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NEWSREELS – KOREA
REEL – I093995
KOREA Panmunjom 1958 – communist party members arrive in snug winter garb at barracks-type building. MCU- Kang Sang Hoo, one of the representatives. MS UN representative at entrance (20 feet) ; LS Icicle covered buildings (3 feet) ; MS Officials perhaps 50 in number leaving building (17 feet) ; MS communist reporters being stopped by MP’s as they try to enter building where pres conference for UN reporters is being held. They beg UN representatives to let them attend it (14 feet)
1957 – Various shots of reporter and camerman, hots of north Korea soldiers and officers. Among the reporters are shots of Russian reporter Ginnali Tehhaun. During the meeting communist reporters and cameraman mingled with those from other nations, sharing cigarettes and conversation. (82 feet)
1960 – AIR MCU Sign Military Demarcation Line (2 feet) ; MS US soldier on patrol duty along line (7 feet) ; MS Sandbagged Trench (2 feet) ; MCU Entrance to bunkers (2 feet) ; MCU Soldier lights cigarette (4 feet) ; MCU Soldier looking through field glasses to LS of communist side of the line (5 feet) ;
LS Pan of demilitarized zone (10 feet) ; MS sign “observation Post 211-First Recon Squadron-24 hour observation of North Korea and the DMZ (2 feet) ; MS soldiers, MS man with periscope (10 feet) ; MS Sign “Joint Security Area UNC” (3 feet) ; MS Soldiers on patrol duty across Bridge of No Return end of DMZ (30 feet)
Also Roll 53 – East German President in North Korea and Roll 15 1951 Korean War – mostly late night firefight shots.
NEWSREELS – COMPILATION #1
REEL – I094035
125535- (10/19/1957)MS Speaker scientist A.M. Nesmeyanov, three shots (14 feet) ; Audience cutaways (3 feet) ; MLS Speaker A.I. Borg, two shots (10 feet) ; Audience-side and rear view, Television cameras manned by cameramen-side and rear view (33 feet) ; MLS,MS,MCU Speaker A.M. Ovukhov, audience cutaway (15 feet) ; MS to CU Speaker B.V. Kukarkin, audience intercuts (39 feet)–108155-(9/11/1955) LS Moscow subway, people coming down escalator, Train going through station, people waiting for train (14 feet) ; LS UNiversity building, students walking towards building. University was opened in 1953, has 20,000 students (14 feet) ; MS University buildings, panning around to other buildings, showing Red Star on top (10 feet) ; MS Students eating lunch in huge lunch room. Black and white bread on tables (14 feet) ; MS Interior hallways show elaboratness of buildings (16 feet) ; XLS Panoramic view of Moscow from atop University building (22 feet)–HMN Roll 7 Jan 18 1957 Chou en lai ou stops at Warsaw Daily Vol 10-11(80ft) ; HMN 2263 18-42 1/27/47 First pictures of Communist China Scene is Yenan. American newsmen and Lady Cripps of British aid to China fund. Cave dwellings, Open air university. Election Place. hospital. ; 168112- (1/11/1963) US planes for India ; SG 504 1929 Troops of China mass against Red Army including General Budenny & Rusian Forces (61 feet) ; HMN 5293 (12/8/1959)China Anniversary parade (Mao Tse Tung) ; –158988 (3/21/1962) Guatamala, Guatamala City MS Sign on wall Death to Ydigeras (president Miguel Ydigeras)(3 feet) ; MS MCU Ydigeras walking, receives note (9 feet) ; MS Crowd (2 feet) ; MCU woman talks with president (4 feet) ; MS MCU Ydigeras with crowd (12 feet) ; CBS correspondant Hughes Rudd ; –111 M 1191 Operation Titanic film on shuttle bombing WWII ; American and Russians fraternize ; –HMN Roll 1 (11/5/1961)Jawaharlal Nehru (of India) and John F. Kennedy arrive from New port for talks Washington DC ; 159956 (4/25/1962) Andrei Gromyko discusses the Berlin problem, tells the Supreme Soviet there are chances for setlement ; LS MS Interior of Assembly Hall (11 ft) ; MS Full-length marble statue of Lenin (6 ft) ; LS MS delegates stand and applaud (11 ft) ; MS Newsmen taking notes (6 ft) ; MS Pan of attentive delegates listening to speech (12 ft) ; LS Podium, Gromyko making speech (17 ft) ; MS Audience applauds as does Khrushehov (5 ft.) ; LS MS Gromeyko speaking, finishes (28 ft) ; MS Audience leaves, Mrs. Khrushehov is also seen again here (6 ft). HMN Roll 12 (4/15/48) Big riots in Bogata as requested.