News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 6)
News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 6) is a short film from 1952/02 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
0:56:00 - THE WORLD IN THE CAMERA
Volunteer political workers walk through entrance marked Eisenhower headquarters / Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. enters Dwight Eisenhower as candidate in New Hampshire Republican primary election...stands in front of large blow-up photograph on wall of Eisenhower image (SYNCH-SOUND) / Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (NATO) speaks (SYNCH-SOUND) / pretty volunteer worker mails political leaflets...sign reads; WE LIKE IKE...also, I LIKE IKE buttons (In March, Eisenhower won New Hampshire primary, defeated major challenger, Robert Taft, and so began his successful bid for the presidency
0:58:35 - After blizzard, people shovel out from ten foot of snow... people also stand on top of twenty foot of snow / aerial over snow covered Donner Pass (California) / VS railroad train plowing its way through thick piles of snow on rails / marooned people, rescued from snowbound train
1:01:22 - WS Queen Mary ocean liner at sea / Queen Mary enters NYC harbor / Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain & NYC Mayor, Vincent Impellitteri (brief) / Winston Churchill stands in doorway of airplane, takes off his hat / airliner lands Washington DC...military guard salutes with rifles / Churchill debarks plane...greeted by President Harry Truman, they shake hands ( Anthony Eden, also there) / Churchill & Truman aboard yacht, Williamsburg...Churchill gently puffs on cigar / Winston Churchill speaks to joint session of US Congress, says, America should keep control of nuclear weapons...gets applause (SYNCH-SOUND). Also, brief of Bess Truman & Margaret Truman in gallery to listen to speech) (Churchill visits Truman for talks about Cold War foreign policy questions January 5, 1952)
1:03:08 - Army troops in the field watch nuclear explosion near ground zero. General Mark Clark among those to observe blast (Test site at Frenchmen's Flat, Nevada)
1:04:50 - HANDICRAFT Man sculpts animal & human figurines out of raw vegetables (Luigi Livraghi of Milan, Italy)
1:06:15 - SCIENCE VS new camera and its parts in detail (to film guided missiles in flight)
1:08:00 - KNOW YOUR NATION Historic retrospective on Hawaii followed by VS MONTAGE of tourist landmarks. Some of the more interesting shots in BRIEF: WS ocean waves, Hawaii coast...and mountains / crane drops load of sugar cane / pineapple pickers / Hawaiian hula dancer / surfboard riders / WS Honolulu / Aloha Tower / University of Hawaii campus / cattle graze on plain / Mauna Loa volcano erupts / fishing feast on beach / young girls dance hula / pair of palm trees against sky (Hawaii entered union as 50th State, August, 1959)
1:13:42 - PERSONAL HEROISM VS freighter (Flying Enterprise, Isbrandsten Line) sinks in storm tossed ocean waters of North Atlantic / sailors remove headgear, in salute, as ship's bow goes down under the sea / rescued captain of ship, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, comes home a hero to cheering crowds / Captain Carlsen cheered by crowd at airport in NYC / ticker tape parade up lower Broadway for Captain Carlsen / Crowd in Woodbridge, NJ, cheer and parade for returning home town hero / Captain Carlsen, speaks to crowd...I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT
ALL! (SYNCH-SOUND) / Captain Carlsen, wife, and young daughters| News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 6) | |
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| Produced by | Warner Path News |
Production company | Warner Path News |
| Distributed by | Warner Path News |
Release date | 1952/02 |
Running time | 22:59 |
| Language | English |
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