Warner Pathe #47

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1952

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. President Elect Eisenhower visits the Korean battlefront. Vs. Eisenhower in military clothes, march and review of troops, in chow line and eating lunch with GIs, reviewing South Korean troops, watching mock maneuvers from binoculars. Eisenhower aboard the cruiser Helena, vs. of Helena, helicopter landing on ship with cabinet aboard, John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State), George Humphrey (Treasury Secretary), McKay, Joseph Dodge. Eisenhower visits Hawaii. Vs. parade in Honolulu. Eisenhower steps off plane. Eisenhower at conference with John Foster Dulles and General MacArthur. 2. Crowns and jewels of Elizabeth II displayed in anticipation of Elizabeth's coronation. Vs. imperial state crown, royal scepter, orb of England, Crown of St. Edward, Sword of Saints. 3. Britain explodes first atomic bomb on Montebello islands off of Northeast Australia. Vs. frigate sailing near island, shirtless and unshaven men in control room, cu countdown dial, explosion, observers, mushroom cloud. 4. French battle 20,000 "fanatic reds" in Vietnam at the Battle of Na San. Vs. aerial views Na San, Koreans digging ditches, plane landing reframed in bunker window with barbed wire, men behind barbed wire, various parachute drops, napalm being dropped, infantry capturing Korean equipment. 5. Parachute maneuvers in South Korea. Vs. United Nations airbase in South Korea, training maneuvers, plane in formation, parachuters dropping out of planes en masse, cargo parachutes, long shot various parachutes. 6. Navy supply ship Grommet Reefer wrecks off Leghorn, Italy. Vs. sea rescue, crowds on shore, sailor being picked up out of water. 7. Plastics used in making of ships and cars at Puget Sound Naval Ship Yard in Bremerton, Washington. Naval officer feeling plastic hull of small boat and beating it with a sledge hammer, various vials of chemicals, block of styrofoam displayed by naval officers, plastic LCDP transport ship being made and transporting troops toward land. Engineers in Costa Mesa forming auto bodies with fiberglass, man chopping body with ax, man driving in fiberglass made car. 8. Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution delivered from Library of Congress to National Archives building. Vs. armed procession, documents being automatically lowered into safe, inscription in stone of names of the documents, Truman at ceremonies for the Bill of Rights, portrait of Washington. 9. San Francisco school children study the stars at the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences. Vs. Engineer at drafting table, cu of blue prints, poster of the moon, cu of planetarium instruments, star projections, master apparatus lenses being placed, children making star projector out of tin can and light bulb, children with scientists and projector, lecturer at control console, control board, pointer arrow, various constellations and shooting stars simulated. 10. History and tour of U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Vs. aerial view, sailing and crew ships, salvage from U.S.S. Delaware, basketball game, gymnasts, football team, goat mascot, naval science classrooms, mess hall, mid midshipmen marching to chapel services, organist, men in church marching and singing, formal review showing uniforms of the past, Graduation ceremonies, throwing hats in the air, singing America the Beautiful, portrait of James Lawrence, monument to the battle of Tripoli, portrait of Commodore Perry, Ferris, George Bancroft, Dewey, John Paul Jones, shadow box still life.