Warner Pathe #42

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. "The War Against Communism" Communists enter Hanoi, former French colony of Indochina. U.S. troops in Formosa. Vs. Chiang Kai Shek, review of troops, tanks roll through streets. North Korean Communists in a Parade. Orphans in South Korea with U.S. GIs. British Foreign Secretary Eton signing European Union with Germany. Germany becomes a NATO member at U.N. headquarters. Pres. Eisenhower greeting foreign secretary. 2. New helicopter airlifts pipes for hydroelectric plant construction in French Alps. Vs. aerial of dam, loading and dropping pipes. 3. Hurricane Hazel in South Carolina, then Canada. Vs. flooding, rescues, aerial views of wrecked trailer parks, washed out bridges. Floods in Honduras, Aerial views of marooned survivors, Vs. U.S. airdrops. Destroyer Samuel Moore refuels at sea during rough waters. 4. ”Modern Living the 21st Century House". VS closed circuit TV. allows parents to watch children while playing bridge. Vs. Lamps running off electronic units in floor, floating pan in a "magnetic wave stove", automatically closing windows when it starts to rain. 5. Jet fighters demonstrate striking power in Florida. Vs. F84 Thunderjet, F86 Saberjets dropping napalm, multiple explosions, B36 dropping a huge number of sequential bombs. 6. History of plant naturalist Luther Burbank. Vs. Mrs. Burbank in house in Santa Rosa, guest book with Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, footage together, botany book with pressed flowers, historical footage of 1917 spineless cactus used to feed cattle, various cacti, different hybrids of daisies, apple blossoms, cala lillies given fragrance, perfect shaped potato, cross section of tree graft, bees pollinating flowers, gardener cross pollinating in field, green house, and laboratory. Vs. visitors at the Luther Burbank garden. 7. Tour of the Arctic. Vs. aerial vies of snow dunes and arctic sea. Vs. Canadian ice breaker, helicopter pilot waves to Eskimos down below. Vs. landing barges, Eskimo village, Eskimos pulling white whale to shore, weather balloon being launched, Eskimo miners, Coal mining process, coal bags being dragged by children into DOG sleds, walruses on ice flow, ship going through tunnel in glacier, navy frogmen diving, ice breaking ship, ship men dynamiting ship escape route through the northwest passage.