- Title: VM-936
- Summary: UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL:
- Description:00:00:41 - LEGION ON PARADE: 75,000 MARCH IN 34TH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 00:00:48 - AERIAL OFFICE MEMO PAPER FLOATS DOWN ON THE PARADE BELOW. 00:00:53 - NEW YORK'S FINEST LEADS THE PARADE WITH GOVERNOR DEWEY IN THE REVIEWING STAND. 00:01:05 - MONTAGE 3 MILLION WATCH THE HUGE PARADE WHICH INCLUDE LEGIONNAIRES FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND CANADIAN MOUNTIES. 00:01:44 - HEADING THE KANSAS GROUP IS DWIGHT EISENHOWER. 00:01:49 - IKE'S RUNNING MATE NIXON HEADS THE CALIFORNIA GROUP. 00:02:25 - STEVENSON TALKS, WARNS LEGIONNAIRES OF PERIL WITHIN. LONG SPEECH ABOUT COMMUNISM. 00:04:22 - USS "TRIGGER", THE NAVY'S MOST ADVANCED SUBMARINE LEAVES NEW LONDON ON HER FINAL SHAKEDOWN CRUISE. CAPTAIN LOOKS THROUGH THE PERISCOPE. 00:05:30 - KOREA WAR: ACTION AGAIN ERUPTS ON "THUNDER HILL" AS MORTAR CREWS ATTACK REDS FAR BELOW AS THEY STORM THE HILL. 00:05:35 - UN HOSPITAL SHIP OFF SHORE TAKES WOUNDED FROM THE BATTLE. 00:06:32 - MOVIE STAR AUDREY POTTER MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO WOUNDED ABOARD. 00:06:40 - SPORTS: NAVY FOOTBALL TEAM AT ANNAPOLIS RUNS AT CAMERA AS THEY RUN ONTO THE FIELD. 00:06:50 - PLAYER HOLDS HANGING DUMMY, THE TEAM TAKES TURNS TACKLING IT. 00:07:18 - VOL 25/592 00:07:43 - POLITICS: "BIG GUNS" BOOM TO OPEN THE 1952 CAMPAIGN. CROWD APPLAUDS AS TRUMAN ADDRESSES MILWAUKEE LABOR RALLY. 00:09:07 - CANDIDATE STEVENSON SPEAKS TO AN OUTDOOR CROWD IN DETROIT. KNOCKS THE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT. 00:10:07 - IKE SPEAKS TO THE LETTER CARRIERS ASSOCIATION IN NEW YORK. 00:11:15 - SCULPTOR IN CANADA MAKES A LIFE SIZE STATUE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH ON HORSE OUT OF BUTTER. 00:12:03 - THE 79TH PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES BEGINS IN FRANCE AS CRIPPLED FROM ALL OVER EUROPE ATTEND OUTDOOR SERVICE. 00:12:28 - CRIPPLED ON WHEELCHAIRS ARE WHEELED TO SITE. MANY LAY IN STRETCHERS ON THE SACRED GROUND. 00:13:17 - NEW LEGION HEAD: LEWIS GOUGH ELECTED COMMANDER FOR 1952. 00:13:31 - GOUGH MAKES AN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. 00:14:14 - VOL 25/593 00:14:33 - SPEED RECORD: BRITISH JET MAKES ATLANTIC ROUND TRIP IN 8 HOURS. 00:15:39 - 84 YEAR OLD BERNARD MCFADDEN WAVES FROM HIS SEAT IN PLANE BEFORE MAKING A PARACHUTE JUMP INTO SEINE RIVER OF PARIS FOR HIS BIRTHDAY. 00:16:13 - INCREDULOUS PHOTOGRAPHER TAKE PICTURES AS 84 YEAR OLD PUBLISHER & PHYSICAL CULTURIST TAKES OFF HIS GEAR AFTER LANDING 50 FEET OFF TARGET. 