- Title: P-218-42
- Summary: DECADES: NEWSREEL STORIES For 1948. TRUMAN COMMEMORATES YOUTH WITH STAMPS;BABE RUTH, 1895 - 1948' "HIROSHIMA" 3 YEARS AFTER A-BOMB.TEMPORARY TRUCE IN PALESTINE. GREATEST OIL DISCOVERY IN CANADA.1948 OLYMPICS IN LONDON; 1948 FASHIONS.
- Description:01:01:13 - "ACCENT ON YOUNG AMERICA" - "NEW PROGRAM RALLIES NATION TO ITS YOUTH" - PRESIDENT TRUMAN IS GIVEN SHEET OF STAMPS COMMEMORATING AMERICA'S YOUTH BY TED CAMPBELL, LEADER OF THEATER OWNERS OF AMERICA, AS HUNDREDS BOYS AND GIRLS LOOK ON. 01:01:36 - POSTMASTER AND ATTORNEY GENERAL CLARK LOOK ON AS YOUNG GIRL PRESENTS STAMPS TO TRUMAN. CU VIEW OF STAMP. "AMERICA HAILS YOUTH MONTH 1948" 01:01:56 - MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS AMERICAN BOYS AND GIRLS, FISHING IN LAKES, IN CLASSROOMS, PLAYING BASEBALL, SWIMMING, WALKING AROUNS CAMPUS OF SCHOOLS. 01:02:16 - BOYS IN WORK SHOPS WITH MANY MODEL PLANS HANGING FROM CEILING, BOYS IN CAMP PUTTING UP LARGE TENT.. 01:02:37 - "BABE RUTH" - 1895 - 1948" CU SHOT RUTH IN UNIFORM - MONTAGE - RUTH SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS FOR FANS, RUTH IS MOBBED BY KIDS WHO IDOLIZED HIM. RUTH IN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME 01:03:09 - RUTH EXITS HOSPITAL AFTER UNDERGOING A SERIOUS LEG OPERATION. 01:03:22 - RUTH IN YANKEE UNIFORM RETURNS TO YANKEE STADIUM (THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT),AT AGE 53, WHERE HE IS HONORED AND HIS UNIFORM NUMBER 3 IS RETIRED. 01:03:36 - ABOVE SHOT OF RUTH HITTING A HOME RUN AND RUNNING THE BASES WHEN HE WAS IN HIS PRIME. HE HIT 60 IN 1937. 01:04:11 - "HIROSHIMA" - "THREE YEARS AFTER". AERIAL VIEW RE-0BUILT HIROSHIMA AFTER THE A-BOMB.MANY ATTEND CEREMONY TO COMMEMORATE THE EVENT. SIGN: "NO MORE HIROSHIMA'S" 01:04:40 - MEN, WOMEN SURVIVORS SHOW THEIR UGLY SCARDS. 01:04:58 - "PALESTINE" - "INCIDENT IN NO-MAN'S LAND" TRUCE IS HELD TO EXCHANGE BODIES. UN DOCTOR DISCUSSES TERMS OF TRUCE WITH JEWISH OFFICER. BOTH SIDES TAKE BODIES ON STRETCHERS. 01:06:07 - "OPERATION SPLASH" - "LARGEST AIRBORNE LIFEBOAT 'CHUTED FROM B-291' THE "A-3" , THE LARGES FULLEST EQUIPPED AIRBORNE LIFEBOAT IS ATTACHED TO BOTTOM OF B-29 BOMBER. 01:06:44 - IN SIMULATED RESCUE OPERATION, THE A-3 IS DROPPED TO SEA BY PARACHUTE.. IT CAN HOLD 20 SURVIVORS. 4 "SURVIVORS" PADDLE TO THE A-3. 01:07:36 - "AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND" - "GREATEST WOMAN OLYMPIC STAR COMES HOME!" - HUGH CROWDS HAIL THE WORLD'S GREATEST WOMAN ATHLETE FANNY BLANKERS KOEN ON HER RETURN TO HOLLAND FOLLOWING HER OLYMPIC WINS. 01:07:58 - MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS FANNY KOEN RUNNING AND WINNING VARIETY OF TRACK EVENTS AT LONDON OLYMPICS. 