Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 28]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 28]

1956

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Part 1, British Queen Elizabeth lays the cornerstone for the new Coventry Cathedral. Flashbacks show World War II bombing of Coventry. Part 2, U.S. Navy icebreakers approach Little America as "Operation Deep Freeze" begins. Adm. Byrd dedicates a new camp. Relicts of Captain Scott's 1912 expedition are examined. Part 3 shows an elephant on 15-foot water skiis at Sarasota, Florida. Part 4, basketball: the Univ. of San Francisco vs. the Univ. of Iowa; and Louisville vs. Dayton in NIT games. Part 5 shows the running of the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree, England.

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