- Title: VM-885
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS:
- Description:00:00:46 - EDEN ARRIVES - HAILS IKE REBUFF OF RUSSIAN PACT 00:00:59 - ENGLISH PRIME MINISTER EDEN TALKS TO NEWSMEN AS BATTERY OF PHOTOGS TAKES PICTURES 00:01:37 - LS BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM BURNING AUTO PLANT ALONG WATERFRONT IN LONG BEACH 00:01:44 - FIREMEN POUR WATER ONTO BLAZE AS FIRE SPREADS TO GAS DEPOT 00:02:00 - FIREMEN WADE IN 4 FT HIGH WATER WITH HOSES AS THEY TRY TO GET CLOSE TO FIRE 00:02:28 - MS SCIENTIST HOLDS & EXAMINES RARE REPTILE 00:02:54 - AERIAL FILM INDUSTRY CATHOLICS ATTEND COMMUNION BREAKFAST AFTER MASS AT ST. PATRICK'S IN NY 00:03:07 - MS AMONG CELEBS ARE ACTORS ANNE BLYTHE & JOHNNY PODRES 00:04:19 - SPORTS EXHIBITION IN HOLLAND SHOWS PECULIAR LOOKING CHICKENS & RABBITS 00:04:59 - CU RABBIT WITH HUGE EARS EATS HAY AS QUEEN JULIANA MAKES HER ROUNDS 00:05:18 - HORSE RACE 9TH RUNNING OF "THE MATURITY" AT SANTA ANITA, CALIF IS SEEN BY CROWD OF 45,000 00:05:44 - LS "TRACK MASTER" BEATS OUT "TRAFFIC JUDGE" AT THE LAST MINUTE TO WIN 00:05:49 - MS FANS SHOW DISAPPOINTMENT 00:05:52 - BASKETBALL SAN FRANCISCO DONS BEAT CALIF 33-25 AS CALIF FREEZES BALL FOR 8 MINUTES 00:06:32 - MS FANS SHOUT & JEER AS CALIF PLAYER HOLDS BALL IN AN ATTEMPT TO THROW OFF RHYTHM OF THE DONS 00:06:37 - CU DRUMMERS IN BAND DO DRUM ROLL AS FANS JEER 00:07:43 - EDEN ENDS VISIT. ISSUES JOINT POLICY STATEMENT WITH IKE 00:08:18 - NAVY BASE REGAINED BY FINLAND 00:08:30 - USSR FOREIGN MINISTER KUKUNEN SIGNS PACT RETURNING BASE TO FINLAND 00:08:54 - MS FINISH TROOPS MARCH INTO SNOW COVERED BASE AS PHOTOGS TAKE SHOTS FROM ATOP ROOF OF SHACK 00:09:14 - AMUSEMENT DIVISION OF THE 3RD FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTROPIES GATHER FOR CEREMONY IN NY'S SHERATON-ASTOR 00:09:28 - MS STEVE ALLEN MAKES PRESENTATION TO PAUL MUNI 00:09:39 - MS KIM NOVAK & PHIL SILVERS CHAT AT TABLE 00:09:43 - MS STEVE ALLEN PRESENT AWARD TO LEWIS CARR 00:09:54 - GALA FASHION SHOW AT WALDORF-ASTORIA FOR POLIO DRIVE 00:10:11 - MS MRS DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SITS AT TABLE AS MODELS PARADE FASHIONS ON RUNWAY 00:10:50 - HUGE & INTRICATE PAPIER MACHE FIGURES & ANIMALS ARE PARADED IN VILLA VEGGIO ITALY A NOTED YEARLY EVENT 00:11:04 - QUEEN WELCOMED - ELIZ II GETS WILD ACCLAIM IN NIGERIA 00:12:04 - MS QUEEN MET BY NATIVES DRESSED IN THEIR FINEST TRADITIONAL & COLORFUL CLOTHING 00:12:31 - WINTER OLYMPICS DOMINATED BY USSR ATHLETES 00:12:47 - MS RUSSIAN SPEED SKATER TAKES EVENT 00:13:23 - LS AUSTRIA'S TONY STYLER TAKES DOWNHILL SKI CHAMPIONSHIP 00:13:35 - LS ITALIANS TAKE BOB SLED EVENTS 00:14:37 - EUROPE IN GRIP OF ICY WINTER 00:14:50 - MS SAILORS CHOP ICE OFF LINES & RAILINGS ON BOATS 00:15:00 - MS ICE COATED FIREMAN FIGHTING BLAZE DRINKS A CUP OF HOT COFFEE 00:15:27 - MS LONE MOTORCYCLIST RIDES ALONG FROZEN ROAD ON HIS 3 WHEEL CYCLE 00:15:40 - MS PRES IKE & MAMIE REGISTER FOR VOTING IN A GETTYSBURG COURTHOUSE. THEY HOLD UP THEIR NEW REGISTRATION CARDS 00:16:03 - BRAZILIANS CHEER THEIR NEW PRESIDENT KUBACHEK. VP