News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 7, Issue 4)

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News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 7, Issue 4) is a short film from 1956/12/00 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

1:13:22 - PRESIDENT EISENHOWER RE-ELECTED.

VS people step in and out of voting machine booths / Chinese on line wait to enter voting booth / handicapped senior citizens vote / cheering crowds on NYC Times Square, election night / Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson, loses election, makes concession speech / more of Times Square election celebration / Times Building news-zipper announces RE-ELECTION OF EISENHOWER / political workers cheer Eisenhower at at victory party. On stage with Eisenhower are his wife, Mamie, and VP Richard Nixon, with his wife, Pat. Dwight Eisenhower makes election victory statement (SYNCH-SOUND). November, 1956.

1:16:14 - INVASION OF EGYPT Aerial, Sinai Peninsular / Israeli soldiers capture Egyptian POWs / General Moshe Dayan and staff / aerial, Suez Canal / paratroopers jump from transport plane / amphibious troops attack Port Said...POWs with hands up, at gun point...wrecked houses, war ravaged streets of city / sunken ship blocks Suez Canal waterway. (Britain & France, defied by US & UN, gave up their attempt to seize Suez Canal during Israel-Egypt conflict) October-November, 1956.

1:18:41 - RUSSIA CRUSHES HUNGARY WS Budapest / VS rebel 'freedom fighters' battle in city streets / sign; RUSZKIK HAZA! / woman citizen, patrols street, holding rifle / three soviet war memorials smashed and destroyed...flags burned...and books set on fire / giant red star razed from rooftop ,sent crashing to street / VS civilians (rebels) shoot rifles & automatic weapons in streets and parks at enemy positions in buildings / rebel tanks fire cannon in streets of Budapest / brief shot, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty / fast moving Russian tanks patrol Budapest streets / Hungarian refugees with all their worldly belongings flee...families uprooted from their homes / truck with red cross sign speeds across border check point / torn Hungarian flag flutters. (Anti-Soviet protests demanding ouster of soviet troops from Hungary led to sudden full scale revolt and suppression, October-November, 1956.

1:22:56 - FLOODS & FLOOD CONTROL WS Guna River, India / workers dig mud on river bank to form a levee / Pandit Nehru visits flood area / people flee homes / remote village almost submerged in muddy water except for rooftops / prayer meeting. US Army Engineers lay down gigantic concrete mattresses underneath Mississippi River near Vicksburg (to help fight floods)

1:25:00 - FIRE FIGHTING GYMNASTICS - ITALY EXCEPTIONAL SHOTS of hundreds of firemen performing precision movements, climbing and jumping from extended fire ladders. Also, leaping off building

1:25:34 - WORKING WITH ATOMS FOR PEACE - USA Technician manipulates mechanical hands working with radioactive nuclear material

1:26:24 - RACE SUPPLIES TO DEW LINE AS ICE CLOSES IN - THE ARCTIC Cargo ship through ice floes (Baffin Bay) / landing craft bring supplies ashore / brief, CU boots slogging through thick mud / supply stockpile / WS cargo ships anchored in remote landscape (Defense Early Warning radar station)

1:27:26 - A GREAT OCEAN RESCUE - THE PACIFIC Crippled passenger plane makes emergency splash-down / passenger survivors rescued by rubber raft from coast guard weather ship / airplane sinks

1:28:35 - SCIENCE - THE WORLD WITHIN THE SEA Dr. Roman Vishniac, scientist photographer, collects sea life specimens

among the coastal rocks. ECU series of varied sea life under microscope

News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 7, Issue 4)
Produced byWarner Path News
Production
company
Warner Path News
Distributed byWarner Path News
Release date
1956/12/00
Running time
21:51
LanguageEnglish
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