- Title: VM-931
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS: U.S. SOLDIERS OBSERVE ATOMIC MANEUVERS 3.5 MILES FROM GROUND ZERO. A VARIETY OF MUSHROOM CLOUDS.
- Description:00:00:38 - VOL 25/555 00:00:38 - ATOM BOMB - GIS AND PARATROOPS TEST BLAST EFFECT 00:01:00 - LS- NEWSMEN, SOLDIERS AND OTHER CIVILIANS WHICH INCLUDE HEAD OF THE ATOMIC COMMISSION,GORDON DEAN WAIT IN THE FIELD AT YUCCA FLATS TO SEE THE BLAST 00:01:23 - MONTAGE- 1400 U.S. TROOPS CLIMB INTO FOXHOLES 3 1/2 MILES FROM GROUND ZERO. 00:01:54 - ELS- A BRIGHT FLASH, WHICH LIGHTS UP THE AREA OF THOSE WATCHING, THEN A MUSHROOM CLOUD 00:02:30 - LS- A FIERCE WIND DEVELOPES CREATING A SAND STORM WHICH KNOCKED DOWN SOME VIEWERS. LS- FOLLOWING THE BLAST. A BATTALION OF PARATROOPERS ARE DROPPED DIRECTLY OVER GROUND ZERO, AFTER IT WAS DECLARED SAFE BY A RADIOLOGICAL UNIT. 00:03:25 - ELS- THE BOMB BLAST IS RECORDED IN SLOW MOTION. 00:04:10 - NEW ARMY VEHICLE RIDES INTO THE WATER UNTIL IT IS COMPLETELY SUBMERGED. THE DRIVER WEARS A SCUBA OUTFIT AND GOES UNDER WITH THE VEHICLE. 00:04:35 - MS THE VEHICLE RIDES ON THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE. AS SEEN FROM UNDER WATER. 00:04:56 - LS- PAN OF A LARGE DORM AREA IN RAHWAY,N.J. PRISON COMPLETELY DEVASTATED DURING THAT PRISON'S RIOT. 00:05:28 - MS- AMID THE DEBRIS ARE RADIATORS, TORN FROM THE WALLS TO FORM BARBECUE GRILLS. 00:05:40 - MS A LONG LINE OF BROKEN TOILET BOWLS IN THE MASS BATHROOM. MS- PRISON GUARD HOSTAGES FREED BY THE INMATES, POSE FOR A GROUP SHOT. 00:05:49 - AQUATIC ACROBATICS.- BEAUTIFUL FEMALE WATER SKIERS PUT ON A GRACEFUL WATER SHOW IN CYPRESS GARDENS, FLORIDA. 00:06:23 - MS SPEEDING MALE WATER SKIER DROPS HIS SKIIS AND PROCEEDS ON THE HEELS OF HIS FEET. 00:07:06 - LS- MEN SKIERS SPEED UP RAMP THEN LET GO IN MID AIR AND GO FLYING TO A GIANT SPLASH. 00:07:18 - VOL 25/556 00:07:40 - JAPAN FREE - PEACE TREATY GIVES BACK SOVEREIGNTY 00:07:53 - SECRETARY OF STATE,DEAN ACHESON AND JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER SIGN THE TREATY. CU- JOHN FOSTER DULLES IS THERE. 00:08:21 - MS- STATE DEPARTMENT CUSTODIANS FORMALY OPEN THE OUTSIDE GATES TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IS RETURNED AFTER 11 YEARS, CROWDS OF NEWSMEN ENTER THE GATES 00:08:50 - CEREBRAL PALSY FUND DRIVE OPENS. MS- MRS.TRUMAN STANDS WITH 3 YOUNG VICTIMS ON CRUTCHERS. 00:09:32 - MS- IDLE RAILROAD TRACKS, WITH WIRE BARRICADES ATTEST TO THE RAIL STRIKE IN JAPAN. MONTAGE- POLICE CLASK WITH THE STRIKERS LED BY COMMUNISTS. 