1890-19591950s MISC.
MISC. NEWSREELS AND STORIES INCLUDING VIEWS OF INNER AND OUTER SPACE UNDER MICROSCOPE AND TELESCOPE (through the camera's eye - variety of living microbes of all shapes, sizes. grotesque microscopic animals moving, swimming around in liquid under slide. various cu scenes scientist peering through microscope. film contrasts this microscopic world with world of outer space. sophisticated equipment used in both mediums. various scenes of huge telescope and related equipment at observatory. science; astrology; astronomy) AUSTRALIAN MARSHLAND WITH ITS MANY BIRDS; MINIATURE CRAFTS MADE BY HAND UNDER MAGNIFYING GLASS; ENTERTAINERS USE SHADOWS REFLECTED BY HAND MOVEMENTS ON SCREEN, PUT ON SHOW; NAVY SHIP AMID THE ICEBERGS; FILM AND PHOTOS OF THEOFORE ROOSEVELT AS YOUNG MAN, AS PRESIDENT, AND AFTER. GOOD SHOTS OF HIS HOME IN SAGAMORE HILLS; DISASTEROUS MISSILE MISHAPS; THE DELAWARE RIVER; BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK; DEATH OF FRENCH MARSHAL FOCH OF WWI FAME; FIRST VOYAGE OVER NORTH POLE BY BYRD AND BENNETT AN OTHER STORIES.
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CU MONTAGE VARIOUS MICROSCOPIC LIVING MICROBES OF ALL SORTS OF GROTESQUE SHAPES AND SIZES, SWIMMING AROUND IN SEA OF TINY LIVING MICROBES AS SEEN UNDER MICROSCOPE IN LABORATORY.
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| 00:04:14 174.9 |
CU FOUR LENSES OF DIFFERENT SIZES, POWERS, ON MICROSCOPE FACING CAMERA. ECU MALE SCIENTIST PEERING THROUGH MICROSCOPE. CU PAN FROM MICROSCOPE ON TABLE WITH JARS, VIALS, TEST TUBES, TO SHELVES FILL;ED WITH DOZENS OF CHEMICALS, TO CU VIEW OF SCIENTIST AT HIS MICROSCOPE
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| 00:04:55 216.9 |
TITLE: "IN ASTONISHING CONTRAST WHERE OUR EARTH IS A SPECK AMONG MILLIONS OF STARS".
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| 00:05:12 232.9 |
HUGE OBSERVATORY SITING ON HILLTOP IN CALIFORNIA.
SIGN ABOVE ENTRANCE TO OBSERVATORY: "LICK OBSERVATORY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. CU PLAQUE: "HERE LIES THE BODY OF JAMES LICK |
| 00:05:30 250.9 |
SEVERAL HIGH ANGLE OBSERVATORY SITTING MOUNTAIN TOP
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| 00:05:48 268.9 |
PAN HUGE TELESCOPE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM WITH SCIENTIST (?) DWARFED BY ITS SIZE, PEERING THROUGH AS HE TURNS ADJUSTMENT WHEELS, WHICH IN TURN MAKES OTHER WHEELS TURN ON THE HUGE TELESCOPE. CU HUGE GEARS ON TELESCOPE.
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| 00:06:27 307.9 |
MONTAGE GIANT MECHANISM OF TELESCOPE MOVING INTO POSITION AS IT FACES THE SUN.
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| 00:07:07 347.9 |
TWO SMALL OBSERVATORIES ATOP HIGH TOWERS. MAN INSIDE THE TOWER WORKS AT CONTROLS.
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| 00:08:00 400.9 |
DOME AT TOP OF OBSERVATORY ROTATES INTO POSITION.
CAMERA OBSERVATION EQUIPMENT SEEN THROUGH OPENING AT TOP OF DOME. VIEW FROM INSIDE AS UNIT MOVES INTO POSITION FACING SKYWARD. CU SAME. |
| 00:09:25 485.9 |
SCHOOL CHILDREN ENTERING OBSERVATORY. CHILDREN LOOKING UP AT GIANT TELESCOPE.
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| 00:09:49 509.9 |
MONTAGE SPACE WITH ALL ITS STARS, GALAXIES, MILKY WAY, PLANETS AND OTHER SPACE PHENOMENA AS SEEN BY TELESCOPE.
