- Title: VM-798A
- Summary: UNITED NEWS: WWII ERA NEWSREELS. WORLD WAR TWO. POST-WWII, 1946
- Description:00:01:33 - FRANCE CLOSES SPAIN BORDER. BORDER SIGN "FRONTIERE & HENDAYE" 00:01:41 - AT THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE, LAST MINUTE COMINGS AND GOINGS BEFORE BARRIER IS BROUGHT DOWN BORDER GUARD CHECKS PASSPORTS 00:02:01 - PEOPLE CROSSING BRIDGE TO SPANISH SIDE. 00:02:08 - BARRIER BROUGHT DOWN, CLOSES OFF TRAFFIC BETWEEN FRANCE AND SPAIN 00:02:12 - ROAD SIGN "DOUANES FRANCAISES" 00:02:14 - FRENCH BORDER TOWN, PEOPLE HECKLE SPANISH ON OTHER SIDE OF BORDER, MAN WAVES WHITE HANDKERCHIEFS 00:02:37 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN URGES TOLERANCE. TRUMAN AT BANQUET HAILED MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA. 500 RELIGIOUS LEADERS. PROTESTANTISM 00:03:01 - TRUMAN SPEAKS, SOF, REFERS TO THE UN CHARTER STRESSES THE NEED FOR RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND UNITY 00:03:50 - NEWS TOPICS. ICE FLOES FROM LAKE HERON ARE PUSHED INSHORE BY ROARING WINDS. 00:03:56 - MAP OF THE GREAT LAKES AREA OF THE US 00:04:00 - HOUSES CRUSHED BY ICE. NATURAL DISASTERS. 00:04:30 - WASHINGTON STATE. DEER LEAP THROUGH UNUSUALLY DEEP SNOW. HUMANS FEED HAY, FODDER TO DEER IN HEAVY WEATHER DEER GRAZING. FRISKY AFTER FEEDING, DEER LEAPING THROUGH SNOW, RETURN TO THE WOODS 00:05:07 - MEN PUSH OVER 35 TON SHERMAN TANK, REALLY A DUMMY, DECOY ARMOR. DUMMY TURRET. 5 TON TRUCK IS REALLY A DUMMY. MEN INFLATE DECOY TANK. "WALKING TANK". DECOY ARMOR TO FOOL NAZIS. 00:06:12 - NATIVES MOVED FROM ATOLL FOR ATOM BOMB TEST. CLOVIS FIELD, NEW MEXICO. CAMERAMAN BOARDS PLANE AIRFIELD CROWDED WITH NEWSMEN 00:06:33 - POV ON PLANE 00:06:37 - PLANE OPERATOR ON LAND. PIOLET-LESS PLANE 00:06:48 - CONTROL SWITCHED TO THE MOTHER SHIP. POV IN "MOTHER SHIP" BEHIND PILOT. 00:07:04 - POV IN PILOTLESS PLANE 00:07:35 - POV IN PLANE APPROACHING BIKINI ATOLL. MARSHALL ISLANDS. 00:07:43 - MONTAGE BIKINI ATOLL. BIKINI ISLAND. THATCHED GRASS ROOF HUTS. NATIVES POSE WITH FISH. CU NATIVE BIKINI ISLAND RESIDENTS. BOY HOLDS PUPPY. 00:08:16 - GROUP ON SHORE LOOKS OUT AT NAVY SHIP SUNNER. 00:08:27 - RESIDENTS SIT IN FRONT IN FRONT OF PALM THATCHED COMMUNITY HOUSE, AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER DISCUSSES PLANS TO MOVE POPULATION TO RONGERIK ATOLL. 00:08:42 - CU MONTAGE BIKINI ATOLL RESIDENTS. OLD MAN SMILES, TEETH MISSING. 00:08:47 - GROUP OF YOUNG GIRLS LAUGH AT SOLDIER WHO PULLS OUT HIS FALSE TEETH, DENTURES. 