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

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

1949

Part 1 shows the "Diamond Jubilee" Shriner's parade in Chicago, Ill. Pres. Truman speaks from Soldier's Field on individual freedom. Part 2, baseball player Jackie Robinson testifies before the House Un-American Affairs Committee on the loyalty of U. S. Negroes. Part 3 shows the wreckage of a plane, and the houses it crashed into, in Seattle, Wash. Part 4 shows voyages, of the liner Ile de France Pres. Auriol visits the ship in Le Havre, Fr. Flashbacks show her engaged in smoke-screen tests with the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service and serving as a transport during World War II.

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