11 PERISH IN SHIP COLLISION
The American tanker Stony Point and the Greek motor-ship Ioannis burn after ramming into each other off the French Brittany coast. Sixty crew members are saved. Eleven die in the flaming hulks.
KIDS OF BRITTANY HOLD A FROLIC
French peasant children show the city folks what they can do at Brest festival.
EISENHOWER HONORS FIGHTING GENERALS!
The Allied Commander decorates Yank combat leaders, Generals "Lightning Joe" Collins, Leonard Gerow, and Omar Bradley, on Road to Paris. Americans, mopping up at La Lucerne, rid a convent of Nazi snipers, a dramatic incident of the war in Brittany.
SHIP COLLISION IN MANHATTAN'S EAST RIVER
The gasoline tanker Empress Bay collides with the freighter Nebraska in an after-midnight disaster in the East River. The tanker's 280 thousand gallons of gasoline explode, spreading flames across the water, flames which leap 150 feet to damage the underside of the Manhattan Bridge. Two men are believed entombed in the Empress Bay which sinks to the bottom 30 hours after being rammed amidships by the Nebraska. The freighter had 42 persons aboard; all escaped, though most had to be hospitalized.
TANKER SINKS AS SHIPS CRASH ON DELAWARE
Liberian freighter Elna II collides with Navy-owned Mission San Francisco, nearly severing gasoline tanker. After explosion, 57-hundred ton American vessel burns and sinks in five hours.
FRENCH LINER RAMMED AT SEA
Scenes aboard S.S. Florida shortly after collision with H.M.S. Glorious off Malaga, Spain.
SHIPS COLLIDE IN N. Y. HARBOR!
The Danish freighter Columbia catches fire after ramming the liner Excalibur bound with 114 passengers on a 6 weeks' Mediterranean cruise!
SEA AFLAME AFTER SHIP COLLISION
Gasoline from the sunken tanker Pinthis blazes on following disaster off Cape Cod, Mass., in which 47 perished. SUB. 1—The damaged steamer Fairfax, in dock at Boston, still showing effects of crash and fire. SUB. 2—Marine survivors, who helped in rescue work aboard Fairfax, arrive at Hampton Reads.
FIERY DISASTER AT SEA
Greek and Yugoslavian tankers collide on Bosporus, envelop anchored Turkish passenger ship in flames. Fire ships fight the oil-fed blaze through the night and into the day, as spectators watch from shore. Dead put at 51.
"WASP" HOME WITH CRASH SURVIVORS
Scenes of joyous family reunions as the crippled carrier limps into N. Y. harbor with 61 survivors of her collision with a destroyer during mid-Atlantic maneuvers in which 176 were lost.
GREATEST MARITIME RESCUE SAVES 1700 AS COLLISION SINKS LUXURY LINER
Complete coverage of the greatest maritime rescue in history as the Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after being rammed in the dark and the fog by the Swedish liner, Stockholm. Films of the luxurious Doria listing as the Ile de France comes to the rescue, along with lifeboats from the Stockholm. Rescue helicopters bring the injured to hospitals ashore on Rhode Island, where ambulances whisk them away. Vivid films of the Andrea Doria sinking beneath the waves. Ile de France steams into packed New York harbor, where scenes of dockside reconciliation are common. Eye-witness stories from survivors of the black night at sea -- a comprehensive presentation of a great sea drama!
NORTH SEA DRAMA
In an extraordinary rescue operation, 500 persons are saved and only four lost when the British passenger steamer, Duke of York, has its entire bow sheared off by the U. S. freighter Haiti Victory in an early morning collision in the fogbound North Sea!
MARITIME SERVICE OPENS DRIVE FOR NEW RECRUITS!
An urgent call to man the bridge of ships to our fighting forces overseas, as shortage of trained men threaten vital ocean supply lines.
PROSPERITY SHIP GETS BIG WELCOME
Biggest liner built in U.S. arrives in N.Y., hailed as sign of better times for U.S. merchant marine.
NAVY HONORS HEARST, NOTED PUBLISHER!
Highest civilian honor, the Distinguished Public Service Award, is presented by Secretary Sullivan to William Randolph Hearst, Jr. for his noted father in Washington ceremonies.
