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

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

1947

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Part 1 shows a preview of the 1948 Ice Capades in Atlantic City, N.J. Part 2, Britisher John Cobb tests his race car on Utah's Bonneville salt flats. Part 3, a Navy "Skystreak" jet plane is flown to a new speed record over Muroc Lake, California. Part 4, shows American Legion Cmdr. Paul H. Griffith; a convention session in Madison Square Garden; closeups of Thomas E. Dewey, British Gen. Alexander, and James Forrestal: and the parade through New York City. Part 5, shows two women jailed in Jonesville, Virginia for violating an anti-snake handling law; closeups of the rites of the snake-handling sect of which the women were members; and a panorama of the sect's members outside the jail protesting the arrests.

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