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Salute To Benny Goodman
Civic officials, social leaders, and stars of the entertainment world gather for a 'salute to Benny Goodman dinner,' raising funds for the famed settlement, Hull House. Next night, the king of swing's 2-day homecoming celebration culminates with the premiere of his film biography, u-us 'The Benny Goodman Story.' Steve Allen, who portrays the clarinet star, Benny Goodman himself, and a host of A gala dinner party and all the guest are seated at round tables. CUS - Miss Universe of 1956. CUS - Motion picture executives. CUS - Steve Allen. MCUS - Benny Goodman presented a musical baton. CUS - Benny Goodman's mother. CUS - Benny Goodman and Steve Allen shaking hands. Out side shot-evening - The Chicago Theater. CUS - The marquee, "World Premiere" The Benny Goodman Story. Tonight In Person Steve Allen. Celebrity Broadcast CUS - Steve Allen and his wife Jane Meadows. MLS - Chicago Theaters front marquee. [The Benny Goodman Story] Steve Allen - Donna Reed.
Nice Carnival.
Carnival comes to nice, a gargantuan celebration with a typical gallic flair. Throngs lining the huge parade's line of march are swept into the merry-making, as the pleasure capital of the French Riviera continues its centuries-old tradition of Pre-Lenten gaiety. Establishing shot - Throngs of people lining the street as the parade and Pre-Lenten celebration gets on its way. MS - Huge paper mache grotesque figures decorate the floats. CUS - A participant from the parade is throwing confetti on the people watching the parade. MS - Parade is moving on with participants wearing huge paper mache heads.
Palm Springs Rodeo, Brahma Bull Riding
A unique and amazing set-to between cowhand and Brahma bull makes palm springs' 16th annual rodeo more than a thrilling sports event. It's one of those rare occasions in sports they'll be talking about for years to come, the toss-up of a lifetime. Palm Springs, California Throngs of Rodeo fanciers sitting in the sun. MS - Gate and out comes a very angry Brahma Bull with a cowboy on his back. MS - Second gate opens and once again a cowboy on the back of a Brahma Bull who gets tossed off. MS - Another gate, another Brahma Bull but this time this bull is so angry that all four hoofs leave the ground at one time and he bucks the cowboy off his back only to try to gore him with his horns. Saved by the clown with the umbrella. CUS - Rodeo fans. CUS - The cowboy who was gored is taken away in an ambulance who is more stunned than hurt. MSL - The last rider is really tossed off the back of this Brahma Bull and the clown with the umbrella is there to help if needed.
Niagara Falls Stages Winter Beauty Show
Weather makes news at Niagara Falls by behaving normally, when freak climactic condition plague the rest of the northern hemisphere. It's a winter beauty show, with ice sheathing trees in carapaces of crystal, and the frozen waters of the Niagara river imparting all the wintry splendor of the old-fashioned winters we seem to see so seldom today. Establish shot - Man and a woman touching the frozen branches sealed in a capsule of ice. MS - Niagara Falls with rocks covered by ice and snow. MLS - A tourist boat at the bottom of Niagara Falls. MS - On deck of the tourist boat a newly wed couple is given a certificate stating that they are the 24,000th couple honeymooning at Niagara Falls - Couple standing at the railing looking at the falls.
Secretary Of State Herbert Hoover Jr. Arrives In Berlin
U.S. Radio in Berlin celebrates its 10th anniversary. Under-Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., Is guest of honor at ceremonies marking the highlight for the American radio station in west Berlin that's proved a beacon of freedom in the years of the cold war. Establishing shot - Secretary Of State Herbert Hoover Jr. MLS - Herbert Hoover Jr. addressing an audience on US Radio in Berlin. CUS - Audience. MS - Profile Herbert Hoover Jr. MLS - Herbert Hoover Jr. standing on the podium speaking. CUS - Audience applauding.
Queen In Nigeria
Queen Elizabeth continues her tour of Nigeria, one of Africa s largest British crown colonies, standing on the verge of self-rule. During the stay, one of the largest tin mines in the world is visited. Establishing shot - Queen Elizabeth II disembarking from a plane followed by her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. MLS - Tin mine in Nigeria. MLS - Prince Philip standing at the cliff looking down into the mines. Above shot - Men working with shovels and pick axes in the mine. MS - Prince Philip and throngs of Nigerians.
