News Magazine Of The Screen, The (Vol. 4, Issue 3)

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Warner Pathe News

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: 0:25:00 - PROBLEMS OF THE FREE WORLD; Aerial of Trieste, Italy / Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia looks through; binoculars as soldiers invade / flag goes up pole and people applaud /; anti-American riot at US consulate in Yugoslavia (Balkan 'powder-keg' in; Europe, October, 1953); 0:26:32 - Korean students in Seoul, South Korea, protest against; presence of Indian soldiers at POW repatriation camps; 0:26:55 - French soldiers fight communist Viet Minh in rice fields; of Indo-China (Vietnam); 0:27:19 - KEEPING UP WITH OUR PRESIDENT; Crowds enter giant tent to celebrate President Dwight Eisenhower's 63rd; birthday party. Sign outside circus tent at Hershey, Pennsylvania, reads; The Greatest Tent On earth - Attend The Greatest Buffet On Earth -; For The Greatest Guy On Earth / giant scale birthday cake / President; Eisenhower and wife, Mamie, eat cold chicken box lunch / President; Eisenhower and Mamie ride one-horse-shay into arena filled with admirers /; candlelight tribute to Ike Eisenhower; 0:28:10 - President Dwight Eisenhower and President Adolpho Cortinez of Mexico at ceremony, opening Falcone (?) Dam on Rio Grande River; 0:28:36 - VS firemen fight 5 alarm fire in Oakland, California /; wreckage caused by fire, morning after blaze; 0:29:22 - NEW YORK PAYS A TRIBUTE TO GENERAL DEAN; Ticker tape parade for returning war hero up lower Broadway. Some very good; shots of confetti falling and ETD of limousine riding up Broadway; 0:30:00 - ART; Italian artist? goes underwater, wearing sea diver helmet, to paint; scenes / Sicilian tailor? sews bits of cloth fabrics together to create; pictures / Artist? makes portraits using woolen yarn (Picasso, Truman; Eisenhower, & Queen Elizabeth) / women artist? uses typewriter to create; tapestry-like pictures; 0:32:49 - NATURAL HISTORY - RETURN OF THE SALMON; Spawning salmon transported along Deschutes River, Washington, in fishery; rehabilitation project. Workers inspect salmon on fish ladder / black; bear cubs catch salmon along breeding grounds; 0:34:54 - AVIATION - NEW PLANES, NEW RECORDS; Airplane model which resembles 4 slats on a venetian blind, rises; straight-up (like a helicopter) / airplane model with hydro-skis instead of; wheels, speeds through water and takes off - both models at research lab, Langely Field, Virginia / new navy fighter jet, Sea Dart, takes off and; lands in test flight / camels in African desert look up as British jet; plane zooms overhead in flight to break speed record / US Navy pilot; challenges new speed record, beats it, flying Sky Ray jet plane /; VS, takeoff, flight, & landing of USAF first super-sonic jet fighter plane; (F-100) / VS, USAF Thunderbird jet fighter planes in flight formation; 0:38:40 - TIME; Visit to House of Clocks at New York University (NYU) / curator, Edward; Conrad Smith, examines 18th century clock at desk / varied timepieces; in CU: Sun Dial, sand glass, medieval band-marked candle, oil lamp clock; 17th century Dutch mechanical clock with figurines striking a bell (sounds); wooden Dutch clock with trip hammer chimes (sounds), 15th century Japanese; double-balance clock, 18th century flint-lock pistol clock which fires shot; of gunpowder, lighting a candle to read time on clock face, 1815 calendar; clock and the 'one-month' clock, both in motion. Also, statue with CU of; pendulum in motion / CU pendulum doll on a swing in motion / clock pendulum; in motion / CU 18th century 'tides' clock. Intricate cosmochronic type; clock / CAM tracks row of grandfather clocks; 0:43:05 - GEOLOGY; Scientific expedition travels to northwest Canada...glacial ice cap.; Streamline railroad train speeds along tracks in Canadian landscape, POV; front of train / train engineer at controls, blows whistle / train enters; and exists mountain tunnel / truck carries horses to remote mountainous; landscape / pack horses cross stream in wilderness / glacial crevice /; geologist measures glacial depth by sticking aluminum pipe into frozen; earth / glacial water spout erupts on frozen surface / WS glacier landscape; (Saskatchewan)