GERMAN OLYMPIC BELL DUG UP!
The huge 15-ton bell that rang for the 1936 Olympic Games staged by Hitler is dug up in West Germany. Buried during the war by British troops, the bell is found to be only slightly damaged.
U.S. LEADS WORLD IN OLYMPIC GAMES
American athletes triumph as big meet opens amid spectacular scenes. SUB 1—Johnson and Owens lead great U.S. sweep of track and field events.
STOCK FOOTAGE SCENES
MS - F. La Guardia with Jesse Owens at City Hall 1936 - La Guardia praising Owens after Olympic victories SOF. MS- William Jennings Bryan standing with others. CU- Sen. WIlliam Borah seated in open car. VS- Kaiser with family- Kaiser Wilhelm.
JESSE OWENS TALK, CLOSEUP OF OWENS, GERMANY
Jesse Owens speaks directly to the camera at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, expressing his pride in winning three events and praising the competition, stadium, crowd, and hospitality he has received in Germany. Owens reflects on the significance of his victories, noting it is the first American Olympic triumph in these events since 1924.
U. S. TRACK STARS SET WORLD RECORD
A pair of speedy GI's from the U. S. in a breath-taking performance in Berlin's Olympic Stadium. In preliminaries--Ira Murchison and Willie Williams both crack the 100-meter record of 10.2 set by Jesse Owens in the same stadium in 1936. In the finals--Williams noses out Murchison to repeat the new time of 10.1 seconds.
ANTI-NAZISM DRIVES GAIN MOMENTUM
Big demonstrations in Paris and Berlin reflect repugnance at outbreaks of anti-Semitic vandalism. Neo-Nazi city employee in Berlin is sentenced to 19 months imprisonment for spreading Hitlerite propaganda, as West Germany acts to prevent rise of unfavorable world opinion.
ROOSEVELT WARNS NATION SHOOTING HAS STARTED!
Rallying Americans to "battle stations," in an address to the Navy League in Washington, D. C., and broadcast to all the world, the President reveals possession of a secret, official German map disclosing Nazi plans for remaking South and Central America and taking over the Panama Canal!
EUROPE AWAITS CZECH DECISION ON SURRENDER!
Latest developments in overseas crisis! Dramatic plea of Czech President Benes for peace—Premier Daladier and his French Cabinet who are backing Britain— Gigantic Nuremberg rally where Hitler hurled ultimatum—Animated map showing Czechoslovakia's peril—all the highlights of history-making epoch!
GENERAL EISENHOWER'S PRE-INVASION CALL!
The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe delivers a stirring message, calling upon all the forces of Democracy to back the attack on the eve of the assault of Hitler's Fortress. At Sandhurst Military College in Britain where he winds up his tour of battle stations, General Eisenhower tells young officers-to-be he hopes to meet them "east of the Rhine."
MUSSOLINI'S FLIGHT TO HITLER SHOWN IN CAPTURED NAZI FILMS!
Melodrama or farce; it could be either, as the one-time Duce, now a sorrier figure than ever, goes to Berlin after his opera bouffe escape from Northern Italy. First movies of Mussy since his fall.
CAPTURED FILMS FROM INSIDE GERMANY!
Startling pictures of Hitler's Fortress in the fourth year of war reveal the vast strength of Nazi defenses in manpower, natural resources, and military material, as the Allies mass for 1944 invasion. The real situation shown in films released by the U. S. War Department. A pictorial refutation of the thesis that Germany is on the verge of collapse, it should convince Americans that victory will take all we've got on battlefront and home front.
D-DAY SPECIAL!
Film highlights as United Nations forces, under General Eisenhower, launch greatest military operation in all history, for the liberation of the people of the continent from Nazi tyranny. Special Army motion pictures, issued as a two-reeler in lieu of the regular News of the Day newsreel, at the request of the United States War Department.
THE DEATH OF A NATION!
Complete and dramatic film review of the events leading up to the dismemberment of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic and the seizure of Bohemia and Moravia by the Nazi terrorists! An enthralling chapter of European history in the making.
