- Title: VM-889
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS:
- Description:00:00:50 - GEN TWINING RETURNS - WARNS RED AIR STRENGTH GAINS 00:00:57 - MS AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF GEN NATHAN TWINING SPEAKS TO PRESS AT AIRPORT ON RETURN FROM RUSSIA 00:02:07 - MS COUNCIL GENERAL CHANG OF FORMOSA ACCEPTS SHIPMENT OF LIVESTOCK INCLUDING DONKEYS, GOATS & COWS DONATED BY STOCK BREEDERS OF SEVERAL WESTERN STATES 00:02:29 - MS WORKERS HAVE HARD TIME TRYING TO MOVE JACKASS UP GANGPLANK. HUGE BALES OF HAY LOADED ON SHIP 00:03:21 - LS FORMER PRES HERBERT HOOVER SPEAKS TO BOYS CLUB OF AMERICA YOUTH. HOOVER BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW BUILDING 00:03:55 - SPECTATORS AT LONDON ZOO WATCH GROUP OF CHIMPS SIT AROUND PICNIC TABLE & EAT OUT OFF PLATES 00:04:21 - MS PRECISION FLYING TEAM OF AIR FORCE "THUNDERBIRDS" TAKE OFF IN F-100 SUPER SABRES & PERFORM AT 750 RPM 00:05:14 - SPORTS HORSERACING AMERICAN HANDICAP AT "HOLLYWOOD PARK" CALIF "SWOFT" WINS BY 4 LENGTHS 00:05:59 - CROWDS ALONG ROCKY SHORES WATCH KAYAK RACE DOWN ROUGH RAPIDS IN BAVARIA 00:06:30 - MS KAYAK ROLLS OVER UPSIDE DOWN, RIDER SURFACES & HOLDS ONTO HIS BOAT 00:07:29 - EARTHQUAKE: SCORES DEAD IN GREEK DISASTER 00:07:37 - MS 2 MEN AVOID BEING HIT BY TIDAL WAVE AS IT HITS ROCKY SHORE 00:07:43 - MS SECTIONS OF WALL OF HOUSE TUMBLES TO GROUND 00:07:57 - NURSES & DOCTORS ATTEND TO INJURED LAID OUT ON STRETCHERS ON OPEN GROUND 00:08:04 - CU GRIEFSTRICKEN WOMAN HOLDS HAND TO HEAD CRYING 00:08:13 - MS PEOPLE ROAM AMID DEBRIS & RUINS OF BUILDINGS 00:08:47 - LS HELICOPTER PILOT SITS IN CHOPPER AS IT TAKES OFF FROM GROUND BY REMOTE CONTROL 00:08:52 - LS PILOT WAVES HIS ARMS TO INDICATE HE IS NOT FLYING THE CHOPPER 00:09:16 - MS PROSPECTOR WITH DONKEY LADEN WITH GEAR WALKS NEXT TO U.S. ARMY TRANSPORT PLANE ON "OLD TIMERS DAY" AT ABERLENE TEXAS AIR FORCE BASE & FORMAL OPENING OF STRATEGIC AF BASE 00:09:45 - LS FIGHTER JETS BUZZ CROWD OF PEOPLE VISITING THE BASE 00:09:53 - LS SPEEDBOAT WITH HELICOPTER ROTOR TAKES OFF ABOVE OTHER SPEEDING BOATS IN CYPRESS GARDENS FLORIDA 00:10:28 - LS THE FLYING "BOAT" HOVERS ABOVE GIRL BEING TOWED ON HER WATER SKIIS 00:10:39 - FASHION PARADE - EXOTIC ORIENTAL STYLES FROM JAPAN 00:11:44 - LS SPORTS SWIMMERS DIVE INTO WATER AT SOUND OF GUN FOR AAU 100 METER SWIM MEET 00:13:15 - FREEDOM FLIGHT HUNGARIANS SEIZE PLANE TO GERMANY 00:13:33 - GERMAN POLICE EXAMINE BLOODSTAINS ON SEATS & BULLET HOLES IN ROOF OF PLANE HIJACKED BY HUNGARIAN STUDENTS 00:14:16 - NY SUBWAY CRIPPLED BY RAGING FIRE 00:14:25 - LS FIREMEN POUR WATER ON SMOKE FILLED WANAMAKERS DEPARTMENT STORE BUILT DURING CIVIL WAR 00:14:31 - MS EXHAUSTED FIREMEN SIT SPRAWLED OUT AGAINST BUILDING AMID WATER HOSES SPREAD OUT ALONG STREET 00:14:44 - WATER ROLLS INTO SUBWAY, TRANSFORMED INTO UNDER- GROUND RIVER 00:15:25 - PARADE WITH FLOATS CARRYING BEAUTIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD ROLLS