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Newsreels: 1964 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1964 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1964. 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 1964 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1964. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1964 (UE64041)
'U.S. WILL FIGHT COMMUNIST AGRESSION' SAYS AMBASSADOR TO U.N. ADLAI STEVENSON
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, suddenly summoned back from London, explains the policy of the United States in Southeast Asia, before members of the United Nations. The U.S. will fight communist aggression in Southeast Asia as long as the people there need help to preserve their independence.
ROYAL DRUMMERS SERANADE AFRICAN KING MWAMBUTA IV OF BURUNDI
he staid State Department building in Washington is the scene where African King Mwambuta IV of Burundi is serenaded by his Royal Drummers. The Drummers slyly serve goose-flesh with their savage pounding and Watusi dancing.
THE AMAZING LIPIZZANER STALLIONS PREFORM AT MADISON SQUARE GARDENS
The world’s most aristocratic dancers make their first New York appearance, the glorious White Stallions of the famed Spanish Riding School of Vienna; The Lipizzaners. In Madison Square Garden before a glittering audience, the Stallions display incredible technical skills, rhythmic responses and unparalleled elegance of style in step. They’re simply marvelous.
ARMY HELICOPTERS ARMED WITH M-60 MACHINE GUNS PRACTICE IN GERMANY
United States Army helicopter pilots in Germany test try techniques on M-60 machine gun. They have developed skills which zoom with zing, dart and dodge below tree-top level
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| keywords: ammbassador to u.n. adlai stevenson, african king mwambuta iv of burundi, lipizzaner stallions, army helicopter |
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1964 (UE64042)
PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON DEDICATES THE GEORGE C. MARSHALL MEMORIAL
In an atmosphere of profound pride, President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicates the George C. Marshall Research Library at Virginia Military Institute and the unveiling of a remarkable likeness in bronze of the father of the Marshall Plan.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley were among those who attended the dedication ceremonies.
HOMES IN BOSTON RAZED BY WILD FIRE
Spectacular pictures showing blazes and billowing smoke which, in a few hours destroyed 17 Boston homes and severely damaging 19 more at the city line between Boston and Dorchester. 300 were left homeless. Fortunately no lives were lost. This tragedy was due to old, wooden, firetrap tenements.
AFL - CIO UNION INDUSTRIES SHOW OPENS IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
Down in the Blue Grass country, the AFL-CIO Union Industries Show of 1964 opens a 6-day run at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, Louisville. IATSE President Richard F. Walsh participates at opening ceremonies of the multi-million dollar exposition.
TRACK AND FIELD HOPEFULS COMPETE FOR UPCOMING OLYMPICS
Out Modesta way, Ralph Boston betters his own American broad jump record of 27-feet – 13 inches by notching another quarter of an inch. The Mile Run has a finish that looks like a dead heat as Dyrol Burleson wins over Tom O’Hara by exactly 1 inch.
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| keywords: president lyndon b. johnson, boston wild fire, afl - cio union show, track and field, olymipic tryouts |
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1964 (UE64044)
TOP U.S. OFFICIALS CONVENE TO DISCUSS STRATEGY FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA
With a time of crisis in Southeast Asia, the U.S. calls a high-level conference in Hawaii of the nation’s top military and diplomatic minds. The strategy of the conference is to shore-up non-communist governments in former French Indo-China.
CITIZENS OF INDIA BID FAREWELL TO PRIME MINISTER JAWAHARLAL NEHRU PASSING
THRONGS PAY HOMAGE TO NEHRU
A million and a half sorrowing Indians line the streets of New Delhi to bid a tearful farewell to one of the great national heroes Jawaharlal Nehru. His body is borne through the streets on a gun carriage to a funeral tyre on the River Jumna where it is cremated.
NATION PAUSES TO HONOR HEROES AND A FALLEN PRESIDENT
As the nation pauses to pay tribute to its honored war dead, another hero is remembered. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children mark the 47th birthday of the martyred President. Three million have filed past the grave site in the six months since his death.
TRAGEDY AT THE INDIANAPOLIS 500
Tragedy takes the wheel at Indianapolis. As the 33 starters end the second lap, Dave MacDonald goes into a spin and hits the outside wall. It starts a chain reaction, and seven cars pile up. MacDonald and Eddie Sachs die, three others are injured, one seriously. A. J. Foyt goes on to win at an average of better than 147 miles an hour; four miles an hour better than last year’s all-time record.
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| keywords: southeast asia strategy, prime minister of india jawaharlal of nehru, indianapolis 500, indy 500, car crash |
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1964 (UE64045)
GRADUATION DAY AT MILITARY SERVICE ACADEMIES
It’s the day of the year at West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force and the Coast Guard Academies. It’s Graduation Day and the end of the hard four-year grind. At New London, Connecticut, President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and says that our war potential is far superior to that of Russia.
SENATOR BARRY GOLDWATER TAKES CALIFORNIA PRIMARY
Senator Barry Goldwater takes the important Republican Presidential Primary in California and it is conceded that he has a good chance of winning the nomination on the first convention ballot. However, Governor Nelson Rockefeller says that he is not giving up the fight. In the Democratic race for the Senatorial nomination in California, former Presidential Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger wins his party’s nod.
GLITTERING PREMIERE FOR THE HOLLYWOOD FILM 'THE CHALK GARDEN'
The season’s most glittering movie premiere takes place in Hollywood as the celebrities turn out en masse to see 'The Chalk Garden'. This Ross Hunter production for Universal Pictures promises to be one of the season’s smashes out of Hollywood.