(267 ft) ; SG PSN ist films of Yenan (1/30/47) ; HSN Roll 7 (no date) William Foster Funeral in Moscow, Roll 7 ; Pan Wm Foster with Khrush etc ; HMN Roll 10 (1950) Exchange of ambassadors , China & USSR ; HMN Roll 10 (1957) Chou, Bulganin sign declaration of solidarity, Moscow ; 116583–(9/3/1956)- Soviet leaders attending reception at indonesian Embassy for President Sukarno – MS Exterior shot of Indonesian Embassy bldg with Indonesian flags waving (2 feet) ; MS’s & MCU’s Russia’s Nikolai Bulganin shaking hands with Indonesian President Sukarno (4 feet) ; MS’s Various angle shots of President Sukarno, Russian President Voroshilow, Bulganin, Nikita Kruschev , Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov and Georgi Malenkov seated in Embassy garden drinking and talking (14 feet) ; CBS 165788 (10/31/63) Aid for Indian army – unfiled ; 104690 (4/21/1955) – Bandun, Indonesia Conference begins – MS plane taxis (1 feet) ; MS crowd (1 feet) ; MS Chou En-Lai gets off plane, Pan to crowd (3.5 feet) ; MS Chou walks with flowers (2.5 feet) ; LS crowd walks (1 feet) ; MS Chou gets wreath (4 feet) ; MLS meeting site (1.5 feet) ; MLS pan interior hall (3 feet) ; MS Saudi Aragian delegation (1.5 feet) ; CU Japan sign – pan up to delegation (1.5 feet) ; CU Burmese sign (1 feet) ; CU face (1.5 feet) ; MLS President of Indonesia Soekarno down aisle (3 feet) ; MS Cambodia delegation ; MS Soekarno speaks ( 4o feet)–SG 32625 PSN (12/6/48) Battle for Suchow, China ; 129135 (5/17/58) Gamal Abdel Nasser (president of Egypt) and Nikita Kruschev sign communique in Moscow on eve of Nasser’s departure from Moscow – LS Building in Red Square as car pulls up (5 feet) ; MS MLS Nasser, Kruschev and entourage walk into room, sit down and sign papers. Group of people stand behind them at table. Intercuts of cameramen taking pictures (28 feet) ; MS Nasser and Kruschev stand up and shake hands as crowd surrounds them. They then walk amidst crowd out of room (29 feet) ; 125717 (10/28/1957) Scenes showing a Sputnik launching and an animated sequence of how it circles earth- MS dissolve from opening credits (hungarian) to newspaper headlines re:Sputnik (17 feet) ; MS man operating equipment inside laboratory and handling models of Sputnik (25 feet) ; VR Various shots of launchings of the baby Sputnik (21 feet) ; MS more newspaper headlines including one of the NY Herald Tribune (44 feet) ; MS models of Russian jet planes (6 feet) ; MLS Air to air shots of group of jet planes in flight (unknown as to country) (15 feet) ; Various shots of animation of Sputnik circling the globe (83 feet) ; – newsreel untitled; 100477 (1953/55) East German Newsreel #45 Pyongyang demo ; Leningrad Furs ; Pieck in Stalinstadt ; 140439 (2/21/1960) — In Djakarta, Indonesia Nikita Kruschev laid a wreath at the monument of Independence and attended a reception at the palace in Bogor, 20 miles from Djakarta. – MLS Motorcade through crowd, Kruschev standing in open car. MS people waving flags. MLS Kruschev by car waving hat ; MLS Kruschev lays wreath ; LS monnument ; MSKruschev pats kid on head ; MS Kruschev meets dignitaries at reception. MLS girls lined up on steps. MS Kruschev and Indonesian president Sukarno (40 feet) ; SG 34127 PSN (10/20/1949) Red Victory in Shanghai, China ; 113135 (4/4/1956) – Daily Worker and CPHQ are returned to communists. Editorial staff returns, office staff returns – CU Daily Work newspaper with headlines reading “we’re Back” (4 feet) ; MCU Paper’s managing editor Max Allen and another man looking at newspaper headlines (3 feet) ; MS’s Editorial room showing newspapermen typing , girl sorting name plates , girl sorting typing name plates (12 feet) ; Daily Worker bldg (1 feet) ; MCU’s Girl at switchboard ; girl sorting paper ; man typing ( 6 feet) ; CU Joseph Stalin’s picture on office wall (2 feet) ; 160146 (5/1/1962) – East & West Berliners try to outshout each other via loudspeakers on May Day while in Moscow soldiers and workers parade. – LS Parade in East Berlin (9 feet) ; LS/MS Border wall with wire on top with Ostberlin superimposed on pix (11 feet) ; MS Willy Brandt on platform introduces General Lucius Clay who