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Passion Play Revived
Passion Play Revived After sixteen years, the famous religious spectacle, closed by Hitlerism and war, draws an audience from all parts of the world. The play is set to music about the Passion of Christ.
Good Old Monkey Business
Good Old Monkey Business Stars of the zoo come up with a high grade performance and some brand new tricks that bring down a packed juvenile house.
Latino Rodeo A La Chile
Latino Rodeo A La Chile They play rough when Chilean cowboys tangle with steers. It takes horsemanship of a high order to control an ornery steer with nothing but the horse's maneuvers.
Brush With Death
Brush With Death During a road auto race one of the cars goes out of control and plows into a crowd. Miracles happen and everyone survived.
Motor Jockeys Hill Climbing
Motor Jockeys Hill Climbing They never give up on Blue Baron Hill. Forty motorcyclists try the almost perpendicular climb and the results find riders and cycles strewn all over the hillside.
On The Lighter Side - Snow Girls
On The Lighter Side - Snow Girls; The so-called weaker sex thinks that a bathing suit frolic in the snow is just the thing. Any gal who shows up with more clothes is speedily bathing suited. The girls get a hold on the girl that is dressed in ski gear and take her away. In the back ground there's a banner that reads Yakima Bare Skin Club. As the girls take off her ski wear she is in a bathing suit ready to join in the cold weather fun. There's a St. Bernard dog taking in all the festiveness. The girls take this newly disrobed girl and roll her down a snowy hill. At the end of the shot the girl takes a drink out of the keg that's around the St. Bernard's neck. The young ladies are wearing 1950 solid and print, one piece and a couple two piece bathing suits. Some of the suits have zippers in the back and spaghetti straps.
Poultry Industry - Best Dressed Chicken
Poultry Industry - Best Dressed Chicken: The Poultry Industry is hosting their yearly Agricultural Conference by hosting a large banquet dinner showcasing new ideas in the poultry industry and wrapping it up with a chicken fashion show. Prize winning roosters and chickens. A new invention to sort out eggs by size, a assembly line packaging a dozen chicken eggs at a time. A chicken farmer showing the quality and texture of a chicken in its weight and firmness. This conference wraps up by hosting a Chicken Fashion Show, the chickens are dressed to kill, ha ha. From top hats to chicken gowns the farmers are taking pride in their chickens.
1949 Alena Vrzanova & Dick Button's
1949 Alena Vrzanova & Dick Button's Wembly, England is host to Alena Vrzanova, 1949 amateur Figure Skating title holder, the little Miss from Czechoslovakia displays her wizardry and is joined America's own Dick Button, Olympic Champion. Both ice skaters skate beautifully and show off their talents. (One of the camera men is walking off the ice or should I say trying to walk off the ice but he keeps on slipping and falling. The spectators are vocalizing with laughter every time he takes a spill.) The women's figure skaters are showcased 1, 2, & 3.
Steeplechase Thrills & Spills
Steeplechase Thrills & Spills; There are 26 entries in the national hunt race, one of England s greatest. Ellesmere romps home first after the difficult course had taken its toll of riders and mounts.
Spring Training Brooklyn Dodgers
Footage wavy along top of frame. Spring Training Brooklyn Dodgers: Vero Beach, Florida The Dodgers get in their first licks of the season with most of the old reliable in the lineup, while at West Palm Beach, venerable Connie Mack polishes up his squad and teaches a new crop of rookies some ABC's. Baseball players lined up throwing balls, No-28, No-.6, No-13. MCU of manager and baseball players in the background. No-36, No-28 are throwing balls and No-44 is catching them. No-13 watches as a baseball player slides into base. CU of baseball players holding their bats. No-2 just hit a ball.
Deported! Red Spy Gubitchev
Deported! Red Spy Gubitchev Tossed Out By U.S Valentin Gubitchev, sentenced to 15 years for conspiring with government girl Judith Coplon, to commit espionage has his sentence suspended and is deported to his native Russia. He was escorted to a passenger ship named the Batory and the ship pulls away from the dock. Good shot of a man "thumbing his nose" at Valentin.
Biggest Amphibious Operation Since War Atlantic Ocean: Puerto Rico
Biggest Amphibious Operation Since War Atlantic Ocean: The biggest maneuvers in peace time history are conducted by co-ordinated teams of Army, Navy, and Airforces. Eighty thousand men show how team work can capture an objective.
Glamor Rules New Styles For Spring
Glamour Rules New Styles For Spring GREESE - NEW YORK - CALIFORNIA GREECE The Greeks has a word and lines for it - classic flowing lines and their modern outgrowth. Grandma wore corsets but these have the real modern glamour touch. Greek and Eastern influence in the design. Toga, loose sleeves. Women are walking down the cat walk wearing evening gowns, just above the knee dress, flowing tops with pants. I think some of the fashions of this year 1950 could hold up today NEW YORK The fashion changes to women's underwear its more elaborately trimmed and progressively prettier and more alluring. Petticoats, corsets and camisoles. According to the designers women want it all, pretty, comfortable and slimming undergarments. Woman being laced into a corset. CALIFORNIA Those frills, that chiffon - and, oh that itchy lace. Nothing cramps your style faster than ill-fitting and uncomfortable undergarments. The women in California are forgoing those fuzzy lingerie designs for simple, uncomplicated silk camisoles, boy-cut briefs and slimming waist corsets. And of course it the waist corset becomes too uncomfortable, you undo the lacing and puff - off it comes. I think the end result of this fashion shot is a two piece bathing suit.
