News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 4, Issue 9)
News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 4, Issue 9) is a short film from 1954/05/00 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
PA-3904 News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 4, Issue 9)
00:00:33 The World in the Camera: The Communist Threat
Russian and Chinese leaders take first ride on Peking
Express, winter. Refugees at West Berlin relief station,
VS. Foreign Operations Director Stasson greets refugees
at Washington airport. Lydia Gorgescieu(sp) runs to sons
who had been held hostage in "Red Rumania" High drama.
Excellent anti-Communist VO, Red scare.
00:01:55 Lebanon, clash in Beirut, students hosed down by police.
Paris, French leaders jostled by angry crowd.
Indochina, VS, bombs and paratroopers.
00:03:01 Youth in the News: University of California, LA hosts
student United Nations assembly, VS, racial and ethnic
mix. VS ski jumping, good. Billy Olsen of Denver University is
winner, MCU.
00:03:51 Fire at Sea and on Land: VS British ship on fire,
passengers were rescued. Korean warehouse fire, VS.
00:04:28 Korea: The Road to Recovery
Sign, "Operation Noah's Ark for Korea" Church group ships
honey bees, diary goats to Korea, VS.
General Carter MrGruder with re-settlers in North Korea.
Korean orphans sing "How Do You Do?" for CAM at airport,
sad.
00:06:06 Science: The H Bomb. VS first hydrogen bomb explosion,
operations room, blast, cloud, shockwave. Eniwetok, Atoll
(1952) Island completely destroyed, sank.
00:08:17 America's Heritage: The Statue of Liberty.
VS Statue of Liberty including aerials. VO gives history
of statue, its creation and erection. INT statue, people
walk to crown and look out. Views from top of statue.
00:12:05 Aviation: They Were First. Aerial of Wright Brothers
monument, North Carolina. VS airplanes, jets flying past
monument, good. VO gives short aviation history. Wright
Brothers story - Dayton, Ohio home on Hawthorn Street, INT
and EXT views. EXT "Wright Cycle Co." INT workshop.
Billy Parker flies on Golden anniversary of first flight
in his 1915 plane, takes off, good. Sky flivver. VS
Wright Brothers. Theodore Roosevelt becomes first US
President to fly. Early seaplanes. Ruth Law in plane,
takes off. INT factory, mass production of airplanes.
VS WWI combat planes. VS first air mail service.
CU Billy Mitchell, demonstration of first naval ships
sunk by dropping bombs from airplanes, 1921.
00:17:23 Richard E Byrd and Floyd Bennett on polar exploration
flight, 1926. North Pole, aerial shot. VS of men
wearing animal furs, CU Byrd, face surrounded by fur,
excellent. Charles Lindbergh poses with his mother.
Spirit of St. Louis takes off from New York for Paris.
French celebrate success of flight. New York harbor full
of boats ships for Lindbergh's return, tickertape parade.
00:19:05 Sir Hubert Wilkins flies over Arctic, aerial shot, 1928.
Eskimo children do flips in snow. Excellent shot of
refueling in mid-air.
00:19:33 Good CU Amelia Earhart. Earhart stands in plane.
1932 tickertape parade for Earhart after flying across
the Atlantic Ocean. Good CU Wiley Post, more tickertape.
00:19:56 VA airplanes, bombers, WWII. Gunners, dropping bombs,
airplanes in flames falling. Excellent aerial CAM shots
POV low-flying bombers. VS jet engines, plane takes off.
00:21:41 1953, INT B-29, Captain Chuck Yeager, first man to
break sound barrier, slips into rocket-powered XS-1 under
plane and takes off at twice the speed of sound. B-50
refueling while circling the globe non-stop.
VS 1950's air force jets.| News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 4, Issue 9) | |
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| Produced by | Warner Path News |
Production company | Warner Path News |
| Distributed by | Warner Path News |
Release date | 1954/05/00 |
Running time | 21:25 |
| Language | English |
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