DOWN AVENUE IN LONG BEACH, CALIF PRIOR TO "MISS UNIVERSE" CONTEST 00:16:21 - MS CROWD IN HOLLAND CHEER ON COUPLE CELEBRATING 70TH ANNIVERSARY AS THEY RIDE IN MOTORCADE AND PROCESSION OF PEOPLE 00:16:52 - SPORTS HORSERACING MONMOUTH HANDICAP IN OCEAN PORT NJ IS WON BY "NASHUA" WITH EDDIE ARCARO RIDING 00:17:50 - MS JIMMY STEWART RIDES IN MOTORCADE IN RENO NEVADA & GIVEN AWARD FOR DOING SO MUCH FOR THE WEST, & CROWD WATCHES RODEO 00:18:47 - AERIAL CROWD RUNS THROUGH NARROW STREETS OF SPAIN FOLLOWED BY CHARGING BULLS ON WAY TO ARENA FOR BULLFIGHT 00:19:24 - LS HUGE CROWD IN RING TORMENT CHARGING BULL WHO RUNS INTO THEM, KNOCKING SOME OF THEM DOWN 00:20:12 - LAND OF PLENTY: NEW BUMPER GRAIN CROP REACHES MARKET 00:20:35 - TONS OF GRAIN POURED INTO GRAIN ELEVATORS 00:21:35 - MS JAP SAILORS STAND ATTENTION AT SAN FRANCISCO NAVY YARD AS THEY RECEIVE U.S. MINE SWEEPER FROM U.S. NAVY 00:22:05 - MS THE U.S. FLAG REMOVED & JAPANES FLAG RAISED ON THE MAST 00:22:10 - MS KING FAISAL II OF IRAQ MET BY QUEEN ELIZ II AS HE ARRIVES IN LONDON. QUEEN MOTHER & PRINCESS MARGARET ALSO GREET HIM 00:22:51 - GAS EXPLOSION, TOUCHED OFF BY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE, FLATTENS 3 HOMES IN LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 00:23:13 - MS SMASHED AUTO & HUGE MOUNDS OF DEBRIS TESTIFIES TO POWER OF THE BLAST 00:23:40 - AIRPLANE ENGINE & PROP USED TO SIMULATE EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS BY TESTING BRONZE SHEATHING USED TO CONSTRUCT BUILDING GARDEN CITY, NY 00:24:11 - CROWD OF BOEING WORKERS APPLAUD AS NEW JET TANKER PLANES ROLLED OUT OF HANGAR (RENTON, WASHINGTON) 00:24:52 - MISS UNIVERSE CONTESTANTS VISIT UNIVERSAL LOT IN LONG BEACH CALIF. JEFF CHANDLER POSES WITH THEM 00:25:17 - MS FRED MACMURRAY GETS KISSED BY ONE OF THE GIRLS 00:25:25 - RIDGE RUNNING SNOWBIRDS. MEN RIDE THROUGH SNOW COVERED MT. RIDGES OF CASCADE MOUNTAINS, WASH. IN THEIR JEEPS 00:26:07 - LS JEEPS PULL SKIER & MAN ON TABOGGAN & ALSO GIRL IN SWIM SUIT PULLED ON SLED 00:27:09 - IKE IN PANAMA URGES ATOM PLAN FOR HEMISPHERE 00:28:24 - OPERATION ALERT MOCK A-BOMB ATTACK TESTS CIVIL DEFENSE 00:28:32 - MS PEOPLE SIT AT DESKS, TELETYPE MACHINES & TOTE BOARDS AT WASHINGTON NERVE CENTER 00:29:04 - NYC PEOPLE DIRECTED TO SUBWAY STATIONS AS AIR RAID ALARM SOUNDS 00:29:16 - PENTAGON MILITARY EVACUATED BY HUGE HELICOPTERS 00:29:35 - ONLY 1 POLICEMAN STANDS IN NYC DOWNTOWN COMPLETELY DESERTED OF PEDESTRIANS 00:29:45 - MS CROWD SURFACES FROM SUBWAY STATION AS ALL CLEAR SOUNDS 00:29:55 - ENTER JET AGE - JAPAN AIR FORCE GETS U.S. SABRES 00:30:01 - LS F-86 SABRE UNLOADED OFF SHIP IN TOKYO & LINED ON PIER WITH OTHERS 00:30:56 - "MISS UNIVERSE" IOWA COACH WINS WORLD BEAUTY CROWN 00:32:02 - SPORTS MOTORCYCLISTS DO ACROBATICS ON BIKES AT SOLDIERS FIELD, CHICAGO. 