Hearst Metrotone News
A young Mao Tse-tung speaks with enthusiasm.
A young Mao Tse-tung speaks with enthusiasm.
Hearst Metrotone News
Judges sit behind tables at the Purge Trials in Russia.
Judges sit behind tables at the Purge Trials in Russia.
Hearst Metrotone News
A group of boys look worried after kicking a soccer ball over the Berlin Wall.
A group of boys look worried after kicking a soccer ball over the Berlin Wall.
Hearst Metrotone News
A crowd of Hungarian civilians tears down A Soviet flag and topple a Soviet star during the Hungarian Revolution.
A crowd of Hungarian civilians tears down A Soviet flag and topple a Soviet star during the Hungarian Revolution.
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CLEAN: Giant dominos set to topple for 1989 anniversary
CLEAN: Giant dominos set to topple for 1989 anniversary
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Stalin and Soviet leadership watch May Day parade in Red Square
Soviet May Day military parade in Red Square / rear shot tanks on parade, w/ St Basil's Cathedral and State Historical Museum in bg / soldiers marching thru Red Square / MS low angle Joseph Stalin, General Secretary, Communist Party of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Chinese and US films shown to the UN of pilot John Quinn confessing to using germ warfare in North Korea then repudiating confession
Chinese POW films and US films shown to UN by US UN Rep Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.--Chinese film: MS Chinese guard and pilot John Quinn sitting at table facing camera, microphone in front of Quinn, other Chinese at table writing down Quinn's...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Chinese and US films shown to the UN of airman Paul Kniss confessing to germ warfare in North Korea then repudiating confession
Chinese POW films and US films shown to UN by US Ambassador to UN Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.--Chinese film: Asian guard and American Airman Lieutenant Paul Kniss in interrogation room, Kniss sits down / Kniss at interrogation table with two...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Quiet battlefield at Bunker Hill in the early days of the Korean War armistice
Unsteady shot of a desolate, hilly landscape, a quiet battlefield / a single, shirtless man walks in an empty slit trench lined with sand bags on Bunker Hill / a group of UN troops atop a trench; pan right to a couple of Chinese...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Aides spread maps out for truce talks in Panmunjom
Aides spreading out maps on table; pan up to maybe UN Command negotiators; pan back to maps, communist negotiator with pipe in hand looking into camera; pan back to maps / CU hands of negotiators holding pens over maps / Note: exact day...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Navy warplanes shoot down Chinese Communist warplanes off coast of China after being attacked by them
Title card: "Off China coast, Red planes attack - US 'Skyraiders' shoot them down" / aerial shot from plane of US Navy aircraft carrier sailing along / wide shot from ship of aircraft carrier sailing along / closer shot of planes on...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Senate Investigative Subcommittee hearings on opposing accusations from the US Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy
Title card: "The McCarthy-Army Hearing" / Senate Investigative Subcommittee hearings on whether Roy Cohn pressured the army to give preferential treatment to Private David Schine and Sen. Joseph McCarthy accusing the army of retaliation...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Anti-communist Chinese soldiers in San Francisco
Title card: "For a Free China - Ex-Red Soldiers on US Tour" superimposed over five Chinese soldiers, captured in Korean War but refused repatriation to communist China, waving / soldiers arrive by plane in San Francisco and are greeted...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee holds hearing on the possibility that Truman's appointee to the IMF was a Communist
Title: "Washington" superimposed over the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee hearing / MS high angle Internal Security Subcommittee hearing, Senator William Jenner shaking hands with man / Attorney General Herbert Brownell seated at...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Congressional hearings: Senate holds hearings on plane contracts and House holds hearings on Communist influences in Hollywood
Page in Paramount News synopsis book reading "Washington hearings hold headlines" / sign over door saying "Caucus Room" / members of Senate committee inside room / close shot of Senator Owen Brewster / business magnate Howard Hughes...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
New French offensive against Communists in Indochina
Title superimposed on a tank, "Indo-China - French open New Drive against Reds" / A montage of large guns firing and another shooting a bazooka / Two men running with their firearms / Men with tanks / CU tank's mud-covered treads moving...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
United Nations and communist delegates meet to work out details of Korean Armistice Agreement
Officers arrive for talks on maybe repatriating prisoners and carrying out Korean Armistice Agreement, car in bg / officers of maybe Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission / group of photographers and cameramen with cameras / commission...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Rear Adm. John Daniel briefs UN correspondents after meeting with North Korean officers regarding prisoners of war
Front view of US Rear Adm, John C. Daniel and delegates walking out of conference venue, being surrounded by UN correspondents / CU Daniel talking to UN correspondents / Close PAN correspondents taking notes / CU Daniel talking to...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, US tanks in South Korea advancing and firing their cannons and machine guns against Communist forces
Two shots of tanks advancing along muddy road / overhead shot of tanks advancing / three shots from moving tank as it rolls down road behind other tanks / soldier standing in turret of tank as it rolls past camera / shot from moving tank...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Whitsuntide East German youth festival; anti-West demonstration; wheel gymnastics
Title card: "Germany - Contrast in Youth" / Brandenburg Gate / CU poster for East German youth organization hanging between columns, can see FDJ emblem on it, buildings in bg / West sector youth with bicycles / US soldier on bicycle,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
French nurse Lt. Genevieve De Galard-Terraube reaches Hanoi after release from communist captivity, and French wounded are evacuated
Title: "Freedom For Heroic Nurse of Dien Bien Phu" superimposed over Genevieve De Galard-Terraube, French nurse speaking to press at airport in Paris, and her mother Vicomtess Germaine De Galard-Terraube standing next to her / VS night...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Senator Joseph McCarthy talks to reporters in Washington, DC, after Senate votes to condemn his behavior
Title card: "Senate votes to condemn McCarthy" / four shots of spectators lined up outside Senate chamber / three shots of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in hallway outside Senate chamber (with his arm in a sling) talking to people after Senate...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, scenes of US troops in combat in South Korea, peace talks in North Korea, and US troops in US leaving for Korea
Title in form of newspaper headline: "Korea cease-fire drama, Global story of the year" / US soldiers in South Korea march down road, trucks carrying anti-aircraft guns behind / US Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Commander of UN Forces in Korea,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Christian Democrats win West German elections for Bundestag, lower house of Parliament
Title "German election report: Adenauer landslide victory for the West" superimposed over West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer holding bouquet of flowers while posing for photo opportunity / shot of exterior of Bundestag Building in...