Telenews Digest: December 1949 #1 Did Russia get the A-bomb? - Lady G.I.’s - Notre Dame upsets SMU

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1949

Creator: Telenews Digest

Complete Record: News of the Nation - Washington - Did Russia Get U.S. Atom Aid? - Press Conference confirming uranium oxide shipments to Russia, mentions Manhattan Project and something signed “H.H.”, possibly Herbert Hoover or Harry Hopkins???, man speaking to Congressional committee New Jersey - Water Crisis - nice lone shot of a water tower standing while surrounded underneath by brush and by a couple bare trees, pool of water holding water while a pump is used to pump pond water into a chlorinator, a close up of stenciled “USA 01092591”, kids bring little canisters and water holders to get water, a great shot of a kid sipping water from a pot and then looking up at the camera and smiling with a really big gap in between his front teeth Virginia - Field Training for Lady G.I.’s - doughboys are marching, but wait “did we say dough boys? They’re doughgirls. Members of Uncle Sam’s Powderpuff army, medium shot of a sign “Wac Bivouac Area”, shot of a woman putting on lipstick in a uniform, eating mess hall lunches, gas mask drills in the forest, women playing baseball, and sliding into home U.S. News Briefs - New York - fireboat welcomes a big boat with spewing water hoses, the captain kisses a little girl representing Norwegian Americans Washington - Secretary of Defense and general step off a plane New York - many people in a crowd hold little books up like a Maoist rally, union debates about communism The Foreign Page - Yugoslav Youth Prepares, shot of Yugoslavia’s flag whipping in the air, people working hard with picks and carts and wheelbarrows, teach-ins are in place as every free moment is spent on military training, shot of people practicing how to fire a rifle, with people squatting next to the targets....can I just say STUPID! France - Another Air Crash - air rubble still burning a little, one passenger was carefully lifted by two men as he is wrapped in a blanket, another man is bandaged up Overseas Bulletins - Norway - a little sole survivor of a transport full of Jewish children getting into an accident is brought in front of the cameras, shots of him brought out in the outdoors holding a man’s hand England - Winston Churchill’s 75th birthday as people look on and he waves from a doorstep Israel - Weizmann is 75 also, and many dignitaries of Arab countries , great shot of the dignitaries walking then making a right as we look from a crane shot on them England - shot of a nice naval boat, a perfect shot of an officer bringing the telescope up to his eye and looking through it to the left as crewmen run to the right, shot of an old boat with a French and British flags, the modern fighting ship shoots and sinks the old boat, as we see the boat slowly sinking and the flags being the last thing to go down Mexico - black smoke, a fire sweeps through a large furniture company, firefighters trying to fight the blaze, as young buff men knock down dangerous brick walls with two by fours and such Guatemala - beautiful pan of Guatemala City and its buildings, beautiful shot of two side-by-side very high waterfalls, people on a bridge-like structure looking over the flowing water Italy - flooded plains as far as you can see, a drive by shot of a sign saying “Castel Bolognese,” a man carrying a bale of hay on his shoulders, a man carrying his DOG, chickens, Tuscany being rushed with water everywhere, a lone horseman riding in the distance in water between buildings, a train wreck on the side of the mountain with billowing white smoke, shots of people wondering around aimlessly, nice shots of the wreckage Italy - a library-like room as we find out these documents and such have been hidden, experts in white jackets prepare the documents through preserving it and taking good care of it, a close up shot of “Ri Ambasciata di Italia” with a stamped “SEGRETO” below it, close ups of a typewritten letter by Hitler, a handwritten letter by Mussolini The World of Sports - Football - Notre Dame Wins Thriller - Packed Cotton Bowl stadium, hail Mary TD pass, QB can run!, nice long TD run, punt from the endzone