- Title: VM-879
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS: VOL 30 REEL 53
- Description:00:00:46 - RAILROAD WRECK COMMUNTER TRAIN DERAILED IN N.Y. 00:01:00 - DERAILED TRAIN SITS HIGH OVER TRAFFIC BELOW ELEVATED TRACKS AS CROWD LOOKS UP 00:01:16 - PASSENGERS LOOK OUT WINDOWS OF TRAIN, AWAITING TRANSFER 00:01:20 - MS BUCKLED TRACK LIES UNDER TRAIN 00:01:37 - AERIAL PASSENGERS TRANSFER FROM DERAILED TRAIN TO ANOTHER TRAIN ALONGSIDE 00:02:03 - COLORFUL FLOATS ROLL DOWN AVENUE IN SAN FRANCISCO AS 40,000 MEMBERS OF LIONS CLUB HOLD CONVENTION. PRETTY GALS RIDE ON FLOATS 00:02:40 - GERMAN PEOPLE HOLDING TORCHES HOLD RALLY OUTSIDE HOME OF ANNE FRANK (A TRIBUTE) 00:02:58 - SMALL CHILDREN WAVE FRENCH FLAGS AS FRENCH PRESIDENT COTY'S MOTORCADE PASSES IN LUXEMBURG 00:03:07 - LS PEOPLE CROWD BALCONIES ON BUILDINGS TO CHEER 00:03:11 - LS COTY MOBBED BY LUXEMBURG WOMEN IN STREET 00:03:25 - LS NEW TYPE TRUCK WITH HUGE BALLOON WHEELS ROLLS DOWN STEEP HILL, RIDES IN HIGH WATER & THICK MUD 00:03:57 - LS WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, SARANAC LAKE, NEW YORK HAS ANNUAL MEETING OF ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS 00:04:09 - MS SCIENTIST USES POINTER TO SHOW CHEST X-RAYS TO THE BOARD IN CLASSROOM 00:04:17 - CU WOMAN TECHNICIAN PEERS THROUGH MICROSCOPE 00:04:25 - MS LARGE GROUP SITS AT BANQUET TABLES TO EAT 00:04:34 - SPORTS LE MANS SPORTSCAR RACE IN FRANCE 00:04:47 - DOZENS OF SPORTS CARS SPEED ON HIGHWAYS & THROUGH TOWNS NIGHT & DAY 00:05:54 - FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT BETWEEN KID BASSEY OF NIGERIA & HAMIER OF FRANCE 00:05:57 - MS KID BASSEY KNOCKED DOWN & TAKES THE 8 COUNT 00:06:19 - BASSEY THE NIGERIAN BEGINS TO PUMMEL FRENCHMAN WITH LEFTS & RIGHTS 00:06:19 - KID BASSEY KEEPS HITTING HAMIER WITH LEFTS & RIGHTS UNTIL REFEREE STOPS FIGHT VOL 30 REEL 54 00:07:42 - "AUDREY" - TOLL RISES IN WAKE OF GULF HURRICANE 00:08:04 - HEAVY WINDS BEND TREES & PUMMEL BOATS ON COAST OF LOUISIANA 00:08:08 - MS CAR RIDES THROUGH FLOODED STREETS & SPLASHES ONTO CAMERA LENS 00:08:12 - MS HUGE TELEPHONE POLES LIE GROTESQUELY ACROSS WINDSWEPT TREE 00:08:20 - MS BARREL ROLLS SWIFTLY DOWN STREET PUSHED ALONG BY HIGH WINDS 00:08:31 - MS FAMILY & THEIR DOG STAND HELPLESSLY ON PORCH WATCHING WATER RISE 00:08:56 - AERIAL OF FLOODED SUBURBAN AREA IN LOUISIANA 00:09:06 - MS HUGE TV TOWER LIES TOPPLED ON ITS SIDE 00:09:20 - MS FARMER BENDS OVER DEAD COW LAYING