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Project Mercury control room and preparation for launch
NASA control room at Cape Canaveral for Project Mercury / various CU engineers /CU clocks and monitors / spotlights at night as final preparations are made at launch pad / truck of liquid oxygen loading contents onto missile / United...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Scenes from the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
Title card: "America's Olympic Finals" / Olympic emblem / 1936 Summer Olympics / track and field events / Jesse Owens winning several events / other American track and field winners / women's swimming / crowd watching event / women's...
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1936 Easter festivities with Pres. Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Title card: "Roosevelt Goes Back to Work" superimposed over face of President Franklin Roosevelt / Easter, 4/12/1936: WS crowd with umbrellas outside St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Easter / police holding crowd back as car arriving /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
After his 1953 death, a look at Joseph Stalin's tenure as leader of the Soviet Union
[GHOC Episode 0-07] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title: "Stalin Dies" with photo of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin / [1930s, Moscow] VS Stalin / VS Soviet Army marches in Red Square; Stalin and officials on the Lenin...
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Canada mourns the death of longtime Prime Minister Mackenzie King
[GHOC Episode H-01] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Canada Mourns Prime Minister" / [1948, Williamsburg, VA] VS Canadian PM Mackenzie King receives honorary degree at the College of William and Mary / VS...
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Former President Herbert Hoover speaks of peace and military preparedness in radio broadcast
Title card: "Peace - Arm to Keep It Hoover Advises" / MS SOT Former President Herbert Hoover standing beside banquet table, microphone before Hoover "KSFO-CBS" for national hook-up as he broadcasts to the Women's National Republican Club...
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1951 baseball game between US All-Star team and the Yomiuri Giants at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo
WS US All-Stars baseball player runs to first and second base / WS player was out / PAN from changing teams to grandstand full of spectators / WS game in action / MS pitcher throwing ball / MS home base / VS US team player running bases...
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New York Yankees claim victory over Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1947 World Series
Title card: "Baseball" over EXT Yankee Stadium / MS Babe Ruth walks past camera up to microphone / stopping and coughing, waving his hat, Cardinal Francis Spellman stands behind him / CU Ruth, with bowed head, speaks into mic / High shot...
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New York Yankees players hit home runs in Game 5 of the 1937 World Series as they defeat the New York Giants
Countdown / Sportfolio intro sequence / card: "Insert commercial here" / Yankees manager Joe McCarthy shaking hands with Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert in dugout as they pose for photo opportunity / close shot of Yankees player Myril Hoag...
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Mohammed Ben Arafa enthroned in Rabat, Morocco after the French exile Sultan Mohammed V
Title: "New Sultan Enthroned" superimposed over Berber tribesmen riding horses / VS Berber men riding horses / Rear shot Berber man standing by horse on hill / Pan hundreds of horses at rest in grassy area below, city and beach in bkgd /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Sen. Lyndon Johnson delivers information to his Texas constituents about the hydrogen bomb
Title card: "A Message From Senator Lyndon Johnson" / seated behind desk, Sen. Johnson speaks, SOT: "Hello my Texas friends. In moments of great decision the Bible advises 'come now and let us reason together'. This is a time for us to...
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Britain tests the second atom bomb in the Australian desert
Title: "Events In This Atomic Age - First Nuclear-Powered Submarine Launched - British Test Atom Bomb" superimposed over freeze frame of atom diagram / PAN Australian desert scrub / Back view convoy crossing desert / CU photographer...
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Pres. Dwight Eisenhower finishes State of the Union speech, discussing smart water use and danger of isolationism
SOT Pres. Dwight Eisenhower at podium speaking, Vice President Richard Nixon and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn seated behind, he says water becoming our most valuable natural resource / audio speech with shots water rushing through...
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First Secretary General of the United Nations Trygve Lie resigns
US Secretary of State Dean Acheson and wife Alice arrive at United Nations and walk toward entrance / MS French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman arrives and tips hat / Schuman walking in lobby / Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei...
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Comic boxing match in Hollywood between Jerry Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano
Card: "Paramount News issue no 30" / title card: 'Battle of the Century,' Marciano vs Lewis" / announcer in boxing ring for national Muscular Dystrophy drive comic boxing match / audience watching, including children in wheelchairs / two...
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Russian agriculture delegates visit Iowa farms
Title: "Russians 'Invade' Iowa Farm Group Gets Eyeful" superimposed over large group walking / Greyhound bus pulling up to stop / Russian agriculture delegates Alexsandr Tulupnikov, Vladimir Matskevich, Petr Babmindra, Boris Sokolov,...
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Theatre industry executive Harry Brandt is honored in New York
Title Card: "For Service to Fellow Men… Theatre Executive Harry Brandt Is Honored" / CU program "Testimonial Dinner to Harry Brandt" / CU actress Celeste Holm and Harry Brandt, Theatre Owner, President of the Independent Theatre Owners...
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Members of Texas 4-H Club bring livestock, seeds and equipment to show in Seoul
Card: "Paramount News issue no 103" / title "People and news you're reading about" superimposed over newspapers coming off press / title "Korea, 4-Hands across the seas" superimposed over South Korean military band marching / South...
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Jackie Robinson hits home run in first game of the 1952 World Series at Ebbets Field
Title card: "World Series Special - Yankees Do It Again" over graphic of baseball / title "And Here's How it Happened - The Dodgers Miss Again" superimposed over player running to base / Ebbets Field stadium on street corner, crowd and...
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US Pres. Eisenhower holds meetings with top House and Senate Republicans at White House to discuss progressive agenda
Title: "Congress - 1954 President and GOP Leaders Chart Program" superimposed over Republicans in front of White House / Ext White House / VS Pres. Dwight Eisenhower at table with Republican leaders; Senator William Knowland, Senate...
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College football, 1952: Georgia Tech beats Georgia in Athens
Title superimposed on the game, "Perfect Season! Georgia Tech whips Georgia 23-9" / Numerous shots of the game between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Georgia Bulldogs, interspersed with footage of the crowd at Sanford Stadium in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Federal Civil Defense Administration presentation regarding possible effects of a hydrogen bomb blast on Washington, DC
[Films released by the Federal Civil Defense Administration] Graphic illustration of a bomb explosion reaching 25 miles across and 100 miles up, reaching to the Stratosphere / Map of Washington, DC, with the US Capitol at "zero point"...
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Millions vote in India; campaigns; parades; US ambassador to India Bowles and Prime Minister Nehru with Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Title card: "India Votes - World's Biggest General Elections" / various shots huge crowds in street / campaign parade in street / truck in parade with people everywhere on it coming to camera / parade vehicle / parade with cart in front...
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Italian President Giovanni Gronchi and Italian Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino greeted by Rene Coty at Paris train station
Title "Italy's President Guest of France" superimposed over French Pres. Rene Coty greeting Italian Pres. Giovanni Gronchi at train / train with decorated engine pulling into station, honor guards lined up along platform, can see...