Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Residents flee as French troops evacuate from Haiphong and Communist troops enter under terms of the Geneva Peace Settlement
Title: "Indo-China - Refugees Flee As Reds Enter Haiphong Port" superimposed over residents fleeing to Saigon (Dept. of Defense) / French Pictorial Services: VS CU French troops evacuating / PAN deserted street / another deserted street...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
West Germany joins NATO in NATO meeting in Paris
Title "West Germany joins NATO" superimposed over delegates at NATO meeting in Paris / West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shaking hands with French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay / Adenauer talking to officials sitting behind him /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
May Day military parade in Red Square in Moscow in rain
Title card: "Moscow - Russia parades might - in the rain" / Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov standing in automobile driving past soldiers standing in formation as he reviews them / close shot of people in crowd applauding /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Premier De Gasperi addresses peasant rally at Palatine Hill in Rome and Pope Pius blessing in Saint Peter's Square
Title: "Rome -- Peasants Hear De Gasperi, Get Pope's Blessing" superimposed over farmer symbol, three strands of wheat on spade, on large disc with people at either side with flags on Palatine Hill / high angle VS huge crowd at Palatine...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
German Catholic Congress in Olympic Stadium in West Berlin
Card: "Paramount News issue no 4" / title card: "Outpouring of faith in Berlin" / title "Catholics from two zones at outdoor rally" superimposed over procession of Catholic clergy moving along on field in stadium underneath large cross /...
Hearst Metrotone News
Wind blows flags in front of the United Nations building in New York City.
Wind blows flags in front of the United Nations building in New York City.
Hearst Metrotone News
Al Smith, Henry Ford, and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ride in a convertible at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.
Al Smith, Henry Ford, and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ride in a convertible at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City.
Hearst Metrotone News
British and American flags wave as hundred of citizens, soldiers, men, and women gather together dancing and cheering celebrating VE Day in Trafalgar Square in London.
British and American flags wave as hundred of citizens, soldiers, men, and women gather together dancing and cheering celebrating VE Day in Trafalgar Square in London.
Hearst Metrotone News
An American flag flies over an elementary school.
An American flag flies over an elementary school.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Post-World War I red scare in Indiana
Men arrested in post-World War I red scare / men walking through wire fence into stockade area followed by soldiers / men looking out through fence wire / men building stockade / men chopping wood / soldiers holding confiscated German...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Canada mourns the death of longtime Prime Minister Mackenzie King
[GHOC Episode H-01] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Canada Mourns Prime Minister" / [1948, Williamsburg, VA] VS Canadian PM Mackenzie King receives honorary degree at the College of William and Mary / VS...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New York Yankees claim victory over Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1947 World Series
Title card: "Baseball" over EXT Yankee Stadium / MS Babe Ruth walks past camera up to microphone / stopping and coughing, waving his hat, Cardinal Francis Spellman stands behind him / CU Ruth, with bowed head, speaks into mic / High shot...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Mohammed Ben Arafa enthroned in Rabat, Morocco after the French exile Sultan Mohammed V
Title: "New Sultan Enthroned" superimposed over Berber tribesmen riding horses / VS Berber men riding horses / Rear shot Berber man standing by horse on hill / Pan hundreds of horses at rest in grassy area below, city and beach in bkgd /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Italian President Giovanni Gronchi and Italian Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino greeted by Rene Coty at Paris train station
Title "Italy's President Guest of France" superimposed over French Pres. Rene Coty greeting Italian Pres. Giovanni Gronchi at train / train with decorated engine pulling into station, honor guards lined up along platform, can see...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
USS General Langfitt arrives in New York, carrying first shipload of European refugees under U.S. Refugee Relief Program
Title: "Refugees Arrive - They Want To Live in Freedom" superimposed over immigrants on transport looking towards New York skyline / WS USS General W. C. Langfitt, transport ship, up harbor / CU US flag flying from mast / VS refugees...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Ernst Reuter buried in West Germany
Title card: "West Berlin's Final Tribute to Ernst Reuter" / Nighttime views of uniformed men holding torches / With a large crowd behind them; pallbearers carrying Reuter's coffin covered with West Berlin's flag with its bear emblem /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US President Harry Truman gives speech at the United Nations in NY City on the UN's 5th Anniversary
Title: 'Free World Hails UN 5th Year' superimposed over UN flag waving on flagpole / title card: 'Through the United Nations, which has overcome the challenge of Korea, the world has its only chance to overcome the challenge of The Bomb'...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: action in the Pacific
[Video unstable at times] World War II / Pacific theater / military ships and aircraft carriers at sea / military planes in flight / American insignia on plane taking off from aircraft carrier / ships firing / anti-aircraft guns firing /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Confederate Army veterans parade in Tennessee during annual reunion
Title card: "Confederate Veterans hold 44th reunion" / Cavalry with white horses and the parade behind passing numerous shops; a group of people on a stage / A long line of supply wagons pulled by horses / An equestrian statue of Robert...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Safety Patrol Parade
Title: "17th National School Safety Patrol Parade" superimposed over parade through park / parade of child school crossing guards / Washington Monument through trees / marching band with majorette / parade Grand Marshal Joe DiMaggio /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US General Clifton Bledsoe Cates, Commandant of US Marine Corps Schools at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, retires
Card: "Paramount News issue no 93" / title card: "'Fightingest Leatherneck,' Gen. Cates ends long Marine career" / General Clifton Bledsoe Cates standing at attention flanked by two other Marine officers / crowd sitting in bleachers /...