HOUSTON ASTRODOME NEARS COMPLETION
It looks as if they may fire the weatherman in Houston, at least Big League baseball will have no use for him. Nearing completion is a new domed stadium that will enable the Colts to play baseball rain or shine. Who’s going to wash the 5,000 windows in the dome? Why the guy who strikes out with the bases loaded, that’s who!
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| keywords: senator barry goldwater, hollywood film 'the chalk garden', houston astrodome |
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1964 (UE64046)
MOSELLE CANAL WATERWAY LINKS GERMANY AND FRANCE
The fabled Moselle River takes on an added dimension, after six years of work and 200 million dollars, a water way has been completed that links the steel mills of Lorraine with the coal fields of the Ruhr Valley. Making his first public appearance since his illness, President Charles De Gaulle hails it as a milestone in European cooperation.
ENGLISH ROYAL AIR FORCE HAS NEW HELICOPTOR RESCUE TECHNIQUE
The Royal Air Force has developed a new rescue technique to snatch people trapped under the 300-foot cliffs at Ramagate, England. They drop a rescuer and a life-raft and then blow them to the victim with the helicopter downdraft. It makes it easier to save the foolhardy from themselves.
NEW SWIM HATS HIT HIGH FASHION BOTH IN THE WATER AND OUT
In a setting of lush luxury in Venezuela, the gals give us an insider’s look at the swim caps that will crown beauty on the beach this summer. They are made of rows of petals and such gossamer stuff and they double as swim caps and beach bonnets.
THE BELMONT STAKES AND A RACEHORSE NAMED 'NORTHERN DANCER'
The story of the Belmont Stakes is told in three words, 'Northern Dancer' lost. Seeking the third jewel in the triple crown, he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, the Canadian horse does no better than third as 'Quadrangle' takes the rich race going away.
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| keywords: moselle canal, waterway, royal air force, air sea rescue, swim hat fahions, swim cap fashions, belmont stakes |
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1964 (UE64047)
THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE D-DAY INVASION IS REMEMBERED
Twenty years ago, the mightiest armada in history, landed the forces of freedom on the Beaches of Normandy, the shores of France that are quiet and peaceful today.
This is Normandy in a vivid document of the day Twenty Years Ago that changed the destiny of mankind. The roar of those guns now are replaced with the laughter of children.
DAY OF DECISION FOR SENATE ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
It’s a Day of Decision on Capitol Hill as the U.S. Senate clears the way for the Civil Rights Bill by voting to limit debate on the measure. Democratic whip Hubert Humphrey leads the fight for the Bill, while Senator Richard Russell of Georgia gives his views in opposition.
BEATLEMANIA LANDS IN THE NETHERLANDS
Beatlemania has ceased to be a phenomena and seems to have become a way of life. When the 'The Beatles' with hair like unmade beds land in The Netherlands , it’s the same old story; people who value their sanity head for cover and let the teenagers take over.
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| Keywords: d-day invasion anniversary, u.s. senate, civil rights bill, the beatles, beatlemania |
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1964 (UE64048)
GOVERNOR WILLIAM SCRANTON OF PENNSYLVANIA THROW HAT IN FOR PRESIDENCY
At the Maryland State Republican Convention in Baltimore, Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania declares his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination in the forthcoming national convention to be held in San Francisco.
DIRECTORS HOLD ANNUAL MEETING
Directors of the Will Rogers Hospital and the McDonnell Memorial Laboratories, assemble on the grounds of the institution for their annual meeting.
SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY VISITS IRELAND
Winding up a tour of 'The Ould Sod', Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy, brother of the martyred President John F. Kennedy, receives a tumultuous welcome from the folk of Limerick before flying from Shannon airport.
CHANCELLOR LUDWIG ERHARDT OF GERMANY VISITS U.S.
Washington precedent is set when state dinner for German leader is held outdoors in the beautiful Rose Garden of the Presidential Mansion.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MOTOR BOAT RACING IN GERMANY
The Moselle River is stirred to a frenzy by wild riding of competitors for a world championship on the water.
SAILING SHIPS SET SAIL FOR A RUN TO BERMUDA
At Lisbon, Portugal, nine sailing ships starting on a run to Bermuda create scenes of beauty with their sails unfurled.
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| keywords: governor william scranton of pennsylvania, senator edward m. kennedy, chancellor ludwig erhardt of germany |
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1964 (UE64049)
QUEEN ELIZABETH II ATTENDS FLAG RITE ON 38TH BIRTHDAY
In London a spirit of festival prevails as the British honor the official 38th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. The highlight of the tribute is the annual Trooping the Color in the Horse Guard Parade. A rite her Majesty attends in the uniform of a Colonel-in-chief. There is a colorful parade of full dressed troops and most bands. The big treat for the crowd came when Queen Elizabeth, after the ceremonies, appears on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with three-month-old Prince Edward in her arms.
VERRAZANO BRIDGE NEARS COMPLETION IN NEW YORK
As it nears completion, the Verranzano bridge spanning the Narrows at the mouth of the Port of New York again becomes the subject for your newsreel’s daredevil cameraman…And he produces a spine-tingling report by matching the courage of the workers on bare and wind-whipped girders, hundreds of feet above the water.
A thriller garnished by some masterful shots of the massive Queen Elizabeth passing under the bridge, outward bound for England.
PEE WEE BRONCO BUSTING RODEO IN CHEYENNE WELLS, COLORADO
At Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, a troop of under teen-age young ones display cowboy ability with wild ponies and cantankerous bulls. Action filled rides and spills in a wild melee of boys, broncs and bulls.
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| keywords: queen elizabeth II of england, verrazano bridge, rodeo |
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