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Disaster! 26 Die In Amboy Ammunition Blast
Disaster! 26 Die In Amboy Ammunition Blast This once-prosperous industrial town is a shattered wreck following a terrific explosion of four ammunition-laden barges on the waterfront. Hardly a building is left standing in the blast that claimed twenty-six lives and left hundreds injured.
A Rocket Salute To The Fourth
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery A Rocket Salute To The Fourth A rocket salute to july fourth. From the deck of the USS Norton Sound, a Viking rocket takes off and climbs more than 100 miles into the sky.
Tomahawk: Rushmore Highlighted As Movie Cameras Roll
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Tomahawk: Rushmore Highlighted As Movie Cameras Roll On location for the filming of "Tomahawk', Van Heflin and other hollywood stars pause in their film chores to attend dedication of floodlights for the Mount Rushmore Memorial at Rapid City.
Chile's Valley Of The Moon
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Chile's Valley Of The Moon An arid wasteland that looks like the surface of the moon, a rich supply of valuable Nitrate. Workers set off explosive charges to loosen the mineral-bearing rock.
Religious Festival
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Religious Festival Revival of San Paulinio festival brings out crowds to watch 90 stalwart men carry 85-foot statue of saint on their shoulders. People are smiling, clapping their hands and happy to participate of honoring this saint.
Flame-Resistant Paint
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Flame-Resistant Paint A new all-purpose protective coating called Flamemaster is tested. Shack coated with the new material withstands terrific heat in these spectacular tests.
Party For Charity / Cerebral Palsy
Shaky, DOS, dark in contrast & imagery Party For Charity / Cerebral Palsy Three hundred business men are guests at a party given by Mary Martin, Jane Pickens, Jinx Walsenburg and Mrs. O'Connor, to help the cerebral palsy fund and aid crippled children.
News From The Training Camps
News From The Training Camps: Baseball is back! At spring training camps in Florida and California, eight big league teams, the Boston Red Sox, the Philadelphia Phillies, the Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago White Sox, the Chicago Cubs, the St. Louis Browns, the Detroit Tigers and the Pittsburgh Pirates swing into high gear heading for the 1950 baseball season.
Sander Acquitted - Jury Frees "Mercy" Doctor In An Hour
Sander Acquitted - Jury Frees "Mercy" Doctor In An Hour Dr. Herman Sander tried for the so-called mercy killing of a cancer-ridden patient is acquitted by the jury after an hour, nine minute's deliberation. Newspaper clipping depicting the doctor by drawing, a question mark and blind justice. After the verdict people standing around in the court room with smiling faces.
Judy Gets 15 Years
Judy Gets 15 Years: Convicted of conspiracy and attempted espionage, Judith Coplon is sentenced to 15 years in prison. Her fellow conspirator Russian United Nations attach Valentin Gubitchev gets a lite sentence, suspended on condition that he leave the country within two weeks. Valertin is led away by US Marshals.
Passion Play Revived
Passion Play Revived After sixteen years, the famous religious spectacle, closed by Hitlerism and war, draws an audience from all parts of the world. The play is set to music about the Passion of Christ.
Good Old Monkey Business
Good Old Monkey Business Stars of the zoo come up with a high grade performance and some brand new tricks that bring down a packed juvenile house.
Latino Rodeo A La Chile
Latino Rodeo A La Chile They play rough when Chilean cowboys tangle with steers. It takes horsemanship of a high order to control an ornery steer with nothing but the horse's maneuvers.
Brush With Death
Brush With Death During a road auto race one of the cars goes out of control and plows into a crowd. Miracles happen and everyone survived.
Motor Jockeys Hill Climbing
Motor Jockeys Hill Climbing They never give up on Blue Baron Hill. Forty motorcyclists try the almost perpendicular climb and the results find riders and cycles strewn all over the hillside.
On The Lighter Side - Snow Girls
On The Lighter Side - Snow Girls; The so-called weaker sex thinks that a bathing suit frolic in the snow is just the thing. Any gal who shows up with more clothes is speedily bathing suited. The girls get a hold on the girl that is dressed in ski gear and take her away. In the back ground there's a banner that reads Yakima Bare Skin Club. As the girls take off her ski wear she is in a bathing suit ready to join in the cold weather fun. There's a St. Bernard dog taking in all the festiveness. The girls take this newly disrobed girl and roll her down a snowy hill. At the end of the shot the girl takes a drink out of the keg that's around the St. Bernard's neck. The young ladies are wearing 1950 solid and print, one piece and a couple two piece bathing suits. Some of the suits have zippers in the back and spaghetti straps.
