News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 1, Issue 6)
News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 1, Issue 6) is a short film from 1951/02/00 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
0:34:25 - UN CONDEMNS RED CHINA
VS delegates at United Nations political committee session vote on resolution / General Matthew Ridgway studies war map in war zone / American infantry soldiers advance through snow covered landscape, battle front, Korea (UN forces counterattack, slowing down Chinese and North Korean troops penetrating south of Seoul, Korean War - January, 1951)
0:36:27 - GEN. EISENHOWER SURVEYS ATLANTIC PACT DEFENSES President Harry S Truman, Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense, George C Marshall, at airport with departing General Dwight Eisenhower who speaks (SYNC-SOUND / General Eisenhower shakes hands with President Vincent Auriol of France / smiling Eisenhower, seated at large round table filled with government officials / Eisenhower arrives airport in Holland / Eisenhower; motorcade and meeting with officials in Denmark / Aerial of London...Eisenhower meets and shakes hands with General Bernard Montgomery / aerial of Rome...Eisenhower meets and shakes hands with statesmen in Italy / Eisenhower meets General John McCloy... reviews military parade / Eisenhower and wife, Mamie Eisenhower, debark airplane, winter weather...greeted by President Harry Truman at airport / Eisenhower reports on his mission to Europe; congressmen fill theatre to hear and applaud him...in BG, Sam Rayburn (Eisenhower; SYNCH-SOUND) (President Truman appointed Eisenhower as first head of NATO and sent him overseas to get the allied organization started - January, 1951)
0:40:30 - AIR NEWS VS Russian bombers and jet fighter airplanes shown in flight, on captured film footage. VS US Navy jets (Panthers) take off from aircraft carrier, engage two MIG's in dog fight over North Korea, shoot one down, then return to carrier VS US Air Force F-86 (Sabre-jet) shoots down MIG plane over North Korea.
0:42:45 - THE US IN THE CAMERA
THE 82nd US CONGRESS OPENS
WS Washington DC, Capitol Building and Mall / Series of brief shots of Senators: Earle Clements, Willis Smith, Thomas Hennings, John Pastore, Mike Monroney, George Smathers, Russell Long, Tom Connally, Ernest McFarland, Lyndon Johnson (Senate Whip), Frank Carlson, Everett Dirksen, John Butler, Eugene Millikin, Robert Taft, and Kenneth Wherry... Congressional leaders: John McCormack, Sam Rayburn, and J Percy Priest / VS workers repairing and rebuilding EXT & INT Capitol Building / Speaker of House, Sam Rayburn, and Republican Minority Leader, Joseph Martin, convene House of Representatives into opening session / President Harry S Truman speaks to joint session of Congress - showing new reconstructed rostrum and great marble rostrum of past / WS Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and Capitol
0:45:40 - SCIENCE Physics professor at University of Toronto gives class demonstration on properties of liquid air. His lecture is more in the way of a vaudeville act filled with sight gags and the class reaction is animated with rollicking good humor
0:48:26 - SPORTS
MOUNT HOOD SKIWAY - OREGON
VS bus-like tramway filled with skiers ascends Mt. Hood like a cable car / VS skiers, downhill on snow covered slopes
CYPRESS GARDENS RACEWAY - FLORIDA
VS speedboats race through waterway course filled with hazards (steeplechase). Great action shots of boats going over hurdles (some in SLO MO)...and one shot of boats criss-crossing in mid air as if about to collide
0:51:26 - AMERICA'S HERITAGE
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Actor impersonates Lincoln. Makes the famous speech. The night before, he requests to hear band play Dixie / American flag, waves /This material, with some omissions,
appears in the film FREEDOM HIGHWAY (Jerry Fairbanks Productions for Greyhound Lines, 1955)| News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 1, Issue 6) | |
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| Produced by | Warner Path News |
Production company | Warner Path News |
| Distributed by | Warner Path News |
Release date | 1951/02/00 |
Running time | 21:29 |
| Language | English |
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