Warner Pathe #21

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Profile of 30th President I. Herbert Hoover celebrates 80th birthday in hometown Iowa. Korean president visits Harry Truman. Eisenhower adjourns 83rd congress, vice president Nixon signs final bill. Johnson and wife take a vacation. 2. Dynamite at Niagara Falls to get rid of a precarious outcropping. 3. New Army vehicles - The Rhino and the High Herman ( which explodes land mines) 4. First film footage of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Vs. caravans, tent cities, invalids being carried, the black mosque. 5. Mosaic Art, vs. marble being chipped, chips being placed into cement, various mosaic works. 6. New aviation developments - Scorpion jet interceptor (POV demonstration of Scorpion), helicopter which carries its own hangar ( a dome of magnesium girders, new automatic parachutes for bail out pilots, Helio Courier plane which flies really slow (below 30 mph), Navy Pogo Plane which has a vertical takeoff. 7. History of mile runners, profile of John Landy, world's record-setter at 3 minutes, 58 seconds. Vs. record breakers Walter George, Thomas Conniff, John Paul Jones, Norman Taber, Paavo Nurmi, Jules Ladoumegue, Jack Lovelock, Glen Cunningham, Sydney Wooderson, Haag And Anderson, Gunder Haag, Roger Bannister, 8. Tour and history of Mystic seaport museum, Mystic, Connecticut. Vs. ships, masts, young girls pretending to be mariners, sailmaker shop, shipsmith and whalecrafter, rope makers, Plymouth rope walk, figure heads of ships, ship models, whaling paintings, blubber ovens.