- Title: VM-828
- Summary: UNITED NEWS:
- Description:00:01:54 - GIGANTIC PARADE MARKS MAY DAY IN MOSCOW. HUGE PHOTOS OF STALIN AND LENIN ON KREMLIN WALL. U. S. MILITARY VIP'S ARE GUEST OF HONOR 00:02:24 - MARSHAL STALIN MOUNTS REVIEWING STAND TO REVIEW HUGE PARADE. MASS BRASS BAND LEADS THE PARADE, FOLLOWED BY SOVIET MILITARY MIGHT. 00:04:06 - JAPANESE MILITARY OBSERVERS, NOT YET AT WAR WITH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIAN ARMED POWER. 00:04:45 - NAZI LEADERS MEET JUSTICE. NORWEGIAN TRAITOR VIDKUN QUISLING ENTERS COURT IN OSLO TO STAND TRIAL FOR WAR CRIMES. 00:05:45 - GERMAN SAILORS, MARINES AND SOLDIERS WHO HAVE GUARDED THE PLAINSBURG GOVERNMENT OF ADMIRAL DONITZ MARCH UNDER ARREST BY ALLIED FORCES. HIGH COMMANDERS OF THE GROUP COME OUT OF BUILDING, UNDER GUARD, WITH HANDS ON HEADS. PAN. 00:06:11 - CASTLE IN PLAINSBURG. GENERAL VON FREIDEBURG LIES DEAD OF POISONING ON SOFA INSIDE CASTLE, BENEATH PICTURE OF DONITZ. CLOSE-UP VIEW OF BODY 00:06:25 - COLONEL GENERAL YODL, CHIEF OF STAFF, LEAVES PLAINSBURG HEADQUARTERS UNDER ARREST. JODL & DONITZ WALK TO COMPOUND IN PLAINSBURG PRISON. CU JODL AND DONITZ GRIMLY STARE INTO CAMERA 00:07:17 - BRITISH GUARD STANDS OVER BODY OF HEINRICH HIMMLER, ON LIVING ROOM FLOOR. HIMMLER TOOK POISON. CU HAND HOLDS TINY VIALS OF POISON FOUND ON HIMMLER. CU VIEWS BODY OF HIMMLER STILL WEARING GLASSES. 00:07:46 - NAZI DEATH CAMP AT BELSEN IS DESTROYED. THE LAST OF BELSEN'S LIVING DEAD ARE TREATED BY BRITISH MEDICS IN BUNK BEDS AT FACILITY. WOMEN & OTHERS CARRIED TO AMBULANCES ON STRETCHERS FOR TRANSFER TO ALLIED HOSPITALS. 00:08:15 - WOMAN SITS OUTSIDE AS HER HAIR IS SPRAYED WITH POWDERED INSECTICIDE BY MEDIC. WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE HELPED ONTO TRUCKS. 00:08:29 - CU BELSEN'S COMMANDANT JOSEPH KRAMER, MURDERER OF COUNTLESS THOUSANDS, IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. BRITISH SOLDIERS USE FLAME THROWERS TO BURN DOWN CAMP. HUGE SMOKE CLOUDS RISE FROM BURNING CAMP. 00:08:56 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN: MESSAGE ON JAPANESE WAR. TRUMAN SPEAKS TO NATION. 00:10:35 - TANKS LEAD FINAL ASSAULT ON OKINAWA. MARINES FOLLOW BEHIND ADVANCING TANKS. TANK BURNS AFTER STRIKING JAPANESE LAND MINE. SOLDIER USES FIRE EXTINGUISHER ON BURNING TANK IN ATTEMPT TO RESCUE 4 CREWMEN TRAPPED INSIDE. ONE MARINE THROWN CLEAR OF TANK STAGGERS TOWARDS OTHERS. 00:11:08 - TANK SUDDENLY BLOWS UP AS FLAMES REACH AMMUNITION INSIDE. FLAME-THROWING TANK FIRES FLAMES INTO JAPANESE TUNNEL. DESTRUCTION IS COMPLETE. 00:13:15 - NORWAY RETURNS TO FREEDOM. NORWEGIAN CHILDREN HOLDING COUNTRY'S FLAG, LINE UP FOR BREAD & SAUSAGES CONFISCATED FROM GERMAN MILITARY STORE. 