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President Eisenhower's Calendar
President Eisenhower's Calendar President Dwight D. Eisenhower continues the busy pace that earlier took him on a flying visit to the Red fair in New York. At the White House, he confers the distinguished service medal on retiring Army Chief of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, then greets the Soviet Union's first deputy premier Kozlov for informal cold war conversations. Ext. White House. Interior, Ike shakes hands with man in uniform, others. Seal of the President of the United States in on the wall behind them. Mrs. Eisenhower (?) kisses the man in uniform. (On the cheek.) Medals on uniform. Smiling Kozlov exits car, talks and shakes hands with Ike.
Lions Parade
Lions Parade Members of Lions International (Lions Club) holding their annual convention in New York mark the occasion with a spectacular parade, in which all parts of the U.S. and 99 foreign nations take part. Marching band. Cars and floats pass by casually dressed spectators. Beauty queens wave from floats. Baton twirlers or majorettes. Has more of a medium-sized feel than a big-city feel.
Visit To Will Rogers Memorial Hospital
Visit To Will Rogers Memorial Hospital The annual visit of officers and directors of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital affords a glimpse of the activities of the famed Saranac Lake, New York, institution, the entertainment industry's own. Many of the leading figures of the entertainment industry are on hand for a report of continuing achievement. Men and women gather indoors. People watch patients create art (?); nurse watches man who is painting. Art therapy? Statue of Will Rogers.
Avant Garde Automation
Avant Garde Automation A new revolution rocks the world of avant-garde art. Paris's left bank is a-buzz over an incredible looking new mechanical artist that turns out incomprehensible modern art at a brisk slip, to the amazement of onlookers. Man holds two ropes attached to bird (poultry) that is used, in its flapping, to put paint onto a surface. Coin-operated machines draw or paint "modern art." The machines themselves look like modern art sculptures or mobiles. Satire. Humor, comedy.
Fashion- Straws In The Wind
Fashion- Straws In The Wind Fashion conscious femmes are flipping their wigs over rakish new raffia wigs - jauntily simulating in straw every coiffure from the pigtail to the 'wind-blown' look. Woman's hands fix up a wig made of straw. Women model these bizarre creations, and they actually keep something of a straight face.
Command Performance Of Queen's Plate Stakes
Command Performance Of Queen's Plate Stakes Canada's turf classic, the Queen's Plate Stakes, marks its 100th year with an appearance by the Queen herself. All the colorful pomp of an ascot opening is mustered as Queen Elizabeth II arrives, and the race itself is royal sport, a fast-paced thriller with the winner, New Providence, turning in one of the best performances in the history of the race. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip ride on racetrack in horse-drawn coach or carriage. Crowds. Horse race begins. Woman spectator looks through binoculars. Winner crosses finish. Queen awards shiny plates to two men (one looks like a jockey).
Chicago "Loopy" Over Elizabeth
Chicago "Loopy" Over Elizabeth. Chicago's Ovation For Queen Elizabeth II. Chicago stages the greatest, most enthusiastic reception in the annals of the windy city to greet Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, with a tumultuous harbor welcome and cheering throngs estimated at over a million on the shore. Some planes fly overhead. Fireboats (?) spray water in the air on Lake Michigan. City skyline in several shots. Queen and Prince are welcomed ashore. Funny -- a few photographers/press stand on Chicago Fire Department ladder for a good view. Queen is led past huge crowds to a car. Group of newsreel cameramen.
Story-book Wedding
Story-book Wedding Belgium's Prince Albert and a lovely Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria are wed in Brussels in civil and religious ceremonies with a storybook charm appropriate to the royal romance of the handsome young couple. Bride in white dress, groom in uniform during ceremony. Ext. cathedral. Interior, bride, groom, and attendants walk down the aisle. Clergyman (cardinal) performs ceremony. Bride wipes her nose. Groom prepares to put ring on her finger. Procession at end of wedding.