4 MEN PERFORM ON 1 BIKE AT HIGH SPEEDS 00:32:43 - MS CLOWN RIDES ACROSS TRACK ON MINIATURE CYCLE 00:32:54 - DAREDEVIL STUNTS IN AUTOS 00:33:59 - MIRACLE AT SEA 2500 FACE DEATH IN SHIP COLLISION 00:34:13 - AERIAL LUXURY LINER ANDREA DORIA LIES ON ITS SIDE IN OCEAN AFTER COLLISION WITH ICE BREAKER SHIP "STOCKHOLM" 00:34:27 - AERIAL STOCKHOLM LIMPS ALONG WITH DAMAGE TO ITS FORWARD SECTION 00:34:44 - LS INJURED TAKEN ASHORE BY HELICOPTER WHERE AMBULANCES AWAIT 00:35:24 - AERIAL ANDREA DORIA SINKS SLOWLY OUT OF SIGHT 00:35:43 - RESCUED SURVIVORS POSE ON DECK OF RESCUE SHIP ILE DE FRANCE 00:36:56 - GRACEFUL NORWEGIAN TRAINING SHIP UNFURLS ITS SAILS IN NY HARBOR 00:37:36 - FAMOUS WATER CLOCK, 70 YRS OLD, IN PINCHO,ITALY IS POWERED BY FLOW OF MOUNTAIN STREAM 00:38:02 - FASHION PARADE: MODELS PARADE ITALIAN DESIGN BEFORE AUDIENCE AT VILLA JULIA IN ROME 00:39:19 - SPORTS - SUNSET HANDICAP WON BY "SWAP" 00:40:51 - SUEZ CANAL SEIZED BY EGYPTIANS 00:41:00 - MS EGYPT'S NASSER TELLS HUGE CROWD HE HAS SEIZED SUEZ CANAL 00:41:34 - RED LEGACY LEAVE RAIL LINE MINED IN AUSTRIA 00:42:00 - LS SMALL FLAGS MARK WHERE REDS LEFT MINES BURIED IN ROAD & RAILWAY TRACKS 00:42:06 - MS AUSTRIAN TECHNICIANS FEEL FOR MINES WITH LONG POLES THEN PULL THEM OUT OF GROUND & EXPLODE THEM 00:42:35 - DOLLS, TOYS, KITCHEN UTENSILS COLLECTED & PLACED IN HUGE CRATE FOR SHIPMENT TO RUSSIA, DONATED BY PEOPLE FROM SAN BRUNO, CALIF 00:42:50 - MS HOUSE IS DISASSEMBLED & CRATED FOR SHIPMENT TO RUSSIA 00:43:15 - AERIAL SEVERAL HELICOPTERS CROWD AIRSTRIP AT FRENCH HELICOPTER SCHOOL IN EASTERN FRANCE 00:44:12 - FOR MEN ONLY WITH BERT BACHRACH 00:44:12 - WITH APRON ON, BERT SHOWS HOW TO COOK OUTDOORS ON A BARBECUE 00:45:22 - SPORTS - NATIONAL OUTDOOR AAU PLATFORM DIVING. CHAMP DIVERS SHOW STUFF OFF HIGH PLATFORM 00:46:37 - MOTORCYCLE STEEPLECHASE IN FRANCE. INTERNATIONAL RIDERS CHALLENGE ROUGH DIRT ROADS & HILLS 00:46:50 - MS FANS CHEER RIDERS FROM SIDELINES AS THEY SPEED BY 00:47:00 - MS WINNER GETS BOUQUET OF FLOWERS & A KISS ON BOTH CHEEKS BY WOMAN 00:47:44 - PRESS PARLEY - IKE FIT BUT SAYS VOTERS MUST DECIDE 00:47:55 - MS IKE ANSWERS QUESTIONS AT PRESS CONFERENCE 00:49:54 - MS A DANCING INDIAN SWINGING TOMAHAWK IS PART OF PARADE GIVEN IN HONOR OF INDIAN AGENT PHILIP CLUM WHO BROUGHT PEACE TO APACHE NATION 00:50:04 - CU PLAQUE TO CLUM UNVEILED TO COMMEMORATE EVENT 00:50:30 - MS INDIANS PERFORM CEREMONIAL DANCE IN CIRCLE, INCLUDING ACTOR CHALE DRAKE WHO PLAYS IN MOVIE ABOUT CLIM 00:50:49 - FOR MEN ONLY WITH BERT BACHRACH 00:51:31 - BERT SHOWS TIPS ON HOW TO: FIX FLAT TIRE WHEN WEARING A SUIT; BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY YOUR CAR WHEN STOLEN; ATTACH WHITE CLOTH TO ANTENNA SO YOU CAN FIND CAR IN CROWDED LOT 00:52:57 - SPORTS - RODEO TO HONOR INDIAN CHIEF JOSEPH IN OREGON 00:53:00 - MS INDIAN CHIEF WITH FEATHERED HEADWEAR LEADS PARADE DOWN AVENUE IN JOSEPH, OREGON 00:53:00 - MS FILM VETERAN WALTER BRENNAN TAKE MOVIES OF COWBOYS RIDING BRONCS & BULLS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1956
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-889