Telenews Digest: March 1949 #2 Portugal Hails President - The Woman’s Page - Hair Style Controversy

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1949

Creator: Telenews Digest

Complete Record: President of Portugal touring country. Huge political rally in square, parading through streets. President on train, waving to crowds. Oliver Twist film premiere starts riot over charges of anti-Semitism. Demonstrations in London. Spy on trial in Munich. Courtroom shots, prisoners ducking cameraman, being taken away in trucks. War games in snow in Norway. Spain wrecked near Barcelona by saboteurs. Shots of wreckage. American battleship in Turkey. Officers on deck. President of Turkey meeting with church officials. Truman at fundraising dinner, speaks on domestic policy, unions, special interest threats. Cemetery strike in NY, picketers in front of graveyard, speech about working conditions. Coffins stacked up, waiting to be buried, covered with plastic. Mardi Gras in New Orleans, rainy parade, floats, nighttime shots of partiers, parades in the fog. Shots of Mardi Gras queen. Military officer honored at dinner. Jewish celebration of the brotherhood of man, all celebrants over 70, dancing and singing old folks. Quadruplets mark their 8th year with a huge birthday cake. Kids blowing out candles, eating cake. Hair style controversy over hair cut short, revealing the neck. Hairstylist reviewing sketches of the shingle haircut. Demonstration of new styles at hair show. Lady boxer in England. Woman working out in gym, sparing with male partner. World’s fastest woman on Australian exhibition tour, racing on field, hurdles