Gasparilla Pirate Crew Sails Into Tampa
Gasparilla raids Tampa, bringing back the lusty merriment of buccaneer days, to sweep in a week of merry-making with his pirate crew. It's the Florida city's annual carnival, one of the country's most famous, and spectacular. CU - Pirates disembarking from their sailing vessel. MLS - Gasparilla's pirate ship followed by other ships and boats. OHS - Pirates CU - Gasparilla at the wheel of the pirate ship, he's wearing a pirates hat with the Jolly Roger on it. CU- Pirate CU - Pirates firing little cannons. CU - Crowd. MS - Floats in a parade. Pirate boat float.
Ultra Modern Furniture
Furniture in mid-air makes news in home styles. An Oakland, California home achieves the ultimate in modernism, with not a single piece of resting on the floor. Everything is suspended from the ceiling - even the fireplace. It's no joke - it's actual home. Model walking down a spiral staircase with only a pole to hold on to. CUS - A wicker basket chair hanging from the ceiling and a model sitting in it. MS - Four models roasting marshmallows in a hanging fireplace. CUS - Model with a dust mop. MS - Two models put their cushions on the floor so they can sit by the hanging table.
Year Of The Monkey
Year of the monkey, 4654 by the traditional Chinese calendar, is welcomed in by San Francisco's Chinatown with the choice of a Queen for the new year. She's chosen in a unique way, that reflects true Oriental wisdom. You can't argue with the judge. Establishing shot - Monkeys at the zoo behind cages. Camera panning - Five pretty Chinese girls, smiling at the monkey. MS - Zookeeper goes up to the monkey and lets him draw a name out of the paper bag. MS - A group of people applauding the monkey's choice of the queen. CUS - New Queen shaking hands with the monkey.
Cashmere Fashions
The long and short of the fashion picture, in a special collection of resort and spring coats, presented by slim gals in a setting of sleek sports cars. Spring is in the air, even though it's winter outside. Establishing shot - Model walking to a car in a garage with her poodle. She is wearing a long cashmere coat. CUS - Two models standing one has a short coat accented with a hat to match and the second on is wearing a long coat and that too is accented by a hat. CUS - Poodle. MS - Two models talking by a very nice sports car, black. One has a short coat no hat and the other model has a long coat, accented by a hat. CUS - Model gets out of a sports car is wearing a short coat. CUS - Two models standing by a stair case. One model is wearing a long cashmere coat and a hat to top off the outfit and the other one is wearing a short jacket. CUS - Model is standing by a sports car with her long cashmere coat and short white gloves.
Annual Winter Meet Of Sports Cars Of American
Winter sports car rally at Franconia, New Hampshire, features hot cars on the cold track. An array of streamlined speedsters whip around a snow covered track in the sports car club of America's annual winter meet. Establishing shot - A cold and gray day with snow on the ground and the sports cars are all lined up. MS - A Volks Wagon Beatle race on the snow and ice. MS - Looks like an old MG with no top on. MS - A sports convertible won the race.
Golden Gloves Quarter Finals
A quarter-final card full of action and excitement, as young amateurs slug away in hopes of ultimate victory. Plenty of fistic fireworks as lightweights and heavyweights hit the canvas. Establishing shot - Two young boxers surrounded by boxing sports enthusiast. CUS - A father and son watching the boxing match. CUOH- Two sub novice class, the kid in the dark trunks knocks out the kid in the white trunks. CUS - Two heavy weight boxers, CUS - Boxing coach. CUS - Strom gets knocked down and it is a TKO and the referee helps him up . CUS - Audience applauding. Looking up at the fighters - Two more heavyweights and Cruz knocks down Hudson and wins the match.
Guided Missiles: Take Spotlight In Modern Arsenals
For the first time, Great Britain reveals the guided missiles in her arsenal of defense. Two models are shown, rocketing aloft at 1,000 mph speeds to seek out and destroy target aircraft. Details are still secret, but they rate among the world's most effective. Establishing shot - At a proving ground at Wales the sinister Rocket is getting ready. CUS - Man sitting at inside controls hits the switch. MS - The rocket is leaving the launching pad. MLS - Booster rockets are released from the rocket. MS - Another rocket takes off from the launching pad. POV - From the rocket looking at Great Britain. CUS - Rocket being tracked from the control room. MLS - The target plane, there's a direct hit from the rocket and the plane explodes. MS - Inside the control room with the rockets engineers. LS - Parts of the destroyed plane falling.
Strike Violence Flares.
Violence flares again in republic aviation strike, as mass picketers bar the entry of non-smoking workers, and clash with police. Establishing shot - Throngs of strikers are banded together. MS - Backs of the mass of people. MS - Local police come into the picture trying to keep order. CUS - An injured person being placed in an ambulance. CUS - Man laying on the ground knocked out MS - A policeman and a striker fighting and falling on to the ground. Evening shot - Hard to see but the police interlock arms, as their bodies hold back the crowds.
