19521950s NEWSREELS
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SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN ACHESON SPEAKS AT THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND BARS KOREAN PEACE OF DISHONOR
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| 00:01:10 39.8 |
MS AS ACHESON SPEAKS SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER VICHINSKY TAKES NOTES
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| 00:01:54 84.8 |
HURRICANE LEAVES TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION IN CUBA MONTAGE WINDS REACHING VELOCITY OF 175 MPH LEAVE A PATH OF DESTRUCTION. LS RADIO TOWER IS SNAPPED IN TWO. SUGAR CANE CROP IS DESTROYED.
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| 00:03:01 150.8 |
LS HOWARD HUGHES SHOWS HIS MONSTER HELICOPTER DESIGNED TO LIFT GREAT WEIGHTS. ITS ROTATING BLADES MEASURE 125 FEET FROM TIP TO TIP.
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| 00:03:40 189.8 |
THE LUMBERING MONSTER HOVERS GROTESQUELY IN THE SKY
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| 00:03:43 192.8 |
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF UNIVERSAL FILMS J.M. BLUMBERG RECEIVES A PLAQUE FROM ADMIRAL ROSS MACINTYRE ON BEHALF OF THE PRESIDENTS COMMITTEE FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE HANDICAPPED FOR HIS WORK ON THE FILM 'BRIGHT VICTORY'
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| 00:04:10 219.8 |
MS MAN WALKS DOWN CALIFORNIA SUBURBAN STREET WITH A FLORAL BOUQUET IN HIS HAND
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| 00:04:27 236.8 |
GIRLS MODEL OUTLANDISH FLORAL HATS AT THE OAKLAND'S DIABLO COUNTRY CLUB WITH AN ASSIST FROM THE FLORIST ASSOCIATION.
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| 00:04:35 244.8 |
MS HUGE HAT WITH BIRD CAGES AND FLOWERS EXTENDING FROM EACH SIDE HAS TO BE HELD BY THE MODEL AS SHE WALKS. OTHER HATS ARE ALSO LARGE AND UNUSUAL.
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| 00:05:17 286.8 |
COLLEGE FOOTBALL - USC 10 - CALIFORNIA 0
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| 00:05:49 318.8 |
UCLA 20 - WISCONSIN 7
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| 00:07:11 400.8 |
VOL 25/409
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| 00:07:20 409.8 |
UN ASSEMBLY - SOVIET MINISTER VISHINSKY ORATES AS KOREAN BATTLE RAGES
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| 00:07:46 435.8 |
MS SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN ACHESON HOLDS HIS HAND ON HIS CHEEK IN BOREDOM AS VISHINSKY SPEAKS FOR OVER 3 HOURS.
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| 00:08:05 454.8 |
LS AS ONE MARINE FEEDS A MORTAR ITS SHELLS , ANOTHER HOLDS HIS EARS.(KOREA) SHELLS EXPLODE IN THE DISTANT HILLS.
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| 00:08:05 454.8 |
MS FORMER FIELD MARSHALL KESSLERING OF THE GERMAN ARMY RECEIVES LETTERS CONGRATULATING HIM ON HIS RELEASE FROM HIS PRISON FROM WHICH HE WAS SENTENCED AT NEURENBERG WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL. HE LIES IN PRISON HOSPITAL BED WHERE HE READS THE LETTERS.
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| 00:08:44 493.8 |
KESSELRING POSES WITH OTHER GERMAN GENERALS DURING THE NAZI REGIME.
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| 00:09:18 527.8 |
MONTAGE NATIVES OF SAIGON WORK REMOVING A TREE UP-ROOTED WHEN A SERIES OF TYPHOONS HIT INDO-CHINA RAVAGING THE COUNTRY.
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| 00:09:23 532.8 |
A TREE LIES ON A TRUCK AFTER SMASHING IT WHEN IT WAS BLOWN DOWN BY HEAVY WINDS
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| 00:10:00 569.8 |
SMALL FRENCH PLANE WITH RETRACTABLE WINGS IS TESTED BY INVENTOR.
