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Fashion Parade: Bright & Light Look For Fall.
Fashion Parade: Bright & Light Look For Fall. The bright and light look for fall - in London, new ladies' suits and luxury gowns, and in Milan the new continental look for the men, with buttons that glow! Outdoors near a fountain, women model autumn fashions in suits. One woman's suit coat displays "collarless" neckline. The models wear hats and gloves. Interior, women pose for the camera in satin (?) sheath dresses (strapless) to show off their slender figures. Men model suits. The buttons on one man's suit light up, blink on and off -- very unusual. Wacky fashion.
Sports: Chincoteague, Wild Horse Round-Up.
Sports: Chincoteague, Wild Horse Round-Up. On Chincoteague Island, Virginia, the annual wild horse round-up. The quarry are the great herds of feral ponies descended from Spanish mustangs cast ashore in the 16th century, and the round-up is an exciting carnival of action and excitement. Herds of horses, including mothers with nursing babies. Sign for Chincoteague Island. Bronco busting - young men/boys ride bucking horses (briefly, before falling off). Crowds line the beach and watch from boats as the horses cross the water, perhaps swimming. Men in cowboy hats ride behind herd of horses down a road.
New Diplomacy: Ike And Khrushchev To Exchange Visits
New Diplomacy: Ike And Khrushchev To Exchange Visits In a special White House press conference, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces plans for a dramatic exchange of visits with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev this fall, to 'further the cause of peace'. Sound man with headphones operates audio equipment. Ike reads what sounds like a press release (nat sound), referring to himself in the third person, giving some details about their upcoming trips.
News in Brief: Spain, Air Commandos.
News in Brief: Spain, Air Commandos. Spanish paratroops (paratroopers) in thrilling maneuvers, plummeting from the heights into Casa de Campo Lake. The captain of the elite corps is snagged in a tree-top and shows the steel-nerved calm of a torero while waiting rescue. Spectators watch men jump from planes and parachute into water. Man in uniform and man in clerical collar stare up at the man who got stuck in a tree; the man keeps his cool, smokes a cigarette while dangling. Crowds gather. Men hold a safety "net" of sorts; parachutist climbs down tree on ladder, takes a swig of beverage. Macho?
News in Brief: England, Battle Of Flowers.
News in Brief: England, Battle Of Flowers. A Mediterranean-style carnival in the English Channel. The Isle of Jersey's 'Battle of the Flowers' wins fame for its lavish color and high spirits. Floats parade down street, people including beautiful young women wave from them. Then, a "fight" begins: people on a float decorated with flowers begin to throw the flowers at the crowd. Crowd throws some back, and even a marching band gets caught up in the childish fun. (It's like a snowball fight but with flowers.)
Sports: Minneapolis, P.G.A. Golf Championship
Sports: Minneapolis, P.G.A. Golf Championship In the P.G.A. tourney (tournament) in Minneapolis, Bob Rosburg, a pro rated with hardly a chance at the first tee, comes through under terrific pressure with a 4-under-par last round to win the coveted crown. Jerry Barber (?), Doug Sanders (?). Typical golf scenes. Players tee off and putt. Crowd follows them around. Spectators use binoculars. Winner shakes hands with man, big trophy in foreground.
Sports: Long Island, NY, International Trot
Sports: Long Island, NY, International Trot The first International Trot, at Roosevelt Raceway, lives up to all the advance glamour. Jamin, the artichoke-eating French champion, comes from behind in the stretch, after breaking stride and losing ground on the first turn. It's a terrific duel to the finish between top international trotters as Jamin crosses the line first by half a length. Nighttime harness race, under lights. Crowd watches (wide shots, no interesting reaction shots).
Nixon's Triumphal Return
Nixon's Triumphal Return Nearly 4,000 crowd the airport to greet Vice President Richard M. Nixon with a hero's ovation on his return from touring the Soviet and Poland. After a speech in which he urges that America show courtesy to Nikita Khrushchev on his coming visit, he proceeds to the White House where he confers with Ike. Scenes show the enthusiastic reception given Mr. Nixon in Poland, where crowds lined the streets to cheer him. Nixon rides in motorcade, standing and waving from open car. A few women from the crowd shake his hands, one gives him flowers (!). Now to America. Airplane pulls up, little girl (VO says it's Julie Nixon) climbs the stairs to greet Mr. and Mrs. Nixon. Nixon speaks at microphones to the crowd (nat sound), Pat Nixon standing behind him; he says people in Europe want peace, says the best part of leaving the U.S. is coming home again. Crowds wave as Nixon pulls up to White House. Nixon talks with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and they shake hands for cameras. Man behind them might be Ike's brother Dr. Milton Eisenhower (?).
