Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-2209

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01:59:37 3.97	JANUARY 10, 1955 CHICAGO COURTHOUSE WHERE CLAUDE LIGHTFOOT, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF ILLINOIS COMMUNIST PARTY BECOMES THE FIRST U. S. CITIZEN TO BE TRIED FOR ADVOCATING VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF U. S. GOVERNMENT.
01:59:40 6.97	CU "DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE", SEAL. SIGN ON DOOR "JUDGE SULLIVAN". MS SULLIVAN AT DESK READING BRIEF. CU FACE SHOT .
01:59:56 22.97	MS ZOOM IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHIEF PROSECUTOR AND U. S. ATTORNEY JAMES PARSONS AT HIS DESK. CU PARSONS SPEAKS OF HIS CASE.
02:00:40 66.97	AFRICAN AMERICAN GORDON LIGHTFOOT, EXITS U. S. ATTORNEYS OFFICE TELLS HIS SIDE OF ISSUE.
02:01:06 92.97	JAPANESE ORPHAN - MCU TWA AIRLINER TAXIS IN AT CHICAGO'S MIDWAY AIRPORT..MS TWO STEWARDESSES ESCORT TINY SIX YEAR-OLD CLEMENT SHIRO DOWN STEPS FROM PLANE. IS FIRST ORPHAN TO ARRIVE FROM JAPAN UNDER THE "REFUGEE RELIEF ACT". ADOPTIVE PARENTS MR., MRS, ROBERT GERARD PICK UP TIRED BOY, HUG HIM. CU THREE POSE. BOY YAWNS.
02:01:26 112.97	CU BOY ON DAD'S LAP WHO TELLS HOW HE GOT BOY THROUGH FRANCISCAN NUNS ADVERTISEMENT IN YOKOHAMA. JANUARY 11, 1955
02:02:34 180.97	SHEPPARD FUNERAL - MS SAM SHEPPARD BEING ESCORTED OUT OF JAIL, IN CUFFS, BY DETECTIVES, TO ATTEND MOTHER'S FUNERAL. PHOTOGS TAKE SHOTS CAR PULLING OUT OF SALLY PORT TOWARDS CAMERA
02:02:46 192.97	LS ESCORTED SHEPPARD IN CUFFS, EXITS FUNERAL HOME, TO CAR, WITH DETECTIVES.
02:02:59 205.97	LS TENTED GRAVE SITE AT CEMETERY. MS SHEPPARD BEING ESCORTED IN CUFFS FROM SITE TO CAR.
02:03:33 239.97	MS NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO HO CHI MINH. AMBASSADOR READS SPEECH FROM PREPARED TEXT. PRESIDENT HO CHI MINH READS SPEECH. AMBASSADOR, MINH SHAKE HANDS, POSE.
02:04:00 266.97	DULLES MAKES SPEECH - LS WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL. MS CENTENNIAL SIGN, YYCA SIGN. "1855 - 1955"
02:04:07 273.97	ABOVE VIEW PEOPLE BEING SERVED FOOD AT TABLES BY WAITERS. LS HUGE BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH YWCA SIGN. DIGNITARIES ON DAIS RISE, APPLAUD AS "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" SONG IS PLAYED ON ORGAN
02:04:19 285.97	CU SECRETARY OF STATE ADDRESS AUDIENCE, SPEAKS OF HOPES TO END WAR THROUGH EUROPEAN UNION.
02:05:40 366.97	FORMER GERMAN FIGHTER ACE, EX-GENERAL ADOLPH GALLAND, EXITS PLANE IN FRANKFURT, GERMANY FROM ARGENTINA. IS GREETED BY FRIENDS, CROWD, PHOTOGS. HE IS EXPECTED TO LEAD THE NEW LUFTWAFFE UNDER THE GERMAN RE-ARMAMENT TREATY... WIFE GIVEN FLOWERS BY CHILD, CU GALLAND SEATED WITH CIGAR IN HAND,
02:06:13 399.97	AIRCRAFT CARRIER SHANGRI-LA COMMISSIONED - CU SAILORS RIDE UP ESCALATOR ON SHIP, CU SIGN, "ELECTRIC STAIRWAY TO FLIGHT DECK". MS SAILORS EXIT DOOR TO DECK. LS CARRIER AT DOCK
02:06:39 425.97	MS DECK ELEVATOR BEING LOWERED ALONGSIDE DOCK. MS BOW, PAN TO LS GANGWAY. MCU OFFICERS AND CIVILIANS WALK UP GANGWAY. MS OFFICERS SALUTING. MCU DOG MASCOT WEARS PETTY OFFICER INSIGNIA.
02:06:59 445.97	ABOVE VIEW AUDIENCE SEATED FOR CEREMONY IN HANGAR.
02:07:02 448.97	MS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF NAVY ALAN PRAT SPEAKS TO AUDIENCE.
