Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-2074

00:46:47 42	"STEEL STRIKE HITS THE NATION; CAUSES INDUSTRIAL CRISIS"
00:47:00 55	STEEL FACTORIES WITH HUGE SMOKING STACKS, RAILROAD TRAIN PULLING HOPPER CARS WITH ORE.
00:47:04 59	HUGE VAT POURS MOLTEN STEEL CAUSING SHOWER OF SPARKS.
00:47:19 74	UNION (CIO), PRESIDENT PHILLIP MURRAY AND COMPANY PRESIDENT BENJAMIN FAIRLESS, POSE OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE BEFORE MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN WHO IS MEDIATING THE TALKS. UNION ACCEPTED TRUMAN'S PROPOSAL, BUT COMPANY REFUSED IT.
00:47:30 85	UNION PRESIDENT MURRAY SPEAKS, CALL FOR A STRIKE.
00:48:17 132	AERIAL VIEW OF STEEL PLANT. TILT UP SHOT OF LONG ROW OF SMOKE STACKS.
00:48:24 139	WORKERS EXITING THE PLANT, DO NOT RETURN DOZENS OF UNION PICKETS WITH STRIKE POSTERS HANGING DOWN IN FRONT OF THEM, POSE FOR CAMERA. PICKETS WALK IN CIRCLE AT ENTRANCE TO PLANT. POLICE WATCH.
00:48:42 157	STRIKE PICKETS OUTSIDE STEEL PLANT IN PITTSBURGH, MARCH AS SNOW FALLS.
00:48:50 165	GENERAL MOTORS AUTO ASSEMBLY LINE SITS IDLE AS STEEL STRIKE AFFECTS MANY INDUSTRIES.
00:48:55 170	INDUSTRIALIST HENRY J. KAISER, WHO RUNS HIS OWN CALIFORNIA STEEL PLANT, HAS SIGNED WITH THE UNION (CIO), MAKES SPEECH FROM HIS DESK.
00:49:28 203	"STASSEN URGES ALL AMERICANS TO BUILD WORLD BROTHERHOOD"
00:49:39 214	FORMER GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA GREETS MEMBERS OF ALL FAITHS WHO SPONSOR BROTHERHOOD WEEK. STASSEN WILL NAME CHAIRMAN. STASSEN SPEAKS.
00:50:20 255	"DRAMATIC SCENES OF RESCUE BY AIR IN BURMA JUNGLE" RESCUERS REACH PLANE THAT CRASHED IN JUNGLE OF BURMA, USE EXPLOSIVES & BACK LABOR TO CLEAR LANDING AREA FOR HELICOPTER TO RESCUE INJURED PILOT.
00:50:27 262	LONG LINE OF SOLDIERS PUSH THEIR WAY THROUGH JUNGLE TO REACH CRASHED PLANE. IT TOOK A DAY AND A HALF TO REACH SITE, WHICH WAS ONLY THREE MINUTES FROM AIR BASE.
00:50:42 277	PLANE DROPPING MEDICAL SUPPLIES. POV GROUND.
00:50:50 285	GI USES AXE TO CHOP DOWN PALM TREE TO MAKE HELICOPTER CLEARING IN JUNGLE. DYNAMITE IS USED FOR THE REST, WHICH TOOK TOTAL OF TWO WEEKS.
00:51:12 307	HELICOPTER LANDS, INJURED PILOT IS STRAPPED IN HELICOPTER.
00:51:36 331	"PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICIALS HONORED". 55 SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICIALS ARE HONORED BY TRUMAN AT THE WHITE HOUSE. TRUMAN SPEAKS. TRUMAN IS DECORATED BY GENERAL HERSHEY FOR CREATING A "DEMOCRATIC ARMY". WASHINGTON, D.C.
