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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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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...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
United Nations soldiers transferred in Korea
A Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw comes in low for a landing / a crowd of South Korean people in summer clothing / UN soldiers get off the helicopter and walk across Marston Mats / QS little girls / A group of the UN men, including two African...
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Magicians gather in Berlin to compare tricks in April 1954
Title: "Quicker than the Eye…Magicians Convene in Berlin" superimposed over men in masks doing card tricks / smoke clearing with close up of hand pulling rabbit out of a magician's hat, other male magicians seated at table in bkgd / Pan...
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Dog sledding in Poland Springs, ME
Dogs on snowy ramp are harnessed to ropes for their first winter workout for a snow race; their handlers are Mrs. E. P. Ricker, Jr., and Leonard Seppala / the Huskies strain against harnesses, bark / VS high angle views of the dogsled...
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Peary Monument being constructed at Cape York, Greenland, by members of Arctic explorer Robert Bartlett's expedition and Eskimos
Two shots of men riding dogsleds pulled by dogs a cross snowy landscape / close shot of dogs pulling sled / two men carrying metal tub filled with water on wooden boards and pouring water into wood barrel / two shots of men making...
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Construction of Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) in Boulder Canyon in Nevada
Two overhead shots of wooden footings of foundation of dam on canyon floor / dump truck backed up to concrete mixing plant / large bucket carrying concrete being lowered by pulley system to foundation on canyon floor / pulley system...
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Dale Sprout and his son practice lassoing on their CA homestead
US veteran Dale Sprout and his young son stand outdoors on their homestead, each holding a coil of rope; son makes learner's attempt at lassoing / Note: exact month/day not known
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Eskimos are filmed hunting walruses in Arctic by member of expedition led by explorer Robert Bartlett
Eskimo paddling kayak / Eskimo on board Bob Bartlett's schooner "Effie M. Morrissey" putting kayak down next to another kayak / shot of men on board schooner / VS men preparing harpoons for hunting / overhead shot of man bent over front...
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Escape artist James Todd locked in trunk, sunk, and surfaces safe
Pan crowd gathered around men by trunk for escape artist James Todd / CU Todd smiling and waving to crowd, people around him / men carry trunk past crowd / CU Todd being strapped into straitjacket, men in bg / man placing steel vest on...
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Mass burial in Tel Aviv for victims of crash of Israeli airliner flying from London to Israel shot down by Bulgarian warplanes
Title card: "Tel Aviv, Israel - Mass burial for victims of air crash" / file footage compiled after crash: man walks up to Stanley Hinks, British pilot for El Al Airlines, standing next to airplane at London airport and hands him paper,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
The Derby Stakes horse race in England in 1934
Title card: "Pathe presents --" / title: "The Derby 1934" superimposed over two overhead shots of crowd at Epsom Downs Racecourse / two overhead shots of crowd at racecourse, voiceover speaking / overhead shot of buses parked at...
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Canadian Department of Mines tests machine that measures tensile strength of things
Title card: "Canadian test machine snaps huge wire rope! Department of Mines new Lab in Toronto Parliament Buildings gauges strength by terrific pulls" / man looking at wires stacked in container / man lowering rope made of wires into...
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Dam under construction
Heavy machinery rolls slowly on tracks / men at work on a dam wall with others standing above a suspended platform / view of a river with three men in the foreground / men hang from ropes on jagged rocks along a rocky wall / Note: exact...
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Danno O'Mahoney captures heavyweight wrestling title from Jim Londos, 1935
Title card: "New Irish King" / VS Jim Londos and Danno O'Mahoney wrestling match with cutaways to the audience, O'Mahoney is the taller of the two / MS Londos is knocked outside the ropes / O'Mahoney pins Londos to floor and wins...
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Korean War anti-Communist Chinese POWs board landing ship tank during Operation Comeback
WS POW with Taiwanese flag walking across rail track, two women serving tea to POWs, crowd holding signs and banners behind rope barrier in distance along rail track / side view of POWs with belonging on back, waving flags / CU POWs...
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US and Korean soldiers during the Korean War walk through mud, traverse river, carry wounded, and fire artillery in 1951
MLS trucks and jeeps pulling artillery driving up muddy road to camera, two US soldiers in fgd, hill ridge in bkgd / High angle group of soldiers in rain ponchos and helmets / group of soldiers walking up road toward camera, a couple...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Kungsholm ocean liner Captain John Nordlander rescues British freighter Argobeam crew near the Hebrides Islands off Scotland in 1955
Title card: "Tradition of the Sea - Rescue Drama in Gale-Swept Atlantic" / disabled British freighter Argobeam in water seen from Swedish liner Kungsholm / various shots Argobeam listing in rough water / freighter, plane flies over / pan...
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Duke of Windsor and Bob Hope play golf at a charity benefit in Woodbury, NY
Title superimposed on a golf game, "Celebrity Golf - Duke of Windsor, Bob Hope Drive for Charity" / Two unidentified golfers teeing off / A mob of cameras and photographers / The Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII of the UK, stands...
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First group of sick U.S. armistice prisoners arrive home by plane and U.S. sends shipment of grain to South Korea
Title: "17 Come Home - First Plane With Sick Korean PWs" superimposed over Travis Air Force base: POW being carried down ramp on stretcher from C-54 through the Military Air Transport Service Pacific Division Airlift / VS C-54 plane...
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George Eastman birthplace house moved to Rochester for his centennial
Title superimposed on Eastman's birthplace: "Father of Modern Photography - Pay Homage to George Eastman" / Two men place a very large wreath on Eastman's grave: a circular stone set on concentric circles with a bas relief of an art deco...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
James Todd performs daring escape in two locked straitjackets and chained in a crate lowered into Ontario's Dalhousie Harbor
Title: "Ontario -- Escape Artist Proves He's a 'Modern Houdini'" superimposed over crowd of people / MCU James Todd, aka "The Great Toddini," an escape artist, waving / high angle men carry large wooden crate / VS men putting two...
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CU AERIAL Shot of paramedic rescuing man in sea / Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
CU AERIAL Shot of paramedic rescuing man in sea / Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa