- Title: VM-909
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS: OCCASIONAL NATURAL SOUND BITES, BUT NO MUSIC OR NARRATION
- Description:00:00:23 - CHURCHILL IN U.S. - TO CONFER WITH IKE AND AND PRESIDENT TRUMAN. 00:00:32 - IRISH PROTESTORS WAVE SIGNS AIMED AT CHURCHILL,AT PIER WHERE THE LINER QUEEN MARY IS DOCKED IN N.Y. 00:01:22 - MS- CHURCHIL GIVES HIS FAMED VICTORY SIGN AS WIFE SARAH LOOKS ON. CHURCHILL GIVES V FOR VICTORY. 00:01:30 - 83RD CONGRESS OPENS- 83RD SPEAKER FACES BALANCING THE BUDGET. 00:01:45 - CU- NEW SPEAKER OF HOUSE MARTIN AND WIFE POSE IN FRONT OF CAPITAL BUILDING. 00:02:07 - MS- EX-SPEAKER SAM RAYBURN HANDS GAVEL TO MARTIN TO THE APPLAUSE OF CONGRESS. 00:02:44 - MS- REPUBLICAN SENATOR HOWARD TAFT CHATS WITH COLLEAGUES AS HE BECOMES MAJORITY LEADER IN SENATE. 00:02:55 - DIZZY DIVERS - COMEDY TEAM OF DIVERS PERFORM AT POOL.LS- COMIC DIVERS FROLIC ON ROOF OF MOTEL THEN JUMP INTO POOL BELOW. 00:03:31 - LS- COMICS DO DAREDEVIL STUNTS OFF DIVING BOARD AND ROOF TOP. 00:04:06 - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - ORANGE AND ROSE BOWL GAMES 00:04:12 - MONTAGE- BEAUTIFUL FLORAL FLOATS ROLL DOWN AVENUE PRIOR TO THE ROSE BOWL GAME - VICE PRESIDENT NIXON IS IN THE MOTORCADE. 00:07:35 - INDO-CHINA FRENCH DRIVE REDS FROM 50 VILLAGES. 00:08:50 - UNITED EUROPE - MOVE GAINS IN 3 COUNTRIES (GERMAN LANGUAGE NARRATION). 00:09:17 - LS- QUEEN JULIANA OF NETHERLANDS CASTS BALLOT IN FAVOR OF UNITED EUROPE. LS- PROTESTORS IN ITALY AND FRANCE GO TO THE STREETS. 00:10:01 - MS- PRESIDENT TRUMAN LIFTS TWIN GIRLS ONTO HIS DESK FOR THE ANNUAL KICK-OFF DRIVE OF THE 'MARCH OF DIMES'. 00:10:30 - MONTAGE- JAPANESE TEACH FLYING TO THEIR MILITARY IN A SMALL PLANE.OTHER SOLDIERS MAN TANKS. 00:11:41 - FLOODS IN FRANCE ? - (NO SOUND) MS- TRUCK ROLLS THROUGH SEVERAL INCHES OF FLOODED ROAD. 00:11:50 - MS- MAN WALKS ON WOODEN ELEVATED SIDEWALK ALONGSIDE FLOODED AVENUE. MS- MAN SLUSHES THROUGH ANKLE DEEP WATER TO CROSS THE STREET. 00:12:32 - MONTAGE- CHILDREN HAVE SNOW BALL FIGHT ON A CITY STREET COVERED WITH SNOW. (NO SOUND). 00:12:39 - BOXING- GOLDEN GLOVE BOUTS. MS- ROUNDHOUSE RIGHT KO'S A FIGHTER WHO GETS COUNTED OUT BY REFEREE. 00:13:15 - MS- TWO GUTSY FIGHTERS TAKE TURNS KNOCKING EACH OTHER DOWN IN A WILD SWINGING MELEE. 00:14:02 - LS- TWO FANS STAND AND SHOW THEIR PLEASURE IN THE BOUT. 00:15:01 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN HAS LAST CABINET MEETING AS IKE TAKES OVER. MS- TRUMAN MEETS WITH DEAN ACHESON,ADLAI STEVENSON AND THE REST OF HIS OUT-GOING CABINET MEMBERS (PAN). 00:15:51 - LS- CROWD OF CAMERMEN TAKE SHOTS AS VICE PRESIDENT NIXON AND IKE ENTERS CABINET ROOM WITH MEMBERS OF IKE'S NEW CABINET. MS- THE CABINET MEMBERS POSE FOR A GROUP SHOT (PAN). 00:16:37 - SO.KOREAN TROOPS (ROK'S) AND ROCKETS BLAST REDS. MONTAGE- TANKS FIRE INTO THE HILLS AT RED POSITIONS LS- SMOKE RISES FROM EXPLOSIONS IN THE DISTANT HILLS. 