Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 11]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 11]

1946

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Part 1, Margaret Truman, Mme. Henri Bonnet, and Gene Tunney watch the Kentucky Derby. Part 2,tourists buy scarce items in Mexico City, Mex. Part 3, Joe Louis and Billy Conn are examined before their boxing match in N.Y.C., and pose with Commissioner Eagan and promoter Jacobs. Part 4, shows John L. Lewis, the coal fields, mine operators negotiating in Wash., D.C., and industrial plants idled by the coal strike. Part 5, on an attempted escape from Alcatraz. Guards fire on trapped prisoners, Marines land to aid guards, convicts are blasted out with grenades, and bodies of dead convicts are taken ashore for burial. Part 6, girls swim in the M.I.T. pool.

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