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| 00:11:54 635.9 |
"AUSTRALIA'S BIRDLAND". A RARELY VISITED MARSH OF GREAT BEAUTY. VARIOUS SCENES OF MARSHLAND, A HAVEN FOR THOUSANDS OF SPECIES OF EXOTIC BIRDS, SNAKES, LIZARDS. WILDLIFE; SWAMP; AVIARY
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| 00:11:57 638.9 |
VIEW OF MARSH THICK WITH TREES GROWING OUT OF SWAMP.
TWO MEN RIDE THROUGH SWAMP ON HORSEBACK. |
| 00:12:12 652.9 |
LONG NECK GOOSE (?) FLYING LOW OVER MARSH PASSES ACROSS CAMERA VIEW. FLOCK OF GEESE FLY OVERHEAD.
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| 00:12:25 665.9 |
HORSEMAN, BACK TO CAMERA RIDES IN SWAMP, CAUSES FLOCKS OF GEESE, TERNS (?) TO TAKE OFF FROM WATER.
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| 00:12:27 667.9 |
PAN LONG BEAKED HERON=TYPE BIRDS PERCHED ON BRANCHES OF SWAMP TREE. MLS HUNDREDS OF THE LARGE BIRDS TAKE OFF FROM SWAMP, FILL THE SKY.
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| 00:13:03 703.9 |
HORSEMAN ON HORSEBACK IN WATER UP TO HORSE'S KNEES, STOPS TO INSPECT NEST. CU TWO CHICKS IN NEST.
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| 00:13:16 716.9 |
HIGH ANGLE OF HUNDREDS OF LARGE TERNS NESTING IN SEVERAL SMALL PATCHES OF FOLIAGE ON SWAMP.
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| 00:13:21 721.9 |
CU BIRD'S NEST LADEN WITH EGGS.
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| 00:13:27 727.9 |
COLORFUL LIZARD CLIMBS TREE, PROBABLY IN SEARCH OF EGGS.
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| 00:13:30 730.9 |
LARGE WATER SNAKE SLITHERS ACROSS WATER. BIRDS TAKING OFF FROM SWAMP. SKY FILLED WITH LARGE BIRDS. IBIS
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| 00:14:06 766.9 |
"THE DOOMED VILLAGE". SADDENED PEOPLE OF RUSTIC OLD TOWN IN FRANCE, BID THEIR HOMES GOODBYE. VARIOUS SCENES TOWNS PEOPLE PREPARING TO EVACUATE TOWN OF TIGNES, WHICH LIES IN VALLEY ALONGSIDE HUGE DAM.
TIGNES, FRANCE. |
| 00:14:19 779.9 |
AERIAL VIEW SHOWS TINY SNOW BOUND VILLAGE IN VALLEY SURROUNDED BY MOUNTAINS. MLS GROUP OF TOWNS PEOPLE WALK OVER QUAINT, SMALL SNOW COVERED BRIDGE OVER STREAM. CU SIGN: "TIGNES".
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| 00:14:43 803.9 |
TOWNS PEOPLE GATHER IN SNOW CLEARED STREET BY LARGE SNOW MOUND. ELDERLY VILLAGER READS NEWSPAPER OF EVENT OTHERS INCLUDING POLICEMAN DISCUSS IT.
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| 00:15:01 821.9 |
CU ELDERLY WOMAN WEARING GLASSES, SCARF, LAYS HER HEAD SADLY AGAINST WALL MAN IN LIVING CHAIR READS NEWSPAPER.
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| 00:15:14 834.9 |
PAN MOUNTAIN RANGE TO DAM OVERLOOKING THE VILLAGE BELOW. VILLAGE STANDS OMINOUSLY BELOW WALLS OF DAM, WHICH IS PROBABLE CAUSE OF THE EVACUATION.
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| 00:15:31 851.9 |
CHILDREN WATCH AS MAN COLLECTS CHURCH BELL FOR THE MOVE
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| 00:15:38 858.9 |
TOWNSMEN CARRY LARGE RELIGIOUS PAINTING OUT OF CHURCH PLACE IT AND OTHER FURNITURE ON LARGE TRUCK.
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| 00:15:48 868.9 |
LARGE CHUNK OF WALL BREAKS AWAY FROM DESTROYED HOUSE, FALLS TO FLOOR BELOW.
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| 00:15:49 869.9 |
CROSSES DOT THE SMALL SNOW COVERED VILLAGE CEMETERY.
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| 00:16:01 881.9 |
SMALL TRUCKS BEGIN TO FILE OUT OF VILLAGE ON ROAD.
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| 00:16:11 891.9 |
WORKER PULLS ON CHAIN TO OPEN FLOODGATES OF DAM.
