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25 Years Ago - Unusual Planes
25 Years Ago - Unusual Planes MS to CUS - Flying flivvers were the object of popular attention, looked to fill the skies with Sunday drivers. Man works on unusual aircraft. Funny-looking little airplane (with truncated body) taxis. Another little plane, this one with three wheels on landing gear. Plane takes off.
25 Years Ago - Flexible Glass
25 Years Ago - Flexible Glass MCUS - Flexible glass was one of the wonders of science foreshadowing the years ahead. MS - Men working at factory pull out the flexible glass and conduct tests to show it's hard to break. (Glass diving board, among other things.) Plexiglass.
25 Years Ago - Anti-facist Protest
25 Years Ago - Anti-facist Protest MS - In New York, a mammoth anti-fascist rally protesting Mussolini's aggression against Ethiopia. Crowds demonstrate in street, carry signs.
25 Years Ago - New Deal and WPA
25 Years Ago - New Deal and WPA MS - The W.P.A. got under way, recruiting the first 15,000 for the New Deal's public works program. African American and Caucasian men. Recruit signs his name. Men work at construction. They have a wheelbarrow and shovels. Great shot of poverty during the Great Depression - CU African American man's feet, his toes wiggling to show off the tattered rags of (what used to be) his shoes.
25 Years Ago - All the beer you could drink in one hour
25 Years Ago - All the beer you could drink in one hour MSWA - All the beer you could drink in one hour, 60 for 60 minutes, electrified Texas. Man chugs several glasses one after another; various other imbibe excessively in creative ways. MCUS - Young woman sits on bar, apparently leading a crowd of men in a drinking song. Alcohol, heavy drinking, partying, fun.
Congo Crisis Continues
Tension continues to run high in the Congo. Despite the arrival of United Nations troops, the exodus of settlers continues, and Belgian paratroops continue to hold key positions, in defiance of Congolese demands for their withdrawal and threats that Soviet assistance will be requested. Chingola, Bancroft, Mufulira, Congo. MCUS - Car traffic on the road. VW Bug with a luggage carrier packed to the top. MS - Border guard waving a refugees car to drive in and cross the border to Northern Rhodesia. MCUS - A family of three carrying rifles on their shoulders. Father, Mother and Son. MS - A woman pouring her family some tea in the open. MS - Congo Police marching unit. MS - All the confiscated rifles laying on the ground that where confiscated by Rhodesian Police. MCUS - Burned out shops in Elizabethville. MS - A tan VW Bug driving down a street. It could be any street in the world. CUS - Soldier with his rifle and a beret on his head. MS - Congo, Zaire soldiers, army riding in a Jeep. MCUS - A street filled with stores that have been looted and torn apart. CUS - A man looking at his burned out car. MCUS - Three Congo women meet up.
Kennedy Homecoming.
The quiet Cape Cod town of Hyannisport, Mass., stages a monumental homecoming celebration for Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John F. Kennedy. 100,000 cheer his return. Mrs. Kennedy is at the airport to greet him. Crowds of people wave and shake hands with John (accompanied by Jackie) at airport. Police hold crowds back while candidate JFK waves, rides off in open convertible. A very crowded airport with Senator Kennedy shaking hands with the people. His wife Jackie is by his side. Mrs. Kennedy who is expecting a baby in November stayed back on doctor's orders. MS - Jack Kennedy getting into his car and as he steps up he is waving to the people. His wife Jackie is already seated in the back seat of the car waiting for Jack. MS - As the car is pulling out of the small air port people are following.
Attempt Kishi Assassination.
In Japan an attempt on the life Premier Kishi the very day he steps down from office. Kishi is shown by the balloting by the liberal Democratic Party for his successor as party leader and Prime Minister. After 3-years in office he resigned because of the violent student rallies protesting the controversial Japanese / American mutual security pact whose ratification was the climax of his career. Kishi successor, the former Minister of trade Hioto Akita is expected to continue pro-western policies. Later while attending a party for his successor Kishi was attacked by a right wing fanatic. Here he is shown being carried by friends to a car suffering from six stab wounds in his thigh. Teriyaki Aramatie was seized on the scene a member of a small fanatic group he has no connection to anti government students. Kishi (?) speaks at podium. Audience of MS Japanese men applaud. Japanese men walk along stage casting ballots. Hioto Akita approaches podium and bows. Premier Kishi moments after the attack on his life by a knife-wielding terrorist, and the seizure of the would-be killer, the very day Kishi stepped down from office. Films of rare immediacy and dramatic impact. Small crowd with photographers holding their cameras over their heads, desperate for shots. MCUS - Men carry the wounded Kishi down a narrow corridor. Pool, puddle of blood on the floor. MCUS - Police walk with smiling suspect in custody.