IN MUDDY FIELD 00:09:25 - MS WORKERS PLACE DEAD BODIES ON OPEN TRUCK 00:09:53 - MS YOUNG TEEN TRIES ON SHIRT IN HIGH SCHOOL GYM 00:10:04 - MS INFANT LIES ON BLANKET ON GYM FLOOR DRINKING FROM MILK BOTTLE 00:10:09 - LS MAYFLOWER II RIDES INTO NY HARBOR AFTER SAILING FROM VENICE IN DUPLICATION OF ITS JOURNEY. IT WAS TOWED PART OF THE VOYAGE 00:11:01 - MS SAUDI'S KING FAISAL ARRIVES IN NY & HAS MEDICAL CONSULTATION ABOUT HIS ULCER 00:11:23 - ITALIANS IN CITY OF NOA CARRY HUGE 90 FOOT TOWERS THROUGH STREETS IN RELIGIOUS CEREMONY 00:12:00 - SPORTS WOMAN'S OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT IN MAMARONECK NEW YORK 00:12:07 - LS PATTY BERG TEES OFF AS DOES CATHY CORNELIUS 00:12:26 - LS BEVERLY HANSON TRIES LONG PUTT & COMES CLOSE 00:12:34 - LS ALICE BARR WITH LEGS SPREAD WIDE TRIES LONG PUTT & MAKES IT 00:12:54 - CU HAWAIIAN BORN JACKIE MUGG WINS TOURNAMENT BUT IS DISQUALIFIED FOR TURNING IN AN INCORRECT SCORE ON 4TH HOLE 00:13:04 - MS CROWD OUTSIDE WIMBLEDON STADIUM AWAITS ENTRANCE TO TENNIS MATCHES 00:13:07 - MS VIC SETIAS & HIS WIFE & AUSTRALIAN LOU HOUG & HIS DATE AT WIMBLEDON 00:13:20 - MS AMONG FANCY FASHIONS WOMAN'S HAT MADE WITH TENNIS RACKET & BALL IN MINIATURE 00:13:26 - MS LOU HOUG & PIERRE GARMENT OF FRANCE POSE BEFORE THEIR MATCH 00:13:50 - CROWD WATCHES HOUG WIN MATCH VOL 30 REEL 55 00:14:29 - "MOON" IS BORN. THE STORY OF "PROJECT VANGUARD" 00:14:39 - WORKERS ASSEMBLE ROCKETS & SHOW NEW HAND HELD SATELLITE 00:14:47 - ANIMATED DRAWINGS SHOW LAUNCH & PLACEMENT OF SATELLITE IN ORBIT & ITS TRACKING 00:15:58 - MS SWEDEN'S MODERNISTIC SAIL VESSEL "ALBATROSS" WITH NYLON SAILS, SAILS INTO NY HARBOR 00:16:29 - AIR FORCE PUTS ON MIGHT SHOW OF POWER FOR GEN. TWINING WHO RECEIVES MEDAL & STEPS UP TO POST OF CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF 00:16:43 - AS AIR FORCE CADETS PARADE AT AIRFIELD, BOMBERS & FIGHTERS FLY OVERHEAD 00:17:04 - ELS MIGHT B-52 BOMBERS FLY OVERHEAD IN FORMATION 00:17:24 - MS MILITARY MEN EXAMINE PORTABLE ATOMIC POWER PLANT THAT CAN BE TRANSPORTED ANYWHERE BY AIR 00:17:43 - 102 CARAT ASHLEY DIAMOND ON DISPLAY AT OPENING OF INTERNATIONAL DIAMOND EXPO IN HOLLAND 00:17:57 - CU THE "HOPE" DIAMOND ON DISPLAY 00:18:01 - CU HAND WITH TWEEZER MOVES HUNDREDS OF SPARKLING DIAMONDS SCATTERED ON TABLE 00:18:17 - CU CAMERA MOUNTED ON FRONT SEAT OF 1956 PLYMOUTH TAKES PHOTOS OF CARS BREAKING TRAFFIC LAWS 00:18:26 - CAMERA SHOWS CAR CHANGING LANES OFTEN & CAR GOING THROUGH FULL STOP 00:18:54 - MS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF QUEEN JULIANA OF HOLLAND VISITS ZOO & SEES CAMEL PRESENTED TO HOLLAND BY PAKISTAN 00:19:12 - MS YOUNG CHILDREN PET BABY LEOPARD CARRIED THROUGH CROWD BY KEEPER 00:19:22 - SPORTS AAU DECATHALON CHAMPIONSHIPS IN CALIF 00:19:30 - LS BOB LAWSON OF WASHINGTON WINS 110 METER HIGH HURDLES 00:19:49 - CHARLIE PRATT WINS 100 METER DASH IN RECORD TIME 00:20:44 - MS CHARLIE PRATT ACCEPTS AWARD FOR HIGHEST MARKS IN DECATHALON VOL 30 REEL 56 00:21:34 - DEDICATION - WARREN & HOOVER HAIL NEW TRUMAN LIBRARY 00:21:45 - MS TRUMAN ARRIVES AT LIBRARY IN INDEPENDENCE, MO 00:22:07 - MS ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ATTENDS 00:22:23 - MS TRUMAN SHAKES HANDS WITH HERBERT HOOVER 00:22:57 - U.S. FIRES BIGGEST A-BOMB 00:23:08 - LS PLASTIC BALLOON CARRIES ALOFT A-BOMB WHICH WILL BE DETONATED HIGH ABOVE DESERT 00:23:14 - NEWSMEN & CAMERAMEN DON DARK GLASSES, TRAINING THEIR CAMERAS ON THE SITE 00:23:30 - MS MAN WITH DARK GLASSES WATCHES AS HUGE BLAST GOES OFF IN THE DISTANCE 00:24:27 - COMMUTERS AT GRAND CENTRAL STATION WATCH AS WORKERS STAND HUGE RED STONE MISSILE ON ITS END IN THE CENTER OF THE HIGH DOMED STATION 00:24:33 - MS COMMUTERS WITH CHILDREN LOOK STRAIGHT UP AS THE MISSILE IS PLACED ON END 00:24:53 - MS AS POPE PAUL XII IS CARRIED ON HIS THRONE TRHOUGH ST. PETERS, A MAN HOLDS UP BABY FOR POPE TO BLESS 00:25:00 - MS BOSTON MAYOR JOHN B. HINES SPEAKS TO POPE AS VISITORS FROM BOSTON HONORED BY THE PONTIFF 00:25:19 - SPORTS WORLD SERIES OF LOGGING IN OREGON 00:25:25 - LS HUGE CROWD LINES SHORE TO WATCH LOG ROLLING CONTEST. ONE OF 2 ROLLERS FALLS IN 00:25:45 - MS WINNER DOES FLIP ON THE LOG & FALLS IN 00:26:00 - MS CONTESTANT SAWS THROUGH 30 INCH LOG TO WIN 00:26:19 - CONTESTANT THROWS AN AXE AT TARGET & HITS IT OVERHAND & UNDERHAND 00:26:32 - LS 2 CONTESTANTS COMPETE IN POLE CLIMBING 00:27:00 - MS WINNER RECEIVES TROPHY & KISS FROM WOMAN 00:27:06 - MONTAGE WATERSKIING SHOW IN CANADA. LINE OF FEMALE SKIERS SPEED ALONG CARRYING GIRL STANDING ON THEIR SHOULDERS 00:27:25 - LS SKIERS PUT ON COMEDY SHOW AND SPEED OVER RAMP ON THEIR BELLIES 00:27:29 - LS CLOWN SKIER SPEEDS OVER RAMP, LETS GO, & DOES SOMMERSAULT INTO THE WATER 00:27:39 - LS PERFORMER SKIS BAREFOOT VOL 30 REEL 57 00:28:18 - BORDER CLASH - SYRIAN RAID DISRUPTS ARAB-ISRAELI TRUCE 00:28:31 - MS MALE & FEMALE ISRAELIS LINE UP TO PICK UP ARMS & TAKE POSITIONS ON THEIR FARMLANDS 00:28:43 - CU SOLDIER POINTS TO BULLET HOLES IN BARN BUILDING MADE BY ARAB SNIPERS 00:29:18 - MONTAGE QUEEN ELIZABETH & PHILLIP ARRIVE AT PRINCE CHARLES' SCHOOL ON SPORTS DAY. CHARLES INTRODUCES PARENTS TO SOME OF HIS STUDENT FRIENDS 00:29:26 - LS PRINCE CHARLES & ANOTHER STUDENT CLIMB HIGH BAR, ARM OVER ARM, AS PARENTS LOOK ON 00:29:36 - LS PRINCE CHARLES GETS INTO FOOT RACE WITH OTHER STUDENTS 00:29:50 - MS MARQUEE OF RKO AT 86TH STREET SHOWS PREVIEW OF "MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES", BIO-PIC ABOUT LON CHANEY SR. 00:29:55 - MS CROWD BEHIND BARRICADES WATCH AS CELEBS ARRIVE 00:29:56 - MS ITALIAN ACTRESS GIANA SIGACI ARRIVES WITH ESCORT 00:30:00 - MS ROSSANO BRAZZI ARRIVES WITH MATRONLY WIFE 00:30:08 - MS JULIA WILSON & EDDIE BRACKEN ARRIVE 00:30:10 - MS VP OF MOTION PICTURE ASSN PRESENTS UNIVERSAL EXECS MILTON RACKMILL & CHARLES FELDMAN WITH AWARD 00:30:29 - ECU OF TOUGH LOOKING JAMES CAGNEY FROM THEATRE PHOTO 00:30:36 - MS PRES OF PARAGUAY & PRES OF VENEZUELA MEET AT VENEZUELA AIRPORT FOR OPENING OF "FATHERLAND WEEK" 00:30:44 - LS HUGE OUTDOOR DISPLAY OF ART MEMORIALS COMMEMORATE 146 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE 00:30:50 - MONTAGE HUGE FOUNTAIN & ANCIENT ROMAN STATUES ON DISPLAY IN "THE AVENUE OF HEROES" 00:31:15 - LS PRES CESSNA OF PARAGUAY CUTS RIBBON DEDICATING "AVENUE" 00:31:21 - LS IN OLYMPIC STADIUM MORE THAN 2000 MEN IN GYM UNIFORMS DO SIMULTANEOUS CALISTHENICS WITH RIFLES 00:31:34 - SPORTS - TENNIS CHAMP ALTHEA GIBSON GETS TICKER TAPE PARADE IN NYC 00:31:47 - MS GIBSON, FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIP, WAVES FROM BACK OF OPEN LIMO 00:32:00 - MS MAYOR WAGNER GREETS GIBSON AT CITY HALL STEPS 00:32:14 - MONTAGE HEAVYWEIGHT CONTENDER HURRICANE JACKSON & TRAINER WHITEY BIMSTEIN AT TRAINING CAMP IN NY 00:32:21 - MS BIMSTEIN GREASES UP JACKSON'S FACE BEFORE TRAINING 00:32:39 - MS CHAMP FLOYD PATTERSON JUMPS ROPE & HITS BAG AS YOUNG BOYS WATCH AT HIS TRAINING CAMP IN GREENWOOD LAKE NY 00:32:59 - MS PATTERSON VIGOROUSLY PUNCHES PUNCHING BAG 00:33:00 - MS RODEO CAMERAMAN JIMMY LETTERER IS GIVEN AWARD AT RODEO AS YOUNG KIDS APPLAUD (RENO, NEVADA) 00:33:13 - MONTAGE COWBOYS ARE THROWN FROM BUCKING BRONCOS 00:33:52 - MS COWBOY IS THROWN & KICKED IN SHOULDER 00:34:10 - MS COWBOY HAND STUCK WHEN THROWN ABOUT BY BULL VOL 30 REEL 58 00:34:57 - CIVIL DEFENSE MOCK "ALERT" TESTS NATION'S