News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 9)
News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 9) is a short film from 1952/05/00 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
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1;19:55 - President Harry Truman seated in airplane, looks through binoculars to observe flood damage, towns along Missouri River / aerial, rooftops of homes in area almost submerged by flood / people throw sandbags to reinforce dikes and levees to fight flood waters (Council Bluffs, Iowa) / helicopter flies over town almost underwater
1:21:00 - SLO MO submarine emerges (almost leaps!) out of water (USS Pickeral) / CAM tracks annual tidal wave (small) up Seine River, France (a sure sign that spring has come!)
1:22:00 - VS French soldiers fight in Vietnam (Indo-China) against native communist guerilla forces / airplane drops napalm bomb explosion / French soldier hands out cigarettes to captured Vietnamese prisoners / Vietnamese civilians flee homes with all their belongings...elderly man, in company with young children, politely bows to cameraman as he moves on
1:22:50 - VS American soldiers stand guard on Hokkaido Island, Japan. Platoon of soldiers on skis, holding on to wire cables, get pulled through snow country by army vehicle / Japanese boy laughs at soldiers falling in snow on their skis.
1:23:38 - Battleship Wisconsin fires salvos at targets on shore (Korean War). Good shots of big deck guns firing away
1:24:29 - People buy bread in crowded bakery in Rome, Italy / VS boy and girl visitors to a museum in Rome, which only exhibits varied forms, and styles of breads from different nations on its shelves - which include breads shown from Spain, Chile, Argentina, Sardinia, and more / boy picks up giant size loaf of bread
1:25:41 - Spinning 'pickle jar' containing winning numbers at land lottery drawing / young couple, elated at having winning number / VS young family (GI veteran) settle down on new homestead (Tule Lake, California) / family seated in living room...daughter, seated next to mother, practices piano / father teaches son to rope calf / farmer woman hangs wash on clothesline / farmer on tractor turns over topsoil / WS farmland
1:27:45 - VS Lever Brothers skyscraper office building, Park Avenue, NYC: WS, window cleaners ride electric-cable platform (like an elevator) on sides of building to clean windows /air-conditioning cooling units on rooftop / INT building, office workers, desks...as window cleaners ride from floor to floor on scaffold, outside / window washer uses squeegee on office building window / TD, from tall building, of car traffic on Park Avenue (first glass skyscraper on Park Avenue designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, inspired numerous architectural imitations around world)
1:29:13 - Coast Guard cutter, USS Courier, tied to pier / VS EXT & INT radio equipment and controls (to broadcast Voice Of America programs behind Iron Curtain during Cold War) / CU radio transmitters / technician operates broadcast control board / broadcaster speaks on microphone / navy personnel operate large size control panel
1:30:16 - Aerial, tanks on ground during army maneuvers (war games; Operation Longhorn in Texas) / paratroopers jump from airplanes (82nd Airborne Division)...VERY GOOD, of the jump, and also parachutes filling the skies and descending to ground / jeep on parachute and other parachuted equipment hit ground...some crash upon impact with ground / troops and tanks advance after landing.
1:35:25 - Aerial & WS, Tignes village in French Alps before it was evacuated and flooded as part of government hydro-electric power dam project CU, MS, people of the village / WS village with dam flood gates in BG / VS people relocate from town, take parts of town with them / floating sign post
1:34:52 - VS ballet performance in cave in Falkenberg ?, Holland / People prepare theatre for performance in Yokono ?, Japan. They manually operate revolving stage for scene changes / audience laugh as Japanese actors perform / VERY GOOD, CU children faces, as they react to puppet or marionette show - in Madrid, Spain (SYNCH-SOUND)
1:38:16 - Filmed tour of White House in Washington DC. Short historic retrospective / VS workers reconstructing White House, both EXT & INT / White House usher, John May, opens doors for visit to White House / INT of Blue Room, East Room, Green Room, Red Room, & State Dining Room /
WS White House & water fountains - north portico| News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 9) | |
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| Produced by | Warner Path News |
Production company | Warner Path News |
| Distributed by | Warner Path News |
Release date | 1952/05/00 |
Running time | 24:09 |
| Language | English |
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