HEAT WARNING: WALK, DON'T RUN
40 athletes take a fifty kilometer walk in sizzling temperature and our West German correspondent joins them, for there's hardly an event on the sports Calendar that surpasses this one for picture potential. Bodily exhausted, but with admirable mental alertness, the victor completes his four and a half hour stroll.
SPY IN THE SKY
Atlas is used to send America's heaviest payload into orbit. Launched from Cape Canaveral, 5,000-pound satellite contains 3,000 pounds of instruments, including infrared sensors that can detect heat of missile launchings and speed warning of surprise attack.
COMPLETE FILMS OF THE HINDENBURG DISASTER
One of the greatest catastrophes in aviation history pictured from start to finish in the most dramatic newsreel subject ever brought to the screen. (Pre-released to all points)
METROTONE SHOWS HOW TO KEEP COOL
Out in the open spaces of the Rockies, Denver girls find it quite easy to forget the heat. SUB. 1—"Warming up" in the old swimmin' hole.
WINTER SPORTS IN SUMMER
Ski enthusiasts in Germany enjoy zig-zagging down sand-covered slopes, doffing their togs for a plunge in the pool and then ice-skating in their bathing suits.
GRID HEADLINES - FIRST BOWL GAME PLAYED INDOORS
In Atlantic City's huge Convention Hall the temperature is a pleasing sixty degrees when Utah opposes West Virginia in the Liberty Bowl game. The playing surface is grass over concrete and wind is obviously not a factor. The Utes enjoy the indoors, crushing West Virginia 32-6.
HEAT WAVE SENDS MILLION TO BEACH
Biggest crowd ever seeks relief at Coney Island as all New York flees torrid city.
NEW WAY FOUND TO ESCAPE HEAT!
Dixie belles ride ice cakes in Atlanta and discover a sure way to keep cool - or partly cool, anyhow. It's a case of Georgia peaches on ice.
HEAT TESTS FOR SUPERSONIC PILOTS!
A human guinea pig sweats it out, literally, in U. S. Air Force tests at West- wood, Cal. Heat chamber experiments, with temperatures up to 240 degrees.
FIRE SUIT DEFIES 1200 DEGREE HEAT!
A newly designed suit of aluminum fabric proves its worth. Worn by a demonstrator in a blistering hot industrial furnace it fully protects the wearer in a blazing test!
HEAT IS ON NEXT WINTER'S SNOWFALL
New York City prepares for the winter ahead. A new snow removal machine is tested. The new equipment picks up the snow from the street and dumps it into a truck with a furnace which melts the snow down into water that is dumped into sewers or in mild temperatures into gutters.
HEAT WAVE IN JAPAN
An unyielding heat wave in Japan all but empties Tokyo as city dwellers seek relief at the beaches. The normally quiet resort of Kamakura resembles an ant hill as sweltering thousands take to the surf.
HEAT PARADE
Just to prove the spirit of adventure is still alive, a young Frenchman takes a 100-mile walk across Death Valley, the hottest spot on earth. It takes seven blistering days to do it...but he succeeds, walking across ground that's 190°, while the air is a mere 115°.
NEW HEAT FOR HOT RODS
Two young Californians put new heat in the hot rod -- a pulse-jet engine mounted on the roof!
DEAD HEAT, FOUL IN WOOD MEMORIAL
At New York's Aqueduct track the Wood Memorial is a big test for three-year-olds before the Kentucky Derby. The duel all the way around is between Sunrise County with Willie Shoemaker up and Admiral's Voyage, ridden by Braulio Baeza. They finish in a dead heat, but Baeza claims a foul against Shoemaker for bumping. It's allowed, and Admiral's Voyage is named the winner of the $60,000 first money.
"TURN ON THE HEAT" AND LOOK AT THIS!
Sub-zero weather brings out Brownies for frolic and an icy swim at Manchester, N.H. A 60-foot dive into a hole in the ice.
KAISER TELLS ABOUT "HEAT OF HELL" AT SENATE INQUIRY!
Industrialist provides a touch of humor at hearing before special committee, headed by Senator Homer Ferguson, investigating background of Howard Hughes' giant airplane contracts.
ICE SHOW BEATS THE HEAT!
