- Title: P-218-26
- Summary: DECADES:
- Description:01:00:47 - "BOOM IN WINTER SPORTS - PAN SNOW-COVERED BUILDINGS AT TIMBERLINE LODGE IN MOUNT HOOD, WHICH OPENS SKI SCHOOL FOR 1ST TIME SINCE PEARL HARBOR. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN AND WOMEN STUDENTS ON SKIS BEING INSTRUCTED RUDIMENTARY MOVES OF SKIING. STUDENTS, INSTRUCTORS, SKIING DOWN HILLS. 01:02:37 - "NEW MEXICO - ATOMIC BOMB AFTERMATH?" - CU NEWSPAPER STORIES - "USA, BRITAIN, WANT NO ATOM CONTROL". "MOLOTOV SAYS USSR WILL GET ATOMIC ENERGY", 'TRUMAN DEBATES ATOMIC FUTURE". 01:02:53 - ANIMALS IN ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO CHANGE IN COLOR. MANY OF THEM BLISTERED. CU SHOTS HORSES BEING GROOMED, SHOW SPOTS AND BLISTERS. CU MAN HOLDS UP CAT, ONCE PURE BLACK, NOW WITH WHITE SPOTS. CATTLE IN CORAL SHOW SAME. SCIENTIST BEGIN INVESTIGATION. VOICE OVER, "AMERICA AWAITS THEIR ANSWERS". 01:03:34 - "JAPS LEAVE KOREA" - HUNDREDS JAPANESE FAMILIES WITH THEIR BELONGINGS GATHER AT DOCK IN PUSAN FOR SHIPMENT BACK TO JAPAN. AMERICAN SOLDIERS SEARCH THEM. SHOTS OF EVERYONE OF THEM BEING INOCULATED AGAINST TYPHOID, AND DELOUSED WITH DDT. OVER A 21/4 MILLION JAPANESE HAVE LEFT KOREA IN THIS PORT ALONE. SOME OF THEM WILL BE SEEING JAPAN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR LIVES. 01:04:39 - "INDO-CHINA FESTIVAL" - CAMBODIA, FRENCH INDO-CHINA - HUGE CROWD OF CAMBODIANS GATHER AT WATERFRONT TO CELEBRATE END OF THE FLOODS (MONSOONS). KING OF CAMBODIA IS THERE TO WATCH CANOE RACE AND OTHER FESTIVITIES. 01:05:09 - 01 05 09 GREAT SHOTS CANOE RACRE WITH LONG CANOES BEING ROWED BY DOZENS OF PADDLERS, IN PERFECT SINCT..oddity, sports. 01:05:29 - "HOME FROM THE WARS" - INVASION VETERANS - AERIAL PAN 5000 LANDING CRAFTS USED TO INVADE THE BEACHES OF PACIFIC, LIE IDLE IN HUGE STORAGE YARD AT GOLDEN GATE CLUB NEAR SAN FRANSISCO. MS INCLUDED ARE INVASION BARGES AND AMPHIBIANS. 01:06:15 - "SHIPS THAT DID THE JOB" - AERIAL PAN SUBMARINES, LIBERTY SHIPS LIE IDLE IN SHIP YARDS READY TO BE DISMANTLED AND SCRAPPED. 01:06:53 - "RECORD BLIZZARD" - BUFFALO, N. Y. - VARIOUS SHOTS TRUCKS, RAILROADS PARALYZED BY 68 INCHES OF BLINDING SNOW. ALL TRANSPORTATION SHUT DOWN, EVEN RAILROADS. SHOTS CARS PARKED OUTSIDE HOMES, AS WELL AS HOMES ARE COMPLETELY INUNDATED WITH SNOW 01:07:21 - MCU TRACTOR BULLDOZES PILES OF SNOW TOWARDS CAMERA. MAN WIPES WINDOW TO LOOK INTO CAR COMPLETELY INUNDATED. 01:07:35 - "NEW YORK CITY" - SHOPPING CROWDS STRUGGLE UNDER 12" OF SNOW IN DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN. PEOPLE PUSHING CARS TO GET THEM STARTED. CU TIRE SPINNING IN ONE PLACE. SANITATION TRUCKS BULLDOZING SNOW. WOMAN BRUSHES OFF HER FROZEN BOTTLE OF MILK LEFT BY MILKMAN. HUGE SNOW PILES AT AIRPORT. 