- Title: VM-927
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS: MAKES PREDICTIONS ABOUT VIETNAM WAR. AUDIO FADES IN AND OUT DURING KING GEORGE FOOTAGE
- Description:00:00:33 - VOL 25/530 00:00:45 - EGYPT - PREMIER OUSTED AS RIOTS SWEEP COUNTRY. 00:00:55 - BURNING MILITARY VEHICLES LIE IN THE STREETS AS EGYPTIAN POLICE AND BRITISH SOLDIERS FIGHT TERRORISTS IN CAIRO STREETS. 00:01:21 - CU- BODY OF SISTER ANTHONY, AN AMERICAN NUN,LIES IN STATE AFTER BEING KILLED IN THE VIOLENCE. 00:01:36 - MS- PRISONERS ROUNDED UP, INCLUDING 150 POLICE, WALK WITH THEIR HANDS CLASPED ON THEIR HEADS ESCORTED BY SOLDIERS 00:02:13 - INDO-CHINA - FRENCH REPULSE RED ATTACK ON HANOI. 00:02:22 - LS- A UNIT OF FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION PARACHUTES OVER ALGIERS IN A TRAINING MISSION. AS THEY HIT THE GROUND SOME LAND IN TREES AND OTHERS STRUGGLE WITH THEIR PARACHUTES CAUGHT IN THE WIND. 00:03:03 - LS- FRENCH PLANES DROP NAPALM BOMBS ON THE REDS. MS- RED DEAD LIE ENTANGLED IN BARBED WIRE 00:03:29 - LS- DESTROYED CARS LIE IN STREET OF SAIGON AFTER CAR BOMBS WERE SET OFF DURING RUSH HOUR. CU PUDDLES OF BLOOD LIE IN THE STREET. 00:03:50 - POLITICS - MS- SENATOR TAFT ATTACKS U.S.POLICY AT A SPEECH AT WOMEN'S NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CLUB LUNCHEON IN NEW YORK. 00:05:57 - MILLROSE TRACK AND FIELD MEET AT MADISON SQUARE GARDENS. LS- BOB RICHARDS CLEARS 15 FEET ON POLE VAULT THEN FAILS TO CLEAR FIFTEEN FEET PLUS. 00:06:28 - LS- U.S. OLYMPIC HOPEFUL, CHUCK MOORE ATTEMPTS TO OVERTAKE GEORGE BRODEN IN THE 600 METER RUN AND BOTH MEN FALL AND CRASH INTO PHOTOGRAPHERS AT THE FINISH. BRODEN WINS THE RACE. 00:07:07 - LS- DON GERMAN OVERTAKES FRED WILKES TO WIN THE WANAMAKER MILE FOR THE FOURTH TIME. 00:07:27 - VOL 25/531 00:07:47 - EGYPT - HOPES PEACE RISE DESPITE BLOODY RIOTS. 00:08:08 - LS- BRITISH TOMMIES ADVANCE UNDER THE COVER OF A TANK. THEY STORM THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS 00:08:24 - MS- PRISONERS WALK WITH THEIR HANDS CLASPED OVER THEIR HEADS AND ARE THEN SEARCHED BY SOLDIERS. 00:08:31 - LS- LONG LINE OF BODIES LAY STRETCHED OUT IN THE STREET. MS- A HUGE CACHE OF CONTRABAND WEAPONS ARE ALSO LAYED OUT. 00:08:57 - MONTAGE- THE FLOOD SWOLLEN OHIO RIVER INUNDATES HOMES AND FARM LANDS OF WEST VIRGINIA, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA AND INDIANA. 00:09:06 - MS- PRESIDENT TRUMAN PEERS THROUGH HIS PLANE WINDOW TO SEE THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE FLOODS. 00:09:33 - LS- NEW YORK SOCIAL SET GATHER AT THE 8TH ANNUAL FASHION SHOW FOR THE MARCH OF DIMES. STAGE STAR HELEN HAYES AND BASIL O'CONNOR, HEAD OF THE FOUNDATION, ARE THERE. SO IS MRS. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR. 00:09:56 - MS- SARAH CHURCHILL, ACTRESS DAUGHTER OF WINSTON CHURCHILL, MODELS A DRESS. MS POSTER BOY USING CRUTCHERS IS ESCORTED ON STAGE BY JUDY GARLAND. 00:10:12 - PAPIER MACHE CRAFTSMEN OF THE ITALIAN TOWN OF DE ALLEGIO CONSTRUCT GROTESQUE FIGURES IN HEROIC PREPORTIONS IN PREPARATION OF THEIR ANNUAL MARDI GRAS PARADE. 00:10:38 - MONTAGE- THE ANIMATED CARNIVAL CHARACTERS ARE TESTED AND TOUCHED UP BY ARTISTS. 00:10:57 - MOVIE PREMIERE OF 'BEND OF THE RIVER', MIGHTY EPIC OF THE WEST IS SHOWN IN HOLLYWOOD. 00:11:10 - LS- OLD TIME STERN WHEELERS RACE ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER. THE RACE IS WATCHED BY MOVIE STARS ROCK HUDSON, LORI NELSON, JULIE ADAMS AND SUSAN CABOT FROM A NEARBY BOAT. 00:11:16 - LS- THE TWO BOATS ,HENDERSON AND PORTLAND STEAM DOWN THE RIVER AT FULL SPEED. THE HENDERSON WINS. 00:11:24 - MS- THE SKIPPER OF THE HENDERSON IS CONGRATULATED BY JIMMY STEWART AND STEVEN GETZ. 00:11:30 - MS- JIMMY STEWART IS SURROUNDED BY A GROUP OF HOWLING CAVEMEN AND THEY ADORN HIM WITH A WIG. MS- JIMMY TAKES A BITE OF A LARGE TURKEY LEG. 00:11:53 - LS- BRIGHT LIGHTS AND AERIAL FLOOD LIGHTS JAZZ UP THE THEATER SHOWING THE PREMIERE. ACTOR J.C. FLIPPEN SIGNS AUTOGRAPHS FOR ENTHUSIASTIC FANS. 00:12:22 - MS- ROCK HUDSON, JULIE ANDREWS, JIMMY STEWART AND OTHERS ARE MOBBED BY FANS. 00:12:42 - WATER WHIRLS - FEMALE WATER SKIER SHOW SHE CAN DO ANYTHING THE MALE SKIER CAN DO. AS SHE WATCHES FROM HER SURF BOARD HE DOES SPINS ON A ROUND DISK 00:13:44 - MS- MALE SURFER PLACES A CHAIR ON THE DISK AND SPINS AROUND WHILE STANDING ON THE CHAIR. HE THEN DOES THE SAME ON A LADDER BUT FALLS. 00:14:23 - VOL 25/532 00:14:41 - TUNISIA REVOLT - MARTIAL LAW FOLLOWS SABOTAGE AND RIOTS. AERIAL VIEW OF TRAIN DERAILED BY SABOTUERS 00:15:15 - AERIAL- VIEW OF TUNISIA. MONTAGE ARMY TANKS AND SOLDIERS PATROL THE CITY AND CHECK CREDENTIALS OF ARAB CITIZENS. CONTRABAND WEAPONS OF ALL TYPES LIE ON DISPLAY AFTER THEIR SEASURE. 00:15:59 - MS- NEWBOLD MORRIS IS SWORN IN AS SPECIAL SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT. 00:16:23 - MS- 3 MEN ARE BOOKED FOR $114,000 JEWEL ROBBERY IN NEW YORK. DA PRESENTS WOMAN WHO WAS ROBBED A DISPLAY BOARD CONTAINING HER JEWELRY. 00:17:08 - MS- GENERAL MATTHEW RIDGEWAY AND PREDIDENT OF KOREA, SIGMON RHEE INSPECTS CADETS AT KOREA'S 'WEST POINT'. KOREAN GIRL PRESENTS RHEE WITH A BOQUET OF FLOWERS. 00:17:40 - MS- GENERAL VAN FLEET AND GENERAL RIDGEWAY SALUTE THE KOREAN CADETS AS THEY MARCH BY. 00:17:43 - ROME BIDS FOR HONORS IN FASHION - SOCIALITES CROWD ROOM WHERE MODELS SHOW ITALIAN FASHIONS. 