Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 29]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 29]

1946

Part 1, shows crowded railway stations and closeups of union leaders as a railway strike begins. Part 2, Evangeline Booth receives a Variety Club award in N.Y.C. as Sen. Pepper and others watch.Part 3, Gen. Eisenhower deplanes in Tokyo from the "Sunflower II," is greeted by Gens. MacArthur and Eichelberger, visits Tosyogu Shrine, and chats with U.S. troops. Part 4, on preparations for "Operation Crossroads" at Bikini. Adm. Blandy speaks on the atomic bomb test. Shows the Sakawa, Nagato, Prinz Eugene, and other warships of the test fleet off Bikini; the testing of drone planes from the carrier Shangri-La; and construction work on Bikini.

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