTAN, THE NEW BRITISH DOMINION, HEADED BY JINNAH. AS INDIA BECOMES TWO DOMINIONS & GAINS SELF-RULE. 00:01:22 - CAMEL PULLS WAGON WITH AUTO TIRES ON IT 00:01:24 - CU HUGE STATUE OF GANDHI STANDING WITH BAR CHEST & WALKING STICK 00:01:31 - SACRED COW WALKS DOWN STREET WITH BICYCLISTS & CARS 00:01:33 - TRAIN CARS FILLED WITH MOSLEMS ARRIVES. MAN STANDS ON TOP OF TRAIN CAR HOLDING PAKISTAN FLAG 00:01:38 - HINDUS LEAVING AT TRAIN STATION 00:01:47 - MONTAGE MUHAMMAD ALI GINNA ARRIVES BY PLANE IN KARACHI TO TAKE OFFICE AS HEAD OF PAKISTAN. HOLDING BACK PEOPLE 00:02:00 - NEW HEADQUARTERS BUILDING OF THE PAKISTAN REGIME 00:02:24 - DEGAULLE URGES FRENCH TO RESIST COMMUNISM (OCTOBER 1947) 00:02:34 - CHARLES DEGAULLE SPEAKS TO HUGE FRENCH RALLY 00:03:06 - MARSHALL PLAN SIGNED (OCTOBER 1947) IN PARIS 16 EUROPEAN NATIONS AGREE TO ECONOMIC PROGRAM OF CONCERTED ACTION & SELF-HELP, TO BE SUPPLEMENTED BY U.S. AID. 00:03:11 - IRISH PRIME MINISTER 00:03:14 - BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ERNEST BEVIN SPEAKS 00:03:36 - MONTAGE REPRESENTATIVES OF 16 NATIONS MEET & SIGN 00:03:57 - US NAVY REVEALS REMARKABLE TEST ON ANNIVERSARY (OCTOBER 1947) LATEST IN AMERICAN SEAPOWER, NAVY INVITES PUBLIC TO VISIT WARSHIPS ON NAVY DAY. 00:04:02 - FORWARD PART OF SHIP IS POUNDED BY ROUGH SEAS. POV OF BRIDGE 00:04:12 - MONTAGE SPEEDING SUBMARINE SPLASHES THRU CHOPPY SEAS TO DISPLAY UNDERSEA TACTICS. 00:04:18 - CU TORPEDO LAUNCHED, DROPS INTO WATER 00:04:21 - AERIAL TARGET SHIP IS HIT BY TORPEDO & SINKS 00:04:29 - AERIAL GIANT AIRCRAFT CARRIER MIDWAY 00:04:33 - GIANT V-2 ROCKET BEING WORKED ON 00:04:38 - LIQUID OXYGEN BEING PREPARED FOR LAUNCH 00:04:50 - V-2 ROCKET LAUNCHED FROM SHIP. FIRST TIME EVER. 00:05:34 - TRUMAN DOCTRINE BECOMES LAW. PRESIDENT TRUMAN SIGNS BILL TO AID TO GREECE & TURKEY. (MAY 1947) IN MOVE TO FIGHT RED AGGRESSION & DOMINATION IN EUROPE, TRUMAN AT HOME IN MISSOURI TO BE NEAR THE SICK BED OF HIS MOTHER, SIGNS LOAN GRANT IN KANSAS CITY HOTEL ROOM 00:06:05 - NAVY PICTURES OF BYRD AT SOUTH POLE (MAY 1947) 4TH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION OF 58-YEAR OLD BYRD 00:06:08 - POLAR OCEAN WITH SEA SMOKE & ICE FLOES 00:06:18 - HUGE ANTARCTIC ICEBERG DISCOLORED BY MUD 00:06:25 - CAPTAIN DEFEK IN BOATSWAIN'S CHAIR BEING TRANSFERRED BY CABLE FROM ONE SHIP TO ANOTHER IS THROWN INTO ICY WATER 00:06:39 - FLOATING IN WATER & RESCUED FROM ICY WATER BY WHALE BOAT 00:07:05 - JET ASSISTED CARRIER PLANE WITH SKIS TAKES OFF FROM CARRIER 00:07:13 - AERIAL OF BASE CAMP 00:07:16 - PLANE LANDS 00:07:19 - ADMIRAL RICHARD BYRD IN POLAR GEAR STEPS OFF AIRPLANE 00:07:29 - TWO SLED DOGS NECK DEEP IN SNOW NOT PHASED BY COLD 00:07:37 - CAMERAMAN TRIES TO SCARE AWAY SEALS