Air Show In Germany.
International air show in West Germany with the new Lufthansa . B-33 jet trainers bearing the iron cross perform over Munich. America's famed precession team The Sky Blazers perform a dazzling routine . Italy's team carries the Olympic emblem aloft in a brilliant aromatic performance. Nine French Fighters come from the blue flying in tight formation to wind up the show. A stunning spectacle in the Munich sky s. Superbly photographed precision jet maneuvers over Germany, with crack flight teams of the new Luftwaffe joining U.S., French and Italian aces. A blazing display at near-sonic speeds. Air to air shots of planes with Iron Cross on them performing maneuvers. Other planes fly in formation, perform stunts. Subjective POV shot from cockpit (?) during a barrel roll. Young boys look upward at the air show.
International Jump-off.
At Aachen, a superb German team rides off with honors in a jump-off against some of the world's finest equestrians, including America's Billy Steinkrauss. Magnificent horses and horsemanship in a breath-taking display of skill and style. The rider is riding a white horse making all the jumps nice and clean. One horse takes a bad fall. A chestnut horse approaches the jump and the horses legs seem to fold under him and the horse goes down and is sort of stuck on his side. MS - The spectators. MS - The next rider "Winkler" rides the course flawlessly. MS - Sport spectators applauding. MCUS - The horsemen are all lined up.
Calgary Stampede.
The continent's greatest rodeo riders tangle with the toughest, meanest broncos and brahmas afoot, in the highlight event of Alberta, Canada's Calgary stampede! Bucking, twisting, hard fighting steeds and tough, determined riders clash. Men in cowboy hats ride bucking broncos. Throngs of rodeo fans jammed together. MS - Cowboy comes out of the shoot riding a bucking bronco. MS - This cowboy gets thrown off the horse. Two small boys in cowboy outfits watch. Bulls throws his rider. MS - Little boys around 10 years old riding calfs. MS - Cowboys sitting on the ground. MS - Cowboy sitting on the back of a brahma, the bull gets him off his back, the bull turns around and trys to gore him.
Missile Milestone: First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat
VIDEO GLITCHES APPEAR ON THE MASTER AS WELL. First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat. The 4 year program to mate the long-range missile and the nuclear submarine reaches a stirring climax with the first firing of a Polaris two-stage rocket from the submerged U.S.S. George Washington, opening a new chapter in the history of warfare. The Polaris missile being carried on the flat bed of a semi truck. They are loaded into the submarine's firing tubes. Missile hatches of docked submarine open, then close. Aerial bird's eye view of sub at sea, perhaps beginning to submerge. The George Washington Submarine is going down some 50 to 60 feet below the surface. MS - On board a destroyer one of the reporters is looking through binoculars. Two missiles are successfully fired from underwater sub. MS - Out comes the Polaris out of the depths of the ocean and it looks like a successful flight 1,100 miles. MS - The second missile is fired and that turns out to be successful too.
Congo Crisis Continues.
As contingents of United Nations troops pour into the violence-torn Congo, Belgian troops stay in key positions, despite Congolese ultimatums and Soviet threats that bring a bristling U.S. response in the raging debate in the Security Council. At an air port a shipment of arms in wooden crates arrive and United Nations Troops continue to pour into the Congo. MS - The Tunisian Troops marching with rifles on their shoulders. OHS - Looking down on one of the towns streets in Zaire. MS - A soldier sitting and looking through the sites of his machine gun. MLS - Other soldiers laying on their stomachs looking through the sites of their machine guns. MS - A soldier on one knee holding his rifle. MS - Tunisian soldiers with their rifles laying on the ground. Other soldiers are unpacking the plane.