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| 00:10:21 590.8 |
CU FOUR HUGE STEEL BELLS MADE BY GERMANY'S FORMER WAR INDUSTRY IS CONTRIBUTED TO JAPAN FOR THE HIROSHIMA PEACE CHURCH. AS CROWD OF GUESTS WATCH THE 4 HUGE BELLS CHIME LOUDLY.
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| 00:10:52 622.8 |
CU HUGE BELL ROCKS BACK AND FORTH AS IT RINGS
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| 00:10:54 624.8 |
NEW SWEATERS AN OLD YARN - MODELS SHOW THE LATEST SWEATER CREATIONS BY RODIN AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA. THE STYLISH CREATIONS ARE HIGH FASHION WITH SOME MADE FROM MINK.
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| 00:12:17 706.8 |
PRO BASKETBALL NEW YORK KNICKS PLAY COLLEGE ALL-STARS TO AID THE HEARST FREE MILK FUND.
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| 00:12:45 734.8 |
LS ALL-STAR COACH FRANK MCGUIRE GESTURES TO HIS TEAM AFTER THEY SCORE.
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| 00:12:55 744.8 |
MS KNICKS COACH JOE LAPSCHICK YELLS AT HIS PLAYERS FROM THE BENCH
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| 00:13:24 773.8 |
ALL STARS HAVE A HARD TIME GETTING THE BALL TO FALL IN THE BASKET. AFTER 4 ATTEMPTS TO TIP IT IN IT FINALLY FALLS IN.
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| 00:13:29 778.8 |
MS FAN JUMPS UP FROM HIS SEAT AND GESTURES WITH HIS HAND. KNICKS BARELY WIN 66-61.
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| 00:13:52 801.8 |
VOL 25/410
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| 00:14:14 823.8 |
SPECTACULAR BLAZE LIGHTS NEW YORK CITY SKY
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| 00:14:27 836.8 |
MONTAGE FIREMAN POUR WATER ON FIRE AT AN ABANDONED HARLEM WAREHOUSE AS FLAMES AND SMOKE SHOOT SKYWARD.
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| 00:14:44 853.8 |
ELS FLAMES AND SMOKE ARE VISIBLE FROM MILES AWAY.
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| 00:14:58 867.8 |
AERIAL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EVACUATED FROM THE AREA WATCH AND WAIT IN THE STREET BELOW.
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| 00:15:26 895.8 |
LS FLAMING SECTIONS OF THE BUILDING CRASH TO THE GROUND
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| 00:15:38 907.8 |
LS A FREIGHT TRAIN LOADED WITH ARMY TANKS AND BUSES IS HALTED AT A RUSSIAN CHECK POINT AS HEADS INTO WEST GERMANY CREATING AN 'INCIDENT
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| 00:16:25 954.8 |
LS FLAMES AND SMOKE RISE FROM RUINS OF FRENCH ARMY TRANSPORT PLANE WHICH CRASHED SHORTLY AFTER TAKE-OFF FROM AIR BASE NEAR PARIS.
FIREMEN POUR WATER ON REMAINS OF PLANE. |
| 00:16:55 984.8 |
MS REPLICAS OF BRITAINS CROWN JEWELS GO ON DISPLAY IN NEW YORK (PAN) THE ORIGINALS ARE WORTH $25,000,000.
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| 00:17:41 1030.8 |
COLLEGE FOOTBALL - GEORGIA TECH 28 - DUKE 7
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| 00:18:32 1081.8 |
YALE 21 - DARTMOUTH 7
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| 00:19:21 1130.8 |
LS YALE'S BROCK MARTIN TAKES A DARTMOUTH KICK ALL THE WAY BACK FOR A TOUCH DOWN
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| 00:19:30 1139.8 |
MICHIGAN STATE 14 PURDUE 7
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| 00:20:49 1219.8 |
MUMMERS ON PARADE. COLORFUL PARADE WITH MANY FLOATS ROLLING DOWN MARYLAND STREET.
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| 00:22:05 1294.8 |
VOL 25/411
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| 00:22:21 1310.8 |
EISENHOWER WINS IN LANDSLIDE.
