- Title: VM-880
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS:
- Description:00:00:44 - DISASTER - 24 DIE IN FRENCH TRAIN DERAILMENT 00:00:55 - MS BURNED OUT PASSENGER CAR STANDS GROTESQUELY ATOP PILE-UP OF CARS & UTTER DESTRUCTION OF THE REST OF THE TRAIN 00:01:24 - MONTAGE POLICE AND RESCUE WORKERS SIFT THROUGH DEBRIS 00:01:36 - MS PEOPLE IN PASSING TRAIN PEER OUT OF WINDOWS IN AWE OF THE RUINS 00:01:39 - MIDDLE EAST EGYPT HAILS 1ST NASSER PARLIAMENT 00:01:51 - LS LAWMAKERS STAND & APPLAUD & NASSER MAKES HIS ENTRY & SPEECH 00:02:30 - MONTAGE JOGGING TROOPS PUT ON PARADE FOR NASSER 00:03:11 - MONTAGE CATTLE & BULLS LOADED ONTO SHIP IN SEATTLE FOR PERU 00:03:18 - MS WORKER CRANKS COWS TAIL TO MOVE IT ALONG 00:03:57 - MS TUNISIAN NEW LEADER BOURGIBA PLANTS SEVERAL KISSES ON OLD LEADER AS HE STEPS DOWN FROM THRONE 00:04:03 - MS THE TWO KEEP KISSING EACH OTHER 00:04:13 - MS JIMMY STEWART ARRIVES BY PLANE IN CANADA & HAS PRESS INTERVIEW 00:04:41 - CARNIVAL CAPERS - ZOO ON WHEELS VISITS KIDS 00:04:49 - MS CHILDREN LINE UP TO SEE ANIMALS IN GLASS CAGES ON HUGE TRUCK 00:05:00 - MONTAGE ZOO KEEPER HOLDS UP ARMADILLO TO CROWD OF CHILDREN GATHERED AROUND HIM 00:05:13 - MS YOUNG GIRLS HOLD & FONDLE SNAKE 00:05:35 - LS SKELETON OF GIANT FERRIS WHEEL STANDS AMID BURNED OUT RUINS OF AMUSEMENT PARK IN AUSTRIA 00:05:46 - VARIOUS VIEWS OF NEW FERRIS WHEEL REPLACING OLD ONE DESTROYED DURING WAR 00:06:07 - MS GERMAN TRAINER DANCES WALTZ WITH GIANT BLACK BEAR FOR AUDIENCE ON STEEL PIER AT ATLANTIC CITY 00:06:22 - MS BEAR CLIMBS LADDER TO HIGH PLATFORM CONTAINING CIRCULAR RAILROAD TRACK 00:06:27 - CU LITTLE GIRL OPENS HER MOUTH IN AWE 00:06:34 - LS BEAR RIDES BIKE ON TRACK HIGH ABOVE AUDIENCE VOL 30 REEL 62 00:07:34 - JAPAN FLOODS: RECORD RAINS BRING NATIONAL DISASTER 00:07:38 - MS JAPANESE WOMAN STANDS HELPLESS AT HER DOOR ENTRANCE AS WATER FROM FLOOD RISES ABOVE ANKLES 00:07:41 - MS MAN IN LARGE BRIM STRAW HAT WADES THROUGH KNEE DEEP WATER CARRYING VALISE DOWN MIDDLE OF STREET 00:07:51 - MS PEOPLE RIDE DOWN STREET IN LONG BOAT AS GONDOLIER PUSHES IT ALONG WITH LONG POLE 00:08:17 - MONTAGE WOODEN DEBRIS & WRECKED HOMES ABOUND 00:08:30 - MS SOLDIERS DIG THROUGH MUD WITH SHOVELS SEARCHING FOR BODIES 00:08:37 - MS DEAD BODY COVERED IN MUD CARRIED ON STRETCHER 00:08:51 - MONTAGE AT AIR SHOW CELEBRATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF AIR FORCE CAPT KENNETH CHANDLER LANDS HIS JET AFTER FLYING FROM CHICAGO TO WASHINGTON DC IN 54 MINUTES AT SPEED OF 679 MPH 00:09:28 - LS 1909 MONOPLANE RACES 1910 CURTISS PUSHER IN CONTRAST TO SQUADRON OF B-52 BOMBERS FLYING BY 00:09:59 - MONTAGE ABIB BOURGIBA RIDES IN MOTORCADE TO CHEERS OF APPLAUDING TUNISIANS AFTER BEING NAMED PRES 00:10:45 - MODELS SHOW FALL