LYING IN SNOW, TO NO AVAIL 00:07:46 - MEN IN SCUBA GEAR SLIP INTO ICE FILLED WATER & SWIM AROUND. TESTING NEW NAVY SCUBA GEAR 00:07:59 - SCUBA DIVER IN ICED WATER EATS ICE CREAM TO DEMONSTRATE SUCCESS OF SCUBA GEAR 00:08:06 - CU MAN PLACES VITAMIN LACED FISH IN PENGUIN'S MOUTH 00:08:15 - CU TWO PENGUINS 00:08:29 - INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS (AUGUST 1949) THREE-POWER CONFERENCE IS HELD AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT IN WASHINGTON AS THE U.S., BRITAIN & CANADA SEEK TO SOLVE ENGLAND'S FINANCIAL PROBLEMS BROUGHT ON BY A MONEY CRISIS. HEADED BY TREASURY SECREATRY SYNDER. 00:08:35 - SECRETARY OF STATE ACHESON SITS WITH BRITISH AMBASSADOR FRANK 00:08:42 - FOREIGN SECRETARY BEVIN & CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER CRIPS 00:08:45 - MARSHALL PLAN HEAD HOFFMAN IS WITH THE CANADIANS 00:09:09 - NEW GERMAN PRESIDENT (SEPTEMBER 1949) AT BONN FIRST FREE ELECTIONS IN 16 YEARS. 00:09:11 - GERMANY'S FREELY ELECTED PARLIAMENT 00:09:15 - GERMAN FREELY ELECTED PARLIAMENT CAST BALLOTS 00:09:18 - DUMPING OUT BALLOTS & COUNTING VOTES 00:09:21 - DR. THEODOR HEUSS. ELECTED TO HEAD GOVERNMENT OF WEST GERMANY. 00:09:25 - CHANCELLOR KONRAD ADENAUER & NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT HEUSS 00:09:30 - NIGHTIME CELEBRATION IN THE STREETS. PARADE 00:09:55 - DOES RUSSIA POSSESS THE ATOM BOMB. PRESIDENT TRUMAN ANNOUNCES THAT AN "ATOMIC EXPLOSION" OCCURRED IN SOVIET UNION. (SEPTEMBER 1949) 00:10:06 - ATOMIC EXPLOSION IN NEW MEXICO JULY 16, 1945 00:10:25 - WHITE HOUSE EXTERIOR 00:10:29 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN 00:10:34 - SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN ACHESON SPEAKS. SAYS THAT THIS MAKES IF ALL THE MORE IMPERATIVE TO ACHIEVE INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGEY 00:11:17 - CHECKING TRUNKS OF CARS AT CHECK-POINT PLAZA OF RICHLAND, WASHINGTON ATOMIC PLANT. BEEFED UP SECURITY OF ATOMIC SECRETS. HEAVILY GUARDED 00:11:25 - LINE OF TANKS TRAVEL ON ROAD OF TEST PLANTS 00:11:31 - SILHOUETTE OF MAN IN CONTROL TOWER GIVING "OK" SYMBOL FOR SMALL PLANE TO TAKE OFF 00:11:34 - PLANE TAKES OFF & FLIES OVER TEST GROUND 00:11:45 - SMALL AIRPLANE LANDS ON HIGHWAY TO CUT OFF BY CAR TRAVELLING IN RESTRICTED AREA. STOPPED BY FEDS 00:11:56 - CHICAGO UNIVERISTY'S PROFESSOR HAROLD UREY, ATOMIC SCIENTIST, EXPLAINS SIGNIFICANCE OF RUSSIA'S A-BOMB. SAYS THAT THE NEWS FROM RUSSIA WAS NOT SURPRISE, SOONER OF LATER THE REDS WOULD HAVE GAINED THE "KNOW-HOW" OF ATOMIC WEAPONS. 