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Hudson Celebration
Hudson Celebration New York celebrates the 350th anniversary of the discovery by Henry Hudson of the great river that bears his name. Units of the second fleet fill the harbor as Vice President Richard Nixon, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Governor Robert Meyner and Mayor Robert Wagner take part in ceremonies. Aerials, ships move toward Manhattan, past Statue of Liberty. The four politicians seem to be shaking hands simultaneously, all four with hands together. Photographers ready and aim their cameras. Crowd at ceremony. Huge ships.
Launch Polaris-firing A-sub
Launch Polaris-firing A-sub At Groton, Connecticut, the submarine 'George Washington' is launched, the first nuclear powered sub designed to fire the Polaris missile, bringing into being a whole new strategy of warfare. Woman christens sub, makes a big splash as she does (it looks like she gets pretty wet from whatever was in the bottle). Crowd watches sub slide down into the water.
Beauties And The Beasts
Beauties And The Beasts Beauties upstage the beasts at the San Diego Zoo with a fashion show drawing on the basic patterns and themes of nature. Glamour girls ranging from the sleek and pantherish to the formal, a la penguin, parade the new modes. Exterior, San Diego Zoo (with sign). Bathing beauties (in swimsuits) in one of the pens with water. Women model clothing inspired by or somehow like various animals, including leopard, camel, tiger.
Twenty-five Years Ago Today
Twenty-five Years Ago Today. Young Fascist parade in the eternal city before Mussolini... Mussolini, in uniform, on horseback, watches as young boys march by -- these children are carrying guns! Scary. Airmen Codos and Rossi win acclaim despite their failure to set a new distance record from Paris to San Diego... Airplane on runway (?), crowd gathers around two men who smoke cigarettes. The worst drought in half a century scourges the nation. Thousands of farms are smothered in dust and sand storms... Dust bowl scenes. In Maine, 30,000 acres of virgin timber burns in one of the state's worst forest fires.... Men pull hoses along road in smoky forest. Disaster. Exiled from Tibet, the then Panchen Lama is greeted by huge throngs in Shanghai, China... Man (Panchen Lama?) walks, looks out at crowds with banners. On the sports pages, a contest for the heavyweight championship...Max Baer challenges mountainous Primo Carnero. Boxers in training. Tracking shot from in front of 5 men running (jogging). Man in boxer shorts jumps rope, slugs punching bag in front of onlookers. Baer (?) warms up too, punches smaller punching bag (punching ball?). David and Goliath, says the VO.
Trooping The Color
Trooping The Color Traditional pomp and military pageantry marks the queen's official birthday ceremony in London, a moment of splendor and chivalric tribute going back to medieval times but still colorful and stirring, from the passing of the color to the impressive slow march by her guards to the rousing music of massed bands. Queen Elizabeth II rides horseback on crowd-lined streets. The queen watches, salutes. Guards parade and march in formation. Spectators look on.
Hovercraft Skims Waves
Hovercraft Skims Waves In England, first over-the-water flight of a flying saucer shaped craft designed to skim the surface on a cushion of compressed air. It proves no pipe dream, when put to the test. People, including some press photographers, gather round this invention. Hovercraft pilot on board, with helmet. Flaps are adjusted. Spectators watch hovercraft fly on land, then on water (large boat passes behind it).
Falconry In The Black Forest
Falconry In The Black Forest Unusual scenes show the survival of one of the world's oldest and most noble forms of hunting in the Black Forest of Germany (? - or maybe Austria) where falconers train feathered killers - hawk, falcons and even the mighty sea eagle - to loyalty and cooperation with the huntsman. Men train the birds to hunt for prey, first on a long leash, then with more freedom. The men wear thick gloves so birds can perch on their arm without hurting them. Includes CUs of birds (heads). Eagle (?) is sprayed with water; birdbath of sorts.
'Heads-up' Beach Wear
'Heads-up' Beach Wear American beach fashions invade one of Italy's swankest and most style conscious shore resorts, and make quite a splash, both the classic swimsuits and the 'crazy cap' beach accessories - swim caps (bathing caps) which definitely make the wearer a two-faced woman. Young women, on diving boards and next to swimming pool, model conservative one-piece bathing suits. On one woman a panty line is visible under her suit. Gals show off swim caps with design of a face on each, then turn to show their own faces. The last cap-wearer turns around and turns out to be a man. Silly.
