Telenews Digest: July 1949 #3 Chiang breaks silence - Snyder’s crusade - Brooklyn - All Star game

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The Front Page - Chiang Breaks Silence - Chiang’s first interview after a six month silence, Chiang with a political people and smiling, Chiang shaking hands, Chiang walks down street with cane
Red P.W.’s Riot in Japan - major protest and rally with thousands of communist prisoners of war dancing and singing, marching down streets while bystanders look on, violence between the protesters and police occurs, one great shot of pushing and pulling in crowds
England - State of Emergency - cargo being unloaded from a big ship, men moving big bags off in wheelbarrows
Snyder’s Crusade - Treasury Secretary speaks with paper held to cover his mouth for most part, plane on runway, deplaning with a US Air Force symbol right behind him, man with eye patch walk with the big guys, good shot of a wall of photographers
Do We Face a Recession - Truman at podium on the topic of economic state, very static, Senator Wherry speaks in front of the building about the recent report
Washington - Nation Guards Secret Report - black man seals window with lock, “General Crop Report” sign, many men in white shirts crunching numbers and doing busy work, secretary of agriculture signs bulletin, black women work the mimeograph machines or printing presses, women at a long table sort and paginate papers, line of pay phones are bum rushed by white men wearing white shirts who are journalists
Air Crashes Kill 80 - tail half of plane is intact while the forward half is destroyed on rocky hillside, great shots of the wreckage including baby shoes and a picture, shots of plane exterior while in flight including wing and propeller, nice high shot of stewardess serving customer, many famous newspaper reporters
A Telenews Special - Chambers Talks! - Alger Hiss, many good court building shots, hay field worker lifting bales of hay, good shot of people filming the hay worker
News in Brief - Washington - woman is sworn in as minister to Luxembourg in front of American flag, man speaks on unions led by the AFL-CIO
Iraq - Iraq leader salutes and shakes hands with other Arab leaders, soldiers lined up in formation
Belgium - hairdressers create masterpieces with hair with feathers boats and more
The Sports Page - Brooklyn - All Star Game - great stadium shots, good shots from above and behind the home plate for the following: Warren Spahn pitches, Ted Williams strikes out , Joe Dimaggio singles to left field, someone scores, Jackie Robinson slides safe into second base, Stan Musical hits a long home run to right field, good shots of crossing the plate, PeeWee Reese grounds into double play

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, catalog record