00:12:29 - ARRIVING IN NEW YORK BY LIMO AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, RUSSIAN DELEGATE VISHINSKY 00:12:48 - UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ROOM 00:12:54 - U.S. UNITED NATIONS DELEGATION 00:12:59 - VISHINSKY ADDRESSES UN BUT DECLINES TO COMMENT ON LATEST SOVIET DEVELOPMENT. SAYS NOTHING OF A-TEST, BUT MAKES ROUTINE ATTACK ON THE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES. RETURNS TO HIS SEAT 00:13:23 - U.N. PRESIDENT ROMULO SAYS THAT STEPS MUST BE TAKEN TO BREAK THE PRESENT IMPASSE. AND CALLS FOR CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY, BEFORE MANKIND USES IT FOR SELF-DESTRUCTION. 00:13:40 - AERIAL NUCLEAR A-BOMB EXPLOSION IN BIKINI 00:14:15 - TRUMAN SIGNS TRADE BILL (SEPTEMBER 1949) PRESIDENT APPROVES EXTENDING RECIPROCAL TRADE ACT TO 1951 AS CORDELL HULL, WHO APPEARS IN PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS LENGTHY ILLNESS, SEES HIS GREAT WORK CARRIED ON. 00:14:22 - CU TRUMAN GIVES PEN TO FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL. SIGNING BILL. 00:14:55 - TRUMAN ASKS FOR WORLD-WIDE END OF PREJUDICE (NOVEMBER 1949). PRESIDENT ATTENDS A WASHINGTON LUNCHEON OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS. PAYS TRIBUTE TO FIGHT AGAINST INTOLERANCE. SAYS THAT THE DEFENSE OF MANKIND AGAINST DISCRIMINATION & INJUSTICE, PREJUDICE & HATE, TYRANNY & OPPRESSION, LIES IN THE FAITH WE PROFESS - BROTHERHOOD OF MAN & FATHERHOOD OF GOD. 00:16:14 - INDIA PASSES NEW CONSTITUTION (DECEMBER 1949) 00:16:15 - COUNCIL HOUSE AT NEW DELHI 00:16:24 - THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, MEETING AT NEW DELHI. NEHRU PRESENT 00:16:26 - PAINTING OF GANDHI 00:16:31 - PRESIDENT DR. PRASAD SIGN THE FORMAL DOCUMENT. 00:16:38 - DELEGATES POUND TABLES IN APPROVAL 00:16:44 - PRIME MINISTER PANDIT NEHRU HEADS LONG LINE OF CONGRATULATORS TO PRESIDENT. MOSLEMS 00:16:52 - NEHRU ARGUES WITH DELEGATES 00:18:42 - DEAN ACHESON SPEAKS TO DELGATES OF UN ON INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 00:19:37 - REPRESENTATIVES FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES SIGNING IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS 00:23:56 - ??? MAKES SPEECH ABOUT HISTORY BEING MADE TODAY BY THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 00:26:34 - VARIOUS UNIDENTIFIABLE FOOTAGE OF INDIA, NEHRU, WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE, PROTESTING INDIANS, COUNCIL MEETING. 00:28:53 - INDONESIA GETS SOVEREIGNTY (1949) 00:28:55 - THE HALL OF CITIZENS IN THE ROYAL PALACE IN AMSTERDAM 00:29:00 - QUEEN JULIANA SITS WITH DR. HADA PREMIERE OF THE NEWLY FORMED UNITES STATES OF INDONESIA. 00:29:03 - HUGE CROWD OF CITIZENS OUTSIDE IN SQUARE 00:29:13 - QUEEN SIGNS DOCUMENT GIVING UP DUTCH RULE OF INDONESIA
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1947
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-407