Warner Pathe #17

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. U.N. truce talks at U.N. American plan vs. USSR. POWs and veterans come home. Vs. POWs come home to San Francisco. Reconstruction begins in Korea. 2. New Sultan in Morocco. Vs. ceremonies. 3. Iranian revolt against the Shah. Includes brief shot of Khomeni shaking the Shah's hand as he disembarks from plane. 4. Earthquake in Greek Islands. Vs. villagers running, aerial views damaged villages, American cruiser "Salem" dropping relief supplies. 5. Plane crash survivors rescued by Navy of the Coast of Virginia. 6.B-36 launches airplane capable of carrying A-bomb in mid-air. 7. Tour of instrument collection in Florence, Italy. Organs, harps, string instruments, and music books featured. 8. Growth and history of oil. Drake Follie oil well museum. Vs. Horse drawn carriage, kerosene lamps, early car getting filled up, early streets with horses and cars, superhighways, geologists scouting for oil, digging a "shothole" with a drill bit, explosive underneath ground fired, Derrick digging exploratory well, vs. spinning machinery, bubbling oil, oil rig on water at night, tankers, barges, pipelines being dug, welding, laying pipe, measuring oil, refineries - vs. modern factory shots, steam. 9. French Navy mini subs probe the deep sea. Explorations of cave located in French Alps. Expedition of mountain climbers in Mount Blanc, attending mass on mountain top. 10. John Ott's stop motion photography of plants and cells in suburban Chicago. Vs. time lapse photography machinery. Some same shots as on Warner Pathe #10 . Vs. flowers blooming.