United Press Newsreel Compilation -- horse racing, boxing, Korea/military, anti-communism, zoo animals, Parades

Duration: 1000 ft

Year Published: 1950

Creator: United Press International

Complete Record: LS of the Eiffel Tower behind spraying fountains. Official men walk up steps to building. Indoors representatives from different countries sit around room. Philadelphia Track event. Hurdle race. CU of black man who won. Honolulu Professors wear their caps and gowns. Harry S Truman receives honorary degree of doctor of humanities. Truman gets neck cloth. He gives speech declaring the importance of the classics in education. New York LS of Horse Race, with a steady pull in on the winning horse. Army men come out of van, greeting those at the camp. Shots of wounded men, one escorted to helicopter and carried away. Korea African-American soldier POW gives account of being captured by the North Koreans. India Three people descend steps from plane. Some men in uniforms. Maryland Boxing match. CUs of some faces in the crowd. Virginia Giant crane lowers massive army truck from boat to ground. The truck drives into water; looks like an old fashioned hovercraft. Philadelphia A group of young children get out of car and walk up stairs into a building with some adults. They stand at the side of a desk looking intently at a nurse. Then, while in their pajamas, they sit on a hospital bed and all take thermometers into their mouths. Two middle aged men, one speaks foreign language the other translates. Los Angeles MS of a man talking to a woman. New York City LS of ocean liner. Older man walks ashore. England LS of Ocean liner. Asian man holds hat in front of face while people try to photograph him. At press microphones he says it is an honor to be invited by the queen. He’s there on behalf of his father. MCU of man who states that the reign of terror is a method to keep the population under control. It has made people commit suicide. Children are even rewarded for turning in parents and relatives. Mentally handicapped kids feed sheep in a pen. MS of cute boy embracing a fuzzy lamb; a cow being fed milk from a bottle; a young girl feeding baby chicks; a boy spraying ducks; a boy and adult walking a monkey by its tail. Philadelphia special event, a chorus sings, people seated eat cake. Florida dolphin jumps through a hoop twice. CU of dolphin’s mouth. It floats by the edge of the pool while its trainer pets it and gives it treats. Across the Nation New York’s biggest May Day celebration. Police control crowd while on horseback. Some parade shots and crowd shots. skirmishes with the cops. La LaGuardia Field A crowd gathers as man, greeted by family, comes out of plane. Press clamors to talk to him. New York City MS of two men, one speaks another language, the other translates that he is happy to be in the United States. Georgia Camera pans to show rubble and devastation of property. Mass destruction. People rummage through debris.