- Title: VM-365
- Summary: 1948 UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS: 1948 NEWS
- Description:01:26:38 - NEW PLANE EXCEEDS THE SPEED OF SOUND. AIR FORCE SUPERSONIC XS-1 ROCKET PLANE. 01:26:57 - CU CAPTAIN CHARLES YAEGER CLIMBS INTO ROCKET COCKPIT. TRIPPING RELEASE MECHANISM, PLANE DROPS FREE 01:27:23 - PLANE VAPOR TRAIL THROUGH THE SKY 01:27:35 - BEVY OF BATHING BEAUTIES FROLIC ON THE BEACH, THROWING BEACH BALL, DANCING THE HULA. GIRL FISHING, GIRL PLAYING THE UKULELE. GIRL WEARS FLOWER ON HER EAR 01:27:53 - WOMAN HIKES UP HER STRAPLESS SEQUIN BATHING SUIT TOP. MODEST BATHING SUIT, FASHIONS CIRCA 1948 01:27:59 - WOMAN WEARING ERMINE FUR BATHING SUIT HOLDING PERSIAN CAT 01:28:06 - MODEL LEANING UP AGAINST PALM TREE MODELING BATHING SUIT CIRCA 1948 01:28:11 - MODELS STRIKE POSES IN BATHING SUITS 01:28:21 - CU TILT UP MODEL'S LONG LEGS 01:28:30 - LINE OF MODELS STRIKE POSES 01:28:39 - 1948 WINTER OLYMPICS. DOWNHILL SKIING COMPETITION. SKIERS FALLING. SAINT MORITZ. SPILLS AND THRILLS 01:29:57 - WINNER STREAKS ACROSS FINISH LINE. CU TIME BOARD CU WINNER. CU SPECTATORS. 01:30:10 - WOMEN'S DOWNHILL COMPETITION, 1948 WINTER OLYMPICS. WINNER STREAKS ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. CU CHEERING SPECTATORS. CU WINNER 01:30:43 - 1948 ACADEMY AWARDS OSCARS PRESENTED. PHOTOGRAPHERS SNAPPING PHOTOS. PAPARAZZI. ROBERT MONTGOMERY. MARJORIE MAIN. 01:30:59 - JEAN SIMMONS RECEIVES AN OSCAR 01:31:05 - LORETTA YOUNG RECEIVES AN OSCAR, GIVES ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, SOF 01:31:37 - OLIVIA DEHAVILLAND PRESENTS ACADEMY AWARD TO RONALD COLEMAN. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, SOF 01:32:24 - JET PLANES LAND ON AIR CRAFT CARRIER. CAMERAMAN ON BREECHES BUOY, CREW PULLS IN LINE. GROUND CREW SIGNALS PLANE FOR TAKE OFF. FJ-1 JET POV LEAVING AIR CRAFT CARRIER, FROM BEHIND 01:33:20 - BARRIERS GOING UP, GROUND CREW WITH SEMAPHORE FLAGS. COMMUNICATION. LANDING SIGNAL OFFICER 01:33:28 - JET PLANE DROPS DOWN FOR A PERFECT LANDING 01:33:42 - GIRL SKIPPING ROPE WHILE ROLLING A LOG, STANDING ON A LOG TAKING OFF HER CLOTHES. LOG ROLLING CONTEST. STRIPTEASE, BATHING SUIT UNDERNEATH. UNUSUAL SPORTS. FALLS OFF AT THE END. 01:34:49 - PALESTINE, NEW JEWISH STATE FORMED AMID STRIFE PAN CITY OF HAIFA. ISRAEL. SOLDIERS IN JEEP, THE HAGANAH, ISRAELI TROOPS SEARCH FOR ARABS AFTER CAPTURING THE CITY. SEARCHING THROUGH RUBBLE. WAR-TORN CITY. ARAB-ISRAELI WAR 01:35:08 - ARABS SURRENDER TO ISRAELIS AT BARRICADE SOLDIER FRISKS ARAB 01:35:22 - CU ARAB CAPTIVES 01:35:25 - ARAB WOMEN FLEE WITH THEIR BELONGINGS 01:35:38 - UNITED NATIONS SESSION, LAKE SUCCESS. DEBATES THE PALESTINE ISSUE 01:36:18 - CROWDS CELEBRATE IN FRONT OF JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE, WASHINGTON. BOY HANGS ISRAELI FLAG, CROWD BELOW APPLAUDS 01:36:50 - DICK BUTTON, AMERICAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPION SHOWS HIS STUFF. INDOOR ICE SKATING. TORONTO. 