New Japanese Cabinet
Emperor Hirohito convokes the special session of the Diet that chooses the new premier, Hayato Ikeda. Afterwards, Mr. Ikeda poses with his new cabinet, which includes Japan's first woman cabinet minister. Exterior day diet building (?). Interiors, newsreel cameras (press, journalists) MS - the Emperor hands over the scroll to the Speaker of the House of Counsel. MCUS - Prime minister Ikeda announces his new cabinet members and poses on the steps with them. MCUS - First women ever to hold a Japanese Cabinet Post Masa Nacayama.
Forest Fires Rage Through West
Fanned by hot, dry winds, forest fires rage through 9 western states, bringing wide destruction. Los Angeles County is declared a disaster area as it battles the worst fire outbreak in its history. Home (house) beside a swimming pool burns, completely ablaze. There is no hope of saving this house. POV - Looking up there's a telephone or electric line pole (utility pole) on fire. Camera is panning - A destroyed forest there is nothing standing except burned trees which are still smoldering. There are still hot spots where you can still see fires burning there is nothing left of the forest just complete devastation and destruction.
15 Year Old Brenda Lee Singing Star
15-Year-old Brenda Lee wins the accolade of the record industry, a gold record, in token of the one million sales of her song 'I'm Sorry', the country's number one record hit. Man presents Decca gold records, framed, to tiny Brenda Lee. A very young Brenda Lee being presented a gold record by President Milton Rackmil as Executive Vice President Leonard Snyder looks on. MCUS - Brenda is standing in the center smiling holding her golden record "I'm Sorry" CUS - Little Brenda Lee and her golden record.
Fashion Parade
In Germany, a dazzling glimpse of ladies' jewelry, antique and modern, with the emphasis on ingenious magnets that make for highly attractive adornment for milady. Young models in an antique shop pick out and try on jewelry. Three young ladies in an antique shop that specializes in vintage clothing and jewelry. The open the doors to a glass cabinet and finger through the jewelry. MCUS - Blond woman gazes in mirror and tries on earrings (clip-on). she is holding a hand mirror in her hands she looks into it and there she is wearing the earrings. She turns the hand mirror, looks into it and there she is wearing a hat with flowers on it. CUS - This earring is unique it's a little basket hanging from a handle that's attached to a clip. CUS - A hand holding a clip on earring with the clip part up, the finger flips the clip and brings it down. CUS - Female hands demonstrate magnetic earrings, held on the ears by magnets. CU Brunette admires her earrings in looking glass. CUS - Female legs walk through frame and various metal objects spin or are pulled in her direction.
Bull Run At Pamplona.
The famous 'folding of the bulls' (running of the bulls) at Pamplona, as the mighty bulls thunder through the streets of the town and into the arena, amid a throng of wildly excited would-be toreros, who defy death and injury (and get away with it) in a mad melee. People dance in streets while others watch from balconies. Bulls chase the stupid crazy people down the streets and into the bull ring; one bull has the number 78 branded on its side. In this ring, the bulls try to trample and gore several men (and do seem to step on a few), while happy spectators watch. Exceedingly dangerous sport. Macho? A whole town in Pamplona, Spain are in celebration of San Fermin (or 'the running of the bulls'), a tradition carried on through the centuries. People in every direction possible, on the streets and up in the balconies People drinking, eating, dancing and in the distance you can hear shouting and screaming and by the sound of things you knew that the bulls were loose. When the bulls come charging along and people just scattered like mad, throwing each other down to avoid them. There is complete hysteria and confusion. Throngs in the balconies and jammed packed on the streets. MCUS - Men dancing in a circle, music, singing, dancing, and drinking all enjoying the time of their life s. MS - People running and spreading all over the place, here come the bulls. MS - A crowd of mostly men running into the bull arena. The seating areas are packed with people, CUS - Man and woman sitting in their spots in the arena watching safely the bull, the men and all the trampling and goring that was taking place. MWAS - You see this guy being gored and shoved around by the bull. People stop in their tracks and take note. Finely the bull stops the guy gets up and the bull moves on.
