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NATO Airpower: New Units Assemble for Overseas Duty.
NATO Airpower: New Units Assemble for Overseas Duty. Jet squadrons are formed and made ready for overseas duty to reinforce the air strength of Western Europe. Spectacular maneuvers mark the eve of their departure. Various shots of military planes, men making them ready, people checking gear, etc. Two planes take off. Air-to-air views of 49th Air Division Thunderjets in flight. Ground to air view of 4 planes flying in formation.
News in Brief: Canal Disaster.
News in Brief: Canal Disaster. Rupture of a dam on the Yonne River dries up its companion canal and leaves scores of barges high and dry. Water rushes through damaged dam (unusual-looking). Scenes of nearly dry canal. On one grounded boat, a woman washes laundry in a tub while an elderly captain (her husband) stands by and smokes a cigarette.
Ancient Rite Restored
Ancient Rite Restored In Rome, Italy, Pope John XXIII revives the ancient Maundy Thursday custom, the washing of the feet. The ritual is observed this year for the first time since 1878. Ext. ornate religious building. Painted icon of Christ with halo. Pope kneeling at feet of a row of clergymen; can't really see the foot-washing but we can see the bowl of water, and the Pope is clearly kissing their feet, too.
Lion Roams - Crowds Roar
Lion Roams - Crowds Roar At a preview of the greatest show on earth - that's the Ringling Bros., Etc, Etc, Circus now at Madison Square Garden. Excitement not listed on the program occurs when a lion breaks loose from his cage. The big cat gets free to the lobby before he's captured. Consternation Leo! Various scenes of circus. Elephant act. The lion's escape is shown; lion tamer in cage with 2 lions, the male escapes and runs about. Danger.
Dog-git Soccer Game
Dog-git Soccer Game At Frankfurt, Germany, a capacity crowd gets an added thrill at an all-star soccer game. Frankfurt vs. Munich. Its a scoreless clash. With the goalies impossible to pass. Then a pooch - lo! and behold! decides to do something about the scoreless situation. He scampers on field - races away with the ball- and bang! nets a goal...Man's best friend does it again... Nice slow motion shots of goalie preventing scores. Little dog knocks ball (or balloon, perhaps) into the goal. Various reactions (or not) from the crowd.
President Eisenhower Addresses NATO
President Eisenhower Addresses NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization marks its 10th anniversary. President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the meeting of NATO ministers in Washington, D.C. He forecasts long range tensions in the years that lie ahead. Flag-shaped signs represent various nations: United States, United Kingdom, Turkey... Belgium... Greece, Federal Republic of Germany, France. Eisenhower speaks (nat sound).
Mahdi Dead
Mahdi Dead Vast throngs mourn one of the Sudan's beloved religious and political leaders. At Khartoum impressive funeral ceremonies are conducted for Sir Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi, leader of the dervishes. Huge African crowds. Men wearing white and men in military uniform stand near draped body (corpse). Men carry the body. Nifty building with pointy dome (mosque?).
Formosa Hails Tibet Rebels
Formosa Hails Tibet Rebels On the island of Formosa, more than 60,000 demonstrate and roar approval to encourage Tibet's anti-Red uprisings. As news develops of the Dalai Lama's escape to India, Chiang Kai-Shek predicts far greater revolts on the China mainland. Crowd with banners (in Asian characters). Man in uniform (Chiang?) speaks into microphones at podium, raises fist, waves hat to crowds. Military presence among them.
Foreign Ministers Meeting In Washington
Foreign Ministers Meeting In Washington Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter confers with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and West Germany. A pep and prep session before they convene with the Soviet minister prior to the summit meeting. Press photographers and cameramen take aim, one cranking or winding his camera. Four men sit around and talk.
Summer Styles Shown
Summer Styles Shown A couple of beautiful beachcombers - island hopping in the scenic surroundings of the Netherlands Antilles - displaying an eye-filling array of sun and fun vacation apparel. The flavor in fashion for summer looks mighty delicious from here. Includes Capri pants (?), hats, sunglasses, bathing suits, pigtail wig (!). The two ladies, in dressier outfits (for travel?), seem to be exiting a resort hotel-type area; could be used to represent tourists.
Spring!
