- Title: P-218-39
- Summary: DECADES: NEWSREEL STORIES FROM MARCH 1946 - RIOTOUS REVOLT IN BOGOTA COLUMBIA FOLLOW ASSASSINATION OF LEADER - BRITISH PAY HOMAGE TO MRS. FDR. COMMUNIST RIOT IN ITALY - KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND 25TH ANN. PARADES. GEN. IKE RETIRES. "CITATION" WINS 1948 KENTUCKY DERBY -
- Description:01:00:48 - TITLE: FIRST PICTURES! "PHOTOGRAPHED UNDER FIRE BY PARAMOUNT NEWS CAMERAMAN". 01:00:50 - TITLE: "BOGOTA'S REIGN OF TERROR!" MAP SHOWS LOCATION OF BOGOTA, COLUMBIA IN RELATION TO USA. 01:01:05 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS SMOKE BLACKENED AND WRECKED BUILDINGS IN BOGOTA. AS RESULT OF VIOLENCE AND REVOLT. 01:01:29 - CU PHOTO ASSASSINATED LEADER JORGE GAITAN. VARIOUS SHOTS CROWDS IN STREETS DURING REIGN OF TERROR THAT FOLLOWED ASSASSINATION.. "THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS GONE MAD" 01:02:04 - RIOTOUS CROWDS OUTSIDE THE "CAPITOLITO",,THE MEETING PLACE O WHERE THE PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE WAS TAKING PLACE. RIOTOUS CROWD ENTERED THE BUILDING AND SMASHED THE INTERIOR. 01:02:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE CITY WHICH WAS BLAMED ON COMMUNISTS. 01:03:34 - TITLE: "MEN'S FASHIONS: "FUR CRYING OUT LOUD". VARIOUS SHOTS MEN MODELS SHOW JACKETS MADE OUT OF VARIETY ANIMAL FURS, TO COUPLE. THE COUPLE TRY ON MATCHING LEOPARD JACKETS. 01:04:39 - TITLE: "INSIDE THE KREMLIN: "SUPREME COUNCIL IN SESSION". PAN EXTERIOR SHOT OF THE KREMLIN. HUNDREDS MEMBERS SOVIET SUPREME COUNCIL SEATED IN ANDRIESKI HALL TO MEET ON THE 1948 BUDGET. 01:04:54 - ALL 1300 MEMBERS RISE AND APPLAUD AS SOVIET LEADER JOSEF STALIN ENTERS. MS STALIN APPLAUDS HIMSELF. VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE HALL AND THE MEMBERS IN SESSION. 01:05:32 - TITLE: "BRITAIN PAYS HOMAGE TO AN AMERICAN...". MRS ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ARRIVES AT FOLEY SQUARE, FOR CEREMONY FOR PRESIDENT FDR ON 3R5D ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH. 01:05:59 - KING GEORGE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH ARRIVE FOR CEREMONY.. MS PRINCESSES MARGARET AND ELIZABETH FOLLOW.. DOWAGER QUEEN MARY ALSO ARRIVES FOR CEREMONY. 01:06:15 - WINSTON CHURCHILL, WEARING TOP HAT ,ARRIVES FOR EVENT. 01:06:43 - FILM OPF ROYAL COUPLE 1939 VISIT TO THE U. S. BEING GREETED BY FDR AND OTHERS. 01:07:09 - MRS ROOSEVELT PULLS CORD TO UNVEIL HUGE STATUE OF FDR AT GROSVENOR SQUARE, LONDON. VARIOUS SHOTS ROOSEVELT STATUE WITH SAYINGS BY POET, WRITER, JOHN MASEFIELD 01:08:11 - TITLE: "PRE-DERBY TURF CLASSIC!" "CITATION WINS IN MARYLAND!" 