01:08:23 - TITLE: "HOUSING CRISIS" - SIGN : "FULLY RENTED" SIGN IS PASTED OVER VARIOUS ADS LOOKING FOR RENTERS. AS A MILLION FAMILIES LIVE DOUBLED UP WITH OTHERS.VARIOUS SHOTS SERVICE MEN, OTHERS FILING APPLICATIONS FOR RENT ABLE ROOMS. 01:08:52 - GOVERNOR DEWEY AND ARMY OFFICER EXAMINE UNITS BEING TURNED OVER BY ARMY AND NAVY, FOR CIVILIAN USE DURING CRISIS. VARIOUS SHOTS VARIETY HOUSING UNITS INCLUDING QUONSET HUTS. 01:09:26 - "CANADA" - VARIOUS SHOTS CANADIAN FACTORY WorKERS MANUFACTURING PREFABRICATED HOUSES. MS TINY MODEL OF HOUSE, MADE OUT OF ALUMINUM. THE WALLS ARE FOLDED IN FOR SHIPMENT. GOOD SHOTS OF WORKERS ON ASSEMBLY LINE, ASSEMBLING THE HOMES 01:10:17 - "WITH THE NATION AGAIN AT PEACE, SPORTS SURGE INTO THE LIMELIGHT". "EXPERTS PREDICT A THRILL-PACKED, STAR-STUDDED GOLDEN ERAS TO SURPASS THE ONE THAT FOLLOWED QORLD WAR 1". NARRATED BY TED HUSING, BABE RUTH, BOBBY JONES, EARL BLACK, AVERY BRUNDAGE. 01:10:39 - "1945 IN SPORTS BEGAN WITH THE BOWL GAME - SHOT OF ORANGE BOWL QUEEN BEING ROLLED OUT ON THRONE ON FLOAT. VARIOUS SHOTS BOWL GAME IN PROGRESS - TULSA DEFEATED GEORGIA TECH. IN ORANGE BOWL, SO. CALIFORNIA BEAT TENNESSEE IN ROSE BOWL. college football 01:10:56 - ABOVE VIEW KENTUCKY DERBY IN PROGRESS - WINNER: "HOOP JR.". 01:11:09 - GOLF - BYRON NELSON MAKES HIS PUT ASD HE SETS ALL-TIME HIGH FOR CASH WINNINGS.. MS BYRON NELSON POSES. 01:11:23 - DIVING - GOOD SHOT ELLEN SELAKOVICH MORGAN MAKES BEAUTIFUL DIVE AFTER COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT TO WIN CHAMPIONSHIP. MS MORGAN POSING. 01:11:32 - BASKETBALL - VARIOUS SHOTS OKLAHOMA AGGIES 7 FOOT TALL BOB STERLING (?) IN ACTION DURING GAME. 01:11:39 - BASEBALL - MLS CROWD ON LINE OUTSIDE WRIGLEY FIELD FOR WORLD SERIES WON BY DETROIT TIGERS. SHOTS OF GAME IN PROGRESS. 01:12:00 - VARIOUS SHOTS INSIDE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME IN COOPERSTOWN. VARIOUS SHOTS PLAQUES WITH IMAGES OF FAMED HALL OF FAMERS ON WALL, INCLUDING TY COBB, WALTER JOHNSON, GROVER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER AND BABE RUTH (SULTAN OF SWAT). MS BABE RUTH AT BAT, HITS HOMER. BABE RUTH AND LOU GEHRIG POSING TOGETHER. MS FIERY JUDGE LANDIS, COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL, POSES. BASEBALL, PERSONALITIES 01:12:28 - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - MLS KNUTE ROCKNEY OF NOTRE DAME ON FIELD BEING RUSHED BY ENTIRE TEAM. CU SHOT RED GRANGE "THE GALLOPING GHOST" OF ILLINOIS, POSES. SPORTS, PERSONALITIES. 01:12:42 - TENNIS - ABOVE VIEW BILL TILDEN, 7 TIMES WINNER OF SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIPS, IN ACTION ON COURT. MCU BILL TILDEN POSES. 