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Newsreels: 1949 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1949 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1949. Our Public Domain Stock Footage newsreels cover every major world event, the not so major events, strides in technology, the lives of public figures, fads and trends. Newsreels 1949 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1949. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49031)
EASTER ACROSS THE NATION
America marks the season of Resurrection with rejoicing. In Hollywood, Atlantic City and New York, spring is ushered in with the latest bib and tucker. As for the hats, you have to see them to believe them.
BUS TRAINING
ENGLAND – The English bus driver learns to cope with the traditional wet pavements the hard way. They make him skid the double deckers in a complete circle.
PUERTO RICO GETS A TRADE SCHOOL
PUERTO RICO – Answering a need for skilled labor, Puerto Rico’s University enrolls 3,500 students in one of the most modern schools of its kind. Everything from machinery to pastry making is taught here.
TORONTO TAKES THIRD STANLEY CUP STRAIGHT
TORONTO – The fourth place Maple Leafs take the fourth game in a row in a seven-game series. It’s a thriller that gives them the cup for the third year. Score 3 to 1.
FLIERS SET NEW ENDURANCE RECORD
FULLERTON, CAL. – Bill Barris and Dick Riedel pass the 726 hour flight record in their light plane and drone on as they try for the 1,000 hour mark. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49032)
UKRAINE REFUGEES RIOT AGAINST REDS
MUNICH – Ten thousand displaced persons clash with Communists and are only dispersed after American military police use tear gas on the factions.
TEXAS CITY RE-BUILDS
TEXAS CITY – Two years after explosions and fire virtually razed the city, killing 570, Texas City rises from the ashes with new building and undaunted courage.
EGYPTIAN EXPOSITION
CAIRO – King Farouk inspects the first exposition since the war, and views the streamlined progress along the banks of the Nile.
AERIAL HOT RODS
NEWHALL, CAL. – Pilots go in for a new hobby – the aerial hot-rod. The tiny planes, built by their owners, can do 200 miles an hour and some of their feats, a few feet off the ground are hair-raising.
PRESIDENT SPURS U.S. BOND DRIVE
WASHINGTON – The President appeals to all Americans to support the Savings Bond Drive as an investment in their country.
ROLLER DERBY
NEW YORK – Mayhem on skates has its dizzy whirl with boys and girls in their fighting it out with almost no holds barred. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49033)
CHINESE REDS SHELL BRITISH WARSHIPS
SHANGHAI – Wounded survivors of the Yangtse river battle are returned after a grim battle between four English men of war and shore batteries. Forty four were killed.
NEW STREAMLINER
NEW JERSEY – A lightweight streamline train, built in America and destined for Spain goes through its paces. Seventy five per cent lighter than the conventional train it can attain a hundred mile speed.
WINDOW LEDGERDEMAIN
CHICAGO – Betty and Benny have an eighteen inch platform 13 floors up over the street to put on an adagio act. They’re definitely out on a limb.
REVELRY UNCONFINED
NEW YORK – Art students take the wraps off their costumes and emotions in an annual revel that produces some striking spectacles.
HOW NOT TO DRIVE
LOS ANGELES – Dare devil drivers demonstrate sure methods of getting used jalopies off the road. They’re good at it as long as they live.
OLYMPIA WINS WOOD MEMORIAL
NEW YORK – Olympia has the narrowest squeak of a sensational year as he noses out Palestinian in a photo finish.
HERO’S REWARD
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Ninety-six painters tackle the new gift home of marine veteran Bob Hoelzle, who lost the use of his legs on Okinawa. They finish the job in two and one half minutes. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49034)
THE COLD WAR THAWS OUT?
Russia appears to have made overtures for the abatement of the interminable “Cold War” which has existed between the East and the West. In N.Y.C., U.S. Ambassador-at-Large, Dr. Philip C. Jessup confers with Soviet diplomats Jacob Malik and Andrei Gromyko. In Washington, D.C., the Wenate foreign Relations Committee. In Washington, D.C., the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hears. Sec. of State Dean Acheson and UN Delegate Warren Austin give their views. The latter attributes the development, to the success of the Berlin Airlift, and to the emergence of the Atlantic Pact.
VALLEY OF THE KINGS
EGYPT – With excavating resumed in Egypt, fantastic treasures are taken from the tombs of the ancient Kings of Egypt. And equally startling is the massive gold coffin of the historically famous King Tutankhamon.
IT’S SPRINGTIME
HOLLAND – Springtime adds to the beauty of Holland as the blossom burst into bloom, and the animals gamble at play.
STEVE BELLOISE WINS
PARIS – Yankee middleweight contender, Steve Belloise crosses the ocean to put the finishing touch on Jean Stock, French Champion, in a thrilling ring battle. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49035)
AMERICANS FLEE SHANGHAI TRAIP
SHANGHAI – Americans by the hundreds evacuate the city as Red armies virtually hammer at the gates. Tragic partings are the order of the day.
