Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-940

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00:00:48 7.5	CRIME HEARING COMMITTEE HEARS HOOVER & MCGRATH IN CAPITAL. ATTORNEY GENERAL MCGRATH IS WITNESS BEFORE THE KEFAUVER COMMITTEE.
00:01:13 32.5	FBI DIRECTOR HOOVER MAKES PLEA FOR STRONGER LAW ENFORCEMENT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.
00:02:22 101.5	HEROES HOME: LIVING AND DEAD BACK FROM KOREAN FRONT. MONTAGE MARINES GET HAPPY WELCOME FROM FAMILIES AND FRIENDS AS THEY LAND AT OAKLAND.
00:03:09 148.5	BODIES OF MARINES ARE LOWERED FROM THE SHIP AT PIER IN SAN FRANCISCO. BEREAVED FAMILIES & AN HONOR GUARD HOLD A SERVICE AT THE PIER.
00:03:36 175.5	EARL COTT, NATIONAL COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION DISTRIBUTE TOYS TO THE CHILDREN OF EUROPE WHO HAVE BEEN ORPHANED BY PAST WARS.
00:04:20 219.5	DISABLED CHILDREN, NANNY WITH CRUTCHES, LEAVE WITH THEIR TOYS.
00:04:43 242.5	FAID ABDUL AHAD FROM AFGANISTAN, VISITS MINES OF ROSLIND, WASHINGTON AND IS INVITED IN.
00:04:45 244.5	LOCAL MINERS RIDE INTO THE MINE ON SMALL TRAM & INVITE AHAD INSIDE. AHAD WORKS IN THE MINE ALONGSIDE THE MINERS.
00:05:07 266.5	NAVY WAVES PACK THEIR OWN PARACHUTES AT AIRBASE IN NEW JERSEY.
00:05:13 272.5	CU WAVE IN FULL PARATROOP GEAR IS READY FOR HER 1ST JUMP OUT OF A PLANE. THE GIRLS SIT IN TRANSPORT PLANE AND PREPARE FOR THE JUMP
00:05:32 291.5	ONE BY ONE THE GIRLS JUMP OUT AND LAND LIKE PROS.
00:06:00 319.5	SPORTS: SPEED CAR THAT RESEMBLES TWIN JET IS DRIVEN TO A NEW SPEED RECORD BY PIETRO TARUTTI NEAR ROME, ITALY.
00:06:45 364.5	ICE SKATING CHAMP DICK BUTTON, GIVES CROWD OF KIDS HIS AUTOGRAPH, BEFORE PUTTING ON CLASS DEMONSTRATION IN VIENNA.
00:07:33 412.5	SLOW MOTION SHOT OF BUTTON DOING A SPIN.
00:07:49 428.5	VOL 24/443
00:08:11 450.5	WELCOME: PRESIDENT AURIOL OF FRANCE, HAILED ON VISIT TO NEW YORK. FRENCH LINER "ILE DE FRANCE" ARRIVES IN NEW YORK HARBOR
00:08:30 469.5	AURIOL & HIS WIFE SEE THE STATUE OF LIBERTY FROM THE DECK OF THE SHIP.
00:09:01 500.5	PRESIDENT TRUMAN GREETS AURIOL AT THE NATION CAPITAL. DRIVE IN AN OPEN LIMO TO BLAIR HOUSE. THOUSANDS CHEER ALONG THE WAY.
00:09:52 551.5	IN A SPEECH, AURIOL THANKS THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S. FOR THEIR HELP DURING THE WAR.
00:10:20 579.5	KOREA: MASS PARACHUTE DROP SPEEDS DRIVE TO THE 38TH PARALLEL. PARATROOPS STRAP ON THEIR CHUTES BEFORE ENTERING THE PLANES IN JAPAN.
00:10:34 593.5	LONG COLUMNS OF PARATROOPERS MARCH TO THEIR PLANES. ELS TROOPS JUMP OUT OVER MUNSAN, KOREA.
00:11:18 637.5	GENERAL MACARTHUR AND GENERAL RIDGEWAY WATCH THE OPERATION FROM THEIR JEEP.