01:37:24 - BARBARA ANN SCOTT, CANADIAN FIGURE SKATER. 01:38:01 - SHORT MIDGET-LIKE WEIGHT LIFTING. MR. AMERICA CONTEST. LOS ANGELES. BODYBUILDER FLEXING MUSCLES, WINNER HOLDS TROPHY. 01:38:33 - NATIONAL CELEBRITY GOLF COMPETITION, 1948. WASHINGTON, D.C. BIG CROWD OF GOLF FANS. MARGARET TRUMAN, GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY, SENATOR TAFT OF OHIO. BING CROSBY. RAINING. UMBRELLAS. PHOTOGRAPHER TAKES PHOTO OF CAMERAMAN. 01:39:05 - BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS 01:39:10 - DIZZY DEAN, BASEBALL PLAYER IN CELEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT 01:39:16 - BING CROSBY IN CELEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT 01:39:24 - REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA GOP. SELECTING LEADER. KEYNOTE SPEAKER ILLINOIS GOVERNOR DWIGHT GREEN. PEOPLE PARADE THE STREETS WITH PLACARDS SUPPORTING THEIR CANDIDATE CHOICE. TAFT. BABY ELEPHANT MASCOT. INFLATABLE ELEPHANT. PARTY MASCOTS. 01:40:02 - POV BEING TURNED AWAY FROM HOTEL BY FRONT DESK MANAGER, MAN SHAKING HIS HEAD NO. 01:40:05 - WOMAN MODELS SKIRT WITH REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FACES AFFIXED TO IT 01:40:12 - CU LEG, CANDIDATE PICTURES AFFIXED TO GARTER BELT 01:40:15 - CANDIDATE GOVERNOR AND MRS. THOMAS DEWEY. DEWEY HEADQUARTERS. 01:40:28 - CANDIDATE GOVERNOR EARL WARREN AND THE MRS. 01:40:32 - CANDIDATE ROBERT TAFT ARRIVES 01:40:35 - 1948 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. DELEGATES. CONVENTION OPENS WITH BANG OF THE GAVEL. 01:41:14 - 1948. YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK, SILVER JUBILEE, 1923. YANKEE BASEBALL TEAM. CU BILL DICKEY. RED ROLFE, LEFTY GOMEZ. MARK KOENIG, JOE SEWELL, WILCY MOORE. BUMP HADLEY, TOM ZACHARY. 01:41:45 - SULTAN OF SWAT, BABE RUTH COMES OUT OF DUGOUT TREMENDOUS OVATION FROM SPECTATORS, SWINGS AT BALL, BACK IN DUGOUT 01:42:21 - BELMONT, NEW YORK. CITATION. EDDIE ARCARO. BELMONT STAKES. JOCKEYS PARADE TO POST. 01:42:33 - RACE BEGINS, OUT OF GATES. FARAWAY. CITATION. 01:42:49 - HOMESTRETCH, CITATION IN SLOW MOTION CROSSES FINISH LINE. EDDIE ARCARO AND CITATION IN WINNER'S CIRCLE. TRIPLE CROWN WINNER. 01:43:52 - 1948 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. CU INFLATABLE DONKEY MASCOT. EYES LIGHT UP. BLINKING EYES. IKE HEADQUARTERS. GENERAL EISENHOWER. GIRL WITH POLITICAL PINS BUTTONS, BADGES ALL OVER HER SHIRT. ON THE BACK, PINS FORM THE MONIKER IKE. ZEALOUS CAMPAIGN WORKER. 