00:16:26 - LATEST FALL FASHIONS IN PARIS MODELS SHOW HIGH FASHIONS IN AN OUTDOOR PARK SETTING. BLACK IS THE COLOR, THE DRESSES ARE LONGER AND TWEED IS IN. 00:17:31 - SPORTS: JERSEY "JOE" WALCOTT GETS INTO FIGHTING TRIM BY CHOPPING TIMBER WITH AN AXE. 00:18:00 - JOE SITS ON HIS STOOP WITH A WHITE CHILD IN HIS LAP ON WHICH HE TIES ON BOXING GLOVES. 00:18:20 - CONTENDER FOR WALCOTT'S CROWN, ROCKY MARCIANO DOES SOME JOGGING AT HIS TRAINING CAMP IN GROSSINGERS 00:18:25 - ROCKY SHADOW BOXES FOR A PHOTOGRAPHER. 00:18:45 - CU MARCIANO THROWS PUNCHES AT THE CAMERA. 00:18:52 - JACQUELIN PONG OF HONOLULU AND SHIRLEY MCBETTORS OF LONG BEACH TEE OFF FOR WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS AT OREGON. 00:19:05 - MCBETTORS SINKS A LONG PUTT, FOLLOWED B LONG WINDING PUTT BY PONG TO WIN THE MATCH. 00:19:26 - PONG CRIES IN MCBETTOR'S ARMS. 00:19:31 - ICE CAPADES OF 1953: CHORUS LINE OF FEMALE SKATERS DAZZLE THE CROWD AT CONVENTION HALL IN ATLANTIC CITY. 00:20:00 - BOY AND GIRL IN FRENCH "APACHE" DANCE DO ACROBATIC SPEED SPIN. 00:20:41 - MIDGET SKATER JUMPS HURDLES, THEN ENDS ROUTINE BY JUMPING INTO THE ARMS OF A GIRL SKATER 00:20:53 - OLYMPIC STAR DICK BUTTON, PUTS ON A CLASSY FIGURE SKATING ROUTINE. 00:21:32 - VOL 25/594 00:21:47 - ADLAI AND IKE: CANDIDATES MAKE BID FOR THE FARM VOTE. IKE ARRIVES AT KASSIM, MINNESOTA FOR NATIONAL PLOWING CONTEST. IKE SITS AT A DINNER TABLE, AS GUEST OF FARM OWNERS. 00:22:20 - HUGE CROWDS ATTEND THE PLOWING CONTEST AS MANY HITCH RIDES ON THE PLOWS. 00:22:41 - ADLAI STEVENSON MIXES AMID A CROWD OF FARMERS AND SHAKES MANY HANDS. 00:23:02 - STEVENSON HAS DINNER WITH THE SAME FARM OWNERS THAT DINED IKE. 00:23:37 - FLAMES RISE FROM AN OIL REFINERY THAT EXPLODED IN FRANCE. 00:23:42 - SKELETAL REMAINS OF THE REFINERY BUILDINGS ATTEST TO THE SEVERITY OF THE BLAST. 00:24:13 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN ADDRESSES THE COMMITTEE FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE HANDICAPPED. 00:24:32 - PRESIDENT OF THE PARAPLAEGIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY WHOSE EMPLOYEES ARE ALL HANDICAPPED, IS GIVEN AN AWARD BY TRUMAN. 00:24:50 - OVER A THOUSAND MOTHERS CARRY THEIR BABIES ON STAGE IN AT CANADIAN EXPOSITION IN TORONTO FOR THE "MOST CUDDILY BABY" CONTEST. 00:24:58 - CU JAPANESE BABY AND A BLACK BABY LOOK INTO THE CAMERA. 00:25:03 - NURSES WEIGH AND EXAMINE THE TOTS. 00:25:22 - MONTAGE ALL SORTS OF BABIES, INCLUDING TWINS ARE SHOWN. 00:25:48 - AIR SHOW, PRELUDE TO DISASTER. ENGLISH SPECTATORS SIT ON THE GROUND AND LOOK TO THE SKY. 00:26:01 - LONG HELICOPTER WITH 2 ROTORS HOVERS ABOVE 00:26:18 - BRITAIN'S DELTA WING BOMBER SPEEDS BY. 00:26:23 - DEHAVILAND JET EXCEEDS THE SPEED OF SOUND. ON THE NEXT DAY THE FIGHTER BLEW UP IN FLIGHT. 