A preview of the Ice-Capades of 1950 takes Atlantic City's mind off the thermometer! A thrilling spectacle of ice with glamour whirling grace - and some refrigerated rowdies, for laughs!
ARMY TESTS HEAT IN THE DESERT
With the thermometer at 120 degrees, the Army carries out a series of tests in the Arizona desert. Their purpose is to measure the ability of men, clothing and equipment to stand torrid temperatures.
EUROPE SIZZLES IN HEAT WAVE
While Europe is sweltering under a record heat wave, the weather seems even hotter to West Berliners. The reason is that, unable to cross city limits into the Red Zone of Germany, they must crowd into the few West Berlin swimming holes.
FOOTBALL IN A HEAT WAVE
No matter the soaring temperature, the gridiron action is off to an early start again. At Chicago, the College All-Stars and the professional champion Baltimore Colts meet for charity. The Colts win, 29-0.
SPACE MAN FACES HEAT AT 500 DEGREES
Researchers at Wright Air Development Center, Ohio, test human endurance at temperatures approximating that of re-entry into earth's atmosphere. Dressed in pressure suit, subject perspires profusely at end of experiment.
IT'S NOT THE HEAT - IT'S FOOTBALL
San Francisco - Don't put away the suntan lotion yet, but football's back. The new American Football League debuts in mid-summer as Dallas swamps Oakland twenty to thirteen in some razzle-dazzle play.
COOL,SLIDE BEATS THE HEAT
The Slip 'n' Slide is this year's contribution to mass zaniness by the people who introduced the hula-hoop a couple of seasons ago. On a long strip of greased and watered plastic man, woman and moppets cavort with the vim, if not the grace, of a herd of seals.
NEW YORK MILLIONS FLEE THE HEAT
Metrotone takes you up in the air for a look at the city's masses enjoying their holiday.
NEW FASHIONS IN FURS ARRIVE WITH HEAT WAVE!
Latest in Winter modes at New York's Ritz-Carlton feature precious pelts of chinchilla, ermine, mink and broadtail at prices that will keep you cool enough.
JOIN THE NAVY -- FORGET THE HEAT!
Units of the U. S. Navy are seen on a voyage through Arctic ice fields where rugged weather tests both men and ships. It's a spectacular journey and the furthest thing from a heat-wave!
JAPAN BLAMES IT ON THE HEAT.
Japanese adhere to some ancient, and rather original customs to beat the heat. Not among the least extraordinary are eating roasted eels, buying tinkling bells and attending a horror show.
SOLAR POWER PROJECTS IN JAPAN
In Tokyo, international scientists inspect the latest in solar heat engines. Also attracting their interest is an umbrella which is actually a solar cooker. For shelter from rain and cooking it is equally effective, facing the sun's rays with reflector coated with an aluminum substance.
SURPRISE FOR GAMBLERS!
The heat's on in Miami for gambling! A Sheriff's raid on the casinos turns up thousands of dollars worth of gaming equipment. Roulette wheels, dice tables - all go into the pot! But, it's a melting pot!
TAKE A COOL RIDE WITH METROTONE
Want to forget the heat? Come along with us on a trip through the fjords of Norway. SUB. 1—And next, up into the snow country.
ACTION HIGHLIGHTS FROM EMPIRE GAMES
Australia has a heat wave, while the athletes themselves burn up the track in the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Australia and England lead the 35 competing countries in collecting gold medals. Nine world records are set in the swimming competition.
OKLAHOMA WINS IN 105-DEGREE WEATHER
The California heat wave is felt by fans and players alike, in the Memorial Coliseum at Los Angeles. Southern California, last year's National Collegiate champions, finds the Oklahoma Sooners apparently like the 100-plus degree weather. The visitors get two touch-downs and a field goal to beat U.S.C., 17-12.
WEATHER IN THE HEADLINES
The Great Heat Wave of 1966 has all of the country east of the Rockies sweltering. To help the theatre air-conditioning cool the viewers, News of the Day recalls scenes of blizzards and snowdrifts that seemed so hard to bear last winter.
BRITISH SPEEDBOAT HITS RECORD PACE
Kaye Don beats Gar Wood in opening heat of races at Detroit, Mich, going 110 miles an hour.
PENTHOUSE CAR FOR RAILROADS!
