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Sen. Knowland Lauds Records Of Congress
Same as catalog # 514896 Senator Knowland comments on the achievements of this session of congress, about to adjourn-and praises the legislative body's record of accomplishments. CUS - Senator Knowland; "I believe that when this session of congress is finished and practically when the 83rd. congress has completed it's labors it will have a very good batting average of accomplishments. I want to say in concludtion that we have had splendid by bi-partisan cooperation because of the senate of the United States we actually don't have a Republican majority. There are 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and 1 independent. And without the cooperation on both sides of the aisle of course no legislative program would be possible. I want to say that members of congress regardless of their partisan affiliation recognize the nation is facing grave problems abroad and were all determined to maintain a free world of free men."
Jolting Jamboree
Same as catalog # 514897 Dull in contrast and imagery The roughest rodeo ever witnessed, that's the verdict of spectators after seeing the broncos and steers in action during the annual Chief Joseph days. Establishing shot - Parade down the streets of Joseph, Oregon. MCUS - Two cowgirls riding their horses. CUS - Two Indian girls riding their horses. CUS - A clown walks up to the camera man. MCUS - A float full of Indians in full dress. CUS - Little kids eating pop cycles. MLS - Cowboys riding their horses in the arena. MCUS - Cowboys on bucking broncos, thrown off. MCUS - A bull bucks off another cowboy. CUS - The rodeo fans, dad holding a little boy. CUS - Walter Brennen sitting in the stands with sun glasses and a cowboy hat
Rites For Taft: Nation Joins Leaders In Final Tribute
Same as catalog # 515005 America's leaders unite in tribute to the late senator Robert A. Taft, respected by political friends and foes alike. Led by President Eisenhower, hundreds file through the capital rotunda, where the deceased senate majority leader lies in state. CUS - The White House, camera pans down as the hearse is pulling up to the steps. CUS - US Army men take the casket out of the hearse and carry it into the rotunda of the White House. MCUS - The Taft following the casket. MS looking up - American flag flying at half mast. Shot taken from upper balcony - The casket in the center of the rotunda. MCUS/LL - Military men, 4, at attention by the casket. MCUS - Dignitaries arriving to pay their last respects. CUS - Defense Secretary, Charles Wilson. CIS - President Eisenhower and Mamie. MLS - Throngs of people in line to pay their respects.
Korea Guns Still: Speed Fulfillment Of Truce Conditions
Same as catalog # 515006 After three years of savage conflict, the guns are stilled at last. Both sides move rapidly to fulfill truce conditions-moving back from front line positions, and returning prisoners of war. Three blood stained years end as the last round is fired in Korea. Under terms of the truce work proceeds rapidly under the dismantling of fortifications and the removal of all weapons from the de-militarized zone. But though the guns are stilled there are grisly reminders of the struggle. The inevitable of war are strung all over the landscape. Korea CUS - US military loading up a canon with shells, on one of the shells written in chalk last round MCUS/LL - Army men shelling. MLS - Army bunker. MCUS - Dismantling of a canon. CUS - Army men exiting a bunker with human skulls decoration the outside (pretty discussing). CUS - Skull with an army helmet, very scary.CUS - UN soldiers taking a break in a dug out ditch. LS - The enemy taking a break. MCUS - Three UN men sitting on top a hill. MCUS - Four soldiers taking a break smoking cigarettes. CUS - Smiling GI s. CUS - A soldier carrying his pack on his back. MCUS - A platoon of soldiers walking by waving at the cameraman. MCUS - The historic truce building at Pan Moo-Jaun. MLS - Exchange of prisoners. Mls - North Korean Reds marching. MLS - Large Crowd of military. General Mark Clark arrives in San Francisco, en route to report to the President, and receives a hero's welcome. San Francisco, California MLS - General Mark Clarke getting off a USAF plane. CUS - General Mark Clarke. MCUS - The General walks past a guard of honor. MLS - A parade down the streets of San Francisco honoring the general. CUS - General Clarke and Mayor Robinson.