ARMY RELEASES NAZI FILMS REVEALING ROCKET SECRETS!
Movies of V-2 buzz-bombs test from archives of German High Command! Films that Hitler's scientists gave closest study, as flying bombs wrecked their own air fields and planes. Pictures that reveal how Nazis gambled desperately on a revolutionary weapon they thought would win war.
NAZI ARMY ON RUN IN RUSSIA SHOWN IN SEIZED GERMAN FILMS!
Latest movies to reach this country of Hitler, Goering and staff officers worried by war on four fronts. German pictures of Nazis back pedalling, as rocket firing tanks cover retreat right back where they started from.
CAPTURED FILMS REVEAL DYING DAYS OF BERLIN!
German newsreel pictures, just released here, show scenes of dire destruction as American bombing of Nazi capital reaches peak. Then the last flaming hours as Red Army drives to final victory inside the city.
GOERING TAKEN WITH CRIMINALS!
The fat Nazi Marshal of the German Luftwaffe, wearing clinking medals, captured by Yanks. He blames his partners in crime for Europe's misery. Wife and daughter of Heinrich Himmler, since a suicide, say the Hangman's "better off dead," than captive. Infamous Seyss-Inquart with crimes in Austria and Holland to answer for, taken by Canadians. Admiral Horthy, who switched sides at the last minute, Field Marshal Von Kliest, the depraved dope fiend, and Marshal Kesselring, all high on the Public Enemy list, are in custody with Field Marshal von Rundstedt, who advocated eliminating enemy people by starvation. Heavy with guilt, these are members of the Nazi gang that must be made to pay for Germany's crimes.
WAR CRIMINALS' SWAN SONG!
Final pleas for mercy at Nuremberg by 21 war criminals, headed by Hermann Goering, after longest trial in history. Hess, still feigning madness, proclaims Hitler was crazy. Ribbentrop and Keitel plead innocence and ignorance. Walther Funk, ex-president of the Reichsbank, in dramatic cross examination just can't seem to remember when confronted with evidence of worldwide looting. Not a single alibi stands up in face of the overwhelming proof produced against them.
NAZI STRONGHOLD BLOWN UP IN BERLIN
Giant air raid shelter in zoo where Hitler's supermen sought refuge blasted by 12 tons of high explosives planted by British engineers.
NAZI DISASTERS OPEN 3RD RUSSIAN WAR YEAR!
Highlights of Hitler's greatest mistake that has cost the Nazis 6,000,000 men in two years of war on the Soviet Union. Latest action films of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in battle against enemy planes and U-Boats. On Central Front, Vyasma is retaken as mighty Soviet Armies keep up blows against the invaders.
ARMIES OF HITLER ON RUN IN RUSSIA!
Tide of Soviet military might sweeps Nazi invaders westward, beyond Kursk, Belgorod, Rostov. Night raiders run into murderous anti-aircraft, along road to Taganrog, since taken by Russians. As tide of battle turns against Hitler, the Soviet legions push on toward the Dneiper in gigantic push to smash the Nazi armies.
FINAL "KAPUT" FOR HITLER'S CHANCELLERY!
The building and the balcony where Hitler once held forth is no more. The Russians blast the ruins of the Berlin landmark where Adolf and Eva Braun committed suicide!
LAST DAYS OF WAR IN EUROPE!
Report of Nazi surrender, emanating from San Francisco, sets off premature celebration of V-E Day. From Europe comes last bulletin and pictures of Mussolini, as he lies in the gutter of Milan, executed by Italian patriots. Hitler reported dead, as war reaches final stage with Winston Churchill a picture of victory!
CAPTURED FILMS MADE BEHIND NAZI LINES!
Germany digging in for Hitler's last stand. Men and women rounded up by the Gestapo impressed into labor battalions to build vast system of trenches behind the present battle lines. New recruits bolster defense of the Western Front, as Hitler scrapes bottom of manpower barrel. Spectacular films of Nazi rocket guns. Americans who were taken prisoners in France, as the German people saw them. Behind-the-scenes closeups of Nazi propaganda in captured newsreels released by U. S. War Department.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ROLLS BACK NAZIS ON ALL FRONTS!
