Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 21.]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 21.]

1947

Part 1, the Coldstream Guards "troop the color" for King George VI and Princess Elizabeth of Gt. Brit. Queen Elizabeth watches from a Buckingham Palace window. Part 2, shows the wreckage of a DC-4 airliner in West Va. Rescue workers bring out the dead. Part 3, Stanton Griffis, U. S. Amb. to Poland, boards the Queen Elizabeth in N.Y.C. Secs. Marshall, Patterson, and Forrestal, and Gen. Eisenhower attend ceremonies in Wash., D.C.'s War College honoring Bernard Baruch, Hungary's ex-Premier, Ferenc Nagy, deplanes at New York City's La Guardia Field. Part 4, elephants, leopards, Himalayan bears and monkeys are unloaded from an airplane in Ontario, Calif. Part 5, golf: Sam Snead and Lew Worsham in the U.S. Open.

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