01:08:20 - VARIOUS SHOTS THOUSANDS IN ATTENDANCE AT RUNNING OF THE CHESAPEAKE STAKES IN MARYLAND. VARIOUS SHOTS RACE IN PROGRESS, "CITATION" WINNING EXITING RACE WHICH INCLUDED ONLY 4, 3 YEAR-OLD HORSES. 01:10:04 - ABOVE VIEW CITATION, JOCKEY EDDIE ARCARO IN WINNERS CIRCLE 01:10:06 - TITLE: "BOGOTA, COLUMBIA" - "SAVAGE REVOLT LEAVES ITS MARK!" 01:10:13 - AERIAL VIEW OF AFTERMATH OF VIOLENCE IN BOGOTA, COLUMBIA. LS FLAGS OF 21 NATIONS FLY AT HALF MAST FOR THE ASSASSINATION DEATH OF COLUMBIA'S LEADER JORGE GAITAN. 01:10:24 - MONTAGE VIEWS CROWDED STREETS OF BOGOTA AND ENORMOUS DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AND STREETS DONE BY UNCONTROLLABLE MOBS, AFTER THE ASSASSINATION.. SOLDIERS PATROL THE STREETS, CONDUCT BODY SEARCHES. 01:11:45 - TITLE: "PLAY BALL" - CU SHOT OF A BASEBALL. AERIAL MONTAGE PAN CROWDED BASEBALL FIELD WITH GAME IN PROGRESS. FANS GOING WILD. 01:12:00 - AERIAL VIEW BASEBALL PLAYERS LINED UP ON EDGE OF INFIELD AS A BAND MARCHES ACROSS THE FIELD BEHIND THEM. PRESIDENT TRUMAN THROWS OUT FIRST BALL AS WASHINGTON SENATORS PLAY NEW YORK YANKEES *1948). 01:12:29 - AERIAL VIEW 1ST INNING, YANKEE TOMMY HENDRICKS HITS HOME RUN. AERIAL VIEW JOE DIMAGGIO HITS SINGLE TO CENTER FIELD, ETC. YANKEES WIN 12-4 01:13:46 - TITLE: "COMMUNISTS DEFEATED IN ITALY". "f.....RETURNS INDICATE SETBACK FOR RED-DOMINATED POPULAR FRONT:. VARIOUS SHOTS ELECTION BANNERS STRETCHED HIGH ACROSS STREETS, CROWDS LINED UP AT AT POLLING PLACES. (29 MILLION VOTED) 01:14:10 - AGED MAN HELPED TO POLL. MAN TOO ILL TO WALK, IS TAKEN TO POLL ON STRETCHER. ABOVE VIEW ITALY'S PARLIAMENT IN SESSION. 01:14:29 - MONTAGE HUGE CROWDS IN STREETS OUTSIDE POLLING PLACES. GROUPS ARGUE POLITICS. 01:14:48 - WOMEN, CHILDREN, ON HUNGER LINES AS THE AVERAGE ITALIAN, THE PRINCIPLE FACTOR WAS FOOD. PILES OF GRAIN FROM U. S. , SENT TO AID THE HUNGRY 01:14:58 - CU LITTLE GIRL WITH 2 LOVES OF BREAD IN HER ARMS. 01:15:03 - LS POPE PIUS SPEAKS TO THE PEOPLE FROM BALCONY. ABOVE VIEW CROWD IN ST.PETER'S SQUARE. 01:15:10 - HUGE CROWD PILE INTO THE POLLING PLACES. (94% OF THE VOTING ELIGIBLE TURNED OUT AFTER POPE PIUS TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT NOT TO VOTE WAS A SIN). 01:15:56 - PAN HUGE CHEERING ITALIAN CROWD. 01:15:58 - TITLE: "NEWS ALONG THE SKYWAYS!" "AIR FORCE STOCKPILE IN TEXAS". MONTAGE - VARIOUS VIEWS THOUSANDS OF WARPLANES OF ALL TYPES, PARKED ON AIRFIELD IN TEXAS, INCLUDE P-51 MUSTANGS AND B-29 BOMBERS. 