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Storms Rip Eastern U.S., Japan
Storms Rip Eastern U.S., Japan Hurricane Helene roars along the Carolinas and Virginia capes, her 140 M.P.H. winds and slashing rains taking a high tool in property damages. But forewarned residents take cover and no life is lost. Central Japan reels under typhoon Ida, one of the worst storms in the nation's history. Nearly 600 die, thousands are injured or missing, while property damage alone is truly catastrophic in scope. Rain and wind blow against tropical-looking trees. Somewhat stormy waves crashing. Trees blown by wind. Very large tree branch/ limb on road. Traffic light (not lit) blowing in heavy wind. Storm damage to buildings, structures. Shingles on roof being blown, lifted by winds (not torn from roof, though). Another roof with damage. Tree which has fallen against a house. Flooded street with truck in the water, car driving where there is no water. People amid rubble. Asian man wearing hat holds eyeglasses in his hand, wipes eyes with cloth. Man places some small smoldering object into ground in damaged area, bows with hands clasped in prayer position. Wrecked buildings. Asian men in uniform amid this destruction carry large long object (perhaps a body or person covered in cloth).
'Oui' For De Gaulle.
'Oui' For De Gaulle. A landslide victory for DeGaulle's new constitution in France's referendum. Record numbers go to the polls and tally a 4-1 majority, an overwhelming mandate for the new fifth republic. Outdoors, a few people look at posters, also shots of posters themselves. Some say Non!, others Oui A La France. Woman looks at display/posters with sign, Parti Communiste Francais. Interior, man in suit casts vote, puts ballot in box with people looking on, including at least one still photographer with flash camera. Exterior building. Charles De Gaulle and other men walk along.
Newsmen Reach Quemoy
Newsmen Reach Quemoy. Newsmen (journalists, press) reach Quemoy for the first time in nearly 2 weeks, flown in by a blockade running supply airplane to see how the off-shore island holds up under the Reds' 2-month-old barrage. Men in helmets climb a hill. Men in helmets that say "Press" (and also have Asian characters on them) stand by barbed wire fence overlooking beach or bluff. High angle buildings. Some damage to buildings. Puffs of smoke on land in distance across body of water. Young children go down steps leading underground (bomb shelter?); it's dark down there. Asian men wearing helmets operate large weapon, which seems to be firing from inside some structure. Next to damaged building, Asian man with hat digs, shovels. Asian woman balances two buckets from pole on her shoulder, walks away.
Carrier Tragedy
Carrier Tragedy. A moment of pride turns to horror, as Britain's newest carrier jet fighter-bomber lands on HMS Victorious, and goes over the side when the arresting gear snaps. The pilot is trapped under the plastic canopy, with a rescue helicopter only feet away, within sight of the carrier, as the plane drags him down to death before hundreds of helpless onlookers. Large ship at sea moving through water. Plane landing on deck of ship. Aircraft in water, waves washing over it. Helicopter with S on front hovers over water, man hanging from it, sometimes dipping into the water. Rescue effort, attempt.
America's Cup.
America's Cup. Off Newport, R.I., America's gem of the ocean, the racing yacht Columbia, completes a magnificent defense of the America's Cup, most coveted trophy in yachting, with her fourth straight defeat of Sceptre, Britain's graceful challenger. Boats with big sails sailing on water. Caucasian man in boat aiming motion picture camera. Wake as if caused by boat going through water -- no part of ship visible. 3 Caucasian men looking through binoculars. Caucasian crowd, fairly well-dressed, smiling and waving. Clean-cut young Caucasian men on ship wave toward camera, smiling; they wear dark shirts with white lettering that says Columbia. Sports.
Ohio 23 - S.M.U.. 20.
Ohio 23 - S.M.U.. 20. A sensational battle of conversions at Columbus, as Buckeyes and Mustangs clash in a top intersectional game. The Mustangs brilliant passing offense, and the all-around excellence of the Buckeyes, rated number 1 in America, produce 2 touchdowns each, but Ohio makes 5 points in conversions under new scoring rules, against SMU's 2, for the winning margin. Pretty typical football game highlights, some touchdowns, some crowd shots, scoreboard. Southern Methodist University.
Quemoy Standoff Continues.
