News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 7, Issue 2)
News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 7, Issue 2) is a short film from 1956/10/00 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
1:21:00 - KEEPING UP WITH THE CANDIDATES - USA
EISENHOWER AND NIXON
President Dwight Eisenhower strolls garden at Gettysburg, Penna. home, with wife, Mamie Eisenhower...also shown with grandson and granddaughter, David and Barbara Eisenhower / President Eisenhower & VP Richard Nixon, also their wives, Mamie Eisenhower & Pat Nixon, attend political meeting with Republican party supporters in outdoor tent / Eisenhower looks at an IKE umbrella; re-election campaign souvenir / President Eisenhower putts golf ball on green, but misses hole / Eisenhower with beaming smile
1:22:35 - STEVENSON AND KEFAUVER Adlai Stevenson greeted by cheering supporters holding political signs and Indians wearing tribal headdresses of feathers / Senator Estes Kefauver smokes Indian peace pipe (Eisenhower won landslide victory for a second presidential term in 1956, defeating Stevenson 41 states to 7 and by 25 million votes to 18 million )
1:23:17 - NATURE ON A RAMPAGE
MURRAY RIVER FLOOD - AUSTRALIA
VS homes submerged to their rooftops by flood waters / frightened cat almost drowns when it fails leap to safety
TYPHOON EMMA - JAPAN & OKINAWA
VS raging torrential rains and winds sweep coastal areas with destruction
1:25:00 - 50-YEAR-OLD AIRPLANE FLIES AGAIN - DENMARK Pilot operates controls of primitive 1906 aircraft for a brief flight
1:25:49 - NEW CRACKS IN THE COLOSSEUM - ITALY Ancient Rome amphitheater undergoes repair work
1:26:29 - BOMBS PROBE THICKNESS OF EARTH'S CRUST - FRENCH ALPS Geologists set off series of explosions
1:27:15 - DAM DOOMS FAMED INDIAN FISHING HOLE - USA WS Dallas Dam (Oregon) / American Indians fish for salmon on Columbia River. (I think this is The Dalles Dam)
1:27:47 - VULCAN GUN OUTSHOOTS 400 RIFLEMEN - USA Cannon fires shells at target on shooting range / tracer shells, night firing
1:28:27 - A HAPPY FAMILY OF 62 - CANADA Farmer couple care for homeless boys and girls. Clotheslines on farm filled with hanging clothes / children say grace before meals / hungry boys and girls, seated at table, eat foods / children say prayers before sleep
1:29:36 - NATURAL RESOURCES
THE FIRST OIL WELL
Series of retrospective shots tied to historic narrative presentation - story of beginnings of oil industry by Colonel Edwin Drake in Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1859. Includes good shot of oil storage tanks
1:33:08 - THE FACE OF AMERICA
THE ROYAL GORGE
Visit to Rocky Mountain natural wonder in Colorado. WS grazing sheep on prairie, snow covered mountains in BG / railroad train ride through gorge, POV front car / TU suspension bridge connects sides of canyon / train rides over 'hanging' railroad bridge / tourist, precariously seated on brink of sheer drop, watches train pass along gorge far below / tourists take steep cable car ride down narrow canyon...also cable car ride going up canyon / finally, ride across suspension bridge across canyon
1:37:05 - LITERATURE
HAMLET'S CASTLE
Class of school children visit medieval Danish castle. VS EXT & INT views of Kroneborg ? castle / actors wear Elizabethan costumes (narrator recites from Shakespeare's play)
Includes historical recreation of the discovery of oil at Titusville, Pennsylvania in the mid 1800s.| News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 7, Issue 2) | |
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| Produced by | Warner Path News |
Production company | Warner Path News |
| Distributed by | Warner Path News |
Release date | 1956/10/00 |
Running time | 20:30 |
| Language | English |
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