FASHIONS & FURS IN OUTDOOR FASHION SHOW IN SAN FRANCISCO 00:11:11 - SPORTS - OLD TIMERS' DAY AT YANKEE STADIUM 00:11:28 - AMONG OLD TIME PITCHERS ARE RED RUFFING & LEFTY GOMEZ 00:11:32 - MS HOME RUN BAKER, JOE DIMAGGIO, MICKEY MANTLE 00:11:38 - DIZZY DEAN TALKS INTO CAMERA 00:11:41 - CU OLD TIMER OF DETROIT TIGERS MICKEY COCHRAN 00:11:48 - "WAHOO" SAM CRAWFORD ELECTED TO HALL OF FAME, & TY COBB "THE GEORGIA PEACH" THERE 00:11:53 - YANKEE MANAGER CASEY STENGEL SITS IN DUGOUT 00:12:14 - THOUSANDS WATCH ARLINGTON HANDICAP HORSE RACE IN CHICAGO WON BY "MONASSAS" BY 2 LENGTHS 00:13:00 - DOZENS OF SAILBOATS TAKE OFF IN RACE IN HOLLAND WITH WINDMILLS IN BACKGROUND VOL 30 REEL 63 00:14:20 - TRAINING CRUISE - JAPANESE 4-MASTER VISITS U.S. PORT 00:14:27 - CHORUS LINE OF DANCING GIRLS IN 1900'S DRESS DANCE AT PIER AS JAPANESE SAILORS APPLAUD FROM SHIP 00:14:35 - JAPANESE SAILORS CLIMB ROPES TO SAILS HIGH ABOVE 00:14:47 - SEVERAL SAILORS TURN WHEEL RAISING ANCHOR 00:14:56 - THE 4-MASTER SAILS OUT OF HARBOR IN FULL SAIL 00:15:10 - RUSSIAN-BUILT SUBMARINE IN EGYPTIAN HARBOR AS ABDEL NASSER CELEBRATES 5TH ANNIVERSARY AS PRES OF EGYPT ADDRESSING THRONG 00:15:46 - AS PRES IKE LOOK ON, ROBERT B. ANDERSON SWORN IN AS SECRETARY OF TREASURY 00:16:05 - HUGE STASH OF CARTONS WITH EQUIPMENT & FOOD FOR OPERATION "DEEP FREEZE" LOADED ONTO PLANES FOR DROP ON SOUTH POLE 00:16:22 - PENGUINS SEEM TO LOOK UP AT PASSING PLANES 00:16:37 - DOZENS OF LARGE CRATES DROPPED BY PARACHUTES ONTO SNOW BELOW 00:16:53 - NUN PLACES BOUQUET OF FLOWERS AMID MANY MORE OUTSIDE HOSPITAL ROOM OF ACTRESS GINA LOLLABRIGIDA 00:16:57 - GINA & HER HUSBAND READ MANY TELEGRAMS SENT TO HER ON BIRTH OF HER NEW SON, AS SHE LIES IN HER BED 00:17:22 - FOUR DAY WALK IN HOLLAND PRECEDED BY BRITISH BAND & ISRAELI GIRL SOLDIERS 00:17:32 - GIRL'S REAR END SHAKES AS SHE WALKS WITH OTHERS 00:17:37 - CU MAN WALKS IN WOODEN SHOES 00:17:40 - MEDICAL AIDES TREAT FEET OF MARCHERS 00:17:44 - COUPLES DANCE ALL NIGHT AFTER FINISHING LONG WALKATHON 00:17:49 - AERIAL VIEW OF CROWDED DANCE FLOOR 00:17:52 - SPORTS - RACE CARS TAKE OFF FOR GRAND PRIX IN FRANCE 00:18:40 - TRICK DRIVING IN THE COPEMAN THRILL SHOW IN TAMPA FLORIDA 00:18:45 - SKILLED DARING DRIVERS PUT THEIR DODGES AND PLYMOUTH CARS THROUGH OBSTACLE COURSES 00:19:07 - CLOWN SWEEPS TOP OF RAMP AS CAR HEADS FOR HIM, NARROWLY MISSING HIM 00:19:12 - CAR RIDING ON ITS 2 SIDEWHEELS ALMOST TIPS OVER 00:19:36 - CLOWNS & FEMALE DIVERS PUT ON SHOW ON HIGH DIVING BOARD VOL 30 REEL 65 00:21:08 - DISARMAMENT - IKE PUTS HOPE IN AIR INSPECTION PLAN 00:21:12 - IKE SPEAKS TO REPORTERS AT NEWS CONFERENCE 00:22:24 - SAFETY NET STRETCHED ACROSS RUNWAY TO STOP PLANES IN DISTRESS AS THEY LAND 00:22:42 - LARGE ARMY TRUCK SPEEDS ACROSS