Republican Convention Highlights
Interest and excitement mount in Chicago even before the arrival of Vice-President Nixon and the formal opening of the Republican National Convention. New York's Governor Rockefeller, following his 14-point platform agreement with Nixon, dominates the pre-convention spotlight. Although he's ruled himself out as a candidate for either the number 1 or 2 spots, his enthusiasts continue a stirring series of demonstrations. Exterior day rally for Rockefeller, signs. Rockefeller climbs off plane, waves to crowd of supporters. MS - People mill about in room. There's a long table set up with food and people are helping themselves with the goodies. There's a large poster of Richard and Pat Nixon on the wall. MS - Young people gather items (buttons, and strangely, feathers) with campaign slogans on them (presumably for Nixon). MS - A parade with floats. On one a flapper doing the Charleston. MS - Parade. Floats, including one shaped like a giant coin bearing Nixon's likeness. Scantily clad women hold Nixon signs. CUS - One young woman waves a Nixon now! hat in the air, and she wears a huge button (as big as her head) that says "I'm For Nixon."
The RB-47 Debate: Lodge Debunks Red Spy-Flight Charges
The RB-47 Debate. In United Nations Security Council debate in New York, Ambassador Lodge gives the lie to Soviet charges that the R-B-47 reconnaissance jet shot down by Red fighters was on a spy flight. He reveals the plane's flight was tracked by U.S. secret devices, which show that Red fighters actually attempted to force the plane from its flight over international waters into Red air space before shooting it down. A dramatic denunciation of Soviet piracy. United Nations Security Council in session. MS - Ambassador Lodge pointing at a map VO says that Ambassador says the Red Fighter Pilots attempted to push it over into the Russian Zone before they shot it down. Ambassador Lodge addresses the United Nation's Security Council, "The plane was brought down by the Soviet Union neither at the place nor at the time which the Soviet Union claims. What actually happened is this, and I hope the Council will listen very carefully, before the plane reached the point more than 50 miles north of the plane was scheduled to make its turn to the Northeast. A Soviet Fighter pressed in from the seaward side. There's the red arrow showing the Soviet Fighter. It pressed in from the seaward side and tried to force the plane off its course and into Soviet territory. Now this astonishing and criminal fact was established beyond doubt by the evidences of our scientific devices which followed the RB-47 through all the events which I have described. Mr. President the Soviet Union has committed a predatory act, in international water. This is serious enough in it itself. But the situation has been further aggravated by the subsequent allegations and pronouncements by the Soviet government. It is thus pertinent to ask, what is behind these lawless actions and these reckless statements? Permeating from the Kremlin and echoed here in the council."
Boy Scout Jamboree.
In Colorado, Boy Scouts from all over the world assemble for scouting 5th National Jamboree, the golden anniversary get-together of the scouting movement in the United States. A stirring and exciting schedule of events, from impressive opening ceremonies through the busy days of friendly competition and get-togethers among youths of many different lands. Aerial shot of hundreds and hundreds of boy scout tents set up in a valley. MS - Boy scouts walking down a dirt road carrying wood and other materials for their camp sites. MS - Looking up you see all the multi-national flags from around the world, CUS - A very large Birthday Cake. CUS - Boy scouts trading badges. CUS - A Boy scout from Hawaii. CUS - Boy scout from Mexico. CUS - A shot of a Boy scout s pocket from Venezuela. MCUS - Sign - Choccolocco Council , Troop 53. CUS - Boy scout s securing their tents. Camera pans - All the flags from the different countries, Israel, Japan, Mexico, America, Italy, etc., etc., Multicultural.
Italy's Fashion War On Paris
Italy's high fashion general staff declares war on Paris' style supremacy, revealing a dazzling collection for 1961, assembled from the lines of top Italian designers, and breath-taking showcased against the classic landmarks of the eternal city. Female models (mannequins) with lots of eye makeup show off various clothes, jackets. Rome. Coliseum. Model showing off her new coat with a cape accent on it. Slits for the arms, hooded and it flairs out in the back. MCUS - This model is wearing a herringbone tweed woolen coat, trimmed in mink and a mink hat to match,. MS - Woolen pastel suit with a belt in the back, a vest to match the skirt, accented with a black turtle neck top and a fur hat to top it off. MCUS - Black sleeveless dress and around the hips the designer has made a white tie around the hips skirt that starts at the back where the dress is all white. CUS - Model is wearing a poke-a-dot jacket with black slacks fitted at the bottom of her ankle. MS - In the back ground is Rome's Coliseum. The model comes walking up the stairs wearing a pull over knitted sweater and black slacks fitted at the bottom. Flat shoes with a round vamp.
U.S. Women's Open Golf.