00:17:54 - MS- ITALIAN DESIGNER KISSES LADY'S HAND AND SHAKES HANDS WITH GENTLEMAN. 00:18:41 - SPORTS - MS MARIO MALI OF ROME BREAKS RECORD OF WALKING BACKWARDS.MS- WITH A GUIDE BY HIS SIDE WHO WALKS FORWARD AS HE GIVES INSTRUCTION, MALI IS FOLLOWED BY CURIOUS ON-LOOKERS. 00:19:07 - MS- AS MALI WALKS BACKWARD PEOPLE WATCHING APPLAUD HIM. AT FINISH HIS GUIDE KISSES MARIO ON THE CHEEK. 00:19:37 - U.S. ICE SKATING OLYMPIC TEAM POSES FOR A TEAM PHOTO AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER ICE SKATING RINK. 00:20:27 - LS- HUGE CROWD PACKS SANTA ANITA RACE TRACK FOR THE SANTA ANITA MATURITY THE WORLD'S RICHEST HORSE RACE.'INTENT' CATCHES 'GOLD CAPITAL' AT THE WIRE, TO WIN BY A NOSE. 00:21:25 - VOL 25/537 00:21:44 - THE KING IS DEAD - LONG LIVE THE QUEEN. MONTAGE- LAST PICTURES OF KING GEORGE OF ENGLAND BEFORE HIS DEATH. 00:22:13 - MS- WITH ONLY A FEW DAYS TO LIVE , KING GEORGE WAVES FARWELL TO DAUGHTER ELIZABETH AND PHILLIP AS THEY FLY OFF FOR A FIVE MONTH TOUR OF AFRICA. 00:22:17 - MONTAGE- EARLY FILM OF PRINCE GEORGE AS DUKE OF YORK, PERFORMING MANY OF HIS OFFICIAL DUTIES. 00:22:35 - MONTAGE- CROWDS CHEER PRINCE GEORGES'WEDDING TO LADY ELIZABETH IN 1923 WAS THE OCCASION OF ONE OF LONDON.S GREATEST SPECTACLES. 00:22:57 - GEORGE BECOMES KING FOLLOWING THE ABDICATION OF HIS BROTHER EDWARD IN 1937. HIS CORONATION CEREMONY ATTRACTED THOUSANDS. 00:22:58 - KING GEORGE XI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH POSE SIT ON THE THRONES FOR THEIR OFFICIAL PICTURES. 00:24:14 - KING GEORGE AND PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT RIDE IN MOTORCADE ON THE KING'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON,D.C 00:25:38 - MONTAGE HUGE ADORING CROWDS WAVE TOTHEIR KING AND QUEEN. 00:25:55 - MS- THOUSANDS WAIT OUTSIDE THE PALACE GATES AS HOURLY BULLETINS ARE POSTED CONCERNING THE KINGS PROGRESS WHEN HE BECAME GRAVELY ILL. 00:26:57 - CU- BLACK NATIVE OF KENYA IN HIS TRIBES HEAD GEAR WATCHES AS PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND PRINCE PHILLIP ARRIVE BY PLANE TO VISIT THAT COLONY. 00:27:38 - CU- NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: 'KING GEORGE IS DEAD' 00:28:19 - VOL 25/534 00:28:38 - BRITAIN'S QUEEN - ELIZABETH RETURNS TO ASSUME THE THRONE. MONTAGE CROWDS OF LONDONERS LOOKED STUNNED AT THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE AS THEY CROWD AROUND A NEWSBOY DISTRIBUTING THE PAPERS. 00:29:07 - MONTAGE- FLAGS OF SCORES OF NATIONS FLY AT HALF MAST. 00:29:47 - MS- PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL AN HE ENTIRE CABINET WAIT AT THE AIRPORT TO GREET THEIR NEW QUEEN. 