THE MOTORSHIP "CABOT"
MLS-Halifax Harbour...LS-M/Cabot ...Angus MacDonald Bridge in background...MLS-Three-quarter view of forward port side of ship...MLS-Pan r/l with loaded tractor-trailer entering and moving towards rear of midship hold...MS-Loaded tractor-trailer leaving terminal warehouse and coming towards rear of midship hold...MS-Loaded tractor-trailer leaving terminal warehouse and coming towards camera...MS-Chief directing traffic...MS-Pan r/l from trailer load to 2nd trailer...MCU-Crated refrigerators...MS-Hydraulic elevator operator at controls...MS-Empty trailer, elevator rises in bkgd...CU-Pan to cartonized furniture...MS-Two Fork lifts placing loads on elevator...MS-Tilt up from suspended drill rig to top of barge loading crane...MCU-Pan and tilt down from pipe smoking deck foreman to arm and hand signaling...MS- Suspended drill-rig being guided onto deck (over) MLS-2nd Engineer inspecting engine room...MS-2nd Engineer inspecting engine room...MCU-Pan over engine control room dials and instrumentation to push buttons, levers and bridge control telephone...CU-Direction Indicator and electrical clock...CU-Control centre light flashing on engine panel...CU-Chief Engineer watching...CU-Chief Engineer's hand turning control knob...MLS-Overall view of engine control room...MLS-General activity in wheelhouse...MS-Navigation officer adjusting decca navigator...MLS-Radar and navigation equipment...MLS-Forward view of ship from bridge...MCU-Bearded seamen on deck watch...LS-Distant view of freighter...LS-Forward view of ship from bridge...MCU-Chef ladling gravy onto dinner plate...MLS-Seamen being served at galley...MLS-Overall view of officer's dining room...MS-Captain begin at table...MS-1st Mate and guest, Captain eating...MS-Bunk bed arrangements for seamen...MLS-Seaman adjusting radio...MS-Seamen writing letter...MLS-Seamen using automatic laundry facilities...MS-Seaman starting washing machine...LS-Forward view of ship from bridge...MS-Pan covered life-boat to wake and sea...MLS-Deckhands using sledge hammers and axes to break ice...MCU-Tilt down, man removes ice fly form machinery with axe...LS-View of south side cliffs...MS-Lighthouse and World War II gun fortification...MS-2nd Officer using (over) binoculars...MLS-Various fisherman's houses on cliffs...LS-Ship moving inside St. John's Harbour, accompanied by pilot boat...MLS-Pan from bow of ship to linesman securing rope...MLS-View into open hatch of forklifts removing containerized cargo...MLS-Deck Crane Pan to refrigerator container suspended overside...CU-Stevedores face watching...MS-2nd refrigerator container being unloaded...MS-Dual deck crane left during drill rig unloading...MLS-Pan from starboard bow of ship to midship and stern section...CU-Gray haired stevedore watching...MLS-Ship leaving harbour early evening-Signal Hill in background-Pan to Narrows and open sea.
ICE LOCKS LIBERTY SHIPS!
Coast Guard ice breakers to the rescue of Merchant Marine ships held fast in Long Island Sound as worst winter in 25 years grips East Coast.
HEROIC MANNING COMMANDS RESCUE LINER AMERICA
Sailor who saved Florida's crew gets farewell from mother as he acts for Captain Fried at Hoboken, New Jersey
ITALY WINS INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT RACE!
Half million see salts of six nations row over choppy two-mile course in New York harbor to decide merchant marine championship.
FREDERIKA LAUNCHES TANKER
Lovely Queen Frederika of Greece christens the largest oil tanker ever built in the United States. The 70-thousand ton vessel, Princess Sophie, named for eldest daughter of the Queen, will be pride of Greek Merchant Marine.
NEW OCEAN QUEEN AMERICA!
New York City gives an unprecedented reception to the biggest liner ever built in U.S. yards, the 26,000-ton luxury ship reconverted from a troop transport to the flagship of America's Atlantic merchant fleet.
