- Title: VM-890
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS:
- Description:00:00:56 - SUEZ CRISIS: BRITISH, FRENCH RUSH WARSHIPS TO AREA 00:01:07 - SAILORS REMOVE COCOONS FROM MOTHBALL FLEET, AND UNCOVER GUNS ON WARSHIPS 00:01:22 - MS BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER LEAVES SUEZ, AS DOES FRENCH WARSHIPS FROM TOULON 00:01:39 - HEAT BARRIER - ROCKET PLANE TESTS METAL AT 1900 MPH 00:01:47 - LS A B-52 BOMBER CARRIES ROCKET PLANE UNDER ITS BELLY AS IT FLIES AT HIGH SPEED ACROSS SKY 00:01:53 - CU LT. COL. FRANK EVERETT WEARS SPACE MASK & SUIT AS HE SITS IN COCKPIT OF ROCKET PLANE 00:02:07 - ELS AFTER ROCKET PLANE IS DROPPED FROM B-52, IT STREAKS ACROSS SKY AT 1900 MPH, LEAVING LONG VAPOR TRAIL 00:02:56 - FOOD TESTED UNDER GAMA RADIATION IN LAB 00:03:19 - RADIATED BREAD SLICES & OTHER FOOD PASSES BY ON CONVEYOR BELT 00:03:38 - MINIATURE REALROAD TRAIN CARRIES CHILDREN AT THE DETROIT ZOO 00:03:53 - MS CHIMP DRESSED AS CONDUCTOR RIDES ON TRAIN 00:04:02 - MS BEAR STANDS ON HIND LEGS AS CHILDREN THROW PEANUTS FROM ABOVE. BOY FEEDS OSTRICH PEANUTS 00:04:26 - CU CHIMP WEARS RR ENGINEER'S CAP & OVERALLS 00:04:35 - FASHION PARADE - SWISS WATCHES EXHIBITED AT HOTEL PIERRE IN NY, WATCHES FOR ALL OCCASIONS SHOWN 00:05:04 - CU ENGAGEMENT RING DIAMOND LIFTS, EXPOSING A SMALL WATCH 00:05:46 - DARING DIVERS ANTICS - CLOWN DIVERS PUT ON FUNNY SHOW OFF HIGH PLATFORMS & INTO POOL 00:06:11 - LS DIVER DIVES OFF HIGH PLATFORM & LANDS FLAT ON HIS STOMACH 00:07:45 - PRESS PARLEY - IKE URGES CAUTION ON SEIZURE OF SUEZ CANAL 00:07:54 - MS IKE TELLS NEWSMEN HE HOPES TO SEE SUEZ SITUATION SETTLED PEACEFULLY 00:08:58 - BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE IN JAPAN. THOUSANDS OF SCOUTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD PARADE. WATCHED BY PRINCE AKAHITO 00:09:45 - TEENAGE ROAD-E-O. TEENSSHOW RIDING SKILLS IN WASHINGTON, DC IN 3 DAY SERIES OF TESTS OF PARKING & PRECISION DRIVING 00:10:32 - MS WORKERS PLANT TNT IN GROUND OF COLUMBIA'S JUNGLE IN SEARCH OF OIL. GEYSER SHOOTS UP FROM JUNGLE GROUND 00:11:04 - OIL DERRICKS & REFINERIES BLOSSOM IN JUNGLE 00:11:13 - SPORTS - 31ST RUNNING OF HAMBLETONIAN (HARNESS RACING) AT GOSHEN, NY AS TROTTERS TAKE TO THE FIELD. WON BY "THE INTRUDER" 00:12:10 - MS OWNERS HAVE HORSE DRINK WATER FROM TROPHY CUP 00:12:17 - SPEEDBOATING'S RICHEST RACE - THE SEAFARE TROPHY RACE IN SEATTLE 00:12:29 - LS ESTIMATED HALF MILLION PEOPLE SIT ALONG SEASHORE TO WATCH SPEEDY HYDROPLANES ZIP ACROSS LAKE WASHINGTON AT UP