Warner Pathe #44

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1956

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Hungarian Revolt of 1956. Vs. ruined Budapest, Soviet Tanks, rubble, windowless and roofless cathedral. Vs. refugees running into Austria, family fleeing through marsh grass, boy coming across on tree trunk across a border canal, refugees in back of truck, refugees coming to Holland by train, refugee camps. Vs. American Embassy in Vienna where crowds seek asylum. Refugees landing in America. 2. U.N. troops take over Suez Canal Zone. Vs. Port Said in Egypt, rioters, British soldiers using billy clubs to break up demonstrators, divers salvaging sunken ships which blockade the canal creating a gas shortage. Vs. Paris gas shortage, rationing, vs. people pushing cars. 3. More Pompeii discovered. Vs. ruins, dead stone encased person. 4. Italian artist paints on pinheads with microscopes using hairs as brushes. 5. Holy Crags of Montserrat in Northern Spain. Mountain climbers place ancient statue of Mary on top of Mountain. 6. Vs., extreme close-ups then medium shots of alligators, cassowary, rhinoceros, giraffe, penguin in New York's Bronx Park Zoo. 7. Tour of national Underground Monument in Lehman Caverns in Nevada. Vs. stalactites and stalagmites, tourists, ranger playing stalagmites like chimes and drums. 8. Tour of New York Public Library. Vs. aerial view, lion statue, manuscripts of Beethoven, newspaper announcing Lincoln assassination, Gutenberg Bible, Catalog Room, pneumatic tubes relaying index cards, stacks, shot from elevator showing seven floors of stacks to the reading room, indicator board, readers in 800 seat reading room.