Latest films of the Soviet drive reveal action from the Caucasus to the Baltic. Storming towns in the push toward Rostov . . . capturing thousands of Italians on the river Don . . . Russian commandos attacking the Nazis along vital inland ports presaging disaster for Hitler's armies.
FIRST ACTUAL INVASION FILMS!
Special Commentary by QUENTIN REYNOLDS Famous War Correspondent News of the Day, in an extra length newsreel, presents the first motion pictures of the greatest military operation in history. The Allied assault on Hitler's Fortress Europe . . . The complete story of D-Day. Gliders and paratroops taking off to spearhead the attack. The invasion flotilla underway. The actual landings on the beaches of Normandy under deadly enemy fire. Tanks, guns and soldiers on the hard won beachheads. Nazi prisoners rounded up as the American, British and Canadians batter their way inland. The first French towns liberated. The complete newsreel story of the dramatic struggle being fought on French soil as the armies of the United Nations make secure their first foothold on the shores of Western Europe. Filmed by cameramen of the U.S. Signal Corps, Army Air Forces, U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, Canadian Service Units and American newsreels.
WEST GERMANY'S POLICE PARADE
A hundred thousand West Berliners throng the German capital's Olympic Stadium for the annual police show.
GERMAN CATHOLIC CONGRESS!
More than 100,000 people hold services in West Berlin's Olympic Stadium as part of Germany's 75th Roman Catholic Congress. Most of the huge crowd comes from the Soviet zone, defying Communist pressures by their attendance.
PRE-OLYMPIC SKI JUMP COMPETITION
The Winter Games will open soon at Innsbruck, Austria. Everywhere, the top performers are getting in shape for the world competition. At picturesque Oberstdorf, the best German ski jumpers take part in final trials for the Olympic squad.
DOGS STAR AT BERLIN POLICE SHOW
West Berlin's annual police show draws thousands to Olympic Stadium, where highly trained German Shepherd dogs are the biggest crowd pleasers, carrying flares, running obstacle courses and even riding a radar-controlled motorcycle!
GYMNASTIC GRACE FROM GERMANY
In the area of sports which concerns bodily exercises and the development of physical powers, the gymmast is the performer. Power and grace combine for form such as displayed in the German championships at Essen, judged under Olympic rules.
AN EYE FULL OF SKY FULL OF SKIERS
At Garmisch-Partenkirchen the Olympic ski slide is provided with artificial snow for the first big meet of the new year. German and Austrian aces compete, with one eye on the upcoming Winter Games at Squaw Valley.
FINALE AT SQUAW VALLEY
The 1960 Winter Olympics ends with spectacular action. After David Jenkins wins the second gold medal for the U. S. with a great comeback in the men's figure skating championship, the American hockey team takes another by its victory in the hockey competition. Another closing feature is the 80-meter ski jump, won by Helmut Recknagle, a German world title holder. Then the curtain falls, the Olympic flame goes out, and the athletes prepare to return to their homes around the globe.
GERMANS WIN WORLD BOB-SLED CROWN
The West German team piloted by Franz Schelle wins the four-man world championship bob-sledding crown. This is the second time in four years Germany has won the title. Schelle beat last year's champ, Italy, by only six-tenths of a second.
BOBSLED TRAGEDY!
Death takes the controls at the German bobsled championships. The East German sled crashes, killing the driver. But the race continues!
DUTCH ACCLAIM WILHELMINA, 50 YEARS THEIR QUEEN!
Amsterdam in jubilee dress, celebrating the half century reign of Queen Wilhelmina who will now abdicate in favor of her daughter, Princess Julianna. In Olympic Stadium, the people stage a gigantic Jubilee party for their beloved 68-year-old ruler.
BOBSLED TITLE TO U.S.
The world championship four-man bobsled final at St. Moritz proves to be a daredevil thriller. The U. S. sled, captained by Art Tyler cops the title with four lightning-fast runs down the twisting, mile-long Olympic chute of ice.