TO 170 MPH 00:13:00 - MS HUGE CROWD COMES TO ITS FEET & RAISES HANDS AS "SHANTYii" WINS. BOATER GETS BIG KISS FROM WIFE 00:13:10 - OLYMPIC HOPEFULS ON 3 METER SPRINGBOARD DIVE (MEN & WOMEN) & SHOW THEIR STUFF 00:14:40 - STEVENSON NOMINATED 00:14:51 - DELEGATES ENTER CONVENTION HALL IN CHICAGO FOR DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. THOUSANDS ASSEMBLE IN HALL 00:15:28 - MS EX PRES TRUMAN & WIFE, & ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ARE THERE AS ADLAI STEVENSON IS NOMINATED 00:16:03 - ARABS BACK NASSER ON SUEZ GRAB 00:16:16 - MS EGYPT'S NASSER SPEAKS TO DELEGATION OF ARABS 00:16:20 - MS INDIA'S KRISTNER MENON ARRIVES BY PLANE, FOLLOWED BY LARGE RUSSIAN DELEGATION 00:17:10 - MS AIRLINE PERSONNEL CARRY 24 KOREAN HOMELESS ORPHANS OFF PLANE, PART OF 76 ORPHANS BROUGHT TO U.S. BY AMERICAN CITIZEN HENRY HOLTS 00:17:50 - ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY DIG TO UNCOVER ANCIENT CITY OF HAZAR (PALESTINE) (LEAD BY F.A. MITCHELL-HEDGES?) 00:18:05 - CU YOUNG STUDENTS CHIP AWAY & BRUSH OFF ARTIFACTS 00:18:50 - MS DOG BARKS AS POSTMAN DELIVERS MAIL 00:19:06 - HUMANE SOCIETY TEACHERS TRAIN BEVY OF MAILMEN HOW TO AVOID BEING BITTEN BY DOGS 00:19:36 - MS MAILMAN GESTURES WHILE SLEEPING IN BED & DREAMING OF BEING BITTEN BY A DOG, AS SEVERAL DOGS JUMP UP ON THE BED AND FROLIC AROUND HIM 00:19:47 - ROCK & ROLL TEEN RODEO 00:19:56 - MS FANCY SADDLE ON DISPLAY FOR WINNER 00:20:09 - TEENS RIDE & ARE THROWN BY BULLS & HORSES 00:21:30 - REPUBLICAN CONVENTION - HUGE CROWD POSES & WAVES TO CAMERA OUTSIDE HALL IN SAN FRANCISCO 00:21:42 - MS SPEAKER OF HOUSE JOE MARTIN AT CONVENTION 00:21:50 - MS YOUNG WOMEN HOLD UP "WE LIKE IKE" SIGNS 00:22:10 - MS VP NIXON, GOV. KNIGHT & SEN. KNOWLAND CHAT 00:22:29 - MS KEYNOTE SPEAKER ARTHUR LANGLEY SETS CAMPAIGN TONE 00:22:58 - SUEZ IMPASSE - EAST & WEST SPLIT ON SEIZURE 00:23:06 - LS HUGE CROWD FOLLOWS TRAIN & CHEERS AS THEY RUN ALONGSIDE. PRES NASSER WAVES FROM TRAIN 00:23:35 - LS LONG LINE OF IDLE BUSES SIT PARKED AS NASSER ASKS FOR STRIKE IN GESTURE OF SOLIDARITY 00:24:20 - MS SECRETARY DULLES MEETS IN LONDON WITH MINISTERS INCLUDING SOVIETS 00:24:43 - 200,000 HINDUS LISTEN TO NEHRU'S OUTDOOR SPEECH 00:25:15 - SAILORS ON CARRIER LEXINGTON SIT ON DECK OF SHIP AS JAPANESE GEISHA MAKES TEA & GIANT CAKE IS CUT BY JAPANESE MAYOR IN CELEBRATION OF SHIP'S BIRTHDAY 00:25:46 - SPORTS - AMERICAN DERBY AT WASHINGTON PARK, CHICAGO, IL 00:26:28 - MS FAN SHAKES HIS ARM IN GESTURE FOR HIS HORSE TO SPEED IT UP 