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Hein Ten Hoff of Hamburg, Germany beats Jimmy Rousse of Albany in heavyweight match in Newark, NJ
Title: "Boxing - Ten Hoff Scores 4th U.S. Knockout " superimposed over angle of fight in the ring / Hein Ten Hoff, German heavyweight champion, enters ring / Ten Hoff gestures and goes to corner / CU angle view Ten Hoff waiting for fight...
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1954 Year in Review
Paris: VS people in a long line / CU a newsstand worker inserts a folded newspaper into another / high angle view of the French National Assembly in session / members voting / quick shot of reporters taking notes // Washington, DC: US...
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Churches in New England and California are seen peaceful and quiet during Christmas
Title: "United States" superimposed over U.S. countryside in small town / Protestant church scene in New England / CU bell in tower of Roman Catholic church in California / MS Roman Catholic priest walks in California garden / Angle view...
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Preparations for 1956 Democratic Convention
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 104" / title "Convention - Democrats in Chicago" superimposed over CU donkey sculpture / aerial pan Chicago / pan down Conrad Hilton Hotel to busy streets / awning reading The Conrad Hilton, people...
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Argentinian Juan Manuel Fangio wins Grand Prix; Britain's Stirling Moss comes in second
Title "Auto Champion - Fangio Wins Grand Prix" superimposed over racing cars / flags on poles, crowd in stands, building with advertising signs for Mercedes, Esso and Bosch to side, buildings in bg / mechanics checking over East German...
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Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace hold press conference on the SS United States upon arriving in New York City
Title: "Cameras on Prince Rainier and Princess Grace" superimposed over the Prince and Princess on ocean liner United States / LS ocean liner United States at dawn / Princess Grace and Rainier III walk through doorway, stairs in fgd and...
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower launches his re-election campaign from his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Title card: "At Gettysburg -- Campaign Kick-Off" / EXT Eisenhower home at farm / Pan over to Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower riding on golf cart / Eisenhower steps off cart / Eisenhower shakes hands with Leonard Hall, Republican National...
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President Dwight Eisenhower delivers State of Union Address in Washington, DC
Title "Paramount news presents - Washington" superimposed over shot of exterior of US Capitol / title card: "Report from the President" / title "State of the Union Address" superimposed over Pres. Dwight Eisenhower with officials behind...
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President-elect Dwight Eisenhower gives speech at a Freedoms Foundation conference in New York City
Title "Religion can end Communism, says Eisenhower" superimposed over President-elect Dwight Eisenhower, honorary chairman of the Freedoms Foundation, speaking during an appearance at a Foundation event at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel /...
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Obituary for athlete Babe Didrikson of golf and Olympic track and field fame
Title Card: "Babe Didrikson Mourned - Greatest Woman Athlete" / CU smiling Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias / Babe in shorts walking toward camera / CU Babe after winning 1932 Olympic Javelin throw / Follow Babe hurling javelin to win...
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Vice Pres. Richard Nixon visits Corregidor with Pres. Magsaysay of Philippines
Title: "Corregidor - Nixon Visits Famed Fortress In Manila Bay" superimposed over pan shot of Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippine Islands, and Richard Nixon, US Vice President / Magsaysay and Nixon in prow of ship approaching...
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Egypt's President Nasser meets with his cabinet
Title: "First Pictures Since Crisis - Nasser and His Cabinet" / Interior views of Egyptian cabinet members entering a room and saluting a guard / Gamal Abdel Nasser arrives and enters / He sits at the end of a large conference table / CU...
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West All-Stars defeat East 79-75 in basketball match
Title: "Basketball - West All-Stars Beat East At Fort Wayne" superimposed over LS basketball game at Memorial Coliseum / LS Western team / LS Eastern team / WS crowd / Ground level shot East in possession of ball, dribbles down field...
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Circus performers at World Circus Festival at Paris Sports Palace
Title "Paris - World Circus Festival" superimposed over circus performers parading in ring / performers parading in ring / audience watching / charioteers racing chariots around ring / audience watching / four shots of Albert Schumann of...
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Players for Brooklyn Dodgers major league baseball team model casual clothes during spring training in Miami Beach
Title card: "Spring and baseball - anything can happen" / player Duke Snider on left and pitcher Carl Erskine modeling hats they are wearing / two shots of players coming down steps from airplane at airport and walking across tarmac /...
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Pilot Apollo Soucek flies Naval Aircraft Factory PN-12 seaplane
Person leans into cockpit of a PN-12 seaplane with propellers spinning / men standing around small barometer / men in suits watch man enter cockpit / CU Navy pilot Apollo Soucek dons leather helmet and enters cockpit / VS airplane takes...
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Plant processes salt extracted from salt mine in Nova Scotia for war effort during World War II
Shot of salt processing plant / water with salt in it churning around in vat / water with salt in it cascading down steps / sheets of salt coming out of bottom of cascade / sheep eating from trough / cattle eating from trough / Note:...
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Miners extracting salt from mine in Nova Scotia for war effort during World War II
Three men digging salt in Malagash Salt Company mine / three nozzles spraying water on wall of mine / closer view of one nozzle spraying water / two close ups of water running down mine wall / chunks of salt falling into bucket which is...
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Dust storm in the US during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s
VS wall of dust billows, blocking out the sky, during Dust Bowl dust storm / cow stands on desolate farmland as dust blows / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
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An early Wright Brothers airplane flight
VS Wright Brothers' plane takes off, flies over muddy field, possibly in Le Mans, France, in 1908 / Note: exact month/day not known
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Economist Edwin Kemmerer explains the gold standard
Title card: "Noted Economist Explains Meaning of Gold Standard - Professor Kemmerer of Princeton tells how metallic value for currency is set" / MS Prof. Edwin Kemmerer wearing glasses seated outside reading from book on lap / CU...
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Prohibition bust on yacht in Boston
QS title card: "Seized Yacht Yields $250,000 Pre-War Liquor - Customs officers unload valuable cargo of whiskey at Boston, Mass." / Large yacht "Prudence of New York" in dock with men removing burlap-wrapped crates ("Nip o' Mac"); the...
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Aviatrix Amelia Earhart and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt board plane for night flight
NIGHT MS aviator Amelia Earhart and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in front of Eastern Air Transport Curtiss Condor airplane, both wearing evening wear; SOT Earhart asks Roosevelt to go for an airplane ride over Washington and SOT...
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Philanthropist John Davison Rockefeller III and his wife Blanchette getting off ship in NY City harbor after trip to Bermuda
John D. Rockefeller III and his wife Blanchette coming down gangway from ship upon arrival in New York from Bermuda; they stop and pose for photo opportunity, then continue down gangway / Note: exact month/day not known