00:30:18 - CU- TWO BRITISH COMONERS SIMULTANOUSLY REMOVE THEIR HATS IN RESPACT, OUTSIDE THE PALACE. 00:30:47 - LS- TWO TRUMPETERS BLOW THE TRADITIONAL SIGNAL OF THE KING'S DEATH, AFTER THE PROCLAMINATION IS READ. 00:31:30 - TUNISIA - FRENCH STEM MOSLEM NATIONALIST UPRISING MS- FUNERAL FOR THREE GENDARMES, KILLED IN RIOTS, SLOWLY PROCEEDS DOWN A TUNISIAN STREET. GRIEVING FAMILY MEMBERS FOLLOW THE FUNERAL CARRIAGE. 00:32:10 - MS- GENDARMES SEARCH CIVILIANS FOR ARMS. MS A POLICEMEN KICK IN A DOOR, PULL OUT AN OCCUPANT SEARCH HIM AND ROUGH HIM UP. 00:32:44 - SPORTS - BULL TOSSING, THE VENEZUELA WAY. LS COWBOYS CALLED JUANEROS, RIDE AFTER A RUNNING BULL, GRAB IT BY THE TAIL, RIDE PASSED HIM, CAUSING THE BULL TO SPIN AROUND AND FALL. 00:33:51 - LS- GERMAN SKIERS PLUNGE DOWN THE HILLS IN PREPARATION FOR THE OLYMPICS IN OSLO. 00:34:45 - LS- 37 SKI JUMPERS FLY DOWN THE RAMP VIEING FOR A SPOT ON THE OLYMPIC TEAM. 00:35:17 - VOL 25/535 00:35:35 - DEAD MONARCH - THOUSANDS MOURN AT THE BIER OF GEORGE VI OF ENGLAND. 00:35:47 - MS- SADDENED CROWD WATCH A TRAIN ARRIVE AT LONDON STATION WITH KING'S BODY. THE QUEEN MOTHER AND THEIR TWO DAUGHTERS WATCH AS CASKET IS CARRIED BY HONOR GUARD. 00:36:10 - AERIAL HUGE SILENT CROWD WATCH FUNERAL PROCESSION DOWN LONDON STREET. CU- WOMAN ON-LOOKER WIPES HER TEARS. 00:37:17 - THE GARON RIVER OVERFLOWS IT'S BANKS AND FLOODS THOUSANDS OF ACRES IN SOUTHWEST FRANCE. 00:37:30 - LS WATER, SEVERAL FEET HIGH IN THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF TOLUCE. MEN IN A ROWBOAT RIDE BY THE FLOODED BUILDINGS. 00:37:37 - MS- A CAMERMAN LOOSES HIS FOOTING AND STUMBLES INTO THE WATER. MS- BROOMS SWEEP WATER OUT OF A BUILDING AFTER THE FLOOD SUBSIDES. 00:37:51 - BOY SCOUTS CELEBRATE THEIR 42ND ANNIVERSARY ON THE USS CARRIER INTREPID AS IT IS RECOMMISSIONED. 00:38:13 - MS- A SQUAD OF ORIENTAL SCOUTS LOOK ON. 00:38:29 - SPORTS - MS- NOSAKO KOSURO, FEMALE BILLIARD WHIZ FROM JAPAN PUT ON A ONE GIRL SHOW FOR AIRMEN AT AIR FORCE BASE IN SACRAMENTO. MS- SHE PULLS SOME EXTRAORDINARY TRICK SHOTS FOR HER GI AUDIENCE. 00:39:21 - WESTMINSTER DOG SHOW AT MADISON SQUARE GARDENS WITH 224 DOGS ENTERED AND 107 BREEDS. 00:39:25 - CU- LITTLE GIRL PLACES HER CHEEK ON A GREAT DANES HEAD, WHICH IS TWICE AS LARGE AS THE GIRL'S. 00:39:31 - CU- A PANTING BULL DOG WITH TONGUE WAGGING. 00:39:52 - MS- A DOBERMAN PINCHER WINS 'BEST OF SHOW'. 00:39:59 - MS- ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWS, OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN SPEAKS ABOUT RACIAL PREJUDICE. 00:40:53 - AS HAMMERSTEIN FINISHES HIS TALK, RICHARD RODGERS PLAYS PIANO FOR A MALE SINGER WHO SINGSTHE SONG 'YOU'VE GOT TO BE TAUGHT' (TO HATE),FROM THE MUSICAL,'SOUTH PACIFIC'. 