00:10:28 - MS- 20,000 PARADERS MARCH DOWN 5TH AVENUE IN THE RAIN, ON THE 5TH ANNUAL LOYALTY DAY PARADE. 00:10:36 - MS SPECTATORS WEAR UMBRELLAS AND A LITTLE BOY KNEELS UNDER HIS LARGE DOG TO AVOID THE GETTING WET. MS- MANY FOREIGN BORN, INCLUDING RUSSIANS, BRAVE THE RAIN TO SHOW THEIR LOYALTY. 00:11:20 - MONTAGE- CITIZENS OF INDIA LINE THE STREETS AS A A MOTORCADE OF BEAUTIFUL INDIAN GIRLS ROLL DOWN THE AVENUE. THEY WILL COMPETE FOR TITLE OF 'MISS INDIA'. 00:11:49 - MS- THE GIRLS POSE INDIVUALLY IN THEIR NATIVE DRESS, AT AN ARENA. THE JUDGES PICK A WINNER. 00:12:19 - LS- STREAMS OF WATER FROM FIRE HOSES AND FIRE BOATS POUR ON WORSE FIRE IN VANCOUVER, CANADA'S HISTORY. 00:12:33 - LS- HUGE METAL BRIDGE OVER GRAIN ELEVATORS COLLAPSES.IN A HEAP. 00:12:53 - BEAR FACTS- 2 HUGE BEARS ON A LEASH, WALK UPRIGHT INTO A HOSPITAL IN AUSTRIA, HELD BY THEIR TRAINER 00:13:10 - MS- THE TWO BEARS, WEARING MUSSLES ARE BROUGHT TO THE BEDSIDE OF AN AILING GIRL.MS- SHE FEEDS THEM SWEETS AND THEY GIVE HER A KISS. 00:13:37 - MS- LITTLE BOY IN DENMARK, PLAYS ON HIS BED WITH HIS PET BEAR CUB. 00:14:18 - VOL 25/557 00:14:40 - STEEL CRISES - SUPREME COURT TO RULE AS STRIKE CONTINUES. 00:14:45 - CU- COMMERCE SECRETARY,CHARLES SAWYER,BECOMES TEMPORARY BOSS OF THE NATIONS STEEL INDUSTRY WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMAN ORDERED SEIZURE OF THE MILLS. 00:15:09 - CU- IN AN HISTORIC DECISION JUDGE DAVID PINE RULED AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER. 00:15:26 - MS- STEEL WORKERS FORM A PICKET LINE OUTSIDE A STEEL PLANT. 00:16:00 - LS- DAMAGED HOMES STAND BY A MOUNTAIN OF MUD THAT CASCADED DOWN A HILLSIDE IN A FRENCH TOWN AFTER TORENTIAL RAINS DEVASTATED 4 TOWNS. 00:16:15 - MS- RESCUE WORKERS ASSIST A WOMAN DOWN A LADDER FROM HER 2ND STORY WINDOW. 00:16:54 - LS- SMOKE AND FLAMES RISE FROM THE FLIMSY WOODEN BUILDINGS IN SAIGON, AS THE WIND FANS THE FLAMES , CAUSING THE FIRE TO SPREAD. 00:17:09 - LS- VIETNAMESE FIREFIGHTERS GO FROM HUT TO HUT WITH THEIR FIRE HOSE IN A FUTILE EFFORT TO STOP THE FLAMES. 00:17:28 - LS- BUSES AND OTHER VEHICLES RIDE DOWN A BUSY NEW JERSEY AVENUE WITH CROWDS OF SHOPPERS GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS. 00:17:41 - PEOPLE CALMLY LINE UP TO AN AIR RAID SHELTER AS THE ALARM SOUNDS, QUICKLY EMPTYING THE STREET OF TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIANS. 00:18:01 - LS- AN EERIE CALM COMES OVER THE CITY AS STREETS ARE EMPTY AND CARS ARE ABANDONED. LS- ALL GOES BACK TO NORMAL WHEN THE ALL-CLEAR SOUNDS. 00:18:20 - U.S.BONDS - SNYDER ANNOUNCES AN INCREASE IN INTEREST RATES ON BONDS. 