Casper Wins U.S. Open
Casper Wins U.S. Open One of golfdom's classics on the winged foot course in Westchester, New York, against such great competitors as Ben Hogan, Sam Sneed, Arnold Palmer, Mike Souchak and others, and harassed by stormy gusts sweeping the course, rotund Bill Casper wins with solid play on the fairways and superb putting on the greens. Male golfers tee off. Interested crowds watch; some spectators use periscopes for better view. Some good putts. Casper's body language seems like mild celebration. Caddy. Wind blows flag. Smiling Casper holds shiny trophy for the camera.
Tornado Rips Miami
Tornado Rips Miami A night of terror and calamity in Miami, as a rare tornado smashes through the city, unroofing houses, overturning autos, and hurling telephone poles like monstrous arrows. Casualty lists top one hundred, and property damages exceeds $1 million. Dramatic aftermath scenes. Caucasian people, some still in pajamas or nightgowns, walk among rubble and wreckage. Overturned cars, smashed homes. One car door was impaled (!) by a pole or branch; man pulls it out, shows the hole. Damage.
News in Brief: Germans Commemorate Anti-red Uprising
News in Brief: Germans Commemorate Anti-red Uprising. West Berlin and all West Germany join in observances commemorating the 1953 anti-red uprisings in East Germany. In Berlin, Mayor Willy Brandt leads solemn wreath-laying ceremonies. Library films show the day of desperate and gallant revolt when civilian workers fought Communist army tanks and guns. Wreaths and graves. Woman puts flower by gravestone. Men carry and lay wreaths in the cemetery, large crowd looking on. Willy Brandt. Flashback scenes: Crowds in the streets burn a flag, other items (rather large fire). Tanks rumble through the streets; people duck, crowds run away.
Chinese Art Treasures
Chinese Art Treasures Some of the world's most priceless art objects, national treasures of Free China, are removed from the air conditioned bomb-proof cave on Formosa where they have come to rest after decades of flight from China's stormy recent history. Men pull carts away from large cave in side of hill. Man closes the huge doors to the cave. Someone's hands hold a few art objects, individually displayed for the camera. Chinese (?) people look at objects in glass cases (museum-type setting).
Warning: The Mummy Is Here
Warning: The Mummy Is Here An eerie herald of a new screen horror classic, Universal-International's 'The Mummy,' arrives in New York to begin a national tour. The mummy, insured for a million dollars with Lloyd's, is escorted by exotic Norma Marla, who bears a striking family resemblance to an ancient Egyptian queen, and by one of Britain's top Egyptologists. Ocean liner. 4 men (apparently porters) carry what looks like a sarcophagus along deck of ship, prop it up. Men and women spectators, one woman photographer. With New York skyline in background, the porters open the coffin to reveal the wrapped "mummy". Men photographers. Woman strikes sort of sexy pose next to mummy.
Heel And Toe Championship
Heel And Toe Championship In Baltimore, half a hundred heel and toers hoof it down the pike in the National AAU 20 kilometer walking championship. The winner strides across the line at a average 8 M.P.H., while a winded observer rides! Male athletes race walking, which of course looks a little funny. Spectators. Little boy follows and does his version of the walk. Several butt shots of man in athletic shorts, walking. Old man apparently stops stopwatch as winner crosses finish line. Winner wears laurel wreath crown.
Junior Water-skiing Champs
Junior Water-skiing Champs At celebrated Cypress Gardens, Florida, junior water-skiing championships, with 15-year-old Barbara Cooper and 12-year-old Perry Boswell making record jumps to become pace setters for aquatic American youth. Water ski stunts. Skier jumps using ramp. On shore, male in bathing suit holds up two cards that say "8" and "4" (maybe the skier's score?). Boy in swimsuit climbs out of water, shakes hands with people. Teen girl and adolescent boy shake hands, then the girl rubs boy's head in a playful (patronizing?) older-sister way. (Looks like an image of how girls mature faster than boys -- though they really aren't the same age, apparently.)
Pope John XXIII And Rainiers
Pope John XXIII And Rainiers A papal audience is accorded Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco by Pope John XXIII, a 25-minute private conversation that touches off an odd rumor - quickly denied - of plans for a Vatican high seas fleet. Prince Rainier, in uniform, and Princess Grace, with black veil, walk with clergymen, kneel in respect before the Pope. Two women wearing long black veils each kiss the Pope's hand. The pope makes the sign of the cross (blessing?). Grace and her husband depart, bowing again to the pope as they leave.