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| 00:16:31 911.9 |
SIGN FLOATS DOWN RIVER WHICH NOW COVERS THE VILLAGE
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| 00:16:42 922.9 |
"MARVELOUS MINIATURES". VARIOUS SCENES OF ARTISAN IN SPAIN BUILDING MINIATURE MUSIC BOXES, FIGURES, CARRIAGES, SAIL BOATS, FURNITURE. DISPLAYING THEM IN GALLERY. ODDITY; INDUSTRY.
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| 00:16:47 927.9 |
MAN SITS AT SMALL TABLE BY FIREPLACE, USES MAGNIFYING GLASS, TWEEZERS, SMALL TOOLS TO BUILDS MINIATURE MUSIC BOXES AND OTHER ARTIFACTS.
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| 00:17:24 964.9 |
TWO WOMEN AT GALLERY USE MAGNIFYING GLASS TO VIEW ARTISAN'S HANDIWORK. CU MINIATURE PIRATE SHIP, ROYAL CARRIAGE, ENCLOSED IN GLASS ON MUSIC BOX.
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| 00:17:48 988.9 |
CU CHECKERBOARD ALONGSIDE RULLER IS LESS THAN ONE EIGHTH INCH SQUARE.
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| 00:17:55 995.9 |
CU TINY MATCH BOX NO MORE THAN ONE INCH LONG IS OPENED, REVEALS FIVE SMALL ROOMS OF FURNITURE
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| 00:18:26 1026.9 |
"THE SHADOW THEATER". TWO MEN AND WOMAN ENTERTAIN BY USING THEIR TALENTED HANDS, FINGERS TO CAST SHADOWS ON MOVIE SCREEN WITH EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS.
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| 00:18:40 1040.9 |
MAN MANIPULATES HIS FINGERS, USES HIS SPEAKS AS HE PROJECTS SHADOW OF DOGS FACE, LENDING IT A VOICE.
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| 00:18:48 1048.9 |
SHADOW OF WOMAN FACING A MINIATURE "MAN" WITH HAT, CANE LITTLE MAN KNEELS ON HER HAND, KISSES WOMAN ON LIPS.
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| 00:19:02 1062.9 |
TWO BULL FIGHTER FOLLOWED BY MAN PULLING UNCOOPERATIVE DONKEY. IN FRONT OF BACKGROUND AUDIENCE (DRAWING OF PEOPLE WATCHING EVENT) IN BKGD
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| 00:19:19 1079.9 |
CU BULL FIGHTER FIGHTING A BULL (SHADOWS MADE WITH FINGERS)WITH AUDIENCE WATCHING IN BKGD. BULL FIGHTER THRUSTS SWORD WHICH BENDS, BULL LAUGHS.
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| 00:20:29 1149.9 |
"VOYAGE OF THE EAST WIND". VARIOUS SCENES NAVAL VESSELS SAILING AMID HUGE ICEBERGS. SOME WITH STRANGE SHAPES, SLABS OF ICE FLOATING IN SEA. VARIOUS SCENES HELICOPTER LANDING ON SLAB OF ICE, FLYING OVER HUGE TOWERING ICE MOUNTAINS, CLIFFS AT TOP OF WORLD. AERIAL VIEW MILES AND MILES OF FORBIDDING TERRAIN OF ICE AND CREVASSES. SAILOR ON BOARD WATCHES AS SHIP CUTS THROUGH THE ICE FORMATIONS. aNTARCTICA, EXPLORATION; WEATHER.
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| 00:23:14 1314.9 |
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT". VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS, FILM CLIPS, DEPICTING THE LIFE OF OUR 26TH PRESIDENT TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND HIS INTERESTING LIFE AND TIMES.
PERSONALITIES; POLITICS |
| 00:23:21 1321.9 |
CU U.S. POSTAGE STAMP WITH HOME OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT AT SAGAMORE HILLS, OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK.
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| 00:23:24 1324.9 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS VIEWS THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ACTUAL HOUSE, ESTATE, AT SAGAMORE HILLS
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| 00:23:39 1339.9 |
DRAWING OF HOME WHERE ROOSEVELT WAS BORN. CU DRAWING OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT AS A BOY.
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| 00:23:48 1348.9 |
MONTAGE CU PHOTO OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT AS DASHING YOUNG MAN (MOUSTACHE). PHOTO OF TR WITH COONSKIN HAT, PIONEER OUTFIT, SEATED ON LOG WITH RIFLE AND OTHER PHOTOS IN VARIETY OF UNIFORMS ON HORSEBACK AS ROUGH RIDER, AND OTHERS AS POLITICIAN MAKING DRAMATIC SPEECHES.