Another supply convoy reaches quemoy despite the red blocade. On formosa, in a rare press conference, chiang kai shek opposes reduction of garrisons on the off-shore islands. In peiking, the reds rebuff u.S. Peace bids with an enormous propaganda demonstration - missing an estimated three million to denounce america. POV from deck of ship at sea (moving forward). Some transports and/or vehicles (some look like tanks) in the water. Many men on deck of ship pick up sacks, toss them overboard onto a floating vessel next to the ship. Indoors somewhere, Asian man wearing dark hat and cape or cloak walks up stairs, other men including a few photographers around him (he is backlit and looks kind of like a noir character). He salutes. Indoors, Asian men seated in rows. Asian man seated, hand to his chin, still photographer in background aiming camera toward him. Caucasian motion picture cameramen. Man with bald head (view from behind) seated at table with microphones, rows of men in front of him including people with cameras and others writing as they sit (journalists?). Outdoors, large numbers of people march or walk down a road. Some carry flags, some wave fists in the air (but smiling), some carry banners with Asian lettering/characters. Most of these people are Asian, but a few Caucasian men are seen. Huge masses of people. Some individuals and small groups in the crowd. Men in uniform raise fists in air. Man in eyeglasses and hat. A sea of people with banners. Asian man walks from a vantage that overlooks crowd. Men in hats, a woman, little girls raise each raise one arm in air, speaking (shouting? cheering?).
Solar Cooker.
In massachusetts, the army quartermaster corp shows a new solar furnace capable of generating heat close to that of a nuclear explosion. Exterior, in a field with sparse trees, three structures of some sort, one vaguely resembling a drive-in movie screen but at an angle. Two Caucasian men in uniform look up toward a structure. Flames shoot from a circular portion of some unknown, unique apparatus. Parts of this same apparatus - they seem to function like horizontal flaps across an air vent - move to a tilt so that they are angled downward, and the fire is extinguished. More shots of basically the same thing happening.
News in Brief: England, Operation Fido.
News in Brief: England, Operation Fido. A wartime procedure, by which gasoline is burned to lift the fog from airport runways, is revived for civilian aircraft. Weird! Night scenes. A plane taxis on a runway where the "landing lights" are lines of flame, apparently burning gasoline. VS some objective, some subjective from pilot POV inside cockpit of airplane, as plane flies in, lands on the flaming runway. Very unusual. Bizarre.
News in Brief: Japan's Crown Prince.
News in Brief: Japan's Crown Prince. Crowds gather to hail Crown Prince Akihito in his first public appearance since his investiture as heir apparent to the throne. VS Japanese citizens of all ages walking through what looks like a park. Crowd of Japanese wait. The prince, with his parents, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, greet the crowds from a balcony. The people wave back excitedly.
News in Brief: England, Birthday For A Prince.
News in Brief: England, Birthday For A Prince. Prince Charles is four years old and all England joins his mother Queen Elizabeth II in celebrating. His little sister helps out too. The little prince looks out from window of Buckingham Palace (unfortunately a dim shot). Brief scene from changing of the guard. Two still photos of Prince Charles sitting in a toy car, one with his mother smiling at him. Cute still photos of the two little kids, Princess Anne and Prince Charles, posing together.
It's Ski Time.
It's Ski Time. There's many a sitzmark on the snow-covered slopes of Mount Hood (Mt. Hood), as early birds of the ski season try their luck on modified bed slats. VS men and women getting dragged along by the tow rope. A few novice skiers fall down while moving pretty slowly on fairly level ground. Beginners. View from moving chair lift (ski lift). Woman carries large dog on ski lift (!). Various shots people snow skiing, the dog (Saint Bernard?) bounding behind them through the snow (brief excerpts could make him look like a search and rescue dog).
NATO "Assault": Full Dress Landing Attack By Marines
NATO "Assault": Full Dress Landing Attack By Marines Off the coast of Turkey, America, Greece and Turkey join in full-dress amphibious maneuvers. 3,000 Marines storm ashore under air cover in realistic defense exercises. VS naval ships at sea, underway. Sailors on deck raise signal flags. Crew members prepare for a plane on carrier deck to take off. Plane takes off from aircraft carrier. Assault vessels (landing craft) land on beach. Admiral Carney, on beach, looks through binoculars. Joint military exercise.
News in Brief: Ike At U.N.
News in Brief: Ike At U.N. President-elect Dwight Eisenhower visits United Nations headquarters with his prospective secretary of state, John Foster Dulles. Secretary-General Trygve Lie plays host on Ike's tour. Eisenhower and Dulles arrive amid many journalists, shake hands with Lie. Large group of press photographers. Low angle canted view of a United Nations building. Lie takes Ike on a tour of the interior, while photogs snap away. Lester Pearson of Canada joins them.
Football: USC 14, UCLA 12.
Football: USC 14, UCLA 12. USC and UCLA, both unbeaten and untied, battle for the Rose Bowl. Southern Cal. wins, 14-12, and will go on to face Wisconsin in the New Year's Day classic. USC's #20 Al Carmichael rushes for some yardage, then laterals to Jim Sears, who runs a long way for a touchdown. UCLA passing play, then run in for score. USC defender intercepts a pass and runs it back quite a long way. Then there's another touchdown for the Trojans.
Sky Divers.