00:08:57 - CONSTRUCTION PARTY OF NATIVES AND AMERICAN ENGINEERS LOAD SUPPLIES ON BOAT TO BUILD HOMES ON RONGERIK. WOMEN AND CHILDREN WAVE FROM SHORE. MEN WAVE BACK FROM BOAT 00:09:22 - SKI JUMPERS AT IRON MOUNTAIN, MICHIGAN. CENTRAL US SKI ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENT. WORLD'S HIGHEST ARTIFICIAL SKI SLIDE. SOME SKIERS FALL ON ICY SLOPE. WALTER BATILLA ?SP WINS WITH JUMP OF 350 FEET. 00:11:23 - US BOWLERS MEET FOR CHAMPIONSHIP. WESTERN NEW YORK STATE. CU BALL STRIKING PINS, STRIKE. ALL PINS FALL. CU BALL. CU BLOWER PICKING UP BOWLING BALL. 00:11:43 - CAMERA FOLLOWS BALL DOWN BOWLING ALLEY, STRIKE 00:11:48 - HS HUGE BOWLING ALLEY 00:11:50 - BAREFOOTED CAMERAMAN RUNS DOWN ALLEY PUSHING PUSHER CAMERA. POV FOLLOWING BOWLING BALL DOWN ALLEY, STRIKING PINS 00:12:15 - HS LARGE BOWLING ALLEY, BOWLERS IN EVERY LANE THROW BOWLING BALLS AT THE SAME TIME. 00:12:35 - AGA KHAN'S WEIGHT IN DIAMONDS GOES TO INDIA'S NEEDY. BOMBAY. ORIENTAL CUSTOM. MUMBAI. INTERIOR STADIUM. AGA KHAN WITH WIFE STUDY PLANS OF THE SCALES. PAN STADIUM, 60,000 FOLLOWERS. SACKS OF DIAMONDS. AGA KHAN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE. 00:12:59 - VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE MUSLIM WORLD MADE THE PILGRIMAGE. PLACARDS FOR BURMA, SYRIA, CENTRAL ASIA, MADAGASCAR, EAST AFRICA 00:13:12 - AGA KHAN, RESPLENDENT IN A SILVER BROCADED TUNIC ARRIVES. DIAMONDS PLACED ON THE SCALE. FRENCH WIFE WATCHES. AGA KHAN SITS ON OTHER SIDE OF THE SCALE. CU SCALE. 243 1/2 POUNDS 00:14:07 - NEWS FROM THE WORLD CONFERENCE. PACIFIC OCEAN, NEW ISLAND CREATED BY UNDERWATER VOLCANIC ERUPTION. BLACK ROCK. HUGE BURST OF SMOKE, SULFUREROUS STEAM. 230 MILES SOUTH OF TOKYO. 00:14:55 - COLORADO, WORLD'S HIGHEST OBSERVATORY. SKIERS DR. WALTER ROBERTS AND WIFE SKI TO OBSERVATORY 00:15:11 - HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY. DR. ROBERTS STUDIES THE SUN'S SURFACE WITH THE AID OF CORONAGRAPH. TELESCOPE MASKS THE BRIGHT SUN, SIMULATES ECLIPSE ALLOWING STUDY OF THE SUN'S CORONA. EDGES. 00:15:32 - FILM OF THE SUN THROUGH CORONAGRAPH SHOWS ACTIVITY, VIOLENT MOTION OF TREMENDOUS SOLAR UPHEAVALS. CLOUDS OF BURNING GASSES. 00:15:59 - CHURCHILL VISITS ROOSEVELT'S GRAVE. PRIVATE CITIZEN WINSTON CHURCHILL PLACES LAYS A ON FDR'S GRAVE, HYDE PARK. WITH ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 00:16:20 - MONTAGE FDR & CHURCHILL MEETING. ATLANTIC CHARTER CASABLANCA. WITH STALIN AT TEHERAN, YALTA 00:16:51 - WINSTON CHURCHILL AT FDR'S GRAVE WITH ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 00:16:58 - US HUNTERS TRAP SAVAGE COUGARS. WASHINGTON STATE, DOGS EAGER FOR THE CHASE. MOUNTAIN LION, COUGAR RUNS UP A TREE. COUGAR IN TREE. MAN CLIMBS TREE MOUNTAIN LION CLIMBS EVEN HIGHER. HUNTER SLIPS ROPE AROUND COUGAR. 00:17:45 - COUGAR LUNGES AT BARKING HUNTING DOGS. 00:17:50 - MAN TIES COUGAR'S FEET TOGETHER, PLACED IN BACKPACK 00:18:07 - US TAKES STEPS TO EASE WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE. UNRAA IN ITALY. LINE OF ITALIAN CHILDREN RECEIVE BREAD. BREAD LINE. POTS OF SOUP WHEELED ON WAGON CHILDREN CHEER. CHILDREN ON SOUP LINE, MAN LADLES SOUP INTO BOY'S CUP. CHILDREN CHEER. 