00:26:54 - LS "SPOON SON" WITH EDDIE ARCARO UP, WINS 00:27:21 - WATER SKIERS PUT ON DARING SHOW IN FLORIDA 00:28:20 - IT'S IKE & NIXON. WILDLY CHEERING CROWD GREETS IKE & MAMIE AS THEY ARRIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO AT CONVENTION 00:28:59 - LS CONGRESSMAN JOE MARTIN & FORMER PRES HOOVER SPEAK AS DOES THOMAS DEWEY 00:30:14 - LS HUGE CROWD AT CONVENTION GO WILD AS IKE IS NOMINATED 00:30:35 - GIANT NAVY CONSTELLATION WITH LARGE DISC RADAR ON TOP TAKES OFF FOR TESTING 00:31:15 - CEREMONY AT GRAVE SITES OF 170 CANADIAN TROOPS KILLED AT DIEPPE, FRANCE. MONUMENT UNVEILED 00:32:03 - SPORTS - JUDO WRESTLERS OF MANY STATES LINE UP & BOW AT GYM IN SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FOR 4TH JUDO CHAMPIONSHIP 00:32:24 - LS BIG GROUP OF WRESTLERS TOSS EACH OTHER ON MATS 00:32:34 - MS TWO WRESTLERS GO AT IT AS OTHER WRESTLERS, SITTING AROUND MATS, CHEER THEM ON 00:33:13 - LS DICK JAMES OF WASHINGTON REDSKINS TAKES KICK OFF & RUNS IT BACK 80 YARDS 00:33:31 - LS DALE ELDER CARRIES IT ACROSS FOR REDSKINS 00:33:50 - LS REDSKINS JOE SCADERA TAKES KICKOFF BACK 95 YARDS FOR REDSINS TD 00:35:20 - BABY KIDNAP VICTIM IS FOUND 00:35:27 - MS NEWPAPER HEADLINES TELL OF KILLING OF BABY WEINBERGER BY KIDNAPPER 00:35:36 - LS NEWPAPERMAN POINTS TO SPOT WHERE BABY WAS FOUND 00:36:03 - KIDNAPPER TRIES TO HOLD HIS HEAD DOWN FROM BEING PHOTOGRAPHED AS HE IS WALKED, HANDCUFFED 00:36:28 - IKE VISITS CALIFORNIA MISSION 00:36:48 - MS IKE & MAMIE GREETED BY ENTHUSIASTIC NUNS 00:37:26 - SPORTS - OLD TIMERS DAY AT YANKEE STADIUM 00:37:42 - MS OLD TIME WHITE SOX PLAYERS STAND IN LINE OUTSIDE DUGOUT FOR PHOT 00:37:47 - MS YANKEE MANAGER CASEY STENGEL POSES WITH OLD TIME GREAT, HOME RUN BAKER 00:38:01 - CU CHARLIE KELLER & LEFTY GOMEZ POSE 00:38:03 - MS JOE DUGAN, LEO DOROCHER & GEORGE STERNWEISS ALSO POSE 00:38:13 - LS MRS. LOU GEHRIG STANDS FOR OVATION FROM FANS 00:38:27 - LS COMIC UMPIRE EARL SHANK GESTURES TO A HITTER AT HOME PLATE 00:38:34 - CU EARL SHANK ARGUES WITH JOE DIMAGGIO WHO GOES ALONG WITH THE JOKE 00:38:41 - WATER SKI CHAMPIONSHIP IN INDIANA FOR 14TH ANNUAL AS AFLRED MENDOZA SHOWS HIS STUFF 00:39:10 - LS LAWRENCE WITHERAL DOES CONTINUOUS BODY TURN FOR AT LEAST 10 TIMES 00:39:35 - LS CROWD ON SHORE APPLAUD AS SKIER BECOMES AIRBORNE WITH KITE, THEN CRASHES INTO WATER 00:39:58 - 17TH ADDITION OF ICE CAPADES IN ATLANTIC CITY SEES THE ICE CAPETTES PUT ON THEIR DANCE SHOW & COMEDY TEAM ON ICE, ACROBATIC SLAPSTICK 00:41:05 - LS RONNIE ROBERTSON, FREESTYLE