00:52:37 392	"CHURCHILL STARTS HIS MIAMI VACATION WITH "10 WORD" INTERVIEW". VARIOUS SCENES FORMER PRIME MINISTER & MRS. CHURCHILL SEATED IN LAWN CHAIRS AND BEING INTERVIEWED BY REPORTERS. HE IS ASKED TO SAY 10 WORDS, WHICH HE SAYS "THE GREAT FEELING OF FEELING THE CONGENIAL SUNSHINE OF MIAMI BEACH". USUAL CIGAR IN HAND
00:53:38 453	"MOVIETONE VISITS TURF CHAMPIONS DOWN UNDER" VARIOUS SCENES THOROUGHBRED HORSES ROAMING PASTURES OF HUNTER RIVER VALLEY, AUSTRALIA, HOME OF PEORA FARMS, BREEDING GROUND OF AUSTRALIA'S FOREMOST RACE HORSES. SPORTS; HORSE RACING; HORSES, PONIES.
00:54:08 483	TRAINER WALKS "MID STREAM" A HIGHLY PRIZED SIRE AT PEORA. CU OF "MID-STREAM". CU SHOTS OF "GRAND DUKE", "DOUBLE REMOVE".
00:54:28 503	NEW BORN FOLD LYING ON GROUND IS PRODDED BY MOTHER TO RISE TO ITS FEET, WHICH IT SHAKILY DOES. CU SHOT OF FOLD.
00:54:50 525	HERD OF HORSES RUNNING IN PASTURE.
00:55:22 557	"ACTUAL ATOMIC BOMB HIT ON NAGASAKI" VARIOUS SCENES OF B-29 BOMBER CREW WHICH BOMBED NAGASAKI. VARIOUS SCENES OF TAKE OFF, PLANE IN FLIGHT AND DROPPING OF BOMB. VARIOUS AERIAL VIEWS OF BOMB EXPLODING AND HUGE MUSHROOM CLOUD.
00:55:33 568	EIGHT MAN B-29 BOMBER CREW POSING IN FRONT OF BOMBER
00:55:36 571	BRIGADIER GENERAL FARRELL IS ATOMIC BOMB COMMANDER ON SCENE POSES.
00:55:40 575	IN CHARGE OF TACTICAL WORK, COMMANDER ASHWORTH POSES
00:55:44 579	PILOT IS MAJOR SWEENEY.
00:55:50 585	BOMBARDIER CAPTAIN BIAN WILL AIM THE BOMB.
00:56:02 597	AERIAL BOMB EXPLODING ON NAGASAKI, HUGE MUSHROOM CLOUD RISES TO 60,000 FEET.
00:56:50 645	"EMPEROR HIROHITO LOOKS AT THE RUINS OF BOMBED TOKYO". VARIOUS SCENES FILMED BY JAPANESE PRIOR TO SURRENDER, OF HIROHITO WALKING THROUGH STREET OF TOKYO INSPECTING THE BOMBED OUT RUINS OF CITY. PAN OF DEVASTATION.
00:57:47 702	PHOTO OF GENERAL MACARTHUR POSING WITH HIROHITO AFTER SURRENDER.
00:57:55 710	"SURRENDER AT SINGAPORE". VARIOUS SCENES OF TRUCKS FILLED WITH BRITISH SOLDIERS ENTERING SINGAPORE TO CHEER OF THOUSANDS. SOLDIERS FIND ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR BADLY EMACIATED FROM STARVATION BY JAPANESE.
00:58:07 722	LONG LINE PITIFUL EX-PRISONERS, WEARING NOTHING BUT DIAPER-LIKE SHORTS, PARADE BEFORE CAMERA LOOKING LIKE WALKING SKELETONS. DOCTOR EXAMINES ONE WITH STETHOSCOPE.
00:58:18 733	THE HAPPY MEN, BARELY ABLE TO STAND, MOB BRITISH SOLDIER AS HE HANDS OUT CIGARETTES.
00:58:32 747	JAPANESE GENERALS FILE INTO ROOM, FACE ALLIED COMMANDER LORD LOUIS MOUNTABATTEN WHO WILL ACCEPT SURRENDER OF SINGAPORE. JAPANESE GENERAL SIGNS AS DOES MOUNTBATTEN.
00:59:02 777	HUGE CROWD WATCH AS THEIR JAPANESE EX-CONQUERORS EXIT BUILDING, UNDER GUARD BY BRITISH TROOPS.