01:12:49 - GOLF - ABOVE SHOT IMMORTAL BOBBY JONES MAKING HIS PUT. 01:12:56 - TRACK AND FIELD - VARIOUS SHOTS LATE CHARLEY HADDOCK POSES AFTER HIS RUN. 01:13:06 - "BOXING" VARIOUS FILM AND STILL SHOTS OF 2ND DEMPSEY - TUNNEY FIGHT.WHICH INCLUDES THE FAMOUS "LONG COUNT". TUNNEY RECOVERS THANKS TO LONG COUNT, COMES ON TO WIN. 01:13:24 - VARIOUS SHOTS DEMPSEY IN COAST GUARD UNIFORM AND TUNNEY IN NAVY UNIFORM HELP TRAINING U. S. FORCES. SHOTS OF U.S. TROOPS IN TRAINING, DOING CALISTHENICS, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, PARACHUTING OUT OF PLANES. 01:13:48 - GREAT AERIAL SHOT HUNDREDS U. S. TROOPS IN BATHING TRUNKS, SIMULTANEOUSLY RUNNING ON BEACH INTO SURF. 01:13:56 - LS GOOD SHOT TROOPSHIP IN NEW YORK HARBOR WITH FAMED SKYLINE IN B/G. MS TROOPS WAVE TO CAMERA FROM TROOPSHIP PORTALS. 01:13:59 - MS SPORTS OFFICIAL AVERY BRUNDAGE, FOLLOWED BY GOLF GREAT BOBBY JONES SPEAKS ON FUTURE OF SPORTS, "BETTER THAN WE'VE SEEN BEFORE". 01:14:26 - CU BASEBALL GREAT BABE RUTH SPEAKS TO THE FUTURE OF OUR YOUTH, SAYS HE LOOKS FORWARD TO A "GREAT, GREAT SEASON" 01:14:41 - MS COL. EARL BLAIK, GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYER AND COACH SPEAKS OF FOOTBALL FUTURE .... AND PAST 01:15:11 - ABOVE SHOTS DOC BLANCHARD, THEN GLEN DAVIS MAKING TDS FOR ARMY TEAM. 01:15:35 - MONTAGE VARIETY OF SPORTS IN PROGRESS INCLUDE, AUTO RACING, CREW RACING, BOB SLEDDING, POLO, HOCKEY, BOWLING (WOMAN MAKES STRIKE), BIKE RACING, SPEED ICE SKATING, HORSE RACING, BASEBALL. 01:16:12 - ABOVE SHOT TENNIDS DOUBLES IN PROGRESS. GREAT SHOT FILM CAMERAMEN WITH CAMERAS ON TRIPODS SIMULTANEOUSLY TRY TO FOLLOW TENNIS BACK AND FORTH. 01:16:17 - MORE SPORTS MONTAGE - GOLF MATCH IN PROGRESS, TRACK AND FIELD, SAIL BOATING, SKIING. VOICE OVER, "THE SECOND GOLDEN ERA OF SPORTS IS JUST AROUND THE 1946 CORNER". 01:16:55 - 200 GIS FIGHTING MEN STRANDED IN SEATTLE BY MANY BOTTLENECKS IN TRANSPORTATION FIND HEAVEN SENT RELIEF. 2 BOEING C-97, TRANSPORT VERSIONS OF B-29 BOMBER WILL TAKE THEM HOME FOR HOLIDAYS. 01:17:15 - PAN FACE SHOTS HAPPY SOLDIERS AS THEY LINE UP TO BOARD PLANES. VARIOUS SHOTS PLANES TAKING OFF. 01:17:43 - "WASHINGTON HOLIDAY" - CROWD GATHERS ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN TO WATCH LIGHTING OF CHRISTMAS TREE FOR FIRST TIME IN 4 YEARS. 01:18:01 - MS PRESIDENT TRUMAN PRESSES BUTTON AND CHRISTMAS OFFICIALLY COMES TO WASHINGTON. LS LAWN CHRISTMAS TREE SUDDENLY LIGHTS UP. 01:18:46 - "(GEN.)GEORGE S. PATTON" 1885 - 1945" - _ THE DASHING COMMANDER WHOSE TANKS AND MEN MADE BRILLIANT MILITARY HISTORY IN AFRICA AND EUROPE, HAS FOUGHT HIS LAST BATTLE. 01:19:12 - VARIOUS SHOTS PATTON WITH FDR, GEN. MARSHALL, ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN, ON WARSHIP OF INVASION FLEET, WITH FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY, WITH EISENHOWER. WAVING TO TANK MEN AS THEY PASS. 01:19:51 - PATTON IN MOTORCADE IN NEW YORK IS GIVEN ROUSING WELCOME FROM PEOPLE WAVING FROM TENEMENT HOUSE ROOFS 01:20:08 - MS GENERAL PATTON MAKES SPEECH TO PEOPLE. HE SALUTES THEM. CU FLOWERS ON SIMPLE SOLDIER'S GRAVE OF GEORGE S. PATTON. 