Sky Divers. Marine dare-devils train in new free-fall para-jumping, plummeting thousands of feet before opening their chutes. Advantages are accuracy and less likelihood of enemy detection. Sign: Auxiliary Landing Fie(ld) Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton California Elevation 63 Feet. Men in camouflage with packs on front and back climb into airplane while a similarly dressed man watches them. Propeller plane, with Navy written on the side, taxis. Plane takes off, mountains in background. Man in camouflage falling down through the air toward the ground, seen from above (as if POV from onboard plane, but with no portion of the plane visible, it's a nifty view of the freefall). Very distant view of what looks like a speck, moving; finally the speck's parachute opens. Man with parachute open drops to the ground, gets up and runs (seemingly to wrangle the parachute).
World Series.
World Series. Highlights of World Series contests in Milwaukee, as the Braves take a 2-game lead over New York. In the thrill-packed opener, despite 2 Yankee hr's (home runs) - Milwaukee sends the game into extra innings, and Billy Bruton breaks it up with a liner off Ryne Duren to send home the winning run. Exterior sports stadium or arena, people walking toward it. Older man in Yankees jacket shakes hands with older man in Braves jacket. Two players in uniform shake hands. Stands packed full of people. Batter (NY) warms up. Baseball game in progress. Woman spectator applauds and smiles. Sober-looking men watch from stands. Nice CUs of batters. Players run onto field for brief celebration, then return to dugout.
Stroke Fells Pope.
Stroke Fells Pope. Last films of the Pontiff, only hours before the cerebral circulatory disturbance that felled Pius XII. Only hours after his recovery from a bout of hiccups recalling his near-fatal illness of 1954, the Pope greets visitors, including a group of pilgrims led by Cardinal Spellman. Crowd outside building, man on balcony facing them. Pope speaking from balcony (not his audio). People in crowd look up and applaud, among them another clergyman. Clergyman walks past guards, shakes a man's hand. Interior, this same man with the pope, kisses pope's hand, handshake. The two men together.
Seawolf Under 60 Days.
Seawolf Under 60 Days. An amazing endurance record for the nuclear sub Seawolf, which surfaces off New London after 60 days underwater. Ship in background, submarine surfacing in foreground. A few people peak out top of sub. Waves or wake. Aerial of submarine, other views. Shot of sub in foreground and ship and blimp in background.
French Floods.
French Floods. In southern France, communications are disrupted, scores of villages ravaged by raging floods that take at least 33 lives. Body of water, bridge with Roman arches. Railroad track over water, sagging, pieces of stone bridge evidently have fallen into the water. Automobile traffic on tree-lined road. One car leans against a tree, its rear wheels high up in the air, front of car in a puddle. Scenes of damage. Man scoops mud from inside his car. Others carry buckets or shovel mud from around buildings.
De Gaulle In Algeria.
De Gaulle In Algeria. Following his landslide triumph in France's constitutional ballot, Charles De Gaulle flies to Algeria to cement his victory. De Gaulle walks through dense crowds, some guards and armed men present. Some people applaud, smile, wave arms or flags -- seems like a friendly enough crowd (toward DeGaulle). Shot of people mostly in white turbans standing behind a fence, armed men in camouflage in a line along the other side of fence. The turbaned crowd has a sign or banner, Vive de Gaulle. De Gaulle saluting from podium.
Lourdes Centennial
Lourdes Centennial In Washington, D.C., 100,000 Observe the 100th anniversary of St. Bernadette's visions at Lourdes. Aerial view, orderly large crowd. Masses of people. What looks like a large dark rock with a carved-out place, where stands a white statue of a human figure; in foreground are candles and flowers (altar? shrine?). The statue is of a woman, draped, with words in French written over her head - Je Suis ... (can't read the rest). Rock with white Christian cross and words, Lourdes Centennial, with top of Washington Monument peeking over from behind the rock. Clergy walk toward the rock. Crucifix. Robed men (clergy?) among spectators. Clergyman with large hat and some sort of staff in hand moves hand and speaks.
New Army Offense Rips Penn State
New Army Offense Rips Penn State At West Point, Army's new 'lonely end' formation proves lethal to the Nittany Lions. The cadets' speed and aerial attack is unstoppable, and Penn State loses 26-0. Football game highlights. Kickoff, scoring drive, rushing for touchdown. Overheard view cadets applauding. Fumble. Passing, rushing. Reception and player runs into end zone.
Michigan State, Michigan, Tie.
Michigan State, Michigan, Tie. A classic rivalry, between the Spartans and Wolverines, and a sensational battle. After the Wolverines run up a 12-0 score in the 1st half, the Spartans rally to tie it up! Packed stadium. Game highlights, action. Rushing touchdown, referee signals it (throws hands up in air). Great punt return for touchdown, fast running, and the crowd goes wild (wide shot). Other plays. Football.