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| 00:22:34 1323.8 |
AMERICANS LINE UP AT POLLING BOOTHS AS 55 MILLION VOTE
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| 00:22:58 1347.8 |
MS POODLE WAITS OUTSIDE VOTING BOOTH AS HIS MASTER VOTES
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| 00:23:04 1353.8 |
MS FORMER PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER WAIT ON LINE TO VOTE
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| 00:23:10 1359.8 |
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND WIFE CAST THEIR BALLOTS.
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| 00:23:28 1377.8 |
MS GOVERNOR STEVENSON EXITS FROM BEHIND CURTAIN OF VOTING BOOTH AFTER CASTING HIS BALLOT.
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| 00:23:39 1388.8 |
MS EISENHOWER SIGNS THE BALLOT BEFORE VOTING IN NEW YORK AS RICHARD NIXON AND HIS WIFE CAST THEIR BALLOTS IN CALIFORNIA.
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| 00:24:10 1419.8 |
MS STEVENSON'S RUNNING MATE JOHN SPARKMAN CASTS HIS BALLOT IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.
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| 00:24:17 1426.8 |
MS POSTMASTER GENERAL FARLEY AND NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR LEHMAN CAST THEIR BALLOTS IN NEW YORK AS DOES THOMAS DEWEY AND GOVERNOR EARL WARREN OF CALIFORNIA
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| 00:24:57 1466.8 |
LS POLL WORKERS KEEP TRACT OF THE VOTING ON A LARGE TALLY BOARD AS THE VOTES COME THROUGH AS A LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR EISENHOWER APPEARS LIKELY.
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| 00:25:20 1489.8 |
GLOOM IS EXPRESSED BY A MAN AT THE DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS. ANOTHER SHAKES HIS HEAD IN DISBELIEF
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| 00:25:31 1500.8 |
ANIMATED SIGN IN TIMES SQUARE: 'DEMOCRATS CONCEDE DEFEAT-EISENHOWER ELECTED'.
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| 00:25:49 1518.8 |
THUNDEROUS OVATION GREETS EISENHOWER AND MAMIE AT REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK
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| 00:26:39 1568.8 |
MS IKE MAKES SPEECH ASKING FOR SUPPORT OF ALL AMERICANS.
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| 00:29:00 1709.8 |
VOL 25/412
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| 00:29:23 1732.8 |
UNITED NATIONS - TRYGVE LIE RESIGNS POST AS SECRETARY IN SPEECH BEFORE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| 00:30:11 1780.8 |
BATTLEFRONT IN KOREA AGAIN ABLAZE. HUGE EXPLOSIONS ON HILLS IN DISTANCE DURING INTENSE ARTILLERY BARRAGE. LS MARINE SENDS A BLAST OF FIRE FROM HIS FLAME THROWER
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| 00:31:11 1840.8 |
LS A CAPTURED RED WITH HIS HANDS IN AIR IS HELD AT GUN POINT BY A MARINE WHO LEADS HIM U.S. LINES.
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| 00:31:22 1851.8 |
PARLIAMENT - QUEEN OPENS SESSION AMID ROYAL PAGEANTRY. ROYAL GUARD ON HORSEBACK IS FOLLOWED BY ROYAL CARRIAGE EXITING THE PALACE GATES ON THEIR WAY TO WESTMINSTER. CROWDS LINE THE STREETS TO CATCH GLIMPSE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
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| 00:32:18 1907.8 |
PRESIDENT-ELECT - IKE PICKS INTERIM ADMINISTRATION AIDES. MS IKE AND MAMIE ARRIVE BY PLANE TO AUGUSTA GEORGIA FOR A WELL EARNED REST. MS IKE MEETS WITH FUTURE MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET.
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| 00:33:16 1965.8 |
COLLEGE FOOTBALL - NOTRE DAME 27 OKLAHOMA 21
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| 00:33:25 1974.8 |
LS BILLY VESSELS OF OKLAHOMA TAKES THE HAND OFF AND RUNS 62 YARDS FOR A TOUCHDOWN FOR ONE THREE TOUCHDOWN RUNS SCORING ALL HIS TEAMS POINTS, BUT NOTRE DAME STILL WINS. AERIAL HUGE CROWD CARRIES THE TEAM OFF THE FIELD.
