Telenews Digest: June 1949 #2 Cominform Boycott - Five percent scandal - Marshall Plan’s second year

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1949

Creator: Telenews Digest

Complete Record: “Cominform Boycott” - building of highway in Yugoslavia, men shoveling dirt, machinery to lay asphalt, assembled crowds cheering - “Johnson Sees End of Atom Secrecy” - secretary of defense, Louis Johnson, describes the nation’s post war policy for nuclear secrets - “5%” - New York Herald-Tribune cartoon depicting Washington business consultants accepting 5% kickbacks for Government contracts - “Smallest Railroad” - model train enthusiasts in England, people riding miniature trains, good shots - “Marshall Plan : Second Round” - man shapes a metal tube on a lathe, forklift moves bails of paper, machine for making bricks, good shot of two men playing chess in a slow moving Parisian elevator, men shoveling dirt and rubble onto some sort of filtering contraption, wheelbarrow dumping load of bricks, several men using heavy wooden poles to pack down dirt, demonstration of an English invention, “the frog hammer” to do the same job with only one man, interesting, humorous shot; primitive paper making in Italy, great stone mill wheels grinding up pulp; line of threshers harvesting grain - “Air crash near Memphis” - American Airlines plane crash in a field - “Washington” - 4H club members addressed by secretary of state before leaving for exchange program - “U.S.S. Missouri” - visits England - “California” - XF-90 sub sonic jet is demonstrated - “Germany” - allied dismantling of factory protested by German workers - “Belgium” - man who renounced American citizenship - “The Woman’s Page” - women model new strapless, wireless, adhesive bra; humorous, provocative shots - “Sports Page” - “Newcastle Handicap” - horse race in the mud