Fashion Parade
Fashion Parade In an amazing roof-top garden in London, a showing of the fall and winter collection of one of Britain's top designers, with heavy emphasis on tweeds and woolens, but featuring as well evening gowns of outstanding grace and elegance. London street scene, light traffic passing either side of camera, tilt up to building. Gardens, ducks swimming. Scene that looks like cocktail party, middle aged people chatting with drinks in hand. Women model cool-weather fashions. Wool coats. Ball gown, evening gown.
Sports: Pennsylvania, Weight-lifting Championships
Sports: Pennsylvania, Weight-lifting Championships At America's 'Muscle Metropolis', York, Pennsylvania, the AAU national weight-lifting championships, which gives the would-be Hercules some truly staggering labors. The winners come through with astounding feats. Banner sign for the contest "and Mr. America Contest", it says. Weight lifters who can't quite pull it off (bloopers) -- some of these are funny; bored-looking male spectators watch (crowd reaction). Then some successful lifts.
Sports: Germany, Berlin Grand Prix.
Sports: Germany, Berlin Grand Prix. The Grand Prix of Germany, one of the select events leading to the world's auto racing championship, on the hazardous Avus track. The pace is blistering - one car rolls over, throwing the driver who miraculously escapes the terrifying spill - but only 6 of 15 cars finish. The winners, 3 Ferraris, topped by Britain's Tony Brooks with a record 139 M.P.H. Start of race. Interested spectators turn heads to follow cars. Crash: One car flips over and over; the driver, thrown from the car, gets up and walks away, to delight of those around him. Winner, still in car, receives a handshake of congratulations.
Explorer VI: Paddle-Wheel Moon Puts Eye In The Sky.
Explorer VI: Paddle-Wheel Moon Puts Eye In The Sky. Explorer VI, a 142-pound, 'paddle-wheel' satellite is fired into orbit from Cape Canaveral, equipped to draw power from solar energy and carrying a crude vision device to radio back pictures of the earth and its cloud cover as seen from the vantage of outer space. Man prepares satellite. Slightly low angle shot, man looks through binoculars. Daytime rocket launch. Educational film -type moment: Man at blackboard (chalkboard) explains drawing of the satellite's orbit, apogee and perigee.
Blast Rips Oregon Town
Blast Rips Oregon Town Roseburg, Oregon, is ripped by the explosion of a truck carrying 6 1/2 tons of explosives, in the center of the business district. An eight block area is blasted to rubble, with buildings 28 blocks around badly damaged. The toll, $10 million in property, and at least 13 dead. Aerial shows smoldering buildings. Long pans of devastation and wreckage in the aftermath. One destroyed truck (?) says "FUEL" on it. No people are seen, giving it an even more devastated/abandoned feel. (This could pass for damage from war, perhaps.)
News in Brief: Norway, Rockefeller Romance
News in Brief: Norway, Rockefeller Romance Steven Rockefeller, scion of New York's millionaire governor, and his fiancee, pretty Anne Marie Rasmussen, finally meet the press after weeks of headlines about them. Oodles of press photographers snap away at the couple, who first pose on the porch of a building, then ride off on a motorbike.
News in Brief: Hawaii, Hawaiian Hurricane
News in Brief: Hawaii, Hawaiian Hurricane The shores of our 50th state are lashed by an angry sea as Hurricane Dot pushes inland with winds in excess of 100 miles an hour. Extensive damage is reported, from Waikiki to the northern-most island of Kauai. Waves hit shoreline, seawall -- fairly large but not super-dramatic. Cars drive past palm trees that are being blown by wind and rain.
News in Brief: Virginia, Atomic Flat-top.
News in Brief: Virginia, Atomic Flat-top. At Newport News, construction proceeds on the mammoth U.S.S. Enterprise, the Navy's first atomic-powered flat-top ship, which will be powered by 8 reactors. Bigger even than the Forrestal-class super-carriers. VS of this huge construction project -- wow is it big. Welders work with helmet-things to shield their eyes.