MAY DAY IS LOYALTY DAY
NEW YORK – One hundred thousand parade down Fifth Avenue and join in religious services at the Polo Grounds to protest Communist influence, throughout the world.
AQUA-MANIACS
CYPRESS GARDENS, FLA. – They are well named. Well anyway, they do things on water skis that are not in the book. One pessimist even carries an umbrella.
TWISTS AND TURNS
CHICAGO – The top gymnasts of the country’s colleges demonstrate what co-ordination and muscular control can do when it starts somersaulting.
SOCCER FINALS
LONDON – A wildly cheering crowd of British see Wolverhampton and Leicester square off for the cup finals. With Princess Elizabeth cheering, the Wolverhampton team wins 3 to 1. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49036)
RUSSIA AGREES TO LIFT BERLIN SIEGE
In a four-power conference held at New York, the Soviet agrees to lift the blockade, with a conference of foreign ministers to follow in which all German questions will be discussed.
ISRAEL ANNIVERSARY
NEW YORK – One hundred and twenty five thousand gather to cheer the state’s first birthday and seek aid for the infant state.
QUEEN JULIANA IS 40
THE HAGUE – Thousands of cheering subjects throng the palace grounds and bring flowers to their queen who is celebrating her first birthday since ascending the throne.
TOKYO FIRE
TOKYO – Fire again sweeps through the central section of the city – only recently re-build after the fire bombings of the B-29’s.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
JERSEY CITY – The community, with demonstrations on a mass basis the value of body conditioning – with vivid results.
MARINE REVIEW
The leathernecks flex their muscles and put on an impressive show of strength at Camp Pendleton, California. As usual they’re ready.
LIPPY IS CLEARED
NEW YORK – Following a clash with fan, Leo Durocher, manager of the Giants, is cleared by Commissioner Chandler and has a triumphal return.
NEW SLANTS ON DIVING
MIAMI BEACH – The cameraman catches some new angles on the diving greats and the results are spectacular. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49037)
SHANGHAI DIGS IN FOR RED ASSAULT
SHANGHAI – The city prepares itself for the expected Communist attack. Flimsy defenses are thrown up and shops are boarded up, while thousands flee.
U.S. MUST REMAIN STRONG SAYS JOHNSON
WASHINGTON – The defense secretary tells the United States Chamber of commerce that we must remain strong enough to deter any aggressor.
$5,000,000 FIRE
LOS ANGELES – A spectacular blaze razes the grandstand and club house of the sumptuous Hollywood Park track.
HOVER HONORED
SAN FRANCISCO – Former President Hoover receives, by proxy, the annual Humanitarian award of the International Variety clubs.
FOUR-IN-A-ROW
NEW YORK – Two girls and two boys, born within an hour bring quadruplets to track star Charles Collins and his wife.
COLLIER’S AWARD
WASHINGTON – This year the plaque and ten thousand dollars for congressional service, go to Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senator Vandenberg. President Truman makes the presentations.
OUTSIDER WINS DERBY
LOUISVILLE, KY. – Ponder, a 16 to 1 shot puts on a thriller in the annual classic and wins going away, leaving the favorite Olympia a poor sixth. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49038)
U.N. ADMITS ISRAEL
NEW YORK – The new nation of Israel is admitted to the family of nations as Arab representatives leave the hall in protest.
REDS EXECUTED IN SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI – As thousands still flee the surrounded city Red fifth columnists are executed in the street – dispatched by pistol shots.
COTTON CARNIVAL
MEMPHIS – The city goes festive as King Cotton rules. A colorful parade and fireworks mark monarch’s rule for a day.
BLOCKADE LIFTED
BERLIN – After almost a year, trucks, cars and trains are rolling into the capital which has been blockaded by the Russians for 324 days. The airlift, however, still stands by – just in case. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49039)
SUPPLIES POUR IN TO BERLIN BY LAND
After a year of heroic work by the airlift, trucks and trains roll into Berlin – the blockade broken. Stock piles begin to mount against future emergencies, and children get their first oranges.
HOLLAND TUNNEL RENT BY BLASTS
NEW YORK – A truck loaded with carbon disulphide, colliding with another, sets off explosions and first that rip 300 feet of the tunnel and injure 66, as motorists flee the under-water vehicular passage.
CAPOT WINS PREAKNESS
In a driving finish, the colt which was nosed out in the Derby, wins a photo decision over Palestinian in a race that has Pimlico fans gasping. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1949 (UE49040)
U.S. ACCLAIMS GENERAL CLAY
General Lucius Clay, retiring occupation commander in Germany receives a second OK Leaf cluster from President Truman, addresses a joint session of Congress and gets New York’s traditional hero’s welcome.
GLOVES ACROSS THE SEA
CHICAGO – America and Europe tangle in the international Golden Gloves which sees some sizzling action, with America winning five matches to three.
PRESIDENT ASKS BOND SUPPORT
As a means of keeping the nation economy stable President Truman addresses his plea to every American to buy government bonds and keep down inflation. |
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