At Worcester, Mass., blazing competition among top distaff golfers. In the final round, Betsy Rawls holds a lead against close-trailing and hard-pressing challengers and goes on to win her 4th U.S. Open, the first time ever for a woman! Betsy Rawls tees off. MCUS Marlene Bower Hagy following. MCUS - Joyce Disk MCUS - Betsy Rawls putts and at the third round comes off with a sizzling 68. MCUS - Arlene Hagy sinks a big one and is considered a strong contender MCUS - Joyce Disk putts and sinks a birdie. MS - Golfing spectators applauding. CUS - Betsy Rawls, wearing a sun visor and smiling.
The Nixon - Lodge Ticket
A graphic summary of the Republican Party's Nominating Convention. Highlights of GOPs gala, hundredth-anniversary Republican Convention. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is acclaimed by one million Chicagoans as he arrives in the windy city. The Midwest metropolis, scene of the President's first great political triumph in 1952, gives the chief executive an unforgettable welcome. A rousing ovation as the convention itself greets Ike and Mamie. In a stirring speech, the President strongly endorses the Republican bid to the nation. Following Ike's appearance, the convention nominates Vice-President Nixon as the standard bearer in the presidential campaign. Later Mr. Nixon announces his choice of U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge as his running mate. With Nixon's first ballot victory and the choice by acclamation of Nixon and Lodge for the Republican candidates, the lines are drawn for what promises to be one of the most stirring and momentous presidential contests of the 20th century. MS VS interiors of convention floor, delegates, signs. Large photos hang of (left to right) Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln, and Richard Nixon). Press photographers snap away as Ike and Nixon chat. MCUS - President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon sitting on sofas. Motorcade travels along street past confetti-throwing Chicago crowds. MS - President Eisenhower standing up in a convertible waving to the cheering crowd, Secret Service run alongside. Signs at convention thank Ike. MCUS - Convention picket signs, Ikes Our President - Well Done Mamie And Ike - Thanks Mr. President. MS - President Eisenhower and his wife Mamie waking up to the podium. MCUS - The audience waving their hankies MCUS - President Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie both with huge smiles on their faces. President Eisenhower addresses the convention, "It's been in this manner of comparative national prestige, I challenge him to this test. Will he agree to the holding of free elections, under the sponsorship of the United Nations to permit people everywhere in every nation on every continent to vote on one single simple issue. And that is, Do you want to live under a communist regime or under a free system such is found in the United States?" (long applause) Shots of the convention crowds voting. MCUS - Republican Congressman Halic of Indiana. " The chair declares therefore that Vice President Richard M Nixon has been unanimously nominated to be the candidate of the Republican Party to the office of President of the United States." (applause) CUS Signs - We Want Nixon - Nixon For President - Illinois wants Nixon - Threes a Stop Light hanging from a wire and there's a sign that reads, Stop and think and Go with Nixon. MCUS - People dancing around carrying signs In another location, Henry Cabot Lodge and wife wave at press conference. Lodge answers reporter's question, says he is optimistic of their changes for victory, while flashbulbs flash. Newsman " How do you feel about the chances of a Nixon-Lodge ticket?" Ambassador Lodge answers, "Oh, I'm very optimistic. I think, I think it will be a fighting campaign. I think it will be exciting and interesting campaign, but I'm optimistic of the outcome because I think people taking the situation of the United States and the World today, very seriously. And their right and they ought to. I think their worried about the world and its like a man who's going to have an operation, he wants the best doctors. And I think the voters will want to have in the White House the man who's the most experienced the most intelligent, the most trained, who's a real pro. And I think that I think will convince a lot of people to vote for Richard Nixon." MCUS - Richard Nixon sitting down with his wife, two daughters and his mother. Back in Chicago, candidate Richard Nixon poses with wife, children, mother for press photographers. Nixon speaks glowingly to listening journalists of Eisenhower's splendid record. Vice President Nixon speaks of President Eisenhower, "When I think of the burdens that he has carried, the responsibility, that has been his. When I think also of the splendid record he has made in every way, in particularly, the dignity, decently and immense good will and feeling and affection that he has brought to the Office of the Presidency. I realize for any man, be it Mr. Kennedy or myself, to follow in his foot steps will be a tremendous responsibility. A challenge that will be very difficult for us to meet."