Warner Pathe #39

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Eisenhower goes to Bermuda for Big Three talks with Winston Churchill, and Joseph Laniel. Eisenhower addresses U.N. General Assembly in New York where he pledges steps toward nuclear disarmament. 2. The World's 1st Atomic powered submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus. Vs. Nautilus still being worked on. 3. Tornado in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Vs. destruction. 4. Fire in Pusan, Korea. Vs. firefighting, smoldering, victims searching among ruins, homeless. 4. General George Marshall receives 1953 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway for the writing of The Marshall Plan. Ceremony interrupted by "communist agitators". 5. Craftsmen create miniature railroads, wood carvings of miniature figures, ivory carving in Italy, and ship miniatures in Spain of wood, in glass and in bottles. Experimental boat model demonstrated in California which uses salt water as fuel, smallest motor in the world seen through magnifying glass next to a fly. 6. World’s biggest dredge in Quebec, Canada provides water for new canal for flow of St. Lawrence River. Vs. muck being diverted, machine operators. 7. ”Machine Arithmetique" old fashioned calculator from France. New Calculator which fills a whole room, magnetic tape, control unit, miles of wiring, memory vault stored on punch cards, print outs, called "Mechanical Brain". 8. In New Guineas Waghi Valley, sheep are given to natives in hopes to bring "civilization". Vs. medicine man, tribal dance, cu of different tribesmen, climbing a greased pole in competition, sheep being herded. 9. New "pusher" plane with propeller in tail. Douglas Skyrocket powered by a rocket is launched by a B29 and breaks airspeed record going twice the speed of sound. 10. Tribute to "ghost town" mining cities in Virginia City, Ryelite, and Belmont, Nevada. Vs. Sierra Nevadas, Donner Party memorial Statue, Sutro Tunnel, Old Comstock Mine -geologists within, wooden sidewalk, miners Hall, Piper's Opera House, Territorial Enterprise newspaper office where Mark Twain worked, falling leaves coming toward viewer, various Ghost Town ruins.