Warner Pathe Newsreel

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Warner Pathe

Complete Record: 1. Disappearance of a British Frogman near a Russian ship. Vs. frogman getting ready to dive. 2. Operation Redwing, test for first air dropped H-bomb in the bikini islands. Vs. picturesque islands, buoy for measuring radioactivity, Large target island (aerial view), mushroom cloud. 3. ”Operation Alert" practiced emergency procedures for nuclear attack. Vs. civilians, electric domes designed to detect attack, Washington officials evacuating, different employees and citizens of different countries taking cover, children washing themselves to prevent radioactive contamination 4. French Legionnaires battle Algerian rebels. Vs. bombing of village, Algerians taken captive. 5. Egypt seizes the Suez Canal. Vs. map of Egypt, celebrations in streets of Cairo, Egyptian military, President Nassau. 6. Sinking of the Andrea Doria, destroyed in mid-sea collision with the Stockholm . Vs. aerial view of ships, rescues, wreckage of Andrea Doria, damaged Stockholm. 7. Adlai Stevenson elected at Democratic convention in Chicago. Vs. Democratic leaders, Truman. 8. Eisenhower and Nixon elected at Republic convention in San Francisco. Vs. antique auto parade, welcoming at SF International airport, States put together on giant jigsaw map. 9. Hawaiian seals and tropical fish at the Waikiki aquarium. Vs. seals playing, interiors of aquarium, trumpet fish, convict or stripy fish, yellow puffer fish, etc. 10. Summer Aviation Review, Vs. Aircraft Carrier Essex, plane falls off end of deck- pilot rescued, B52, B36, mid air fueling of B47, X2 demonstrated along with controlled and free parachute jumping. 11. History of Paul Revere. Vs. Old North Church in Boston, Statue of Paul Revere, Revere's House, Portrait of Revere, his silver crafts, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem of the Ride of Paul Revere, horse galloping, Lexington Battle green, statue of the Minute men, bells ringing.