02:07:18 464.97	MLS JET PLANE IN FLIGHT PEELS OFF FOR DIVE. MS PILOT CLIMBS INTO COCKPIT IN TEST LAB AS CIVILIAN WATCHES. CU PRESENT CONTROL PANEL BEFORE REVOLUTIONARY NEW INSTRUMENT PANEL CONSISTING OF TWO TV TUBES WHICH CONSIDERABLY SIMPLIFIES PILOT'S
02:07:45 491.97	CU VARIOUS SHOTS OF NEW INSTRUMENTAL PANEL. aviation, invention.
02:08:23 529.97	SKIING - VARIOUS VIEWS OLYMPIC HOPEFULS, SKIERS, PRACTICING DOWN HILL AND SLALOM, TOWARDS CAMERA, DODGING POLES TOWARDS CAMERA AND R TO L. VARIOUS VIEWS SKIERS PRACTICING SHORT JUMPS. sports
02:08:58 564.97	SKIERS PRACTICING WALKING UP HILL SIDEWAYS, ON SKIES. MORE SKI SHOTS.
02:09:24 590.97	CU NAVY FOOTBALL COACH EDDIE ERDELATZ WHO SIGNED NEW CONTRACT WITH NAVY SPEAKS TO REPORTERS, ABOVE LOUD SOUNDING AIRLINER ENGINES IN B/G.. COMMENTS ABOUT TEAM. sports, college football.
02:10:19 645.97	FOUR-ALARM FIRE IN BELOW FREEZING WEATHER SPREADS PALL OF SMOKE OVER LARGE AREA IN PHILADELPHIA. LS FIREMEN CLIMB UP AERIAL LADDER, ENTER HEAVILY SMOKING WINDOWS OF QUAKER CITY AERONAUTICAL SCHOOL BUILDING
02:10:27 653.97	CU FIREMEN, BACKS TO CAMERA TRAIN POWER HOSE ON BUILDING. CROWD WATCHES. LS FIREMEN BACK DOWN ON LADDER THROUGH HEAVY SMOKE. MCU MORE OF FIREMEN HOSING FIRE.
02:10:27 653.97	MCU WOMAN WITH TWO CHILDREN IN HAND WALKS TOWARDS CAMERA AFTER NEARBY GRADE SCHOOL WAS EVACUATED. CU POLICEMAN CARRIES TWO CHILDREN IN ARMS, TOWARDS CAMERA.
02:10:45 671.97	FIREMAN BEING LED AWAY BY COMRADE, CIVILIAN AFTER BEING OVERCOME WITH SMOKE.
02:10:51 677.97	LS WATER POURING OUT OF UPPER FLOOR, ICICLES FORM ON STEERING WHEEL AND RAIL OF FIRE TRUCK. JANUARY 12, 1955
02:11:04 690.97	LS PAN FIREMEN HOSE DOWN FLAMING DEBRIS OF BURNING PLANE WRECKAGE AFTER AIR=FORCE C-119 CRASHES NEAR NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. CU SMOKE, FLAMES, WRECKAGE. disaster
02:11:34 720.97	CU ARMY MP SORTS OUT CLOTHING, PHOTO, FROM WRECKAGE, ONTO GROUND. CU SNEAKER.
02:12:02 748.97	NEW ARCHBISHOP OF MILAN ARRIVES AT CHURCH AND PUTS ON GARMENTS OF HIS OFFICE. MS ARCH-BISHOP MOVES THROUGH CROWD IN PROCESSION. religion, roman catholic.
02:12:30 776.97	MS ARCHBISHOP IS CROWNED WITH HAT OF OFFICE. STANDING CROWD WATCH SOLEMNLY. MS ARCHBISHOP LEAVES IN PROCESSION THROUGH CROWD. JANUARY 19, 1955
02:12:38 784.97	LS PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN PANAMA. MS PAN PRESIDENT RICARDO ARIAS ESPINOSA SITS AT HEAD OF TABLE, SPEAKS TO HIS NEW CABINET, INCLUDING BROTHER OF SLAIN FORMER PRESIDENT REMON. EX-PRESIDENT GUIZADO WAS ACCUSED IN DUPLICITY IN THE MURDER.
02:13:16 822.97	LS BOSTON POLICE AND CROWD OUTSIDE MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISON WHERE FIVE PRISON GUARDS ARE HELD HOSTAGE BY FOUR DESPERATE CONVICTS. LONG LINE OF POLICEMEN EXIT BUILDING, WALK DOWN STEPS TOWARDS CAMERA. POLICEMAN PICKS UP STACK OF BATONS LYING AGAINST WALL.
02:13:32 838.97	MS PAN BARRED PRISON WINDOWS.
02:13:51 857.97	PRESIDENT EISENHOWER NEWS CONFERENCE - IKE HAVING SAYS HE WOULD LIKE U. N. TO HELP CONCERNING FRESH OUTBREAK IN FIGHTING IN THE ISLANDS OFF THE COAST OF CHINA. MS CROWD OF SEATED REPORTERS. MS REPORTERS ASKING QUESTIONS.