01:20:21 - "NOBEL PRIZES HONOR WORLD'S GREAT" - ABOVE VIEW DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE AT ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AUDITORIUM IN STOCKHOLM. TRUMPETEERS ANNOUNCE ENTRY OF GUSTAV, KING OF SWEDEN WHO HIMSELF WILL PRESENT THE AWARDS FOR HIGH ACHIEVEMENT IN SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND THE PREVALENCE OF PEACE. FOUNDED IN 1901 BY ALBERT NOBEL. 01:20:59 - PROFESSOR WOLFGANG PAWLEY OF U. S. IS HONORED FOR HIS WORK ON ATOMIC ENERGY. 01:21:12 - DOCTOR ALEXANDER FLEMING OF BRITAIN, DOCTOR HOWARD FLOREY (?) OF AUSTRALIA AND GERMAN DOCTOR SHARE PRIZE FOR THEIR WORK ON PENICILLIN. 01:21:28 - LS NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE GOES TO GABRIELA MISTRAL OF CHILE. 01:21:40 - FOR 1ST TIME IN 40 YEARS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IS AWARDED TO CORDEL HULL OF THE U. S. 01:21:54 - "YAMISHITA GUILTY!" -YAMISHITA IN COURTHOUSE IN MANILA IS ACCUSED OF CONDONING MASS ATROCITIES BY HIS TROOPS INVOLVING DEATHS OF SOME 60,000 AMERICAN, FILIPINO AND ALLIED NATIONALS. HE IS QUESTIONED BY PROSECUTOR THROUGH ARMY INTERPRETER. MS YAMISHITA REAPONDS TO QUESTIONS. HE DENIES ALL. 01:22:42 - U. S. OFFICER, ATTORNEY, PLEADS CASE FOR YAMISHITA. 01:23:07 - PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FOR GOVERNMENT MAKES HIS CASE, ASKS FOR DEATH PENALTY 01:23:57 - MILITARY JUDGES RETURN WITH SENTENCE AFTER 2 DAYS. 62 YEAR OLD YAMISHITA STEPS FORWARD, HEARS SENTENCE OF GUILTY OF CHARGES AND SENTENCES HIM TO DEATH. 01:24:53 - "DESTROY JAP PLANES" - JAPANESE WARPLANES ARE BROKEN UP,PILED UP AND DESTROYED BY FLAMES FROM FLAME THROWERS MOUNTED IN TANKS. VARIOUS SHOTS PLANES BURNING. 01:25:45 - LS ST.PETER'S SQUARE AND VATICAN IN ROME. MS GOOD SHOT POPE PAUL IN HIS FANCY VESTMENTS, SEATED ON THRONE, BEING ATTENDED BY PRIESTS. CU SHOT POPE PAUL. HE NAMES 32 NEW CARDINALS. 01:26:02 - MS TWO PRIESTS KISS RING OF BISHOP SAMUEL A. STRITCH OF CHICAGO WHO WAS ONE OF 4 U. S. BISHOPS NAMED TO BE CARDINAL BY POPE PAUL. RELIGION, CATHOLICISM. CU FACE SHOT CARDINAL STRITCH. 01:26:14 - CARDINAL DESIGNEE FRANCIS J. SPELLMAN OF NEW YORK POSES OUTSIDE HIS FORMER HOME IN. RELIGION, CATHOLIC CONNECTICUT. CU CARDINAL SPELLMAN SPEAKS. 01:26:37 - ICU IN DETROIT ARCH-BISHOP EDWARD MOONEY SPEAKS TO CAMERA AFTER HE WAS NAMED CARDINAL BY POPE. 01:27:03 - IN TORONTO ARCH-BISHOP JAMES CHARLES MCQUIGIN AT HIS DESK IN TORONTO. HE WAS ONLY CANADIAN TO BE NAMED. 