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Mechanical Mayhem Stock Cars
Stock car racing a la francaise. The idea is not to cross the finish line first, but just to survive to go the distance. Belgian drivers battle it out with the French team in a frightening fender fray from which only 3 out of 40 starters reach the finish. Somewhat like stock car demolition. Establish shot - Race cars coming around the dirt track. CUS - One car spots another car on the other team and smashes into that car. MCUS - Cars come around the bend and it is really a case of smash mayhem. MCUS - Car racing fans having a ball at the track.
England RAF Wins Inter-Service Boxing Tournament
U.S., British, Dutch, and other airmen tangle in the annual Britannia shield tournament, commemorating the comradeship of the battle of Britain. A spectacular slug-fest between US. And British middleweights decides the meet-and the raf wins the coveted trophy. Establishing shot - Two guys boxing and one gets knocked down. MLS - Hornsby goes down for the count. MCUS - US Airman J Palmer and RAF middle weight Phillips. CUS - Phillips wins the fight and a army officer and another guy holding up a plaque.
Largest Radio Transmitter Is Dedicated
The navy opens the largest radio transmitter in the world. Chairman David Signoff of RCA, an old Marconi operator, taps out the first message over the million watt transmitter, which can contact a ship, plane or installation anywhere on the globe. Establish shot - Looks like a building. MLS - People have gathered in a room. MCUS - General David Signoff of RCA shaking hands with Admiral Carney, Chief of Operations. MCUS - Men sitting in chairs and standing applauding. CUS - General Signoff sending the first message. MLS - Naval officer standing in front of a map. CUS - Naval man sitting at a tell-a-type sending messages. MLS - Out side shot of electric wires attached to medal towers.
Berkley California Football Kickoff
34,000 See Baylor face California at Berkeley, starting the season with a hard-fought game where the Texans hand California its worst defeat in six years, 25 to 0. Establishing shot - Throngs of football enthusiast sitting in the stands. MLS - Baylor get off a fourth down kick. MLS - No. 47, Dupree receives the ball and runs it back. MCUS - Dupree is handed off the ball and he gains 17 more yards. MCUS - Larson passes the ball and Marks on the receiving end runs the ball, and he was hit hard. MLS - Fans in the stands, cheering.
ON GUARD West Berlin Police Set For Any Emergency
West Berlin s police force stages its annual review. Whip-crack precision reflects their readiness for any emergency in the red-encircled city. Stealing the show are the police dogs-defying belief with their disregard of fireworks strapped to their back, an amazing display of canine courage. Establishing shot - West Berlin's finest, police department. OHS - Throngs of spectators. MCUS - Policemen on their motorcycles. MCUS - Berlin's police walking their bikes. MLS - Berlin's well trained Schitzhunds laying in the field in front of thousands of people. MCUS - German Shepard jumping through a window. MCUS - German Shepard s climbing walls. MCUS - Crowd applauding. MCUS - German Shepard jumping through a fire hoop. MLS to MCUS - German Shepard running with a sparkling baton in his mouth and jumping fences. MCUS - German Shepard with a sparkling dumb bell in his mouth and a jacket that shoots out sparklers running in the arena bringing the show to a climax. (They are called Schitzhunds. These are the dogs that are sold to the US Police Departments)
General William Dean Sets Foot On Home Soil
General William Dean returns to American soil, after 3 years as a red captive. Perhaps America's most famous Korean POS, he receives a heart-warming welcome at the airport. General William Dean is greeted by his wife, mother and new grandchild, much to his joy. MCUS - Plane on tarmac, General Dean gets off. MCUS - General Dean walking with his mother and wife. MLSCU - Crowd being held back by military police. MCUS - General Dean holding his new grandchild.
Religious Teachings Pierce The Iron Curtin In Balloons
Religious teachings pierce the iron curtain, borne on balloons launched from Southern Bavaria, just a short distance from the Czech frontier. 10,000 Balloons will be launched in this church-sponsored project. MCUS - The people are tying the balloons and then they attach excerpts from the Bible to the balloons. CUS - Man releasing a balloon. CUS - Excerpts laying on the ground. CUS - An older man releasing a balloon. CUS - Excerpt being stapled to a balloon and then its let loose. MLS - People gathered together releasing the balloons. MS - Balloons floating in the air. CUS - Christian society releasing the balloons. MCUS - Balloons floating in the air.