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| 00:24:37 1397.9 |
CU FILM OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT ON PLATFORM MAKING SPEECH TO HUGE CROWD
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| 00:24:43 1403.9 |
ROOSEVELT WALKING, TALKING WITH CAPTAIN ON DECK OF OCEAN LINER. TOWARDS CAMERA.
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| 00:24:49 1409.9 |
ROOSEVELT RIDES HORSE THROUGH STREAM DURING SAFARI IN AFRICA. BLACK BACK PACKING NATIVES FOLLOW ON FOOT THROUGH STREAM. TEDDY EXAMINES RIFLE OF COMPANION ON SAFARI.
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| 00:25:10 1430.9 |
TEDDY ROOSEVELT EXITS WHITE HOUSE, IS MET BY CROWD OF REPORTERS (?) TEDDY GETS INTO LIMO. TEDDY WAVING FROM INSIDE LIMO.
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| 00:25:27 1447.9 |
MONTAGE TEDDY ROOSEVELT SPEAKING AT RALLY IN NEW YORK CITY
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| 00:25:35 1455.9 |
TEDDY ROOSEVELT VISITS ARMY CAMP. U.S. SOLDIERS PARADE.
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| 00:25:53 1473.9 |
ROOSEVELT ON SPEAKERS PLATFORM POUNDS HIS FISTS AS HE MAKES DRAMATIC SPEECH TO HUGE CROWD. LS PAN CROWD.
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| 00:26:23 1503.9 |
CU VINTAGE FILM CAMERA GEARS AND REELS AS IT ROLLS.
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| 00:26:35 1515.9 |
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS FROM PORCH TO CROWD GATHERED OUTSIDE HIS HOME AT SAGAMORE HILLS. POUNDS HIS HAND WITH HIS FIST
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| 00:26:57 1537.9 |
PEOPLE LINE UP TO SHAKE HANDS WITH TEDDY ROOSEVELT OUTSIDE HOME.
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| 00:27:03 1543.9 |
ROVING CAMERA TAKES SHOTS OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT OUTSIDE PORCH, CONTINUES ROLLING AS CAMERAMAN ENTERS LIVING ROOM AND OTHER ROOMS INCLUDING CHILDREN'S BEDROOM WITH TOYS, DOLLS, MINIATURE FURNITURE, ENTERING DINING ROOM, STUDY WITH STUFFED ANIMAL HEADS. HIS BEDROOM WITH HUGE FOUR POSTER BED
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| 00:28:06 1606.9 |
CU SHAVING MUG, WITH "ROOSEVELT" WRITTEN ON IT, LATHERING BRUSH, STRAIGHT RAZOR ON VANITY. ZOOM IN ON ENTRANCE TO TROPHY ROOM WITH TWO LARGE ELEPHANT TUSKS GREETING YOU AS YOU WALK IN, PAN TO PAINTING OF TR ON WALL TO OTHER TROPHIES, ARTIFACTS.
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| 00:28:54 1654.9 |
CU ZOOM OUT WATER BUFFALO HEAD. HEADS OF OTHER AFRICAN ANTELOPE OVER ENTRYWAY. PAN TO DESK AND CHAIR
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| 00:29:20 1680.9 |
OUTSIDE SIGN: "TO THE GRAVE OF THEO. ROOSEVELT".
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| 00:29:24 1684.9 |
WOMAN AND TWO BOYS, ONE ON CRUTCHES WALK TO GRAVE.
CU LARGE TOMBSTONE WITH INSCRIPTION "KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE STARS AND YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND". |
| 00:29:53 1713.9 |
CU TEDDY ROOSEVELT TURNS TO CAMERA DURING HIS VISIT TO UNIDENTIFIED MEMORIAL.
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| 00:30:40 1761.9 |
"UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION (UNNRA) SENDS RELIEF TO HUNGRY EUROPE". VARIOUS SCENES FOOD AND CLOTHING BEING DISTRIBUTED TO PEOPLE IN DEVASTATED EUROPEAN CITIES, VILLAGES.
***** FOR HIGHEST QUALITY (HD, 2K, 4K) SEE HD 7203***** |
| 00:31:16 1796.9 |
MONTAGE DEVASTATED VILLAGES, TOWNS OF EUROPE IN AFTERMATH OF WWII.
