Warner Pathe #34

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Josef Stalin dies. Historic footage of Stalin and the Russian Revolution. Vs. Czar Nicholas, troops, rioters, Lenin and Trotsky, Stalin, Moscow's Hall of Columns, Stalin in politburo bureau meetings, one sided elections, Truman and FDR, Russian military on parade, Malenkov, The Kremlin. 2. East German refugees seeking to go West. Vs. in common living area in reconditioned factories, outside washing, meals handed out, getting on plane. 3. Flash fire in NYC. Vs. firemen in gas masks. Rescue of a downed Navy Plane near Couz Bay in Bermuda. 4. Update on Korean War. Vs. Korean orphans taken care of by U.N., Napalm being used by various Navy planes, DOG fights and exploding planes, Celebration of independent Korea. 5. Embroidery from the Italian Renaissance in Genoa, Italy. Vs. tapestries, portraits, clothing. 6. Air Force atomic tests in Nevada. Vs. planes conducting experiments on radioactivity, and blindness to air force crew men. Slow motion explosion of test plane under nuclear blast. B50 pilot, radar navigator, bombardier, aerial view of atomic blast. Mannequin family, house, and township blown up. 1500 G.I. in trenches. Observers 7 miles away. G.I.s with Geiger counters. Wreckage of test site. 7.A "Shadow Show" in Spain. Hand shadows perform characters in a bullfight. 8. The history of Benjamin Franklin. Vs. Independence Hall, Liberty bell, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania hospital, Christ Church, burial place of Benjamin and Mrs. Franklin, sketches of life highlights, Philadelphia, Franklin Institute, printing press, Pennsylvania Gazette, Poor Richard's Almanac, cast iron stove, Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Static generator, Lightning Rod, bifocals, American Presidential seal, statue of Franklin.