The Vista Dome built of laminated heat and ray resistant glass, first railway double-decker, gives American travelers view of world's finest scenery.
BUNION DERBY!
Larry Hightower starts round-the-world trek shoving wheelbarrow and first leg is through Cascade Mountains of Washington State. It's probably the heat.
VILLAGERS HAIL PONTIFF ON VACATION!
Pope Pius XII escapes Rome's record heat at Castel Gandolfo. On his third vacation since war's end, His Holiness is greeted by swarms of villagers and children.
1--President Truman supplies some of the heat. Whistle-stopping back from the West Coast, he speaks at Colorado Springs where he denounces General Eisenhower as a Presidential candidate.
LIGHTER SIDE OF THE NEWS
A close-up of some light-hearted bruins in Germany who have discovered a sure way to beat the summer heat. The bears are still on the young side - and haven't learned yet that there's no way to fight back against a stream of water.
STEAM WELLS HARNESSED IN CALIFORNIA
An American project in the field of thermal power is under way in the Big Geysers area, 85 miles north of San Francisco. Here steam wells are test tubes for pioneer- ing U. S. attempts to tap the heat and power that dwell within the earth for produc- ing electricity.
KEEPING COOL IN NORTHWEST
Nisqually Glacier on slope of Mount Rainer provides excellent haven from heat for all who are unafraid. (EXCEPT: Chicago and Boston)
THE SILLY SEASON IN GAY PAREE
Riding the crazy bikes is popular way to forget the heat wave for old and young.
BRIDGE MELTS AS CANADIAN FIRE SWEEPS PULP PLANT!
Spectacular night blaze rages 36 hours generating terrific heat that warps famous Alexander span near Ottawa; one of the worst fires in Dominion history.
WORLD RECORD FOR TROTTERS IN HAMBLETONIAN
Harlan Dean wins the 36th Hambletonian in Illinois, in two straight heats. The trotter sets a new record in the first heat, and the combined times of both heats is also a new record.
SUMMER RODEO SEASON OPENS
There are wild and wooly thrills at the Livermore, Calif., wild west show.
RADAR SECRETS REVEALED
A heretofore closely guarded secret of our coastal air defense is revealed when the Air Force permits filming of a giant Radar Dome that is nerve center for a vast network of plane spotters!
BASEBALL'S BATTLE OF BOOMING BATS.
Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees and Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox are making diamond history with their battle for leadership in batting. As the teams engage in a thrilling series at Fenway Park, Boston, Mickey is batting around the .380 mark and Ted up around .390 - and the fans thrill to the rivalry.
SPACECRAFT BUILT FOR TWO
The first trial flight of an unmanned Gemini spacecraft is successfully launched at Cape Kennedy. The capsule, which eventually will carry two men into orbit and then to the moon blasts off but one second off schedule, and six minutes is circling the earth.
NEW COMMANDO TECHNIQUE!
Firing rope and grappling irons to the top of a 200-foot cliff, British Commandos demonstrate their spider's speed in scaling rugged coastlines - the newest rope trick by specialists in beachhead missions.
'VENETIAN WAY' WINS KENTUCKY DERBY
The eighty-sixth running of the famed turf classic at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. As many expected, the pace setter is Bally Ache. Favored Tompion makes a game bid, but can't take the lead. In the backstretch Venetian Way makes his bid, then on the turn for home zooms past Bally Ache into the lead. Venetian Way wins the Run for the Roses by three and a half lengths.
PETAIN BURIED ON LONELY ISLE!
Henri-Philippe Petain is lowered to his grave on a tiny island off the coast of France. The hero of Verdun, who capitulated to the Germans in World War II, is honored in death by thousands of his old comrades.
INDIANS FISHING
VS-Indians fishing from rowboats...VS-Indians cary fish onto shore...VS-Indians pulling in fish lines...MCU-Sign "No Trespassing" ...VS-Indians...VS-Indians perform tribal dance at river-bank...CU's-Old Indians sitting on rock w/rifle-protecting Indian fishermen ....CU'S-Indian faces.
METROTONE SNAPSHOTS
Medieval scenes re-enacted at Tarpon Springs, Florida as Greek colony celebrates.
GOLD CUP CLASSIC!
