Warner Pathe #52

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. U.S. Marines leave from Morehead City, North Carolina to go to the Middle East. Vs. marines in formation, marching onto a carrier, aerial soldier formation shots. Red cross arranges repatriation of refugees from Poland to West Berlin. Vs. Red Cross Bus, faces of people returned. Parents Day at Ford Ord, CA. Vs. mothers taking pictures of sons demonstrating things they have learned in the military, mothers in long white coats wearing gas masks. World's largest power shovel in Cologne, W. Germany. Vs. structure of shovel, revolving shovel head, conveyor belt. 2. Television used in control tower in Alameda California. Vs. primitive remote control closed circuit television, flashing monitors of planes leaving. 3. New English Jet, Fairy Delta 2nd demonstrators. Vs. observers with binoculars, landing, pilot disembarking. 4. New Naval missile demonstrated at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Vs. navy boy announcer, missile being launched, radar guided missiles, slow motion view of missile boosters, excellent shot of missile booster falling toward the ground and debris coming straight at the camera. 5. Tour of Copenhagen, Denmark - The Bicycle City. Vs. citizens riding bicycles through the streets of Copenhagen, delivery bicycles, bike racks. 6. Richard Whitcomb honored for inventing new aircraft design "the pinched waist", which increased jet speed by %25 and wins the Collier trophy. Vs. Nixon congratulating Whitcomb, pinched waisted jet Cougar being taken out of hangar, Whitcomb explaining the pinched waist, Langley Field Laboratory, transonic wind tunnel, model of planes with pinched waist able to break the sound barrier. Needle nosed jet, the Tiger. 7. American expedition of the Arctic. Vs. aerial views of arctic, planes flying over, parachute drop of GIs into the arctic for Operation Moose Horn maneuvers near Port Freely, Alaska. Aerial views of the Antarctic, for Operation Deep Freeze. Vs. penguins, seals, men disembarking and setting up camp at the South Pole, Robert Scott's Camp Evans remains, Admiral Bird raising the American Flag. 8.70 year history of the automobile. Vs. horse drawn carriages, early footage of horse and buggy streets, footage of turn of the century people at the beach, horseless carriage being put together, early automobile near farm and horses, early assembly line with archaic parts, early footage of horse and buggies and cars, improved assembly lines, early footage of all car cities, factories, workers during the early mass production assembly line auto manufacturing years, early cars coming off the assembly line, early cars going through the giant sequoias, feeding bears from cars, family picnic in front of car, cars on several difficult crossings and roadways, old highway construction footage, modern automobile assembly plants.