02:16:40 1026.97	PAN DOWN CROWD OF NEWSMEN ENTERING ROOM FOR NEWS CONFERENCE. FILM CAMERAS ON TRIPODS SET UP IN BACK OF ROOM, PAN DOWN TO SEATED NEWSMEN, WOMEN. ALL STAND AS IKE ENTERS ROOM WITH PRESS SECRETARY HAGGERTY. *NOTE: FILM ,IMPROPERLY SPICED, NOT IN ORDER OF EVENTS.
02:19:18 1184.97	MLS WARSHIPS IN ROUGH SEAS. MS SHIP RE-FUELING IN ROUGH SEAS. LS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, DECKS BRIMMING WITH FIGHTER PLANES, CU WAVES BREAKING AGAINST CARRIER BOW. LS RADAR ON CARRIER TOWER. POV DECK LOOKING UP.
02:19:35 1201.97	ABOVE VIEW FIGHTER PLANES LINED UP FOR TAKE OFF FROM DECK. ABOVE VIEW SIGNAL OFFICER GIVES TAKE OFF SIGNAL, POV PILOT TAKING OFF. VIEW OF DECK AS HE TAKES OFF. LS SQUADRON IN FLIGHT
02:20:09 1235.97	ABOVE VIEW PLANE FIRING ROCKETS, SEA IN B/G, PLANE FIRING ROCKETS AT TARGET IN SEA. JANUARY 17, 1955
02:20:25 1251.97	MS COSTA RICAN TROOPS IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES BOARD BUSSES. WAVE FROM BUS WINDOWS.
02:20:37 1263.97	MS AMBASSADOR TO COSTA RICA ANTONIO FACIO SPEAKS AT DESK ANSWERS QUESTIONS. CU FACE SHOT JANUARY 19, 1955
02:21:26 1312.97	LS PANAMA FLAG FLIES ON PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, TILT DOWN PALACE TO ENTRANCE.
02:21:32 1318.97	PRESIDENT RICARDO ARIAS ESPINOSA SPEAKS TO CABINET, BACKS TO CAMERA. MS SAME CABINET SITS AT CONFERENCE TABLE, ESPINOSA AT HEAD. JANUARY 17, 1955
02:22:00 1346.97	LS WHITE HOUSE. MAN EXITS WHITE HOUSE SIDE DOOR WITH BUDGET IN HAND, CLIMBS INTO CAR FOR DELIVERY TO CONGRESS. LS CAPITOL BUILDING. MAN WITH BUDGET IN HAND WALKS UP CAPITOL STEPS.
02:22:28 1374.97	NAUTILUS AWEIGH - LS NAVY'S NEW NUCLEAR POWERED SUBMARINE QUIETLY MOVES OUT FROM ITS DOCKS AT GROTON, CONNECTICUT, IN B/G, TOWARDS CAMERA, CU U. S. FLAG BEING RAISED ON SUB. MLS SUB PASSES L TO R, MEN ON DECK. CU NAVY CAMERAMAN RECORDING EVENT ON FILM, TOWARDS CAMERA. 02 23 LS NAUTILUS AT SEA L TO R. MS ALSO AS SEEN THROUGH PORT HOLE. CU SAILOR PEERING THROUGH BINOCULARS. JANUARY 19, 1955
02:23:26 1432.97	TANK TO PRISON - STATE POLICEMAN IN F/G WATCHES MASSACHUSETTS NATIONAL GUARD TANK COMING TOWARDS CAMERA AND PAST R TO L.
02:23:43 1449.97	STATE POLICE GUARDS AT GATE OF MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISON DURING PRISON HOSTAGE CRISIS.. MS ARMY OFFICER SPEAKS TO REPORTERS. LS HELICOPTER OVERHEAD.
02:23:55 1461.97	LS PRISON BUILDINGS. MS WARDEN JOHN J. O'BRIEN SPEAKS OVER MICS HELD BY REPORTER.
02:25:38 1564.97	SOLDIERS ON PATROL THROUGH TOWN IN PHENIX CITY, ALABAMA AFTER LONGEST MILITARY OCCUPATION OF AMERICAN CITY CAME TO CLOSE; TOWARDS CAMERA .MS SOLDIERS CHECK DOORS OUTSIDE BUSINESS BUILDING MS SOLDIERS CLIMB INTO BACK OF ARMY TRUCK.
02:26:02 1588.97	OFFICER SHAKES HANDS WITH CIVILIAN AS SIX MONTHS OF OCCUPATION ENDS, TROOPS WATCH SHAKES WITH STATE TROOPERS.
02:26:20 1606.97	VICE PRESIDENT NIXON WIRES WIND SHIELD ON CONVERTIBLE FOR GOOD CAUSE. VOLUNTEERING TO WORK AS GAS STATION ATTENDANT FOR MARCH OF DIMES. CU SIGN,"FILL 'ER UP FOR POLIO"
02:26:32 1618.97	THREE PRETTY GIRLS IN CONVERTIBLE LOOK BACK, PAN NIXON PUMPING THEIR GAS. CROWD WATCHING IN B/G SIGN, "JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES". CU NIXON BEING INTERVIEWED.
02:27:07 1653.97	END.