stands for applause (10 feet) ; MLS Soviet tanks in Moscow parade (5 feet) ; MCU Mruschev waves hat (7 feet) ; MLS/MS Soldiers parade by (7 feet) ; 165881 (11/2/1962) Krishnu Menon addresses meeting at Tezpur, India ; 155239 (10/15/1961) Session of the 22nd Communist Party Congress in Moscow – MS INterior of hall and audience (9 feet) ; MS Kruschev and Frol Kozlov on stage (3 feet) ; MSunidentified speaker (18 feet) ; MS MCU Deputy PM Anastas Mikoyan speaking (25 feet) ; MS unindentified speaker (16 feet) ; MS unidentified speaker (11 feet) ; MS French CP leader Maurice Thorez speaking to Congress (13 feet) ; MS Hungarian CP leader Janos Kadar speaking to session (18 feet) ; 148556 (1/27/1961) – Capital city is calm after coup despite friction between university students and new junta. However soldiers are seen patroling streets. LS/MS various shots of soldiers on foot and in trucks patroling streets of El Salvador as people go about their business. CU machine guns lined up (36 feet) ; MCU/CU Co. Armando Molina (new defense minister) with reporters (4 feet) ; LS/MS various shots of people walking in streets with soldiers scattered about (36 feet) ; MS soldiers open gate to military zone. MS soldiers stand by cannon. MLS Men outside military bldg (9 feet) ; MCU/CU Col. Molina talks to reporters (8 feet) ; MS/CU Machine guns lined up (5 feet) ; 157513 (1/22/1962) Punth Del Este Pro communist marchers at OAS conference.
NEWSREELS – COMPILATION #2
REEL – I094156
hmn roll 12 (nov 1955) — Army in Brazil ousts president in bloodless coup. Troops on horseback thru street, tanks m.g.s, tc (48 feet) ; 118177 (11/13/1956) – UN command accuses North Koreans of vicious attack on 2 south Korean planes while admitting that planes were over N. Korean territory. One of the planes (P-51) was shot down, other made it to base – MS Major General Mathew K. Deichelman, senior Allied delegate to UN commission, enters compound followed by naval side (general is from Air Force) (3 feet) ; MS General and party coming toward camera, with General passing close to lens (2 feet) ; MS Army cameraman probably from Pacific Stars and Stripes (2 feet) ; MS North Korean Maj. Gen. Chung Kook Rok and aides leaving compound where meeting took place: MLS Same group from the rear. (8 feet) ; SG (1/12/50) — Mao talks, salutes out of car. Tired nationalists flee rather than surrender(?). French flag on border ; 139597 (1/11/60) — Gamal Abdel Nasser attended the ceremonies of the beginning of the construction of the Aswan High Dam, which is being financed by the Russians by a long term low interest loan. The Soviet Minister of Hydro-Electric Power, Ignatiy Novikov, was the only non-Egyptian to speak – LS People around monument. MLS Workers setting dynamite charges that Nasser is to set off. MS Worker setting charge. MLS People running to get to good places. LS Nasser and party inspect scale model in tent. MS Nasser looking at model. MS Model of dam and irrigation system (the model is huge). LS Overall of model. MS Novikov speaking. LS Overall of crowd in tnt. MS Nasser speaks. MLS Army band outside plays. LS Barren hills and explosion (10,000 tons of TNT). MLS Man standing and looking at Nile River (43 feet) – Edwards Air Piece (Roll 1) – MS Frank Kearns standing beside Nile, also shot of explosion (69 feet) – Air Piece (Roll 2) – Good shots of Nile and crowds getting off trucks and running. (59 feet) ; 152221 (6/12/61) – Communist signs line Adlai Stevenson’s motorcade route in Rio. A glittering banquet is held in his honor at the foreign ministry. – MS/MCU Various signs along road, i.e. “Cuba Si Yankee Ne” with Soviet emblem on it and MS intercut of Communist headquarters building (12 feet) ; MS Adlai out of car, shakes hands. MLS Crowd inside banquet hall. MCU Adlai enters, is greeted, chats. (28 feet) ; (undated) Allied intervention, Russia troops debarking ; 121509 (4/11/57) — Syn. 9105– News associations argue for lifting of bans on issuing passports to China, J.R. Wiggins of Newspaper Editors Society says US is forced to rely on all other news sources. Syn 9107– Editor Simon Gerson of Communist Daily Worker in exchange with committee members. – Syn. 