00:11:38 657.5	PAN OF HUNDREDS OF WARSHIPS TIED SIDE BY SIDE IN MOTHBALLS AT THE NAVAL BASE IN SAN DIEGO.
00:11:48 667.5	BUSY NAVY YARD REFITTING THE MOTHBALL SHIPS FOR ACTIVE DUTY. SAILORS TAKE WRAPS OFF GUNS.
00:12:17 696.5	INDO-CHINA: FRENCH FORCES GO ASHORE AT ROCKY BEACH TO ATTACK CAVE WITH AN ENEMY RADIO STATION INSIDE. STASH OF ARMS AND SUPPLIES ARE CAPTURED.
00:13:06 745.5	DOZENS OF REFUGEES ARE TAKEN OFF THE ISLAND BELONGINGS AND TRANSPORTED TO A 'SAFE' AREA.
00:13:17 756.5	BASKETBALL: KENTUCKY WINS NCAA COLLEGIATE CROWN. BEAT KANSAS STATE 68-58.
00:15:03 862.5	VOL 24/444
00:15:25 884.5	CHIEF-OF-STATE: AURIOL VISIT STRESSES PEACE, FREEDOM, UNITY. AURIOL REVIEWS MIDSHIPMEN AT ANNAPOLIS IN THE RAIN.
00:16:13 932.5	AURIOL OLACES WREATH AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY.
00:16:33 952.5	FRENCH PRESIDENT AURIOL ADDRESSES JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS.
00:17:13 992.5	HAPPY ENDING: EX-GI WEDS INVASION SWEETHEART IN ITALY. EX-GI GEORGE WARTON WALKS DOWN A NARROW STREET IN SALERNO, ITALY WITH HIS BRIDE.
00:17:38 1017.5	THE COUPLE ARE FOLLOWED BY CROWD OF TOWNS PEOPLE. SHE CRIES AS THEY KNEEL IN CHURCH.
00:18:31 1070.5	OSCARS: ACADEMY PRESENTS ANNUAL FILM AWARDS.
00:18:44 1083.5	JIMMY STEWART AND JANE WYMAN CHAT AT THEATER.
00:18:48 1087.5	DR.BUNCHE OF THE U.N. IS THERE WITH WOMAN.
00:18:50 1089.5	MARTHA TOREN AND BILL THOMAS OF UNIVERSAL ARRIVE.
00:18:54 1093.5	JEFF CHANDLER AND WIFE POSE FOR CAMERA.
00:19:09 1108.5	ETHEL BARRYMORE RECEIVES OSCAR FROM BRODERICK CRAWFORD, FOR JUDY HOLLIDAY AS 'BEST ACTRESS'.
00:19:14 1113.5	HELEN HAYES STANDS IN FOR JOSE FERER AS 'BEST ACTOR'. JOSEPHINE HOWELL RECEIVES BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FOR HER ROLE IN 'HARVEY'.
00:20:14 1173.5	SPORTS: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PLAYS HOST TO THE 9TH INTER-COLLEGIATE GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS.
00:20:27 1186.5	LEO MINOTTI, DEFENDING CHAMP IN THE 20FT. ROPE CLIMB DOES HIS CLIMB AND WINS. JOHN BECKNER OF SO. CAL. WINS ON THE PARALLEL BARS.
00:20:53 1212.5	ED BUCHANAN TUMBLES ON THE TRAMPOLINE TO WIN.
00:21:25 1244.5	BILL ROADSIME SHOWS HIS STUFF ON THE HIGH BAR THANKS TO HIS PERFORMANCE, FLORIDA STATE WINS
00:21:49 1268.5	AFTER WAITING FOR RAIN TO MAKE THE FIELD 'IDEAL' MOTORCYCLISTS TAKE OFF TO A MUDDY COURSE IN WASHINGTON. MONTAGE- CYCLISTS DRIVE THROUGH A ROUGH MUDDY COURSE WHICH IS BARELY PASSIBLE.
00:22:18 1297.5	THE MUDDY FACED WINNER GETS BIG KISS FROM A BEAUTY.