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| 00:34:44 2053.8 |
GEORGIA TECH 45 ARMY 6 LS GEORGIAS STARTING KICK-OFF IS ALLOWED TO ROLL AND IT STOPS JUST SHORT OF THE GOAL LINE FORCING ARMY TO KICK IT OFF.TWO PLAYS LATER LEON HARTERMAN OF GEORGIA TAKES IT IN FOR A TOUCHDOWN
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| 00:36:20 2149.8 |
VOL 25/413
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| 00:36:39 2168.8 |
UNITED NATIONS - EDEN SPEAKS AT UN AND BACKS U.S. ON KOREAN PRISONERS. HE SPEAKS TO A NEARLY EMPTY ROOM AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RUSSIA'S VISHINSKY DOES NOT JOIN IN THE APPLAUSE.
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| 00:38:35 2284.8 |
LS PANAMANIAN FREIGHTER 'FALTAS' IS DRIVEN AGROUND BY HEAVY WINDS AND WAVES OFF THE COAST OF HOLLAND. MONTAGE DESPITE THE HEAVY SEAS, RESCUE LIFEBOATS FROM SHORE TAKE THE CREW OFF THE BATTERED FREIGHTER
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| 00:39:11 2320.8 |
AERIAL THE FREIGHTER SINKS UNDER HEAVY WAVES.
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| 00:39:33 2342.8 |
MONTAGE OVER 50,000 VETERANS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR GATHER AT THE SCENE OF SPAIN'S BLOODIEST BATTLE. A MEMORIAL SERVICE IS HELD AND MASS IS CONDUCTED BY A PRIEST.
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| 00:40:33 2402.8 |
MS DOCTOR FELIX BLOCK, WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE WHICH HE SHARED WITH DR. PERCED OF HARVARD, POSES WITH THE MACHINE HE INVENTED TO MEASURE MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF NUCLEAR ENERGY.
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| 00:40:50 2420.8 |
MS FRENCH POET FRANCOIS MORIAK, ALSO WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE SITS IN HIS OFFICE AND READS A STACK OF LETTERS OF CONGRATULATION.
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| 00:41:14 2443.8 |
MS AT YOKASAKA JAPANS DEFENSE MINISTER REVIEWS UNITS OF ITS TOP MARITIME SAFETY FORCE AND NUCLEUS OF A FUTURE NAVY. THE JAPANESE TRAIN ON WARSHIPS GIVEN TO THEM BY THE U.S.
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| 00:41:48 2477.8 |
COLLEGE FOOTBALL - UCLA 57 - OREGON STATE 0
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| 00:43:09 2558.8 |
VOL 25/414
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| 00:43:24 2573.8 |
H-BOMB - ATOMIC HEAD TELLS OF ENIWETOK TESTS MS CHAIRMAN OF ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION GORDON DEAN SPEAKS AS MOVIE CAMERAMEN ROLL FILM. DEAN SAYS SOMEONE WILL BE PUNISHED FOR MAKING COMMENTS ABOUT THE TESTS
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| 00:44:25 2634.8 |
INDO-CHINA - FRENCH FORCES DRIVE TO CUT OFF RED UNITS.
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| 00:44:39 2648.8 |
LS BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM WOODED AREA AS FRENCH DIVE BOMBERS DROP BOMBS ON ENEMY POSITIONS. FRENCH ARTILLERY SHELLS RED SUPPLY LINES IN THE JUNGLE. MONTAGE DEAD RED SOLDIERS LIE ON JUNGLE GROUND.
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| 00:45:34 2703.8 |
PRESIDENT-ELECT IKE PLAYS WITH HIS GRAND-
CHILDREN AT CELEBRATION OF GRANDMA MAMIE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY. CU MAMIE TAKES A BITE OF THE BIRTHDAY CAKE |
| 00:46:16 2745.8 |
MS VERNON C. MEYERS, PUBLISHER OF LOOK MAGAZINE HONORS PIONEERS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY. AMONG THOSE SHARING THE HONORS IS M.J. BLOOMBERG, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD AT UNIVERSAL, AND JACK CONE, PRESIDENT OF THE PIONEERS.