On Seattle's Lake Washington the nation's fastest speedboats make the spray fly in the 90 mile water marathon. The Slo-Motion V wins, setting a new mark for the event of nearly 100 miles per hour!
VOLUNTEER PROJECT SENDS BOOKS OVERSEAS
More than 100,000 books of all kinds are annually left in the Dead letter Department of the Post Office. In Washington, 140 wives of U.S.I.A. officials sort and pack the volumes for shipment overseas. The News of the Day camera finds the women busy at their voluntary task, which occupies their spare time Monday through Friday.
Early winter storms on the North Sea run a freighter ashore off the coast of Holland. Life boats are lowered, and with the help of experienced Dutchmen the Chinese crew is safely brought to land.
MUSSOLINI TURNS FROM WAR TO START NEW CITY
With Abyssinian victory assured, Il Duce drives tractor plow to mark site of Aprilia on reclaimed Pontine marshes.
CELTICS TAKE SIXTH STRAIGHT N.B.A. TITLE
Sports history is made in Boston, where the amazing Celtics gain their sixth consecutive basketball championship by beating the San Francisco Warriors, 105-99. It gives Boston the series 4 games to 1. No team in professional sports has ever won six straight playoff titles before.
EUROPE'S ATHLETES INVADE U.S. FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
Star performers welcomed in New York on way to Los Angeles meet. SUB. 1 – Italian, Finnish and Hungarian delegation welcomed by Mayor Walker. SUB. 2 – Japan's star swimmers wind-up training in great display of aquatic progress.
BEAUTIES ON PARADE!
Glamour galore in Atlantic City's 1953 Miss America beauty contest - a parade of pulchritude that dazzles 150,000 spectators lining the famous boardwalk!
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.
SEC. OF STATE MARSHALL TALKS TO BOYS
Attending American Legion Forum - Wash. D.C. LS Boys on steps of Senate... MS Boys walk up steps.. LS Marshall & Boys... CU Same... Semi Marshall Talk.. In cuts: Sen. George W. Malone of Nevada greeting boys on steps of senate...
THE BROWN BOMBER ON TOUR OVERSEAS!
Sergeant Joe Louis gets a rousing reception at a bomber base in Britain.
ATOM BOMB DRAMA
Rendezvous with death begins as ships gather for Operation Crossroads..At Bikini Atoll in the Far Pacific, where 100 overage warships will be atom-bombed, natives are evacuated as Army Engineers prepare ground for momentous experiment of Atom bombs versus sea power..Aboard the Shangri-la radio controlled planes are tested in dress rehearsal to play their role in the test to come. The phantom fleet assembles to play the death scene, as Civilization stands at the crossroads of the Atomic Age, as the world awaits the answer to whether Bikini marks the terrible beginning of the end, or the dawn of a great new era.....Air Views of Bikini Island - Semi same - LS boat arrives men in foreground - Native children swimming - Men climbing down nets - and landing on ships. Dog mascot lowered - CU same - Men going ashore- Map at 6ft. dissolves to CU of Bikini IS. then at 10ft ships fade in - LS camera towers being built on Bikini Is. CU welding - CU erection tower-CU men looking up at tower - Man climbs up tower - Bowerick Island - flag - Naval officer shakes hands with native children - Native women & little child - At San Francisco LS of USS Saratoga leaving - Crowd waves - Saratoga under Golden Gate Bridge - LS of Shangri-la in the Panama Canal - Semi of Shangri-la in Canal-CU Superstructure and Radar - LS Planes on deck - plane warming up on deck - Plane taxiing - CU Gen. Kepner & Admiral - CU same - LS of Mother plane catapulted off deck - semi-plane (drone) catapulted off deck - sailors look on - Men jump off pilotless plane (Drone) - Officers working radio controls on deck - Drone plane takes off - Drone in air, mother plane in rear - Drone plane & Mother plane in air past carrier - LS of the planning board around table - CU Adm. Blandy - CU & semi Adm. Blandy talking on operations - Air views of ships arriving at Pearl Harbor - Semi same past palm trees - Semi USS Nevada - LS target ships - semi same - CU same - LS jeep being tied to dock of ship - semi bulldozer being tied to deck - CU same - LS B-29 Enola Gay arrives at Hawaii - Semi of pilot & plane - CU pilot - Air views of ships in harbor - CU of flying over USS Nevada - LS ships in sunset - Montage of animated ships at Bikini Island..............
