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Radiation dust inhalation pharmacology experiment at UCLA's Atomic Energy Project
Title card: "Atomic Energy Project, UCLA -- Pharmacology: Inhalation Studies with Radioactive Dust" / MS man in lab with respirator mask and gloves on, arms and head exposed, shakes dust from jar into funnel on apparatus then slides...
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World War II: soldiers and mountains
World War II / French language / European theater / Eastern Front / part of propaganda film / CU truck driving through dust / CU Russian Cossack / herd of cattle / German prisoners of war walking through mountains / mules being unloaded...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: German soldiers in Russia
Title card: "Le Monde En Guerre… (The World War)" / World War II / French language / Eastern Front / caption: Leningrad, Lac Ilmen (Lake Ilmen) and Moscou (Moscow) over face of German soldier / gunfire heard as soldiers advance /...
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi talking to people / CU smiling woman / French language / Indian man at river's edge / Indian people walking through streets during a festival / elephants being ridden in the street / Note: exact year not known
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Effects of man-made lightning on wooden pole with and without transformer attached
/ VS wooden pole shows damage and small flames, partly shatters from electric explosion / VS new type of transformer on wooden pole, lighting causes no visible damage / Note: exact day not known; film has nitrate deterioration
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National society of the Daughters of the American Revolution select Best Patriotic Film during DAR's 65th Continental Congress in Washington
Title "Best patriotic film - DAR makes annual award" superimposed over Mrs. F. Allen Burt (first name possibly Leila), National Chairman of Motion Picture Committee, presenting award to Maxwell Hamilton, executive assistant to movie...
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Georgia Tech beats SMU at Cotton Bowl in October 1952
Title card: "Football - Georgia Tech Beats SMU 20-7" / play on field at Cotton Bowl / play, Leon Hardeman plows through for touchdown / play / play, Billy Teas makes touchdown / play, pass / play, Duane Nutt of SMU makes touchdown
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French Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France gets vote of confidence for West Germany to enter NATO
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 39" / title card: "France - the Zero Hour- Crucial Vote on Arms for Germany" / Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France in front of building, others behind him, photographers in fg / CU Mendes France /...
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Sen. Lyndon Johnson talks about Texas in his message to Texans
Title: "A Message For Texans from Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson" / Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, D-TX; he wears eyeglasses, sits at a desk in office with cigarette burning in nearby ashtray; SOT Johnson: "It's a wonderful feeling to be home, home...
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New York Governor Averell Harriman talks about the 1955 United Jewish Appeal
Title card "An address by Gov Harriman as UJA Launches '55 Campaign" / New York Gov. Averell Harriman shakes hands with man on a dais, then takes the podium to kick off the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York campaign to raise $100...
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Danny Kaye appears in 1955 New York Thanksgiving Parade
Title superimposed on a parade, "Everyone Loves a Parade, especially when it Heralds Xmas!" / A wide view of the parade and men wearing Roman helmets with banners, "For the joy of Children everywhere" / (Quick shots of the spectators...
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Ohio State beats Cal-Berkeley in college football
Title card on graphic of ball players, "Game of the Week - Ohio State overpowers California" / A band on the field below spells out "OHIO" / Thousands of the spectators spell "C" in different colored colors; women wearing beanies jump...
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Former President Harry Truman leaves San Francisco with wife Bess and their daughter Margaret for vacation in Hawaii
Title "People you're reading about" superimposed over newspapers coming off press / title "Harry S. Truman sails for Hawaii vacation " superimposed over ocean liner "President Cleveland" at dock in harbor / Bess Truman, daughter...
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Betty Hutton and troupe arrive at Gimpo Airfield to entertain troops in 1952
Title: "'Bunker Circuit' -- Betty Hutton Smash Hit in Korea!" superimposed over Hutton singing on stage / Hutton filming from door of airplane, military personnel in fgd / Hutton talks to people off screen / MS Hutton and her USO troupe...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Mussolini Obelisk erected in Rome
Title card: "Shaft to Duce! World's biggest marble block set up as monument to Mussolini" / marble on a large hydraulic pulley and wooden scaffolding system / CU pulley / men working on pulley / obelisk monument in the Foro Mussolini...
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George Medalie campaigns against New Deal
Title card: "Medalie Asks Your Support for Election - Republican candidate for U S Senator makes plea in campaign climax" / George Z. Medalie, New York Republican senatorial candidate, talks about Democratic party promises / CU Medalie /...
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Babe Ruth inducted into Saints and Sinners Club of America
MS Baseball legend Babe Ruth takes a seat designed like a throne behind a table next to man behind podium, Circus Saints and Sinners club president Tony Sarg sits next to him, elephant cut-out behind them / MCU Ruth behind table with...
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NY Yankees win charity baseball game against NY Giants in Yankee Stadium in NY City
Title card: "60,000 turn out to see Yanks beat Giants 7-3 in game sponsored by the Acting Mayor, Mr. McKee" / New York City acting mayor Joseph V McKee in stands throws out ball during charity game to benefit the Mayor's unemployment...
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Water tanks on rails and containers hauled by pulley mechanism are used to transport spawning salmon around Baker River Dam in Washington
Title card: "Government runs odd railway for commuting fish - Specially-constructed road along Baker River, Wash, carries spawning salmon from lower rapids to Lake above high dam" / shot of dam and Baker River below it / two shots of...
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British Ambassador to US Philip Kerr, Lord Lothian, addresses members of both Houses of Virginia State Legislature in Williamsburg, VA
Officials listening to Lord Lothian (a/k/a Philip Kerr), the British Ambassador to the US, as he delivers speech at the Virginia State Legislature; from left to right, Kenneth Chorley, president of Williamsburg Restoration, Inc.;...
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Franklin Roosevelt and members of his administration
Title card: "Blue Eagle wings way over nation" / two-shot Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing a light-colored hat, with Eleanor Roosevelt; cameras flash, both smile / General Hugh S. Johnson / VS Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, wearing a...
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World War II: Canada
Title card: "Canada Carries On!" superimposed over Canadian soldiers marching and men in factories working / World War II / military planes flying toward camera / Allies propaganda film, "Wings of Youth", from Canada / movie title /...
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Making and replicating newsreels
VS newsreel being threaded onto movie reels, packaged and labeled according to city / film being inspected / VS men and working with film and film reels / film on various machines / MS addressed shipping boxes drop into stack / Note:...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt signs repeal of Prohibition
Title card: "News Flash!" / President Franklin D. Roosevelt at desk reviewing document / Roosevelt signing document and blotting his signature / CU bill to repeal Prohibition and signatures of Roosevelt, vice president/Senate president...