Greek Elections
Record number of voters, women among them for the first time, turn out for national elections in which a red-tinged coalition makes inroads into the pro-western majority. Establishing shot - Greek men standing around the polling place. CUS - Inside the Polling Place a voter official seal an envelope. CUS - Looks like Greek officials voting and dropping their ballots in the voting box. MCUS - Women queue with their ballots in their hands. CUS - Voting officials counting the ballots and voter registration. CUS - Starting to rain the voters holding their umbrellas discussing the candidates who were on the ballots.
Battlefield TV
The signal corps demonstrates a new light-weight television camera designed for battlefield use. Weighing only 55 pounds, the 'creepy-peepy' flashes a picture more than a mile. Establishing shot - Signal corps are out in the field, riffles on their shoulders. CUS - A soldiers has a battery pack on his back with an antenna. CUS - Soldier at the receiving center, walkie talkie in his left hand and he is adjusting the receiver. CUS - Soldiers going up-hill, one has the battery pack on his back and a camera in his hand. MRS - Soldiers kneeling down on one knee, one has the camera and battery pack and the other soldier has his riffle in his left hand, at the ready. CIUS - Soldier has the mini TV camera focusing in on something. MS - A picture of the country side that he is transmitting on the camera. MS - Two soldiers at the side of a railroad track broadcasting pictures of the on coming train. CUS - Transmitted picture of the train to the receiving station.
Bathing Suit Fashion Parade
Italy gets an eyeful of American bathing suit fashions, a switch on the style scene. A preview of summer, highlighted by a parade of historic bathing suit styles, to warm them up, despite Europe s record freeze. Establishing shot - Model is sitting down wearing a plaid bathing suit with a strap around the neck. Her friend who is standing is wearing a print bathing suit with a flared skirt. MS - Models on the cat walk wearing bathing suits from the 1800's. They look like short dresses with bloomers past the knee. MS - Cole of California print baiting suit. MS - Audience. MS - Poke-a-dot bathing suit with a matching full skirt the model can put on later. MS - Sort of a wide stripe bathing suit with matching bag. MS - A strapless beach dress. MS - Model is wearing a sleeveless beach jacket with stripes and a pre-bikini. MS - Model is wearing a bold striped beach jacket and her friend is wearing a printed beach jacket with a hood.
Golden Gloves Semi-Fnals
Kid clouters have their night in the squared circle. Action-packed bouts draws cheers from a packed house, as the glovers' slug away, with an eye on the finals and perhaps the crown. Energy and enthusiasm makes up for skill, for a thrill-filled ring event. Establishing shot - Boxing ring, with two kids boxing and a referee and throngs of boxing fans. MCU - Two young boxers battling it out. MCUS - Frank Angelo hits Earl Thomas and knocks him down. CUS - Photographer holding his camera and taking a shot. MCUS - In the third round Frank is really pounding on Earl. MCUS - Finally the referee breaks up the fight. MCUS - The referee is helping Earl to exit the ring but he can barely stand up. CUS - Boxing fans, mostly men, applauding. MCUS - A couple of heavy weights, Al Hudson and Jay Guggons . CUS - Boxing fans, one woman. MCUS - Al Hudson knocks down Jay Guggons and Al is the winner. MCUS - Another heavy weight bough Ed Strab of the CYO Clem cities park department. Ed Strab knocks Clem and Ed is the winner.
Army Digs In For Defense Of Arctic
10,000 Men take part in Operation Moosehorn, as the army tests its ability to survive and to fight along america's far northern frontier. On a footing of 40 inches of snow, battling 60 mph gales, men and machines win the battle with nature, and stand ready for human foes. Establishing shot -Blowing winds and snow where you can hardly see the army headquarters. MS - A military snow car, tanks and trucks queue up in a howling snow storm. MS - Artic landscape of the fidget temperatures and blowing snow. CUS -Army tank. CUS - Military combat men trekking their way through the snow on skis. MLS - Soldiers queued moving slowly through the snow. Ground up - Transport plane dropping tons of supplies. MLS - CU of a soldier watching the supplies land. MCUS - Soldiers pulling the supplies on sleds. MLS - Blowing wind and snow against military tents. MCUS - Two soldiers outside their tent and their riffles stuck in the snow. MLS - Scenic view of the military snow car traveling in this horrid weather.
