The Telenews Digest: News of the Nation

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1948

Creator: Telenews Productions

Complete Record: “Philadelphia: New Party Founded” title card. Banners outside bldg. parade float w/ GOP elephants in “merry-go-round.” EXT convention house “New Party Convention,” WS of crowd inside bldg. man speaks at podium announcing Henry Wallace as Dem. candidate, crowd cheers, another man speaks at the podium announcing progressive party candidate for pres is also Wallace. Idaho senator Glen Taylor, 2nd place, carries child to podium, family waves to crowd, man singing 1948 campaign song at podium. MCS Wallace acceptance speech at podium, people cheer. “Stone Mountain: Masked Klansman Meet in Georgia” title card. KKK man in street, cars passing by, directing traffic to their rally. CS of KKK logo on man’s uniform. WS of Klansman gathered in a field, CS “Grand Dragon of KKK poses with another KKK big-wig, VS of Klansmen applauding, marching, etc. at night w/ burning flags, in opposition to Dem. party’s civil right platform. “Exclusive: Police Break N.Y. Narcotics Ring.” title card. EXT NY Hotel. shot of 5 people arrested, MCS brown paper bags of pot, weighing scale, rolled joints, CS of the accused, accused led out to police truck, CS of pistol in hand (incriminating evidence), truck drives of to arraignment. “The Foreign Page,” “Berlin Battles Red Blockade” title card. WS trains in train yard, carrying coal to Berlin, POV on a plane, looking out of window into clouds, plane’s wing, Plane being directed by ground crew, loading supplies onto plane, planes in air field, supplies being unloaded. WS large crowd in Berlin streets, listening to social democratic leader, city council meeting (VS), WS jet fighter planes in sky, planes taking off, VS shots of military planes. “Poland: War Criminal Meets Death” title card. large crowd of people EXT., inside courtroom trial of WWII Nazi war criminal Eichmann - sentenced to death. “Exclusive! First Films of British Atom Research” title card. EXT. Arlo, England atomic plant. INT. MCS generator, men inspecting it, scientists talking, VS atomic plant & people working there. “Mexico: Exclusive! U.S. Condemned in Air Tragedy” title card. POV in plane looking at clouds, over mountaintops, aerial view Mexico City, plane crash, student protest against slaughter of cattle by U.S. troops, funeral. “Science and Industry” title card. “Massachusetts: Master Cell Puzzles Science” title card. EXT. Science lab, sign reading “Cell Laboratories, Natural Sciences” Man looks into microscope, Scientist “Farmer Brown” is making “master cell” (big plaster cakes), big blocks of “master cells,” suppose to make bigger ears of corn, produce more milk, etc. CS Milk bottle, Corn cobs, farmer shows corn stalks, farmer kneeling on ground in corn field, man walks through corn rows, farmer talks about his new “invention,” heckler in the crowd, farmer gets angry. “The Sports Page” title card. “England: Olympic Stars Arrive” title card. American Olympic athletes, wearing uniforms, hats, marching in Olympic village, pledge allegiance to flag, CS woman athlete, athletes exercising in field, running on tracks, gymnast doing series of back flips, runner jumps hurdles, African American woman athlete touching her toes, MWS plane landing, Shah of Iran steps of plane, people greeting him. in Greece, man & woman holding ceremonial Olympic torch (woman wears toga, all men are topless), reenactment of ancient ceremony, flame passed from one man to another, flame is transported by sea on British ship, arrives in London.