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Newsreels: 1965 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1965 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1965. 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 1965 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1965. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1965 (UE65071)
HINDU PILGRIMAGE:
The Himalayan Mountains, known as the "roof of the world", is the dwelling place of the Hindu God Shiva. Each year thousands of India's faithful make a pilgrimage to his ice cave to wash away sickness and sin. It is a long, hard journey---14,000 Feet from the hot plains of India into the bitter cold.
MOVING A MOUNTAIN:
One of the new wonders of the world is under construction on the Peace River in British Columbia. The river was first diverted from its bed and now engineers are constructing a hydro-electric project that calls for a mile-and-a-half dam, 600 feet high. A $10,000,000 conveyor belt brings materials three miles to the construction site.
A BANG-UP AFFAIR:
When jalopy jockies gather at Hednesford Hills Raceway in Britain, anything can happen....and it usually does. These are stock cars. The only resemblance to the family auto is dented fender or two as they race a Figure Eight course with a crash, bang, boom!
SPORTS
HAMBLETONIAN RUN-OFF:
Top event in Harness Racing...The Hambletonian - has eleven horses trotting after the rich prize in DuQuoin, Illinois. For the fourth time in the 40-year history of the race it takes four heats to decide the winner... "EGYPTIAN CANDOR" wins his third race of the year....a race worth $60,000. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1965 (UE65073)
THE WAR IN VIETNAM
"Operation Piranha" throws an assult force of US MARINES against a pocket of VietCong on the Batangan Peninsula, 20 miles south of Chu Lai. With helicopters and amphibious craft, the MARINES push Red forces inland where South VietNamese troops await them. In one of the fierces hand-to-hand engagements of the War, more than 100 VietCong are vanquished.
Pick Of Beauty Crop:
The new "Miss America" is chosen at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the fairest of them all is "Miss Kansas---19-year-old Deborah Bryant. Selected over 49 other candidates for the title. Miss Bryant aims to become a Doctor of Medicine. If she reaches this M.D. goal - her patients ought to find being ill little less painful...... Long Live the Queen.
SPORTS
SPAIN - AUSTRALIA WIN US TENNIS TITLES:
Manuel Santana becomes the first player from Spain ever to win the tennis championship of the United States and Margaret Smith of Australia proves that she is TOP woman player as she adds the American title to the Wimbledon crown she already wears. Santana sets back Cliff Drysdale of South Africa, while Miss Smith takes the measure of Billie Jean Moffitt of the United States. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1965 (UE65074)
ASTRONAUTS HONORED AS WORLD TOUR BEGINS:
At the White House, President Johnson pins the NASA Exceptional Service Medal on Astronauts Cooper and Conrad as the four sons of Lt. Comr. Charles Conrad turn the President's desk into a playground. Later they address members of the National Academy of Science before meeting with both houses of Congress. Then the Heavenly Twins leave for Greece to start a tour that will take them to six other nations.
A THOUSAND YEARS OF FAITH:
Barefoot Benedictine Monks lead pilgrims to the Abbey of Mont St. Michel to mark the thousandth year that the famed monastery has been a shrine to countless thousands of the faithful. Parts of the majestic pile date to the eight century when an oratory was established after St. Michael was said to have appeared at the site.
HI-JINKS IN THE LOWLANDS:
It's the annual pole vaulting tournament in the Netherlands when contestants jump over canals (some do, that is,) in the ancient and honorable manner used by the searchers for birds' eggs among the watery nesting sites. Some make it, some don't, dunk you.
ZOOM, ZIP ON THE BOUNDING MAIN:
Power boats invade the Island of Cowes, traditional home of sleek sailing yachts, for the Sixth International Offshore Race. Fifty boats start out, but not many can take the pounding from the seas during the 198-miles test. For the first time, an American craft, the "Brave Moppie", wins the race. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1965 (UE65077)
HOMAGE TO HEROES:
It was just 25 years ago that a few Spitfires and Hurricanes and a handful of pilots stood between Britain and total defeat at the hands of Hitler. Now, a generation later, that Battle of Britain is remembered as tribute is paid to those RAF fliers and their leader, in Westminster Abbey. Lady Churchill and her family are here as well as members of that gallant band who turned the tide of World War II, as Queen Elizabeth unveils a plague honoring Sir Winston Churchill.
SEAL NOSE-COUNT:
Along the desolate and forbidding coast of the Bering Sea the seals come home so that the youngsters can be horn in the old home town! ---as it were. This year, there is good news as they take a census - the herds are still on the increase. Before the turn of the century, indiscriminate slaughter of seals threatened to wipe them out.
SPORTS - football
PURDUE UPSETS NOTRE DAME....25 TO 21:
The only thing sure about the new football season is that nothing is sure. Upsets are the order of the day - and Purdue pulls the turn-about of the week on Notre Dame. In a see-saw battle, they pull out all the stops in the fourth quarter as Quarterback Bob Griese drives the Boilermakers down the field for a last-minute touchdown and VICTORY! |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1965 (UE65078)
UP FROM THE SEA:
Aquanaut Scott Carpenter and one of his crews of ten return to the surface after a stacy in Sealab Two. Carpenter spent 29 days below - twice as long as any man - while three crews of ten men each manned the undersea chamber for fifteen days each. After decompression, Carpenter meets with his wife and has more tales to add to his experience as the second American to orbit the earth.
QUEEN OPENS DUTCH PARLIAMENT:
Queen Juliana rides through the streets of The Hague to cheering throngs as she opens Parliament. She has both good and bad news to announce. Taxes are going up, but she tempers this with the official announcement of Princess Beatrix engagement.
LARGEST TANKER IS LAUNCHED:
The Japanese, already boasting the largest oil tanker afloat, launch one that's even bigger. The 150,000 ton "Tokyo Maru" is so highly automated that, despite its size, it will require a crew of only 29.
SPORTS - football
NAVY-STANDFORD IN DEADLOCK:
Navy travels to the West Coast to take on Stanford. Johnny Cartwright sparks the Middies with his passing and Terry Murray carries for the sold Navy score. Dave Lewis and Bob Blunt are the passing combination that sets up Stanford's touchdown as the game ends: 7 to 7.
BAYLOR NOSES WASHINGTON:
Baylor plays host at Waco, Texas, as they take on Washington and it's a see-saw battle through the first half. With 17 seconds to go in the half, Terry Southall hits Knoz Pittard for a touchdown and it is Baylor 17-Washington 14. Second half is scoreless so that's the one that counted. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1965 (UE65080)
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THE WORLD SERIES:
The Minnesota Twins have the Los Angeles Dodgers seeing double as they take the first two games of the World Series. 8-2, 5-1. The highlight of the first game is the fateful third inning when the Twins need a traffic cop on the base paths as they score six runs. The Dodgers were never the same after that.
BERLIN ESCAPE:
Here is a social document of our times. At a cemetery on the East-West Berlin border, friends of an East Berliner raise a ladder from the West. He dashes to the ladder, then up and over to freedom. He has a fiancÈe in the West, proving that love laughs at locksmiths and border guards.
FOOTBALL
ARMY...................10
BOSTON COLLEGE...0
West Point takes on Boston at the Military Academy and after a scoreless first half the Kaydets get the breaks. A recovered fumble leads to an Army field goal and a miscued punt by BC gives Army the ball on the thirty yard line and they score again.
TEXAS..................27
INDIANA...............12
The Number One rates Texas Longhorns have a fight of it before they can push Indiana into a corner and win. It is not until the end of the first half that Texas gets a comfortable lead...and Indiana throws a few scares into them in the second half before Texas winds up on top at the final whistle. |
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