Warner Pathe #15

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1951

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. San Francisco - 48 countries sign treaty with Japan. President Truman speaks at the first conference inside the San Francisco Opera House. Russian representative Gromyko tries get conference to sit Red China, conference rules against it. Chairman Acheson speaks second day about rules of the conduct, including rules preventing filibustering. 46 nations sign the treaty. 2. Episodes in the life of Christopher Columbus as Italian museum dedicated to him. Vs. Genoa, Italy, statues, including Monte Verde statue, maps, diaries, model ships, navigational instruments. 3. 7th annual World Boy Scout jamboree in Austria. Parade of international scouts. vs. exhibition of crafts, religious services, balloon release to boys behind iron curtain. 4. Writer Louis Bromfield's farm "Malabar" in Pleasant Valley, Ohio. Visitors come to see modernized farm techniques. Vs. visitors listening to lectures, diagram showing topsoil "Hardpan", and Bromfield's technique to avoid dust bowl conditions. Graham plow animation shows "mineral rich subsoil". Vs. ponds, hedges, harvesting, modern dairy. 5.16 year old, Maureen Conolly of San Diego, CA wins national Tennis Championship. Vs. aerial views, tennis matches. 6. 200 foot statue of Flag of Iwo Jima nears completion as a U.S. Marine memorial. Vs. giant model, close ups of statue. 7. Poovlalerak, a 17 year old Eskimo takes vows as a nun. Vs. inside clapboard church, ceremony, Eskimo family. Sister sledding with a child. 8. Tour of ancient ruins of Baalbeck, Syria, near Damascus. vs. ruins.