STABBING INCIDENT IN TOKYO
Edwin O. Reischauer, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, is stabbed by a deranged youth in the grounds of the Embassy in Tokyo. Quick action by Embassy aide John Ferchak in overpowering the assailant and applying tourniquets to the thigh wound waves the lift of the extremely popular envoy, who receives transfusions and treatment at the Toronomon Hospital.
DE GAULLE LEAVING FRANCE
VS-De Gaulle arrives at airport honor guard...VS-De Gaulle reviews troops...VS-De Gaulle hides farewell to diplomats at airport enters plane...VS-Plane slow taxiing at field...LS-Honor Guard at field...LS-Plane take-off-flying low elevation.
TRUMAN IN BERLIN AT BIG 3 PARLEY!
The transport that flew Franklin Roosevelt to other historic conferences brings the new President to the German capital for his first meeting with Winston Churchill and Generalissimo Stalin. The man from Missouri tours bomb battered Berlin, then journeys to Potsdam to open the world-shaping conference with the great leaders of the Soviet Union and the British Empire. With Generals Eisenhower and Patton at his side, President Truman addresses American occupation troops, outlining U.S. aims in the war and in the peace.
AMERICAN LEGION 39 YEARS AFTER.
On the boardwalk at Atlantic City, New Jersey, the American Legion puts its best foot forward. Before their National Commander and the eyes of the nation, they march, in one of the big parades which make an eyefilling hit. The states of the Union point with pride to their own.
ARMY UPSETS MICHIGAN!
The Cadets from West Point invade Ann Arbor to put an end to the Wolverines' 3-year, 25-game winning streak. In a bitterly fought battle, Army pounds out a thoroughly convincing victory over the team which had been rated No. 1 in the nation.
PAKISTAN OFFICER AT FORT SLOCUM
Int. Various scenes of Pakistan officers: seated at desk studying. Ext Army officer greets 3 Pakistani officers shows them around camp: CU Pakistan 15th Rodman Gun: Officers chatting: Various signs of P.H. & Barracks: Various signs of Fort Slocum, New York:
ANNAPOLIS
--It's "Anchors Aweigh" for Navy football too. First practice under a new coach, George Sauer.
ARMY-NAVY CLASSIC! COMPLETE FILMS OF GRIDIRON THRILLER
News of the Day's new multiple-action giant zoom lens takes you right into the fray at the most colorful and spectacular of all football clashes in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, as Rip Rowan, West Point's hard-driving fullback, leads a crushing Army attack by ground and air against the Midshipmen. A new closeup slant on pigskin thrills, as Army wins 21-0.
TEN YEARS A QUEEN
Britain's new Elizabethan reign marks its first decade, with a young Queen carrying on the tradition which has survived centuries of change and world upheaval. News of the Day looks back on the coronation ceremony, in June of 1953. At age 27, Elizabeth - once known affectionately as "Lilibet" - had her sovereignty established in ceremonious pageantry witnessed by Britain's peers, Commonwealth dignitaries and representatives of almost all nations of the world.
WASHINGTON SPOTLIGHT!
Republican Congressional leaders, headed by Senator Vandenberg, president pro-tem of the Senate, and Speaker Martin of the House, call on President Truman for a friendly confab that bodes good for the nation.
WHAT'S WITH TITO?
Marshal Tito, Yugoslavia's dictator premier, blasted - virtually read out of the Communist Party by the Cominform, an 8-nation committee of Red stooges. Rumors pour over the Iron Curtain. But a skeptical world wonders - is Tito really a Commie traitor? Or is this merely another super-duper Kremlin maneuver?
DRAMATIC DISASTER REPORT
CHILE:
Terrifying series of earthquakes leave close to 5.000 dead or missing. For the survivors, safe drinking water becomes precious commodity, as disease, hunger and cold become deadly enemies. U.S. aids in emergency relief operation with food, clothing and medicine - including 2 Army field hospitals.