WANTED: MEN FOR THE MERCHANT MARINE
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SHIP COLLISION
MS-People on Bayonne Bridge...LS-British tanker burning in bay...MCU-British tanker burning in bay...VS-British tanker burning in bay...CU'S-People watching from bridge...A/V'S-of burning ship...A/V's-of Texaco Oil Tanker being towed away...MS-Mayor Lindsay and others at scene...VS-of ship...VS-Firemen at scene...Vs-Charred tanker....HS-Firemen walking...CU'S-Hole in tanker...VS-Bodies being removed from boat.
LINER ELIZABETH AND FREIGHTER CRASH IN FOG
World's biggest passenger ship is hit by cargo vessel in entrance to Upper New York Bay. Accident, raising spectre of disaster at sea, proves only slight, as no one is hurt, and Queen Elizabeth resumes trip next day.
CAPSIZED LINER SALVAGED!
In the biggest job of its kind since the raising of the Normandie, the 20,000 ton Empress of Canada, capsized by fire over a year ago, is righted to an even keel in Liverpool Harbor!
BRITISH SHIP WRECKED ON CALIFORNIA COAST!
The 16,000-ton freighter Pacific Enterprise, with a rich cargo, abandoned as a total loss after running on rocks off Point Arena . . . graveyard of the Pacific.
SEA DISASTER IN NEAR EAST!
The French liner Champollion piles up on a jagged reef, 600 yards off the coast of Lebanon with more than 300 persons aboard her. As heavy breakers pound the ship, Lebanese sailors make trip after trip in small boats to take off the survivors. Fifteen people perish trying to swim ashore through the wild, treacherous surf!
HINDENBURG!
1937 records the most appalling airship disaster ever filmed as the great luxury air-liner bursts into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, and 36 out of 97 aboard perish in the flaming inferno.
SPECTACULAR FILMS! WARSHIP EXPLODES
Some of the most exciting motion picture scenes of this war, just released by the British Admiralty. The torpedoing by a Nazi U-boat of H.M.S. Barham in the Mediterranean. The mighty battlewagon, mortally hit, founders and keels over on her side within four minutes. The heroic crew, fighting the burning magazine, scramble and dive for safety too late, and 858 perish as the doomed giant disintegrates in one terrific, terrible blast.
HUNDREDS PERISH IN NEW EARTHQUAKE DISASTER IN JAPAN
Central Nippon devastated and thousands again made homeless.
10 PERISH AS FIRE SWEEPS JAPAN'S BIGGEST STORE
Holiday shoppers trapped in $4,000,000 Tokio blaze-Hundreds injured.
100 PERISH AS GAS BLAST DEMOLISHES GERMAN TOWN
Scores injured in explosion of plant Neukirchen in Saar district.
79 PERISH IN 2 PLANE CRASHES!
In a heavy overcast near Burbank, a non-scheduled airliner crashes into a California mountain top, killing 45. The pilot had radioed that two passengers had engaged in a fist fight in midair. But survivors said it had no bearing on the accident. Mrs. Judith Frost is the only person to walk away from the wreck unaided. She also helped rescue Karen Marsh, a young actress, and Miss Marsh tells of her nightmare experience. Almost simultaneously come reports of another air disaster half way across the world. 45 die as a Dutch airliner smashes into a mountain near Bombay, India. Among the victims were 13 American news correspondents, world famous reporters, returning from a mission in Indonesia.
1000 PERISH IN SALVADOR QUAKE!
Rocked by a major earthquake, disaster strikes the small Central American Republic of El Salvador. In the city of Jucuapa, one thousand died. Rescue workers pour in as the country is hit harder than ever before in its history.
50 PERISH AS AIRLINER CRASHES!
A scene of widely scattered wreckage marks the hillside near Oakland Airport, California, where a new $1,000,000 luxury sky craft met its doom in a disaster that shocked the nation!
HUNDREDS PERISH AS VOLCANO ERUPTS ON PHILIPPINE ISLE!
Tragic rain of death from Mount Hibok-Hibok on Camiguin Island, filmed from air, sea and ground. Dramatic pictures of the great lava torrents burning everything in their path except, strangely enough, the mighty palms which stand like ghosts amid the fiery ruins. Rescue missions evacuate thousands by boat and first aid is given the severely burned. Plans now call for complete abandonment of the isle to the fury of the volcano, which rages on.