Latin American Field Day At Wimbledon
Latin American Field Day At Wimbledon In the Wimbledon finals, Alex Olmedo of Peru and the United States wins the world's most famous tennis trophy with 72 minutes of flawless play against Aussie Rod Laver. The men walk onto court. Match highlights. Handshakes after match point. Crowd (including some royals? -- looks like the queen or maybe Princess Margaret) stands up. Woman hands Olmedo his trophy. Next day, Brazil's Maria Bueno emerges as a superb contender winning the women's singles in straight sets from California's Darlene Hard. Women's highlights. Bueno (?) receives a big fancy plate. Two great matches in classic court competition.
Twenty-five Years Ago Today.
Stories from 25 years ago. A legendary bad-man's reign of terror ends as John Dillinger is cut down in a gun battle with g-men outside a Chicago movie house. Scenes show the nation-wide man-hunt following his escape from the lady sheriff of Crown Point, and the grim ending to his incredible one-man crime wave. Male hands pull photo of Dillinger from filing cabinet (cool). Men with rifles walk around building. Dillinger (?), smiling, and others inside jail (?). Lots of police officers with weapons -- this is probably for the camera but they actually look kind of incompetent with their guns. Wanted posters being printed. Night, Biograph sign lit up. Crowds wave outside of Biograph Theater. Photo of woman (woman in red?). Body in morgue, toe tag for John Dillinger. Bank failures no longer menaced the little depositor as federal deposit insurance assured their money's safety. People push their way into Fond du Lac Bank. Teller counts out money, gives it to woman customer. Sign says something about "F.D.I.C. Orde..." (FDIC) In aviation the introduction of the reversible pitch propeller, with a demonstration of fantastic feats made possible, was to revolutionize flying. Small airplane lands, then taxis backwards (in reverse) into hangar. And one gadgeteer proudly showed off a model ornithopter, a crazy craft with wings that flapped like a birds. Man holds small flapping model, then releases it. It flies well -- does look like a bird -- and he chases it. Wacky inventions.
Preview Of Space For U.s. Astronauts
Preview Of Space For U.s. Astronauts At Langley Research Center, Virginia, the 7 astronauts chosen for America's man-in-space program inspect developments in the passenger satellite program, and get a taste of zero-gravity in a special flight. Interior, several men lift another man who's lying on a reclined chair (they're all smiling -- not sure what's going on). Men in shiny space suits float in zero gravity test.
Collin Kelly 3rd
Collin Kelly 3rd Son of America s first combat hero of World War II enters West Point Military Academy, a distinguished name in the class of '63, but Collin Kelly III is there strictly on merit, after passing a competitive exam. Exterior buildings on campus. Young man (Kelly?) - plebe ? - is ordered around by a cadet in uniform (upperclassman?), apparently being instructed on standing at attention. Young man gets haircut. Tailor checks young man's uniform pants. Cadets march.
President De Gaulle In Africa
President De Gaulle In Africa President de Gaulle tours former French colonies in Africa, now heading towards independence. His 'fence-mending' trip to meet the colonial problem comes while another crisis looms at home with the withdrawal of U.S. warplanes from French bases. Charles De Gaulle, in that hat of his, deplanes, greets people of various ethnicities (working the crowd). Military review or parade, tanks. De Gaulle speaks at microphones and podium overlooking large crowd. People clap.
Saar Reunited With Germany
Saar Reunited With Germany The rich industrial region of the Saarland, under French economic control since World War II ended, is reunited with West Germany in a major shift of frontiers in free Europe. Scenic of bridge, water, town. Men walking with factory in background. Military truck, military personnel. Men unload smallish sacks from truck. People enter bank. Woman customer hands money to teller, teller counts out money to customer (exchange of currency ?).