Poultry Industry - Best Dressed Chicken
Poultry Industry - Best Dressed Chicken: The Poultry Industry is hosting their yearly Agricultural Conference by hosting a large banquet dinner showcasing new ideas in the poultry industry and wrapping it up with a chicken fashion show. Prize winning roosters and chickens. A new invention to sort out eggs by size, a assembly line packaging a dozen chicken eggs at a time. A chicken farmer showing the quality and texture of a chicken in its weight and firmness. This conference wraps up by hosting a Chicken Fashion Show, the chickens are dressed to kill, ha ha. From top hats to chicken gowns the farmers are taking pride in their chickens.
1949 Alena Vrzanova & Dick Button's
1949 Alena Vrzanova & Dick Button's Wembly, England is host to Alena Vrzanova, 1949 amateur Figure Skating title holder, the little Miss from Czechoslovakia displays her wizardry and is joined America's own Dick Button, Olympic Champion. Both ice skaters skate beautifully and show off their talents. (One of the camera men is walking off the ice or should I say trying to walk off the ice but he keeps on slipping and falling. The spectators are vocalizing with laughter every time he takes a spill.) The women's figure skaters are showcased 1, 2, & 3.
Steeplechase Thrills & Spills
Steeplechase Thrills & Spills; There are 26 entries in the national hunt race, one of England s greatest. Ellesmere romps home first after the difficult course had taken its toll of riders and mounts.
Spring Training Brooklyn Dodgers
Footage wavy along top of frame. Spring Training Brooklyn Dodgers: Vero Beach, Florida The Dodgers get in their first licks of the season with most of the old reliable in the lineup, while at West Palm Beach, venerable Connie Mack polishes up his squad and teaches a new crop of rookies some ABC's. Baseball players lined up throwing balls, No-28, No-.6, No-13. MCU of manager and baseball players in the background. No-36, No-28 are throwing balls and No-44 is catching them. No-13 watches as a baseball player slides into base. CU of baseball players holding their bats. No-2 just hit a ball.
Deported! Red Spy Gubitchev
Deported! Red Spy Gubitchev Tossed Out By U.S Valentin Gubitchev, sentenced to 15 years for conspiring with government girl Judith Coplon, to commit espionage has his sentence suspended and is deported to his native Russia. He was escorted to a passenger ship named the Batory and the ship pulls away from the dock. Good shot of a man "thumbing his nose" at Valentin.
Biggest Amphibious Operation Since War Atlantic Ocean: Puerto Rico
Biggest Amphibious Operation Since War Atlantic Ocean: The biggest maneuvers in peace time history are conducted by co-ordinated teams of Army, Navy, and Airforces. Eighty thousand men show how team work can capture an objective.
Glamor Rules New Styles For Spring
Glamour Rules New Styles For Spring GREESE - NEW YORK - CALIFORNIA GREECE The Greeks has a word and lines for it - classic flowing lines and their modern outgrowth. Grandma wore corsets but these have the real modern glamour touch. Greek and Eastern influence in the design. Toga, loose sleeves. Women are walking down the cat walk wearing evening gowns, just above the knee dress, flowing tops with pants. I think some of the fashions of this year 1950 could hold up today NEW YORK The fashion changes to women's underwear its more elaborately trimmed and progressively prettier and more alluring. Petticoats, corsets and camisoles. According to the designers women want it all, pretty, comfortable and slimming undergarments. Woman being laced into a corset. CALIFORNIA Those frills, that chiffon - and, oh that itchy lace. Nothing cramps your style faster than ill-fitting and uncomfortable undergarments. The women in California are forgoing those fuzzy lingerie designs for simple, uncomplicated silk camisoles, boy-cut briefs and slimming waist corsets. And of course it the waist corset becomes too uncomfortable, you undo the lacing and puff - off it comes. I think the end result of this fashion shot is a two piece bathing suit.
'Ivan The Terrible' Topples
'Ivan The Terrible' Topples: Wrestling at the Cleveland arena! 'Nature boy' (Buddy Rogers) gets the best of Ivan Petroff after a wing ding brawling battle in and out of the ring. Good shots of the spectators reacting to the match. In typical wrestling manner, the loser is carried off on a stretcher.