HUNDREDS PERISH IN TORNADO DISASTER
The Nation's most violent twisters in 20 years leave a wide path of death and destruction through six Southern states. The shocking toll: 237 killed; 2500 injured; thousands homeless; and property damage estimated at millions of dollars as the Red Cross rushes aid to the stricken area.
37 PERISH AS PLANE CRASHES IN FOG!
The ninth military transport plane crash in three weeks takes a tragic toll of service men's lives, including 15 members of their immediate families - caused by a blinding fog at Tacoma.
12 PERISH IN ALPINE TRAGEDY
American helicopters lead the search for nine young students and three teachers lost in a sudden blizzard while climbing Mount Dachstein in the Austrian Alps. Rescue parties led by mountain dogs recover the bodies . . . buried in an avalanche.
66 PERISH AS AIR LINER HITS MOUNTAIN PEAK
High up in the snow-capped Wyoming Rockies, courageous mountaineers brave icy winds and perilous slopes to reach spot where 66 persons perished in nation's worst commercial air crash - CAB investigators begin hunting for clues to cause of tragedy.
44 PERISH AS PLANE EXPLODES
The second commercial air disaster in a month takes the lives of all aboard as an airliner explodes over Longmont, Colorado. An explosives expert will investigate the blast that scattered wreckage over a two and one-half mile area.
19 PERISH IN TEXAS OIL FIRE EXPLOSION!
The fiery explosion of four huge petroleum tanks near Dumas, Texas, forty miles from Amarillo, kills 19 men and injures more than thirty others. The heat from the fire is so intense that men can only stand back and allow it to burn itself out.
20 PERISH IN N.Y. PLANE CRASH
An airliner, crowded with 101 persons, takes off from LaGuardia Field in a snowstorm . . . and crashes seconds later on Rikers Island. Miraculously, 81 persons escape from the burning DC-6A. Civil Aeronautics Board investigators are seeking the why of the disaster.
SCORES PERISH IN NURSING HOME FIRE
A flash fire rips through the Katie Jane Nursing Home, trapping 71 elderly persons inside. It is one of the worst hospital fires in United States history. Witnesses say it was all over 10 to 15 minutes after the first alarm.
SCORES PERISH IN SPRING TWISTERS.
Tornado levels Kansas City suburbs, takes more than three dozen lives. Other block-busting storms hit neighboring states as Mid West experiences twisters in record numbers. Weather experts see changing weather pattern responsible for tornado epidemic.
66 G.I.'s PERISH AS PLANES COLLIDE
U. S. Air Force investigators search through twisted ruins of the two Flying Boxcars which crashed in flames, killing 66 airmen, after colliding aloft over Germany's Black Forest.
MIGHTY AKRON LOST AT SEA! 73 PERISH!
Disaster overtakes Navy's Queen of the Skies as storm destroys $50,000,000 airship while over the Atlantic off Barnegat, N.J.—Only three of 76 aboard are rescued! SUB. 1 – Two more names are added to Akron dead when Navy's rescue blimp J-3 is wrecked at sea. SUB. 2 – Destroyer Tucker brings the three who were saved to Brooklyn Navy Yard. SUB. 3 – America mourns hero crew.
REMAGEN BRIDGE FALLS! MANY YANKS PERISH!
Dramatic scenes as Ludendorff span collapses while engineers are working frantically to keep it together. Many Americans hurled into icy waters of the Rhine rescued by comrades. Bridge a complete wreck, but Allies roll on across pontoons.
CAPT. FONCK'S PLANE BURNS UP STARTING ON NEW YORK TO PARIS FLIGHT - TWO OF CREW PERISH....
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317 LIVES LOST IN OHIO PRISON FIRE HORROR
Trapped convicts perish in Columbus tragedy—cell blocks destroyed.
RAIL TRAGEDY IN KOREA
Fifty-six South Koreans perish and hundreds are injured when a night-passenger train slams into a stalled truck near Seoul! A terrible tragedy to add to the many woes that this poor, war-ravaged nation has already suffered.
MILLIONS FLEE FAMINE IN CHINA
Mass exodus marks quest for food as vast numbers perish of starvation.
