Warner Pathe #49

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. 80th birthday salute to Winston Churchill. Vs. Westminster Abbey, drums beating in Morris Code, Clement Atlee, portrait of Churchill given to Churchill. The portrait is argued by some to be a "cruel distortion." Churchill states, "The portrait is a good example of modern art." Vs. Churchill speech. 2. U.S. christens warship Forestal at Newport News, VA. Vs. aerial shots of ship, ship being tugged out to sea. 3. Intertitle, "The Fight Against Communism". U.N. charges Red China with taking 11 U.S. soldiers prisoner. Soviet Speaker Mahlik states that the soldiers were spies. Vs. U.N. meeting. Tour of "Voice of America" Headquarters, vs. radio announcers, equipment. 4. History of the Reichstag. Vs. burned dome of the Reichstag built under Otto Von Bismarck, historical footage of President Hindenberg, mysterious fire of Reichstag, Hitler in Opera House, demolishing of the Reichstag. 5. Locust killed with DDT and other chemicals in Morocco. Vs. ruined plants, swarms of locusts, spraying of DDT, bare trees, bare fields. 6. World’s Biggest Marble Quarry above Corrora Mountains in Southern Italy. Vs. machinery used to quarry the stone, laborers on stone, blocks of marble, marble being transported, storage yard, crane lifting arabesque marble, Corara statuary, statues being formed with pneumatic chisels. 7. Whales hunted by harpoon off Australia. Vs. missile charged harpoon being set, harpoon hitting whale a few times, dragging of fifty foot humpback towards ship, shark swimming, compressed air pumped into whale inflates the whale tongue like a balloon, shark tearing off whale flesh, winches lifting whale so that it can become "oil and feed for livestock", "whale oil, used once in lamps, is now used in lipstick and shaving cream". 8. Guided missile launch tests. Vs. missiles being raised on storage platforms, supersonic Nike rockets guided by electronic "brains". Vs. control center, inspection of target and test firing, test firing against test plane, Sparrow air to air guided missile, explosions of plane targets. 9. History and legacy of Martha Berry, founder of Berry schools. Vs. house of Berry House, central hall of Hoke Hill mansion, portrait of Martha Berry, log cabin, country church with children, melodeon and bible, Martha Berry celebrating birthday with cake, passing cake to children, Martha Berry looking over Possum Trot, and the Berry School Campuses, classroom, laboratories, print shop, loom shop, home economics classrooms in practice cottages, pulling burnt cake out of oven, theater classes, pan down a tree being cut by students, Berry saw mill, wood shop, architecture classroom, barn being built, school dairy, baby calf, grist mill, school band, school chapel, tomb of Martha Berry, entrance to Berry School.