00:42:20 - VOL 25/536 00:42:43 - GEORGE VI BURIED - MONARCH INTERRED AT WINDSOR CASTLE. SOMBER PROCESSION AND GREAT POMP AS THE COFFIN IS CARRIED ON A CASSON DOWN LONDON STREET 00:43:46 - PALACE GUARD MARCH WITH THEIR RIFLES POINTED DOWNWARD. LS- AS MILLIONS WATCH, BRITISH MILITARY FROM ALL THE SERVICES AND OF DIFFERENT UNIFORM, MARCH. 00:44:24 - LS- MILITARY COMMANDERS OF 40 NATIONS STRIDE BEHIND THE COFFIN. THE COFFIN IS PLACED ON A TRAIN FOR THE TRIP TO WINDSOR CASTLE. 00:46:25 - WINTER OLYMPICS - U.S. IS THIRD AFTER 5 DAYS OF CLASSIC. LS- THE OLYMPIC FLAG FLYS OVER NORWAY. 00:46:50 - LS- WOMEN SKIERS SPEED DOWN THE STEEP DOWN HILL RUN. AMERICAN, ANDREA LEE LAWRENCE GETS THE U.S. TEAM OFF TO A GOOD START FOR AN EARLY LEAD. 00:47:50 - ITALY'S AGING SKIER, NINO POLO, GOES DOWN THE FASTEST AND IS HUGGED BY A TEAMMATE. 00:48:03 - LS- THE TWO-MAN BOBSLED TEAMS SPEED THROUGH THE COURSE. GERMAN TEAM WINS THE GOLD MEDAL. 00:48:36 - LS- TEAMS OF ALL NATIONS PARADE ON ICY GROUNDS OF THE OLYMPIC STADIUM CARRYING THEIR COUNTRY'S FLAG. MS- THE OLYMPIC TORCH IS LIT. 00:49:23 - VOL 25/537 00:49:43 - OLYMPICS - NORSE TAKE BIG LEAD IN WINTER SPORT EPIC. LS GALVAR ANDERSEN OF NORWAY SPEEDS AROUND ICE TRACK UNCHALLENGED AS HE WINS ONE OF THREE EVENTS FOR HIS COUNTRY. 00:50:44 - MS- ANDREA MEAD LAWRENCE STANDS ON PODIUM TO RECEIVE ONE OF TWO GOLD MEDALS FOR THE UNITED STATES FOR SKIING. 00:51:15 - LS- ALFAR SCHNEIDER OF AUSTRIA SHOWS HOW ITS DONE ON THE GIANT SLOLOM BY WINNING GOLD. 00:51:39 - CARNIVAL IN VIENNA USHERS IN A PRE-LENTEN SEASON. MONTAGE- WOMEN SEW COSTUMES FOR CARNIVAL. 00:52:04 - CU- ELDERLY FATWOMAN IN GAY 90s OUTFIT WALKS TOWARDS CAMERA WAVING A FEATHER. 00:52:06 - WITH STREAMERS AND CONFETTI FALLING ON THEM PEOPLE WEARING MASKS DANCE AND PARTY. 00:52:09 - CU- MAN POPS CORK ON CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE AND POURS IT INTO A LADY'S GLASS. MS- MEN AND WOMEN IN PARTY MASKS DRINK THE BUBBLY 00:52:23 - MONTAGE- GROTESQUE STORYBOOK ANIMATED FIGURES OF PAPIER MACHE PARADE IN DE ARREGIO, ITALY 00:53:01 - SPORTSWEAR - BRITISH DESIGNERS STRIKE OUTDOOR NOTE AS MODELS SHOW SWIM SUITS AND SUMMER SPORTS WEAR. 00:54:22 - SPORTS - LS- COWBOYS RIDE BUCKING BROCOS AND BRAHAMA BULLS AND GET THROWN OFF BOTH. 00:55:18 - MS- CLOWN TORMENTS A BULL THEN STANDS STILL IN FRONT OF HIM. THE BULL LOOKS AT THE CLOWN,THEN TURNS AWAY. 00:55:25 - LS- STOCK CARS RACE ON DAYTONA BEACH. MS- STOCK CAR HITS A POCKET IN THE SAND DUNE CAUSING HIS HOOD TO FLY OPEN. MS- CARS SKID ON TURNS AND ROLL OVER.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1952
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-927