Telenews Digest: April 1949 #1 Atlantic Pact Signed - Hope Diamond Collection sold - AAU Diving Championship

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1949

Creator: Telenews Digest

Complete Record: Signing of NATO pact - president Truman’s signature -- Hospital disaster - brick wall collapses - firefighters carry victims down ladder -- Embezzler captured - sharp dressed gangster looking man in handcuffs being released from jail -- It’s spring again - mother and child walking along the Potomac river in Washington D.C. - CU of cherry blossoms blowing in breeze - CU of woman’s face surrounded by cherry blossoms - Indian diplomats, wearing turbans, shoot home movies of cherry blossoms with eight millimeter camera - women in bathing suits lounging in cherry trees - spring comes to Palisades Park New Jersey - workers put finishing touches on amusement park before opening for the season - carpenter saws a piece of wood with wooden roller coaster in background - roller coaster operator manipulates lever to start roller coaster - roller coaster goes through dip - sign reads “Flying Scooters” - ride operator throws lever to start ride - POV shot from rotating swing like ride - medium shot of anxious kid waiting in line for ride - woman walking through fun house when a blast of air raises her skirt Marilyn Monroe style, good shot -- US News Briefs -- mail carriers deliver over a million dollars in jewels incl. Hope diamond & the Star of the East - jewelry spread out on table - Hope Diamond is placed around woman’s neck -- troops march through Washington D.C. on the last “Army Day” - pres Truman looks on - military marching band is lead by a DOG - color guard marches by -- Judith Coughlin suspected of espionage -- Foreign Page -- Iceland - communist rioters protest Iceland’s signing of NATO treaty - police beating rioters with Billy clubs - tear gas is fired -- Japan - quake area revisited - aerial shots of mass devastation following earthquake, could double as war devastation - snow falling on houses under construction - silk manufacturing - workers cleaning up rubble - school in tents, desks covered with snow -- 5 year old boy is claimed to be direct descendant of biblical King David -- Italy - Ingrid Bergman researching for her role as a woman at a displaced persons camp -- Rome - Italian children commemorate Pope Pious’ 50th anniversary - girl offers pope a bouquet of flowers -- London - revelers in Piccadilly Square celebrate the first lighting up of London in ten years - great neon signs, “Guinness is good for you”, “Schweppes Tonic Water” -- Palm Beach Wedding - some lame society wedding - debutantes dancing - rice thrown on bride and groom -- Sports Page - diving championship - plenty of springboard diving --