19541950s NEWSREELS
NEWS FOOTAGE FOR APRIL 8-9, 1954.
MANY STORIES ABOUT MCCARTHY & COMMUNIST WITCH HUNT.
MANY STORIES ABOUT MCCARTHY & COMMUNIST WITCH HUNT.
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PARIS RIOTS:
FRANCE'S ARCH DE TRIOMPHE. |
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FRENCH SOLDIERS IN FLOPPY COWBOY-TYPE HATS AT ATTENTION WITH RIFLES AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS GATHER AROUND MEMORIAL TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER.
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HUGE CRUSHING CROWDS IN SQUARE BEING HELD BACK BY GENDARMES AS THEY TRY TO GET LOOK AT LEADER.
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| 02:56:13 45.77 |
SPANISH POWS & PARADE:
CROWD OF RETURNING POWS ON SMALL TROOPSHIP, STAND ON LIFE BOATS, AT SHIP'S RAILING, AS THEY WAVE HANDKERCHIEFS TO HUGE SPANISH CROWD WAVE BACK FROM SHORE. |
| 02:56:22 54.77 |
FRANTIC MEN WHO COULD NOT WAIT FOR POWS ON SHORE ARE PULLED ABOARD BY POWS.
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| 02:56:33 65.77 |
MAN CRIES AS HE HUGS POW ON DECK.
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| 02:56:34 66.77 |
ABOVE VIEW OF ENORMOUS CROWD WAITING ASHORE
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| 02:56:35 67.77 |
POV SHIP DECK.
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| 02:56:36 68.77 |
POW ON SHORE BREAKS THROUGH CROWD TO EMOTIONALLY HUG FAMILY MEMBER. WOMAN CLING TO MAN AS CRUSHING CROWD SURROUND THEM.
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| 02:56:56 88.77 |
AERIAL VIEW TANKS, JEEPS WITH STANDING SOLDIERS PARADE DOWN SPANISH AVENUE.
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| 02:56:57 89.77 |
SPAIN'S LEADER GENERAL FRANCO ON PODIUM REVIEWING MILITARY PARADE.
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| 02:56:58 90.77 |
TANKS, ARTILLERY, TROOPS, SKI TROOPS CARRY SKIS, PARADE DOWN AVENUE.
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| 02:57:35 127.77 |
SENATOR MCCARTHY MAKES VEHEMENT. OVERLY EMOTIONAL SPEECH CHARGES JOURNALIST EDWARD R. MURROW. "MURROW IS THE SYMBOL, THE LEADER AND THE CLEVEREST OF THE JACKAL PACK, WHICH IS ALWAYS FOUND AT THE TROTH OF ANYONE WHO DARES EXPOSE INDIVIDUAL COMMUNIST INTENTIONS".
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| 02:58:44 196.77 |
CU MCCARTHY CLENCHES HIS FISTS AS HE GETS EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL, SEEMINGLY LOOSING COMPOSURE.
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| 02:59:20 232.77 |
REPORTERS TAKE CLOSE UP PHOTOS OF EDWARD R. MURROW BEFORE HE SPEAKS TO ANSWER CHARGES.
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| 02:59:33 245.77 |
MURROW SITS BEFORE MICS AS HE RESPONDS TO CHARGES MADE BY SENATOR MCCARTHY "RECKLESS AND UNFOUNDED ATTEMPT TO IMPUNE MY LOYALTY". JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE TO CONNECT TO COMMUNISM, ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH HIM". "I TAKE NO BACK SEAT TO MCCARTHY OR ANYBODY ELSE IN MY DEDICATION TO THIS COUNTRY, NOR".
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| 03:00:50 322.77 |
PRESIDENT IKE MEETS WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN GROUP AFTER WHICH ELDERLY BLACK MAN HENSON SPEAKS TO REPORTERS OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE. TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE AS MEMBER OF ADMIRAL PERRY'S EXPEDITION TO NORTH POLE.
TALKS ABOUT EATING DOGS, RAW. GRAPHIC |
| 03:02:19 411.77 |
POLIO TEST:
CU UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE HEALTH OFFICIAL TELLS ABOUT DEMONSTRATION OF HOW NEW YORK CITY WILL RUN THE POLIO VACCINE TRIALS USING THE NEW SALK VACCINE. MEDICINE. |
| 03:02:59 451.77 |
CU PHYSICIAN'S HAND FILLING HYPODERMIC NEEDLE WITH VACCINE.
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| 03:03:00 452.77 |
SMALL BOYS, GIRLS ENTER DOOR MARKED, "POLIO VACCINE TRIAL".
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| 03:03:01 453.77 |
LINE UP BEFORE DOCTOR WHO INJECTS THEM WITH NEEDLE.
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| 03:03:47 499.77 |
AS SENATORS DIRKSON, MUNDT, AND OTHERS LOOK ON, AS DISTINGUISHED MAN SPEAKS ABOUT HIS APPOINTMENT TO DIRKSON'S COMMITTEE. PRICE
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| 03:04:46 558.77 |
POLITICIAN SPEAKS TO CHARGES MADE BY MCCARTHY ABOUT H-BOMB BEING DELIBERATELY DELAYED 18 MONTHS. SAYS DELAYS WERE FROM "HONEST SCIENTIFIC DIFFERENCES".