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| 00:31:39 1820.9 |
BUS FULL OF WOMEN RESCUED FROM CONCENTRATION CAMPS ARE MET BY LOVED ONES. CU MAN CARESSES WOMAN'S FACE WITH HIS HAND. SHE STILL WEARS STRIPED SHIRT FROM CAMP. CU FOND HUGGING AND KISSING.
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| 00:31:58 1839.9 |
LOCOMOTIVE MOVES HAULING BOX CARS, COMES SLOWLY TO A STOP. CZEHOSLOVAKIAN SOLDIER CHECKS THE LOCKS ON BOX CAR. MEN OPEN BOX CAR LOADED WITH BAGS OF GRAIN FROM UNNRA. ANOTHER CAR CONTAINING BALES OF COTTON IS OPENED. CU HAND FEELING THE COTTON.
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| 00:32:24 1864.9 |
CARAVAN OF ARMY TRUCKS ON ROAD , ENTERING WORN TORN VILLAGE. MEN UNLOAD CRATES WITH "UNNRA" STAMPED ON THEM. CU MAN HOLD UP PACKAGE OF PENICILLIN TAKEN FROM CRATE.
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| 00:32:39 1879.9 |
TWO MEN, ONE WITH CRUTCHES APPROACHES COUNTER WHERE WOMAN HANDS THEM SUITS OF CLOTHING AND OTHER GARMENTS, HOLDING THEM UP TO HIM TO SEE IF THEY FIT.
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| 00:32:56 1897.9 |
CROWD LINES UP OUTSIDE STORE FRONT, "UNRRA" WRITTEN ON WINDOW. CU LITTLE GIRL PICKING FOOD STUFF AT STORE.
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| 00:33:12 1912.9 |
CU ZOOM OUT PILES OF BOXES, WITH "UNNRA' LETTERS.
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| 00:33:31 1931.9 |
"QUEMOY" (OR MATSU). VARIOUS SCENES OF NATIONALIST ISLAND WITHIN ARTILLERY RANGE OF COMMUNIST CHINA, ITS PEOPLE AND HOW THEY COPE WITH THE CONSTANT THREAT OF INVASION FROM MAINLAND CHINA.
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| 00:33:35 1935.9 |
PAN OF ISLAND. MS BUSY MARKETPLACE WITH MANY OPEN STORE FRONTS, PEOPLE GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS.
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| 00:33:59 1960.9 |
CHILDREN EXITING SCHOOL. PLAYING IN SCHOOLYARD SWINGS, JUMPING ROPE, SEE-SAWS.
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| 00:34:06 1966.9 |
CHINESE FARMER PLOWING HIS FIELD, PLOW PULLED BY OX.
CU PLOW DIGGING INTO EARTH. |
| 00:34:16 1976.9 |
MONUMENT WITH STATUE OF SEATED MAN (SUN-YAT-SEN) (?)
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| 00:34:23 1983.9 |
CHINESE SOLDIERS SEND BALLOONS WITH MESSAGES, INTO THE AIR, HOPING THEY DRIFT TO MAINLAND. CU BALLOON WITH MESSAGE IN CHINESE WRITTEN ON IT, BEING INFLATED.
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| 00:34:35 1995.9 |
CHINESE NAVAL VESSEL, LST, IN HARBOR. CHINESE SOLDIERS CLIMB DOWN ROPE LADDERS FROM VESSEL INTO SMALL LANDING BOATS.
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| 00:34:49 2009.9 |
CHINESE TROOPS IN SWIM TRUNKS, FLIPPERS AND FACE MASKS PRACTICE LANDINGS ON HOSTILE SHORE FROM SMALL BOATS.
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| 00:35:21 2041.9 |
SQUADRON OF FIGHTER JETS (F-86), WITH SHARK EYES AND TEETH PAINTED ON COWL, LINED UP AT AIR BASE ON ISLAND. PILOTS SCRAMBLE, JETS TAKE OFF.
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| 00:35:40 2060.9 |
MONTAGE TANK MANEUVERS ON ISLAND.
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| 00:35:57 2077.9 |
MAINLAND AS SEEN FROM QUEMOY. EXPLODING BOMB SENDS UP BALL OF FIRE. PAN VILLAGE HOMES DESTROYED BY CONSTANT SHELLING FROM MAINLAND.
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| 00:36:27 2107.9 |
CHINESE NATIONALIST SOLDIER PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS AT CHINESE MAINLAND SEEN IN DISTANCE.