DIVING STARS SHOW RARE FORM
In a championship meet at Wurzburg, Germany, the slow motion camera studies the style of several Olympic hopefuls. The big name in the women's competition is Ingeborg Busch, a graceful stylist on the high board.
BOBSLED EXPERTS SET FOR OLYMPICS
European teams wind-up practice runs on eve of world title meet at Lake Placid, N.Y.
HORSEMANSHIP HURDLE TEST!
International riding tournament in Germany give Pre-Olympic test for crack U. S. and European jumping teams!
PRE-OLYMPIC WINTER SPORTS
At the Koenigs See, on the Bavarian border, the toboggan chutes show blazing speed. Entries from North America, Norway, the Netherlands and Germany get in last-minute training for the Winter Olympics. At Innsbruck, Austria, site of the games, ski jump experts also train hard. The greatest problem at Innsbruck is snow, and they must import the white stuff and hand pack the slopes.
U.S. MUSCLE MEN WIN WORLD TOURNAMENT!
In Olympic trial meet in Germany, Paul Anderson takes the world weightlifting title. Tommy Kono is chosen the world's most handsome man ... Mr. Universe!
SKIING ON WHEELS!
Olympic ski hopefuls in Germany train for the winter meet on ski-wheels! The new device makes it possible for the snow birds to keep in training during the good old summertime!
BOBSLED THRILLS FOR G.I.'S
American G.I.'s stage their own "Little Olympics" in the German Alps. U. S. Air Force bobsledders show skill and daring in lightning fast runs down the twisting Alpine course.
DIVING 'SPECTACULAR'
In Cologne, divers show the form months of training have helped perfect. The German competition is held with an eye to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Thanks to the slow motion camera, we get a montage of the kind of diving that makes it such an interesting spectator sport.
BERLIN GETS FIGHT FEVER!
The boxing bug bites the Germans again! 50,000 in Berlin's Olympic Stadium watch Germany's heavyweight champ, Hein ten Hoff, slug challenger Arno Kolblin into submission in a terrific 5th round!
INTERNATIONAL BOBSLED RACE!
A winter sports thriller on the Olympic run in the Bavarian Alps. Germany's four-man team escapes disaster to take the title in record time!
SKI JUMPING CHAMPIONSHIP
The are plankmen of Europe jump in the International Meet at Garmisch, Germany. There are spectacular leaps on one of the world's most famous Olympic hills with Finland's champ winning the tournament.
SKI JUMP CLASSIC AT GARMISCH
The first big international ski jumping meet of the year brings Europe's top snow birds to the fast Olympic slide at Germany's Garmisch Partenkirchen. Germany's Helmut Recknagle wins with a leap of 283 feet.
SKI STARS RACE IN BLIZZARD!
International Downhill Championship held at Garmisch in Germany. Ace skiers of Europe compete in driving snowstorm on the hazardous Olympic course.
CAROL HEISS WINS WORLD SKATING TITLE!
With a spectacular display of skating skill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, 16-year-old Carol Heiss of New York tops Tenley Albright, Olympic champ, for the world crown!
U.S. STARS SCORE IN WINTER OLYMPICS
The great sports carnival at Oslo, Norway, continues with the incomparable Dick Button of Englewood, New Jersey again proving he's King of the Ice as he wins his second consecutive Olympic figure skating championship. Germany's daredevil four-man bobsled team beats out the United States' No. 1 crew, but Andrea Mead Lawrence in the women's special slalom carries America back into the spotlight as she picks herself up after a fall and goes on to win her second gold medal.
THE INNSBRUCK 'SPECTACULAR'
The Winter Olympics reaches new peaks of excitement. Our cameras move to the icy chute at Igls, near Innsbruck, where the tobogganing for men and women is contested. The Germans score a sweep in tobogganing, a new event in the Olympics. The Olympic 500-meter speed skating features a duel between the Russian champion and world-record holder, Yevgeny Brishin and Terry McDermott of the U. S. The 23-year-old McDermott, a barber from Essexville, Michigan, wins and clips one-tenth of a second off Grishin's Olympic record with a clocking of 40.1 seconds.