00:26:27 - STANDING SPECTATORS ALL TURN THEIR HEADS AT THE SAME TIME AS JET SPEEDS BY. 00:26:47 - SPORTS: WRESTLING'S MASKED MARVEL STEPS INTO THE RING IN SEATTLE FOR A BIT OF MAYHEM AS HE FACES "GORGEOUS GEORGE" FROM HOLLYWOOD. 00:27:23 - RING LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF AQUA THEATRE AS THE TWO WRESTLERS LAND IN THE WATER. 00:28:18 - VOL 25/595 00:28:35 - BUNKER HILL, MARINES STAGE SAVAGE DRIVE ON KOREA HEIGHTS. MARINE GRENADES EXPLODE IN ENEMY BUNKERS. MARINE SPRAYS A BUNKER WITH HIS FLAME THROWER. 00:29:51 - POLITICS,IKE AND ADLAI STUMP FROM COAST TO COAST. STEVENSON ADDRESSES A CROWD OF 7000 AT CIVIC ICE ARENA IN SEATTLE. 00:30:17 - ADALI STEVENSON VISITS KOREAN EXHIBIT AT THE FAR EAST TRADE FAIR. 00:30:44 - LARGE CROWD FOLLOWERS GENERAL EISENHOWER AS WALKS DOWN THE STREETS OF INDIANAPOLIS. 00:31:09 - IKE IS MET AT THE WASHINGTON, D.C. AIRPORT BY HIS RUNNING MATE RICHARD NIXON. 00:31:30 - MONTAGE ARRIVAL OF THE REGAL CARNIVAL COUPLE IS THE SIGNAL FOR THE START OF THE GAYEST FESTIVAL THE VIRGIN ISLANDS HAS SEEN IN YEARS. 00:31:43 - PEOPLE DANCE IN THE STREET WEARING NATIVE COSTUMES AND LARGE FISH HEAD GEAR. 00:32:30 - NEW YORK'S AMATEUR DANCERS TAKE THE SPOTLIGHT AT THE ANNUAL FOREST MOON BALL. 00:32:45 - TOM AND GLORIA MUSCARELLA WIN THE ALL-AROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS. 00:32:57 - JITTERBUG CONTEST HAS DANCERS FLIPPING THEIR PARTNERS TO THE BEAT OF THE MUSIC AND PERFORMING ALL KINDS OF ACROBATICS. 00:33:41 - SEA LIONS IN COPENHAGEN ZOO FROLIC IN THE POOL SLIDING ACROSS THE SHALLOW WATER WHILE THE POOL IS BEING FILLED. 00:33:50 - OLD SEAL WATCHES THE YOUNGSTERS THROUGH BARS OF AN ADJACENT CAGE. 00:33:55 - SPECTATORS WATCH FROM ABOVE. 00:34:00 - CU OLD MAN SEAL YAWNS. 00:34:09 - AIR TRAGEDY, BRITISH JET KILLS 28 SPECTATORS AT SHOW. AS 130,000 SPECTATORS WATCH A BRITISH JET DISINTEGRATES AS IT BREAKS THE SOUND BARRIER 00:34:26 - ELS JET MOTOR BECOMES PROJECTILES AND HEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CROWD. THE FUSELAGE FOLLOWS HITTING THE GROUND AND EXPLODING. 00:34:59 - PEOPLE TRY TO ASSIST THE INJURED WHO LAY ON GROUND IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS. 00:35:19 - VOL 25/596 00:35:39 - KOREAN WAR: FIGHTER BOMBERS BLAST RED TARGETS IN NORTH 00:36:22 - AERIAL GUN CAMERA FILMS SHOW TARGETS BEING BLASTED BY ROCKETS, BOMBS AND MACHINE-GUN FIRE 00:37:06 - POLITICS: GOP CLOSE RANKS AS ADLAI CAMPAIGNS. 