01:08:35 - KOEN, ACCOMPANIED BY HUSBAND AND CHILDREN, RIDES IN PARADE IN OPEN CARRIAGE, RECEIVES NY STYLE HUGH CROWDS AND TICKER TAPE PARADE., 01:09:08 - "CANADA" "GREATEST OIL DISCOVERY!" - "SPECTACULAR FILMS: "WELL RUNS WILD". MONTAGE - VARIOUS SHOTS OIL WELLS, OUT OF CONTROL GUSHING OIL FROM GROUND IN ALBERTA CANADA. 01:10:33 - "BABE RUTH GOES TO REST" - ABOVE VIEW NY YANKEE STADIUM, WHERE REMAINS OF BABE RUTH ARE BURIED. RUTH'S WIDOW AND DAUGHTER ARE 1ST TO VIEW BOCY AS IT LIES IN STATE. 01:11:00 - MONTAGE - THOUSANDS OF FANS ON LINE OUTSIDE "THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT (YANKEE STADIUM)". TO VIEW BODY. 01:11:22 - GOOD SHOTS EXTERIOR ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. WHERE A HIGH REQUIEM M MASS. THOUSANDS FANS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE CATHEDRAL.NY GOV. THOMAS E. DEWEY, NY MAYOR O'DWYER, DEAN OF BASEBALL, CONNIE MACK, MRS LOU GEHRIG, JACK DEMPSEY ARRIVE FOR MASS. 01:11:38 - NY GOVERNOR THOMAS E. DEWEY ARRIVES, AS WELL AS MAYOR OF NY O'DWYER, DEAN OF BASEBALL CONNIE MACK. MRS. LOU GEHRIG AND JACK DEMPSEY 01:12:46 - "KOREA REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED!" - MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF KOREA. AND DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH. AERIAL VIEWS SEOUL, SO. KOREA. 01:13:10 - GENERAL MACARTHUR AND WIFE ARRIVE BY POLANE TO HELP CELEBRATE SO. KOREA INDEPENDENCE AFTER 43 YEARS OF JAPANESE CONTROL.. U. S. IS THE FIRST POWERY TO RECOGNIZE THE NEW STATE. 01:13:37 - PRESIDENT RHEE AND WIFE GREET R. AND MRS. MACARTHUR AT PLANE SITE. RHEE AND MACARTHUR ADDRESS HUGE CROWD IN SEOUL. 01:14:27 - "OLYMPIC FADE-OUT!" - "FINAL EVENTS AND CLOSING CEREMONIES!" VARIOUS ABOVE VIEWS CROWDED RAMBLEY STADIUM IN LONDON. 01:14:37 - 80,000 FANS WATCH AS MILITARY OFFICERS OF MANY NATIONS, ON HORSEBACK, JUMP HURDLES. MS OFFICER ON HORSE CRASHES INTO OBSTACLE, KNOCKING IT DOWN. ANOTHER OFFICER FALLS OFF HORSE AFTER JUMPING HURDLE..MEXICO WINS. 01:15:17 - MONTAGE HUNDREDS CYCLISTS OF FROM MANY NATIONS IN THE 120 MILE OLYMPIC BICYCLE RACE THROUGH VILLAGE STREETS, HIGHWAYS. CROWD WATCHES WINNER FROM FRANCE GO THROUGH FINISH LINE AFTER 5 HOURS AND 18 MINUTES.. 01:16:05 - VARIOUS SHOTS FINAL CEREMONIES IN STADIUM. AMERICA HAS HIGHEST POINTS. OLYMPIC TORCH FLICKERS OUT.. 01:16:50 - "REALISTIC WAR GAMES!" "MIDDIES, CADETS JOIN FORCES IN AMPHIBIOUS TEST. MONTAGE ARMY, NAVY, FUTURE OFFICERS WITH HELP OF AIR FORCE AND MARINES COMBINE TO PUT ON AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT ON (VIRGINIA) BEACH. 