GERMANS PRESERVE ANCIENT COSTUMES
Picturesque fete displaying various types of bygone styles is held at the free port of Danzig.
THE OLYMPICS IN ROME
The big games get under way in the Eternal City. The "sports spectacular" begins with the march past of athletes from 85 countries and the traditional lighting of the Olympic flame. Then the record entry list starts the long hours of competition, straining and fighting for the coveted Olympic medals.
1960 SPORTS REVIEW
Olympic Games dominated the world athletic scene in 1960. First it was the Winter Games at Squaw Valley, Cal., where figure skater Carol Heiss and the American ice hockey team provided high points of U. S. performance. Later, at Summer Games in Rome, speedy Wilma Rudolph from Tennessee was the only winner of three gold medals. U. S. swimmers and jumpers also had their day, except for disappointing performance by high jumper John Thomas. In U. S. college basket-ball, Jerry Lucas led Ohio State to the N.C.A.A. title. Venetian Way won the Kentucky Derby. Arnold Palmer was golf's man of the year. And it was the year Pittsburgh's Pirates toppled the mighty Yankees in a 7-game World Series slugfest. Minnesota was king of the college gridiron, with Bill Hagberg's run against Iowa a telling factor. Jim Anderson of Mississippi and Bill Wentz of Ohio State also enjoyed their moments of glory, but it was Navy's Joe Bellino who got the nod as football player of the year.
GYMNASTIC GEMS
At Stuttgart, Germany is most to the outstanding female gymnasts. The star is 24-year-old Vera Caslavska from Czechoslovakia. Gold medalist in the 1964 Olympics, she gives still another impressive performance.
A SPORTS FEATURE THE WINTER OLYMPICS
Innsbruck, the Tyrolean capital, welcomes the winter sports-loving youth of the world for the Ninth Winter Olympic Games. News of the Day presents the action, and the local color, including the policeman named Rudolf who gives directions in ten languages. The events flashing before our cameras include the figure skating competition, the men's downhill race, the two-man bobsled and the women's slalom. Subsequent releases of News of the Day will feature other highlights of the dramatic winter sports spectacle.
PICTORIAL EVENTS FROM THE WINTER OLYMPICS
The great snow and ice spectacle at Innsbruck is history, but most of the exciting happenings will long be remembered. The U.S. wins the silver and bronze medals in the slalom, first skiing medals ever taken by American men in Olympic competition. Canada surprises in the four-man bobsled and a mere lad, Scott Allen of the U. S. is the sensation of the figure skating. Shy of his fifteenth birthday, the New Jersey boy waves and smiles and wins the bronze medal.
SPECTACULAR FLIGHT OVER CHINA'S HIGHEST PEAKS!
Authentic Shangri-La country explored by Chinese government expedition, in search of a mountain rumored to be higher than Everest! The highest peak, Mt. Minya Konka, is 25,000 feet -- 4,000 feet under Everest. But it's a breath-takingly beautiful adventure!
GERMAN REICHSTAG SWEPT BY FIRE SET BY INCENDIARY
Night blaze wrecks famous parliamentary bldg on eve of Hitler victory.
KONRAD ADENAUER VISITS SPAIN.
MS-Adenauer and daughter at museum... CU-Painting...CU-Adenauer...VS-Paintings... LS-Adenauer and daughter w/director seated at museum...LS-Adenauer w/group...CU'S- Paintings...VS-Adenauer at museum... Adenauer talking (silent)...MCU-Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sofia in audience... MCU-Adenauer at museum... Adenauer talking (silent)...MCU-Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sofia in audience... MCU-Adenauer talking...Ext-Pardo Palace... VS-Adenauer in Palace w/Franco...CU'S- Adenauer w/Franco and aides informal talks.
SYRIA TRAINS VOLUNTEERS.
Training for civilians goes on in Syria, although the pictures show little of build up of Soviet supplied arms. Even women are mobilized; this would be unusual for most other Arab countries where women traditionally are kept secluded.
TRACK & FIELD:
Russia's Valeri Brumel set a pole vault record. Wilma Rudolph, Ralph Boston, George Davies and Frank Budd turned in record performances for the U.S.