'Ivan The Terrible' Topples
'Ivan The Terrible' Topples: Wrestling at the Cleveland arena! 'Nature boy' (Buddy Rogers) gets the best of Ivan Petroff after a wing ding brawling battle in and out of the ring. Good shots of the spectators reacting to the match. In typical wrestling manner, the loser is carried off on a stretcher.
Ski Meet (junior-grade)
Sports: Ski Meet (junior-grade) The youngsters turn out in droves for the Annual Junior Ski Championships, and watch them whiz on their pint sized hickories. They even take the jumps! One little takes a spill down the hill, but he's OK and takes the fall in stride.
World-Wide News Events China Crisis
World-Wide News Events: China Crisis Chiang Kai Chek, resuming the reins of government looks to his defenses on Formosa. Navy and air forces are on the alert and ready for action, but in Hong Kong, American-owned planes worth $29,000,000 are turned over by a British court to Chinese reds. The pilots sit in a circle going over a flight plan. Two military men loading the plane's wing with ammunition. Pilots are climbing into the planes, take off.
Roller Skating Carnival
Speed races, dance teams and spectacular free-style solos are highlights of the Roller Carnival at Madison Square Garden. Terrific spills come during the races, and the solo number will thrill you.
Boxing In Siam
Boxing In Siam Boxing is different in Siam. Fighters offer prayers and stage ceremonial dances prior to the bouts, but brother! When the action starts, with hands and feet coming into play, you'll agree that Siamese boxing is something!
Red Berlin: Soviet Threat Fails During Youth Parade
Red Berlin: Soviet Threat Fails During Youth Parade The threatened 'conquest' of all Berlin by communist trained German youths, fails as they stare into the unwavering gun barrels of allied occupations forces.
Roosevelt Urges Congress To End Arms Embargoes
Shaky, dull, dark in contrast and imagery Basil Harris, veteran shipping expert, is sworn in as Commissioner of Customs and Assistant to Treasury Sac s Morgenthan. The department pledges every effort to enforce the present neutrality arms embargo. WS Congress. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses the Congress and Nation: "I have asked the congress to reassemble an extraordinary session in order it may reconsider & act on the amendment of certain legislation. Which in my best judgment so alters the historic foreign policy of the United States, that it impairs the peaceful relations of the United States with foreign nations. And it was because of what I foresaw last January from watching the trend of foreign affairs and their probable effect upon us, that I recommended to the congress in July of this year that changes be enacted in our neutrality law. I now ask again that such action be taken in respect to that part of the act which is fully inconsistent with ancient precepts with the laws of the nations, the embargo provision. I ask it because they are in my opinion most vitality dangerous to American neutrality, American security and above all American peace. It has been erroneously said that return to that policy might bring us nearer war. I give to you my deep and unalterable convictions based on years of experience as a worker in the field of international peace, that by the repeal of the embargo the United States will more probably remain at peace that if the law remains as it stands today. I say this because with the repeal of the embargo this government clearly and definitely will insist that Americans citizens and Americans ships keep away from the immediate perils of the actual zones of conflict. This means less likelihood of incidents and controversies which tend to draw us into conflict as they unhappily did before the last World War. There lies the road to peace. These perilous days demand cooperation between us. Without a trace of partisanship. Our acts must be guided by one single hard headed thought. Keeping America out of this war".
'Miss America Of 1939' Crowned
Shaky, dull, dark in contrast and imagery A new Queen is crowned to rule over the nation's most beautiful girls! Patricia Mary Donnelly, lovely Detroit model wins the coveted title from a field of 42 lassies after a week of parading and judging. Contestants wearing evening gowns, winner Miss Michigan being crowned, pan up of Miss Michigan smiling at camera, Miss America takes victory walk, wipes tears from her eyes.
Army Coach Wood
Shaky, dull, dark in contrast and imagery Football's just around the corner! A large squad of army hopefuls report for intensive drill and scrimmage under Coach Wood. Football players training, various exercises, practice.
Grand Slam For CCNY
Grand Slam For CCNY For the first time in basketball history CCNY's Beavers gain possession of the invitational and collegiate titles. They go all out to beat Bradley College. (You hear some cheering from the crowd) MCU of young college girls having a ball. Two basketball players slam into each other. One appears to be knocked out cold "No-25" the other player shows some movement. CU of of the concerned backetball fans. I guess they were ok because the game continues.
Shipment Of Arms Leaves For Italy
Shipment Of Arms Leaves For Italy With General Omar Bradley presiding, military chiefs of the Atlantic Pact nations meet to map defense strategy. While in New York, the first shipment of arms leaves for Italy. Cannons being loaded on to a cargo ship. One military VIPs and two civi's watch the cannon get loaded on to the ship.