Miracle At Sea: 2,500 Escape Death In Ship Collision
2,500 Escape death, when the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria is sunk off Nantucket in a collision with the Swedish American liner Stockholm. All aboard the Italian vessel were rescued in a large-scale co-operative operation involving other liners and the coast guard. Lost 52 lives - All of whom died as a result of the collision, but the toll is miraculously light, in what could have been one of the sea's worst disasters. Establishing shot - The crippled passenger ship is leaning on one side. Aerial shot - The Andrea Doria is laying on her side. Aerial shot - The water is almost to the top of the boat. Aerial shot - The Stockholm with a smashed in bow carrying 500 of the Andrea Doria survivors. Aerial shot - The other side of the Stockholm's bow. LL - Cars parked on a grassy area and a helicopter that has landed to carry away seriously injured passengers. MS - Sailors putting an injured passenger inside the helicopter. MS - A little girl on a stretcher, one policemen is comforting her and the other policeman is at the other end of the stretcher. Aerial shot of the sinking Andrea Doria, water is covering half of her stack. Aerial shot - The water is strum with personal belongings of her 1134 hundred of her passengers. Aerial shot - Eleven hours after the collision the Andrea Doria is nearing her end as she keeps on sinking more and more. Aerial shot - The Andrea Doria sinks with many Italian treasures on it. CUS - The Lle de France ocean liner pulling into New York harbor with 758 survivors. MLS - Passengers and survivors of the Andrea Doria standing at the railings of the Lle de France. Survivors sitting on deck with blankets on them. One man has a bandaged head. CUS - A family sitting with their children and big smiles. CUS - The backs of survivors waving and the sky line of New York City in the back ground. CUS - Capitan Raule ? of the French ocean liner and his radio operator. MS - People disembarking on stretchers from the ship.
Full-Rigged Sailing Ship, The Statsraad Lehmkuhi
Full-rigged sailing ship enters Nw York Harbor, bringing a scene from long ago to the busy port. A Norwegian training ship, she carries 150 cadets - perpetuating the days of wooden ships and iron men. A tall ship with lots of sails making its way into New York Harbor, the Statsraad Lehmkuhl. MS - Side of the ship with sailors on top of the mask of the ship, with the sails rolled up. MLS - Merchant Marines on top of the ships mask. The men look real small. MLS - The sailors at the bow of the ship. MS - Side view of the ship with its sails up. POV - Shot taken from another ship, The Lehmkuhl front with its sails up. MLS - A nice shot of the ship with all sails up.
Italian Water Clock Ticks Off Its Seventieth Year
Italian water clock ticks off its seventieth year. Powered by the flow of a mountain stream, this unique work of craftsmanship has stood the test of time, running seven decades without faltering. Establishing shot - Clock tower. CUS - Gears of the clock working. CUS - Water running down the workings of the clock. CUS - Water running into the paddle of the clock. CUS - The pendulum of the clock moving side to side. CUS - Inner workings of the clock and the water flowing through it. MCUS - The face of the clock.
Fashion Parade Spotlights The Latest Creations
Fashion parade spotlights the latest creations of Italy s high style designers, with a gala presentation of elegant evening ensembles, in a settling of opulence that complements the gowns' splendor. Establishing shot - First model walks across the stage wearing sporting pants and a loose fitting top. CUS - Audience totaly engrossed with the fashion show. CUS - Model walks down a few steps wearing a wool tweed dress and jacket, accented by gloves, purse and a hat. CUS - Model is wearing a cool blue silk dress with a belted coat over the dress. MCUS - For the evening the model is wearing a white lace dress and a black velvet coat. CUS - Model wearing a black velvet dress with lace material inlaid down the front of the dress completed by a black velvet coat with a white lace color and lace trim down both sides of the front of the coat, the dress is somewhat like the Days of Renaissance. CUS - The high point of the evening a white embroidered dress with zig -zag lines of silver-sequins and white satin gloves up to the elbow.
Swaps Wins American Handicap
Another record for Swaps, his fourth this year, as the fabulous thoroughbred shows his heels to the field in the $110,000 sunset handicap at Inglewood, California. A win-pool only race, with odds on swaps a forbidding 1 to 10. Establishing shot - The owner, trainer and groomer fussing around Swaps. LS - The crowded stands at the race track. Above, MS - Horses entering the track. MS - Racing fans. MS - Horses and Jockeys spinning around the track. MS - Swaps is leading in the race. MS - Swaps No 5, crossing the finishing line. MS - The crowd standing on their feet CUS - Crowd appaluding. MS - Swaps side view being ridden by his Jockey.