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At age 40 fitness guru Jack LaLanne swims from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf while wearing handcuffs
Title: "Sports Features --- A Rare Swimming Feat" superimposed over Jack LaLanne, fitness guru, swimming accompanied by men in rowboats / VS LaLanne shows off muscles and physique / LS Alcatraz prison / MS sign on Alcatraz "Warning Keep...
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French female pilot Jacqueline Auriol sets new air speed record in Paris
Title: "Paris - Mme. Auriol Tops Women's Air Mark" superimposed over Jacqueline Auriol walking down steps of Dassault Mystere IV fighter jet / high angle planes parked on airfield / MS Auriol walks up metal stairs and steps into plane...
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Williams beats out Murchison in dash at the International Military Track Meet at Berlin Olympic Stadium
Title "Track - 100-Meter Record Broken" superimposed over race of sprinters / MS spectators / runners on track preparing for dash, crowd in stands in bg / CU judges lined up dressed alike in striped shirts, crowd in stands in bg / dash...
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Pres. Dwight Eisenhower accepts the resignation of Oveta Culp Hobby as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Title: "Mrs. Hobby Resigns - Lauded By President" superimposed over Oveta Culp Hobby, retiring U.S. secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, leaving White House / Pres. Dwight Eisenhower and Hobby walk into room and take seats at a...
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USS General Langfitt arrives in New York, carrying first shipload of European refugees under U.S. Refugee Relief Program
Title: "Refugees Arrive - They Want To Live in Freedom" superimposed over immigrants on transport looking towards New York skyline / WS USS General W. C. Langfitt, transport ship, up harbor / CU US flag flying from mast / VS refugees...
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In prisoner exchange at end of Korean War, US POW Army General William F. Dean arrives in Panmunjom, North Korea
Title "First pictures - Gen. Dean a free man again" superimposed over US Gen. William F. Dean, released POW, holding microphone speaking in in Tokyo / VS Dean riding in jeep as it arrives at prisoner exchange camp at Panmunjom / CU Dean...
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Owen Lattimore leaving courthouse in Washington, DC, after pleading not guilty to charges of lying to Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Title "Lattimore pleads 'Not Guilty'" superimposed over shot of exterior of federal courthouse / shot of exterior of federal courthouse / shot of engraved words over courthouse entrance reading "United States Court House" / Lattimore,...
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German inventor Gustav Baumm test-drives his new streamlined motorcycle in Munich
Title "Like a torpedo - 20 records set by novel motorcycle!" superimposed over shot from moving car of Gustav Baumm driving motorcycle with its fuselage down highway / motorcycle comes to stop as two mechanics rush up to it, they lift...
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New citizen Walter DeHoog urges people to vote in voting trailer
Title Card: "Register - And Vote!" / CU former refugee Walter DeHoog, now a new US citizen and new US voter, sitting behind desk / SOT Dehoog: "As a new citizen, I look forward to my first vote. I feel it is important and exciting to...
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Tour de France, 1956
Title: "Sports: Tour of France Bicycle Classic" superimposed over race / MS cathedral / riders sitting at curb / CU riders / CU rider adjusting bicycle / Angle view riding past people looking out of building, from balconies and from...
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Ernst Reuter buried in West Germany
Title card: "West Berlin's Final Tribute to Ernst Reuter" / Nighttime views of uniformed men holding torches / With a large crowd behind them; pallbearers carrying Reuter's coffin covered with West Berlin's flag with its bear emblem /...
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Racehorse "Nashua" wins Belmont Stakes horse race in New York and racehorse "Swaps" wins horse race in Inglewood, CA
Title "Turf - Nashua vs. Swaps, match race awaited" superimposed over crowd watching horse race / two shots of crowd in stands and on grounds of Hollywood Park race track in Inglewood, CA / racehorse "Swaps" parading on track // crowd in...
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Gold Cup Regatta motorboat race in Detroit
Title ""Summer sports - water, water everywhere!" superimposed over motorboat racing / "Detroit, Mich." superimposed over wide shot of boats racing on Detroit River / man on stand waving checkered flag to start race / motorboat "Tempo...
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Tennessee beats Kentucky in college football game, 20-7
Title superimposed on a football game, "Vols Keep Rolling, Majors Stars as Tennessee beats Kentucky" / VS people packed into Shields-Watkins Field with a marching band on the field / tens of thousands of people in winter attire in the...
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World premiere of movie "The Furies" in Tucson, AZ, proceeds from which will go to scholarship fund at University of Arizona
Title card: "Premiere in Tucson: Aids scholarship fund" / actress Barbara Stanwyck coming down steps from plane / actor Wendell Corey coming down steps from plane / actress Myrna Dell coming down steps from plane / Miss America of 1949...
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Phariza wins 1952 British Lincolnshire Handicap race
Title: "Sports Headlines From Britain - Turf Thriller! Lincolnshire Handicap" superimposed over ride shot race / WS crowd with umbrellas / MS crowd / CU people looking thru binoculars/ WS Follow horses out of starting gate / Ride shot...
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Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles is among new cardinals at the elevation of cardinal ceremony in Vatican City
Title: "First Pictures - Elevation of Cardinals in Rome" superimposed over Cardinals walking thru hall in Vatican / Aerial Vatican / Ground shot of St. Peter's Basilica / MS cardinals walking thru hall / CU cardinals passing thru door /...
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Miners working in salt mine in Nova Scotia to extract salt for war effort during World War II
Miners getting into elevator / elevator goes down / miner walks along shaft cut at steep angle / he reaches steps and climbs up steps past miner using drill / two shots of miner using drill to make holes in mine wall for dynamite / miner...
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Great-grandson of Stonewall Jackson unveils monument to great-grandfather in Charlotte, NC
Title card: 'Lad Unveils A Soldier Tribute, Charlotte, NC - Great grandson acts in ceremony for Gen. Stonewall Jackson' / Thomas Preston, great-grandson of Gen. Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, and Nancy Palmer Stitt, great-granddaughter of...
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Large film projector at film production company Pathe in NY City
Man turns on large film projector in room and watches it operate / CU film reel on projector turning / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
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Activities at film production company Pathe in NY City
Four shots of two executives playing ping pong, two other executives sitting and watching / two men push cart across lobby towards elevator / same two men rush into room and take down camera equipment from shelves and place it on cart,...
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Female gymnasts perform on uneven bars and balance beam in Italian arena
Looking down on female gymnast performing on uneven bars / MS gymnast on bars / CU man holding cigarette sitting beside a woman in stands / MS woman with maybe a blanket around her shoulders sitting beside table / gymnast doing splits on...
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US President Harry Truman gives speech at the United Nations in NY City on the UN's 5th Anniversary
Title: 'Free World Hails UN 5th Year' superimposed over UN flag waving on flagpole / title card: 'Through the United Nations, which has overcome the challenge of Korea, the world has its only chance to overcome the challenge of The Bomb'...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Large salt cutter machine extracting salt from mine in Nova Scotia for war effort during World War II
Two shots of miners putting salt in bags / WS salt mine buildings, snow on ground / three close shots of cutting machine cutting into mine wall / train moving past salt mine buildings / Note: exact day not known