00:13:33 - 25,000 NORWEGIAN SCHOOL CHILDREN MARCH DOWN AVENUE WAVING NORWEGIAN FLAGS TO PRINCE OLAF WHO WAVES FROM BALCONY. MONTAGE CROWDS OF CITIZENS WAVE FLAGS AS THEY MARCH 00:14:05 - PLANS MADE FOR STALIN, CHURCHILL, TRUMAN MEETING. JOSEPH E. DAVIES WAVES TO CAMERA AS HE ENTERS WHITE HOUSE TO REPORT TO PRESIDENT. HARRY HOPKINS, SPECIAL ENVOY TO MOSCOW FOLLOWS. THE TWO POSE WITH TRUMAN AND ADMIRAL LEAHY IN OVAL OFFICE. 00:14:46 - ALLIED CONTROL COMMISSION MEETS IN BERLIN. SUPREME COMMANDER EISENHOWER & MARSHAL MONTGOMERY ARRIVE AT SOVIET GENERAL ZHUKOV'S HEADQUARTERS IN GERMANY. ZHUKOV SIGN TERMS OF ALLIED CONTROL COMMISSION FOR RUSSIA, MONTGOMERY FOR BRITAIN & IKE FOR U. S. 00:15:52 - EISENHOWER, MONTGOMERY, ZHUKOV AND FRENCH GENERAL POSE FOR PHOTO. 00:16:00 - BRITISH FORCES RETAKE RANGOON. DOG MASCOT SITS ATOP SUPPLIES IN LANDING CRAFT AND WATCHES OTHER LANDING CRAFT HEAD FOR RANGOON SHORE. 00:16:20 - TROOPS JUMP OFF LANDING CRAFTS INTO WAIST DEEP WATER NEAR SHORE. THEY CLIMB ASHORE IN MONSOON MUD 00:16:28 - AERIAL BOMBS FALL ON JAPANESE ESCAPE BOATS. JAPANESE SWIM INTO SHORE AFTER THEIR SHIP IS SUNK. 00:16:36 - AERIAL GROUP OF FOUR JAPANESE CLING TO LIFE PRESERVER IN WATER. WOUNDED JAPANESE LIMPS AS HE IS LED BLINDFOLDED ON WARSHIP. CU PAN OF BLINDFOLDED JAPANESE PRISONERS AWAITING TO BE CHECKED BY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS. BLINDFOLDED JAPANESE HOLD ON TO EACH OTHER'S SHOULDER AS THEY ARE LED ON SHORE IN SINGLE LINE. 00:16:52 - BRITISH PARATROOPS LANDING IN FIELD, MOVE INLAND. HUGE CROWDS LINE RANGOON HARBOR TO WELCOME THE BRITISH 00:17:18 - UNRRA SENDS CLOTHES TO EUROPE. LOUD SPEAKER ON CAR LEADS SANITATION TRUCK THROUGH CITY STREETS TO COLLECT CLOTHING. PEOPLE IN APARTMENT HOUSES LOOK OUT WINDOWS, ARE WAVED DOWN BY MAN AND WOMAN FROM UNRRA. 00:17:50 - MONTAGE PEOPLE TOSS CLOTHING OUT WINDOWS TO STREET BELOW. SCHOOL CHILDREN GATHER UP CLOTHING AND THROW THEM INTO OPEN DOORS OF SANITATION TRUCKS. GANG OF CHILDREN HITCH RIDE ON BACK OF SANITATION TRUCK AS IT ROLLS DOWN STREET. 00:18:27 - LARGE BUNDLES OF CLOTHING ARE LOADED BY WINCH ONTO SHIP. 00:18:43 - GENERAL EISENHOWER COMES HOME. GENERAL IKE RIDING IN CARRIAGE IS CHEERED BY HUGE LONDON CROWD. IKE IS PRESENTED WITH CEREMONIAL SWORD IN HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT. 00:19:13 - ARC DE TRIOMPHE IN PARIS. GENERAL DE GAULLE DECORATES IKE IN OUTDOOR CEREMONY. PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKE SHOTS. IKE HONORS UNKNOWN SOLDIER AT ETERNAL FLAME. 00:19:39 - IKE EXITS PLANE IN WASHINGTON. IS MET BY WIFE & OTHERS. IKE STANDS IN JEEP AS IT ROLLS DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TO CHEERING CROWD. SHOT OF MOTORCADE HEADING FOR CAPITAL BUILDING IN DISTANCE 00:20:38 - AS HE RIDES BY, IKE SALUTES WOUNDED VETERANS SEATED IN FRONT OF CAPITAL BUILDING. IKE ALMOST FALLS AS JEEP MAKES JERKING START. 00:21:15 - AT JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS. IKE IS ESCORTED TO STAND WITH FULL HONORS. IKE BRINGS MESSAGE FROM HIS SOLDIERS TO CONGRESS IN SPEECH. 