THE VISITS OF THE SOVIET DELEGATION
The people of Hanoi joyously greeted the arrival of the Soviet delegation, headed by A. Kosygin to the capital of the Democratic Republic Vietnam. VS-Huge crowds cheering in Hanoi...CU's-of faces...VS-Huge crowds cheering...CU-Kosygin at mike-w/ Ho Chi Minh at his side...Crowds...VS-Kosygin w/Mao Tse Tung & aides seated in conference room in Peking-China...CU-Kosygin...CU-Mao Tse Tung...MS-Pan of Conf. room...MCU-Kosygin signs treaty in North Korea... MCU-Kim-Ir-Sen-No. Korea signs treaty...MCU-Kosygin & Kim-Ir-Sen shake hands...
OIL LIFT TO ZAMBIA-AFRICA
Barrels...CU-Same...LS-Same...Celedoria plane arrives...CU-Same...LS-Canadian plane...CU-Canadian insignia on plane...Unloading from plane...CU-Same...Pan Am plane arrives...SS-Same with barrels in picture...TWA plane arrives...Same...Unloading from plane...Same...Barrels coming off plane on conveyor belt...Another conveyor unloading on truck...Closer barrels on conveyor truck...Conveyor truck pulls over to line of barrels...Conveyor wagon with a load of barrel destined for truck...Unloading barrels into truck...Truck pulls away...Truck arrives at railroad track...CU-Unloading barrels...SS-Barrels lined up...Unloading barrels into rail cars...Same...Same...Same...Train moving...Man gets into Shell Oil truck...Truck pulls away...HS-Oil barrels lined up...LS-Oil refinery
WORLD MOURNS ROOSEVELT!
A film biography of the great President who, for 12 of the most momentous years of world history, led our nation out of the depression in peace, and to victory in war. An epic of the inspiring leadership and courage of one of the world's greatest figures who sacrificed his life that men everywhere might be free ... a drama from the pages of history, as our beloved Commander-in-Chief passes, almost in the hour of victory he gave so much to bring about.
PAAVO NURMI IN GERMANY
Paavo Nurmi, that streak of Finnish lightning, becomes a popular hero in Germany.
"A TIME OF TESTING" THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
President Johnson comes before newly-convened 90th Congress to outline his porposals for the legislators and the American people. He calls for an increase in Social Security benefits, says he intends to press the campaign against poverty, and says the draft system must be modernized. There are other proposals...among them the President's headline-making request for a 6 percent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes for two years. LS-Nite-Capitol...SS-Capitol...Voice sound-MS-Capitol...Voice sound-CU-Title capitol...Applause-MS-Title...CU-Shakes hands w/ Humphrey...LS-LBJ and crowd applauding and sit down...MS-LBJ and Congress...SS-LBJ and Congress...LS-LBJ and Congress...SOF SS-LBJ talk.
NATO WARSHIPS IN MANEUVERS!
In stormy weather, NATO tests her sea defenses. A battleship is refuelled in mid-ocean, and carrier-based planes take off for the attack as high seas pound the warships.
OLD-TIME FIDDLERS HAVE A JAMBOREE
Dixie music-makers bring back the days before jazz was all the rage at Star, N. Carolina.
NANCY GREENE
In an international meet at Magog, Quebec, Nancy Greene of Canada takes her seventh major skiing title since the turn of the year.
SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
MS-Pool-male swimmers dive into water... VS-Swimmers back and forth across pool- freestyle swim...Crowd...MS-Reverse Angle- women dive into water...VS-Females swimming -Butterfly stroke...Crowd...MS-Tamara Sosnova nears finish line...CU-Miss Sosnova...MCU- Females dive into pool...VS-Female freestyle race...Crowds...MCU-Tamara Sosnova in training room.
MAUFLOWER HOTEL HOSTS COMMITTEE OF E.C.D.
Sound on-of Presidents address before members of Comittee on Economic Development...Cutaways of Pres. entering and leaving and CUs-of businessmen listening and clapping
NARROW ESCAPES IN THE 500-MILE AUTO CLASSIC
In a race marked by spectacular crack-ups, Chicago's Pat Flaherty wins the 500 Mile Indianapolis Speedway race! The accidents come fast and furious, but Lady Luck rides with the drivers and none is seriously injured. Flaherty, leading the way from the 120th lap takes the classic with an average speed of 128 miles per hour!