00:17:12 - LS- ROK TROOPS ADVANCE ACROSS SNOW COVERED FIELD. LS- ROCKET LAUNCHES LIGHT UP THE NIGHT SKY AND THE FALLING SNOW FLAKES. 00:17:32 - GUIDED MISSILE - NEW ROCKETS TRAVEL TWICE THE SPEED OF SOUND. MS- TECHNICIANS ROLL MISSILE INTO PLACE,CONTROL ROOM PERSON PRESSES BUTTON AND SENDS MISSILE ALOFT.LS- A SECOND MISSILE EXPLODES ON TAKE-OFF. 00:18:34 - HEART DRIVE - IKE AND BROTHER ATTEND BANQUET TO LAUNCH HEART DRIVE. 00:19:44 - BARREL JUMPING CONTEST ON ICE RINK AT GROSSINGER'S RESORT IN NEW YORK'S CATSKILLS. 00:20:17 - MS- AT TENNIS MATCH PRIOR TO THE BARREL JUMPING HEADS OF SPECTATORS GO SIDE TO SIDE IN UNISON. 00:20:50 - MS- SINGER EDDIE FISHER WATCHES BARREL JUMPING CONTEST. MS- ROCKY MARCIANO PRESENTS AWARD TO THE WINNER. 00:22:28 - TRUMAN - TRUMAN SPEAKS TO PEOPLE FROM OVAL OFFICE AND CALLS FOR SUPPORT FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT (IKE) 00:24:54 - NEW CARDINAL - ARCH-BISHOP MCINTYRE IS ELEVATED TO CARDINAL BY POPE PIUS XII 00:26:15 - MS- MAMIE EISENHOWER MODELS HER INAUGURATION DRESS. 00:29:42 - IN MEMORIUM - FRANCE MOURNS 642 MASSACRED BY NAZIS. 00:32:19 - NEW YORK AUTO SHOW - PREVIEW OF TOMORROW'S AUTOS SNAZZY FUTURISTIC AUTOS ARE FEATURED. 00:33:35 - SKIING HOT AND COLD - SKI JUMPING IN SNOWY MOUNTAINS FOLLOWED BY SURF-BOARDING IN AUSTRALIA. 00:35:38 - EISENHOWER INAUGURATED - PEOPLE USE TRAINS AND PLANES TO ATTEND THE EVENT. LS- ROAD LEADING INTO WASHINGTON IS JAMMED WITH TRAFFIC. 00:36:00 - CU- 'I LIKE IKE' BUTTONS AND BALLOONS. 00:36:08 - LS- PAN OF WHITE HOUSE BUILDING. LS- CAMERAMEN TAKE PICTURES OF IKE JOINING TRUMAN IN LIMO FOR TRIP TO THE CEREMONY AS THEY MOTORCADE DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVE. LINED BY CROWDS. 00:37:24 - MS- VICE PRESIDENT NIXON IS FIRST TO BE SWORN IN. 00:37:41 - LS- SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE SWEARS IN IKE. 00:38:39 - LS- TRUMAN SHAKES HANDS WITH IKE AFTER SWEAR-IN. THEN IKE WALKS OVER TO MAMIE AND KISSES HER. 00:38:46 - IKE'S INAUGURAL SPEECH. LS- AFTER SPEECH IKE MOTORCADES DOWN AVENUE AND WAVES TO PEOPLE. 00:41:57 - LS- COWBOY ON HORSE LASSOS IKE AS HE WATCHES WESTERN GROUP ENTERTAIN HIM. MS- IKE POSES WITH NIXON. 00:42:53 - THE PRESIDENCY - EISENHOWER AND AIDES SPRING INTO ACTION. MS- HOUSE SPEAKER MARTIN AND SENATOR TAFT SPEAK TO NEWSMEN. 00:43:18 - MS- IKE LOOKS ON AS HENRY CABOT LODGE IS SWORN IN 00:43:56 - CU- SECRETARY OF STATE DULLES OUTLINES U.S.POLICY IN SPEECH TO NATION. UNABLE TO LOG 00 45 34 TO 00 47 34 - NO SOUND TRAIN CRASH IN WASHINGTON'S UNION STATION PREVIEW OF TOMORROW'S CARS. SURFING IKE'S INAUGURATION. EISENHOWER'S INAUGURATION
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1953
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-909