01:16:48 - TITLE: "CROSSWIND LANDING GEAR INTRODUCED". VARIOUS SHOTS NEW SAFETY LANDING GEAR BEING TESTED ON TWIN ENGINE AIRLINER. 01:17:45 - TITLE: "VARIETY CLUBS HONOR MARSHALL". TRAIN WITH 1000 MEMBERS OF "VARIETY CLUBS INTERNATIONAL" (,THE GREAT PHILANTHROPIC GROUP OF SHOW BUSINESS). THEY MOTORCADE FROM TRAIN STATION 01:18:07 - AT THE CLIMAX DINNER, SECRETARY OF STATE GEORGE C. MARSHALL IS GIVEN HONOR IN ABSENTIA, BY BOB O'DONNELL. . CU FACE SHOT PHOTO OF MARSHALL. HAROLD STASSEN SPEAKS. 01:19:46 - TITLE: "UNDERSEA AID!" "AMERICA SENDS SUBS TO TURKEY". VARIOUS SHOTS TURKISH OFFICERS AND MEN , TRAINED IN AMERICA, ARRIVE AT CONNECTICUT TO TAKE OVER SUBMARINES PRESENTED TO THEM BY U. S. 01:20:16 - U. S. REAR ADMIRAL COMES ABOARD TO MAKE THE SEND OFF OFFICIAL. KINES ARE CAST OFF AND THE SUBS MOVE OUT TO SEA. 01:20:49 - TITLE: "REUTHER SHOOTING STIRS NATION!". VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE CIO UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS UNION LEADER BEFORE THE SHOOTING. 01:21:10 - DETECTIVES GATHER EVIDENCE AT THE BACKYARD WINDOW WHERE ASSAILANT FIRED FROM AS REUTHER WAS HAVING DINNER. 01:21:26 - CU REUTHER'S WIFE GIVES HER VERSION OF THE ATTACK ON HER HUSBAND. 01:22:07 - WIFE VISITS REUTHER AS HE LIES IN HOSPITAL BED, HIS RIGHT ARM IN SLING. HE WAS CONSIDERED OUT OF DANGER. MONTAGE - VARIOUS NEWS HEADLINES OF THE SHOOTING. 01:22:29 - TITLE: "MARSEILLES": "100,000 HEAR DE GAULLE ATTACK SOVIET UNION" - GEN. DEGAULLE LEADS HUGE MARCH DOWN STREETS OF MARSEILLES. . DEGAULLE SPEAKS TO HUGE CROWD, FROM HIGH PLATFORM 01:23:36 - "TEXAS TO TEXAS" "FAMED BATTLESHIP BECOMES A STATE SHRINE" AERIAL VIEW BATTLESHIP AS IT SAILS INTO HOUSTON HARBOR AS IT REPLACES OLD SHRINE.. 01:24:07 - ASS';T SECRETARY OF NAVY, GOVERNOR JEFF STEWART, NAVY ADMIRAL NIMITZ ATTEND OUTDOOR CEREMONY, AS IT MARKS THE 1ST TIME A BATTLESHIP WAS GIVEN TO A STATE. 01:24:56 - TITLE: "MRS ROOSEVELT WARMLY GREETED IN HOLLAND". 3 LITTLE DUTCH PRINCESSES GREET MRS. ROOSEVELT OUTSIDE ROYAL PALACE OUTSIDE AMSTERDAM. 01:25:11 - PRINCESSMARIA WITH CHILD IN ARMS AS WELL AS THE REST OF THE ROYAL FAMILY ALSO GREET MRS. FDR. 01:25:23 - MRS. ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS AN HONORARY DEGREE AT THE DUTCH UNIVERSITY. QUEEN WILHELMINA, WHO SELDOM MAKES PUBLIC APPEARANCES, IS THERE. 01:25:47 - AT THE HAGUE, MRS. ROOSEVELT IS GIVEN HOMAGE BY THE WOMEN OF HOLLAND. SHE MAKES SPEECH OF GRATITUDE.. 01:26:25 - "MARSHALL HOME FROM BOGOTA". GEORGE C. MARSHALL EXITS PLANE IN WASHINGTON AFTER 26 DAYS AT CONFERENCE IN BOGOTA, IS GREETED BY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE LEVIN. 