U.S. PLANE CRASHES OVERSEAS, 36 DIE!
Tragedy in the mountains of Central France! American service men perish as their Air Force troop carrier hits the jagged peak of Mont Dore, only 200 feet away from safety.
EARTHQUAKE DISASTER IN CALIFORNIA
Remarkable views of the Great Pacific Coast Upheaval! SUB. 1 – 200-mile area south of Los Angeles devastated by series of violent shocks—Scores perish, thousands injured and homeless—Loss estimated at $45,000,000. SUB. 2 – Metrotone cameramen photograph scenes of desolation while shocks still continue in Long Beach, Compton and neighboring towns. SUB. 3 – Dramatic stories told by survivors camping out amid the ruins. SUB. 4 – Aerial survey shows appalling extent of calamity with thousands of business buildings and homes in ruins. SUB. 5 – Relief work begins as local and Federal Agencies rush help to the distressed.
SHRINERS' RALLY HEARS TRUMAN WARN SOVIET!
Addressing 100,000 Nobles attending the Diamond Jubilee of the Ancient Order of the Mystic Shrine in Chicago, President Truman warns Russia that dictatorships founded on tyranny will perish. The Shriners' parade to the Stadium is one of the most colorful in the city's history.
TUGBOAT DISASTER!
Fourteen members of the U. S. Air Force are saved from a watery grave but six others perish when a giant wave suddenly capsizes an Army tug in San Francisco's Golden Gate.
VIVID FILM STORY OF EUROPE'S WORST FLOOD DISASTER!
England and the Low Countries suffer incredible flood devastation in the wake of the great North Sea storm! Not since medieval times have these countries seen a watery calamity like this, with its tremendous cost in human life and property damage. Hundreds perish in England and Belgium. But Holland is the hardest hit of all. When her famous dikes are broken by the impact of the sea, over one-sixth of her land surface is flooded with salt water and over a thousand people lose their lives! The fury of Nature at its wildest caught by camera! Memorable scenes of tragedy, heroism and compassion in this outstanding newsreel document!
FIRE TRAGEDY ON SKID ROW
Chicago's Barton Hotel, a haven for many down-and-outers, is turned into a death trap when flames consume the five-story structure. 26 men perish in the holocaust.
EXPLOSION ROCKS QUAKER CITY!
The fiery blast of an accumulation of grain dust starts a three million dollar fire in midtown Philadelphia. Scores are hurt by flying glass and three perish in the flaming ruins of a seven-story grain warehouse.
BRITAIN:
It's the worst winter in a hundred years of recorded weather throughout the Isles. Haylifts bring food to many animals, but thousands perish in unaccessible pastures. Clothes freeze on the line and even worse winters are predicted if the trend of recent years develops.
AIR DISASTER STRIKES IN JAPAN
The second and third of a fatal series of plane crashes in or around Tokyo within a month claim 188 lives. Sixty-four perish when a Canadian plane is hurled against a seawall while attemting to land at the airport; eighteen hours later a British plane with 90 Americans aboard plunges into the slope of Mt. Fujiyama, killing all 124 aboard.
RIO GRANDE ON RAMPAGE TAKES APPALLING TOLL!
The greatest flood in the history of the Rio Grande causes untold damage on both sides of the U. S.-Mexican border. Fed by cloudbursts, the river soars to over a 62-foot crest as it swirls past Laredo, Texas. Scores of people perish as for hundreds of miles along its banks, the river brings disaster!
EAST'S WORST FLOOD DISASTER TAKES APPALLING TOLL!
The grim, camera record of the terrible devastation caused by the drenching downpour of Hurricane Diane! From Maryland to Maine the watery damage mounts to billions of dollars; but New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are hardest hit. Over 200 persons perish in the floods, including more than 30 vacationers in tragic Camp Davis in the Poconos. As Army, Civil Defense and Red Cross workers plunge in to help, the titanic job of rehabilitation begins.
AFRICA
Stark scenes of drought, depleted camel herds, dried up water holes, relieved by the French military trucking precious water to save the people of the Sahara.
EISENHOWER-TRUMAN PLEA FOR STRONG U.S. STIRS WAR VETERANS!