00:19:23 - 'CASTLETON' WINS THE ENGLISH BLUE RIBBON TRIAL STAKES WITH 3 HORSES IN A PHOTO FINISH 00:20:21 - CU- A SPANISH PARTRIDGE HUNTER FILLS HIS BELT WITH SHOTGUN SHELLS, THEN LOADS HIS SHOTGUN. 00:20:33 - MONTAGE- MALE AND FEMALE HUNTERS TAKE AIM AND FIRE. ELS- A BIRD IS HIT AND DROPS TO THE GROUND. 00:21:05 - MS- A DOG RETRIEVES A BIRD AND DROPS IT BY HIS MASTERS FEET. MS- DOZENS OF DEAD BIRDS ARE PILED ON THE GROUND AFTER A SUCCESSFUL HUNT. 00:21:25 - VOL 25/558 00:21:45 - NAVAL DISASTER- IN WORSE PEACETIME DISASTER 175 DIE AS A CARRIER PLOWS INTO A DESTROYER. 00:21:51 - LS- CARRIER USS WASP LIMPS BACK TO AMERICAN SHORES WITH A GAPING HOLE IN IT'S BOW. 00:22:12 - LS- A HELICOPTER LANDS ON THE WASP'S DECK WITH SURVIVORS OF THE 'HOBSON' WHICH SANK IN 4 MINUTES AFTER BEING HIT. 00:22:43 - MAY DAY - REDS AROUND WORLD RIOT ON ANNIVERSARY. 00:22:52 - LS- HUGE CROWD OF WEST BERLINERS GATHER TO SHOW THEIR OPPOSITION TO COMMUNISM. MS- MAYOR ERNST REUTER WAVES HIS FINGER AS HE POINTS TO THE EAST. 00:23:17 - MS- NEWYORKERS HECKLE FROM BEHIND THE POLICE BARRICADES AS RED SYMPATHIZERS PARADE. 00:23:44 - MS- A POLICEMAN COLLECTS STICKS OR ANYTHING THAT CAN BE USED AS A WEAPON FROM THE MARCHERS. 00:23:50 - MONTAGE- PEACEFUL RALLY TURNS INTO A RIOT AS JAPANESE REDS GET VIOLENT. THEY FIGHT WITH POLICE AND BURN CARS IN THE STREETS. 00:24:15 - LS- THOUSANDS OF RIOTERS AND POLICE RUN THROUGH THE STREETS. POLICE USE BATONS FREELY. 00:25:32 - LS- SAILORS OF THE CARRIER ANETHAM LINE THE DECK AS THEY RETURN FROM KOREAN WATERS TO THEIR BASE IN ALEMADA, CALIF. 00:25:46 - POLIO VICTIM MARSHA OWENS GREETS THE SKIPPER WITH A HUG AFTER THE CREW RAISED $15,000 FOR POLIO FUND, IN HER NAME. 00:25:59 - MS- MARSHA PRESENTS THE CHECK TO SHRINER THOMAS LAW FOR THE CHILDREN'S FUND 00:26:06 - AS THE CREW STAND IN LINE, MARSHA WALKS IN HER CRUTCHERS AND THANKS ALL OF THEM. 00:26:19 - 'HILL GAIL' WINS KENTUCKY DERBY. LS- CROWD OF FANS ENTER THE STADIUM AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. 00:26:37 - CU- MAN WITH FUR TIE AND DIAMOND STUDDED TEETH. 00:26:40 - MS- GRANDMA SITS AND READS THE SCRATCH SHEET. 00:26:46 - CU- LADY DRINKS A MINT JULIP WITH A SMILE FOR THE CAMERA. MS-CROWDS PLUNK DOWN THEIR BETS AT THE BETTING WINDOWS. 00:28:12 - ELDER STATESMAN BERNARD BARUCH CROWNS TINA WARREN DAUGHTER OF GOVERNOR WARREN, QUEEN OF THE APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL IN WESMINSTER,VIRGINIA. 00:29:11 - LS- ACTOR HOWARD KEEL IS GRAND MASTER OF THE FESTIVAL AND WAVES FROM HIS CONVERTIBLE. 