NORWAY HAILS BRITAIN'S QUEEN
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh are greeted by King Haakon and members of the Norwegian royal family as they begin a three-day state visit. The Queen honors the memory of Norwegian Resistance fighters during this first visit to the continent since assuming the throne.
TIMES SQUARE REACTION TO KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
Times Square goes dark, as Broadway is saddened by Kennedy's death. Movie house marquee's dark-LS-Times Sq. dark... Signs-Tonite's perf. cancelled due to Kennedy's death-Times Square...More signs of cancellation- Times Sq...LS-MS-Lites off...MS-US Flag at half-mast...People buy papers...People read JFK headlines...More of same...Times Square traffic...Cinerama Theatre...Another theatre... Dusk traffic...Pan-traffic & crowds...convertible car in street-people around listening to radio- CU-Radio...CU-of faces...Times Sq. crowd listening to transistor...CU-Face...CU-N.Y. Post, JFK Shot, paper being grabbed up-3 girls crying... LS-People reading paper...Journal paper being grabbed from stand...People reading-Flag at half-mast-Girl by billboard crying-Flag at Astor Hotel at half-mast...woman crying-people reading paper...
ARMY-NAVY PIGSKIN PRACTICE!
Coach Blake gets things under way on football front at West Point, while the Middies warm up at Annapolis.
"THE INN AT THE CROSS ROADS"
The Municipal Theatre presents "The Inn At the Cross Roads" under the direction of W. Siegfried and written by H. Lovinescu.
SENSATIONAL FINALE IN THE BATTLE OF WASHINGTON--WASH., D.C.
Surprise climax at the Senate Committee investigating Howard Hughes war contracts suddenly decides to call off further hearings until November after the plane builder has defied Senator Ferguson's demand that he produce missing John Meyer his party throwing public relations man..With Senator Brewster absent from final session Hughes winds up the case with a blistering attack on his chief antagonist in the hearing........
L.S. Hughes talking to committee--C.U. same--L.S. same--M.S. wipe Meyer--C.U. Meyer--L.S. wipe Hughes seated at hearing--C.U. Hughes--L.S.Hughes talking--S.S. Ferguson signs a warrant for Meyer--C.U. same--L.S. gives same--Air Shot big flying boat plane--C.U. motors--L.S. pan of plane--M.S. wipe Brewster--C.U. Brewster--L.S. wipe Hughes seated trial ends--C.U. Hughes walking--L.S. Hughes with the Press--M.S. same--C.U. Hughes talking..
POPE INVESTS 32 CARDINALS!
SATURATION BOMBING OF CASSINO!
Nazi stronghold blocking road to Rome is target of war's record bombardment. Some six hundred planes unload thirty-five hundred tons of bombs, a ton for every German defending the town. Then Allied big guns take up the barrage where planes leave off. But pulverizing bombs and shells fail to end Nazi resistance and furious fighting flares anew amid the debris of the town. Cassino proves the Germans are far from beaten.
UNRRA SUPPLIES!
At Marseilles, material earmarked for Balkans, is stored for trans-shipment to nations that oppose U.S. at Paris Peace Conference, and in United Nations.
QUWATLI TAKES OVER SYRIAN PRESIDENCY
H.E. Shukri Quwatli was sworn in as President of Syria, after he was deposed from Presidency by an Army coup d'etat..Arrival of Shukri Quwatli to the Presidential Palace..Hashem Atassi and Quwatli arrive at Parliment House..they were recieved by Speaker Nazem Kudsi, Premier Sabri Assali..Shukri Quwatli giving the swear..Same recieving the document of transfer of power by Hasem Atassi and Shukri Quwatli..
SMALL FRY COWBOYS!
The Junior Rodeo at Salinas, Calif., brings out an array of modern youngsters who know how to ride their range poines. They ride rough on the bouncing baby beeves, too!
THE RED ARROWS
The planes of one of the world's top aerobatic teams-the Red Arrows prepare to show off their repertoire of aerial gymnastics. LS-Jets in flight-doing thru various maneuvers...VS-Jets in various maneuvers.
DE GAULLE VISITS ADENAUER
French President Charles de Gaulle comes to Bonn for talks with West German Chancellor Adenauer. They discuss the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting, as well as NATO and the European Common market.