DETROIT'S MAYOR-ELECT THANKS CITY FOR VERDICT
John C. Lodge, great uncle of Coll Lindbergh, poses for International Newsreel.
STUDENTS PICKET N.Y.C. BOARD OF EDUCATION
VS-Students picket B. of E.-quiet-nothing unusual...
PRESIDENT TRUMAN BIDS RIO GOOD-BYE RIO DE JANERIO, BRAZIL
Independence Day parade climaxes the visit of the U.S. Chief Executive to South America for the signing of the Inter-American Security Treaty before he leaves for home aboard the battleship Missouri. High shot of parade--Same--Semi Mrs Truman Pres. Truman & Pres. Dutra in stands--C.U.same--L.S.Parade--C.U.Same--Crowds--H.S.Parade--C.U.Same--Crowds--H.S.Parade--C.U.Same--Crowds--H.S.Parade--Travel shot of parade--C.U. Mrs Truman Pres.Truman & Pres. Dutra--H.S. Parade--Semi-Same--C.U.Same--Back Shot Same--Crowds--Semi of Truman & Dutra walk toward camera--Same--C.U.Truman & Dutra Shake hands--Back shot of Mrs. Truman & Pres walk to Launch--C.U. Truman waves hat- Semi of the Launch leaving-Air Shot of the U.S.S. Missouri Battleship
MANILA CONFERENCE
Reel I-Kittikachorn SOF...MS-Zoom to CU speaks English...Opens Manila conference -applause...Pan to Pres. Johnson...Asks everyone to stand for prayer SOF...Standing for silent prayer...Asks for nomination of Pres. of Conference...ECU-PM Holyoake nomination Pres. Marcos-applause...VS-Marcos moves over to assume chairmanship of conference -thanks New Zealand and makes opening statement...Pix runs out -Sound tape continues extra 250 ft. Reel 2-Marcos greets SOF-Korea-Park, Thai- Kittikachorn, Vietnam-Van Thieu, Vietnam-Cao Ky, Australia-Holt, New Zealand-Holyoake, and USA-Johnson and wives...Tells members that presence of LBJ is proof of USA aiding in stability of Asia-thanks Australia and New Zealand for being partners w/Asian in noble objections in Asian...Thanks Asian presidents who border China. Reel 3-Marcos SOF-aims of conference-asks Asians be consulted by Western Powers on matters concerning Asia-hopes conference will Asian Magna Carter-Vietnam is a universal problem. 100 ft. of pix w/no sound-continues seek universal brotherhood concludes-thank you pix ends but 200 ft. SOF continues- "Chair recognizes Vu Van Thieu" pan across pix comes on to Thieu standing SOF...Thieu SOF...Thieu SOF w/LBJ in pix alongside- "Vietnamese have died to combat the Communist aggression"..."Our struggle is a just one, against aggression, oppression"...Reel 4-Cameramen pan to Marcos SOF raps gavel concluding meeting-Manila Conference resumes working session at ?...Group leaves... LBJ leaves...ECU-Country placques on table...CU-Summit Conference emblem... ECU-Country markers again...End of sound...Cutaways: people listen...Applause... Cameramen...Emblem...Country markers...Sign "Rebuilt with the aid of the people of the United States"...LS-USA Embassy...CU USA Embassy emblem...VS-USA embassy... VS-Street Scene Manila w/traffic...Applause...Delegate listen...Ladybird, Mrs. Marcos and all wives…LS-Conference...LS-Pickets across street...VS-People outside across street w/troops...Pan down bldg...All out to steps-photogs take pix... LS-MS-Pix of all on steps...Wives...Ky and party enter bldg...LS-Palace... X-Tape-Ky SOF-Vietnam war...South Vietnam wishes to return to normal-devotes all efforts to helping Vietnamese people. Conference will be historic as Asia and other nations share same idea-their sacrifices won't be in vain-May this day be a dawn for era leading to peace in SE Asia. Thank you end.
NIGHT AIR SHOTS OF NEW YORK CITY
Various shots of lower Manhattan and Times Square. Night scenes of Broadway and Times Square. Various scenes of the city. All scenes made with new Agfa film.
