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Newsreels 1958 October 13
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keywords: vatican city, funeral, pope pius xii, nasa, pioneer space program, unmanned space probe pioneer, depression era, world disarmament conference, union strikes and riots, vibration test device, bouncing exercise bicycle
Synopsis: World Mourns Passing Of Pope Pius XII, NASA Pioneer Space Probe Misses Moon, 25 Year Ago: Events Of 1933...(read more)
- Date: 1958
- Duration: 00:06:11
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Italy
World Mourns Passing Of Pope Pius XII
Unusual scenes of the late Pope Pius the Twelfth in the hours following his death at Castel Gandolfo, which serves as a summer residence and vacation retreat for the pope. For two days following the death of Pope Pius XII the Pope's body Lay in State in Castel Gandolfo as thousands of mourners file past in brief homage before the burial procession to Rome. CU, view of body of Pope Pius XII. Shows the burial procession to Rome of Pope Pius XII as thousands line the road and through the Eternal City amid a glory of pomp and ceremony to be seen in the modern world only on the death of the Pontiff. Pope Pius The XII lies in state in the great Basilica of St. Peter's as more than two million file by to pay last tribute to the "defender of the people", the "Pope of Peace."
NASA Pioneer Space Probe Misses Moon
At Cape Canaveral Florida, the launching of an unmanned probe (moon shot) in the Pioneer Space Program is America's attempt to put a satellite around earth's own satellite, the moon. Animated scenes explain the original plan. The multi-stage rocket (missile) lifts off to hurl the Pioneer Space Probe 80,000 miles out into space, the farthest ever. Shows engineers at rocket launch control station, countdown to launch. Image of hand only as finger pushes rocket launch button (switch). Shows night launch of rocket.
25 Year Ago Events Of 1933
1933 Geneva Disarmament Conference or World Disarmament Conference. The Great Powers met at Geneva to discuss disarmament only to deadlock on the issue of aerial bombardment.
U.S. Marines Return From Nicaragua in 1933. The formal occupation of Nicaragua by the United States began in 1912 and ended in 1933. Shows the last detachment of Marines returning from the occupation of Nicaragua disembarking from a ship and being greeted at Quantico thus ending 19 years of keeping order in that country.
Bitter labor relations in the depression era of 1933 lead to strikes and labor riots in America and played an important role in shaping "New Deal" politics. New Mexico called out the National Guard to protect non-striking workers from the angry pickets of the National Miner's Union. Scenes of the "milk war" in Northern Illinois. Dairy farmers dumping milk. In Pennsylvania police used tear gas and fired into the ranks of strikers to break-up labor riots.
On the lighter side shows two Purdue girl students on a new vibration test device used by Industrial Engineers to test automobile, streetcar, and railroad equipment. These two Purdue co-eds were all "shook up" by the vibration test platform.
1933 had its own ancestor of the hula-hoop, the "bouncing bike", that girls rode for fun and figure beautification all at once. Shows girls riding "bouncing bicycles" also called "rhythm bicycles" developed by Joseph D. Bell.