READINESS 00:35:02 - LS BUSY TIMES SQUARE - VEHICULAR & PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC 00:35:10 - MS HUGE HORNS BLAST AIR RAID ALERT 00:35:15 - CU LARGE "PUBLIC SHELTER" SIGN 00:35:20 - MONTAGE POLICE & FEMALE AIR RAID WARDEN DIRECT PEOPLE TO SHELTERS 00:35:23 - LS DESERTED TIMES SQUARE DURING "AIR RAID" 00:35:32 - MS DESERTED BRIDGE 00:35:45 - LS PEOPLE ENTER SHELTER IN FACTORY BUILDING 00:35:53 - LS HELICOPETER LANDS ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN AND PRES IKE BOARDS IT TO BE TAKEN TO SECRET SHELTER 00:36:16 - MS IKE SITS IN CHOPPER. 1ST AMERICAN PRES TO FLY IN HELICOPTER 00:36:26 - 50,000 AT SCOUT JAMBOREE 00:36:37 - LS THOUSANDS OF BOY SCOUTS SIT ON GROUND FOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT VALLEY FORGE OPEN THEATER 00:36:50 - MONTAGE SCOUT SHOULDER PATCHES IDENTIFY SCOUTS FROM DIFFERENT CITIES IN THE U.S. 00:37:15 - MONTAGE 15 FT OF WATER FILLS SUBWAY IN CHICAGO AFTER TORRENTIAL 24 HOUR RAINFALL 00:37:50 - MONTAGE HOMES DAMAGED BY FLOODED CALUMET RIVER 00:38:00 - MS MAN HOSES DOWN TOWELS HANGING ON CLOTHESLINE 00:38:52 - MONTAGE NEHRU & HIS SISTER TAKE TOUR OF ROTTERDAM HARBOR ON TOUR BOAT, THEN VISIT QUEEN JULIANA 00:39:11 - LS NICKOLOTTI COLBERT, SWISS MOVIE STAR, WAVES FROM STEPS OF PLANE AS SHE ARRIVES FOR ROLE IN "ALSO A TIME TO LOVE" 00:39:33 - FASHION PARADE: HAT COLLECTION AT WALDORF-ASTORIA 00:39:42 - CU MODELS' HEADS SEEM TO POP OUT OF UPTURNED TOP HATS. HEADS SHOW FANCY HEADWEAR 00:40:03 - MONTAGE 3 MODELS SIT AT DINNER TABLE & WEAR ELEGANT HATS OF FEATHERS & FURS 00:40:29 - SPORTS: ARLINGTON CLASSIC HORSE RACE CHICAGO ILL 00:41:06 - LS "CLEM" WINS CLASSIC BY 5 LENGTHS VOL 30 REEL 59 00:41:42 - JET RECORD: COAST TO COAST IN 3 HRS 23 MINUTES 00:41:53 - MS MARINE AIRMAN MAJ JOHN GLENN TAKES OFF IN CRUSADER JET FIGHTER FOR NON-STOP FLIGHT 00:42:16 - LS GLENN ARRIVES IN NY'S FLOYD BENNETT FIELD AS WIFE & 2 SONS WAIT 00:42:47 - MARYLAND BEAUTY NAMES "MISS U.S.A." 00:43:00 - MONTAGE BEAUTIES IN SWIMSUITS FROM ALL COUNTRIES RIDE IN FLOATS DOWN CALIFORNIA STREET 00:43:45 - MS PRES IKE GIVEN HUGE CHEST OF FINEST SILVERWARE BY BRITAIN'S FINEST CUTLER, SIR PETER ROBERTS 00:44:07 - MS CHICAGO LAWMEN LOOK AT MARIJUANA PLANTS, AS THEY SEIZE ENTIRE 4 ACRES IN CHICAGO 00:44:27 - MS MARINES ARMED WITH FLAMETHROWERS BURN DOWN THE CROP OF MARIJUANA 00:44:37 - MONTAGE NEW OPTICAL SYSTEM ALLOWS JET FIGHTERS TO LAND ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER WITH HUMAN GUIDANCE 00:45:17 - MS PEASANTS IN COLUMBIA PICK A HUGE COTTON CROP IN THE FIELDS 00:45:27 - LS 3 DAREDEVEIL CROP DUSTERS SWOOP OVER FIELD IN PIPER CUBS & SPRAY INSECTICIDE 00:45:56 - FASHION PARADE - JUNIOR EDITION 00:46:07 - MS 5 YOUNG MODELS OF DIFFERENT HEIGHTS LINE UP TO DISPLAY CHILDREN'S FASHIONS 00:46:15 - MONTAGE EACH MODEL (4 GIRLS 1 BOY) INDIVIDUALLY MODELS CLOTHING 00:46:44 - MS BOY MODEL, SMALLEST IN GROUP, SPINS AROUND QUICKLY TO SHOW HIS OUTFIT 00:47:05 - SPORTS - WATER SKIING IN FLORIDA 00:47:21 - MONTAGE SKIER SPEEDS AROUND & BETWEEN TREES IN CYPRESS GARDENS ON 15 INCH SKIS, SPRAYING MODELS IN SWIMSUITS AS HE SPEEDS BY VOL 30 REEL 60 00:48:27 - RECORD CROWD 92,000 FILL STADIUM TO HEAR BILLY GRAHAM 00:48:39 - LS CROWD RACES ACROSS YANKEE STADIUM TO GET GOOD SEATS 00:49:05 - LS BILLY GRAHAM SPEAKS FROM CENTER OF STADIUM 00:49:15 - MS PRES IKE SPEAKS TO EXCHANGE STUDENTS OF MANY COUNTRIES AS THEY GATHER ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN 00:49:48 - MONTAGE EGYPTIAN LEADERS SIT ON FLOOR AROUND ROOM IN CEREMONY AT DEATH OF AGA KAHN IN EGYPT 00:49:57 - CU WOMAN KNEELS & PRAYS, FONDLING PRAYER BEADS 00:50:07 - MS KAHN'S WIFE "THE BAGIN" IS HELD BY 2 WOMEN AS SHE CRIES AT HIS COFFIN 00:50:40 - LS SCORPION JET FIGHTER TAKES OFF AT NEVADA AIRSTRIP & FIRES FIRST AIR-TO-AIR NUCLEAR MISSILE 00:50:51 - MS A BRIGHT FLASH LIGHTS SKY AS BOMB IS FIRED 00:50:59 - MS AT ROTTERDAM ZOO MR & MRS OKOFEE, MEMBERS OF GIRAFFE FAMILY BUT LOOK LIKE ZEBRAS, ARE SHOWN 00:51:12 - MS RARE ANIMALS STICK OUT LONG TONGUES TO EAT LEAVES 00:51:16 - CU HIND QUARTERS OF THE OKOFFEE HAS STRIPES LIKE ZEBRA BUT A FACE LIKE A GIRAFFE 00:51:27 - MS YOUNG CHILDREN LEAN ON RAILING TO WATCH ANIMALS 00:51:31 - MISS UNIVERSE - BEAUTY QUEENS IN ROYAL CONFUSION 00:51:53 - MONTAGE - SWIMSUITE BEAUTIES PARADE DOWN RUNWAY REPRESENTING ALL COUNTRIES AND AGES BETWEEN 18 AND 28 00:52:21 - MS 17-1/2 YR OLD GLADYS BENDER FROM PERU WINS (IN PERU, AFTER TURNING 17, YOU ARE 18) 00:52:39 - SPORTS - MILE RACE IN ENGLAND 00:52:58 - LS ERIC IBITSEN OF ENGLAND BEATS RON DELANEY OF U.S. & BREAKING THE WORLD RECORD BY 8 SECONDS 00:53:49 - HORSE RACING - 18TH RUNNING OF "THE WESTERNER" IN HOLLYWOOD PARK, CALIF 00:54:36 - LS "BROWN TABLE," WITH SHOEMAKER RIDING, WINS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1957
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-879