RUNWAY & IS BROUGHT TO SLOW HALT BY NET 00:23:12 - NEW STRATEGIC AIR BASE IN SPAIN ACCEPTS U.S. BOMBERS 00:23:33 - WALTER REID ARMY MEDICAL CENTER WHERE MAMIE EISENHOWER REPORTS FOR MINOR SURGERY 00:23:43 - IKE ARRIVES AT CENTER BY LIMO 00:23:54 - FASHION INTERLUDE IN ROME - 4 AMERICAN MODELS ARRIVE AT ROME AIRPORT & SHOW THEIR STUFF ON AIRSTRIP 00:24:10 - MODELS POSE IN GARDEN SHOWING FASHIONS INSPIRED BY MOVIE "INTERLUDE" 00:24:28 - 2 MODELS WALK DOWN "SPANISH STEPS" SHOWING DRESSES 00:24:39 - MODELS STAND BEFORE COLOSSEUM & FOUNTAIN OF TREVI WHERE THEY FLIP A COIN OVER SHOULDERS & INTO THE FOUNTAIN 00:24:55 - SPORTS - HOLLAND HAS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP IN OUTDOOR POOL 00:25:12 - 15 YR OLD ADA DENHANS, WORLD RECORD HOLDER IN BREAST STROKE, LEAVES THE FIELD FAR BEHIND IN A NEW WORLD'S RECORD 00:25:50 - PETE WEIDEMACKER, AMATEUR HEAVYWEIGHT, PRACTICES FOR FLOYD PATTERSON CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT IN SEATTLE 00:26:19 - PHOTOGS TAKE PICTUES OF WEIDEMACHER PUNCHING BAG AND SHADOW BOXING 00:26:33 - OSTRICH HARNESS RACING IN MICHIGAN 00:27:04 - CHILDREN SIT ON GROUND & WATCH OSTRICH PULL RIDERS ON 2 WHEELED HARNESS 00:27:12 - RIDERS HOLD REINS & BROOM TO KEEP SPEEDING BIRDS IN LINE. WINNER POSES WITH HIS OSTRICH VOL 30 REEL 66 00:27:54 - RED COLONEL - TOP RANKING SPY CHIEF CAPTURED 00:28:03 - COL RUDOLPH ABEL ESCORTED OFF PLANE IN HANDCUFFS BY FEDERAL AGENTS 00:28:19 - ABEL TAKEN INTO FEDERAL COURT BY AGENTS 00:28:49 - EX-PRES HERBERT HOOVER CELEBRATES 83RD BIRTHDAY ON PASSENGER SHIP NAMED AFTER HIM 00:29:04 - HOOVER BLOWS OUT CANDLES ON CAKE MADE INTO FORM OF SHIP 00:29:23 - DUTCH SHIP LAUNCHED SIDEWAYS IN NARROW CHANNEL IN HOLLAND 00:29:41 - SHIP SLIDES SIDEWAYS INTO CHANNEL, CAUSING MIGHTY SPLASH ON OPPOSITE SHORE 00:29:54 - DUMMY STARK MISSILE, THEN REAL ONE IS FIRED AT RANGE IN FLORIDA 00:30:16 - MUCH ADO ABOUT HAIRDOS 00:30:30 - NOTED HAIRSTYLIST GREEDAIR PUTS FEATHERS ON MODELS' HAIRSTYLE AS SHE HOLD PARAKEET 00:31:10 - MODEL SITS IN SWEPT WING CAR WITH SWEPT WING HAIRSTYLE, COMPLETE WITH REAR LIGHTS 00:31:12 - SPORTS - WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS IN CHICAGO 00:31:16 - OLD PRO SAMMY SNEAD & NEWCOMER DICK MAYER TEE OFF AS SPECTATORS STRETCH TO SEE BALL IN FLIGHT 00:32:02 - AS HUGE GALLERY OF FANS WATCH, DICK MAYER SINKS WINNING PUTT 00:32:12 - FOOTBALL - COLLEGE ALL STARS PLAY PRO NY GIANTS 00:32:37 - GIANTS QB CONNELLY THROWS FOR LONG GAIN & ON NEXT PLAY THROWS STRIKE TO MACKABE FOR A TD AS GIANTS WIN 22-12 IN POURING RAIN 00:33:19 - 15 HYDROPLANES COMPETE AT SPEED EXCEEDING 100 MPH BETWEEN BOATS FROM SEATTLE & DENVER 00:33:51 - THE BOATS SHOOT UP JET STREAMS OF WATER AS THEY SKIM ACROSS THE WATER 00:34:09 - BILL MUNCIE WINS TROPHY & RACE 00:34:41 - TWINING SWORN - 1ST AIRMAN NAMED TO TOP MILITARY POST 00:34:55 - NEIL MACELROY, PRES OF PROCTOR & GAMBLE NAMED AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 00:34:59 - AS PRES IKE HOLDS BIBLE, GEN NATHAN TWINING IS SWORN IN AS CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEF OF STAFF 00:35:20 - OUTGOING GEN OTTO REDFOLD CONGRATULATES TWINING AS BATTERY OF PHOTOGS SNAP SHOTS 00:35:41 - QUEEN FEDERIKA OF GREECE REVIEWS U.S. TROOPS & HONOR GUARD, KING PAUL ACCOMPANIES QUEEN 00:36:17 - A COLLIE NAMED BLAZE IS WALKED INTO A DINING HALL ALONG WITH LITTLE GIRL HE SAVES, AS A BANQUET IS HELD IN COLLIE'S HONOR. BLAZE RECEIVES MEDAL 00:36:27 - GUESTS AT TABLES RAISE THEIR GLASSES IN A TOAST 00:36:42 - INDIANS RIDE ON ELEPHANTS AMID THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CELEBRATING RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY 00:36:47 - HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CARRY HUGE SHRINES THROUGH THE STREETS 00:36:58 - HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE BEAT THEMSELVES BLOODY WITH STICKS IN MASS FLAGELLATION 00:37:05 - GROUP OF SOLDIERS MARCH, WITH ONE OF THEM WEARING SANDALS BECAUSE THE ARMY DOESN'T STOCK SIZE 16EEE SHOES 00:37:34 - SPORTS - FLOYD PATTERSON MET AT SEATTLE TRAIN STATION BY WELL-WISHERS & PHOTOGS 00:37:42 - MS FLOYD PUNCHES BAG & SHADOW BOXES AS HE TRAINS FOR FIGHT WITH AMATEUR OLYMPIC CHAMP WEIDEMACKER 00:38:14 - MS PATTERSON SPARS IN RING WITH SPARRING PARTNER 00:38:34 - ANGLERS CAST LINES, FISHING IN RIVER, COMPETING IN NATIONAL TROUT DERBY IN MONTANA STREAM 00:38:50 - A WOMAN IN SHORT PANTS CASTS FROM SHORE 00:39:12 - MICKEY MANTLE POSES WITH CASEY STENGEL ON STEPS OF DUGOUT DURING GAME WITH BOSTON RED SOX 00:39:22 - MICKEY MANTLE AT BAT LEFT HANDED HITS A SINGLE 00:39:38 - BOSTON'S TED WILLIAMS COMES TO BAT AND HITS A HOME RUN ON A DON LARSON PITCH VOL 30 REEL 68 00:40:29 - NATO ALLY: RE-ARMED GERMANY GETS FIRST U-BOAT 00:40:41 - GERMAN SAILORS STAND AT ATTENTION ON DECK OF U-BOAT DURING CEREMONY 00:41:04 - OLD NAZI SUB WHICH WAS SCUTTLED AT WWII'S END IS SEEN BEFORE IT WAS RE-FITTED 00:41:26 - WORLD'S MIGHTIEST AIR TUNNEL WITH ITS CONTROL ROOM IS SHOWN AND TESTED 00:42:22 - THOUSANDS OF GREEK PILGRIMS MEET AT TINY AEGEAN ISLAND OF PINOT TO SEE ICON OF THE HOLY VIRGIN 00:42:31 - ICON CARRIED BY PRIEST, FOR THE FIRST TIME, OFF THE ISLAND & ONTO A LINER FILLED WITH PILGRIMS WHO COULD NOT COME ASHORE BECAUSE OF BAD WEATHER 00:42:44 - THE PILGRIMS ON BOARD LINE UP TO KISS ICON 00:42:59 - CHILDREN VISIT PRIVATE ZOO ON A ROOFTOOP IN BOSTON & SEE MONKEYS, LEOPARD, LLAMA & LION 00:43:21 - A BEAR REACHES OUT & TRIES TO GRAB STUFFED ANIMAL HELD BY A CHILD 00:43:31 - SPORTS: CROWD WATCHES SOAP BOX DERBY IN AKRON OHIO 00:43:41 - GIRLS TWIRLING BATONS LEAD BAND MARCHING PRIOR TO SHOW 00:43:50 - YOUNG BOY SITS IN HIS RACER REPRESENTING THE PHILIPPINES 00:43:58 - HOMEMADE RACERS TAKE OFF AT START OF RACE 00:44:13 - AERIAL HUGE CROWD ON BOTH SIDES OF STREET WATCH CARS ROLL DOWN AVENUE 00:44:30 - THE WINNER GETS TROPHY & KISSES MOM ON CHEEK 00:44:33 - PRO FOOTBALL: WASHINGTON REDSKINS VS LA RAMS 00:44:39 - RAMS TAKE FIRST KICKOFF 48 YARDS BEFORE THEY ARE STOPPED 00:44:50 - NORM VAN BROCKLIN OF RAMS THROWS TO WILSON, WHO TAKES IT OVER FOR A TD 00:45:08 - VAN BROCKLIN TO RON HALLER FOR ANOTHER TD FOR RAMS 00:45:22 - REDSKINS LEBARON THROWS PASS WHICH IS INTERCEPTED BY RAMS BURROUGHS WHO TAKES IT TO REDSKINS' 15 YD LINE 00:45:31 - VAN BROCKLIN FOLLOWS WITH ANOTHER TD PASS & WIN 00:45:51 - DIVER DIVES FROM ATOP HIGH DIVING PLATFORM IN FINALS OF FEMALE AAU CHAMPIONSHIPS 00:45:55 - PAULA JEAN MEYERS & EDITH FARLINGS PUT ON DISPLAY OF BEAUTIFUL FLAWLESS DIVES FROM PLATFORM 00:46:44 - MEYERS SLIPS ON HER HOODED SHIRT AFTER WINNING VOL 30 REEL 69 00:47:17 - SYRIA CRISIS: SOVIETS AIM TO SEIZE CONTROL, SAYS IKE 00:47:27 - EGYPT'S NASSER MEETS SYRIA'S EL KOWATE AT AIRPORT PRIOR TO COUP IN SYRIA 00:47:38 - IKE SPEAKS AT NEWS CONFERENCE CONDEMNING COUP AS A SOVIET PLOT 00:49:00 - CU AIR FORCE DOCTOR & SCIENTIST MAJ DAVID SIMON WEARS HELMET & OXYGEN MASK AS HE PREPARES TO GET SEALED IN A CAPSULE & LIFTED TO STRATOSPHERE BY BALLOON 00:49:24 - THE TISSUE-THIN BALLOON SLOWLY RISES SKYWARD 00:49:39 - CROWD GATHERS AT SITE OF LANDING AS SIMON EMERGES SAFE & SOUND 00:49:56 - FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN EXITS PLANE AT ROME AIRPORT. PRIESTS LINE UP & KISS HIS RING 00:50:18 - PRES SIGMON RHEE OF KOREA REVIEWS PARADE OF CADETS & TROOPS & MAKES SPEECH 00:50:40 - PREVIEW '58 SWIM STYLINGS 00:50:46 - MODEL POSES NEXT TO FOUNTAIN IN HER SWIMSUIT 00:50:53 - AERIAL MODEL LIES ON SURFBOARD & PADDLES, WHILE OTHERS SHOW VARIOUS STYLES BY JANTZEN 00:51:35 - SPORTS: SALMON FISHING CONTEST IN VANCOUVER, BC 00:51:40 - FISHERMAN PULL UP THEIR CATCH FROM SMALL BOATS USING RODS & NETS 00:51:53 - 3 MEN IN BOAT HOLD UP NET CONTAINING LARGE SALMON 00:52:01 - 2 WOMEN EACH HOLD UP GOOD SIZE SALMON 00:52:08 - CU PAN OF LARGE SALMON LYING ON TABLE AS FISH ARE HUNG ON SCALES & CHECKED FOR SINKERS 00:52:27 - CU WINNING FISH WEIGHED IN AT 29 POUNDS 9 OUNCES & PAT HADLEY HOLDS UP HUGE FISH HE CAUGHT 00:52:42 - HUGE CROWD ATTENDS SHERIFF'S RODEO IN LA 00:52:46 - GRAND MARSHAL AUDIE MURPHY TAKES BOW ON HIS HORSE & CROWD APPLAUDS 00:53:04 - BULLS & BRONCS THROW THEIR COWBOYS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1957
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-880