00:18:33 - CATTLE DRIVEN TO PORT, CU BRANDING COW WITH "USA", PRIEST BLESSES THE COWS. 00:18:55 - THUNDERING HERD OF HORSES WEARING THE BRAND OF THE US ARE LOADED INTO CRATES, LOADED ONTO SHIP CU HORSES. 00:19:28 - FORMER PRESIDENT HOOVER, ASSUMES FORMER ROLE OF CHAIRMAN OF EMERGENCY FAMINE COMMISSION, BOARDS PLANE. THE AIR TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION PLANE TAXIS 00:21:27 - UNRRA COUNCIL PLANS RELIEF OF WORLD'S NEEDY. 4TH COUNCIL MEETING AT ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY. PEOPLE STROLL BOARDWALK 00:21:34 - UNRRA MEETING. UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION. 47 NATIONS REPRESENTED. FLAGS. CONVENES TO SOLVE THE FOOD FAMINE. 00:22:12 - UNRAA'S RETIRING GENERAL HERBERT H. LEHMAN SPEAKS FOR BROTHERHOOD AMONG NATIONS, SOF 00:22:45 - US NAVY SHOWS LARGEST PLANE. PEACETIME "MARS FLYING BOAT" WORLD'S LARGEST PLANE. DESIGNED FOR CARGO. OFFICERS, CREW BOARD GIANT CARGO PLANE, POV BEHIND PILOTS IN COCKPIT. PLANE STARTED, SKIMS WATER'S SURFACE, SEAPLANE TAKES OFF, IN FLIGHT. CU CONTROLS. PLANE IN FLIGHT OVER SAN FRANCISCO BAY, CITY, GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE IN B/G. 00:23:58 - CIRCULAR DWELLING NEWEST INVENTION IN HOUSING CRISIS. WICHITA KANSAS. CIRCULAR HOUSE MADE OF PLASTIC AND ALUMINIUM. SUSPENDED FROM CENTRAL MASS OF STAINLESS STEEL INSTEAD OF A FOUNDATION REVOLVING ROOF. 00:24:20 - INVENTOR USING A MODEL, SHOWS HOW CIRCULAR DESIGN MAKES BEST USE OF FLOOR SPACE 00:24:48 - HOUSE HUNTING COUPLE INSPECTS HOUSE. OPENING CLOSETS. BUILT-IN DUST PROOF HAT RACK. CONVEYOR BELT LINEN CLOSET. WOMAN PRESSES BUTTON TO ROTATE SHELVES. MODERN CONVENIENCES. 00:25:18 - EXTERIOR ROUND HOUSE. 00:25:28 - CARRIER "MIDWAY" IN ARCTIC TESTS. CARRIER BOUND FOR POLAR SEAS. CARRIER DECK FULL OF PLANES. ESCORT OF THREE DESTROYERS. PIPELINE PASSED TO THE CARRIER REFUELS THE SMALL SHORT-RANGE VESSELS. PLANES COVERED AGAINST THE COLD. HOSES PUMP WARM AIR INTO COVERED PLANES TO KEEP MOTORS FROM FREEZING. EXPERIMENT WITH PROTECTION FOR EQUIPMENT IN THE ARCTIC. CU CREW MEMBER HUGGING WARM HOSE 00:26:12 - ON DECK, SAILORS TEST OUT LATEST FASHIONS FOR ARCTIC MANEUVERS. CO GOGGLES, FACE MASKS 00:26:26 - MECHANICAL BRUSH SWEEPS FLIGHT DECK. CLEARING SNOW FROM AIR CRAFT CARRIER'S DECK 00:26:33 - CREW STARTS PROPELLERS, CABLES ATTACHED TO PLANE WHICH TAKES OFF WITH THE AID OF CATAPULT EQUIPMENT. CREW ON DECK DUCK AS PLANE TAKES OFF. 00:27:09 - CU ADMIRAL CASSIDY, COMMANDER OF THE TASK FORCE LOOKS THROUGH BINOCULARS. 00:27:13 - POV ON CARRIER IN FRIGID ARCTIC 00:27:22 - CU LANDING CREW MEMBER WEARING PROTECTIVE ARCTIC MASK & CLOTHING GUIDES PLANE IN 00:27:35 - NEW ZEALAND RESTOCKS HER TROUT STREAMS. TROUT SPAWNING TIME, GOVERNMENT LABORATORY EXPERTS COLLECT EGGS. CAPTURING THE TROUT WITH NETS, PLACED INTO A BOX, STRIPPED OF THEIR EGGS, RELEASED. 