"Khrushchev" In Canada
"Khrushchev" In Canada Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Niagara Falls and touches off a wave of startled confusion. Not the real Mr. K, just an amazingly life-like wax image, part of a gallery of the famous and infamous being opened here. Eerily smiling "Nikita Khrushchev", in back seat of open convertible, rides up to Canadian Customs stop. Man in uniform waves the car through. Box or crate with lettering on it: "Soldier (Simcoe), Gen. Brock, Roosevelt, Dillinger, John Booth, Marc Anthony, Father Hennepin", and others. Wax dummy is removed from crate. Wax dummy of man wearing a cloak (Father Hennepin, says the VO) stands at overlook for Niagara Falls. "Puzzled" onlooker scratches his head for the camera.
Upset In $40 Grand Harness Race
Upset In $40 Grand Harness Race 27 thousand harness race fans see a terrific upset in the $40,000 good time pace at Yonkers Raceway, as underdog Bye Bye Byrd outpaces the favorite, Speedy Pick, and stands off a terrific finish-line challenge by 14-1 Widowers Creed. Large crowd. Two young women spectators get excited. Scenes from harness race, including the beginning and finish.
Twenty-five Years Ago Today.
Twenty-five Years Ago Today. Events that made news in 1934, and still stir in memory. The birth of Dionne quintuplets. A miracle of life that thrilled the world over. Still of mother in bed with five tiny babies. Man in cap (father?) shakes hands with minister and another man. Ex-president Herbert Hoover emerges from near-eclipse to dedicate Pasadena's Morris Dam. Herbert Hoover (?) shakes hands with other Caucasian men, unveils a plaque that says "Morris Dam." Chicago's dazzling century of progress exposition goes into an exciting second year. Chicago World's Fair. Uniformed men parade. Crowds walk about. News of the 'silly season' - a pretty girl in Hollywood panicking pedestrians by strolling her pet lion cub. Young Caucasian woman drives in open convertible down urban street -- with a large feline in the convertible with her. Woman takes the big cat for a walk on a leash. In Philadelphia, a human icicle being frozen into a giant ice-cube. Skinny Caucasian man climbs into something and men put transparent lid on top. Man waves from within. On the highways, a smashingly successful demonstration of a new safety guard rail, involving dozens of maimed and battered jalopies! One driver runs another car into the guardrail. Several other automobiles run into and bounce off of the guard rail.
Queen In Canada
Queen In Canada Scenes of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip cruising up the St. Lawrence on the yacht Britannia, and at just one of the gala state dinners in the course of pomp, glitter and pageantry with which Canada marks the most extensive royal tour of the country ever undertaken. Big boat underway, then it docks. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, both dressed fancy, queen in crown or tiara, disembark. People at long banquet tables clap and stand up. Queen speaks at microphone by one of the tables(no nat. sound). The nicely dressed audience applauds.
Cardiac Pace-setter
Cardiac Pace-setter An electric pace-setter (pace-maker, pacemaker) frees a cardiac case from the near disability of an intermittent heart interruption. The portable pocket-size device, wired directly to the vital organ, will sting the patient's heart back to life whenever it stops beating. Late middle aged male patient shows off this new medical technology. Outside Montefiore Hospital, press photographers take pictures of him and the device.
Crackdown On Opium
Crackdown On Opium Rare scenes inside a Bangkok opium den just prior to shutdown imposed by a new government ban on opium smoking. Thousands of addicts will be treated at a new state sanatorium, in an historic effort to eliminate the costly vice. Man with paraphernalia. Man lying on floor smoking. People enter a building. Men change their clothes (?). Woman drinks a small cup of liquid. Men (and a few women) queue up to get meal, sit at tables with food. Several of these people are rather thin and look unhealthy or malnourished.
Lion On The Loose
Lion On The Loose A social evening with a British zoo-keeper who takes his pal Simba out for a social evening - at home with the family, and at the pub, where Simba laps up a tankard of bitters like a regular. Family scene, people reading around the fireplace, with a male lion lying there in their midst. Small house cat peaks around door, runs away as if startled. Man takes lion out on leash or chain. They enter a pub; then men exit the pub from another door. Inside tavern, the lion leans over the bar and drinks the beverage served by smiling bartender.
'This Earth Is Mine' Hailed
'This Earth Is Mine' Hailed San Francisco hails the world premiere of Universal-International's new drama of the Napa Valley, 'This Earth Is Mine' with civic ceremonies including the 'launching' of a cable car. On hand are Rock Hudson, Cindy Robbins, Joan Blake, Anna Lee, and co-producer Casey Robinson. Cindy Robbins (?) christens a Powell & Market cable car while Rock Hudson watches. People in crowd (fans) wave. Decorated trolley with movie stars and others (?) on board travels through town. Several signs and banners for "This Earth Is Mine" hang around the city.