Mr. Burlock Builds 50 ft. Ezekiel's Wheel
The wheel in the sky envisioned by the prophet Ezekiel is the model for an ambitious building job by a devout bible scholar. 50 Feet high the wheel is earthbound-but he expects it to one day turn by itself, 'way in the middle of the air'. CUS - Burlock sitting out side on a chair reading the Bible. CUS - Wife and two sons. CUS - Burlock welding some metal on to the wheel. CUS - Burlock unlocking a chain and then he takes it off the wheel. MCUS - The wheel turning.
French Bombers Fill The Skies
French bombers range the skies as the ending of the monsoons fore-shadows a renewed red offensive. 47 Missions in one week ravage strategic communist supply points. Aerial shot - Planes air born. CUS - Pilot CUS - Bombs dropping. Aerial shot - Bombs exploding on impact.
Russia Frees German Pow's
After ten years, a contingent of 468 men, women, and children return from Russian captivity. Though 250,000 remain in slave camps, heart-warming reunions temporarily erase any bitterness. Establishing shot - A bus load of German prisoners of war drives up and a gate opens. CUS - POW'S waving to the women and the women waving back. CUS - Men eating hunks of bread. CUS - Mother holding and feeding baby on her lap. MCUS - Woman standing waving with her two arms in the air, she spots her loved one and takes off running. MCUS - Reunion of two brothers wipes away 10 years of bitterness.
Senator Mccarthy Marries
The capital's top social event is the wedding of Senator McCarthy and Jean Kerr, a former aide and one-time university beauty queen. Notables include vice-president Nixon and jack Dempsey. MLS - St. Mathew's Cathedral. MCU - 3,500 well wishers, a record throng gather out-side St. Mathew's Cathedral. MCUS - Harold Station and wife. CUS - Movie star, Constance Bennit. CUS - Vice President Nixon. MLS - Senator McCarthy and his new wife Jean Kerr step out of the church. MCUS - The newly weds walking down the steps. MCUS - A shot of the crowd, mostly ladies, 50+. CUS - Joe and Jean cutting their wedding cake. MCUS - Jack Dempsey kisses the bride on the cheek.
Typhoon Ravages Japan and Indo China
Thousands are homeless in flooded areas in the wake of typhoon 'Tess'. An estimated 115 died in Japan, plus a thousand in indo-china due to record winds which inflicted vast damage. MLS - Aerial shot of the flooded streets. Camera - A panning shot of this storms destruction. MLS - Man and woman walking in the flooded street, man is carrying a bundle in his hands. MCUS - A family, father with a pole, mother and daughter walking through the water. CIS - Man in a gondola type boat with a pole transporting boxes.
Aviation In The News
Once again aviation hangs up a new record-this time better than twice the speed of sound. The Douglas Skyrocket flashes across the stratosphere at 1,326 miles an hour. In the meantime a new light pusher plane makes its bow in California, capable of a speed of 200 miles an hour and a cruising range of 500 miles. CUS - Scottie Cross Field test pilot inspecting his plane. Air to Air shot - Douglas Skyrocket in flight. CUS - Another new plane Sierra. CUS - Pilot gets himself into the plane. CUS - A man turning the propeller by hand in order to get it started. MCUS - The Sierra taking off from the tarmac.
Royal Journey: West Indies Hail Queen Elizabeth
On her world tour of Dominions, Queen Elizabeth receives a rousing welcome in Jamaica from both dignitaries and an enthusiastic island populace, before she resumes her voyage to the Fiji Islands. MCUS - Queen Elizabeth coming down the stairs from the plane. MCUS - A crowd of ladies applauding the Queens arrival. MCUS - Sir Hugh Foot, Governor General of the island greets Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. MLS - Queen Elizabeth reviews the guard of honor. MLS - Throngs of people are jammed packed in the street to greet the queen. MCUS - Queen Elizabeth II planting a cotton wood tree.
Flight To Freedom
Two young Czechs, neither of whom had ever flown a powered plane, Purloin a sports plane and crash land in Bavaria, unable to stand iron curtain oppression any longer. Establishing shot - Two young Czechs checking out their getaway plane in a farming field. CUS - One of the Czechs turning the propeller of the plane checking it out and looking at the damaged end. MCUS - The two Czechs looking in the window of the plane.