00:37:18 - ADALI STEVENSON WAVES TO CAMERA AS HE VISITS HIS PLACE OF BIRTH IN LOS ANGELES. NEIGHBORS GATHER TO GREET HIM. 00:38:07 - SENATOR TAFT ARRIVES AT GENERAL IKE'S HOME IN NEW YORK AND CHATS WITH HIM IN HIS STUDY. BOTH EMERGE & WAVE TO PHOTOGRAPHERS OUTSIDE. 00:38:53 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN HONORS MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S BRANCHES OF THE ARMED SERVICES. 00:39:04 - TRUMAN PRESENTS EACH SERVICE WITH A NEW STAMP HONORING THE WAVES, WACS AND MARINES. 00:39:26 - CU VIEW OF THE COMMORATIVE STAMP. 00:39:37 - GENERAL MATTHEW RIDGEWAY AND HIS WIFE ARRIVE AT AIRPORT IN TURKEY AND RECEIVE FULL MILITARY HONORS. 00:39:46 - HIGH TURKISH MILITARY MEN LINE UP TO MEET NEW HEAD OF NATO. 00:40:16 - FIRST MEETING OF EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL UNION IN STRASBOURG, FRANCE. DELEGATES OF FRANCE, ITALY AND WEST GERMANY MEET. 00:40:51 - FOOTBALL: AIR FORCE BEATS MARINES 14-6 00:41:30 - AIR FORCE AL DORO RUNS THROUGH THE DEFENSE FOR A LONG GAIN, FOLLOWED BY A TOUCHDOWN RUN. 00:42:09 - VOL 25/597 00:42:24 - ALLIED FLEET MANEUVER IN BALTIC MONTAGE BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN IS ONE OF MANY WARSHIPS IN WATERS OFF SCOTLAND. 00:43:16 - BRITISH BIGGEST BATTLESHIP "VANGUARD" LIES IN ANCHOR. AT A SIGNAL, THE SHIPS ARE OFF TO THE BALTIC SEA. 00:43:50 - SOLDIERS WEAR EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT IN ARIZONA DESERT TO TEST THE EFFECT OF INTENSE HEAT IN COMBAT. 00:44:43 - TRUMAN PLAYS HOST AT THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE WIVES OF THEATER OWNERS OF AMERICA. SPEAKS TO THEM IN THE ROSE GARDEN. 00:45:12 - PLASTERVILLE, CALIFORNIA TURNS BACK THE CLOCK TO THE GOLD RUSH DAYS. TOWN HAS A WHEELBARROW RACE WITH DOZENS PARTICIPATING. 00:46:12 - AVIATION IN THE NEWS: FIRST LOOK AT BOEING'S B-52 STRATO-FORTRESS. 00:46:17 - AERIAL THE B-52 DWARFS THE OLD B-29 AS THEY LIE SIDE BY SIDE. 00:46:58 - HUGE BOMBER TAKES OFF AND LANDS USING PARACHUTE TO BRAKE IT. 00:47:44 - ARMY SECRETARY PACE LOOKS OVER A ONE MAN HELICOPTER NICKNAMED "JET JEEP". THE TINY CRAFT GIVES AN IMPRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION OF ITS AGILITY. 00:49:00 - VOL 25/598 00:49:16 - POLITICS IKE STUMPS MIDWEST; ADLAI'S SON A MARINE. ADLAI STEVENSON ATTENDS AND SPEAKS AT HIS SON'S GRADUATION OF MARINE OFFICER'S SCHOOL. 00:49:47 - STEVENSON RECEIVES ENTHUSED WELCOME AT THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION. 00:49:55 - STEVENSON RECEIVES AN OVATION WHEN HE ASKS FOR THE REPEAL OF THE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT. 00:50:05 - HUGE CROWDS GREET IKE AS HE MAKES WHIRLWIND TOUR THROUGH MID-WEST. 00:50:34 - IKE SPEAKS AND TELLS THAT HE HAS CONFIDENCE IN HIS RUNNING MATE RICHARD NIXON. 