Spring! Beautiful spring! The curtain rises on the vernal season in the animal kingdom. A regular variety show is given at a zoo in England. Amusing antics by gamboling lambs and geese - with the show's star attraction - mama bear and her cub stealing scenes right and left. All these performers recently shook off winter hibernation - not too merry in dear old England this year. Bear cub is cute. Mother carries him by the scruff of his neck.
Atomic Submarine 'Skate' At The Pole
Atomic Submarine 'Skate' At The Pole The nuclear submarine Skate penetrates the ice at the North Pole after a historic voyage under the winter arctic ice. In all, the submarine surfaced ten times through the ice while logging 3,090 miles in twelve days. A feat of great strategic value. Front of sub cutting through water. Crew members perform various tasks, operate equipment, look into periscope (interior of sub). Sub surfaces through ice. Crewmen knock ice off of sub.
NATO Anniversary
NATO Anniversary Germany and Italy observe the 10th anniversary of NATO forces with impressive and stirring demonstrations of allied unity. Flags of many nations are raised. Military folks. Planes fly overhead in formation. Parade that includes troops marching, tanks, etc. Ceremonies.
International Automobile Show
Same as catalog # 535887 International Automobile Show "In New York's Coliseum - hundreds of nimble and beautiful cars from all over the world compete in the third international auto show. There's a bundle from Britain and it was bound to come from somewhere soon...A do-it-yourself car.... Kit style: $885. Assembled- painted, ready to run- $998. Quite a crate. The audience is really bug-eyed at this one." [Note: If the kit car is shown at all, it's not clearly highlighted as this description indicates.] Signs seen at the show include: Lancia, Ford, Alfa-Romeo, Toyota. Woman reclines the front seat of an open convertible. Female models walk among and try out the cars, including Asian women in kimonos (?) at the Toyota exhibit.
Tokyo Prepares For Royal Nuptials
Same as catalog # 535888 Tokyo Prepares For Royal Nuptials In Tokyo, Japan, accent is on the approaching wedding of Prince Akihito and Michiko Shoda. The festooned Ginza resembles an Oriental wonderland. Sign says "Ginza". Workers assemble decorations, lanterns (?). Cherry blossoms on trees. People look through handheld "periscopes" with Asian characters written on them. Photos of the couple, including one in their tennis outfits.
Boy Of The Year
Same as catalog # 535889 Boy Of The Year In New York, ex-president Herbert Hoover officially proclaims 16-year-old John Drupa of Binghamton, New York, as the Boys' Club of America 'Boy of the Year'. Young man takes trophy/plaque from the aging Hoover (?) and shakes his hand.
Masters Golf
Same as catalog # 535890 Masters Golf 35-Year-old Art Wall, Jr., placid and immensely personable professional golfer, wins the Masters golf tournament in what seems to be the strongest finishing round in the history of the notable event. With a closing 66 which included eight birdies - five of them in the last six holes - Wall came from six strokes off the lead carried in to the fourth round by Arnold Palmer, the defending champion and Stan Leonard, Canadian. Art hopped over an even dozen in front of him to post a 72-hole total of 284 made up of rounds of 73-74-71-66. Charlie Coe. Spectators turn their heads to watch a ball fly by. Crowd walks to next hole. Golfer celebrates successful putt. Crowd runs to assume new position. Winner gets jacket.
Ike's Home-Coming: Nomination Campaign Launched in Abilene.
Ike's Home-Coming: Nomination Campaign Launched in Abilene. "In his boyhood hometown, Dwight D. Eisenhower, now 'Citizen' Eisenhower, his NATO duties behind him, fires the opening gun in his campaign to win the Republican Nomination at Chicago. Friends and former neighbors give the retired general a hero's welcome as he arrives, with a gala street parade held in his honor." Banner reads: Eisenhower for President - Small town flare with bunting and banners. One shot has characterisation of IKE on banner. Mamie Eisenhower arrives with Ike. Boy wears straw hat that has "I Like IKE" written on ribbon. Cornerstone is laid at museum - Eisenhower Foundation. Car full of Eisenhower's teachers pass by in parade. Ike waves to crowds at parade.
Zero Gravity Test Flight.