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| 00:36:35 2115.9 |
MISSILE LAUNCHING MISHAPS. VARIOUS SCENES OF VARIETY OF UNSUCCESSFUL MISSILE TESTS BLOWING UP AT VARIOUS STAGES OF LAUNCHES, MOSTLY AT THE PADS. DISASTERS;
ENGINEERING |
| 00:36:46 2126.9 |
BARN-LIKE BUILDING OPENS UP FROM SIDE TO SIDE, REVEALING MISSILE WHICH MOVES FROM HORIZONTAL TO VERTICAL POSITION. FIRES OFF FLAWLESSLY DOWN RANGE.
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| 00:37:22 2162.9 |
HUGE MISSILE ON PAD MOVES SLOWLY SKYWARD FOR LIFTOFF.
AFTER MOVING SEVERAL YARDS OFF PAD, IT STOPS, FALLS BACK, BLOWS UP. HUGE EXPLODING FIREBALL. |
| 00:37:36 2176.9 |
MILITARY MISSILE ON RIDES ACROSS LONG RAMP, GOES A SHORT DISTANCE, NOSE DIVES, EXPLODES. TREMENDOUS FIREBALL.
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| 00:37:54 2194.9 |
MISSILE BARELY LIFTS OFF PAD, DISINTEGRATES AS IT FALLS BACK, BLOWS UP.
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| 00:38:09 2209.9 |
HIGH ANGLE HUGE MISSILE ON PAD, BARELY LIFTING OFF BEFORE IT STARTS TO DISINTEGRATE IN HUGE FIRE BALL ON PAD.
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| 00:38:50 2250.9 |
MISSILE CATCHES FIRE SOON AFTER TAKING OFF, BLOWS UP IN MID-AIR.
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| 00:40:00 2320.9 |
"BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK". VARIOUS SCENES UNUSUAL ROCK FORMATIONS, MOST SPECTACULAR AND VIVIDLY COLORED OF ANY IN THE WORLD. SANDSTONE WALLS OF THESE CANYONS HAVE BEEN SCULPTURED BY EROSION INTO BIZARRE SHAPED SPIRES AND PINNACLES. ARCHED OPENING CUT INTO HUGE ROCK FORMATION CREATING NATURAL BRIDGE ARCHED "DOORWAYS CUT INTO SOLID ROCK FORMATIONS AS THOUGH DONE BY MAN. MONOLITHIC FORMATIONS EACH WITH UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS STANDING MAJESTICALLY, SIDE-BY-SIDE, CARVED BY NATURE. LOOK LIKE WEIRD SHAPED HEADS ON LONG BODIES. COWBOY GUIDE ON HORSEBACK PASSES THROUGH ARCHED OPENING IN HUGE ROCK. VIEW OF "FAIRYLAND CANYON", ELEVATION 7804 FEET AND "RAINBOW POINT", ELEVATION 9105 FEET, AND UTAH. NATURAL PHENOMENA.
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| 00:44:05 2565.9 |
U.S. NAVY SETS UP BASE IN ANTARCTICA (?) VARIOUS SCENES NAVY MEN AT WORK WITH HEAVY EQUIPMENT UNDER INHUMAN CONDITIONS, WEATHER.
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| 00:44:05 2565.9 |
NAVY MEN WEARING ARCTIC CLOTHING, RAISE U.S. FLAG AT ARCTIC (?) BASE, AS GALE WINDS BLOW BLOTTING OUT SCENE. MONTAGE HEAVY EQUIPMENT INUNDATED IN ICE AND SNOW.
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| 00:44:32 2592.9 |
HIGH ANGLE OF NAVY VESSEL STUCK IN SEA OF SOLID ICE AND SNOW, THERE UNTIL THE THAW.
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| 00:44:41 2601.9 |
COLUMN OF HUGE TRACTORS LUMBERING ACROSS THE BARREN ICE COVERED PLAINS, TOWARDS CAMERA, FLYING U.S. NAVY FLAGS. GIANT CRANES ON TRACTOR THREADS PULL HUGE CRATES BEHIND AS THEY LUMBER ACROSS SNOW. LEAVING HUGE "FOOTPRINTS" BEHIND.
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| 00:45:09 2629.9 |
AERIAL DC-3 ON SKI WHEELS LANDING IN BARREN SNOW DESERT, AS SEEN FROM PLANE FLYING ABOVE.