9105; MS Committee room (2.5 feet) ; MS Wiggins at witness table (3 feet) ; MS Committee members (3.5 feet) ; CU Wiggins (2 feet) ; MS Audiences (1.5 feet) ; Wiggins. Gist, same as summary (23.5 feet) ; Syn 9107– MS Committee room (2 feet) ; MS Gerson to chair at witness table (5 feet) ; MS Committee members (1 foot) ; MS Reporters (2 feet) ; MCU Gerson (sof) replies to Senator Fulbright that he is a communist and a member of the party. This leads to an exchange between Fulbright and Senator Green on relevancy of question. Green rules that it is not. ; 134921 (4/28/59) — Panama, with aid promised by the US and 19 other American republics, tries to end revolt by a revolutionary group recruited in Cuba. Captured invaders have named Roberto Arias, husband of Margot Fonteyn, their leader. Film shows the National Guard Headquarters. Cut neg. – MS National Guard HQ with traffic in front. MS window of building. MS Crest on building. MLS Pan of building (18 feet) ; OUTS are similar to cut neg. (32 feet) ; 138704 (11/29/59) — Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoya arrives in Mexico to open Soviet trade fair illustrating Moscow’s bid for more trade with Latin America. Industrial and consumer goods and models of Soviet space probes and rockets. – LS Pyon, pan to crowd, honor guard (2 feet) ; LS Officials and crowd (5 feet) ; MS Mikoyan cuts tape as Mexican President Adolfe Lopez Mateos watches (5 feet) ; CU Shield of the USSR (1 foot) ; MS Wide shot interior of building (2 feet) ; Mikoyan and Mateos (R) tour exhibit (4 feet) ; LS Group walking through exhibit (5 feet) ; 157411 (1/18/62) — US and Soviet tanks withdraw from Friedrichstrasse crossing point. – SYND. CUT NEG. ; MLS Shots of American tanks moving at border area. (31 feet) ; LS Soviet watchtower near border. MLS/MS Reds building tower (9 feet) ; OTS ; More shots similar to above cut with more shots of US soldiers (66 feet) ; 157681 (1/28/62) — Cuban President Osvalde Dertices calls for Latin American nations to ignore the US and decide on peaceful coexistence with the Castro regime. The Latin American foreign ministers agree only that Communism is incompatible with the inter-American system- LS Wide shot of room (4 feet) ; MCU Secretary Dean Rusk listens to speech through headset (3 feet) ; MS Woman interpreter listens (2 feet) ; MCU Dertices speaking (4 feet) ; MCU Rusk takes notes (4 feet) ; LS Room (2 feet) ; SG 23673 (1/31/46) – China Peace delegates arrive in Peking, Wong ; Promo, Film excerpt teaser – Negotiating with the communists ; HMN Internal revenue cracks down on Communists (1956) ; 15221 (6/12/61) — Stevenson in Rio (cont) – MCU/CU Adlai speaks at reception. He says the economic conference to be held in Montevido will help bring about economic solidarity in this hemisphere (54 feet) ; 154094 (9/7/61) – Nehu arrives in Moscow ; 148546 (1/27/61) –Good footage of a Russian science classroom at Moscow University, which has 25-thousand students, of whom 17-thousand are science majors – LS Moscow University (main building in the Stalin school of architecture) (9 feet) ; MS Library of science division, general view of catalogue room of library (6 feet) ; MS MCU CU Students reading in library, others taking notes (37 feet) ; MS Students in hall, past bookcases (13 feet) ; MS Advanced students in laboratories (7 feet) ; MS MCU Students in labs, boy checking test on microscope while girl performs experiments (33 feet) ; 147204 (12/4/60) – Venezuel, Caracas – Amidst the general uprising in Caracas the leftist students at Central University had been some of the most violent. Even though the riots have been quelled, troops patrol the University area – LS MS Troops with machine guns, troops on patrol, a tank sitting (28 feet) ; 155007 (10/14/61) – Colombia, Bogota – Lt. Enrique Escobar, leader of a revolt by one company of soldiers and two officers is slain by loyal troops when he tried to break for freedom. The government has banned open-air political meetings – MS Soldiers run through brush (5 feet) ; LS Men on Road (2 feet) ; MS Church, military truck in front (2 feet) ; MS Building (1 foot) ; MS Escobar at R with friend starts walking to R (5 