NIXON CONGRATULATES HIM 00:16:29 - FASHION PARADE - MODELS SHOW FANCY EYEGLASSES 00:17:26 - SPORTS - TENLEY ALBRIGHT OF U.S. PUTS ON GOLD MEDAL SHOW AT WINTER OLYMPICS IN WOMEN'S FIGURE SKATING 00:18:18 - LS U.S. HAYES JENKINS SHOWS HIS STUFF WHICH WINS HIM FIRST U.S. GOLD IN MEN'S FIGURE SKATING 00:19:10 - AUSTRIA'S TONY STYLER WINS GIANT SLOLOM FOR HIS 3RD GOLD MEDAL 00:19:13 - FIELD & TRACK MELROSE GAMES IN NY 00:19:19 - MS DAVE STEIN OF DUKE TAKES 60 YARD DASH. ANOTHER RUNNER FALLS ON HIS FACE AT THE FINISH 00:19:33 - MS LEE CALHOUN OF N. CAROLINA WINS 60 YARD HIGH HURDLES 00:19:40 - MS BOB RICHARDS WINS IN POLE VAULT 00:19:50 - AUSTRIAN CONTENDERS WAX SLED RUNNERS FOR HIGH SPEED 2 MAN SLED RACE, AS THEY FALL TO STOP SLED 00:20:25 - MS SPECTATORS DO FAST EYE RIGHT AS SPEEDY SLED GOES BY 00:21:32 - GUIDED MISSILE - NAVY TESTS NEWEST ATOMIC WAR WEAPON. MISSILE BLASTED OFF NAVY CRUISER & AIRCRAFT CARRIER DECK 00:22:19 - CONNIE MACK DIES AT 93 00:22:23 - MS AGED CONNIE MACK PITCHES BALL AS HIS TEAM THE PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS WATCHES 00:22:46 - MS CONNIE MACK (CORNELIUS MACGILICUDDY) SITS IN A PHOTO OP WITH BABE RUTH & OTHER BASEBALL IMMORTALS 00:23:06 - CHINESE NATIONALISTS SOLDIERS POSE BARECHESTED WITH ANTI-COMMUNIST SLOGANS TATOOED ON THEIR CHESTS. THEY DO ARCHED BACKHAND STANDS AS THEY TRAIN FOR UNDERWATER DEMOLITION (FROGMEN) 00:24:10 - BENNY GOODMAN & STEVE ALLEN (WHO PLAYS GOODMAN IN FILM) ARE HOSTS AT BANQUET FOR CHARITY 00:24:22 - MS MARQUEE IN CHICAGO THEATER FEATURES "WORLD PREMIERE" OF "BENNY GOODMAN STORY" 00:24:24 - STEVE ALLEN & WIFE AT PREMIER 00:24:43 - GROTESQUE FLOATS, NICE CARNIVAL, FRENCH RIVIERA 00:25:06 - MS DUMMY FLUNG HIGH INTO AIR 00:25:13 - SPORTS WINTER OLYMPICS SHOWS 4 MAN BOBSLEDS WON BY SWISS. PAIRS FIGURE SKATING WON BY AUSTRIANS & SKI JUMP WON BY FINLAND 00:26:46 - HUGE FIREWORKS DISPLAY CLOSES OLYMPIC GAMES 00:27:09 - CROWD WATCHES RODEO IN PALM SPRINGS. COWBOYS RIDE & THROWN FROM BULLS 00:27:23 - MS BULL THROWS COWBOY, GORES HIM. COWBOY CARRIED OFF INTO AMBULANCE 00:28:22 - NIAGARA FALLS STAGES WINTER BEAUTY SHOW 00:28:34 - SNOW & ICE CREATE SCENIC BEAUTY 00:29:00 - CU HONEYMOON COUPLE KISS NEAR FALLS AS THEY RECEIVE AWARD AS 24,000TH HONEYMOON COUPLE 00:29:17 - UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE HERBERT HOOVER JR MAKES SPEECH TO LARGE GROUP IN BERLIN, COMMEMORATING RADIO STATION PUMPING INFO TO COMMUNIST E. GERMANY 00:29:38 - LS QUEEN ELIZ II & PHILIP ARRIVE IN NIGERIA FOR EXTENSIVE TOUR OF THAT BRITISH COLONY 00:29:46 - LS PRINCE PHILIP STANDS ON HILL OVERLOOKING WORKERS EXTRACTING TIN THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY, WITH PICK AX AND SHOVEL 00:30:08 - LS DECORATED PIRATE SHIP & COSTUMED PIRATES SAIL INTO TAMPA PORT COMMEMORATING PIRATE CONQUEST OF THE CITY 00:30:18 - CU UGLY PIRATE FACES POSE FOR PHOTOGS AS PEOPLE PROTECT THEIR HEADS FROM RAIN WITH NEWSPAPERS 00:30:48 - MODELS SHOW FASHIONS IN ULTRA-MODERN ROOM WITH FURNITURE HANGING ON WIRES FROM CEILING 00:31:04 - MS MODEL DUSTS FLOOR UNDER SUSPENDED