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| 00:47:34 2823.8 |
MONTAGE AN OUTDOOR FUNERAL IS HELD IN ISRAEL FOR DR. HIAM WEISSMAN FORMER PRESIDENT OF THAT THAT COUNTRY. A WOMAN SPECTATOR CRIES INTO HER HANDKERCHIEF.
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| 00:47:51 2840.8 |
COLLEGE FOOTBALL - MICHIGAN STATE 21 NOTRE DAME 3
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| 00:48:38 2887.8 |
PRINCETON 27 - YALE 21
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| 00:49:50 2959.8 |
LS PRINCETON'S HOMER SMITH RACES 92 YARDS FOR A TOUCHDOWN
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| 00:50:00 2969.8 |
VOL 25/415
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| 00:50:20 2989.8 |
IKE AT CAPITAL. PRESIDENT ELECT TALKS WITH TRUMAN. LS IKE AND MAMIE ARRIVE BY PLANE 500,000 PEOPLE LINE THE PATH OF IKE'S MOTORCADE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
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| 00:52:11 3100.8 |
PRESIDENT TRUMAN PRESENTS THE HARMON INTERNATIONAL AVIATION TROPHY TO MADAME JACQUELINE ORIOL, DAUGHTER OF THE FRENCH PRESIDENT FOR SETTING NEW WOMAN'S SPEED RECORD IN A FRENCH JET.
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| 00:52:23 3112.8 |
MS TRUMAN RECEIVES HIS ANNUAL GIFT OF A LIVE TURKEY FOR THE HOLIDAYS FROM AMERICA'S TURKEY GROWERS
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| 00:52:35 3124.8 |
FORMER PRESIDENT OF CHILE REMOVES HIS SASH OF OFFICE AND PLACES IT ON THE NEW PRESIDENT GENERAL CARLOS IBANEZAS CROWD OF VIPS LOOK ON. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT IS THERE TO WISH HIM WELL. CROWDS LINE THE STREETS EAGER TO VIEW THEIR NEW LEADER. CRACK UNITS OF CHILE'S MILITARY GOOSE STEP AS THEY MARCH IN REVIEW.
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| 00:53:44 3193.8 |
LS A SYSTEM TO LIGHT UP THE RUNWAY AT NIGHT CALLED 'FIDO' BY THE BRITISH USES THOUSANDS OF TINY BURNERS TO OUTLINE THE RUNWAY. A BRITISH AIRLINER COMES IN FOR A LANDING. AS SEEN BY THE PILOT'
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| 00:54:12 3221.8 |
MS JAPANESE WOMAN CARRIES HER BABY IN A PAPOOSE ON HER BACK AS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE GATHER AT IMPERIAL PALACE GROUNDS TO GET A GLIMPSE OF HEIR TO THE THRONE PRINCE AKIHITO. THE PRINCE AND HIS FATHER HIROHITO APPEAR ON BALCONY AND WAVE. THOUSANDS WAVE BACK.
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| 00:54:47 3256.8 |
MS CROWD OF PEOPLE WHO CAME TO WISH BONNIE PRINCE CHARLES, WAVE TO AN EMPTY BALCONY. THE PRINCE DID NOT SHOW.
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| 00:55:07 3276.8 |
CU PHOTOS OF PRINCE CHARLES WITH HIS SISTER ANNE AND HIS MOTHER QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
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| 00:55:25 3294.8 |
IT'S SKI TIME - SKIERS CROWD MT. HOOD IN OREGON MONTAGE SKIERS GRAB ONTO ROPE PULL THAT TAKES THEM UP THE HILL. MS NEW SKIER TRIES TO STAY ON HIS FEET BUT FAILS
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| 00:56:05 3334.8 |
MS FEMALE SKIER CARRIES HER DOG ON THE SKI LIFT THE DOG RUNS DOWN THE HILL FOLLOWING THE SKIERS.
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