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Warner News : News Mag of the screen, April 1952

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Inventory ID 597497
Production Type NEWSREELS
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Donor Code 2853 - Packard Humanities Institute: Sabucat Collection
Collection Sabucat

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Format Size 16
Format Type SAFETY
Element Info PRINT
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Color Format B&W
Sound Format SD.^OPT^^^^
Item Holdings 1
Total Reels 1

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pallet 44 - 20646 -Presented by the Miami Herald and WQAM the Herald Radio Station.^^April 1952^^"The World in a Camera"^^1."In 1952, the great decision facing Americans is the selection of the next President of the United States.�� ^^New Hampshire Main City street view. Business signs for ���Wingates Pharmacy��, and ���Canton Chop Suey��^^Street sign ���Manchester Concord White Mts. Concord St.��^^Republican Candidate Harold Strassen greets voters at the State Primary. Theater in background reads ���Webster�� with Jane Russell and Victor Mature ���Las Vegas Story��, ���Three Steps North�� and ���ITRA Lady Marines�� on the marquee.^^Senator Taft greeting people^^Building with banner ���Eisenhower Headquarters�� ���We Like Ike�� signs.^^Estes Kefauver at the ���Central Fire Station��^^New England voters walking in snow to polling place. Voters inside, woman pulls curtain to vote, man turns in his ballot and its dropped in the box. ^^Frankfurt Germany, Eisenhower stepping off an Air Force plane and greeting other men.^^President Truman addressing high school student editors. ^^2. ���Raging storms take a terrible toll throughout the Nation. The heaviest snow in California History falls on the High Sierras.��^^Snow covered mountains, 28�� deep measurement stake in the snowdrifts. People shoveling snow and digging their truck out.^Children and a sign for ���Betty & Charlie's Ice Cream��. ���Greyhound��, ���Motel�� and ���Tahoe City Fire Dept.�� Buildings buried in snow.^^3. ���At Soda Springs, Ca a home buried under 25 feet of snow is completely destroyed by fire in one of the strangest holocausts ever filmed.��^^Mrs. Maury? And her son watch as their home that is buried in the snow burns. Smoke billowing out from the mounds of snow. The fire has melted the snow, evening footage. Just the frame of the house is left burning.^^4. ���In Nevada, thousands of cattle, trapped by the snow are saved from starvation by hay dropped from the air.��^^Military air transport plane dropping hay from a plane.^^5. ���Tornadoes sweep through six states from Texas to Kentucky leveling whole towns and taking hundreds of lives.��^^Judsonia, Arkansas with people standing around watching as others dig through rubble. Judsonia High School remains, remains of a church and a house. Little puppy dog climbs out of a turned upside down doghouse. Kids picking up books in the rubble.^^6. ���In the Sudan, U.S. Air Force observers film an eclipse of the sun, while in India, the same eclipse is the occasion for a religious festival.��^^Scientists set up tents and observation units. In Indian people on miniature sized merry go-rounds and bathing in a river. ^^7. ���Industry�� ^^���Water power from the high, snow capped Andes Mountains is harnessed by Chile to provide electricity for her growing industries.��^^Waterfalls, electrical plants, workman in Andes breaking down rock, dam and reservoirs.^^8. ���Aviation��^^���Canada introduces two new plans - the fast climbing ���Otter�� and the ���Flying Ice Wagon�� used for de-icing experiments during normal flight.��^^9. ���Art��^^���The ancient ���Royal Picture Gallery�� in The Hague gets a new heating system which will help preserve its paintings but will not destroy its charm.��^^Men filling old coal stoves in the museum. Footage of the new heating system and pipes, various artworks in the museum shown.^

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Reel # Barcode Can Size Reel Size Location Notes
SV0001337633 400ft S209-36D-06