01:27:06 - VARIOUS SHOTS 83 YEAR-OLD ARCH-BISHOP JOHM J. GLENNAN HEARS MASS IN CHURCH IN ST. HE WAS ALSO NAMED. LOUIS. TODAY FOR THE 1ST TIME IN CENTURIES, ITALIANS NO LONGER HOLD MAJORITY CONTROL OF THE SACRED COLLEGE. 01:27:28 - "TRUMAN AT HOME" - LS EXTERIOR VIEW PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S SNOW BOUND HOME IN INDEPENDENCE MISSOURI 01:27:36 - MS PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND EXITS HOME, TOWARDS CAMERA, WITH ARMS FULL OF CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. CU TRUMAN TALKS TO CAMERAMEN. TRUMAN HAS NOT MISSED A CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AT HOME IN 27 YEARS. 01:27:49 - "DIVING" - "MOD-WINTER SPRING" - VARIOUS SHOTS DIVER SAM HOWARD MAKING EXTRA-ORDINARY DIVES OFF DIVING BOARDS IN MIAMI BEACH POOL. 01:28:18 - MS TO MAKE IT HARDER, HOWARD PUTS HOOD OVER HEAD, THEN MAKES DIVE. THEN BOUNCES FROM ONE BOARD TO ANOTHER IN MAKING EXTRAORDINARY DIVE. LS MORE UNUSUAL DIVES.SPORTS, 01:28:42 - "HOLIDAY DISASTERS" - FIREMEN POUR WATER ON REMNANTS OF BOTTLING PLANT DESTROYED BY MYSTERIOUS BLAST. 5 ARE DEAD AND 5 SERIOUSLY INJURED IN APARTMENT ABOVE. 01:29:09 - CROWD WATCHES FIREMEN WORK ON RUINS WHICH WAS CAUSED BY PROPANE TANK EXPLOSION. 470 DIED IN DISASTERS DURING HOLIDAY SEASON. 01:29:22 - SMOKE RISES FROM APARTMENT HOUSE IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS.,WHICH WAS COMPLETELY GUTTED, MANY WERE TRAPPED IN THEIR APARTMENTS AND HAD TO BE CARRIED DOWN ICY LADDERS TO SAFETY. VIEW ICE COATED FIRE TRUCK. DISASTER 01:29:44 - "ONE WORLD ... "NATIONS SIGN BRETTON WOODS" ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN ACHESON OFFICIATES AT THE SIGNING OF THE PACT IN WASHINGTON, BY 28 NATIONS. 01:29:59 - MS ACHESON SHAKES HANDS WITH EX-SECRETARY OF TREASURY MORGENTHAU AND ASST SEC'Y HARRY D. WHITE. 01:30:07 - VARIOUS SHOTS AMBASSADORS FROM BELGIUM, CANADA, CHINA, FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND THE U. S. SIGN. THE PACT. SECRETARY VINSON SUMS UP THE SIGNIFICANT OF THE SIGNING. 01:31:38 - BASKETBALL - "CAGE SEASON HITS PEAK" - ABOVE VIEWS NORTH CAROLINA VS NYU IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. VARIOUS SHOTS GAME IN PROGRESS.NO. CAR. WINS 43 - 41. SPORTS,COLLEGE BASKETBALL. 01:33:02 - NEW YORK CHANGES MAYORS - ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE AND POLICE GUARDS,MAYOR LAGUARDIA ARRIVES AT CITY HALL FOR THE LAST TIME. CU HE SITS AT DESK AND TALKS TO CAMERAMEN. HE SHAKES HANDS WITH SUCCESSOR, MAYOR ELECT WILLIAM O'DWYER. O'DWYER SPEAKS. LSGUSRDIA EXITS CITY HALL WOITH WIFE. 01:34:34 - CU MAYOR O'DWYER AT HIS DESK SPEAKS TO NEW YORKERS. 