01:17:03 - MASSIVE BOMBARDMENT OF BEACH BY PLANES.. CADETS IN AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES HIT THE BEACH AS BOMBS EXPLODE AROUND THEM. 200 PARATROOPS ARE DROPPED FROM PLANES. 01:18:17 - "COLOGNE" - "FAMED CATHEDRAL REOPENED FOR 700TH ANNIVERSARY" - VARIOUS SHOTS EXTERIOR OF COLOGNE CATHEDRAL" CROWD OF MORE THAN 250,000 ARE THERE FOR THE CELEBRATION. 01:18:58 - HUGE CROWD WATCH THE COMMEMORATION OF THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE IN 1248 01:19:48 - "FORRESTAL TALKS DEFENSE PLANS WITH CANADA" HONOR GUARD GREETS DEFENSE SECRETARY AS HE ARRIVES IN OTTAWA BY PLANE. TILT DOWN EXTERIOR CANADA PARLIAMENT BUILDING. 01:20:32 - LS VIEW NAVAL WAR COLLEGE IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND. JAMES FORRESTAL MEETS WITH ARMY, NAVY AND AIR SECRETARIES, AT THE COLLEGE. 01:21:05 - "AXIS SALLY" FACES TRIAL FOR TREASON!" - AMERICAN BORN ELIZABETH GILLARS, ALSO KNOWN AS "AXIS SALLY", BOARDS PLANE AT GERMAN AIRPORT FOR TRIP TO U. S., TO FACE TRIAL FOR BROADCASTING PROPAGANDA TO AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN BEHALF OF NAZIS. 01:21:34 - GILLARS (AXIS SALLY) ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON , IS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN IN CUSTODY BY FBI AGENTS. 01:21:59 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, "TOKYO ROSE" ORDERED ARRESTED (IN TOKYO) FOR TREASON" - ALSO AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO BROADCAST PROPAGANDA TO AMERICAN SOLDIER FIGHTING JAPANESE. 01:22:26 - "SPORTS" - GRID (FOOTBALL) PREVIEW" - 100,00 SEE CARDINALS BEAT COLLEGE ALL-STARS" - VARIOUS SHOTS GAME AT SOLDIER'S FIELD IN PROGRESS. CHICAGO ALL-STARS WIN 28-0 (1948) 01:23:36 - "SEATTLE, WASH." - "AMERICA'S BIGGEST SAIL CLASSIC!" - VARIOUS SHOTS 5 DAYS OF SAILBOAT RACING BETWEEN CANADA AND U. S. MONTAGE - SAILBOAT RACES IN PROGRESS. (SEATTLE LAKE WASHINGTON) 01:24:18 - "SOVIET REJECTS U. S. VOTE ON TEACHERS!" "RUSSIA CLOSES ITS COLLEGES IN THIS COUNTRY, AND ORDERS THAT THE AMERICAN CONSULATE IN U..S.S.R., AT VLADIVOSTOK, BE SHUT DOWN". 01:24:35 - EXTERIOR SHOT RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN NEW YORK. SOVIET CONSUL GENERAL EXITS CONSULATE AS HE PREPARES TO LEAVE THE U. S. 01:25:01 - LS EXTERIOR SOVIET CONSULATE OFFICE IN SAN FRANCISCO, WHICH THEY(SOVIETS) ALSO CLOSE DOWN. 01:25:22 - SOVIET TEACHER IS INTERVIEWED BY NEWSMEN AS SHE LIES IN HOSPITAL BED IN NY. AFTER SHE TRIED TO KILL HERSELF IN ATTEMPT TO BREAK WITH THE SOVIET UNION. SAYS SHE WAS CALLED AN "ENEMY OF THE STATE". 