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Nato Ally: Re-armed Germany Gets First U-Boat
West Germany commissions the first U-Boat for her new naval forces. One of the last built in World War II, it was settled at war's end, and just now raised and refitted. Establishing shot - German navy standing on top of their first U-Boat. MS - Two German sailors standing on the top deck of the U-Boat. MCUS - Dock workers, maybe old soldiers standing and watching the new U-Boat. MS - Raising of the new West Germany flag on the U-Boat. MCUS - A once sunken U-Boat being towed in to port, and it was one of the last submarines built by the Nazi's. MS - Two old sailors as they stand on the top deck of the U-Boat wave to the camera. MS - Sailor walking around on top of the haul of the submarine.
World's Biggest Wind Tunnel
In Tennessee, the air force puts a 3,000 MPH Wind tunnel, the world's biggest, into operation. Man-made gales offer key research data. The mightiest Wind Tunnel in the world goes to work for the Air Force. A massive complex invaluable research facility its huge air intakes and powerful turbines colonnade in a test section 16 feet square and 40 feet long. Through here will roar man made winds that speeds up to 3,000 MPH where altitudes and temperature can be simulated to make possible testing of full scale jet engines under actual flight conditions. Establishing shot - OH shot of the operations of the mightiest wind tunnel in the world. MCUS - Air intakes and turbines and a man sitting by one of these things taking notes. Inside shot - Air turbines, a scientific technician checking out the inside of one of the wind tunnels. MS - A "No Smoking" except in designated area, sign. MLS - Two scientific technicians standing inside a wind tunnel dwarfed by its size. MS - Operations panel, lots of dials, knobs and pressure reading gauges watched by a scientific technician. MS - Looks like a rocked, with a mass amount of wind going through the tunnel, and how this rocket cuts through the wind, and how the mass of air is moving. Real early sci-fi stuff.
News in Brief: Teeter-totter Marathon.
Same as Catalog # 515303. News in Brief: Teeter-totter Marathon. Teeter-totter marathon is a spring fever manifestation at the College of the Pacific, where two students see-saw their way to a world's record. Two college men on see-saw; while one pushes, the other lies dozing on his end in some sort of basket contraption. Aha - a poster on the teeter-totter says Alpha Kappa Phi - these are fraternity brothers, frat boys. The man who's reclining takes a meal from a tray held by an African-American woman. Small crowd of bystanders watch the thing go up and down. Man eats corn on the cob; other man attempts to shave (actually, it looks like his friends are shaving him), while going up and down.
Sports: Stanley Cup.
Same as Catalog # 515304. Sports: Stanley Cup. Stanley Cup, hockey's top prize, is won by Montreal's Canadiens in a hard fought battle with the Boston Bruins. Series score, 3-1. Canadiens player (#5) scores goal. Play where one player knocks over someone else. Spectator looks disgusted. More playing, more goals. Winning team poses with cup trophy.
Sports: French Stock Cars.
Same as Catalog # 515305. Sports: French Stock Cars. Dirt track racing with a French accent proves as thrilling, and a lot more devil-may-care, than the U.S. variety. Cars "race" (not too quickly) around small dirt track, spin out, flip over, crash into each other, etc.
Teen Water Ski Champs.
Same as Catalog # 515306. Teen Water Ski Champs. At Cypress Gardens, a 12 year old boy and 10 year old girl stage an amazing show at high speed on water skis. Young boy skis over ramp, twisting around in a circle. Girl flies over ramp but falls; boy succeeds. Battle of the sexes. Woman from Switzerland spins around in circles, then skis on one foot while holding the rope with her toes.
News in Brief: Olympian Honeymooners.
Same as Catalog # 515316. News in Brief: Olympian Honeymooners. America's Harold Connelly, Olympic hammer throwing champion, and Mrs. Connelly, the former Olga Fictive - Czech discus gold medallist, arrive in New York from behind the iron curtain. Ocean liner "America" sailing. On board, the newlywed athletes walk on deck. Star-crossed lovers (only they didn't wind up dead): he's from the U.S., she's from an oppressed "Red" nation. Then they chat with reporters (no audio of them).