01:34:56 - DOG LULU BELLE, WAITS AT TRAIN STATION AS TRAIN COMES IN. LULU BELLE WAS LEFT TO TRAIN STATION EMPLOYEE, TWO YEARS AGO WHEN HE LEFT FOR THE WAR. CU FEMALE STATION EMPLOYEE HOLDS UP FAN MESSAGES, AN AVERAGE OF 10 A DAY SHE RECEIVED SINCE GI MASTER LEFT. 01:35:11 - MS GI GOING THROUGH STATION PETS LULU BELLE WHO LAYS DOWN AT STATION PLATFORM. LULU BELLE INSPECTS PILES OF GI DUFFEL BAGS AND ALL GIS PASSING BAY. 01:35:41 - "GENERAL PATTON LAID TO REST" - ALL STAND AT ATTENTION AS SOLDIERS CARRY CASKET OF GENERAL PATTON IN LUXEMBOURG ON CHRISTMAS EVE WHERE HE IS LAID TO REST. 01:36:01 - GENERA;'S WIDOW WITH LT GEN. JEFFREY KEYS, LEADS THE 2 MILE LONG FUNERAL CORTEGE. CU SIGN "HANN MILITARY CEMETERY, LUXEMBOURG" IS WHERE PATTON IS BURIED. THE SAME AS 6000 FALLEN 3RD ARMY HEROES. VARIOUS SHOTS MILITARY FUNERAL AT CEMETERY. 01:36:46 - TRUMAN ADDRESSES NATION - CALLS FOR ACTION BY THE CONGRESS ON EMPLOYMENT BILL. 01:38:37 - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - 1946 BOWL GAMES. 01:38:38 - ABOVE VIEW TEXAS STADIUM WHERE COTTON BOWL GAME IS PLAYED TEXAS VS MISSOURI. VARIOUS ABOVE SHOTS GAME IN PROGRESS. GOOD SHOTS FAN REACTIONS TO PLAYS. FINAL: TEXAS 40 MISSOURI 27. 01:39:43 - ROSE BOWL - ALABAMA VS SO. CAL. MS ADMIRAL HALSEY AT GAME - VARIOUS ABOVE SHOTS GAME IN. PROGRESS - ALABAMA WINS 34 - 14. FANS TEAR DOWN GOAL POSTS. 01:40:32 - SUGAR BOWL - PAN HUGE CROWD FANS AT SUGAR BOWL GAME IN NEW ORLEANS.OKLAHOMA A&M VS ST. MARY. AERIAL VIEW GAME IN PROGRESS. WINNER OKLAHOMA 33-13. 01:41:53 - ORANGE BOWL - HOLY CROSS VS.MIAMI U. VARIOUS ABOVE VIEWS GAME IN PROGRESS. MIAMI WINS 13 - 6IN EXITING LAST MINUTE INTERCEPTION PLAY BY AL HUDSON OF MIAMI 01:43:18 - TO 02:02:52TITLE: "1945 - YEAR OF VICTORY" AND 1946 THE "SEASON OF PEACE" A FILM REVIEW OF WW2. EVENTS AND BATTLES LEADING TO SURRENDER OF GERMANY AND JAPAN. PROBLEMS OF PEACE TIME. LEADING TO THE ERA OF AND THE "ATOMIC AGE". 01:43:56 - ANIMATED MAP OF WORLD SHOWING AMERICA SENDING MEN AND MACHINES FROM U. S. ACROSS THE EARTH. 01:44:00 - GREAT SHOTS AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL PLANTS AND MEN WORKING IN DEFENSE PLANTS. AMERICAN SOLDIERS WADING ASHORE IN INVASION. 01:44:19 - :YEAR OF VICTORY IN EUROPE" - VARIOUS SHOTS JANUARY, 1945, SNOWBOUND GIS DURING BATTLE OF THE BULGE. VARIOUS SHOTS JAN.12, 1945 RUSSIA LAUNCHING GIANT LANDOFFENSIVE LAUNCHING, GREAT ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENTS, EXPLOSIONS. 01:44:55 - EARLY FEB. 1945 SUMMIT MEETINGS WITH FDR, CHURCHILL AND STALIN AT YALTA. SHOTS ALLIED BOMBARDMENTS IN THE WEST AFTER YALTA. PLANES DROPPING BOMBS. DESTRUCTION NAZI LAND ARMY. GERMAN TROOPS SURRENDERING. 01:45:39 - APRIL 12, 1945 HEADLINE: "FDR DEAD". CU SHOT FDR AT DESK. VARIOUS SHOTS FDR FUNERAL. 01:46:00 - APRIL 26, 1945 SHOTS AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN TROOPS MEET IN GERMANY, AND SHAKE HANDS, CELEBRATE. 