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| 00:45:29 2649.9 |
MEN UNLOAD SUPPLIES FROM NAVY DC-3 THROUGH HUGE CARGO DOORS, PLACE SUPPLIES ON SLEDS. NAVY MAN PILES SUPPLIES ON SNOW COVERED GROUND.
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| 00:45:42 2662.9 |
DC-3 BEGINS BUMPY TAKE OFF RUN ON SLED GEARS.
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| 00:45:58 2678.9 |
TWO MEN LOOK LIKE GROTESQUE MONSTERS AS THEY WALK TOWARDS CAMERA WITH FROZEN BEARDS.
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| 00:46:07 2687.9 |
SLED DOGS PULL SLED LADEN WITH SUPPLIES. TWO MEN SET UP TENT, USE SLABS OF ICE TO HOLD DOWN ENDS.
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| 00:46:25 2705.9 |
MAN CUTS OUT SLAB OF ICE IN GROUND WITH SAW. WATER 00 46 26 MAN PEERS THROUGH SURVEYORS TRANSIT AS ANOTHER WATCHES. CU NAVY OFFICER WEARS DARK GLASSES, ICE COATED BEARD.
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| 00:46:43 2723.9 |
MAN RUNS FOR COVER AS WIND STARTS TO BLOW. CAMP IS HIT BY GALE FORCE WINDS.
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| 00:47:46 2786.9 |
MINING AND REFINING OF LIQUID MERCURY. VARIOUS SCENES OF MINERS COLLECTING ORE FROM MINE. VARIOUS SCENES OF ORE BEING CRUSHED INTO FINE POWDER AND REFINED INTO LIQUID METAL AND USED IN IN LABORATORY. NATURAL PHENOMENA, METALLURGY; MINERALS.
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| 00:48:12 2812.9 |
HIGH ANGLE MINERS DIGGING FOR ORE IN OPEN PIT MINE.
CU MINER HOLDS PIECE OF ORE IN HAND, POINTS TO VEINS OF MERCURY |
| 00:48:31 2831.9 |
MINER EXITS MINE SHAFT WITH HOPPER FULL OF ORE WHICH HE ROLLS ON RAILS, DUMPS IT THROUGH GRATING COVERING DEEP HOLE. ORE MOVING ON CONVEYOR BELT. HUGE TURBINE CONTAINING ORE SLOWLY TURNS AS IT GRATES ORE INTO SMALL PARTICLES. PAN OTHER MACHINERY CRUSHING THE ORE.
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| 00:49:31 2891.9 |
AS MINER RUNS HOE THROUGH POWDERED ORE, SMALL DROPLETS OF MERCURY ROLL DOWN OUT OF THE POWDER AND INTO A CONTAINER. CU TOLEDO SCALE SHOWS WEIGHT OF THE MERCURY AS IT FILLS CONTAINER.
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| 00:49:54 2914.9 |
SCIENTIST (?) IN LABORATORY INSPECTS TUBES AND VIALS OF MERCURY IN PROCESS OF REFINEMENT.
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| 00:50:19 2939.9 |
LAB WORKER FILLS SMALL BOTTLE OF MERCURY FROM SPIGOT.
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| 00:50:26 2946.9 |
CU LAB WORKER RUNS HAND THROUGH PAN FULL OF MERCURY.
IT RUNS OFF HIS HAND WITHOUT WETTING IT. |
| 00:50:28 2948.9 |
CU WRENCH PLACED IN PAN OF LIQUID MERCURY FLOATS, AS DOES ONE POUND WEIGHT AND A MAGNET. MERCURY DOES NOT STICK TO MAGNET WHEN THE MAGNET IS REMOVED FROM PAN.
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| 00:50:47 2968.9 |
VARIETY OF JARS, BOTTLES FULL OF LIQUID MERCURY.