00:29:34 - VOL 25/559 00:29:55 - IN MEMORIAM - WAR DEAD OF ANZIO BEACHHEAD HONORED 00:30:02 - LS- PEACEFUL BEACH AT ANZIO SINCE WAR. 00:30:14 - NUNS LEAD A LONG COLUMN OF LITTLE ORPHAN GIRLS BEARING FLOWERS, TO A GI CEMETERY IN ANZIO. 00:30:35 - MS- THE LITTLE GIRLS PLACE A FLOWE ON EACH OF THE GRAVES, THEN SAYING A PRAYER. 00:30:51 - AERIAL LONG COLUMN OF SUBJECTS PASS BY AND GREET QUEEN JULIANA OUTSIDE HER CASTLE IN THE NETHERLANDS. 00:31:17 - LS- A HUGE FLORAL MAP OF HOLLAND IS UNCOVERED ON THE PALACE LAWN. 00:31:34 - LS- THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER 'WASP' LIMPS INTO GRAVESEND BAY,BROOKLYN FOR REPAIRS TO IT'S BOW. 00:31:45 - CU- A BANDAGE COVERS THE HEAD OF A SAILOR THAT SURVIVED THE ACCIDENT THAT SUNK HIS SHIP AND KILLED 175. 00:31:54 - MONTAGE- LOVED ONES GREET THE SURVIVING SAILORS WITH HUGS AND LONG KISSES. 00:32:16 - LS- YOUGOSLAVIA'S MARSHAL TITO REVIEWS HIS TROOPS AFTER DEFYING THE SOVIETS. 00:32:46 - MS- MARINES CROUCH IN THEIR FOXHOLES IN THE NEVADA DESERT AS AN ATOMIC BOMB IS DETONATED IN THE DISTANCE. 00:33:19 - LS- AS THE MUSHROOM CLOWD RISES HIGH ABOVE THEM THE MARINES RUSH TOWARDS THE BLAST AREA. 00:33:25 - HEAVENLY BODIES - MODELS SHOW SWIM WEAR AT A POSH SWIMMING POOL IN BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA. 00:33:56 - MODELS REMOVE SKIRTS AND REVEAL SWIM SUITS UNDERNEATH. 00:34:37 - SPORTS - FRENCH PRESIDENT ORIOL ATTENDS A SOCCER GAME IN PARIS AND SHOWS HIS EMOTIONS AS HIS TEAM SCORES A GOAL. 00:35:21 - CU- YOUNG FAN MAKES A FUNNY EXPRESSION WITH HIS FACE. 00:35:35 - AERIAL- HUNDREDS OF CYCLIST GATHER AT AN IDAHO HILLSIDE FOR MOTORCYCLE HILL CLIMBING CONTEST. 00:35:47 - MONTAGE- DAREDEVIL BIKERS SPEED UO THE STEEP HILL MOST OF THEM NOT MAKING IT AS THE BIKES ROLL OVER 00:36:39 - VOL 25/560 00:36:58 - NEW COMMANDER - GENERAL CLARK SUCCEEDS RIDGEWAY AS UN CHIEF. 00:37:05 - GENERALS RIDGEWAY, CLARK AND VANFLEET SPEAK TO THE TROOPS IN KOREA. RIDGEWAY GIVES HIS FAIRWELL AND REPLACES EISENHOWER IN EUROPE. 00:38:18 - LS- THE NEW AIR FORCE B-60 BOMBER TAKES OFF FOR A TEST RUN. 00:38:49 - MONTAGE- A SPECTACULAR TRAIN WRECK LITTERS THE MAIN TRACKS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. 00:39:13 - MS- 45 GROUPS OF YOUNG TRIPLETS MEET AND RIDE A MERRY-GO-ROUND IN PALISADES PARK, NEW JERSEY. 