Warner Pathe #57

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. French defend Dien Bien Fu, but it falls when Indochinese rebels perform suicide missions. Vs. evacuating wounded to army hospitals, French nurse. 2. Dulles of U.S. and Molotov of U.S.S.R. have talks on peace in the Middle East in Geneva. Vs., Chinese and Vietnamese Ministers, John Foster Dulles at U.N. meeting, rioting and fall of government in Dien Bien Fu, Pierre Mondes meeting Cho Adlai, refugees flee the Red River Delta under shell fire, combat footage, French planes bomb attacks, Truce talks in Geneva, Britain’s Anthony Eton, Cease fire sign peace agreement, U.S. plane lands in Hong Kong with wounded from British airliner shot down by communists. American carriers go on rescue mission in the China Sea. Vs. Carrier Boxer, planes landing, Red River Delta, soldiers marching. 3. Guatemala. Vs. mountains, street full of people, POV from car driving down street, various street scenes, anti-Communist rebels, United Nations Sunday session, Russian delegate Saropkin, aerial view of Guatemala, Carlos Castillo Armos junta winner, crowds in Guatemala. 4. Vladamir Petrov quits as a Soviet diplomat and reveal a Soviet underground conspiracy in Australia. Vs crowds at Sydney as Russians try to forcibly take Petrov’s wife back to Russia under armed Red guard but crowds try to release her, Australia padlocks Russian embassy and takes belongings. 5. Parachute becomes caught in airplane tail in Italy. Vs shots of caught parachutist, girl watching with binoculars, POV from plane of crowds, parachuter is freed but parachute is torn but emergency one opens and he lands safely. 6. Silhouette cutting revived by young artists in Barcelona, Spain. Vs silhouettes, history of silhouettes. 7. Solar Eclipse filmed. Vs camera men, children looking through chronograph in France, eclipse observed on water reflection, airline passenger observing, total solar eclipse at high speed, eclipse of New York skyline, observers. 8. The changing of Niagara Falls. Vs falls, Niagara River, aerial shots, erosion and its effects, men dynamiting sections of falls, loose boulders dropped, walkway at base of the falls being rebuilt, ice on the Niagara, crowds watching landslide at Prospect point, huge rock slide at Prospect Point, aerial view of Niagara. 9. Portrait of Hudson River Valley fictionalized by Washington Irving. Vs Hudson River, cu banks of river, cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, windmill, car dolly shot of Irving's home Sunnyside, "magical" door opening, Sunnyside library, quill pens, Irvings portrait, The Sketch Book of Jeffery Cren, section of Sleepy Hollow read, illustrations and paintings of Icabod Crane, and characters of Sleepy Hollow, POV from horse back along county roads, the Headless Horseman Bridge which has become a concrete overpass, replica of bridge, Sunnyside.