The President takes his daily constitutional at the head of the parade of the 35th Division, his buddies of World War I. At the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium, the Chief of Staff demands American leadership and guidance in a world left chaotic by the war, a stand backed up next evening by the Commander-in-Chief, urging defense of freedom throughout the world.
NEW YORK FIRE PREVENTION WEEK
GI COURT MARTIAL CHARGES SHOCK NATION
On New York's Governors Island - Sergeant James Gallagher faces charges he caused the death of three buddies in a North Korean prison camp. Former prisoners testify and Mrs. Zenith Tucker - sister of one of the men who died - is interviewed.
HURRICANE IONE HITS AND RUNS
The wild tropical storm that threatened to roll up the East coast, wreaks havoc in the region between Norfolk, Va., and Morehead City, N. C., before swirling out into the Atlantic!
FLOODS AGAIN BRING DISASTER TO NORTHEAST!
For the second time since last August, when Hurricane Diane caused great flood damage, six northeast states suffer a terrible deluge. A cyclonic storm brings more than three days of rain, a death toll of over forty persons and property damage mounting to tens of millions of dollars. A grim ordeal for this entire region!
IKE PREDICTS COMMUNISM WILL LOSE OUT
Speaking at commencement exercises at Baylor University, President Eisenhower tells his Texas audience that world communism is, and remains, a serious threat - but that it shall eventually fail because of its denial of spiritual premises.
WAR VETERANS CITE LOUIS B. MAYER!
At their 55th Anniversary dinner in New York, the Jewish War Veterans of America honor a veteran of motion pictures! Mr. Mayer receives the organization's 1950 Gold Medal of Merit for his contributions toward "world understanding of America and the American way of life!"
MIKOYAN ROAD TOUR HITS GOTHAM
The capitalistic red carpet treatment is received by Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan on his two-day visit to New York City. He visits a big department store, lunches with bankers in Wall Street, and makes his first visit to the headquarters of the United Nations. At an hour-long press conference he says he's an "optimist" when it comes to the question of peace or war, but he follows the familiar Kremlin line in refusal to compromise on basic issues between the U. S. and Russia.
KENNEDY SPEAKS BEFORE THE U.N.
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly the U. S. Chief Executive cautions that "the events and decisions of the next ten months may decide the fate of man for the next ten thousand years." News of the Day presents an in-depth analysis of the President's momentous appearance before the world organization. Mr. Kennedy solemnly challenges Russia to a "peace race" and warns that unless men now quickly learn to control their weapons and their quarrels they may destroy themselves. He rejects the Russian demand for a three man body of Western Soviet bloc and neutral representatives, each with a veto, to take Dag Hammarskjold's place at the head of the Secretariat. The President reports to the Assembly on two threats to peace causing deepest concern, in Southeast Asia and in Germany and Berlin. In a final declaration of determination, he says the United States has both "the will and the weapons" to resist aggression in any area of the world.
MAJOR NEWS EVENTS OF 1961
History's Crowded Year! THE CONGO: Katanga President Moise Tshombe fought to maintain secession, but the peacemakers hoped for a reunited Congo. SOUTHEAST ASIS: The forces of Laos and South Vietnam faced relentless Communist pressures in 1961. CUBA: Fidel Castro, avowedly a Communist, gave democracy new cause for concern. UNITED NATIONS: The world joined the U, N. in mourning the untimely death of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold . The neutral Burmese delegate, U Thant replaced Mr. Hammarskjold on an interim appointment. BERLIN: The big story of the year in divided Germany concerned the Wall which the Communists erected to seal off the Eastern sector. News of the Day cameras made the most graphic pictures of 1961 as Germans continued to escape to the freedom of West Berlin. SPACE: Russia sent the first men into orbit, and moved ahead in the space race. America's man-in-space program began with successful sub-orbital shots, with an orbital flight scheduled for January. THE UNITED STATES: John Fitzgerald Kennedy took office as the 35th President. He journeyed to European capitals and Latin America on missions of personal diplomacy.
VOLUNTEERS BUILD UPON HURRICANE RUINS
Some 150 AFL-CIO workmen erect five complete homes in Cameron Parish, Louisi- iana during a weekend of volunteer labor. Campaign to rebuild in wake of Hurricane Audrey to go on through ensuing weekends with Red Cross supplying materials.
