Warner Pathe #18

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1957

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Oil developments - Israel building oil pipeline. Suez canal reopened for oil transportation, French drill in Sahara desert. 2. Queen Elizabeth visits Paris. Historic tableau performed along the Seine's banks 3. Films of first satellite, will be the first to be launched. 4. Starling birds swarm in Holland. 5. Rescue groups recover frozen bodies in the French Alps (Mount Blanc). Helicopter airlift. 6. Tornado hits Dallas, Texas, vs. rubble, inside of buildings. 7. Zambezi river floods, vs. Victoria Falls in Africa. 8. Alberta, Canada - Canadian cowboys of Native Canadian ancestry. Vs. cattle, cowboys, plains, trains. 9. Tour and history of the Taj Mahal. Aerial views of garden. Muslim visitors removing shoes, mosaics, carvings. 10. High speed motion picture camera used as research for jet charges and rockets. Vs. photography equipment manned by Lockheed Aircraft Engineers doing guided missile research. Slow motion vs. projectiles against grid. Inner workings of super-speed camera, jet charged being fired, slow motion of jet stream through a pane of glass, then a steel plate. 11. Tour of San Francisco De Young Museum of Art in Golden Gate Park. Vs. schoolchildren, stained glass window, tapestry, early Italian studies in perspective, Titian, Rueben’s, Rembrandt, sculpture of hand of Buddha, children drawing, adults painting. 12. Tour and history of the U.S.S. Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, vs. flight deck, Japanese kamikaze mission plane wing, old Admiral Halsey, guns firing of ship deck, explosion, kamikaze dives, Japanese planes being shot down and crashing into the water, plane crashes on deck, then catches fire, rescue operation, take offs from flight deck, sailing into New York harbor, Admiral Halsey leads fight to keep ship from being scrapped, empty hanger deck.