Polio Scout Honored
Polio Scout Honored John Ederer, 12 year old polio victim, gets the thrill of his life as his fellow scouts attend the Curt of Honor at the hospital where he is awarded his Star Scout Badge. MCUS - Boy Scouts walking into Orthopedic hospital to honor one of their scouts who was stricken with polio. MCUS - A nurse is wheeling young John in a wheel chair to meet with his friends. CUS - His fellow boy scouts give their buddy a heartfelt salute. MCUS - The Scoutmaster gives John a scroll of good will that he earned before he was stricken with polio. CUS - John is given a green robe with his merit badges, his buddies help him on with the robe. CUS - John shaking hands with his fellow scout mates.
Venezuela's New Buildings
President Jimenez dedicates two new buildings, the nutrition center and the ministry of the interior in the republic's new $300,000,000 Rockefeller Center. Land of oil and progress. Caracas, Venezuela. MCUS - President Jimenez walking with his aids. CUS - Little Children all dressed up cheering for President Jimenez. MLS - The new Ministry of the Interior Building, camera pans to see the throngs of people on the street. CUS - President Jimenez cutting a ribbon.
Berlin Mayor Buried
Dr. Ernst reuter, once an intimate of stalin and lenin, but later mayor of west berlin and one of communism's most determined foes is buried with pomp and splendor following his sudden death. It was largely his leadership that made berliners resist the red blockade when the city was supplied by allied airlift. Lead by police a torch light parade winds through a mourning Berlin. The body of Mayor Ernst Reuter is born to city hall to lie in state. Death came suddenly to the fearless leader of the Western Sector of the German capital. During the dark days of the "Red Blockade" it was he who rallied his people to stubborn resistance, and in so doing gained their affection and respect. MLS - A torch light parade Berlin police. MLS - Throngs of mourning German people. MLS - A drawn cart holding the casket of the late Mayor, Ernst Reuter. MLS - Throngs and throngs of mourners. MCUS - Ernst Reuter's saddened family. MLS - Thousands queue in line to pay their last respects.
California F-100 Super Saber Through Its Paces
The Airforce takes the wraps off the F-100, the newest version of the Sabre jet of Korean fame. Cracking the sound barrier it breaks nearby windows. Edwards Air Force Base is 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Sabre Jet sitting on the tarmac with test pilot George Welsh getting ready to get into the cockpit. CUS - Cockpit hatch closing, George sitting in the pilot's seat with a helmet on his head ready to take off. Air to air shot - Nice shot of the plane in flight. OVS - The Sabre Jet in flight. Air to air shot - Sabre Jet making a sharp turn. Ground to air - Sabre Jet flying over head with the sound of the jet engines.
World's Longest Pipeline Spanning 2000 Miles
Four miles of a two thousand mile pipe line from the alberta oil fields is laid under the straits of mackinac - a spectacular engineering feat. Canada A machine that looks like it is making the pipe right there on the spot. MCUS/L - Machines that look like mini cranes carrying the yards and yards of pipe. MCUS - Empty oil drums tied on to the pipe. MCUS - A engineer giving direction. MCUS - The work crew waving to the camera and on the ground sits the pipe with empty oil cans tied on the top so when there transported over water they will not sink.
President Eisenhower And General William Dean
General William Dean, recovered almost completely from his years of red captivity, is received by President Eisenhower receiving a heroes welcome. General Dean while in the Capital awaiting a new assignment. CUS - General William Dean and President Eisenhower shaking hands. CUHS - General William Dean. CUS - President Eisenhower and General William Dean sitting down. CUS - General William Dean and the back of the President.
American Legion Convention Held For Future National Commander
The American legion convention draws to a close with the election of Connecticut s Arthur J. Connell as new National Commander. MCUS - Keel Municipal Auditorium. CUS - An American Legion plaque on a building. LOHS - Throngs of people sitting in th eauditorium. CUS - American Legion members. CUS - Arthur J Connel, American National Commander
Briton Reunited With Russian Wife And Child
British Diplomat, Alfred Hall is reunited with his Russian wife, after a separation of seven years. Just given permission to leave Russia, she flies to him in Canada with their young son. CUS - Plane taxing on the tarmac. CUS - Alfred Hall. CUS - Alfred's son going down the steps of the plane who is greeted by his dad. CUS - Alfred, Clara and son. CUS - Alfred kissing his wife on the cheek, she's holding flowers and the son stands in front of them.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Recuperates In Greece
Britain's foreign secretary arrives in athens to rest in the mediterranean sun, and recuperate from his recent operation. MCUS - Anthony Eden walking up the stairs, boats and water in the back ground. CUS - Anthony Eden with other unknown people. MCUS - Anthony Eden walking across the street, Greek naval men saluting him.