00:22:26 1305.5	SERIOUS MESSAGE FROM JIMMY DURANTE. SEATED AT PIANO, JIMMY MAKES A PITCH FOR THE CANCER FUND.
00:23:58 1397.5	VOL 24/445
00:24:18 1417.5	DEATH FOR A-SPIES: ROSENBERGS GET TOP PENALTY IN ATOM TRIAL. FEDERAL COURT BUILDING IN NEW YORK
00:24:31 1430.5	JULIUS ROSENBERG AND MARTIN SOBEL EXIT VAN IN HANDCUFFS AT COURT BUILDING. CU MRS. ETHEL ROSENBERG ALSO ARRIVES UNDER GUARD.
00:24:55 1454.5	MRS. ROSENBERG'S BROTHER DAVID GREENBLATT, IS ESCORTED BY FEDERAL MARSHALS.
00:25:08 1467.5	JUDGE IRVING KAUFFMAN WHO SENTENCED THE ROSENBERGS TO DEATH, POSES FOR PHOTOGS AT DESK.
00:25:40 1499.5	ATLANTIC PACT: GENERAL IKE OPENS PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS AT THE HOTEL ASTORIA IN PARIS.
00:26:12 1531.5	GENERAL IKE SIGNS AN ORDER AT HIS DESK THEN EXPLAINS IT.
00:26:56 1575.5	PRESIDENT AURIOL RIDES UP FIFTH AVENUE AND IS GREETED BY A CROWD OF 75,000. MAYOR OF NEW YORK, VINCENT IMPELLITERI IS GIVEN THE LEGION OF HONOR BY AURIOL.
00:27:30 1609.5	FAMILIES OF 4 SOLDIERS THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES IN KOREA, RECEIVE THE MEDAL OF HONOR BY GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY, IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
00:28:07 1646.5	PUERTO RICAN SOLDIERS ARE TAUGHT ENGLISH AT OUTDOOR CLASSROOM IN PUERTO RICO.
00:28:10 1649.5	SOLDIERS GO THROUGH TRAINING WITH LIVE AMMUNITION, AS THEY CRAWL UNDER BARBED WIRE.
00:29:06 1705.5	MONTAGE HUGE TURTLES KEPT, KEPT UPSIDE DOWN SO THEY CAN'T MOVE, FILL A BOAT AFTER THEY WERE HARVESTED IN FLORIDA FOR THEIR FOOD VALUE.
00:29:15 1714.5	THE HUGE CRITTERS ARE DRAGGED, UPSIDE DOWN, BY WORKERS WITH ROPES AND LINED ON THE PIER.
00:29:43 1742.5	BIG TOP: CELEBRITIES JOIN IN HEART FUND BENEFIT. MRS. IMPELLITERI EMCEES THE DRIVE AT THE CIRCUS IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
00:30:04 1763.5	LAURENCE MELCIOR LEADS, THE BAND IN COSTUME.
00:30:08 1767.5	JACK DEMPSEY AND OTHER ACTORS DRESSED AS CLOWNS. CU EMMETT KELLY THE FAMOUS CLOWN SHOWS HIS SAD FACE. JIMMY DURANTE ENTERTAINS, & ED WYNN IS DRESSED LIKE A CLOWN IN A BARBER CHAIR.
00:30:37 1796.5	CELESTE HOLME IS CARRIED BY AN ELEPHANT AS IS DOROTHY KILGALLEN.
00:31:04 1823.5	TRAPEZE ARTIST SWING, MISSES THE CATCH & FALLS INTO THE NET.
00:31:14 1833.5	VOL 24/446
00:31:37 1856.5	KOREA: UN FORCES BRACE FOR RED SPRING OFFENSIVE.
00:31:47 1866.5	AERIAL SMOKE RISES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD IN THE HILLS OF KOREA.
00:31:55 1874.5	SHIRTLESS RED PRISONERS MARCH WITH THEIR HANDS ON HEADS. GIS SIT AROUND, READ NEWSPAPERS & RELAX & PLAY AROUND DURING A LULL IN THE FIGHTING.