00:59:16 791	"NEWS FLASHES". "S. S. "EUROPA", PRIZE OF WAR" VARIOUS SCENES OF LINER "EUROPE" ONCE PRIDE OF GERMANY'S MERCHANT FLEET, SAILS INTO NEW YORK HARBOR WITH 4400 AMERICAN SERVICEMEN ABOARD. "EUROPA WAS AT BREMEN WHEN ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURED IT. "EUROPA" WAS TAKEN BY AMERICANS AS A PRIZE OF WAR.
00:59:22 797	MONTAGE VARIOUS ANGLE SHOTS, AERIAL OF SHIP AS IT SAILS INTO NEW YORK HARBOR BRIMMING WITH AMERICAN SOLDIERS ON ITS DECKS. SHADOW OF BLIMP IS SEEN AS IT FLIES OVER SHIP TO TAKE PHOTOS
00:59:50 825	"HERO OF WAKE ISLAND". LT. COLONEL DEVEREUX IS GREETED BY HIS ELEVEN YEAR OLD SON AT TRAIN STATION. DEVEREAUX WAS CAPTURED AT WAKE ISLAND BY JAPANESE IN EARLY YEARS OF WAR. DEVEREAUX'S WIFE HAD DIED WHILE HE WAS PRISONER.
01:00:09 844	DEVEREAUX IS GREETED, KISSED BY OTHER MEMBERS OF FAMILY. UNDER-SECRETARY OF WAR GATES, PINS NAVY CROSS ON DEVEREAUX'S CHEST AS SON WATCHES.
01:00:27 862	"HALSEY GETS HIS WISH". ADMIRAL HALSEY WHO ONE STATED HE WILL RIDE JAPANESE HIROHITO'S WHITE HORSE, IS GIVEN A WHITE HORSE, NOT HIROHITOS', TO RIDE, BY GENERAL CHASE, COMMANDER OF THE OCCUPATION FORCE IN JAPAN.
01:00:30 865	HALSEY, WHO NEVER RODE A HORSE, GETS ON & RIDES IT, SAYS, "I WAS NEVER SO SCARED IN MY LIFE".
01:00:51 886	"ROLLER SKATING STARS PERFORM IN CHICAGO SHOW" "SKATING VANITIES" PUT ON GAY & FESTIVE SHOW IN CHICAGO. SPORTS; ENTERTAINMENT; THEATER; CHORUS LINES; ACROBATICS.
01:01:06 901	CHORUS GIRLS ON ROLLER SKATES PUTTING ON SPECTACULAR SHOW ON STAGE, IN COLORFUL COSTUMES.
01:01:09 904	COUPLE PUT ON DAREDEVIL SHOW WHERE HE SPINS GIRL AS SHE IN GIANT SPIN AS SHE HANGS BY FEET TIED AROUND HIS NECK.
01:01:31 926	LOVELY SHIRLEY HART DOES SOLO ROLLER SKATING DANCE WITH ACROBATIC MOVES, UNDER THE SPOT LIGHTS. ENDS WITH SPLIT.
01:01:47 942	"IT'S TRUE GIRLS! "NYLON STOCKINGS FOR SALE!" HUGE MOB SCENE OF MOSTLY WOMEN, SOME MEN CROWD STREET AS THEY TRY TO GET INTO STORE IN NEW YORK CITY, SELLING ONE PAIR TO CUSTOMER OF NYLON STOCKINGS, WITH POLICE CONTROLLING LINE.
01:02:10 965	HIGH ANGLE VIEW OF FRANTIC CUSTOMERS AT COUNTER BEING SERVED BY SEVERAL SALES GIRLS.
01:02:28 983	GIRL AT REGISTER TRIES TO KEEP UP WITH SALES.
01:02:32 987	TWO WOMEN FIGHTING FOR THE LAST PAIR, PULL HAIR, FALL TO GROUND IN WILD MELE IN FRONT OF COUNTER.
01:02:39 994	WINNER IS SURROUNDED BY OTHER WOMEN AS SHE SITS ON CURB & REMOVES HER OLD STOCKINGS AND PUTS ON NYLONS, MAKES CHEESECAKE POSE. WOMEN; ODDITY; HUMAN INTEREST.
