News Footage 1954: Can 3 (sound, silent)

Description: Description: Comprehensive assembly of news footage both silent and sound sequences documenting many global issues and situations of the early 1950s including postwar Europe, zones of conflict in Korea and in Southeast Asia, and the Cold War between the U.S. and the USSR. Sequences within this reel cover many aspects of U.S. presence and participation and military and diplotmatic logistics and also features domestic footage of senate politics in action and political personalities. Featured are Senator Joseph McCarthy and attorney Roy Cohn, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, candidate Richard M. Nixon, and other government officials and celebrities. With a business fair in Southern California featuring new business machines including early artificial intelligence. Also with Jonas Salk discussing the polio vaccine, and sequences from the Army-McCarthy congressional hearings. This footage is from an unidentified source, probably made for television by NBC and its sources and affiliates. Notable for its documentation of many types of communications technologies. Note on leader: REEL #3 #s 7, 8, 9 4-23, 4-26, 4-28-54 Other sequences identifiable from writing on film leader, noted prior to scanning, include: "Reds in Geneva" "McCarthy Hearing" Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, Politics and government, Communication, Communism, Cold War, People of Asian and Pacific Islander origin or descent, Korean War (1950-1953), Health and hygiene, Aviation and aerospace Tags: possible Audie Murphy; Senator Joseph McCarthy; McCarthy hearings; red scare; Roy Cohn; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Everett Dirksen; U.S. army; U.S. Senate; Senate hearings; officials; diplomats; unidentified U.S. congressmen; army secretary; Robert Ten Broeck Stevens; Robert T. Stevens; Army–McCarthy hearings; officials from Asian countries; possible Chinese leaders; possible Taiwanese leaders; Prague luggage tag; U.S. Air Force; airplane; United Kingdom; UK; Skipness Airport; Royal Air Force; RAF; English people; British people; English countryside; woman on bicycle; dogs; alert system; message system; radio; telecommunications; radio transmitter; public addresses; Presidential speeches; denials; cigarettes; smoking cigarettes indoors; Korean war; rifles; rifle training; Korean troops; tanks; tank warfare; missile launch; Edwards Air Force Base; Atlas missile; government officials; royalty; Korean officials; American Airlines; Pan Am Airlines; USSR; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Soviet officials; media maker of Asian heritage; Aeroflot; Shell Oil truck; parades; military parade; New York City; tickertape; Transylvania College; office of the President of the United States; podium; President Eisenhower; Voice of America; NBC; Russian language spoken; translators; German language spoken; pistols; 25mm automatic handgun; gun education; gun culture; structure fire; National Broadcasting Company; bomb effects; Philippines; emergency response; rescues; survivors; Remington Rand; business machines expo; demonstrations; NCR; National Cash Register; expos; models; Southern California Business Show; stereotypes; dumb blonde stereotype; AI; voice-activated typewriter; artificial intelligence; woman asks machine "what can't you do"?; NCR Bookkeeping machine; business machines; punch cards; IBM cards; electromechanical computing; computers; National Association of Cost Accountants; KNBH; NBC Television; concertina wire; France; Chrysler car; foreign dignitaries; air fields; unidentified military airports; streetcars; unidentified European landscape; Richard M. Nixon; Film Sponsor: Creator: Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: David Webb Peoples Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1954-04-23; 1954-04-26; 1954-04-28 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York; Westchester County, New York; Korea; New York; Geneva, Switzerland; Switzerland; Georgia Genre/Form: television newsfilm Language: eng,german,rus Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: Color: b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: sound, silent Film Soundtrack Type: variable area, variable density Edge Code: plus circle Frame Rate: 24 fps Length (feet): 1634

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