feet) ; MS Escobar kicks officer then is shot and falls to ground mortally wounded (6 feet) ; MS Pan shot to Escobar’s body (2 feet) ; MS Guards walk past body of slain man (7 feet) ; 133962 (3/9/59) – East Germany, Leipzig – Red Chinese exhibit at Leipzig Fair is the second largest and shows a large variety of goods, with accent on heavy machinery. Food display features canned goods. Not known how may items are in mass production. – MS exterior of pavilion (2 feet) ; MS Crowd around motor (2 feet) ; MS People looking at bus (2 feet) ; MS Tractor pan to farm planter (4 feet) ; MS Different sizes of rubber tires (2 feet) ; MS Spinning looms (2 feet) ; MS Canned goods display pan to CU of cans of mushrooms (English labels) (4 feet) ; MS People looking at radios, washing machines (3 feet) ; MS MCU Man look at motor display (4 feet) ; ABC 59.8 (1924) – Coolidge – subtitle / old state bldg / Chas E . Hughs / at work and statement (104 feet) ; SG (12/1/32) Exit Trosky (possibly Trotsky) ; 158943 (3/19/62) – New York City – U.S. communist party leaders Gus Hall & Benjamin arrive to appear for hearing at Federal Court House for refusing to register party – MS/MCU/MLS Davis, Hall & anther man pose on courthouse steps, then enter building (18 feet) ; 104153 (3/30/55) – First time since 1945, 1000 Austrians received Czech visas to attend the Austria-Czechoslovakia soccer game held at Brno – MLS Crowd in main square of Brno (5 feet) ; MS People of Brno stare at Austrian visitors (6 feet) ; MS Woman looks for relatives not seen for years (3 feet) ; MS Crowd surrounding house buses some Austrians arrived in (5 feet) ; MCU Flags (Czech) at entrance to stadium as crowd streams in (3 feet) ; MLS Crowd streaming through gates (4 feet) ; MS Czech police check visa permits (5 feet) ; MS Stadium crowd which fills it to capacity (4 feet) ; MS Trolley car seen on main street with no private cars in sight. People on sidewalks windowshop (15 feet) ; MS People stare at Bruck’s car – first of new Western type seen in Brno (9 feet) ; MS People looking in shop windows (4 feet) ; MCU People look at luggage in window (6 feet) ; MCU Window displays (6 feet) ; MS People on streets – many are policemen (4 feet) ; MCU People wearing old style 1944 dress (11 feet) ; MS Main square of Brno with one streetcar ; HMN (May 1958) – Nixon attacked in Peru ; 122257 (5/18/57) – Moscow – A delegation from the Mongolian People’s Republic, headed by Premier Y. Tsendenbal and D. Damba, the head of the Mongolian Communist Party, sign an agreement with Nikolai Bulganin at the Kremlin, The Soviet Union promises more economic aid, renews support of Mongolian membership in the UN, while Mongolia backs Moscow on foreign policy, her peace offensive and disarmament – MLS Officials enter room and sit down at long table (6 feet) ; MS Khruschev (6 feet) ; MS Bulganin signing agreement, Tsendenbal signing ( 10 feet) ; MS Georgi Malenkov standing in group, also Khruschev ( 8 feet) ; CU Bulganin signing, pan to Tsendenbal signing (7 feet) ; MS Delegations posing (3 feet) ; MS Bulganin and Tsendenbal signing (9 feet) ; MS Press photographers (5 feet) ; MLS Group at conference table, Bulganin signing, They shake hands after signing (21 feet) ; MS Khruschev at table signs agreement, pan to Damba signing, the shake hands (22 feet) ; 20180-7 (11/8/61) – Parade emphasis on marching troops and weapons. Elderly Marshal Klimenti Vereshilov turned away from entering the Lenin mausoleum since he is a member of the anti-Party group. He saw the military parade standing beside the tomb – MS Vereshilov (round cap) turned away from the tomb by secret policeman (5 feet) ; LS “K” waves to crowd from top of tomb (4 feet) ; MLS Policeman escorts Vereshilov to crowd to watch parade (8 feet) ; LS Party leaders stop tomb (3 feet) ; MS Lady takes snapshot (1 foot) ; LS MS Soldiers march past, followed by rockets (11 feet) ; MS More rockets (10 feet) ; MS Crowd, pan to weapons carriers (5 feet) ; LS MS More of tanks and large self-propelled guns passing, crowds watch (26 feet) ; 148556 (1/27/61) San Salvador situationer ; 124599 (9/3/57) Opening Syrian Fair ; fair sign Western and Soviet bloc sign ;