01:02:58 1013	"WENDELL WILLKIE DIES SUDDENLY AT AGE OF 52 VARIOUS SCENES OF RAUCOUS 1940 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION WHERE WILLKIE WAS NOMINATED AS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT TO GO AGAINST FDR. DIED 10/8/44. POLITICS; GOVERNMENT; ELECTIONS; STATESMAN; PERSONALITIES.
01:03:13 1028	HUGE CROWD AT CONVENTION CHANTING, "WE WANT WILLKIE".
01:03:16 1031	WILLKIE STANDS IN OPEN LIMO WITH HAT RAISED IN AIR AS HUGE CROWD IN STREETS CHEER. HE POLED AN IMPRESSIVE POPULAR VOTE, BUT LOST TO CHARISMATIC FDR. WILLKIE SPEAKS OVER MICROPHONES TO HUGE OUTDOOR CROWD
01:03:30 1045	WILLKIE POSES WITH CHURCHILL OUTSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET DURING WAR AND BLITZ OF LONDON. POSES WITH KING GEORGE.
01:03:46 1061	WILLKIE IN RUSSIA VISITS FACTORY TO STUDY SOVIET WAR WORK AND WAR POLICY.
01:03:55 1070	WILLKIE WALKS WITH CHINESE SOLDIERS THROUGH A LONG TRENCH. WILLKIE MEETS WITH MADAME & GENERALISSIMO CHANG KAI SHEK.
01:04:05 1080	CU WENDELL WILLKIE POSES AT HIS DESK. HE WAS AT PINNACLE OF PUBLIC INFLUENCE WHEN SUDDEN ILLNESS STRUCK HIM DOWN. A SHOCK TO THE NATION.
01:04:09 1084	"WAR NEWS FROM EUROPE". "BOMBING OF CALAIS" VARIOUS SCENES OF BOMBS RAINING DOWN ON FRENCH CITY OF CALAIS, POV PLANE. AERIAL HUGE GROUND EXPLOSIONS
01:04:43 1118	"ARNHEIM RED DEVILS". BRITISH PARATROOPS IN EPIC OF HEROISM DEFENDED POSITION THAT COULD NOT BE HELD.
01:04:48 1123	PLANES DROP FOOD AND AMMUNITION TO THE RED DEVILS AS SEEN FROM GROUND, BUT AERIAL SUPPLY WAS CUT BY BAD WEATHER. "RED DEVIL" SOLDIER LOOKS UP AT AIR DROP. TROOPS PICK UP SUPPLIES DROPPED BY AIR IN FIELD.
01:05:00 1135	"RED DEVIL" MORTAR CREW DROP SHELLS INTO MORTAR AND FIRE.
01:05:12 1147	SOLDIER RECEiVES SHORT WAVE MESSAGE TELLING RED DEVILS TO WITHDRAW.
01:05:14 1149	GRAPHIC SCENE OF SOLDIERS PASSING CAR WITH GERMAN DEAD SPRAWLED HALF IN AND HALF OUT OF AUTO.
01:05:25 1160	MONTAGE DIRTY FACED, BEDRAGGLED, "RED DEVILS" SOLDIERS POSE FOR CAMERA. OF 8000 SOLDIERS ISOLATED BEHIND ENEMY LINES FOR NINE DAYS, TWO THOUSAND CAME BACK. MLS THE REMAINDER GIVE THREE CHEERS TO CAMERA.
01:05:40 1175	"NEWSETTES WITH LEW LEHR". BROOKFIELD ZOO WAS BLESSED WITH THREE BABY ANIMALS IN ONE DAY. ANIMAL ANTICS; ZOO
01:06:00 1195	BABY KUDU, A SPECIES OF AFRICAN ANTELOPE IS WATCHED CLOSELY BY ITS MOTHER.
01:06:06 1201	MULTI-STRIPED ZEBRA STANDS ALONGSIDE ITS BABY ZEBRA WHO STAYS CLOSE TO MAMA AT ALL TIMES. BABY AND MOM LOOKING INTO CAMERA.
