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Calf Scramble
Calf Scramble A bunch of calves and a bunch of boys. The idea is catch the calf and he's yours. But catch him first. There is a very large audience of people at this event to cheer on the boys. The calves are let loose and so are the boys. One boy jumps on the calf and holds him around his neck but this does not stop the calf from running and trying to get the boy off of him. Another boy has a rope around a calves neck the calf stops and the boy pulls. This is a very good way so pre-teens and teenage boys can burn off some steam. Fun for the audience, boys but not the calf s.
Escape Route Out Of Red Germany
Escape Route Out Of Red Germany An obscure hamlet becomes the check point to liberty as thousands flee red held Germany. It was here that allied trucks were barred from starving Berlin and the historic air lift had its inception. People are trying to leave East Germany. They have only what they can carry. CU of an old woman eating stale bread. MCU of a family. LS of people sitting among their belongings. People loaded on army truck with just a suitcase in hand. People in the woods escaping East Germany. Some people getting out of the woods; one man looks like he's wearing just a bathrobe.
News In Brief - Parachute Rigger
News In Brief - Parachute Rigger Roberta Clevenger is a parachute rigger and just to prove that she has faith in her packing she bails out with the men at the naval air station. P.S. Roberta's chute worked fine. MS of the Roberta packing her chute. CU the Roberta putting on her protective helmet and parachute. MCU of Roberta getting on to the plane with all her gear and a smile. MS of all the jumpers in the plane. The plane door is opened and the Roberta and the rest of the people jump out. LS of the people with their parachutes open coming in for a landing. CU of the Roberta holding her rip cord, she has landed safely.
Military Mail
Military Mail Army freight has to take quite a beating going to the four corners of the earth. Under thousands of pounds of hydraulic tests, crates and packages get the works.
Hospital Fund Spurred By Film Star
Hospital Fund Spurred By Film Star Maureen O Hara, star of 'Comanche Territory,' arrives to assist in the building campaign for the Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for children. This hospital is noted for the research it does in children's cancer.
'Post' Opens New Plant
'Post' Opens New Plant In dedication attended by state and national celebrities, the Denver Post's great new building is opened. The building is architecturally significant, one of just a handful of local examples of the 1940s art modern style of architecture. This style featured streamlined facades accented with glass blocks and geometric patterns. The Denver Post has an American flay hanging from the roof top going down on one wall. The American Flag is sporting 48 stars.
Movies Spur Bond Drive In Boston
The New England motion picture industry stages a monster rally on Boston common opening the savings bond drive. A teenager has be elected to ring the Liberty Bell and get the rally on it way of selling bonds. As the liberty bells ring out throughout the land, Americans heed the call to buy bonds, to get in step with a great new drive aimed to save the future of our children and us. The voice of film star William Lundigan is behind this dramatic picture showing the need for patriotic action now. The peeling of the liberty bells is but the prelude to the future.
Save For Your Independence
Save For Your Independence Treasury Secretary Snyder rings the famed liberty bell, to herald the start of the new bond drive. Americans everywhere will want to 'Save For Your Independence.' Secretary Snyder: "You have just heard a signal from the Liberty Bell. Which inaugurates the independence drive for the United States - Savings Bonds Program for 1950."
Disaster! 26 Die In Amboy Ammunition Blast
Disaster! 26 Die In Amboy Ammunition Blast This once-prosperous industrial town is a shattered wreck following a terrific explosion of four ammunition-laden barges on the waterfront. Hardly a building is left standing in the blast that claimed twenty-six lives and left hundreds injured.
A Rocket Salute To The Fourth
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery A Rocket Salute To The Fourth A rocket salute to july fourth. From the deck of the USS Norton Sound, a Viking rocket takes off and climbs more than 100 miles into the sky.
Tomahawk: Rushmore Highlighted As Movie Cameras Roll
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Tomahawk: Rushmore Highlighted As Movie Cameras Roll On location for the filming of "Tomahawk', Van Heflin and other hollywood stars pause in their film chores to attend dedication of floodlights for the Mount Rushmore Memorial at Rapid City.
Chile's Valley Of The Moon
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Chile's Valley Of The Moon An arid wasteland that looks like the surface of the moon, a rich supply of valuable Nitrate. Workers set off explosive charges to loosen the mineral-bearing rock.
Religious Festival
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Religious Festival Revival of San Paulinio festival brings out crowds to watch 90 stalwart men carry 85-foot statue of saint on their shoulders. People are smiling, clapping their hands and happy to participate of honoring this saint.
Flame-Resistant Paint
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Flame-Resistant Paint A new all-purpose protective coating called Flamemaster is tested. Shack coated with the new material withstands terrific heat in these spectacular tests.
Party For Charity / Cerebral Palsy
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Party For Charity / Cerebral Palsy Three hundred business men are guests at a party given by Mary Martin, Jane Pickens, Jinx Walsenburg and Mrs. O'Connor, to help the cerebral palsy fund and aid crippled children.
News From The Training Camps
News From The Training Camps: Baseball is back! At spring training camps in Florida and California, eight big league teams, the Boston Red Sox, the Philadelphia Phillies, the Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago White Sox, the Chicago Cubs, the St. Louis Browns, the Detroit Tigers and the Pittsburgh Pirates swing into high gear heading for the 1950 baseball season.
Sander Acquitted - Jury Frees "Mercy" Doctor In An Hour
Sander Acquitted - Jury Frees "Mercy" Doctor In An Hour Dr. Herman Sander tried for the so-called mercy killing of a cancer-ridden patient is acquitted by the jury after an hour, nine minute's deliberation. Newspaper clipping depicting the doctor by drawing, a question mark and blind justice. After the verdict people standing around in the court room with smiling faces.
Judy Gets 15 Years
Judy Gets 15 Years: Convicted of conspiracy and attempted espionage, Judith Coplon is sentenced to 15 years in prison. Her fellow conspirator Russian United Nations attach Valentin Gubitchev gets a lite sentence, suspended on condition that he leave the country within two weeks. Valertin is led away by US Marshals.
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.