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Newsreels: 1954 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1954 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1954. 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 1954 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1954. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1954 (UE54101)
26 DIE IN TRANS-OCEAN AIRLINER CRASH:
NEW YORK CITY – 26 die when an Italian trans-Atlantic airliner crashes on its fourth landing attempt at Idlewild Airport, and sinks in Jamaica Bay after striking a jetty and bursting into flame.
GREEKS RIOT IN CYPRUS DISPUTE:
GREECE – 5,000 students battle police for 5 hours in an anti-American demonstration on the issue of British rule of Cyprus. 59 are injured in the savage rioting.
COLLIER AVIATION AWARDS:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Eisenhower presents the annual Collier Trophy for the year’s greatest achievements in aviation to the men who developed America’s first super-sonic military aircraft.
NATO MEETING SETS ATOM PLANS:
FRANCE – Foreign ministers of the NATO nations meet to shape policy on the use of atomic weapons in the event of Soviet invasion, deciding on civilian control of the A-weapons.
BASKETBALL – UTAH VS LA SALLE:
NEW YORK CITY – Two unbeaten fives. Utah and LaSalle, clash in a court thriller. Despite LaSalle’s sharpshooting All-American Tom Gola, Utah scores a stunning upset, 79-69, for its seventh straight victory.
GENERAL GRUENTHER HONORED:
PARIS – French President Rene Coty decorates General Alfred Gruenther, commander of NATO forces in Europe, with the medal of the Legion of Honor.
GOV. HERTER PLAYS SANTA:
MASSACHUSETTS – Governor Christian A. Herter plays Santa to young Christmas Carolers who visit the State House to bring Season’s Greetings.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1954 (UE54102)
GERMAN PARLIAMENT SPLIT ON SAAR ISSUE:
GERMANY – Ratification of the German rearmament pact is endangered as Social Democrats form a coalition with other parties to oppose Chancellor Adenauer, and heckle him during an address urging approval of the Saar treaty and the Paris Pact.
EARLY BIRD MONUMENT:
NEW YORK CITY – Pioneers of American aviation, the Early Birds are honored with the unveiling of a monument on Governor’s Island, site of one of America’s earliest air schools.
SIGHT-SEEING HOLIDAY:
ATHENS – Christmas under the Mediterranean sun. G.I.’s on a sight-seeing tour of the Acropolis – built before Christ, and still unrivalled for architectural magnificence.
CAMERA OBSCURA:
SAN FRANCISCO – Close-up of Lloyd Jennings’ homemade “camera obscura,” one of the few of its kind. It’s a huge bellows with a whopper of a lens that takes big, clear photos up to 10 miles away!
FESTIVE FASHIONS FOR ’55:
NEW YORK CITY – Festive fashions for ’55, from the drawing board of stylist Oleg Cassini, modeled in their natural habitat, the swank El Morocco night club.
SPORTS NOVELTIES:
BASQUES BULGE BICEPS in a Madrid exhibition of their own style weight-lifting. They casually juggle huge blocks of massive wood and a giant sphere of marble in a demonstration of feats that would floor lesser men.
DANCING ON AIR over the streets of Los Angeles are Betty and Benny Fox, the Skydancers, performing their unique hair-raising act on a tiny platform extended from the roof of a high, high building.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1954 (UE54103)
FRENCH VOTE YES ON GERMAN ARMS:
PARIS – After initial reverses in Parliament that alarmed the Western Allies, Premier Mendes-France gathers votes for approval of German re-armament and the Western European Union, ending a grave menace to the unity of the Atlantic Alliance.
ORPHANS ESCAPE PLANE BLAST:
ENGLAND – A hair’s breadth escape from disaster for 26 children when a Canberra jet bomber crashes just outside an orphanage and explodes, miraculously without injuring any of the youngsters.
CONNIE MACK’S BIRTHDAY:
FT. MEYERS, FLORIDA – Connie Mack, the Grand Old Man of baseball, celebrates his 92nd birthday quietly with his family. It’s his first birthday in 70 years when he hasn’t been associated with the sport.
WOMAN SPY JAILED:
GERMANY – A modern Mata Hari is brought to justice – attractive Irmgard Schmidt, convicted of extracting secret data from U.S. intelligence officers for the Reds. She is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.
TREE GROWS THROUGH HOUSE:
BAVARIA – A unique and startling sight – a house with a 120-foot fir tree growing through the roof. The residents are quite used to the strange architecture – but object to an occasional woodpecker.
MALAYAN MIRACLE MAN:
MALAYA – Seeing is believing… and here’s a miracle muscle man who must be seen to be believed – driving spikes with his fist, shattering granite millstones and towing a heavily laden truck.
ROCKEFELLER NAMED IKE AIDE:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as special assistant to President Eisenhower. He’ll act as coordinator of U.S. psychological warfare activities.
BROWNS TAKE GRID TITLE FROM LIONS:
CLEVELAND – In the worst defeat ever suffered in a pro football title game the Detroit Lions bow to the Cleveland Browns 56 to 10 in a shattering upset. On the eve of his retirement Otto Graham scores three times and tosses three winning passes.
CARDINAL SPELLMAN IN KOREA:
KOREA – Cardinal Spellman is feted on his arrival in Korea for his annual visit to U.S. servicemen and made an honorary citizen of Seoul in colorful ceremonies.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1954 (UE54104)
FASTEST STOP FOR ROCKET SLED:
NEW MEXICO – At the Holloman Air Development Center, Col. John Stapp becomes the fastest land-traveler in the world – reaching speeds of 632 mph in a rocket sled. The Colonel absorbs terrific punishment when water-brakes slow the sled down in 1.5 seconds.
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
H-BOMB SURVIVORS RECOVER:
JAPAN – The last of 23 Japanese fishermen who were injured when H-bomb “fall out” from the Bikini tests fell on their fishing boat are released from the hospital. One of the victims died but the others are alive – they experienced the nightmare of our atomic age.
GENERAL DEAN SON JOINS UP:
SAN FRANCISCO – William F. Dean, Jr., youthful carbon copy of his famous father, is sworn in with a group of Air Force cadets. He will follow in footsteps of his father, most renowned prisoner of the Korean war and now deputy commander of the 6th Army.
HIGH STYLE IN THE DEEP:
SILVER SPRINGS, FLORIDA – Some thing new under the sun – and under the water – a style showing of new miracle fabrics. Pretty models display the new creations in a unique setting – at the bottom of a sun-lit lake. A fashion showing that really makes a splash.
BRUISING BASKETBALL:
NEW YORK – Record crowd gets thrill’s worth of bruising basketball at Madison Square Garden when the N.Y. Knickerbocker and the Philadephia Warriors battle for N.B.A. honors. Trailing by 19 points in third period, the Warriors fight back to win a thriller, 84-78. Terrific shooting, spine-tingling action and bruising spills!
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