Warner Pathe #11

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1951

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. British-Iranian oil dispute. Oil refinery owned by Britain, won't nationalize according to Iranian wishes. Iranian premier goes to Britain for talks, and to visit Pres. Truman. 2. UN celebrates its 6th birthday, issues special U.N. stamps. Truman visits U.N. Korea soldiers, veterans go to capital, where Secretary of State Dean Acheson makes speech for pro Korean War. French Foreign Secretary in Paris for opening of new U.N. session 3. Winston Churchill becomes prime minister once again, conservative party defeating labor. 4. Combat films from Korean War, as "Operation Killer" is mounted, huge scrap shell field, vs., explosion, infantry artillery men, Heartbreak Ridge. Helicopters fly in marine troops, unloading supplies and ammunition, command center, surrender of enemy bunker in effort to control "Bloody Ridge", cease fire discussed. 5. Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Canada. Personal history of Princess Elizabeth, reviews girl guards at Windsor Castle, Elizabeth and Margaret evacuated, reviewing troops, meeting Philip Mountbatten, wedding at Westminster Abbey. Birth of Prince Charles, Prince Charles as a baby sneezing, princess Anne born. Elizabeth and Philip at Washington. Elizabeth at Press Conference, at Mount Vernon, Arlington National Ceremony. 6. Tour of New York Port Authority in NYC. vs. POV bus driving shots, passengers entering and exiting, people going up and down escalators, different shops in terminal, ticket windows, different bus signs to different cities, parking spaces on roof. 7. Australian kindergarten percussion band plays a concert, complete with five year old conductor. Kids half tambourines and triangles, a boy sings a disturbing version of "Rock-a-bye- Baby"


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