01:06:23 1218	FORTY-FIVE POUND BABY RHINO WALKS OVER TO, IS DWARFED BY MAMA RHINO.
01:06:35 1230	"CARDINALS WIN 1944 WORLD SERIES". BASEBALL. SPORTS. VARIOUS SCENES OF GAMES IN PROGRESS BETWEEN ST. LOUIS CARDINALS AND ST. LOUIS BROWNS. CARDINALS WON SERIES 4 GAMES TO 2
01:06:46 1241	CARDINAL'S EMIL VERBON HITS SACRIFICE FLY SENDING SANDERS SLIDING HOME, THROW TO SECOND FAILS TO CATCH MARION WHO SLIDES SAFELY INTO SECOND.
01:06:55 1250	CU KEN O'DAY AT PLATE SINGLES TO BRING IN WINNING RUN IN ELEVENTH INNING OF SECOND GAME FOR CARDINALS.
01:07:07 1262	CU CARDINALS PITCHER TED WILKES WHO PITCHES TO (CU) "MURDER" MCQUINN OF BROWNS. HE HITS SINGLE THAT SCORES MOORE. CU BROWN'S ZERILLA HITS SINGLE TO SCORE STEVENS. CROWD OF BASEBALL FANS COME TO THEIR FEET. CU CRISTMAN AT BAT. HITS SINGLE TO SCORE MCQUINN TO WIN GAME FOR THE BROWNS.
01:07:39 1294	CU KAROWSKI OF CARDINALS AT BAT IN SIXTH AND FINAL GAME, HITS SINGLE TO SCORE TYING RUN. ROOKIE EMIL VERBUN SMACKS SINGLE TO WIN GAME AND SERIES. FEMALE BASEBALL FANS JUMP TO THEIR FEET CHEERING.
01:08:12 1327	"ALLIED OFFENSIVE BATTERS NAZIS ON WESTERN FRONT" VARIOUS BATTLE SCENES OF U.S. ARMY TANKS BOMBARDING NAZI POSITIONS. GENERAL PATTON PINNING MEDALS ON GIS AT THE 3RD ARMY BATTLE FRONT. HE SALUTES HIS MEN AND GIVES HIS GOOD LUCK HAND SHAKE TO THEM, AS HE STANDS IN JEEP. THEN MOVES ON.
01:08:55 1370	ARTILLERY CREWS BOMBARD NAZI POSITIONS. BUILDINGS BEING HIT, COLLAPSING. GIS RUNNING ALONGSIDE BUILDINGS IN ENEMY HELD TOWN. GI MORTAR CREW AT WORK. BUILDINGS BEING HIT. TATTERED GERMANS SURRENDER WITH HANDS ON HEADS.
01:09:33 1408	CU GERMAN GENERAL FALKENROTH WHO SURRENDERED GARRISON AT STRASBOURG. AERIAL HORDE OF NAZI CAPTIVES.
01:09:49 1424	CU LARGE CUT-OUT OF HITLER WITH GI'S HAND IN NAZI. PICTURE IS LOWERED SHOWING SHEEPISHLY SMILING GI WITH HAND UP.
01:09:55 1430	"FILM FLASHES OF THE WAR". "PORT OF ANTWERP OPEN" VARIOUS SCENES BRITISH MINE SWEEPERS CLEARING CHANNEL AFTER NAZI FORCES HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT AT APPROACHES TO THE HARBOR. MINE IS BLOWN UP.
01:10:18 1453	AERIAL VIEW OF 26 MILES OF DOCKS ARE INTACT AS FIRST SHIP OF SUPPLIES SAILS IN. ANTWERP WAS CAPTURED SO SWIFTLY THAT NAZIS HAD NO TIME TO DESTROY THE PORT, WITH BERTHS FOR 178 LARGE VESSELS. TRUCK UNLOADED FROM SHIP BY GIANT CRANE.
01:10:38 1473	SOME OF THE FORTY GIANT CRANES LEFT INTACT LIFT AS MUCH AS 80,000 TONS OF CARGO A DAY FROM SHIPS.