00:32:36 1915.5	TWO GIS, ONE WEARING A MOP HEAD AS A WIG, DO AN APACHE DANCE FOR THE TROOPS. THEY GO INTO LINDY DANCE TO THE AMUSEMENT OF THEIR COMRADES.
00:32:57 1936.5	AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER, IT'S DECKS LOADED WITH GRUMMAN BEAR-CATS ARRIVE IN INDO-CHINA FOR USE BY THE FRENCH FORCES, FIGHTING THE VIET REDS.
00:33:32 1971.5	PLANES ARE TOWED THROUGH SAIGON BY TRUCKS FOR MORAL BOOSTING MERIT FOR THE POPULACE.
00:33:45 1984.5	PLATOON OF ORPHAN CHILDREN, OF ITALIAN FIREMEN PARADE IN A VILLA NEAR ROME.
00:33:46 1985.5	THE CHILDREN PRACTICE WITH FIRE HOSES LEARN TO BE FIREMEN LIKE THEIR FATHERS. THE CHILDREN PARADE, CARRYING SMALL LADDERS
00:34:19 2018.5	AS TWO HOLD THE LADDER UPRIGHT, THIRD KID CLIMBS TO THE TOP AND JUMPS INTO A NET HELD BY ANOTHER GROUP OF KIDS.
00:34:29 2028.5	MONTAGE FLOOD WATERS WRECK HOUSES IN CANADA BETWEEN MONTREAL AND QUEBEC. RAIN AND MELTING SNOW SWELL TH RIVERS.
00:34:47 2046.5	ICE CARRIED BY THE RIVERS CRUSH THE HOUSES IN ITS' PATH.
00:35:12 2071.5	GRAND NATIONAL: "NICKLE COIN" TOPS FIELD AS ONLY THREE FINISH RACE. AERIAL HUGE CROWD IN STADIUM IN AIMTREE, ENGLAND.
00:35:42 2101.5	37 HORSES TAKE OFF FOR THE RACE. ON THE 1ST JUMP, SEEN IN SLOW MOTION, 11 HORSES FALL.
00:36:34 2153.5	AS THE RACE PROCEEDS, MORE HORSES FALL LEAVING ONLY THREE TO FINISH.
00:38:35 2274.5	VOL 24/447
00:38:55 2294.5	MACARTHUR RELIEVED OF COMMAND: CROWDS OF NEWSMEN RUSH OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE NEWSROOM TO REPORT THEIR STORIES.
00:39:19 2318.5	PAN OF NEWS HEADLINES 'TRUMAN FIRES MACARTHUR'
00:39:20 2319.5	MACARTHUR SHOWN LEAVING HIS TOKYO OFFICE & BEING SHOWN BODIES OF DEAD REDS ON THE FRONT.
00:40:02 2361.5	MACARTHUR MEETING TRUMAN AT THE AIRPORT, PRIOR TO THE FIRING.
00:40:25 2384.5	CU GENERAL RIDGEWAY, WHO TAKES OVER AS SUPREME COMMANDER, IS SEEN AT THE FRONT IN KOREA.
00:40:52 2411.5	REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS DIFFER IN THEIR OPINIONS OF THE FIRING.
00:42:20 2499.5	TRUMAN SPEAKS TO THE CITIZENS ABOUT HIS ACTION. SAYS IT WAS TO PREVENT A POSSIBILITY OF A THIRD WORLD WAR.
00:43:55 2594.5	SPORTS: THE ANNUAL WHITE WATER BOAT PARADE DOWN THE MACKENZIE RIVER GETS UNDER WAY, WITH 100 SKILLED ROWBOATERS BRAVING THE RAPIDS.
00:44:56 2655.5	PLANE PROPELLER DRIVEN AIRBOAT RACE IN THE EVERGLADES, FLORIDA.
00:45:10 2669.5	AS SEEN FROM INSIDE THE BOAT, THE CRAFT SKIMS ACROSS THE TALL GRASS AT 60 MILES PER HOUR.