01:26:36 - "BACK TO SCHOOL FASHIONS" - MONTAGE GIRLS , MODELS, SHOW BACK TO SCHOOL FASHIONS BY HENRY ROSENFELD. (1948) 01:28:06 - "HISS VS CHAMBERS!" - {EYEWITNESSES FACE TO FACE AT SPY HEARING". TENSE DRAMA IN THE HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES HEARINGS. ALGER HIS, FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, ACCUSED OF BEING A COMMUNIST, MEETS HIS ACCUSER FACE TO FACE. 01:29:53 - WHITTIIKER CHAMBERS, FORMER COMMUNIST ,SPEAKS, SAYS HE WAS A CLOSE FRIEND OF HISS, CALLS HISS A LIAR WHO REPRESENTS THE CONCEALED ENEMY....". 01:31:12 - "HEAT WAVE!" - THERMOMETER SHOWING TEMPERATURES OVER 100 DEGREES. NEW YORK KIDS COOLING OFF UNDER FIRE HYDRANT. 01:31:34 - CU RULER SHOWS SEVERAL FEET OF SNOW, AS WE REMEMBER HOW COLD IT WAS IN WINTER. 01:31:40 - KIDS IN SWIM SUITS FROLIC IN PARK FOUNTAIN AS OTHERS ARE HOSED DOWN IN CITY STREET. 01:32:12 - KIDS IN SWIM SUITS SWIMMING, COOLING OFF, IN LARGE WATER FOUNTAIN THE PARK. BE HOSED DOWN BY WATER HOSE AMONG OTHER WAYS. KIDS LICKING BLOCK OF ICE. HUGE CROWD AT BEACH. 01:32:13 - "BEST ON ICE" - SKATE STARS PREVIEW GAYEST CARNIVAL!" 1949 ICE CAPADES AT ATLANTIC CITY. 3 MAN ACROBATIC ACT DO THEIR THING ON ICE. 01:32:30 - 4 IN PANDA BEAR OUTFITS DO THEIR THING ON ICE FOR KIDS IN AUDIENCE. 01:33:01 - DONNA ATWOOD AND BOBBY SPECK DANCE ON ICE., THEN DONNA DOES SOLO. FOLLOWED BY EXTRAVAGANZA WITH MANY SKATERS 01:33:33 - "WORLD CHURCHMEN MEET IN AMSTERDAM" - WORLD PROTESTANTS AND ORTHODOX FROM 42 COUNTRIES IN CATHEDRAL BISHOP OF CANTERBURY ADDRESSES THE 1500 DELEGATES, WITH A PRAYER.. 01:35:38 - "DRAFTY CALL" - "INDUCTIONS SET FOR NOVEMBER" - ELIGIBLE PEACE TIME DRAFTEES FILING IN TO DRAFT BOARDS THROUGHOUT THE U. S. AND SIGNING UP. 9 1/2 MILLION ELIGIBLE EVENTUALLY SIGN UP.NYC DIRECTOR SPEAKS. 01:36:33 - "JACOB LOMAKIN" - SOVIET CONSUL SAILS FROM NY". LOMAKIN EXITS SOVIET EMBASSY AFTER BEING ORDERED OUT OF THE COUNTRY BY U. S. 01:36:59 - "OLYMPIANS" - "U. S. STARS HOME AFTER LONDON SWEEP". AMERICAN MALE AND FEMALE OLYMPIC STARS POSE, WAVE TO CAMERA, AS THEY ARRIVE HOME FROM LONDON OLYMPIAD. 01:37:28 - VARIOUS STARS INCLUDING BOB MATHIAS (GREATEST ALL AROUND ATHLETE IN THE WORLD) POSE FOR CAMERA AFTER LEAVING SHIP. MATHIAS IS GREETED BY CROWD AS HE ARRIVES HOME BY PLANE. HE MOTORCADES DOWN MAIN STREET. 01:38:03 - "RED HOT FOOTBALL (TEMPERATURE 99 DEGREES) - DODGERS VS NY YANKEES FOOTBALL TEAMS AT EBBETS FIELD. VARIOUS SHOTS CROWD IN STANDS FANNING THEMSELVES. 