00:27:56 - CU TROUT EGGS. AT GOVERNMENT HATCHERY. SHOW FIRST SIGNS OF LIFE THE EYES WHICH SHOW AS BLACK SPOTS. SQUIRMING LITTLE EGGS. THEN IN FINAL FORM THE SIZE OF A LITTLE FINGER 00:28:25 - TROUT RELEASED INTO STREAM. RESTOCKING STREAM WITH TROUT. POURED OUT BY THE HUNDREDS 00:28:33 - CU ADULT TROUT HELD BY MEN 00:28:47 - UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS IN NEW YORK. TEMPORARY HEADQUARTERS AT HUNTER COLLEGE. 00:28:51 - CURIOSITY SEEKERS HELD BEHIND POLICE BARRIER AS LIMOS CARRYING DELEGATES ARRIVE. 00:29:03 - BANK OF PHOTOGRAPHERS READY CAMERAS. TAKING PHOTOS 00:29:07 - DR. KWO TAICHI?SP OF CHINA, ACTING SECURITY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN. TRYGVE LIE, ANDREI GROMYKO, HENRI BONET, EDWARD R. STETTINIUS, SIR ALEXANDER CADOGAN ?SP. MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES BYRNES ALL POSE FOR PHOTOS 00:29:47 - CU PEOPLE LOOKING THROUGH WIRE FENCE, GATE WAITING TO BE ALLOWED IN. SPECTATORS FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC FILE IN THROUGH GATE 00:29:59 - INTERIOR CHAMBER. WORLD OFFICIALS, NEWSREEL CAMERAS RECORD HISTORIC FIRST SESSION OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL 00:30:29 - CHINA'S DR. KWO TAICHI?SP OPENS THE MEETING 00:30:30 - SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES ADDRESSES THE COUNCIL, SOF 00:32:27 - CANADIAN FIRE SWEEPS HUGE PULPWOOD STOCKS. RAGING FIRES BURN PILES OF WOOD. FIRE FIGHTERS FIGHT 500 FOOT HIGH FLAMES. 00:32:53 - NEXT DAY, MASSIVE PILE OF WOOD STILL SMOKING & BURNING. FLAMES REACH THE ALEXANDRA RAILROAD BRIDGE. HEAT TWISTS STEEL RAILS OF THE BRIDGE WARPED RAILROAD TRACKS. WARPED BRIDGE. FIRE AFTERMATH 00:33:30 - US PHOSPHATES TO FERTILIZE EUROPEAN CROPS AERIAL OVER PHOSPHATE MINES, FLORIDA. AGRICULTURAL FERTILIZER. 00:33:42 - MAN DWARFED BY HUGE PILE OF PHOSPHATE. 00:33:45 - TREMENDOUS DREDGE DIGS UP PHOSPHATE DEPOSIT. EXCAVATING PHOSPHATE. 00:34:08 - HS RAILROAD GONDOLA CARS CROSS LONG TRESSEL CARRIED TO LARGE STOCKPILE. BULLDOZERS PUSH IT INTO PITS, TRANSPORTED UNDERGROUND ON CONVEYOR BELTS. PHOSPHATE LOADED INTO CARS FOR SHIPMENT ABROAD 00:34:35 - AERIAL OVER PHOSPHATE MINE 00:34:44 - UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES IRAN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING, DISPUTE BETWEEN IRAN & RUSSIA. AMBASSADOR GROMYKO CLEANS EYEGLASSES. SIR ALEXANDER CADOGAN. STETTINIUS. BYRNES. DR. LONGA ?SP FROM POLAND. AMBASSADOR HASSEIN ALLAH ?SP. AZERBAIJAN CRISIS. FIRST CASE TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE SECURITY COUNCIL 00:35:17 - GROMYKO SPEAKS, SOF 00:35:52 - DR. KWO ?SP, OF CHINA PRESIDING, CALLS ON VOTE SHOW OF 9 HANDS TO 2, THE IRANIAN PROTEST IS KEPT ON THE AGENDA. SECRETARY BYRNES SPEAKS, SOF. DELEGATE VAN KLEFFINS ?SP SPEAKS, SOF. POSTPONEMENT 00:37:24 - CU STENOGRAPHERS TYPING 00:37:59 - DELEGATES ARRIVE NEXT DAY. GROMYKO. SECRETARY GENERAL TRYGVE LIE. IRANIAN REPRESENTATIVE. 00:38:25 - EGYPTIAN DELEGATE SPEAKS. IRANIAN-RUSSIAN DISPUTE BANGS FIST ON TABLE. 