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| 00:51:42 3023.9 |
"DELAWARE RIVER". VARIOUS SCENES SOURCE WATERS FROM MOUNTAIN FALLS AND STREAMS FEEDING THE DELAWARE RIVER. PICTURESQUE LANDSCAPE ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER INCLUDING OLD COVERED BRIDGES. SCHOOLBOYS VISITING SITE WHERE WASHINGTON CROSSED DELAWARE DURING REVOLUTIONARY WAR. MONUMENT TO THAT SITE. VIEW OF PENNSBURY, COUNTRY HOME OF WILLIAM PENN, BUILT 1682-1700. AERIAL VIEW OF ESTATE. AERIAL VIEW OF DELAWARE BRIDGE AND HUGE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES ALONG RIVER. AERIAL VIEW FREIGHTER SAILING UNDER HUGE SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
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| 00:55:13 3233.9 |
"GENERAL "IKE" COMES HOME. VARIOUS SCENES GENERAL EISENHOWER BEING GIVEN MEDAL, KISSED, BY GENERAL DEGAULLE IN PARIS, UNDER ARC DE TRIOMPHE, PRIOR TO HIS RETURN HOME FOR FIRST TIME SINCE HIS ASSIGNMENT AS ALLIED SUPREME COMMANDER IN WORLD WAR II. VARIOUS SCENES OF "IKE" RETURNING HOME. MET BY WIFE AT AIRFIELD, RIDING DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE IN WASHINGTON, D. C. IN MOTORCADE OF JEEPS. ADDRESSING CONGRESS. GIVEN MEDAL BY PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN. POLITICS; PERSONALITIES;
GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:58:25 3425.9 |
"ALLIES TAKE LAE, NEW GUINEA". VARIOUS SCENES THOUSANDS AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS EMBARKING ON LANDING VESSELS, PRIOR TO INVASION. BOMBARDMENT OF LAE, IN NEW GUINEA PRIOR TO LANDINGS. GENERAL MACARTHUR TALKING TO HIS GENERALS AT FRONT. CU GENERAL MACARTHUR FACE SHOT. AMERICAN PARATROOPERS ADJUSTING THEIR CHUTES BEFORE BOARDING CARGO PLANES. PAN LONG LINE OF CARGO PLANES BEING BOARDED BY PARATROOPS. CU MACARTHUR ON BOARD PLANE. SPEAKS TO GUNNER IN PLANE.
AERIAL VIEW THOUSANDS OF PARATROOPS FLOATING TO GROUND, AS SEEN FROM PLANE. AUSSIE TROOPS AND AMERICANS POSE TOGETHER. WWII FILM. |
| 01:01:44 3625.9 |
"MARSHAL FOCH DIES". VARIOUS SCENES OF FAMED WWI FRENCH HERO AND MILITARY LEADER MARSHAL FOCH SEEN BEFORE HIS DEATH. VARIOUS SCENES OF HIS FUNERAL IN PARIS AT SITE OF ARC DE TRIOMPHE. MANY OF WORLD'S DIGNITARIES ATTENDING FUNERAL, INCLUDING GENERAL PERSHING OF U.S., PRINCE EDWARD OF ENGLAND, MANY OTHER UNIDENTIFIED WORLD POLITICAL, MILITARY LEADERS.
MILITARY UNITS FROM ALL OVER WORLD, INCLUDING AMERICAN, PARTICIPATE IN FUNERAL POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE. ALGERIAN CAVALRY IN NATIVE DRESS. PARIS, FRANCE, 1929. MILITARY; POLITICS; FOREIGN GOVERNMENT |
| 01:05:26 3846.9 |
"BYRD FLIES OVER NORTH POLE". VARIOUS SCENES COMMANDER RICHARD E. BYRD AND FLOYD BENNETT IN ARCTIC CLOTHING, BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER HISTORIC FIRST FLIGHT OVER NORTH POLE FROM SPITZBERGEN ISLAND 5/10/26, IN FOKKER TRI-MOTOR PLANE. EXPLORATION
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| 01:05:33 3853.9 |
BYRD AND BENNET IN ESKIMO OUTFITS, SHAKE HANDS WITH GROUND CREWS, MILITARY MEN BEFORE BOARDING FOKKER TRI-MOTOR.
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| 01:05:56 3876.9 |
CAMERA BIPLANE TAKES OFF WITH SKI LANDING GEAR, FROM ICE COVERED FIELD, FOLLOWED BY FOKKER WITH BYRD, BENNETT.
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| 01:06:22 3902.9 |
GROUND CREW JUMP WITH JOY AT TAKE OFF. TRI-MOTOR PLANE IN FLIGHT AS SEEN FROM CAMERA PLANE. CU WING AND STRUTS OF CAMERA PLANE IN FRGD.
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| 01:07:08 3948.9 |
ANIMATED MAP SHOWS ROUTE TAKEN TO AND FRO SITE.
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| 01:07:55 3995.9 |
CU STEAM HORN FROM SHIP BLOWS TO ANNOUNCE IMMINENT LANDING OF BYRD AND BENNET ON RETURN FLIGHT.
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| 01:08:15 4015.9 |
BYRD AND BENNET IS MOBBED BY GROUND CREW AND OTHERS, LIFTED ON SHOULDERS.
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