Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 9]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 9]

1946

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Part 1, huge crowds in Athens cheer King George II upon his return from World War II exile in Gt. Brit. The king rides in a parade and later appears on the Royal Palace balcony. Part 2, shows fashions. Part 3, Gen, and Mrs. Eisenhower disembark from the Queen Mary in Southampton. Eng., and are greeted by their son, John. Part 4, Mass. Gov. Tobin and Barney Balaban, Pres. of Paramount Pictures, speak in Boston urging support of the United Jewish Appeal. Part 5, shows the takeoff from Perth, Australia, and the landing in Columbus, Ohio, of a U. S. Navy plane. Sec. Forrestal decorates the crew.

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