Warner Pathe #50

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Battleship Missouri retired in the mothball fleet in Bremerton, Washington. Vs. footage of "Mighty Missouri" in Tokyo Harbor, filled with observers, General MacArthur and Japanese Minister Shigemitzu signing peace agreement, American planes flying of Tokyo Harbor. Ceremonies of retirement ceremonies. 2. Avalanches bury Swiss villages in Swiss Alps. Vs. helicopter rescue missions, snow shoveling, helicopter evacuations, buried buildings. 3. Australia’s Hunter River floods New South Wales. Vs. flooded towns, rescues, aerial views, cattle in water, people swimming, refugees, supplies parachuted in, shelters being made in buses, wrecked cars. 4. New Falcon missile with "electronic brain". Vs. animated sketch of Falcon being released and blowing up another plane, Falcon streaking smoke and blowing up target, radar, airborne explosions, plane on fire falling in slow mo. 5. ”Operation Tea Pot" Atomic Tests in Nevada. 9000 servicemen places around test perimeter to test survival. Vs. cu military men, camera operators, control booth, mushroom cloud against black, men huddled in trenches, atomic flashes on several desert hills, men backing away from fallout, broom dusting each other off, military checking each other with Geiger counters. 6. Footage of Eskimos in Barter Island, Alaska. Vs. murky sun and coated people, blizzard conditions, ice formed on man's beard, plane landing, aerial footage of Eskimo village, seal skin bleaching, cu Eskimos, Eskimo children with puppies, cu of Eskimos smiling, children going to school, chalkboard with English lessons, children playing outside with a leather ball, malamute sled DOGs, sleigh ride, ice cliffs, Eskimos hunting. 7. Film study of the shark. Vs. footage of escapes from sharks, and shark hunting off Australia, shark eating rags, man baiting shark, capsizing rescue from sharks, various sharks thrashing about, shark fight, dead sharks being towed behind fishing boat. 8. Tour and history of Willamsburg, Virginia. Vs. horse drawn carriages, aerial view of arsenal, costumed troops sounding canons with English flag, William and Mary College, colonial barber and wig maker, Golden Ball jewelry store, silversmiths in colonial costume, military shop, printing office, book binder, bakery, candle maker, Hall of the House of Burgesses, rebuilt Governor's Palace. Vs. interior of Governor's Palace zooming and dollying through several doors.