Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS (JAN. 4]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS (JAN. 4]

1947

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On news events from 1927 to 1947. Reel 1 shows 1927 and 1947 fashions, automobiles, and airplanes; Lindbergh flying the Spirit of St. Louis, riding in a Wash. (D.C.) parade, and parading in N.Y.C. with Mayor Walker; Pres. Coolidge receiving an Indian headdress; the N.Y. Stock Exchange In Wall Street; prohibition era bars; 1929 fashions; a brokerage office, breadlines, soup kitchens, and sidewalk apple sellers; Japanese troops in Manchuria and Shanghai (1932); Haile Selassie, Mussolini, Hitler, and Goring (ca. 1933); Pres. Roosevelt's first inauguration; Mrs. Roosevelt in 1933; citizens parading in support of N.R.A.; Gen. Hugh Johnson; TVA dams and transmission lines; Sec. Wallace examining soil, in the "dust bowl;" Spanish civil war combat; Brit.'s King George V with future Kings Edward VIII and George VI; SS troops rounding up Jews in Ger. and book burnings; Fr. P.M. Daladier and Brit. P.M. Chamberlain; the Maginot Line; Hitler, Himmler, and Hess at a Nazi rally in Nuremburg; Ger. children cheering Hitler; and Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Goring at the Munich Conf. (1938). Reel 2 shows the coronation of George VI in Westminster Abbey, London; Charles Lindbergh, his home, his wife, his kidnapped son, and the public prosecutor questioning the alleged kidnapper, Bruno Hauptmann, at the trial; the collapse of a bridge in Tacoma, Wash.; police quelling riots in South Chicago (1937) with tear gas; and the explosion and burning of the airship Hindenburg. Reel 3 shows Nazi armor moving into Poland in 1939; Fr. and Eng. children being evacuated from cities; Hitler dancing a jig after the fall of France; Ger. air attacks on London; P. M. Churchill amid rubbled areas in London; Ger inf. advancing in Russ. Japanese delegates entering the "Old State" bldg. in Wash., D.C.; Japanese planes attacking Pearl Harbor; U.S. troops training; Pres. Roosevelt speaking; views of the Normandy invasion; Japanesesuicide planes attacking U.S. warships; U.S. airborne troops jumping; battleships bombarding a Pacific island; Marines landing on Iwo Jima; surrender ceremonies aboard the Missouri: Gens. Eisenhower and MacArthur; Pres. Roosevelt's funeral cortege; F.D.R. at various ages (1932-1945); Allied leaders at the Yalta Conf.; a UN Gen, Assembly meeting; and an atomic bomb test.

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