00:22:57 - WORLD CHARTER SIGNED. PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEAKS AT SAN FRANCISCO. SECRETARY OF STATE STETTINIUS UNITED NATIONS MEETING, IS GIVEN SCROLL. LORD HALIFAX CALLS FOR STANDING VOTE ON THE CHARTER. THE VOTE IS UNANIMOUS. 00:24:20 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO, IS MET BY STETTINIUS AND OTHERS. PRESIDENT'S MOTORCADE RIDING DOWN SAN FRANCISCO AVENUE WITH CROWDS LINING CURBS AND CHEERING WILDLY. 00:25:39 - CHINA SIGNS UNITED NATIONS CHARTER AND IS FOLLOWED BY GROMYKO FOR RUSSIA, LORD HALIFAX FOR BRITAIN, FRANCE SIGNS, STETTINIUS SIGNS AS TRUMAN LOOKS ON. STETTINIUS SPEAKS. SENATORS CONNERLY, VANDENBURG AND HAROLD STASSEN SIGN CHARTER. PHOTOGRAPHERS. 00:28:01 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN ADDRESSES MEETING. 00:30:17 - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT MAKING SPEECH ON WORLD ORGANIZATION SHORTLY BEFORE HE DIED. 00:31:52 - U.S. NAVY FIGHTS OFF JAPANESE SUICIDE PLANES. AERIAL CARRIER PLANES ATTACKING & STRAFING JAPANESE SHIPPING. THEY HIT JAPANESE AIRFIELD & STRAFE PLANES ON GROUND. 00:32:51 - CARRIER PLANE MAKES BELLY LANDING ON CARRIER DECK, SKIDS TO A STOP. LANDING PLANE MISSES DECK & BARELY MAKES BACK INTO SKY. ANOTHER PLANE LANDS & EXPLODES IN A BALL OF FIRE. PILOT GETS OUT. PLANE BURNS. 00:33:35 - WOUNDED PILOT IS HELPED OUT OF PLANE ANOTHER BURNING PLANE. PLANE MISSES LANDING, HITS STRUCTURE ON END OF DECK, CRASHES INTO WATER. 00:33:58 - JAPANESE KAMIKAZE PLANE EXPLODES AS IT HITS WATER. LOW FLYING KAMIKAZE PLANE HEADS STRAIGHT FOR CARRIER "SARATOGA" HITS IT. GIANT EXPLOSION 00:34:53 - CREWMEN PULL HOSES TO SITE OF FIRE AND BLACK BELLOWING SMOKE. MONTAGE MORE KAMIKAZE PLANES BEING SHOT DOWN INTO SEA, EXPLODING. 00:35:28 - KAMIKAZE PLANE CRASHES INTO CARRIER "BUNKER HILL" WITH HUGE EXPLOSION. CREWMEN RUN FRANTICALLY BACK AND FORTH FIGHTING BLAZE. AMERICAN SAILORS FLOAT IN SEA, ARE PICKED UP BY WARSHIP NEARBY. 00:36:56 - GENERAL EISENHOWER ACCLAIMED BY HOME TOWN. IKE ARRIVES AT KANSAS CITY AIRPORT. POSES WITH MOTHER WHO IS THERE TO MEET HIM. HIS FOUR BROTHERS ARE ALSO THERE. 00:37:27 - AERIAL VIEW OF TOWN OF ABILENE, KANSAS. IKE'S HOME TOWN. IKE'S BOYHOOD HOME. IKE MOTORCADE IS MET BY CROWD OF NEIGHBORS IN TYPICALLY SMALL TOWN PARADE. IKE AND MOTHER SIT ON REVIEWING STAND AND WATCH PAGEANT DEPICTING SCENES FROM ABILENE'S HISTORY. 00:38:29 - TRUCK WITH SIGN, "1866 - THE RAILROAD COMES TO ABILENE", WITH MEN ON TRUCK DEPICTING LAYING OF TRACKS. 00:39:00 - TRUMAN URGES WORLD CHARTER RATIFICATION. TRUMAN RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE AS DOCTOR OF LAW AT UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CITY, HIS OLD ALMA MATER TRUMAN MAKES SPEECH. 00:40:42 - TRUMAN ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON TO PRESENT CONGRESS THE WORLD CHARTER FOR RATIFICATION.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-828