00:45:56 2715.5	VOL 24 /448
00:46:17 2736.5	MACARTHUR'S FAREWELL TO JAPAN: MP'S HOLD BACK HUGE ADMIRING CROWD WHO WANT TO GET GLIMPSE OF THE GENERAL AS HE ARRIVES AT HIS HEADQUARTERS FOR THE LAST TIME.
00:46:45 2764.5	MACARTHUR'S SUCCESSOR GENERAL M. RIDGEWAY ARRIVES AT TOKYO AIRPORT FOR A CONFERENCE WITH MACARTHUR AT HIS HEADQUARTERS.
00:46:57 2776.5	COURTESY WITHOUT PRECEDENT IN JAPANESE HISTORY, THE CAR CARRYING EMPEROR HIRIHOTO RIDES TO MACARTHUR'S HOME WHERE THE EMPEROR VISITS THE GENERAL.
00:47:09 2788.5	THOUSANDS OF JAPANESE GATHER TO WISH MAC FAREWELL. CU JAPANESE WOMAN HOLDS A BLONDE BABY IN HER ARMS.
00:47:39 2818.5	19-GUN SALUTE IS GIVEN MACARTHUR AS HE ARRIVES AT THE TOKYO AIRPORT. INSPECTS THE TROOPS FOR THE LAST TIME.
00:48:20 2859.5	THE PRESIDENT: WARNS KREMLIN IN FOREIGN POLICY TALKS. TRUMAN MAKES LONG SPEECH.
00:48:34 2873.5	THOUSANDS OF DEMOCRATS SIT AT DINNER TABLES AT THEIR TRADITIONAL JEFFERSON-JACKSON DAY DINNER. PRESIDENT TRUMAN MAKES SPEECH.
00:50:20 2979.5	KOREA: DRIVE CONTINUES UNDER NEW ALLIED COMMANDER. ARMY VEHICLES CROSS SHALLOW RIVER. GIS RIDE ATOP TANK. PATROL CLIMBS A STEEP HILL. ARTILLERY CREWS LOAD & FIRE HUGE CANNONS.
00:51:11 3030.5	CU BEARDED FACES OF OLD PEASANTS. CROWDS OF PEOPLE WAIT FOR A RATION OF RICE WHICH IS POURED INTO SACKS.
00:51:28 3047.5	FIELD OF CROSSES AT A PUSAN CEMETERY WHICH IS DEDICATED FOR ALLIED WAR DEAD.
00:51:52 3071.5	BOXING: 33RD ANNUAL TOURNAMENT AT ANNAPOLIS FOR SONS OF MIDSHIPMEN. DOZENS OF LITTLE BOYS WITH LARGE BOXING GLOVES LIMBER UP BEFORE THE MATCHES
00:52:06 3085.5	THE OFFICIAL RINGS A BELL & TWO BOY COME RUNNING OUT SWINGING AND BOTH FALLING TO THE CANVAS. MONTAGE THE BOYS PUT ON A FEARLESS FREE SWINGING TOURNAMENT.
00:53:13 3152.5	VOL 24/449
00:53:33 3172.5	MACARTHUR RETURNS AFTER 14 YEARS: ADDRESSES CONGRESS AND RECEIVES OVATION FROM MILLIONS.
00:53:50 3189.5	THRONG CHEER AND MOB GENERAL MACARTHUR, WIFE & SON AT AIRPORT. GOVERNOR EARL WARREN OF CALIFORNIA MEETS HIM.
00:55:01 3260.5	MACARTHUR MAKES HIS FAMOUS "OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE... " SPEECH BEFORE CONGRESS AS SPEAKER RAYBURN & VICE-PRESIDENT BARKLEY LOOK ON.
00:58:38 3477.5	BLINDING BLIZZARD OF TICKERTAPE SHOWERS MACARTHUR'S MOTORCADE ON NEW YORKS 5TH AVENUE.
00:59:00 3499.5	CARELESSLY TOSSED MATCH ON THE TICKERTAPE CAUSES FIRE IN THE STREET.
00:59:48 3547.5	AS TREMENDOUS CROWD OF A MILLION WATCHES, MAYOR IMPELLITIERI GIVES MACARTHUR A MEDAL.