01:44:15 - CAMPAIGN WORKERS DISMANTLE EISENHOWER HEADQUARTERS. TAKING DOWN LARGE POSTER OF IKE 01:44:25 - ANTI-TRUMAN FORCES GREET JAMES ROOSEVELT ARRIVING BY TRAIN WITH CALIFORNIA DELEGATION 01:44:35 - SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DOUGLAS' HEADQUARTERS. DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATE 01:44:45 - CU DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE SENATOR PEPPER 01:44:50 - SUPPORTERS AROUND ARKANSAS GOVERNOR BLANEY 01:44:57 - TRUMAN SUPPORTERS CARRY PLACARDS 01:45:01 - MEMBERS OF TRUMAN'S STRATEGY BOARD POSE 01:45:05 - EXTERIOR PHILADELPHIA'S CONVENTION HALL, SITE OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. SECURITY POLICE CHECK DELEGATES AS THEY ENTER. 01:45:15 - INTERIOR, CONVENTION HALL. SPLIT PARTY. DELEGATES. STATE PLACARDS. WARM DELEGATES FAN THEMSELVES. 01:46:00 - KEYNOTE ADDRESS GIVEN BY SENATOR BARKLEY, SOF 01:47:06 - FINAL 1948 OLYMPIC TRACK AND FIELD TRIALS. HENRY KAUFFMAN, DWIGHT EDELMAN. GEORGE STANICH. HIGH JUMP 01:47:26 - POLE VAULT, EARL MEADOWS, BOB RICHARDS, POLE SNAPS ON HARRY COOPER. DICK BORKUM. 01:47:48 - 100 METER SPRINT. SURPRISE UPSET. BARNEY EWELL. MEL PATTON. HARRISON DILLARD. 01:48:16 - 110 METER HURDLES. BILL PORTER. 01:48:40 - BERLIN, GERMANY. RUSSIAN SOLDIER PULLS DOWN RUSSIAN FLAG. SYMBOLIZING RUPTURE OF RELATIONS CU SIGN IN RUSSIAN. 01:48:54 - DOOR OPENING INWARD TO EMPTY SOVIET GENERAL KORDIKOFF ?SP 01:48:58 - AMERICAN FLAG RISING ON FLAG POLE. FRENCH FLAG BRITISH FLAG. 01:49:07 - GERMAN COMMUNISTS PARADE THROUGH POTSDAM PLATZ 01:49:20 - VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT, SMALL SCALE RIOT. PEOPLE BEATING EACH OTHER. 01:49:33 - IN THE BRITISH SECTOR, MEETING OF GERMANS FROM WESTERN ZONE. REPRESENTATIVES ARRIVE. SPECTATORS BEHIND GATE. 01:49:50 - PACKED MEETING OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. 01:50:12 - BERLIN CITIZENS GATHER NEAR BATTERED REICHSTAG 01:50:30 - AIR FORCE'S FIRST BIRTHDAY. B-50s SPEARHEAD 70-GROUP AIR FORCE. CU GENERAL HOIT VANDENBURG & AIR SECRETARY SIMONTON ?SP. VANDENBURG SPEAKS, SOF 01:51:16 - PAN BOEING ASSEMBLY LINE, MANUFACTURING B-50s SUCCESSOR OF THE B-29. LONG WINGED BOMBER. 01:51:47 - TEST FLIGHT OF AIR FORCE BOMBERS, 1948 01:52:08 - MISS AMERICA PARADE, 1948. ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY. MISS CANADA. MISS PUERTO RICO. MISS HAWAII. 01:52:31 - MISS "YOU NAMER" MASKED CONTORTIONIST JUMPS OFF FLOAT, DANCES ABOUT 01:52:44 - BATHING SUIT COMPETITION, MISS AMERICA, 1948 01:53:02 - 1947 MISS AMERICA CROWNS NEW MISS AMERICA, MISS MINNESOTA 01:53:15 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA. GIVES SPEECH, SOF, ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SPEECH 01:54:29 - GOP NOMINEE, THOMAS DEWEY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. WHISTLE STOP CAMPAIGN. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE 01:54:53 - POV BEHIND DEWEY ON CABOOSE AS TRAIN LEAVES STATION 01:55:03 - PARIS DURING A UNION STRIKE, ALL FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION SHUT DOWN. TRANSPORTATION STRIKE. SUBWAYS CLOSED DOWN. EMPTY TRAIN STATIONS, IDLE TRAINS. 01:55:18 - PARISIANS ON FOOT, BICYCLE, IN BACK OF A FLATBED TRUCK 01:55:38 - MASSIVE TRAFFIC JAM, PARIS STREETS. 01:55:45 - STRIKING DEMONSTRATORS MARCH, PUSH AGAINST POLICE MAN BEATEN UP BE POLICEMEN 01:56:10 - CATALINA ISLAND, CALIFORNIA. SWIMSUIT FASHION SHOW 1948. BEVY OF BEAUTIES MODEL BATHING SUITS. GIRLS TIE UP THEIR SUITS TO MAKE THEM BRIEFER. 01:56:57 - 1948 WORLD SERIES. INDIANS WIN 4 TO 2 AGAINST THE BRAVES. BRAVES FIELD, BOSTON. 40,000 FANS. BOSTON BRAVES PITCHER BILL VOISELLE. CLEVELAND'S PITCHER BOB LEMON. 01:57:25 - LOU BOUDREAU AT BAT. DALE MITCHELL RUNS HOME HOME PLATE. 01:57:44 - MIKE MCCORMICK AT BAT. BOB ELLIOT RUNS HOME 01:57:58 - CU SCORE BOARD, WORLD SERIES, 1948. 01:58:02 - JOE GORDON AT BAT, HITS HOMER RUNS THE BASES. HOME PLATER. HOME RUN 01:58:26 - THURMAN TUCKER AT THIRD BASE. JIM HEGAN AT BAT. TUCKER HESITATES, THEN SCORES. HOME PLATE 01:58:41 - JACKIE ROBINSON AT BAT. SCORES A SINGLE. KEN KELTNER SCORES, RUNS ACROSS HOME PLATE 01:58:55 - TUCKER CAUGHT BETWEEN THIRD AND HOME, KNOCKS CATCHER OUT OF THE WAY AND SCORES 01:59:09 - BASES LOADED, CLEVELAND TAKES PITCHER LEMON OUT, BRINGS IN GENE BEARDEN. CLINT CONASTER AT BAT. TOMMY HOLMES RUNS HOME. SCORES. 01:59:40 - SPECTATORS SIT EN MASSE 01:59:44 - PHIL MASI AT BAT. 02:00:02 - PITCHER GENE BEARDEN. SIBBY SISTI 02:00:14 - TOMMY HOLMES AT BAT, FLY OUT. CLEVELAND WINS WORLD SERIES 02:00:45 - HARRY TRUMAN WINS 1948 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. LINE OF VOTERS WAIT TO GET INTO POLLING PLACE CITIZENS VOTING. 02:01:06 - HIGH PAN NEW YORK CITY, 1948. 02:01:13 - THOMAS DEWEY AND WIFE ARRIVE TO VOTE. PAN TO PHOTOGRAPHERS HANGING OUT SECOND STORY WINDOWS, ON FIRE ESCAPES TO GET PHOTOGRAPHS 02:01:25 - INSIDE, NEWS CAMERAMEN CAPTURE DEWEY SIGNING IN AND VOTING. 02:01:38 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN ARRIVES TO VOTE. 02:02:07 - HENRY WALLACE AT THE SOUTH SALEM, NEW YORK LIBRARY TO VOTE. CANDIDATES VOTING 02:02:21 - GOVERNOR FURMAN, CANDIDATES VOTING 02:02:35 - CU HAND SLIPPING BALLOT IN BALLOT BOX. VOTING 02:02:38 - BUSY PRESS AND RADIO COMMUNICATIONS CENTER, COVERING 1948 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. BROADCASTER ED HERLIHY OR BEN BROWER PUTS ON HEADSET. 02:02:49 - ELECTION HEADQUARTERS, RETURNS COMING IN. WORKER TABULATING ADDING MACHINE 02:03:00 - FOUR PRESSMEN ASLEEP SITTING UP. MONTAGE PEOPLE SLEEPING 02:03:09 - ROW OF NEWS TELETYPE MACHINES. NBC NEWS. AP. NBC ANNOUNCER MOUTHS "TRUMAN WINS" TRUMAN SUPPORTERS BURST INTO APPLAUSE, CELEBRATING CU WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM FROM THOMAS DEWEY. 