01:26:53 - VARIOUS SHOTS MARSHALL MEETING WITH COLUMBIA OFFICIALS WHEN HE WAS THERE. 01:27:19 - CU ADDRESS OF DEPARTMENT OF STATE. SECRETARY OF STSTE MARSHALL AT HIS DESK. 01:27:29 - "ZERO HOUR IN THE HOLY LAND!" - AERIAL PAN OF JERUSALEM. VARIOUS SHOTS BRITISH SYSTEMATIC WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM JERUSALEM, WHICH CAUSE GRUMBLING OF MAJOR BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM BETWEEN ARABS AND JEWS.. 01:28:01 - VARIOUS SHOTS ARAB SOLDIERS TAKING POSITIONS ALONG DISPUTED JERUSALEM, TEL AVIV ROAD. SET TO INVADE AT A MOMENTS NOTICE.. 01:28:35 - TRUCKS WITH SUPPLIES FOR JEWS ENTER JERUSALEM, WHERE THE JEWS ARE ALREADY IN CONTROL. PREPARE FOR A BITTER SIEGE. 01:29:06 - SPORTS - "WRESTLING GETS A NEW LOOK-ER!" MAN SPRAYS PERFUME ON CANVAS OF WRESTLING RING IN PREPARATION FOR ENTRANCE BY "GORGEOUS GEORGE:. 01:29:20 - CU IN LOCKER ROOM, GORGEOUS GEORGE HAS HIS BLONDE RINGLETS COMBED BY MALE HAIRDRESSER. 01:29:31 - ASSISTANT LAYS OUT A RUB ON THE RING CANVAS FOR GORGEOUS GEORGE TO STAND ON. GEORGE MAKES GRAND ENTRANCE ONTO RING,. WEARING LONG WHITE ROBE. TAKES BOW AS HE REMOVES ROBE. 01:29:57 - COMICAL WRESTLING BOUT BEGINS, GEORGE ISTOSSED AROUND MERCILESSLY BY OPPONENT, CHASED IN AND OUT OF THE RING, BUT WINS IN SURPRISE ENDING. 01:31:19 - "ITALY'S FIRST POST ELECTION DISTURBANCES:". "REDS RIOT IN MILAN!" VARIOUS SHOTS COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATIONS IN MILAN . HUGE CROWDS FILL CITY STREETS. POLICE ARRIVE IN JEEPS AND TRUCKS. RIOTS BEGIN AS POLICE TRY TO BREAK UP ILLEGAL PARADES.. 01:32:36 - GOOD SHOT HELMETED POLICEMAN WITH BATON CHASING DEMONSTRATOR. 01:32:59 - "CIRCUS THRILLS AMID RUINS!" (OF GERMANY). 01:33:06 - SPECTACULAR SHOTS "CAVELLINI (?) AIR GROUP" (FAMILY OF 7 TIGHT ROPE WALKERS) , FORMING 3 LAYERS BALANCING THEMSELVES ON SHOULDERS OF 4 WALKING THE TIGHTROPE, HIGH OVER THE RUINS OF FRANKFURT. 01:33:32 - AT STUTTGART ANOTHER FAMILY "THE TRAVER GROUP" PERFORM SPECTACULAR AERIAL ACTS USING HELICOPTER. 01:34:22 - "ROYALTY'S HONOR IN ENGLAND". CU ANNOUNCEMENT CARD: "PRINCESS ELIZABETH, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH" MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER". 01:34:36 - LS WINDSOR CASTLE AS SEEN FROM RIVER THAMES. PAN TO ROYALTY PARADING IN ALL ITS POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE , INCLUDE KING GEORGE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH AS CROWDS WATCH PROCESSION TO ANCIENT ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL. 01:35:07 - VISCOUNT ALEXANDER IN ELABORATE COSTUME ALSO IN PARADE AS ALL ENTER THE CHAPEL 01:35:49 - ANOTHER ANNOUNCEMENT CARD: "KING GEORGE V1, QUEEN ELIZABETH - 25TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY". 