Warner Pathe #61

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. ”Problem of the Free World": Trieste port disputed between Yugoslavia and Italy. Rioting in Yugoslavia. Students in Seoul, Korea demonstrate again demand withdrawal of Indian Troops following a clash between Indian soldiers and anti-Communist POWs. Vs students marching with banners. French continue to battle Vietminh in Indochina. Vs battle scenes. 2. Birthday celebration in Hershey, Penn. for Eisenhower. Vs Ike and Mimi eating fried chicken, arriving in buggy in an indoor arena. Ike travels to Mexico to dedicate a new dam. 3.12 million dollar fire in the waterfront district in Oakland, Ca. Vs night firefighting, building collapses. 4. General Dean welcomed back to NYC in parade. Vs ticker tape celebrations, crowds. 5. Italian painter Polombo paints marine life from underwater. Vs Polombo diving, painting underwater, reemerging. Vito Raina creates cloth art, Joseph Cristoph creating portraits in Paris out of woolen yarn, Typewriter artist in Spain. 6. Return of the Salmon to breeding ground in the Deschute river, via salmon ladder. Vs measuring salmon, buckets transferring salmon up river, bear fishing. 7. New planes at Langley Field, Va. Vs plane with venetian blind type wings, model of plane, "hydro-ski" model plane, life size "sea dart" tested and filmed by researchers. British jet beats air speed record in Tripoli. Vs camels watching jet pass over head. America trying to beats airspeed record right after. Super sonic jet F100 supersaber flying, various shots, landing with parachute. Vs Thunderbird jets precision flying. 8. Collections of clocks through the ages at The House of Clocks at NYU. Vs interior of museum, curator, 18th century traveling clock, sun dial, speeded up film to show sun dial changing, hourglass, oil lamb clock, 17th century Dutch clock, Japanese double balance clock, flint lock pistol clock lighted candle so that owner could read time, French calendar clock, pendulum clock, tide clock, American cosmo-chronotrobe, grandfather clocks. 9. Tour of Canadian Northwest territory by American geologists out to study a glacier. Vs Train through Alberta, train conductor, train going over Great Divide, going through a tunnel (POV shot), engineer ringing train bell to scare off bear, horses in the back of a truck, horses being unloaded, geologists and pack horses climbing mountain trail, fording river, horses and men on Saskatchewan glacier, unloading scientific equipment, glacier crevices, glacial water spout.