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| 03:05:44 616.77 |
UFO-AIR FORCE MAJOR TELLS OF HIS BELIEF IN FLYING SAUCERS. "WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO COME TO ANY OTHER CONCLUSION". GIVES REASONS FOR BELIEF. KETHOE
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| 03:07:15 707.77 |
CU ELDERLY BALD MAN SPEAKS ABOUT CONTACTS WITH SPACEMEN. SAYS CAPTAIN OF SPACEMEN WAS A WOMAN NAMED AURA RHANE WHO SAYS THEY HAD MORE AND BETTER THAN WE ON THEIR PLANET.
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| 03:08:36 788.77 |
ACTRESS GENE TIERNEY PEERS OUT WINDOW OF SPORTS CAR CIRCA 1950s AS SHE SPEAKS TO REPORTER.
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| 03:08:37 789.77 |
SIGN STONE CANYON ROAD" PAN TO HOME ON PACIFIC COAST.
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| 03:09:09 821.77 |
PRESIDENT CHARLES DEGAULLE SITS BEFORE MICS AS PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKE FLASH SHOTS.
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| 03:09:10 822.77 |
SEATED CROWD OF NEWSMEN LISTEN TO DEGAULLE SPEECH (MOS).
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| 03:10:02 874.77 |
OLD-TIME FEMALE MUSICAL STAGE STAR TELLS OF HER PREFERENCES FOR ROLES IN PLAYS. SIGN IN BKGD "GREAT TARS OF THE AMERICAN STAGE".
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| 03:10:54 926.77 |
PRESIDENT IKE MAKES SPEECH AT REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION, GETS HUGE LAUGH WHEN HE STARTS OFF WITH "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN", THEN REALIZES ITS AN ALL-
WOMAN CROWD. MAMIE IN BKGD. IKE DEFENDS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. |
| 03:12:29 1021.77 |
CU SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHARLES WILSON SPEAKING TO REPORTERS ABOUT PENTAGON-MCCARTHY DISPUTE.
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| 03:13:47 1099.77 |
SQUARE DANCE CONVENTION MEN, WOMEN IN COSTUME DOING SQUARE DANCES AS VOICE OVER OF CALLER IS HEARD GIVING COLORFUL INSTRUCTION.
GOOD SQUARE DANCE SHOTS. |
| 03:15:19 1191.77 |
CHARLES LINDBERGH BEING SWORN IN & CONGRATULATED BY AIR FORCE GENERAL AND CIVILIAN LEADERS.
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| 03:16:48 1280.77 |
JAPANESE TUNA FISHERMAN:
VARIOUS SCENES JAPANESE FISHERMEN SAILING OUT TO SEA IN LARGE FISHING VESSEL, CATCHING BIG FISH IN NETS, THEN THROWING THE LARGE DEAD FISH OVERBOARD. |
| 03:17:52 1344.77 |
NAGASAKI:
ASIAN LEADERS CLIMB ABOARD U.S. WARSHIP FROM NAVY LAUNCH, ARE GREETED BY SHIP'S CREW. |
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SQUADRON FIGHTERS FLY OVERHEAD.
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| 03:17:54 1346.77 |
JET TAKING OFF FROM CARRIER AS ASIAN LEADERS, ADMIRALS, WATCH AERIAL DEMONSTRATION.
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| 03:18:52 1404.77 |
"CLYDE BEATTY CIRCUS" SIGN. PAN TO SIGN "BIG STREET PARADE AT NOON".
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CIRCUS TENTS, CROWD.
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CU BOY LICKS HIS ICE CREAM CONE. BOY FEEDS FRIEND COTTON CANDY ON STICK, JOINS FRIEND IN BITING INTO IT. TWO WOMEN AND CHILD BITE INTO COTTON CANDY.
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CROWDS GATHER AROUND COLORFUL SIDE SHOW TENTS.
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| 03:19:28 1440.77 |
GIRLS ON HORSEBACK CARRY U.S. FLAGS AS THEY LEAD CIRCUS THROUGH TOWN. CIRCUS PARADE
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| 03:19:29 1441.77 |
WAGON WITH CAGED TIGERS, LIONS LION ROLLS BY, FOLLOWED BY TRUCK FULL OF CLOWNS, PRETTY GIRLS. HORSE DRAWN TRUCK WITH MAN INSIDE PLAYING CIRCUS MUSIC ON ORGAN.
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| 03:20:19 1491.77 |
LONG LINE OF ELEPHANTS WITH TRAINERS SEATED IN THRONES ON TOP.
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CROWD OF IDLE WORKERS PEER THROUGH FENCE SURROUNDING NEW YORK PORT AUTHORITY BUILDING ALONG WATERFRONT.
PAN (LONGSHOREMEN?) WHO POSE FOR CAMERA. POSSIBLY A STRIKE. |
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CALIFORNIA RIVERBED DRAINS:
LATE 1930s SEDAN ENTERS CALIFORNIA VIADUCT, RIDES THROUGH IT INDICATING ABSENCE OF WATER. (DROUGHT). PAN CAR RIDING IN DRY VIADUCT. |
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