News In Brief International
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Year Published: 1949
Creator: Universal-International Production
Description: A Universal-International Production, 1949. Narrated by Ed Herlihy. Home transfer from 16mm original. Future donation to The Media Commons, University of Toronto. The newsreel highlights several significant events from 1949, including Lee Chung Chin's arrival in New York for medical treatment, the presentation of the Heisman Trophy to a lineman from Notre Dame, a bumper herring crop in British Columbia, the farewell to HMS Implacable, and the return of the Three Cities Gymnastic Championships in Germany. These events reflect the political, sports, and cultural landscape of the time. Keywords Lee Chung Chin, Heisman Trophy, herring crop, HMS Implacable, Three Cities Gymnastic Championships, 1949, sports news, international events, fishing industry, historical ships
Complete Record: A Universal-International Production, 1949. Narrated by Ed Herlihy. Home transfer from 16mm original. Future donation to The Media Commons, University of Toronto. The newsreel highlights several significant events from 1949, including Lee Chung Chin's arrival in New York for medical treatment, the presentation of the Heisman Trophy to a lineman from Notre Dame, a bumper herring crop in British Columbia, the farewell to HMS Implacable, and the return of the Three Cities Gymnastic Championships in Germany. These events reflect the political, sports, and cultural landscape of the time.
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Lee Chung Chin, Heisman Trophy, herring crop, HMS Implacable, Three Cities Gymnastic Championships, 1949, sports news, international events, fishing industry, historical shipsTranscription
acting president of nationalist China Lee Chung chin is given a floral greeting as he arrives in New York for medical treatment during his absence Chiang kai-shek resumes leadership of the waning cause the Heisman Trophy for the outstanding football player of the year is presented to lay on heart of Notre Dame by Wilbur Jordan president of New York's downtown Athletic Club the 255 pound IND is the first lineman to win the award in 12 years the C yields its yearly Valenza off British Columbia and this year the herring crop is a bumper won each time this basket dips into the huge Seine a couple of tons of fish find their way into the hole of the fishing boat kibitzers with an eye on the free lunch which is being added to the harvest at a rate of seven thousand tons a week already the yield surpassed last year's for the total of 67 thousand tons already caught for fish meal and good old kippers and speaking of birds how gullible can they get just to make sure every herring is had they are literally poured into the boat through a pipe which sucks them in by means of a powerful centripetal pump between canning them drying them or just reducing them to a million and a quarter gallons of oil the sea yields a bountiful crop Portsmouth England bids farewell to HMS implacable oldest wooden warship in the world one of the few survivors of the French fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar she was later captured by the British to begin an illustrious career under the Union Jack with rotting timbers and flags flying she awaits execution that see a Doughty ship the implacable witch as they do guy fought brilliantly against Nelson but her Doom is sealed the end of a gallant sea warrior whose hundred and fifty years of life brought many a page in history explosive charges accomplished what enemy guns could not and once bitter foes joking in mourning her passing and with her passing Nelson's flagship the victory finally wins complete victory a century and a half later early and welcomes the return of a traditional sports classic the three cities gymnastic championships a great favourite with Berliners before the war and still a favored 4000 are on hand to applaud the nimble ski dexterity of top-notch athletes representing Berlin Hamburg and Leipzig competing once again after a lapse of many years for German was accustomed to the intricacies of life in their politically divided nation the intricate maneuvers of the agile gymnasts strike a responsive chord [Music] I am the horizontal bars a three cities champ brings the show to a spectacular wind-up as he whirls and twists for a spellbound audience European great gymnastics hai is a spectator sport and the aerial artists start disappointing their fans a giant swing swinging three cities crown to hammer [Music]
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