News in Brief: The Water Broom.
Same as Catalog # 515319. News in Brief: The Water Broom. Water broom, a garden hose attachment invented by 80 year old Clarence Fassett of Stockton, California, rakes the lawn clean and even washes a car in quick-time, with a controlled jet-spray of water. Elderly man (octogenarian) shows steps of assembling his invention. Then, with the help of four women in swimsuits, he shows how it works.
News in Brief: Bald Headed Woman.
News in Brief: Bald Headed Woman. Mrs. Patricia Smith of San Francisco sheds her crowning glory for money and publicity - for a new movie, and publicity she hopes will advance her acting career. Woman looks at poster for movie apparently called "Girl in the Kremlin" (or perhaps "Stalin Did This To Me!") which shows bald woman. Two identically dressed little girls are held by each hand of their mother; one covers her eyes with her hand, the other girl screams. Actress Smith sits in a chair and has her locks cut then her head shaved (by a barber with straight razor) while people stand around and watch and a few photographers take pictures. She poses bald with her barber, smiling cheerfully. Publicity stunt.
News in Brief: First Baby Gorilla Born In Capitivity
News in Brief: First Baby Gorilla Born In Captivity First baby gorilla ever born in captivity is Colo - born in Columbus Ohio's municipal zoo - but raised by the superintendent's wife. Colo's dad hardly recognizes her in bonnet and dimity baby dress. Cute shot baby gorilla in crib. Middle-aged woman bathes Colo in the sink, attempts to feed her with a spoon (gorilla gets food all over her mouth just like a human baby). Shot of adult male gorilla. Woman holds baby gorilla outside cage for the adult to see. Gorilla looks out through cage bars. Baby gorilla wearing baby bonnet.
News in Brief: Mental Health Week
Mental Health Week opening on the US Capitol Building steps. US Vice-President Richard Nixon and US Senator George Smathers (D-FL) ringing bell cast from chains once used to shackle mental patients.
Mom, Pop and Kids Go Sporty.
Mom, Pop and Kids Go Sporty. Mom, pop, and the kids go for sports in look-alike fashion - gay colorful outfits designed for the entire family, and fit for any kind of outdoor fun. True match-mates. VO says these clothes were designed by Jantzen. Mom, Dad and son (or models pretending to be such) in disturbingly matching outfits (striped shorts & white shirts); father pulls tiny bathing trunks out of his bag and holds them up to his hips. Man and woman pose with ping pong (table tennis) paddles; they wear matching dark shorts almost to their knees, and dark knee socks; the pattern on her collar seems to match his shirt and hat. "Family" of four pose in another matching set; a plaid theme is echoed on shirts, collars, a hat brim for mom, shorts for the guys and Capri pants for the gals. The man takes off his shirt and walks to edge of (low) spring diving board, then pretends to be scared. The family urges him to jump. Mom "sneaks" up behind him and gives him a push, and he dives into a swimming pool.
Sports: Sailing
Sports: Sailing Sailing season opens in the Netherlands, and twenty racing sloops get the season under-way at Utrecht. These flying Dutchmen are off to a flying start as they clip along before a spanking breeze under sunny skies. Various shots of sailboats racing, rounding buoy or marker. One shot shows two-man crew (in unflattering position) sailing one boat. Brief POV shot looks out on bow of boat as it sails forward.
Vandenberg attacks Cut In ERP Funds
Shaky, blurry and dull in contrast and imagery Founded back in 1948, the German banking institute KFW....special reserved of the US European Recovery Program (ERP) ....In addition to budget funds. Mr. Vandenberg: I'm simply particularly urging as a fundamental proposition that you escape from the horrible hazard which is contained in this horizontal meat axe reduction of what can be figured 20 or 25 percent in the net horizontal cut which results from arbitrarily spreading this approbation over 15 instead of 12 months. Any such action is calculated to change the character of ECA from recovery to relief alone. Thus plunging us back into the dreary hopeless sterile and utterly costly routines from which we must escape.
President Truman Continues Pre-Election Tour
Shaky, blurry and dull in contrast and imagery Continuing his western pre-election tour, President Truman greets new thousands during rides through city streets and also finds time for sports and sight-seeing. At Sun Valley, he rides the lift chair, goes fishing, and also tries his luck at skeet-shooting.