GENERAL NORSTAD IN BONN
NATO-Chief, U.S. General Norstad, pays and official visit to the West German federal capital Bonn. He is met by General Hensinger, the inspector-general of the new German armed forces. General Norstad inspects the guard of honour.
EXPLORING UNKNOWN WORLDS!
Army rocket flies straight up, 43 miles to record weather data, in demonstration that is preview of mail-carrying meteors.
"WATER LOUNGING" NEW SPORT
Hand-cranked catamarans make a hit with fair vacationists at Tacoma, Washington. (Except Boston and Philadelphia)
JUBILEE CELEBRATION FOR HAILE SELASSIE!
Royal pomp and ceremony mark the silver jubilee celebration for Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie. Throngs in Addis Ababa hail the "Lion of Judah" on the 25th anniversary of his reign. Picturesque films of a remarkable figure.
EXPORT OF POLISH GRAIN, POLAND
FREIGHTER "NAROS" TAKES ON LOAD OF GRAIN TO BE EXPORTED TO FOREIGN MARKETS.
"FLYING WING" PLANE NEW AIR MARVEL
John K. Northrop, designer, explains advantages of revolutionary craft at Burbank, Cal.
IT'S A SMALL WORLD'S FAIR
The New York World's Fair offers all kinds of wonderful things for children, from the new Atomsville, U.S.A., the AEC exhibit that teaches them about atoms through fun and games, to the Lost Children Play Area, where those who stray away in the crowds are quickly reunited with mommy or daddy.
INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY CLASSIC!
HUGE OIL FIRE IN ROTTERDAM
A spectacular, million dollar blaze explodes tanks of gasoline in a storage yard near the Dutch city. Firemen battle for two days and nights to bring the fiery danger to an end!
FLOATING HARBORS WAR'S GREAT MIRACLE!
First films of the best-kept secret of the war. Steel and concrete piers and caissons, pre-fabricated in Britain, are towed across on D-Day in amazing engineering job. Over-age ships deliberately scuttled to form temporary breakwaters at Avranches and St. Laurent in Normandy. Then the 6,000-ton sections towed into place and sunk to form a man-made harbor. Storm that wrecked the American operation left British project intact to pour machines and supplies ashore for Allied sweep into Germany.
AIR FORCE TESTS LOW-LEVEL EJECTION
Dramatic trials test the possibility of using ejection seats at ground level and 500 feet above the land. Dummies are shot out of speeding jets with both good and bad results.
GREATEST AIRPORT INAUGURATED!
The New York International Airport at Idlewild, world's largest, is inaugurated by President Truman and Governor Dewey as the two rivals for the Presi- dency smilingly share the spotlight in an unprecedented meeting. Overhead, 900 planes put on a dazzling display of air might, speed and precision flying to "christen" the giant 4900-acre airfield.
AMERICANS SPEARHEAD DRIVE FOR PARIS!
U. S. armor leads big break-through as Yank power bursts out of Normandy stalemate to surge south, east and west in swiftest moves of military history. Nazis surrender faster than M.P.'s can count them, as American columns strike like chain-lightning on road to Paree.
BRICKER AND DEWEY IN CAMPAIGN SNAPSHOTS!
Governor Thomas E. Dewey breakfasts with his running mate Governor John Bricker and holds his first press conference as nominee of the Republican Party. Mrs. Dewey meets the ladies of the Fourth Estate in Chicago.
OMAR'S MOSQUE IN JORDAN
King Hussein welcomes dignitaries from Arab world to ceremonies at Dome of the Rock. Crowd walks by Mosque...LS-Mosque and flags...LS-Same...Hussein arrives...Hussein shaking hands with delegates...delegates seated...LS-Hussein talking...side-Same...delegates...LS-Same...Hussein delivers medals...Same...LS-Mosque...Pan-Same...