01:46:09 - SHOTS OF MUSSOLINI DURING GLORY DAYS AND GRAPHIC SHOTS OF MUSSOLINI DEAD BODY ON HEAP WITH OTHERS. 01:46:18 - MAY DAY, 1945 HITLER REPORTED DEAD. CU SHOT. HITLER. FAMOUS SHOTS NAZI SWASTIKA ON BUILDING BEING BLOWN UP. CU NAZI GENERALS SIGNING SURRENDER. 01:46:40 - " V-E DAY" HUGE CROWDS IN STREETS CHEERING. TICKER TAPE FALLING FROM SKYSCRAPER BUILDINGS. WAR IS OVER IN EUROPE. 01:46:50 - "YEAR OF VICTORY - THE PACIFIC" - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS MACARTHUR STEPPING STONE VICTORIES ON PACIFIC ISLANDS. 01:47:07 - IWO JIMA - VARIOUS SHOTS INTENSE MARINE FIGHTING ON IWO JIMA. FAMED SHOT OF FLAG BEING PLANTED ON MT. SURIBACHI. 01:47:47 - EASTER SUNDAY, 1945 - CHERRY TREES IN BLOSSOM IN WASHINGTON. PEOPLE CELEBRATING EASTER PARADE. ALSO INVASION OF OKINAWA' VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE INVASION FLEET AT SEA. BOMBARDMENT AND INVASION SCENES. 01:48:21 - MACARTHUR AND NIMITZ GOING OVER WAR MAP. INTENSE BOMBARDMENTS OF JAPAN. SEA BATTLES. 01:49:37 - LS JAPANESE SUICIDE BOMBER CRASHES INTO U. S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. VARIOUS SHOTS SAILORS FIGHTING FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS. MS CATHOLIC PRIEST SAYS PRAYER AND BLESSES WOUNDED GI ON DECK OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, AS FIRE FIGHTING GOES ON IN B/G. 01:49:57 - VARIOUS SHOTS BIG 3 SUMIT MEETING BETWEEN TRUMAN, CHURCHILL AND STALIN. THEN WITH NEWELY ELECTED CLEMENT ATTLEE OF BRITAIN. 01:50:03 - HEADLINE: "WE DROP ATOM BOMB ON JAPS". AERIAL VIEW 1ST ATOMIC BOMB EXPLODING ON HIROSHIMA. FOLLOWED BY HEADLINE "REDS DECLARE WAR ON JAPAN" 01:50:29 - HEADLINE: "2ND ATOM BOMB HITS NAGASAKI VITAL SEAPORT ...". PAN AERIAL VIEW DESTRUCTION CAUSED BT BOMB. NEXT DAY THE WAR WAS OVER. VARIOUS SHOTS AMERICAN GIS STORM ASHORE ON JAPAN IN BLOODLESS INVASION. 01:51:07 - V- J DAY - NOVEMBER 2, 1945. VARIOUS SHOTS MACARTHUR AND JAPANESE ENVOYS SIGN SURRENDER ABOARD MIGHTY BATTLESHIP "MISSOURI". 01:51:26 - "YEAR OF VICTORY" - "A NEW HOPE". LS CAPITAL DOME BUILDING IN WASHINGTON, D. C. MS PRESIDENT TRUMAN ADDRESSES JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS. 01:51:42 - ABOVE VIEW UN MEETS IN SAN FRANCISCO. CU LEADING AMBASSADORS FROM ENGLAND AND MOSCOW AMONG OTHERS. VARIOUS SHOTS FIRST TREATY CONFERENCE IN OCTOBER, IN LONDON. THERE WERE STALEMATES, COMPROMISES. "WE LEARNED THAT MAKING THE PEACE MIGHT BE A LONG, LONG JOB. 01:52:07 - MAP OF CHINA - IN CHINA CIVIL WAR BEGAN BETWEEN COMMUNISTS AND NATIONALIST CHINESE LED BY CHIANG KAI SHEK. JAVANESE FIGHTING THE BRITISH IN INDONESIA. NEARER TO US TROUBLE IN PALESTINE, AS VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT BETWEEN ARABS AND JEWS. 01:52:50 - AERIAL VIEW TROOPSHIP JAM PACKED WITH SOLDIERS