01:36:03 - MONTAGE - ROYAL CARRIAGE WITH KING GEORGE AND QUEEN ELIZABETH EXITS PALACE TO THE CHEERS OF MILLIONS OF BRITISH CITIZENS LINING THE STREETS OF LONDON ALONG ITS ROUTE. 01:36:32 - OLD 1923 PHOTO OF THE THEN DUKE OF YORK AND HIS SCOTTISH BRIDE (NOW KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH) WHEN THEY MARRIED. 01:37:17 - MS WINSTON CHURCHILL AND HIS WIFE ARRIVE FOR THE CEREMONY. ALSO ARRIVING AT CEREMONY IS QUEEN MARY. MORE SHOTS OF CARRIAGE RIDING DOWN LONDON STREETS. AND BACK INTO PALACE FOLLOWED BY MOUNTED ROYAL GUARD. 01:38:51 - KING AND QUEEN APPEAR ON BALCONY TO CLIMAX THE FESTIVITIES. "A MANIFESTATION OF REGAL SPLENDOR" 01:39:02 - "APPLE BLOSSOM TIME!" "SKATE QUEEN AND CROSBY RULE FESTIVAL". AIR FORCE CHIEF HOYT VANDENBERG CROWNS FIGURE SKATER GRETCHEN MARROW , QUEEN SHENANDOAH THE 21ST" AT OUTDOOR CEREMONY IN WINCHESTER, VIRGINA. 01:39:28 - CROWD OF 60,000 PEOPLE WATCH PARADE TO HONOR QUEEN SHENANDOAH". "DFR BINGLE" BING CROSBY, WHO IS THE GRAND MARSHALL OF PARADE RIDES IN OPEN CONVERTIBLE, WAVING TOO CROWD. 01:39:46 - BING CROSBY WAVES BIG LOLLYPOP AT CROWD, THEN SUCKS ON IT AS THE PARADE MOVES ALONG. 01:40:07 - "THE GENERAL TAKES LEAVE OF HIS TROOPS" AFTER 37 YEARS OF SOLDIERING, GENERAL "IKE" EISENHOWER AND HIS WIFE, ARE GIVEN SEND OF AT FORT MEYER, VIRGINIA, BY HISTORIC 3RD INFANTRY REGIMENT 01:40:37 - IKE STANDS IN LIMO AND SALUTES THE COLORS AS HE RIDES BY. 01:40:50 - VARIOUS SHOTS AFTER 7 HOUR DRIVE, IKE AND WIFE ARRIVE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK, WHERE HE BECOMES THEIR NEW PRESIDENT. CROWDS, PHOTOGS GREET THEM. 01:41:16 - "MAY DAY" AROUND THE GLOBE. FIRST FILMS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES, "TOKYO - BERLIN - PARIS". RIVAL DEMONSTRATIONS IN PARIS TO RE-CLAIM MAY DAY FROM THE COMMUNISTS. 01:41:36 - THOUSANDS LEFTISTS, LED BY MAURISE CORDET (?), DEMONSTRATE AT SIGHT PF BASTILLE IN PARIS. GENERAL DEGAULLE SPEAKS TO CROWD, ASSAILS COMMUNISTS.. 01:42:04 - BERLIN - MONTAGE HUGE CROWDS HOLD SOCIALIST RALLY., WHICH IS TREATED WITH INDIFFERENCE BY LISTLESS ON-LOOKERS. 01:42:28 - TOKYO - COMMUNIST PUT ON HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS IN TOKYO, BUT CROWD SHOWS MORE CURIOSITY THAN INTEREST. 