Telenews Digest: September 1949 #4 Robeson concert - Search for Noah’s ark - Marine war games

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1949

Creator: Telenews Digest

Complete Record: News of the Nation - Peekskill - Robeson Concert Starts Riot - black car pulls up on road going to the left of the screen alongside a large gathering of protesters on the far side of the screen with cops directing the traffic and protesters, shot of white people shouting at bus as it drives, shots of girls putting their thumbs to their noses and wiggling the other fingers, veteran’s parade, good shot of people walking with a banner saying “Wake up America Peekskill did!”, rioting and confrontations occur, shot of Robeson in concert in Russia; Cleveland - Odom Killed in Plane Crash - old 1947 shots of Bill Odom, nice shot of racing planes flying to the left of the screen, shaky footage of the house he crashed into burning and people trying to stop the burning, people at night with a few bright lights digging to pull a piece of the engine out of a ditch; Washington - Economic Conference - Three Power Financial Conference, someone speaks of the situation being because of the past two World Wars; The Foreign Page - Yugoslavia - War of Nerves! - shots of people printing newspapers, many men are working on a new railroad, and a really weird machine that looks like a bulldozer but with spikes on the press, Bulgarian refugees speak at a press conference, a three person wide line of men in gray uniforms walk with tools on their shoulders, looks like a concentration camp to some extent; Italy - Miniature War - nice shot of a beautiful church, funeral procession, crowd shots, army search for Mafia; Turkey - Search for Noah’s Ark - Mount Ararat, army’s climbing up the mountain, a little avalanche and rock slide, one soldier slips in the snow, beautiful shot of Turkish army and a flying flag of Turkey; News in Brief - Washington - Truman deplanes California - sailors check out the USS Constitution Japan - MacArthur walks around the airfield; Mexico - Diego Rivera painting; New York - demonstration of latest artic shelter which looks like a compression chamber, waterproof suit demonstrated in a tank of ice water; Brooklyn - a little girl receives a lot of birthday gifts, cute shot of her kissing a boy who gave her a gift, nice three layer cake, little girl sitting on a piano next to a red cross with everyone around her pointing at her, close up on her as she blows a kiss to the camera; A Telenews Special - Marines Test Battle Tactics - row of mobile flyers get ready to play some mock war games, leatherneck army men from boats unload on the beach, looks like war footage, awesome flamethrower being used, nice smoke