ARMY OF GIRLS LURED BY FOOTLIGHTS ON BROADWAY
Stage-struck beauties from all parts of country flock to Manhatten - most of 'em to the famous follies. A peep of the girls behind the stage. Ned Wayburn, Mr. Ziegfeld's chief picker, puts all applicants through a strenuous test course. Two shots. Elevation shots of the girls going thru various routines. Ground Shots of girls exercising their limbs and dancing.
YANK "MIRACLE" SAVES TRAPPED CHINESE ARMY!
American fliers parachute guns and ammunition to surrounded Allies in Burma. Equipped to fight again, the Chinese force their way out of Chidwin River trap to foil the Japs in the opening Battle of Burma.
RAILWAY DISASTER IN INDIA
The collapse of a flood-weakened bridge north of Hyderabad in central India causes one of the worst railway disasters in recent times, as 112 persons die when two crowded coaches of an express train plunge into the torrent.
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE!
For release as a public service by the motion picture theatres of America.
NAVAL MUSEUM HOLDS OPEN HOUSE
Navy Day is commemorated at the nation's oldest naval installation -- Washington's Naval Yard -- with open house at its comparatively new and still little known Museum. Relics and models here recall the history of U. S. sea power from the Revolution through World War ll.
PACT MEMBERS AT TOMBLS..
Ataturk Tomb..MLS..Ifan group with wreath walking..MLS..Iran group with wreath walking.. up steps..SV..tomb..Sv..laying wreath..MS..group at attention..GEN V..Pakistan group arriving with wreath..Sv..Pakistan group layswreath..MS..with folded hands..MLS..comes out tomb..LS..tomb in b.g..
SWORD DANCER WINS TURF THRILLER
At the Aqueduct track in New York, the 1959 Horse of the Year starts in the field of eleven in the Grey Lag Handicap. Ridden by Eddie Arcaro Sword Dancer makes a brilliant stretch run to win by a neck in a photo finish. After a disappointing winter, it's a great comeback, worth forty-five thousand dollars.
PRESIDENT SAYS U.S. WILL USE ATOM WEAPONS
At his regular press conference - President Eisenhower, answering a question about possible conflict in the Far East, says the U. S. would use tactical atom bombs and artillery shells like "a bullet or anything else" against military targets.
HOUSTON WELCOMES ASTRONAUTS.
Houston throws a Texas-sized parade to welcome the Manned Spacecraft Center to its environs. The seven American astronauts and a Mercury capsule ride in the parade, and the men are invested with sheriff's hats and badges to mark them true Texans.
WEDDING OF JANE POWELL - BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.
Gen. view of church of Good Shepherd where marriage took place... Amanda Slake Janet Leigh & Arthur Loew Jr. arrive.. Bride Jane Powell arrives followed by bridemaids ... CU Elizabeth Taylor.... Jane Powell & husband Geary Anthony Steffen cut cakes. Group shot of bridal party: L to R: Betty Sullivan, Elizabeth Taylor, Bridegroom, Bride, Mrs. Barbara Covington, Virginia McDowall & Marjorie Dillon... Family shot L to R: Ur. & Mrs.. Paul Burce (Brides parents) Bride Groom & Bride, then Mr. & Mrs. Gary Steffen Jr. (Bridegrooms parents)...
JUNIOR DANCE COMPETITION
For the first time in the history of European dancing contests, West Berlin stages an international competition for youngsters between the ages of 8 and 14. A ballroom extravaganza at which the youngsters display some extraodrinary terpsichorianability.
VOLCANO ERUPTS IN ATLANTIC.
Spectacular films of new-born volcano in mid-Atlantic off the Azores. New geyser of smoke and lava rapidly builds cone that rises 40 feet above ocean waters.
JAPS RENEW ANTI-U.S. RIOTS
More than a thousand policemen are needed to quell an ugly outbreak on the outskirts of Tokyo, a demonstration that once more protests the expansion of a U. S. Air Force Base.