$400 Exemption For Tourist
Shaky, blurry and dull in contrast and imagery An increased spending exemption for U.S. Visitors ($400 instead of $100) makes travel in Canada more enjoyable for those who wish to buy dominion woolens, coats and other merchandise. The first visitors under the new plan take full advantage of the relaxed restrictions.
Northwest Greets Truman
Shaky, blurry and dull in contrast and imagery Harry S. Truman on a campaign trail meeting with people he winds up extensive campaign swings to the Far West and return, confident of victory. The President meets more admirers as he visits Spokane, Grand Coulee dam, Bremerton and Seattle. He also tours stricken flood areas near Portland and sees terrible damage done by raging Columbia River.
News in Brief: Austrian Elections.
News in Brief: Austrian Elections. All Austria goes to the polls to elect the country's 3rd post-war president. Dr. Adolf Schaerf is elected after a campaign of politeness - the sole issue, should the president be a politican? Two old men gesture and talk, possibly an argument. Various shots of voters going to polls, casting ballots, nuns leaving polls. Among the voters are Chancellor Julius Raab and candidate Adolf Scharf and his opponent Denk. Scoreboard shows percentages - 49% for Denk, 51% for Schaerf. Men applaud the new president as he walks by.
News in Brief: Swiss Guards for Vatican.
News in Brief: Swiss Guards for Vatican. In the Vatican, 28 new members of the Swiss Guards, for centuries protectors of the pope, are sworn in with traditional ceremony, in the presence of high church dignitaries. The guards wear Medieval-looking armor and plumed helmets.
Time for a Change
Time for a Change Watch fashions, shown in Switzerland's trade fair - featuring stunning bracelets and rings with miniscule but precise timepieces concealed in them, as well as men's watches with built-in flashlights and parking timers. Three young women hold up watches for camera. Pan table of watches; woman's hand picks up one that looks like a bracelet but has a tiny watch face on it. Various other shots of glamorous women showing off the watches, which are sometimes concealed in other jewely - bracelet, ring. Hands display a watch that generates a light when squeezed; "the world's thinnest watch." The young models gaze at a larger clock with moving gears visible.
SPORTS: Hydroplane Outing.
SPORTS: Hydroplane Outing. The unlimited hydro-planes, big fellows of boat racing, have their first outing of the year on Lake Chelan. Slo-Mo-Shun v. Shanty I, and other famous names compete in the Apple Cup race. The winner, Maverick, after a torrid speed battle. Boats prepare; one man puts on a helmet before competition. Glamorous woman looks through binoculars, standing with other spectators. Various shots hydroplanes racing. Winning boat finishing. Winning driver poses holding an apple-shaped trophy.
Art World Sensation.
Art World Sensation. A new sensation bursts on the art world with the debut of Betsy, a Baltimore chimpanzee, whose abstract canvases have already found buyers a-plenty. The camera follows Betsy to her studio, for a glimpse of genius at work. Chimp wearing human clothes sits next to her paintings. This is one of those stories satirizing abstract art. A human being helps her out by putting globs of paint onto a canvas and then Betsy goes to it, fingerpainting. At one point she rubs the paint on her head. Funny.
Sports: Alpine Ski Meet.
Sports: Alpine Ski Meet. International ski champions compete at Chamonix in the French Alps for the Arlberg Kandahar trophy. A thrilling display of superb form and daring in the tricky slalom, and a challenging downhill course. VS Alps. Woman, then man successfully take the slalom course. One skier falls and keeps on sliding downhill. Young woman relaxes, reclining against the snowy hill. People zip by on downhill course. One skier wipes out pretty dramatically, looks somewhat painful.
British Air Crash Kills Twenty Two.
British Air Crash Kills Twenty Two. 22 perish with the crash of turbo-prop airliner into a British housing development near the Manchester Airport, including a mother and infant in one of the houses struck. Rescue workers pull at wreckage of plane amid smoldering houses, carry a victim's body from the scene, then another, then another. Crowds gather to watch the removal of pieces of plane.