SOFA 00:31:25 - CU CHINESE BEAUTIES POSE FOR PHOTOS AT ZOO & VISIT MONKEY IN CHINATOWN'S YEAR OF THE MONKEY 00:31:42 - MS MONKEY CHOOSES BEAUTY QUEEN BY PICKING HER NAME FROM LOTS, THEN SHAKES HER HAND 00:31:52 - FASHION PARADE MODELS SHOW JACKETS & COATS ALONGSIDE FANCY SPORTS CARS (JAGUARS) 00:32:55 - SPORTS AMERICAN & FOREIGN SPORTS CARS RACE ON SNOW-COVERED ROADS 00:33:28 - SPORTS CARS SKID ON TURNS 00:33:33 - MAN HOLDS HAND TO HIS CHEEK AS HIS SON WATCHES GRIMLY AT GOLDEN GLOVES FIGHTS IN NYC 00:33:37 - LS BLACK FIGHTER KNOCKS WHITE FIGHTER THROUGH THE ROPES & OUT OF THE RING 00:33:48 - MS WHITE FIGHTER COMES BACK & GETS KO'D 00:34:06 - LS REFEREE STOPS ANOTHER FIGHT AS FIGHTER IS KNOCKED TO CANVASS 00:34:09 - MS MAN PUFFS ON CIGARETTE AS MEN & WOMEN FANS APPLAUD WITH GUSTO 00:34:28 - MS PHOTOGRAPHER HOLDS FLASH CAMERA ON EDGE OF RING WAITING FOR GOOD ACTION SHOT 00:35:18 - GUIDED MISSILES TAKE SPOTLIGHT IN MODERN ARSENAL 00:36:27 - STRIKERS BATTLE POLICE & BLOCK ENTRY OF WORKERS AT REPUBLIC PLANT IN FARMINGDALE, NY 00:37:39 - GREEKS CAST BALLOTS FOR SEATS IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 00:37:44 - WOMEN ON VOTING LINES 00:38:11 - LONG LINES OF PEOPLE EVACUATING VILLAGE WALK DOWN SNOW-COVERED MOUNTAIN AFTER AVALANCHE SLIDES COVERED THEIR HOMES IN SNOW (YUGOSLAVIA) 00:38:18 - MS WOMAN SOBS AS SOLDIERS CARRY CASUALTIES ON STRETCHERS THROUGH THE SNOW 00:38:30 - AERIAL FLAG-DRAPED COFFINS CARRIED IN PROCESSION AS THOUSANDS WATCH 00:38:40 - SOLDIERS CARRY TV CAMERAS ON BIVOUAC. CAMERAMAN TAKES PICTURE OF ONCOMING RAIN 00:39:13 - FASHION ON PARADE - MODELS POSE IN OLD FASHIONED BEACH ATTIRE & SWIMSUITS. ALSO NEW SWIMSUITS 00:40:17 - BOXING GOLDEN GLOVES SEMI-FINALS NYC 00:40:27 - AMATEUR THROWS WILD PUNCHES. SOME CONNECT FOR KOS 00:41:29 - MS FAN PUFFS ON CIGAR AS HE WATCHES FIGHT 00:42:09 - ARMY DIGS IN FOR DEFENSE OF ARCTIC 00:42:22 - MEN & VEHICLES STRUGGLE THROUGH HOWLING WINDS & BLOWING SNOW 00:42:38 - MS COMBAT TEAMS ON SKIIS MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH SNOW 00:42:52 - LS TRANSPORT PLANES DROP TONS OF SUPPLIES BY PARACHUTE 00:43:24 - LS SPANISH MILITARY OFFICIALS ON HAND AS TANKS MADE IN U.S. ARE UNLOADED OFF SHIPS 00:43:57 - FAMED AMERICAN EVANGELIST BILLY GRAHAM SPEAKS TO THRONG IN JAPAN 00:44:06 - CU JAPANESE & AMERICANS CLOSE EYES IN PRAYER 00:44:46 - WORKERS SEARCH THROUGH WRECKAGE OF WASHINGTON TO NY FLYER WHICH CRASHED AFTER BREAKING AN AXLE 00:44:56 - MS GOV. KNIGHT OF CALIF SHAKES HANDS WITH CROWD IN YUGA CITY CALIF ATTENDING BELATED CHRISTMAS AFTER TOWN WAS FLOODED DURING HOLIDAY 00:45:09 - LS SANTA GIVES OUT GIFTS TO CHILDREN 00:45:30 - FASHION PARADE INSPIRED BY MOVIE "THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY" MODELED IN LONG ISLAND NY 00:46:38 - SPORTS MEN & WOMEN SLOLOM & SKI JUMPING EVENTS IN AUSTRIA 00:47:48 - LS NATIONAL STOCK CAR RACES IN DAYTONA BEACH FL 00:48:15 - LS SPECTACULAR FLIP OVER AS CARS RACE AROUND CURVES
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1956
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-885