Highlights of 1956 (silent)

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Description: Content warning: documentation of explosions and other disasters, graphic images of human remains.

Universal-International newsreel review of the year 1956.

Title cards read:
Universal-International News
News Highlights of 1956
Voice: Ed Herlihy
New Sea Warfare
Religious Milestone
Beauties of 1956
Storybook Wedding
Blast Kills 1200
Disaster at Sea
War Over Suez
Vol. 29
No. 104

On Leader: "Highlights of 1956" 29-104-1 ORIG. PIX

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Subjects: 1950s, War, Politics and government, Religion, Beauty, Cold War, Celebrations and ceremonies

Tags: submarines; Navy missiles; New York City skyline; Miss America 1957; Miss Universe 1957; beauty pageants; tiaras; crowning the winner; Grace Kelly; Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III wedding; brides; bouquets; lily of the valley; Cali Explosion; human corpses; SS Andrea Doria; sinking ships; passenger ships; rescues; life boats; crowds; Hungarian Revolution of 1956; tanks; urban warfare; trench coats; women soldiers; horse-drawn carts; refugees; haystacks; tanks in agriculture fields; escaping across Austrian border; emerging from a field in winter; men in tears of relief; Gamel Abdel Nasser; Suez Crisis; soldiers; human corpses in sand; airplanes in formation; billowing black smoke; filmed from a tank; cargo nets; explosions; fires; parachutes; bicycles; White House; presidents; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Universal-International newsreel; News Highlights of 1956; New Sea Warfare; Religious Milestone; Beauties of 1956; Storybook Wedding; Blast Kills 1200; Disaster at Sea; War Over Suez; disasters

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Creator: Universal Newsreel

Credits: Voice - Ed Herlihy

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project, Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1956

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Geographical Location: Cali, Colombia; Colombia; USA; Monaco; Budapest, Hungary; Hungary; Egypt; New York; New York, New York

Genre/Form: newsreel

Language: eng

Rights: no notice on print - j.miko 4/23/2024

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: finegrain master, positive

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

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Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 205