Dr. Milton Eisenhower Younger Brother Of The President Eisenhower
Same as catalog # 515007 On a mission of good will as President Eisenhower's personal emissary, his brother Milton Eisenhower is received by Argentina's President Peron. Back in Washington, dr. Eisenhower reports on his mission, at the white house. MCUS - Milton Eisenhower shaking hands with General Peron, other dignitaries standing around. MLS - Capital building in Buenos Aires. MCUP - President Eisenhower and Milton Eisenhower, brothers.
Langley Field In Virginia Flying Venation Blind
Same as catalog # 515008 At Langley Field, engineers unveil a flying model of a unique vertical-rising aircraft, with wings like a four-slat Venetian blind, a new type of aircraft they may revolutionize air transport-and air war. MCUS - Engineer sitting on the floor with control box. Camera pans - Venetian blind with little propellers. MCUS - The model of the Venetian blind starts to move straight up. MCUS - Once the Venetian blind is air born it the wings un-curve and the craft picks up foreword speed. MCUS - Craft coming down and lands. (It's a remote control proto type that will never be built to full size).
'Egg Beater' Square Dance
Same as catalog # 515009 Helicopter pilots show their crafts amazing versatility with a graceful aerial gavotte-a square dance, with the whirly-birds sashaying and dosey-doeing as prettily as you please. LS - An open field and there are four helicopters in the sky, MLS - The choppers move to the left as you face the screen. LSOH - Choppers moving back and fourth. MCUS - Two choppers bowing to each other. CUS - The helicopters have faces painted on them, cute, male and female. MLS-G to A - Two choppers flying as a couple.
GI'S Welcome: Governors Greet Vets From Korea
Same as catalog # 515010 Homecoming Korea GI.'S get a special reception, with governors of the 48 states-here for a conference with the President-on hand to greet them, and act as escort in a hero's parade. MCUS -Navy transport ship the Marine Lynx is welcomed by a tug boat shooting streams of water. MCUS - Throngs of moms, dads, wife s, girlfriends, children etc. wait in anticipation and excitement. MCUS,R - Throngs of ladies waving at the ship as she comes into port. Camera panning - The Governors waving at the military men aboard ship. MCUS - Governor Lanely of New York greets Corp. Carlson first man off the ship. MCUS - Burns of S. Carolina, Williams of Michigan, Dewey of New York. MSLL - Ticker tape parade, street is lined with throngs of well-wishers
US Food Parcels Continue To Arrive In West Berlin
Same as catalog # 515011 Dull in contrast and imagery In West Berlin US Food destined for starving East Germans continues to arrive, and over a million have defied Red terror and obstruction to cross the border for 'Eisenhower Parcels'. U.S. High Commissioner James Conant visits a distribution point. Establishing shot - Soldiers unloading the incoming food parcels. CUS - US High Commissioner, James Conant watches the distribution of parcels. Panning shot - Throngs of Europeans sitting and waiting for food.
Men, Women, And Children Rebuld Korea
Same as catalog # 515012 After three horrendous years of fighting and men still missing, and guns stilled, the women and children of war-ravaged Korea turn to their land and cities. Once again the fields will be tilled, after much back-breaking labor of reclamation. Mountains of rubble and debris must be cleared in Seoul, Korea. Establishing shot - Women and childing working the fields. Military trucks in the back ground. MCUS - A nun and children breaking up the clumps in the soil. MLS - The capital of Korea, Seoul in complete destruction. MCUS - Young children stacking bricks. Ground up - Korean men fixing a building. MCUS - Korean men filling in the holes on a street.
Sports: Golf Trick Specialist Paul Hahn
Same as catalog # 515013 Golfer Paul Hahn shows bewildering accuracy, despite his use of such frustrating equipment as rubber-handled drivers and corkscrew putters. A display of true wizardry on the links. Norwood Country Club in Elmsford, New York. MCUS - Paul Hahn with a golf club in hand and throngs of golf fans cheering his tricks on. MCUS - A 3 feet high tee as Paul stands on a folding chair and hits the ball off it with no problem. MCUS - Paul hits the golf ball this time like little league T ball. MCUS - A golf club with the club part unstable and wiggly. MCULS - Golf fans. MCUS - Paul using two golf clubs. MCUS - Paul using a rubber club.