01:38:28 - VARIOUS SHOTS FOOTBALL GAME IN PROGRESS - YANKEES BEAT DODGERS 21-3 01:39:55 - MONTAGE - GIANT PAGEANT FOR RETIRING QUEEN WILHELMINA OF NETHERLANDS. SHE IS HONORED BY HUGE ADORING CROWD AND WAVES FROM BALCONY OF THE ROYAL PALACE . 01:40:26 - "FOOTBALL" - "COLLEGIANS GET SET" - "SOUTH BEND, IND." - "IRISH EYE 3RD STRAIGHT NAT'L CROWN" VARIOUS SHOTS NOTRE DAME TEAM WORKING OUT ON FIELD. COACH LEAHY SPEAKS.. 01:41:35 - "WEST POINT, N. Y." - "ARMY RATED TOPS IN EAST!" - COACH RED BLAIK, SPEAKS TO TEAM ON FIELD. 5 TOP ARMY PLAYERS POSE. VARIOUS SHOTS ARMY TEAM IN PRACTICE. 01:42:07 - "ANNAPOLIS, MD." NAVY FACES TOUGH SCHEDULE" - VARIOUS SHOTS NAVY PLAYERS PRACTICING TACKLING. COACH GEORGE BAUER SHOWS PLAYERS HOW TO HANDLE FOOTBALL. 01:42:44 - "UN MOVES TO FRANCE" - "PARIS READY FOR DELEGATES OF 58 NATIONS" - 01:43:04 - FRENCH PREMIER ROBERT SCHUMAN AND SECRETARY GENERAL OF U. N. TRYGVE LIE JOIN CEREMONIES IN PARIS SQUARE, EIFFEL TOWER IN B/G, WHERE SCHUMAN TURNS OVER BUILDING TO LIE FOR USE AS NEW UN HEADQUARTERS. 01:43:44 - "SCHOOL DAZE" - "TWIRLERS LEARN TRICKS WITH THE STICKS!" VARIOUS SHOTS FEMALE TWIRLERS LEADING PARADES DOWN CITY, TOWN STREETS. 01:44:03 - ABOVE VIEW HUNDREDS KIDS (TWIRLERS), BUNCHED TOGETHER, SCATTER ONTO OPEN FIELD AT ACADEMY IN HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, TO TEST THEIR TALENTS AS TWIRLERS. 01:44:10 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS HUNDREDS KIDS TWIRLING THEIR BATONS IN OPEN FIELD. 01:44:44 - "AID FOR GREECE" - "U. S. BUILDS BRIDGES TO SPEED RECOVERY!" VARIOUS SHOTS BRIDGES BEING BUILT IN GREECE WITH AID OF U. S. FUNDS AND SKILL. MANY BRIDGES WERE DESTROYED BY NAZIS DURING WW2. 01:46:29 - "THE NOVEL IN FASHIONS" - MONTAGE VARIETY OF UNUSUAL PARIS HIGH FASHION WOMEN'S HEAD WEAR ARE MODELED FOR AUTUMN 1948. 01:47:21 - TILT UP MULTISTORY APARTMENT HOUSE IN NEW YORK CITY WHERE FASHION MODELS SHOW HIGH FASHION FUR COATS AND JACKETS. 01:48:12 - "CHINA FIGHTS INFLATION WITH MONEY REFORMS" - AERIAL PAN SHANGHAI. BUSY AUTO AND RIGSHAW TRAFFIC IN SHANGHAI AS HUGE CROWDS LINE UP TO EXCHANGE MONEY IN BANKS. 01:49:23 - CHINESE WOMAN WALKS OUT OF BANK WITH ARMS LOADED WITH PILES OF BILLS OF WHICH SHE STILL CAN HARDLY EXIST. TO GET THE IDEA, A GALLON OF GAS WENT FOR MORE THAN 3 MILLION DOLLARS A GALLON. A U. S. CARTON OF CIGARETTES , MORE THAN 8 MILLION DOLLARS.. 01:50:09 - 01:50:09 TO 01:58:04 ARE SAME AS 01;42:44 to 01:58:04 (end).
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1942
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: P-218-42