00:50:42 - GUIDED MISSILE, NAVY LAUNCHES ROBOT WARFARE IN KOREA. BOMBER PLANES WITH NO PILOTS ARE LAUNCHED OFF AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS BOXER OFF KOREA. 00:51:28 - MISSILE PLANE IS FOLLOWED BY A PILOTED MOTHER PLANE WHICH GUIDES ROBOT PLANE. 00:51:38 - ELS MISSLE PLANE IS SENT CRASHING INTO ITS TARGET BY MOTHER PLANE. 00:52:07 - AERIAL STRATEGIC AIR BASE ONLY 900 MILES FROM NORTH POLE IS UNVEILED. 00:52:51 - AERIAL VIEW OF WAKE ISLAND AFTER IT WAS HIT BY TYPHOON. 00:52:56 - WORKERS SIFT THROUGH THE TWISTED STEEL OF BUILDINGS ON AIRSTRIP 00:53:31 - SPORTS: FLORENCE CHADWICK ATTEMPTS TO SWIM SANTA CATALINA CHANNEL AGAIN AFTER FAILING BEFORE. ENCOURAGED BY HER MOTHER WHO WAVES HER ON FROM AN ACCOMPANYING ROW BOAT 00:54:00 - CHADWICH COMPLETES THE MISSION AND STRUGGLES OUT OF THE WATER. 00:54:20 - COLLEGE FOOTBALL: UCLA BEATS OREGON 13-6 00:54:34 - VOL 25/599 00:54:56 - POLITICS: IKE OKAYS NIXON; ADLAI IN BALTIMORE. 00:56:10 - IKE WAITS IN HIS LIMO FOR THE ARRIVAL OF NIXON AT THE AIRPORT AFTER NIXON'S FINANCES WER UNDER ATTACK. 00:56:15 - IKE AND NIXON WAVE FROM PLANE 00:56:52 - ADLAISTEVENSON EXPRESSES HIMSELF FORCEFULLY ABOUT TAXES AT SPEECH IN BALTIMORE. 00:57:08 - SPACE PIONEERS: MICE AND MONKEYS SOAR 38 MILES IN ROCKET. 00:57:41 - TWO WHITE MICE AND A MONKEY ARE MOUNTED INTO NOSE CONE OF A ROCKEY 00:57:46 - ROCKET IS LAUNCHED. 00:58:19 - CU CAMERAS INSIDE THE MISSILE RECORD THE MOVEMENT OF THE MICE IN ZERO GRAVITY. 00:58:40 - CU AFTER THE ROCKET PARACHUTES TO THE GROUND, THE MONKEY IS SAFELY REMOVED. 00:58:45 - FAROUK'S PALACE: EXILED KING'S PALACE IS OPENED TO CAMERA IN EGYPT. CU ANIMATED ANTIQUE TOYS & GOLD INGOTS ARE FOUND ALONG WITH PRICELESS COLLECTION OF GEMS 00:59:33 - GAMBLING ROOM COMPLETE WITH ROULETTE WHEELS & DICE TABLES. COMIC BOOKS WERE FOUND AND OVER 1000 NECKTIES. 00:59:52 - SPORTS: CU THE NEW CHAMP, ROCKY MARCIANO COMPLETE WITH BANDAGED FOREHEAD AND BLACKENED EYES, POSES FOR THE CAMERA AFTER HIS KO OF WALCOTT. 01:00:12 - MARCIANO PRAISES JERSEY "JOE" WALCOTT AS TRUE CHAMPION. 01:00:33 - 27TH ADDITION OF THE RODEO COMES TO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IN NEW YORK. 01:01:19 - BRAHMA BULL HAS COWBOY SCURYING UP THE FENCES AS IT CHARGES THOSE ON THE GROUND. 01:01:25 - PACIFIC NORTHWEST HILL CLIMBING MOTORCYCLE CONTEST IN SEATTLE. BIKES TOPPLE OVER HALF WAY UP THE HILL IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE IT TO THE TOP.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1952
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-936