Models Make Mink Morbid
Same as catalog # 515014 At the country's largest mink farm, in Cary, Illinois. An outdoor style show is held at the mink farm featuring mink fashions. It is a sad sight for the elegant furred little animals-but for a sizable style-conscious audience taking off their fur means nothing to them. Establish shot - Mink keeper takes two minks out of their crates and faces the two minks together. Taunting the little creatures. MCUS - Models showing off the fur coats to buyers from across the world. MLS - Model with fur with throngs of fur buyers. CUS -Model uniting a ribbon on a mink coat. CUS - Model showing off a white mink jacket. CUS - Two models at once, they are both wearing mink jackets. CUS - Three models at one time, one has a coat and the other two have mink stoles priced at $75,000. MCUS - Six models wearing long mink dark fur coats.
Aquazanies Frolics At Flushing Meadowns Park
Same as catalog # 515015 At Flushing Meadows Park, the Aquazanies, incomparable aquatic clowns, give a madcap display of weird diving stunts-along, together, and even with a bicycle. They make quite a splash! Establishing shot - Diver doing a one and a half twist dive. MCUS/OH - Twisting dive. MCUS/LL - One handed dive. MLS - A diver with his buddy on his shoulders diving. MCUS - A three man dive. MLS - Diver with the front handle bars and wheel of a bike jumping off the high dive. Grount up - Leap frog jump off the high dive into the pool.
Big Switch: Prisoner Of War Exchange Speeded
Same as catalog # 515016 'Operation Big Switch' continues smoothly, with contingents of prisoners arriving from each side for the exchange. A dramatic contrast is visible between healthy, well-fed, and still arrogant reds, and returning GI'S -underfed, bone-weary-and after critically ill-living testimony to communist brutality. MLS - Army trucks queue bringing back POW'S from North Korea. MCUS - POW'S getting off the trucks. CUS - North Korean Reds. stripping off their American provided clothes. I guess they had it too good. CUS - Americans taken off the trucks on stretchers, some look not too healthy. MCUS - Helicopters air lifting the wounded to hospitals. CUS - North Koreans in army trucks waving toilet paper, looking clean, healthy and rested in contrast with the Americans who were not taken care of a tortured and released sick. MCUS - Red officers greeting the Koreans who stripped off their clothes in defiance, the disregarded clothes are kicked into the gutter. CUS - General Maxwell Taylor commander of the 8th army greeting the released POW'S. CUS - Secretary of State - John Foster Dulles. CUS - Corporal Cox Right. CUS - John Dulles and Corporal Sherman Raymond. CUS - Injured GI smiling and waving at the camera.
French Strike Paralyzes Whole Nation
Same as catalog # 515017 One of the most devastating strikes in recent French history paralyzes the nation, as 2 million transport and utility workers walk off the job. A show of union strength, the country's first general strike in 17 years protests the administrations austerity policies. Establishing shot - Tons of mail bags filled to the tops. MLS - Mail trucks sitting idle in the postal yards. MCU/LL - People sitting around in the railroad station. CUS - Men lining up their empty wine carts to block traffic. MLS/Panning - The vineyards of France not being attended to.
Battle Of The Hemlines
Same as catalog # 515018 Stylist Ceil Chapman takes the measure of new and old in the battle of the hemlines, launched by Christian door in Paris fall showings. MCUS - Two models, one's dress is longer than the other's. MCUS - Ceil Chapman measuring the hemlines of the dresses from the floor. MCUS - Model sitting down on a chair showing off her legs.
Soap Box Derby: 14-Year-Old Wins 16th Annual Race
Same as catalog # 515019 11 Year old Fred Mahler, of Muncie, IN. streaks to victory in the sixteenth annual Soap Box Derby, outpacing a field of 151 to win the champion's crown and a $5,000 scholarship. Establishing shot - The Soap Box Derby event opens up with a home town parade. CUS - (40's, 50's, 60's 70's & 80's entertainer) Dinah Shore sitting with race car driver champion, Wilbur Shaw. CUS - The boys soap box race cars. CUS - Andy Devine (early 50's cowboy movie star with a high raspy voice that was part of his persona) sitting in a Soap Box Derby Car, and eventually drives it down the hill for a win. MCUS - Of Soap Box fans. CUS - A young boy getting ready to race. Aerial shot - Throngs of Soap Box racing fans line the streets of Ohio. CUS - Fans, some young boys cheering for the competitors. CUS - The winning boy, who has buck teeth, in celebration with his parents.
