Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 22]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 22]

1950

Part 1 shows the battleship Missouri afloat after 15 days mired on a sand bar. The Missouri's band plays on deck. Part 2, Congressman Cecil R. King of Calif. states that the 20 percent tax on theater admissions should be repealed. Part 3, shows millinery styles. Part 4, Gen. MacArthur is serenaded by Japanese school children as he walks on his 70th birthday from his Tokyo headquarters to his staff car. Part 5, shows a closeup of Pres. Truman as he announces his decision to have the hydrogen bomb made. Films of the sun's surface are used to show the effect of fusion. Scientist W.L. Laurence, Bernard Baruch, and Gen. Leslie R. Groves comment on the decision.

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