[News Magazine of the Screen, October 1950]

[News Magazine of the Screen, October 1950] is a short film from 1950 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

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News Magazine of the Screen UN News - meeting in Flushing Meadows Completion of UN in Manhattan UN in Korea Formosa - Last Stronghold of Nationalist China 07:08:42 Mt Sinai in Egypt 07:10:11 Cows on conveyor belt ** 07:10:15 Automated milking ** Soap carving contest Gliding in Switzerland Pack planes 10 engine B-36 Women's track - Dutch housewife wins four gold medals Men's tennis Great Americans 07:18:20 Actor portraying Theodore Roosevelt CU Rippling flag

News Magazine of the Screen, The (October, 1950)

UN General Assembly meets at Flushing Meadows Park, Queens NY, w/ Eleanor Roosevelt; new United Nations Building is readied for opening; UN opens a Second Front in Korea (Korean War combat footage, including soldiers landing on shore from ship landing craft, and General Douglas MacArthur); profile of the island of Formosa (also Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Tse-tung); Jerusalem storehouse of ancient religious documents (including words of prophet Mohammed); cows milked at an "automated dairy" (California); kids making sculptures from cored apples; air gliding in Switzerland; new airplane: the Fairchild XC-120 Pack Plane; 10 Engine B-36 airplane; SPORTS: Fanny Blankers-Koen (star of track and field, "the fleetest woman in the world") wins at the 1950 Olympics. New National Men's Tennis champion, Art Larsen, is crowned at Forest Hills NY. Actor Sidney Blackmer plays Theodore Roosevelt, re-enacts words first spoken by TR during World War One.

[News Magazine of the Screen, October 1950]
Produced by	Warner Pathe News
Production company	Warner Pathe News
Distributed by	Warner Pathe News
Release date	1950
Running time	19:16
Language	English

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