Same as catalog # 535891 Zero Gravity Test Flight. We see spacemen training in Ohio. Accompanying them is a civilian reporter who experiences zero gravity during the flight. Floating in mid-air - with the ease of a breeze suspending his body with strength of a single finger. Hand-stand style... All this and even harder to comprehend accomplishments from the space administration. Air to air plane in flight. Interiors of airplane, men with helmets experience zero gravity. The weightless men do somersaults, float. One man grabs for his still camera to take a picture. Looks fun.
Oscar Honors
Same as catalog # 535892 Oscar Honors Academy Awards night in Hollywood. The film capital is aglow with scintillating stars - the elite of filmdom hails new royalty of the movie world at the thirty-first Motion Picture Academy Awards. 'Gigi', a French musical, claimed nine Oscars. Ext. RKO Pantages theater marquee. Klieg lights. Fans in crowd wave excitedly. Arrivals of Ingrid Bergman, Janet Leigh (?), Tony Curtis. Ceremony. James Cagney (?) announces a winner, Susan Hayward (?). Irene Dunn (?) announces David Niven as winner.
Arctic-haunting Nuclear Powered Sub
Same as catalog # 535893 Arctic-haunting Nuclear Powered Sub After her second historic transpolar voyage, this one in the dead of arctic winter, the captain of the Skate, Commander James F. Calvert, 36 years old, and members of the crew receive awards at New London, Connecticut. Submarine, surfaced, moves through shining water. Sub with some crew members along the top, outside. Crowd, with signs, "Welcome Home North Pole Sitters." Sailors in uniform. Man in uniform smiles, salutes, kisses a woman in the crowd (wife, perhaps?).
Fashion Piracy
Same as catalog # 535894 Fashion Piracy Films from Germany uncover fashion pirates at work. They employ every trick of the trade to copy exclusive new designs. Results are admirable. The method, well, that's something else again. Silly scenes of men (and one woman) supposedly spying. Man at mock periscope, and POV as if through the periscope. Man peering through keyhole; POV as if through keyhole. Small cameras "hidden" under clothes. Women modeling clothing. Hand draws on a man's back; man removes jacket to display carbon paper underneath. Some shots might pass for silly spy flick, others for peeping toms peering at the women.
25 Years Ago Today
Same as catalog # 535895 25 Years Ago Today. Themes. Scenes. Schemes. They don't change much over the years. Here we see teachers in Chicago protesting pay injustice. 5,000 instructors are joined by sympathetic students and parents in a march thru the Loop in angry demonstration. Marchers with banners. Peaceful. Strikes spread across the nation. Jolting the economy. Violence and hardship abound. Presidential intervention brings about settlement of the auto industry strike. Crowds, men walking. F.D.R. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) sails away on Vincent Astor's yacht for a brief fishing holiday. FDR shakes hands with a man. The President and other men on boat, FDR waves his hat. New cars rolled off the assembly lines...Shiny, 1934 models. Workers punching time cards (?). Men in factory, assembling automobiles, resting and eating. In France, tests of a newly devised non-skid tire tread are interrupted when another car, with old-fashioned tires, skid-prone, skids in the rain - killing a woman pedestrian in this camera close-up. One car successfully stops on apparently wet, slick road. Another car spins, slides, and crashes into a woman and a baby carriage. Looks partially staged because it looks like woman pushes the carriage into the path of the car... but then her fall looks real. Tragedy. Auto accident.
Japan's Royal Wedding
Japan's Royal Wedding In a typically Japanese mingling of scenes of the modern and of medieval splendor, Prince Akihito weds the commoner he met on a tennis court, Michiko Shoda, as the nation rejoices. Scenes show the wedding, in accordance with 2600-year old ritual, the reception of the royal family, and the wedding procession of the story-book couple past a throng of 1 million cheering Japanese - and the assault of one disgruntled student that fails to mar the perfection of the great day. Bride and groom in traditional clothing pose for cameras. Japanese crowds, including photographers and press, line streets. Bride and groom in modern attire travel in open horse-drawn carriage. Very formal-looking and sparse wedding reception (?), each person at a unique table, no one talking. The couple pose with an older couple (the prince's parents?). Carriage ride again; man throws something at the couple, the bride ducks. The man begins to climb into carriage and is pulled away by men in uniform.