Warner Pathe #6

Complete catalog record
1. Eisenhower and Truman win NH primary, vs. Taft, streets of New Hampshire, New Englanders going to polls in snow, reaches Eisenhower in Frankfurt, "Ike says, "He's proud By Golly", Truman addresses 100 high school editors
2. Raging storms, highest storms in in California's High Sierras. At Soda Springs, a home is buried under 25 ft of snow, catches on fire, burning under snow.
3 Hay dropped to starving cattle in Nevada by Navy flying over land, cowboy waves
4. Tornadoes sweep through six Southern States, Tornado "Bob", vs. wreckage, Arkansas,
5. Eclipse filmed in Sudan and India, scientific camp, observation, vs. carnival in India, bathers
6. Water power developed in Chile, vs. Andes, waterfalls, vs. dams, hydroelectric plants, construction
7. Canada introduces 2 new planes for experimental flying and research.
8. Royal Picture Gallery , The Morris House in The Hague in the Netherlands, gets a new heating system to preserve paintings, vs. Flemish painters, Reubens, etc.
9. Oak Ridge Tennessee Atomic pile, fission pellets, push rods, nuclear workers, Geiger counter, liquid filled windows, mechanical arms, laboratories, cobalt radiation therapy on girl with cancer (strangely uncomfortably scene)
10. First run of Congressional Streamliner Train, vs. compressed air controlled doors, vs. decor, luxury devices, engineers, conference room, phone via radio, coffee shop, early microwave oven, dining car
11. Tour of private library of Edward Alexander Parsons, table case room - Dante's manuscript, vs. books, printing blocks, smallest book compared with largest, Louisiana purchase documents
12. Swiss Alps, workers digging logging path, horse drawn log train
13. Wolf Rock coast near Penzance, Cornwall, lighthouse, vs. seamen and ships, transition of relief man of lighthouse.

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, catalog record