01:42:52 - NEW YORK CITY - COMMUNIST MAY DAY PARADE GOES DOWN 8TH AVENUE AND UNION SQUARE. PARADERS CARRY ALL SORTS OF SIGNS. SIMULTANEOUSLY, LOYALTY DAY PARADE IS HELD THREE BLOCKS AWAY ON 5TH AVENUE.. VARIOUS VIEWS OF BOTH PARADES. 01:44:14 - "KENTUCKY DERBY" - "74 YEARS OF TURF TRADITION!" - STREET TRAFFIC IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, HOME OF CHURCHILL DOWN, AND THE 1948 KENTUCKY DERBY. VARIOUS SHOTS CROWDS AT CHURCHILL DOWNS. 01:45:02 - VARIOUS SHOTS HORSES PARADE ONTO TRACK. INCLUDING FAVORITE "CITATION" WITH JOCKEY EDDIE ARCARO.. VARIOUS SHOTS OTHER FAVORITES INCLUDING "COAL TOWN" AND "MY REQUEST", 01:45:23 - LS HORSES LEAVE THE GATE AS RACE BEGINS, VARIOUS SHOTS RACE IN PROGRESS. CITATION WINS BY 3 1/2 LENGTHS. COAL TOWN COMES IN 2ND 01:46:49 - "TAFT VS. STASSEN IN OHIO" - HAROLD STASSEN. OHIO REPUBLICANS HOLD PRIMARY ELECTION BETWEEN 2 WINNERS. ONE OF WHICH WILL BE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. TAFT WINS. 01:47:19 - MS STASSEN DECLARES HIMSELF N FUTURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS. TAFT POSES WITH FAMILY IN HIS LIVING ROOM. 01:48:22 - "ALABAMA REJECTS TRUMAN" - VARIOUS SHOTS ALABAMA CITIZENS AT BALLOT BOXES CASTING VOTES. IT RESULTS IN REPUDIATION OF TRUMAN'S CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRAM. DELEGATES PLEDGE TO WALK OUT IF THE CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRAM IS INCLUDED IN THE PARTY PLATFORM. 01:48:53 - THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CLAYTON TAYLOR, ARRIVES IN ALABAMA BY PLANE TO STAND TRIAL FOR REFUSING TO COMPLY WITH ALABAMA'S SEGREGATION STATUTES. 01:49:03 - "DEWEY STUMPS OREGON" - VARIOUS SHOTS DEWEY ARRIVES BY BUS IN OREGON TO BEGIN HIS BARN STORMING TOUR, SHAKE HANDS, MAKES SPEECHES. 01:50:01 - "ANIMAL NEWS" - "LILLIPUP WOWS TEXAS!" - VARIOUS SHOTS WORLD'S TINIEST DOG, DRINKS FROM AN EYE DROP BOTTLE. WEIGHS LESS THAN 1/3 OF A POUND. MAN WITH GREAT DANE VISITS PUP AND OWNER ON HER PORCH. 01:51:19 - "TRUMAN ON HOUSING" - "FAMILY LIFE MEETING HEARS PRESIDENT" - TRUMAN IS MET AT CROWDED AUDITOEIUM BY MOTION PICTURE ERIC JOHNSON, MOTION PICTURE ASS'N PRESIDENT.. 01:51:42 - TRUMAN SPEAKS FROM PODIUM, CALLS FOR HOUSING PROGRAM. 01:53:07 - "OLYMPIC PREVIEW" - "UNCLE SAM'S DIVING MERMAIDS SHOW FORM!" MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS U. S. DIVING TEAM, INCLUDING OLYMPIC WINNER MARJORIE DESTRY , PUTS ON DIVING DEMONSTRATION AT LAS VEGAS POOL. 01:54:10 - CLOWN SHOWS HIS TERRIBLE DIVING SKILLS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1942
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: P-218-39