02:03:30 - CU HAPPY HARRY TRUMAN. VICTORY PLEDGE ON SCREEN 02:03:45 - WORKERS ERECTING STAGE FOR PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL 02:04:04 - CU TRUMAN READY TO SPEAK 02:04:10 - AERIAL VIEW OF THE QUEEN MARY, IN DRY DOCK, SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND 02:04:21 - LINE OF SHIPYARD WORKERS BOARDING QUEEN MARY. WORKING ON SHIP 02:04:41 - 100,000 SPECTATORS IN MEMORIAL STADIUM, LOS ANGELES WATCH COLLEGE FOOTBALL, NOTRE DAME VS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 1948. FIGHTING IRISH VS TROJANS. TIE GAME 02:06:36 - COLLEGE FOOTBALL, NORTH CAROLINA VS GEORGIA. NORTH CAROLINA WINS 21 TO 14. GOOD SHOTS OF SPECTATORS 02:07:43 - PATRIOTIC PSA ON SCREEN "PROTECT YOUR HERITAGE AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN! REGISTER AND VOTE" 02:07:52 - CHINESE CIVIL WAR. SUCHOW. NATIONALIST FORCES. COL. CHUNG WAIKOU. CIVIL WAR FOOTAGE. TRENCH WARFARE 02:08:34 - DEAD COMMUNIST SOLDIERS LITTER THE GROUND 02:08:38 - WOUNDED NATIONALIST SOLDIERS CARRIED ON STRETCHERS 02:08:42 - CAPTURED COMMUNIST TROOPS AND THEIR ARMS. CU WEAPONS. CU COMMUNIST POWS. 02:08:56 - MADAME CHAING KAI SHEK & MRS. GEORGE MARSHALL IN VIRGINIA BOTH WEARING FUR COATS. MRS. CHAING KAI SHEK SPEAKS SOF 02:09:40 - ROBERT STRIPLING AND RICHARD NIXON LOOK OVER MICROFILMS. WHITTAKER CHAMBERS SELF CONFESSED COMMUNIST SPY. MARYLAND FARM, PUMPKIN PATCH, PUMPKIN WHICH HID MICROFILM 02:10:31 - QUEEN ELIZABETH ATTENDS COMMAND PERFORMANCE OF MOTION PICTURE STARS IN LONDON. JR PERRANK ?SP LITTLE GIRL GIVES PRINCESS MARGARET BOUQUET, CURTSEYS. 02:10:50 - LINE OF MOVIE STARS MEET THE QUEEN. VIVIAN LEIGH CURTSEYS. SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER, MERNA LOY, MARGARET LOCKWOOD 02:11:08 - QUEEN ELIZABETH AND FAMILY WALK DOWN STAIRCASE 02:11:16 - MISS ALASKA, KIANA ARRIVES IN HOLLYWOOD TO MAKE FILM "ARCTIC MANHUNT" TILT UP TRADITIONAL ESKIMO WARM OUTFIT 02:11:32 - BEVY OF BEAUTIES VIE FOR TITLE "HELEN OF TROY" WINNER WEARS TIARA. CHARLENE HARVEY. DONALD OCONNOR KISSES HER ON THE CHEEK 02:12:00 - SIX-MAN WRESTLING MATCH. MONTREAL. AUSTRALIAN TAG MATCH. SLUG FEST. MACHO SPORTS 02:13:42 - POV DRIVING UP TO CUSTOMS ROADBLOCK, HOLLAND. DOUANE. CUSTOMS OFFICIAL CHECKS CAR TRUNK. 02:13:52 - ST. NICK SANTA CLAUS ON HORSEBACK. PAGE IN BLACKFACE. CUSTOMS OFFICER FRISKS SANTA CLAUS SEARCHING THROUGH SLED OF PRESENTS. 02:14:54 - 20 PLAY MEN PLAY 400 HARMONICAS ODD SHAPED HARMONICAS, VARIOUS TYPES OF HARMONICAS. ORCHESTRA OF HARMONICA PLAYERS. 02:16:25 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1948
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-365