ITALY'S FLOOD DAMAGE
Florence is visited by the worst floods in its history. An inundation by the Arno River swollen by two weeks of torrential rains. There was a death toll of 31 in the city and its famous art collections alone suffered damage estimated at $200,000,000. Other communities suffered with Florence as the national death toll is 110, with the other losses beyond calculation.
SCHWECHAT VIENNA: THE CARAVELLE CAME INTO TOWN.
The Caravelle, France's most modern and most beautiful passenger plane, who is no longer driven by propellers but by fuses, arrives in Vienna and takes the town's most important people to a trip around. The plane like nearly everything that comes from France in spring and it's stewardess are highly appreciated by the Austrian officials. CU French & Austrian flag flying: MS Caravelle taxiing across field: CU: Name on plane: various shots of jet motor. Men go into belly of plane up ladder. Ladder folds into plane belly. MS plane taking off. Riding shot of wing take off. MS same: Pilot at controls, control panel: Passengers; Stewardess serves drinks to passenger. CU same: Ls plane flying in sky.
HUGHES-BREWSTER CLASH IS SENSATION AT SENATE INQUIRY!
The duel on Capitol Hill reaches an explosive climax. Elliott Roosevelt once again tilts with Johnny Meyer before the Senate Investigating Committee, as those expensive parties come into the national spotlight. On the following day, Howard Hughes, millionaire plane builder and key witness in the inquiry, clashes with Sen. Owen Brewster. He accuses Brewster of having offered to call off the inquiry if he agreed to merge TWA, of which he is the major stockholder, with Pan American Airways. The Republican Senator denies the charge and as Hughes bitterly attacks the investigating committee as unfair, demonstrations by the audience throw the proceedings into turmoil.
FLOOD REPORT FROM NEBRASKA
A one-foot rainfall in Nebraska, in one day, turns the normally quiet Loup River into devastating floodwaters. Four towns west of Omaha are inundated and, though no lives are lost, loss in livestock and crops will run into the millions of dollars.
SONJA HENIE ICE SHOW - MADISON SQ. GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY
LS Sonja Henie makes entrance for the
waltz...
CU & LS Sonja Henie & partner Mike Kirby
waltzing...
LS & CU & LS Girls in mirrored dresses
skate...
Semi Spotlight shines on girls in dresses..
COLORFUL SHOW AIDS NEEDY CHILDREN
High fashion and native costumes from countries around the world are modelled by models from the United Nations or consulates in New York. Besides being colorful, it's a benefit for needy children sponsored by the Women's Guild of the U. N.
UNUSUAL FILMS OF MISSILE "MISHAPS"
When you see a missile take off, do you realize how extremely complex a vehicle it is? Your Department of Defense knows, and through its automatic camera lets you see the trial-and-error experimental testing required to develop proper missiles. The Bomarc, Matador, Navaho and Atlas are among the "birds" demonstrated.
TOWN CRIERS' CHAMPIONSHIP
Twenty-three leather-tonsilled finalists compete in an unusual contest in Hast- ings, England, the Town Criers' Championships! Everyone of them can bellow an "Oyez" with deafening authority!
NATO AMPHIBIOUS EXERCISE.
In the Mediterranean, vessels of the U. S. Sixth Fleet participate in Operation Deepwater. Along with NATO partners, they send Marines ashore in an amphibious assault conducted under conditions of nuclear warfare.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY-JFK TRIBUTE.
LS-Academy...Cadets lined up...VS-Cadets march across ground past camera...VS-Same on both sides of camera...VS-Cadets in formation... VS-Ceremony...CU-Cadet reads orders...CU-Various cadets...VS-Cadets in formation...CU-Drummer beat drum...AA-Same...CU-Drummer beats big drum-USAF Marking...VS-Cadets marching... VS-Cadets inspection...VS-Cadets in formation ...VS-Cadets marching... When JFK was assassinated in Nov. 1963 the USAF held on outdoor formation in tribute. This material can be used for any USAF Cadet story...
AT THE FRONT IN BATTLE FOR MADRID
WATER SKI CHAMPION!
In a ski-whizzing display of aquatic skill on the bouncing buckboard at Cypress Gardens, Florida, Willa Worthington shows the form that won her the national water ski title, three years in a row.