01:10:44 1479	"AIR FIGHTER ACTION". AERIAL PLANES ON GROUND ARE DESTROYED BY STRAFING ATTACKS BY ALLIED FIGHTER PLANES. POV PLANE.
01:10:52 1487	GERMAN AIR PROPELLED FIGHTERS ARE ENCOUNTERED BY AMERICAN FIGHTERS. NAZI PLANE IS HIT AND EXPLODES. NAZI PILOT SEEN BAILING OUT.
01:11:18 1513	"VICTIMS OF WAR'S HAVOC". VARIOUS SCENES FRENCH REFUGEES ON ROAD CARRYING BEDDING AND OTHER BELONGINGS IN OX-DRIVEN WAGONS AND OTHER CRUDE HAND PULLED WAGONS AFTER LEAVING THEIR VILLAGE WHICH WAS UNDER BOMBARDMENT.
01:11:40 1535	REFUGEES COME TO ANOTHER SHATTERED TOWN AND PREPARE OUTDOOR DINNER WITH FOOD THEY SAVED FROM THEIR HOMES.
01:11:41 1536	WOMEN COOK ON OUTDOOR FIRES, SHOW THEIR SKILL IN PREPARING DINNER. THEY SIT OUTDOORS IN FAMILY GROUPS AND EAT DINNER, INCLUDING WINE.
01:11:59 1554	SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER EISENHOWER SITS ON SOFA WITH BRITISH GENERAL MONTGOMERY AND PLAN JOINT ACTION.
01:12:11 1566	HIGH ANGLE VIEW OF EISENHOWER, WEARING BRITISH BATTLE DRESS, INSPECTS BRITISH TROOPS. CU TILT DOWN TO "IKE" WRITTEN ON HIS BOOTS. "IKE" VISITS, SPEAKS TO BRITISH TROOPS IN FIELD HOSPITAL. "IKE" SIGNS AUTOGRAPHS FOR BRITISH NURSES.
01:12:45 1600	"NOBEL PRIZES AWARDED AT NEW YORK DINNER" VARIOUS SCENES SIX SCIENTISTS RECEIVING NOBEL PRIZES, AWARDED FOR FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK. DOCTORS STERN AND RABI FOR 1944 PHYSICS PRIZE. DOCTORS DAM AND DOISY FOR 1943 PHYSIOLOGY & MEDICINE, AND DOCTORS ERLANGER AND GASSER FOR 1944 PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDICINE. MOVIE PRODUCER DARRYL ZANUCK IS HONORED FOR MOVIE, "WILSON". CONTEST; HOLLYWOOD; THEATER; PERSONALITIES.
01:13:19 1634	HARRY WOODWARD CHASE SPEAKS FROM PODIUM AND INTRODUCES MOTION PICTURE PRODUCER DARRYL ZANUCK. IN IMPASSIONED SPEECH, ZANUCK TELLS OF "POISON" SERVED TO WORLD BY NAZI MOVIE INDUSTRY.
01:15:09 1744	"IF YOU GET DIZZY EASILY, DON'T TRY THIS JOB" VARIOUS VIEWS OF DAREDEVIL BUILDER WALKING ON NARROW ANTENNA LINES OF RADIO TOWER, HIGH ABOVE THE GROUND IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. ENTERTAINMENT
01:15:22 1757	GROUND VIEW OF TOWER BUILDER GOING HAND OVER HAND ON BRACE CONNECTING BUILDING TO TOWER HIGH ABOVE GROUND. DAREDEVIL THEN WALKS FROM ONE SIDE TO OTHER ON NARROW ANTENNA IN SCARY BALANCING ACT, 200 FEET IN AIR.
01:15:28 1763	AERIAL VIEW OF MAN WALKING ALONG THE COUNTER POISE, HIGH ABOVE GOVERNMENTAL BUILDING ALONGSIDE.
01:15:41 1776	AWE STRUCK CROWD OF MEN LOOKING UP. CAMERAMAN TAKES SHOTS WITH HAND HELD MOVIE CAMERA, AS MAN CLIMBS STILL HIGHER UP TOWER. AERIAL VIEW OF TWO MEN CLIMBING TO TOP OF TOWER.
01:16:15 1810	TAPE ENDS