COMING HOME FROM WAR. SOLDIERS WAVE FROM SHIP AT STATUE OF LIBERTY. GI IS MET BY CHILD AND HIS WIFE. THEY KISS. 01:53:03 - GI IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES STANDS BY PIANO WITH SON AS WIFE PLAYS AND THEY ALL SING CHRISTMAS CAROL. DECORATED CHRISTMAS TREE IN B/G 01:53:33 - "1946" - "THE SEARCH FOR PEACE" - VARIOUS SHOTS UNITED NATIONS IN SESSIONS GETTING ORGANIZED. SHOTS OF GERMANY AND JAPAN WHILE IN POWER AND QUESTIONED ASKE HOW THEY SHALL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO BE IN POWER AGAIN. SHOTS OF GOERING AND HESS AT NIRENBERG TRIALS. 01:55:17 - GRAPHIC SHOTS TWO CHINESE CIVILIANS WITH HANDS TIED BEHIND BACK ARE SHOT BEHIND THE HEAD BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS."JAPANS MIND MUST BE TRAINED IN THE WAYS OF PEACE". 01:55:28 - LS VIEW ATOMIC EXPLOSION - "WHAT MUST WE DO ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF THE ATOM". SHOTS SCIENTISTS WORKING ON PEACEFUL USE OF ATOM IN LABS. 01:55:57 - HUNGER, MISERY AND DESOLATION, ACROSS THE WORLD - CU LITTLE GIRL EATING MORSEL OF FOOD. UNCOUNTED MILLIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE SICK AND STARVING. REFUGEES DRAGGING THEIR MEAGER BELONGS ACROSS SNOW. CU WOMAN WITH BLANKET OVER HER HEADS AND CHILD, TREK THROUGH BLIZZARD. WOMAN HOLDS HER CHILD'S FEET UP NEAR CAMP FIRE TO WARM THEM. 01:56:25 - MS GREAT PATHETIC GRAPHIC VIEW SMALL ORIENTAL GIRL SEATED ON GROUND AND SHIVERING UNCONTROLLABLY. 01:56:33 - AERIAL VIEW CAPITAL BUILDINGS IN WASHINGTON, D. C. AS VOICE OVER ASKS, "CAN WE THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY DURING WAR TIME, ALSO LEAD THE NATIONS IN PEACE TIME?". VOICE OVER TELLS OF TREMENDOUS USE OF STEEL AND OIL DURING WAR. 01:57:50 - AERIAL VIEW BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS IN CITY, INCLUDING CHURCHES. AERIAL VIEW CONTROLLED TNT DESTRUCTION OF LARGE APARTMENT HOUSE IN CLOUD OF DUST AND SMOKE. 01:59:00 - MONTAGE PEOPLE OF VARIETY RELIGIONS PRAYING IN THEIR PLACES OF PRAYER. FACE SHOTS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL ETHNIC PERSUASIONS. "WE CAN WORK AS ONE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD". 02:00:06 - SHOTS OF WAR CEMETERIES. ABOVE GRAPHIC VIEW HUNDREDS OF DEAD PEOPLE LYING ON GROUND IN HEAP. CU DEAD SOLDIER'S BODY LYING IN SURF. FACE SHOT OF DEAD MAN. DEAD BODY BEING CARRIED, DRAPED OVER STRETCHER. MORE OF MILITARY CEMETERIES. 02:00:44 - AMERICAN SOLDIER SUPER-IMPOSED OVER SHOT OD EMETERY SPEAKS FROM THE DEAD. "FOR MILLIONS OF US THRE SEARCH IS OVER. BUT THE JOB IS NOT DONE, UNLESS YOU CARRY ON AND FINISH IT FOR US" .......". MORE OF MESSAGE FROM VOICE OVER. " ..... LET THERE BE PEACE". END 02:02:53 - LOG ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: P-218-26