Warner Pathe #62

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Truce in Korea: P.O.W.'s refusing repatriation handed over to troops from India. Vs Indian troops, helicopter, anti-Communist troops, new school, Korean school children pledging allegiance, new church, U.N. paratroopers in Operation Backdoor training exercise. 2. Eisenhower and wife welcoming home son from Korea, General Dean released, P.O.W.s released and returned to England, vs. greetings. 3. West German Parliament Elections, "communist agitators" try to influence elections, elections, tanks through the streets, atomic mock attack maneuvers in Berlin, Police force show in stadium, Berlin schoolchildren taken on a trip to Frankfurt, children at mess table. 4. Assassination attempt on Sultan of Morocco filmed at a man tries to stab him in a procession. 5. Liberian freighter Greenville saved in a sea rescue. Vs men abandoning ship to swim to life boats. 6. Postage stamp art exhibited in Italy. Vs stamp engravings, stamps looked at under magnifying glass, Galileo stamp, St. Catherine stamp, Vatican city stamp. Pietro Cannanica in sculpture studio, vs. statues. 7. New farms from wasteland: Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state. Vs operations of dam, rushing water, pumps, control room, hydroelectric wire, irrigation ditches off the Columbia River, crops being watered. 8. Dr. Heard's "fire magic". Research chemist demonstrating oil products, various chemical experiments, combustion tricks, cheesy gags. 9. Soldiers put through desert warfare exercises, weird dummies wired for heat test, men on treadmills in desert, shirtless G.I.s. "Amazon Annie" the first Atomic cannon, undergoing maneuverability tests, firing an atomic shell, mushroom cloud. 10. Malayan villagers migrate to a new city via rafts. Rafts going down rapids, Malayan home guards patrolling against communists on shore, new village site, village being built, food and clothes being distributed. 11. History of Theodore Roosevelt, tour of his home Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay, New York. Vs lithograph pictures, Teddy as Frontiersman and Cowboy, Colonel in the Rough Riders, Governor of New York, in an airplane, various stills, and films of president speaking. Teddy on jungle safari in Africa, meeting with Wilson, with Sarah Bernhardt, speaking to WW1 troops, post-armistice Sagamore Hill talks, only sound recording of Roosevelt's voice, interior rooms, Roosevelt’s shaving stand, trophy room, etc., portrait of Son killed in France, Roosevelt's grave.