Sports: Arlington, 'Better Bee' Takes Equipoise Money
Sports: Arlington, 'Better Bee' Takes Equipoise Money At Arlington Park (racetrack), near Chicago, 'Round Table', turfdom's top money maker, falters. 'Belleau Chief' and 'Better Bee' duel for the big money in the stretch - a thriller with 'Better Bee' nosing across the wire for a 9-1 triumph. Spectators lean on fence. Horses burst out of gates at start of race. Man looks through binoculars. People in crowd cheer. Horses cross finish line.
Sports: Seattle, Maverick Wins Gold Cup
Sports: Seattle, Maverick Wins Gold Cup A slide rule victory in the Gold Cup, Seattle's hydroplane classic. The winner is Maverick, with the best total elapsed time in three heats, an average speed of over 104 miles an hour (m.p.h.). It takes the judges 2 hours to make the key decision! Boats speed across water. Spectators watch, some through binoculars. Man waves checkered flag. Abrupt ending.
Harbor Blaze: Chemical Blasts Rock Port of New York
Harbor Blaze: Chemical Blasts Rock Port of New York On the Jersey City waterfront, a few hundred yards from the scene of World War I's 'Black Tom' explosion, firemen battle an inferno of blazing and exploding chemicals. 55-gallon drums hurtle hundreds of feet into the air in a perilous chain reaction that helps sustain the blaze for hours. A spectacular fire, seen and heard widely in the vast Port of New York. Flames and smoke billow into sky. Smoke over nearby highway. Men (not in uniform, for the most part - volunteer firefighters?) fight fire with hoses. Note: Video image deteriorates in spots toward the end of this clip.
News in Brief: New York, Cameras Film Bank Robbery
News in Brief: New York, Cameras Film Bank Robbery Automatic cameras film a bank robbery in Manhattan by a thief who ignores warning signs to pass a threatening note to a pretty teller. Scenes show the robber scooping up the money and fleeing as clerks give chase - perfect 'mug' shots for police. Exterior bank building, light traffic fg (street scene). Interior bank. MS beautiful young woman teller. Sign says, "Cameras will film any holdup on these premises." Security camera (surveillance camera) mounted on wall. View from security camera of the robbery. Man stands at counter, then flees, dropping some money (bills) behind him as he runs out. After several seconds (waiting for the real danger to subside?), two male bank clerks climb over the counter to give chase. Good, law-abiding citizens pick up the dropped cash and return it to tellers.
News in Brief: Laos Builds Strength
News in Brief: Laos Builds Strength As Red guerrilla activity renews in Laos, and additional thrusts by regular forces from Communist North Vietnam are reported, U.S. military aid pours in and tiny Laos intensifies recruiting and training of its defending forces. Caucasian men show Asian men how to assemble and fire weapons. (The American troops tower over the smaller Laotian soldiers, and some of the soldiers look young to begin with -- perhaps some are just boys?)
News in Brief: England, Britain's Air Show
News in Brief: England, Britain's Air Show Britain's annual air show is one of the biggest and best in years, featuring eye-opening formation stunts by giant helicopters, precision maneuvers by fast new jets (also in formation, smoke trailing behind them), and the radical 'hover-copter'. Two men aim tiny cameras to take pictures. Hovercraft (SR-N1) travels, stops; troops climb aboard (but one loses his hat).
Sports: Chicago, Pan-American Games
Sports: Chicago, Pan-American Games Among the closing events in the Pan American Games at Chicago are some of the most thrilling - the women's platform diving championships, with U.S. mermaids sweeping the competition, and the 100-meter butterfly which ends in a sensational upset victory by a 15-year-old 'wonder girl'. Dives, some in slow motion. Paula Jean (Myers) Pope is among the divers. Man with starter's pistol. Women swim the butterfly event, young woman pulls up from behind to win. CU smiling winner. Note: Video image problems begin during the butterfly race.
Red's "Lunik" Hits the Moon
Image problems sporadically throughout this clip. Red's (sic) "Lunik" Hits the Moon Library scenes recreate Russia's spectacular scientific triumph in hitting the moon, perhaps the most dramatic feat in space exploration since the first satellite, and a major propaganda feather in Khrushchev's cap on the eve of his American visit. Daytime rocket launch. Animation (?) or real pictures from rocket POV of ground getting farther away as it lifts off. Man operates equipment. Oscilloscope-type monitor with waveforms. Illustration shows distance from Earth to moon. Zoom in on still image of moon.