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Daughters of the American Revolution to honor Yorktown heroes
Title card: "DAR Pilgrims! Delegates sail to France to honor heroes of Yorktown" / president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Edith Scott Magna, on board ship bound for Paris / DAR flag raising and flying in wind / Note:...
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Teenagers compete for safe driver Road-E-O; Pres. Dwight Eisenhower greets them
Title "Safe Driving - National Teen-age Road-E-O" superimposed over driver of car taking test, men to side / Pres. Dwight Eisenhower walks down White House steps to greet contestants wearing jackets with competition emblems for country's...
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NATO Chiefs visit Saclant Compound and tour the new carrier USS Forrestal under construction during their first visit to US
Title: "People and Events You're Reading about" superimposed over newspapers off press / Title: "NATO Chiefs On First Visit To The U.S." superimposed over NATO permanent representatives and other members: Andre De Staercke of Belgium;...
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Russia, Austria, United Kingdom and France at conference in Vienna reach agreement on terms of independence treaty for Austria
Card: "Paramount News issue no 78" / title card: "The peace offensive - Reports from Vienna, Washington and Paris" / shot of exterior of Belvedere Palace where conference is held / Soviet Union, Austrian, British, and French flags in...
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower reports on NATO's achievements
Title: "Ike Reports - 14 Nations Get Accounting of NATO Gains" superimposed over angle view of NATO flags against sky / Aerial of SHAPE HQ in France / VS NATO flags at HQ / CU SHAPE flag / CU Tilt down from flag to HQ entrance / CU...
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Canada's Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission and the US Army Corps of Engineers launch $17.5 million project to stop soil erosion on Niagara Falls
Title: "Niagara Falls Face Lifting - Canada-U.S. Launch Program" superimposed over Niagara Falls / High angle MS buses drive around curve to overlook / Goat Island on the American side, speaker on platform in front of falls, US and...
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During the Hungarian Revolution, refugees cross into Austria
Title card: "Austria-Hungary Frontier, The Last Yards to Freedom..." / The border area between Hungary and Austria and the flimsy border gate with a flag on it / Several dramatic views of Hungarians running from Russian soldiers and...
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Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin is dead
Title Card: "Bulletin - Joseph Stalin Is Dead" // Moscow: LS Kremlin Wall in snow / MS building / VS people walking in street, reading newspapers, woman with baby / CU Joseph Stalin in military uniform, smiling slightly / MS Vyacheslav...
Hearst Metrotone News
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy clap during Reagan's inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy clap during Reagan's inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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Group of Daughters of American Revolution in France honor French Navy heroes who fought at Battle of Yorktown in American Revolutionary War
Title card: "DAR honor French heroes of Yorktown - Members making pilgrimage to Europe see Mrs. Caldwell give flag to Lt. Lemignon of French Navy" / pan across large group of DAR members standing outside building with French Navy officer...
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Inventor Igor Bensen tests flying boat at Cypress Garden, FL
Title: "A Boat That Flies!" superimposed over boat being towed along water / MS boat on beach, people around boat / MS Igor B. Bensen, aviation inventor and President of the Bensen Aircraft Corp., Raleigh-Durham Airport, placing...
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During Korean War, stars from movie "The Girls of Pleasure Island" fly to South Korea for premiere of movie there for UN troops
Title "Hollywood to Korea . . . Stars fly to Seoul for World Premiere" superimposed over images of flashing stars / actors from movie walking across tarmac at airport in Los Angeles / actors standing on steps to plane, including Don...
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Anthony Eden speaks at English Speaking Union in London as the Palace of Nations in Geneva prepares for the Big Four Summit
Title: "Big Four -- World Looks to Geneva" superimposed over Palace of Nations in Geneva as Geneva prepares for Summit talks between the United States, Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain / high angle WS Geneva and Lake Geneva / CU...
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On Mother's Day, Mrs. John Henry Hammond welcomes Eleanor Roosevelt to home of Theodore Roosevelt
CU side view Mrs. John Henry Hammond (Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond) stands near flag and speaks, SOT welcoming First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to Roosevelt House, home of former Pres. Theodore Roosevelt / CU Eleanor; SOT says she is very...
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Soviet embassy in Washington, DC throws lavish party for 35th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Title: "Washington -- Curtain Lifted for Party at Red Embassy" over black then superimposed over cake with hammer and sickle on it / MS EXT Soviet Embassy / MS Soviet flag flying on embassy / CU embassy plaque / high angle servers put...
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Scenes from US election night, 1952: tallying votes; winner Eisenhower; defeated candidate Stevenson
Crowded room at Democratic headquarters in Washington, man on ladder and below to mark on big tally board, large sign reads Welcome Democrats in bg / crowd on floor, tally board in bg / crowded room, portrait of Stevenson next to board,...
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On India's 5th Independence Day, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru speaks to crowd near the Jama Masjid Mosque in New Delhi
Title: "On 5th Independence Day…Nehru Bids India Follow Democracy's Way" / MS EXT Rashtrapati Bhavan or Government House / Lancer Guards holding flagpoles marching / MS Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (left) talking to two native...
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Preparations for 1956 Democratic Convention
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 104" / title "Convention - Democrats in Chicago" superimposed over CU donkey sculpture / aerial pan Chicago / pan down Conrad Hilton Hotel to busy streets / awning reading The Conrad Hilton, people...
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Argentinian Juan Manuel Fangio wins Grand Prix; Britain's Stirling Moss comes in second
Title "Auto Champion - Fangio Wins Grand Prix" superimposed over racing cars / flags on poles, crowd in stands, building with advertising signs for Mercedes, Esso and Bosch to side, buildings in bg / mechanics checking over East German...
Hearst Metrotone News
Vladimir Lenin gives a speech and Russian workers storm the palace gates during the Russian Revolution.
Vladimir Lenin gives a speech and Russian workers storm the palace gates during the Russian Revolution.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns in Ohio and New York State
[Dayton, OH, 1936] Eleanor Roosevelt on railcar back platform as she is handed up big bouquet / woman on ground among crowd handing up bouquet to Eleanor Roosevelt who reaches down and shakes hands, men behind her, policeman by car / VS...
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World War II: North Africa
World War II / French language / North Africa campaign / Nazi flag on E-boat / German soldiers cleaning E-boat / officer and solider inspect boat's gun turret / barrels being unloaded from ship and rolled away / CU Field Marshall Rommel...
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Missouri and Mississippi River flooding
Title card: "A Cameraman's Story - 'I Saw it Happen' - A City's Fight for Life" / United States map / CU section of map, with pointer stick moving along the Missouri River in the Iowa area / flooded Council Bluffs with buildings under...