00:39:12 - SCENES FROM FIRST UNITED NATIONS MEETING 1946 CLIMAX, VOTE 9-2 AGAINST POSTPONEMENT 00:39:51 - RUSSIAN DELEGATION AND GROMYKO WALK OUT OF UN MEETING BEFORE IRANIAN DELEGATE SPEAKS 00:40:28 - MEETING GOES ON. NEXT DAY DELEGATES TAKE THEIR PLACES, EMPTY USSR SEATS, IRAN'S AMBASSADOR SPEAKS, SOF. 00:42:22 - GOERING TAKES STAND AT WAR CRIMINALS TRIAL. HERMANN GOERING. HITLER'S NUMBER TWO MAN. WAR CRIMES. TRIBUNAL. SOF. 00:44:27 - NATURE STRIKES WITH ERUPTION AND TIDAL WAVE. PACIFIC OCEAN. MAP. ILLUSTRATION OF THE OCEAN FLOOR SHOWING LANDSLIDE. VERTICAL DROP CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE. 00:44:54 - MAMMOTH WAVES BATTER COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA. PACIFIC COAST. 00:45:00 - MAP OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ARROW TO HILO 00:45:02 - PLANE POV HAWAIIAN ISLAND HILO COAST, CAPITOL OF HAWAII ISLAND WITH DESTRUCTION 00:45:18 - MEN INSPECT DAMAGE. THOUSANDS OF HOMELESS. HOMES AND BUILDINGS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. 00:45:36 - HOMELESS HAWIIANS TRANSPORTED TO NEW QUARTERS. OLD WOMAN ASSISTED. 00:45:43 - DISPLACED HAWAIIANS ON URBAN STREETS. TIDAL WAVE DAMAGE, CARS UNDER RUBBLE. BUILDINGS COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY SHIFTING OF THE EARTH 00:46:02 - MAP OF JAPAN. 00:46:04 - ACTIVE VOLCANO OFF JAPANESE ISLAND KYUSHU, ONTAKI ?. PENINSULA EVACUATED. VOLCANO ERUPTS. 00:46:50 - MUSICAL THERAPY USED TO TREAT INSANE PIANIST MICHIGAN STATE HOSPITAL. CU INSANE PIANIST. DR. GRUBER TRIES TO BRING HIM BACK WITH MUSIC THERAPY. EXPRESSIVE THERAPY. CU PLAYING PIANO 00:48:45 - FRENCH VILLAGE TO RISE FROM WAR RUINS. PAN VILLAGE IN RUINS. RE-CONSTRUCTION. DORTAN. 00:49:07 - DORTAN SCHOOL CHILDREN IN CLASSROOM 00:49:10 - VILLAGE CRAFTSMAN AT WORK IN HIS WORKSHOP. 00:49:16 - TEARING DOWN REMAINS OF STANDING BUILDINGS. BUILDING WALLS FALLING DOWN. RAZING BUILDINGS RECONSTRUCTION OF WAR RUINS 00:49:45 - UNITED NATIONS CONTINUES SECURITY COUNCIL SESSION IRANIAN-RUSSIAN ISSUE. SECRETARY BYRNES SPEAKS. UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATE SPEAKS ON THE RESOLUTION. DR. KWO OF CHINA, CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR A VOTE. SECURITY COUNCIL VOTES TO ADOPT THE PROPOSAL IRANIAN DELEGATE ADDRESSES THE COUNCIL. 00:52:44 - SUBMARINES OF JAPANESE NAVY SUNK BY U.S. NAVAL BASE, JAPAN. 158. SUBMARINES LOADED WITH HIGH EXPLOSIVES. DESTROYING OLD SHIPS. SINKING JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS, SUBMARINES 00:54:21 - WHOLE U.S. TOWN CLEANED UP WITH DDT INSECTICIDE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. MEN SPRAY DDT IN MAN HOLE SPRAYING TOWN WITH INSECTICIDE. CLEAN UP CREW PICKING UP LITTER. GARBAGE MEN SHOVEL GARBAGE INTO GARBAGE TRUCK. MEN NOT WEARING MASKS OR ANY PROTECTIVE CLOTHING 00:54:59 - CATTLE ARE