Europe's Largest Bridge
Europe's Largest Bridge Europe's largest bridge, and France's first toll bridge, is readied for its gala dedication with a final load test. Long lines of heavily laden trucks and tankers crawl across it in an impressive demonstration. Trucks move slowly across suspension bridge.
Nationals Win All-star Game, 5-4
Nationals Win All-star Game, 5-4 The 26th all-star classic, at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, turns into a see-saw slug-fest, as the Nationals break a 3-all tie in the bottom of the seventh, the A's pull ahead in the next frame, and Nats surge back in a thrilling rally capped by Willie Mays' booming triple. Baseball highlights. Mr. Cub Ernie Banks (?). Del Crandall (?) (SP?). Bill Mazurowski (?). Nelly (?) Fox. Ken Boyer (?). Hank Aaron (?). Primarily Caucasian spectators watch, applaud, rise to their feet.
Khrushchev Greets Governors
Khrushchev Greets Governors Nikita Khrushchev plays host to 7 United States governors during their tour of Russia, and tells the state executives of Florida, Colorado, North Carolina, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota and New Jersey that he would like to exchange visits with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Interior meeting room. Photographers. Khrushchev shakes hands with the men queuing up to greet him.
Jet In Peril
Jet In Peril A two-fold story, of the transatlantic jet that narrowly escaped destruction with 113 aboard, coming in with damaged landing gear, and the shocking sidelight of 50,000 thrill-seekers who surge across Idlewild field in New York, hampering emergency rescue teams and actually imperiling the hazardous landing try. Night. Uniformed firefighters and other men pull fire hose from truck. Plane skids along runway, major sparks flying. People deplane; crowds mill about the airplane, including one clergyman who walks by camera.
Los Angeles Brush Fire
Los Angeles Brush Fire On Los Angeles' hottest day of the year, a disastrous brush fire in the elite Laurel Canyon suburb, racing through the drought parched area to destroy dozens of luxury homes in a four hour holocaust. Homes, buildings, automobile on fire, in flames. Fire trucks (fire engines) on scene. Firefighters spray water at burning building. Damage, disaster.
Queen In Sault St. Marie
Queen In Sault St. Marie Queen Elizabeth's Canadian tour carries her to the 'SOO', the famous shipping and steel center of Sault Ste. Marie, where she and Prince Philip tour the Canadian industrial city. Crowds watch the queen. Motorcade, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip traveling slowly in open car. Queen and Prince observe the workings at an industrial site.
Air Festival
Air Festival In Spain, a spectacular show featuring jet-speed acrobatics, and a brilliant demonstration of precision dare-deviltry as France's paratroop commandos hit the silk en masse. Airplanes fly in formation. Little boy looks almost directly up through binoculars. Crowds watch parachutists land.
'Resaca' Wins Oaks
'Resaca' Wins Oaks At Delaware Park a thrilling stretch battle in the oaks as 'Resaca' streaks up on the outside to pass the battling leaders Silver Spoon and Indian Maid by 2 lengths! Spectators watch horse race. Only the last portion of the race is shown.
AAU Platform Diving
AAU Platform Diving A double-feature in the most eye-appealing of sports, the AAU platform diving championships in San Francisco. Repeat winners this time are Gary Tobian, men's division, and 'P.J.' (Paula Jean?) Pope in the flying mermaids division (women's division). Various angles of men, then women, diving into swimming pool.
Steel Strike!
Steel Strike! As talks between union and steel industry leaders in New York come to a hopeless deadlock, the mills bank their fires and half a million across the nation go out on strike. Federal mediation efforts fail to break the deadlock, and in related industries, the effects of the strike begin to be felt, with thousands of other workers in forced idleness. Aerials of factories. Interior factory or steel mill, men in hard hats apparently extinguishing the fire that normally burns. Interiors empty industrial site. Press photographers. Men in suits shake hands. Men (striking workers) lean on signs that say things like "U.S.W. No Contract No Work. AF of L-CIO." (AFL-CIO) Idle rail yards.