OLYMPIC CHAMP, PUTS ON SHOW OF STYLE & ENDS WITH GIANT SPIN 00:42:07 - SUEZ CRISIS EASED BY CONFERENCE 00:42:35 - BRITISH WEAPONS & TANKS LOADED ON SHIPS FOR SHIPMENT TO CRISIS ZONE IN SUEZ 00:42:57 - LS INDIA'S MINISTER KRISTNER MENON ARRIVES IN CAIRO AS DOES ROBERT MENZIES OF AUSTRALIA 00:43:39 - MS PRINCE RANIER & PRINCESS GRACE OF MONACO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE IN PARIS BEFORE SAILING FOR U.S. FOR VISIT 00:44:08 - LS MAJESTIC CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE IS SETTING FOR GERMANY'S 77TH CATHOLIC CONFERENCE 00:44:30 - PROCESSION WINDS INTO STADIUM HOLDING 100,000 FAITHFUL 00:44:59 - MS ELDERLY MAN & WOMAN KNEEL ON ONE KNEE & MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS 00:45:13 - PARADES END UP IN CALIF COLISEUM TO WIND UP AMERICAN LEGION'S 38TH ANNUAL CONVENTION 00:45:30 - MS OUTGOING NATIONAL COMMANDER J. ADDINGTON WAGNER HEADS THE PARADE 00:45:50 - MS ONE LEGGED VETERAN MOVES ALONG BRISKLY ON HIS WALKING CRUTCHES 00:45:56 - SAFETY SHOW - CONGRESSMEN VIEW ROAD SPEED TESTS AT PROVING GROUNDS IN CHELSEA MICHIGAN 00:46:19 - LS CAR SPEEDS UP & PASSES ANOTHER ON ROAD TO DEMONSTRATE HOW MORE HORSEPOWER MAKES SAFER PASSING 00:46:35 - CAR DOESN'T SPIN OUT OF CONTROL WHEN IT GETS A BLOWOUT 00:46:51 - VOLLEYBALL - U.S. LOSES TO REDS IN 5 GAME MATCH IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN PARIS (WOMEN) 00:48:56 - BRITONS EXHIBIT AIR MIGHT 00:49:05 - CROWD ATTEND AIR SHOW IN BRITAIN AS HIGH RANKING RUSSIAN OFFICERS WATCH TOO 00:50:15 - SUEZ DEADLOCK - NASSER REJECTS WEST'S PROPOSAL 00:50:26 - MS NASSER MEETS PM MENZES OF AUSTRALIA 00:51:06 - CU "LASSIE" ARRIVES IN CHICAGO TO RECEIVE MEDAL FOR SAVING HER MASTER WHO WAS BLEEDING TO DEATH FROM A TONSILECTOMY. THE PET DOG BARKED UNTIL HELP CAME 00:51:50 - MODELS SHOW ITALIAN FASHIONS ON RUNWAY IN SHERATON-PALACE HOTEL IN SAN FRANCISCO (HIGH FASHION GOWNS) 00:52:34 - BEAUTY PARADES - MISS AMERICA & MISS COLLEGE 00:53:14 - MS MARION ANNE MCKNIGHT CROWNED MISS AMERICA 00:53:30 - COLLEGE GIRLS IN SWIMSUITS & GRADUATION CAPS PARADE IN FRONT OF JUDGES FOR MISS COLLEGE CONTEST 00:53:41 - MS MARILYN MEYER SHOWS SURPRISE UPON WINNING 00:53:57 - UPSET VICTORY - ROSEWALL TAKES TENNIS TITLE 00:54:10 - MS LOU HOAG & KEN ROSEWALL PLAY FOR MEN'S SINGLES CHAMP AT U.S. OPEN IN FOREST HILLS NY 00:54:59 - LS ROSEWALL WINS STOPPING HOAG'S BID FOR GRAND SLAM
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1956
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-890