SPRAYED WITH DDT INSECTICIDE 00:55:07 - MAN WALKS UP TO CAMERA, SPRAYS CAMERA WITH INSECTICIDE 00:55:12 - MAN SPRAYING OUTHOUSE WITH DDT INSECTICIDE, LITTLE BOY RUNS OUT OF OUTHOUSE 00:55:23 - GOLD RUSH IN CANADIAN TOWN. TOWN OF YELLOWKNIFE. ALBERTA. BUSINESS SIGNS "DUDSON'S DAY COMPANY" "AMERICAN METAL CO. OF CANADA" "ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS" 00:55:37 - BOOM TOWN, CONSTRUCTION SITE. BUILDING GOLD MINE DIAMOND DRILL GOING DOWN HUNDREDS OF FEET, BRINGS UP SAMPLES OF GOLD-BEARING ORE 00:56:02 - ORE SMELTED, LIQUID GOLD POURED INTO A MOLD. HARDENED, INGOT TAKEN OUT OF MOLD 00:56:16 - MONTAGE TOWN BUSINESSES. BARBER SHOP. STEAK HOUSE. 00:56:25 - MEN EATING IN DINER WAITRESS SERVED MEALS 00:56:27 - BUS ENTERS TOWN 00:56:30 - AIRPLANE PASSENGERS WALK AWAY FROM PLANE SNOW COVERED STRIP 00:56:32 - BANK OF TORONTO 00:56:34 - TOWNSPEOPLE WALK AROUND YELLOWKNIFE, CIRCA 1946 00:56:42 - FLORIDA CYPRESS FELLED TO EASE HOUSING SHORTAGE AERIAL OVER CYPRESS SWAMPS OF THE EVERGLADES 00:56:51 - BLACK WORKERS WADE THROUGH THE SWAMPS. RAILROAD CREW BUILDING RAILROAD TRACKS. LUMBERMEN CUT CYPRUS TREES DOWN. 00:57:17 - LOGGERS WADE THROUGH SWAMPS TO CUT CYPRUS TREES DOWN. TREE CRASHES INTO THE SWAMPS. 00:57:29 - FREIGHT TRAIN EN ROUTE TO LUMBER MILL, PRIMITIVE TRACKS THROUGH SWAMP 00:57:51 - U.S. MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ROOSEVELT'S DEATH. FDR. EXTERIOR ROOSEVELT'S HOME, HYDE PARK, NEW YORK 00:58:06 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT PLACE WREATH AT FDR'S GRAVE ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH 00:58:21 - APRIL, 1945. FDR FUNERAL CORTEGE. FLAG DRAPED COFFIN ON CAISSON. PEOPLE WEEP OPENLY. DRY TEARS GRAVEYARD CEREMONY 00:58:59 - HYDE PARK FDR ESTATE FORMALLY DEDICATED TO THE PUBLIC, 1946. CEREMONY. TRYGVE LIE. ANDRE GROMYKO. PAY THEIR RESPECTS. FDR'S FAITHFUL DOG SITS AT THE FEET OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. 00:59:32 - ELEANOR ROOSEVELT TURNS OVER THE ESTATE TO THE PEOPLE. GIVES SPEECH, SOF 01:00:33 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEECH, SOF. "WE SHALL NOT SOON SEE HIS LIKE AGAIN" 01:01:02 - INTERIOR FDR ESTATE AT HYDE PARK, RECEPTION ROOM WARM AND COMFORTABLE FURNITURE. LIBRARY. DESK FDR'S STAMP COLLECTION. MAIN HALL. CARVED STAIRWAY. FDR'S BEDROOM. EXTERIOR SHOT OF THE HOUSE 01:02:34 - JAPANESE GO TO POLLS IN FIRST FREE ELECTION CITIZENS LOOK AT BILLBOARD WITH POLITICIANS CANDIDATES. JAPANESE PARLIAMENT 01:02:46 - JAPANESE PARK HIBEA ?SP CROWD OF 10,000 LEFT WING POLITICAL SPEAKERS. CU CITIZENS, CIVILIANS AND MILITARY. 01:03:09 - CROWD BREAKS OUT INTO AN ANGRY CHANT. LEFT WING, UNION LEADERS AND KOREANS IN JAPANESE POLITICAL MARCH. CU MARCHING FEET 01:03:27 - AT THE GATE'S OF THE PREMIER'S HOME, JAPANESE POLICE TRY VAINLY TO FORCE THE CROWED BACK. ANGRY MOB. 01:03:45 - PRIME MINISTER YOSHIDA SHIGERU MEETS WITH LEFTIST REPRESENTATIVES. COMMUNIST SECRETARY GENERAL DENOUNCES PREMIER'S LEADERSHIP. 