POW'S Home: First Prisoners Since Truce Arrive In US
Same as catalog # 515020 At Inchon, just-released POW'S embark for Japan and transshipping to US Bound vessels. At Panmunjom, more POW'S pass through Freedom Gate, and in San Francisco the first POW S released since the truce arrive, greeted by parents and well-wishers in affecting dock-side scenes. CUS - Veteran news photographer, Frank Knoll leaning out the back of a truck shaking hands with another GI. MCUS - Two sailors carrying an injured soldier off a transport ship. MCUS - Mother watches her son being taken off a plane on a stretcher. MCUS - Air Force Medical Bus transferring soldiers to hospitals.
St. Laurent Wins: Liberals Sweep Canada In National Elections
Same as catalog # 515021 Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent receives the mandate of the voters to extend his party's eighteen years in office by a fifth term. CUS - Canadians go to the poll and queue to cast their votes. MCUS - St. Laurent at the polls casting his vote. CUS - Progressive conservator leader, Drew and Mrs. Drew cast their votes in Ottawa. MCUS - St Laurent walking in back of two bag pipers waving to the voters.
US Carrier Block Island Air Craft Carrier -Freak Crash
Same as catalog # 515022 A freak plane crash at sea is followed by an even stranger rescue-as the pilot is dragged from a mercy helicopter by his own parachute and plucked from the sea a second time by an old-fashioned longboat. MLS - plane coming in for a landing on the aircraft carrier. CUS - The plane is just about to land when it looks like it's caught up in wind sheer, the plane is lifted up, goes over the side, turning up-side-down and into the ocean. MLS - The tail of the plane is sticking out of the water. (may be wind sheer)
Kidnap Tragedy: Nation Aroused Over Brutal Murder Of Boy
On-the-spot films document the brutal kidnapping and murder of 6 year old Bobby Greenlease-the school he was abducted from-the pitiful grave that covered him even before the ransom was paid-and the two captured members of the trio whose brutal crime, one of the most shocking of our time, has aroused an outraged nation to call for swift retribution. CUS - Newspaper with a picture of the boy and his father or grandfather. CUS - Makeshift grave that the kidnappers dug for him. MCUS - Home of Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heddy. MLS - Part of the house, grave and crowd of on-lookers. MLS - The fashionable school the boy attended. MLS - The parking lot where the boy was taken. MLS - The boys home. MCUS - The kidnappers, Bonnie Brown and Carl Austin Hall.
H-Bomb Warning: We Must Stockpile, President Asserts
Addressing the National Assembly of United Church Women, President Eisenhower speaks on atomic weapons, and what America must do to survive in an age of nuclear fission and fusion. President Eisenhower; "Today we are face to face with the most extraordinary physical development of all times, the application of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion to the world's armaments. These discoveries in the field of science present in themselves no threat to man. Like other scientific developments they are accessible to good or evil use. Depending upon the intent of the individual or group possessing it. Man's greatest scientific achievement therefore cannot yet be made exclusively to serve the advancement of man's welfare and happiness. Instead we are forced to concentrate on building such stores of armaments as can detour any attack against those who want to be free".
At San Francisco Vice President and Mrs. Nixon Arrive At Airport
Vice-president and Mrs. Nixon board plane for a good-will tour of the far east. He'll report to president Eisenhower on return. MCUS - Vice President Nixon getting out of a car. CUS - Pat and Richard Nixon. CUS - Richard Nixon bantering with the newsmen. MLS/CU - Pat and Richard Nixon waving to the people who assembled to bid him a farewell, they turn and start going into the plane.
US Trained Instructors Walk Towards Their Planes
New wings to strengthen Chiang Kai Shek's island fortress as US. Jet fighter-bombers arrive under the mutual defense assistance program. MCUS - US trained instructors and walk to the flight line. MCUS - Pilot going up a ladder. CUS - A Asian pilot. CUS - Plain taxing and finely becoming air borne.