Focus on 1952: Year of Challenge (Screen News Digest Vol. 19, Issue 5)

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1977

Complete Record: A dramatic cavalcade of the dramatic happenings that made 1952 a year of challenge in world history. Sinking of the freight ship the Flying Enterprise in the Atlantic Ocean. Parade for the ship’s captain Henry Kirk Carlson. King Albert and daughter Elizabeth. King Albert dies. Scenes of funeral. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Winter Olympics- woman’s down hill skiing, men’s ice skating. Elizabeth Taylor marries Michael Wilding. Eighty four year old man parachutes over Paris. Pat McCormick makes bullfighting debut. Harry Truman announces he will not run for reelection. The Air tribune- an airplane that can be converted into a car. Under water television cameras. Mice and a monkey sent into space. Rocket taking off. Scenes of mice floating in zero gravity. Democratic Convention. Presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman. Republican Convention. Candidates Eisenhower and Nixon. Scenes of candidates campaigning. Candidates speeches. Funeral of Eva Peron- Evita. King of Egypt fleeing after being exiled. People show support for new king. Miss America pageant. Mrs. America pageant- scenes from “homemaker” competition. Winner of Mrs. America pageant faints. Summer Olympics. Men’s track. Woman’s tennis. Bronx Bombers win World Series. American soldiers in Korea. Scenes of injured soldiers. Eisenhower with soldiers in Korea. Constitution and Bill of Rights moved to National Archive. Atomic explosion. Winston Churchill speaks to congress.