01:04:07 - DOLLY DOWN ELECTION DAY LINE OF VOTERS, JAPAN'S FIRST POST-WAR ELECTION. LONG LINE OF CITIZENS WAITING TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS 01:04:30 - JAPANESE VOTERS VOTING IN ELECTION. WRITING IN BALLOTS. DROPPING IN BALLOT BOX. DEMOCRATIC VOTING METHOD 01:04:54 - HUGE BALLOT BOX WITH RETURNS CARRIED & EMPTIED BALLOTS COUNTED, TALLIED 01:05:16 - TOKYO, CROWDS FOLLOW JAPAN'S FIRST FREE ELECTION 01:05:32 - GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR ASKS NATIONS TO ABOLISH WAR. FIRST MEETING OF THE ALLIED COUNCIL FOR JAPAN. UNITED STATES. BRITAIN, CHINA AND RUSSIA. OCCUPATION POLICY. 01:05:54 - GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SPEAKS, SOF. PLEA TO ALL NATIONS TO FOLLOW JAPAN'S EXAMPLE AND TO FOREVER RENOUNCE WAR. POST-WAR SPEECH 01:07:14 - GREEK WINS U.S. MARATHON RACE. 50TH ANNUAL BOSTON MARATHON. 1946. RUNNERS MAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH BOSTON SUBURBS. STYLIANOS KYRIAKIDES PASSES LAST YEAR'S WINNER JOHN KELLEY. KYRIAKIDES CROSSING THE FINISH LINE IN BOSTON IN 2:29:27. LAUREL WREATH PLACED ON HIS HEAD. 01:07:59 - SEEK SOLUTION OF ? ZOOM IN MAP OF INDIA 01:08:04 - PAN MASSIVE CROWD 01:08:14 - NEW DELHI, CAPITOL BUILDING. CABINET MEMBERS LORD PATRICK LAWRENCE SIR STAFFORD KRIPPS MAHARAJA OF PATIALA. GANDHI. MAHARAJA OF NAWANAGAR. NEHRU. MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH. MUSLIM AND HINDU LEADERS MEET. 01:09:23 - ANCIENT CARS MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF AUTO INDUSTRY. AERIAL HIGHWAY CLOVER 01:09:26 - HIGHWAY TRAFFIC JAM CIRCA 1946 01:09:31 - ROAD TRAFFIC CIRCA 1896 01:09:38 - ROAD SIGN: "AUTOMOTIVE GOLDEN JUBILEE 1896-1946" ROAD SIGN: "DETROIT 19 MILES" 01:09:42 - 1903 CARS. PEOPLE CLIMB INTO CARS, DRIVER PUTS ON GOGGLES. WOMAN WIPES HER FEET BEFORE GETTING INTO CAR. 01:10:10 - DRIVER CRANKS THE ENGINE EARLY 1900s PACKARD CU TINY WHEELS, TIRES, CAR SHAKING. PEOPLE IN CAR SHAKING CU STEERING WHEEL REALLY SHAKING 01:10:28 - PEOPLE GOING FOR A RIDE IN EARLY 1900s CIRCA 1903 01:10:37 - PEOPLE IN VINTAGE CARS AND CLOTHING DRIVE IN PARADE OF CARS. GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE AUTO 01:10:53 - AMERICA ACTS IN WORLD FOOD CRISIS. PRESIDENT TRUMAN, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE ANDERSON, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF UNRRA FIORELLA LAGUARDIA 01:11:05 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEECH ON WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE "AMERICA CAN NOT REMAIN HEALTHY AND HAPPY IN THE SAME WORLD WHERE MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS ARE STARVING" A SOUND WORLD ORDER. APPEALS TO AMERICANS TO "SACRIFICE SO THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE" 01:11:54 - EMERGENCY CARGOS OF FLOUR AND WHEAT ARE LOADED INTO CARGO SHIPS. CU SACK OF UNRRA EMERGENCY FLOUR 01:13:07 - HUGE FLYING WING. ARMY'S NEW FLYING WING BOMBER REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME. SPAN OF 172 FEET. MASSIVE WINGS 01:13:36 - EXPERIMENTAL PLANE IN FLIGHT NX28311 ON WING. 01:13:53 - CU PAN FOUR HUGE ENGINES OF WING BOMBER 01:14:08 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN AT FLEET MANEUVERS. 8TH FLEET SAIL IN LINE. 15 SHIP TASK FORCE. AIR CRAFT CARRIERS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, THE MIDWAY, THE PRINCETON. AIRSHIP ABOVE. DIRIGIBLE. 01:14:26 - NAVY WELCOME FOR TRUMAN ON BOARD CARRIER ROOSEVELT. TRUMAN TOURS THE CARRIER WITH SECRETARY OF NAVY FORRESTAL AND ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET NIMITZ. ADMIRAL MITCHER. TRUMAN CHATS WITH SAILORS. 01:15:14 - 4:00 AM, CARRIER PLANES PREPARE FOR TAKE OFF TRUMAN WATCHES. PLANES TAKE OFF FROM CARRIER DECK IN FORMATION OVERHEAD. CU TRUMAN IN CASUAL CLOTHING WEARING A CAP WATCHES THROUGH BINOCULARS. PLANES COME IN TO LAND. 01:16:14 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN SALUTED BY SAILORS AS HE LEAVES CARRIER ROOSEVELT 01:16:42 - AMERICAN MIDWEST DELIVERS WHEAT FOR WORLD'S NEEDY. PRESIDENT OF UNRRA FIORELLA LAGUARDIA PAYS A VISIT TO MISWESTERN WHEAT BELT TOWN, CLIMAX, MINNESOTA. 01:16:54 - FLEET OF WHEAT TRUCKS CARRYING 50,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT. TRUCKS WITH STATE NAME SIGNS "NORTH DAKOTA" "MERCY WHEAT FOR THE STARVING" DRIVEN INTO 25 CAR FREIGHT TRAIN 01:17:10 - CU PROUD MIDWESTERN FARMERS, 1946. 01:17:12 - WHEAT GRAIN UNLOADED INTO FREIGHT CARD. UNRRA PRESIDENT LAGUARDIA WATCHES. 01:17:32 - 3 LAGUARDIA CLIMBS LADDER, LOOKS INTO FREIGHT CAR, NODS HEAD AS IN YES, NAILS SIGN UP "MERCY WHEAT FOR THE STARVING" 01:17:57 - 45 DIE IN RAILROAD DISASTER. AERIAL OF TRAIN WRECKAGE IN ILLINOIS, OUTSIDE CHICAGO. 01:18:05 - TRAIN WRECK, SILVER SPEED. PLOWED INTO REAR OF TRAIN AT SPEEDS OF APPROX. 75 MPH. VICTIMS CARRIED OUT, CORPSES COVERED. INJURED. ENGINE RIPPED THROUGH THE LENGTH OF THE REAR CAR OF TRAIN IN FRONT OF IT. 01:18:44 - SURVIVORS CARED FOR. MOTHERS FEED THEIR BABIES 01:18:59 - UNIVERSITY STARS COMPETE IN U.S. TRACK MEET. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. BROAD JUMP WON BY FRED JOHNSON. 01:19:22 - 100 YARD DASH. WINNER BILL CARTER OF THE ARMY AIR FORCES 01:19:36 - SAM FELTON HAMMER THROW 147 FEET 01:19:57 - HIGH HURDLE RELAY TEAM EVENT OHIO STATE WINS 01:20:29 - FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN LUXEMBOURG PALACE, PARIS. FRENCH, ENGLISH, UNITED STATES RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS ARRIVE. PEACE TERMS FOR EUROPE. MAPPING OF PEACE TREATIES FOR SATELLITE NATIONS. 01:22:22 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1946
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-798A