00:39:18 - MS- WATCHING THE KIDS ON THE RIDES ARE FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY, 84 YEAR OLD TRIPLETS AND THE OLDEST OF THE GROUP, 00:39:30 - MS- THE ENTIRE GROUP POSE WITH THE OLDEST HOLDING 11 MONTH OLD TRIPLETS IN THEIR ARMS. 00:39:47 - MONTAGE- CLOSE-UP PAN OF BLACK AND WHITE,BOY AND GIRL TRIPLETS 00:39:51 - PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS - LS- DR. LEOPOLD FIGEL, AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR, ARRIVES BY PLANE IN NEW YORK FOR A VISIT. 00:40:22 - MS- SENORA ROSA BEDEALA, CHILE'S FIRST LADY, IS HONORED IN NEW YORK BY AMERICAN MOTHER'S COMITTEE AS 'MOTHER OF THE WORLD'. 00:40:35 - MS- ALSO HONORED IS MRS. TOY LAN GOON,AS MOTHER OF THE YEAR. 00:40:48 - MS CAPTAIN KURT CARLSON, HERO OF THE FLYING ENTERPRISE,GETS A WARM WELCOME IN PARIS. HE FOUGHT THE RAGING ATLANTIC FOR TWO WEEKS BEFORE HE FINALLY ABANDONED SHIP. 00:41:08 - MS- CARLSON DEMONSTRATES SOME SEAMANSHIP ON A PARK LAKE WITH YOUNG BOYS AND THEIR MINIATURE SAILSHIPS. 00:41:25 - FRENCH FASHION FIGURES - MODELS SHOW THE LATEST IN SPRING FASHIONS AT A PARK IN PARIS. 00:42:33 - JEEPERS CREEPERS - MS- DOZENS OF MEN DRIVE THEIR JEEPS THROUGH BUMPY HILLS, STREAMS AND THROUGH THICK FOLIAGE. 00:43:15 - MS A RIDER SPEEDS INTO A MUDDY SREAM, SPLASHING THE CAMERMAN (AS SEEN FROM THE CAMERMAN'S VIEW) 00:43:27 - CU- AFTER GETTING SPLASHED WITH MUD BY A FELLOW JEEPSTER, HE CLEANS OUT HIS EARS WITH HIS FINGERS 00:43:37 - MS- A MUDDIED JEEP RIDER KISSES HIS GIRL FRIEND AND LEAVES HER FACE MUDDIED. 00:43:46 - VOL 25/565 00:44:07 - DEFENSE TREATY - RIDGEWAY HEADS NATO AS PACTS ARE SIGNED. FOREIGN MINISTERS FROM FRANCE, ENGLAND GERMANY AND THE U.S. SIGN TREATY THAT WILL BRING GERMANY INTO THE MILITARY ALLIANCE. 00:45:08 - LS- GENERAL RIDGEWAY ARRIVES AT PARIS AIRPORT WITH HIS WIFE AND SON.LS- CAMERMAN ATOP CARS ROLL THEIR FILM. 00:45:28 - MS BRITAIN'S GENERAL MONTGOMERY GREETS RIDGEWAY. 00:45:55 - KOREA TRUCE - GENERAL HARRISON TAKES OVER AS UN NEGOTIATOR. MS- ADMIRAL TURNER JOY POSES WITH HIS SUCCESSOR GENERAL HARRISON IN PANMONJON. 00:46:54 - FASHIONS - ITALY BIDS FOR A PLACE IN THE SUN. MS- ITALIAN MODELS SHOW FASHIONS BY ITALIAN DESIGNERS AT A 15TH CENTURY SETTING AT THE VILLA LANTI. 00:48:30 - A-BOMB TEST - ENIWETOK TEST SHOWS DEVASTATION OF AREA. AERIAL ISLAND AS SEEN BEFORE THE BLAST. 00:48:58 - MS- OBSOLETE ARMY TANKS ARE PLACED ON THE ISLAND. 00:49:10 - LS- SIMULATED INDUSTRIAL PLANTS ARE BUILT TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF THE BLAST ON THOSE BUILDINGS. 00:49:52 - LS- CAMERAS SHOW THE BUILDINGS DISINTEGRATE IN SLOW MOTION.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1952
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-931