CHELSEA SHOW & MAY FAIR
One of the more picturesque of the signs that summer is really on the way is the annual Chelsea Show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital; usually called the Flower Show, although its exhibits include many other items from Beehives to tennis courts. This year the show was opened by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent who was accompanied by her daughter Princess Alexandra and Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. In another part of London there is also a show that seems to have a countryfied flavor because it starts off in Shepherd's Market; but you Won't find any more sheep there than you'll see in Shepherd's bush. It's the May Fair in aid of the old people's welfare association. The festivities include the crowning of the Queen of lights.
CHURCHILL BUYS FIRST BOND IN WAR LOAN DRIVE!
Secretary Morgenthau sells Britain's Prime Minister $100 bond No. One as Treasury launches campaign for fifteen billion dollars.
EQUESTRIAN CO-EDS TAKE UP ARCHERY
Western college maids rival cavalry bowmen of old in new sport at Pebble Beach, Cal.
A NEW COMET
The astronomers hands were full this spring. A new large comet has appeared between the Andromeda and Perseus Constelletion. Before it is too late, here movement has to be photographed end spectrograms must be made. A large comet was lust observed in the Soviet Union forty seven years ago. From that time this is the brightest comet observed here. This is what it looks like on a photograph taken at the observatory of the Shternberg Astronomic Institute.
U.N. TROOPS SEIZE CONTROL OF KATANGA
United Nations troops take control of Elizabethville, the capitol of Katanga, ousting President Tshombe's regime. Refusal by the Congo leader to rid his forces of foreign officers, at the request of the UN command, triggers fighting leading to the UN take-over.
NEW BREMEN IN DEBUT
Ocean liner, queen of West Germany's growing postwar fleet, completes maiden voyage. Arriving in New York harbor on a misty day, she gets traditional fireboat welcome. A reconditioned French transport, she's virtually a new ship.
PRO-FOOTBALL THRILLER!
Los Angeles Dons trim the Brooklyn Dodgers in fast action gridiron battle as the West Coast pro aggregation triumphs 17 to 7.
MEXICO HAILS ALEMAN!
Inauguration of the Central American Republic's 58th president, as Avila Camacho hands over reigns of government to the new, 44-year-old chief executive in colorful celebration.
A VISIT WITH MRS. CHURCHILL!
At Quebec's historic Citadel, a few informal moments with the charming wife of Britain's Prime Minister. Then a closeup of Mary, their youngest daughter, with her famous Dad.
PRES. KENNEDY CUBAN CRISIS SPEECHPRES. KENNEDY TAKES TO THE CAMERA TO MAKE A SPEECH CONCERNING THE REMOVAL OF MISSILES FROM THE CUBAN MISSILE SITES AND THEIR RETURN TO RUSSIA.
MCU-Kennedy at stand (standing before mikes SOF)
UNCLE SAM SCOURS THE PACIFIC OCEAN FOR EARHART PLANE!
Navy's sea and air forces join in race for Howland Island in faint hope of rescuing famous woman flier and navigator Fred Noonan.
BASKETBALL: EAST BEATS WEST
Brilliant play of Providence College star Lenny Wilkins gives Eastern All-Star 1-point win over West in New York. Missed free throw in closing seconds gives East the ball, and Wilkins scores on second try to make it 67-66.
POPE REVISITS OLD SCHOOL
Pope Pius XII revisits Capranica College where he attended school 65 years ago. He tours familiar halls and sees the room he occupied as a student. Later he officiates at service in the College Chapel.
NEW AIR CUSHION VEHICLES
Navy officer explains to newsmen the vehicle... Newsmen visit the vehicles... Air cushion machine, and weapons equipped on the vehicle... Newsmen visit vehicles at the Navy base... Crewmen in combat uniforms... Vehicles in water... Newsmen watch the demonstration of the vehicle... Gunmen in the vehicle... Vehicle unit does a patrol demonstration... US flags and machine guns on the vehicles... Vehicles in formation on water... 2 more vehicles... the halice of the vehicle and gunmen... 2 other vehicles... Vehicle equipped machine guns... River side and civilian boats... The vehicles on sea side.
TRUMAN URGES FIRM STAND AGAINST INFLATION!
President warns nation that failure to halt spiraling prices will wreck our economy and be the Kremlin's greatest victory.
