American History In Video: United News, Release 195, 1946
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RG 208 UNITED NEWS ROLL 195 UNITED NEWS COPYRIGHT MCMXLVI UNITED NEWSREEL INTERNATIONAL, INC. NEW CARDINALS GO TO ROME FOR PAPAL CEREMONY
Narrator From Chicago , the spiritual leader of America's largest archdiocese, the Most Reverend Samuel H. Stritch starts his flight to Rome , where 32 new cardinals went to be invested. At La Guardia Airport, New York , a second transatlantic airliner is ready for Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York . The Most Reverend Thomas Tien , bishop of Tsingtao , first Chinese ever nominated to cardinal, and Archbishop John J. Glennon of Saint Louis . On a plane equipped with radar and the latest scientific improvements, Monsignor Glennon invokes the protection of Saint Christopher , patron saint of travelers. Eighty-three year old Archbishop Glennon is the first to board the plane, named "the Star of Rome." Then Archbishop Spellman and Bishop Tien starting their aerial pilgrimage to the eternal city.
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Narrator At Killarney's Airport, the cardinalsdesignate set foot on the soil of Eire en route to Rome . Premier De Valera welcomes Archbishop Spellman . Then they pose together with Archbishop Glennon and Bishop Tien , and an Irish handshake for China's first cardinal. The holy city. The churchmen's plane circles the Vatican where they will receive the red hat, symbol of their high station in the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII , shown here in earlier films, conducts a crowded series of ceremonies, culminating in the public consistory of Saint Peter's. With 32 new princes of the church taking their places in the college of cardinals, this is the greatest consistory since the founding of the Catholic Church.
SOMETHING NEW IN AUTOMOBILES
Narrator Something new in cars: the hybrid. Fenders from a 1941 model, hood from a 1940 wreck, windshield 1937 , instrument board, vintage of 1933 . The power comes from a motor which first went to work in 1929 . The result: Rotzell's idea of modern design. But here's trouble. He can't get it out. Like the fellow who built a boat in the cellar and had to tear the house down to get it out. But there is a way; take out the shop window and roll the car out.
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Narrator American automobile production will soon make this model obsolete. Guthrie Mitchell of New Jersey invented this one. He thought of it back several months ago during wartime rationing, but it took him time to perfect it. He calls it the Windjammer. No clutch, no differential, no transmission, no drive shaft, just contact and away it goes. The police gave one look and couldn't decide whether Mitchell needed a driver's or a pilot's license. But here's a real new model car, ready to go into mass production. No, that's not the engine, it's the luggage compartment; the engine is in the rear. A four-cylinder one that conserves gasoline. The top can be removed for fair weather driving, and there's room for it in the luggage compartment if you want to take it with you. In the low-priced field, this welcome little car will travel at 65 miles an hour.
YOUNG HORSES FOR AUSTRALIA'S FAVORITE SPORT
Narrator Thoroughbreds and green pastures. Blooded race horses step proudly over the Australian countryside in the Hunter River Valley, breeding ground of champions. Three thousand foals have been born here, many to grow up into Australia's foremost racehorses.
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Narrator Sires, retired from the glories of the sport of kings, include native Australian as well as imported English-bred champions.
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Narrator A future champion, a newborn foal who tries to get to his long and shaky legs within a few minutes of his birth. Soon he will be big enough to run with his brothers, building muscle and stamina for the day when they face the starter for the first time.
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Narrator Veterans of Australia's favorite sport, along with ambitious youngsters who hope someday to prove their own racing prowess, romp over the green pastures of the River Valley.
QUINTUPLETS ATTEND CANADIAN WINTER CARNIVAL
Narrator It's Northern Ontario's annual winter carnival. Featuring the world's most famous children, the Dionne quintuplets, who are making one their rare public appearances to crown the Carnival Queen of the North. It was May 28, 1934 when news of the birth of the quintuplets in a Canadian farmhouse electrified the world. Altogether then, they weighed eleven a half pounds. The girls' first birthday was an event in medical history. Never before had quintuplets survived over one hour. Two years old and doing nicely, their fame by this time had spread to every quarter of the globe. At six, they posed with the late Dr. Dafoe , who brought them into the world. Seven years old and a birthday party. It was as hard as ever to tell them apart.
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Narrator Eight years old in 1942 . With Canada at war, the girls gave their time to the war bond campaign. And today, at North Bay, Ontario , poised and demure in their latest public appearance, they meet some Canadian Indians and see a tribal dance. Annette tries on the chief's bonnet.
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Narrator Twelve years old in May, Annette , Emilie , Yvonne , Cecile and Marie are Canada's most renowned citizens.
U.S. NAVY SHOWS LATEST AIRPLANES
Narrator The United States Navy presents the new BTM Mauler, a carrier-based dive bomber. Intermeshing brakes slow down the plane in vertical dive. In level flight, the Mauler is capable of better than 350 miles an hour. At present, it's the navy's most powerful single-seater dive bomber. Another addition to the navy air arm is the BT-2D dive bomber. Its 50-foot wings fold down to 24 feet for carrier accommodation. The big engine revs up to 2,500 horsepower at the take off.
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Narrator This plane can climb and climb fast, almost straight up. Performance tests like these prompted the navy to order them by the hundred to re-arm the postwar fleet.
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Narrator Greater retarding effect from these fuselage brakes is ideal for landings on aircraft carriers. This one will speed along 50 miles an hour faster than any wartime predecessor of its type.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES URGE RACIAL TOLERANCE
Narrator Justices of the United States Supreme Court speak in behalf of the American Brotherhood Movement. Justice Felix Frankfurter .
Justice Felix Frankfurter If one faith can be said to unite a whole nation, surely, the ideal that holds us together beyond any other is our belief in the moral worth of the common man, whatever his race or religion. In this faith, America was founded.
Narrator Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone .
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Freedom of the mind and the spirit has its practical aspects in everyday life. It includes the right of every man to live and work in peace, to earn and to save and to enjoy the fruits of his labor so long as their enjoyment does no harm to his neighbor. It embraces the freedom of all men to speak, to seek the truth wherever it may lead, to think and speak freely, and to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.
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NEW CARDINALS GO TO ROME FOR PAPAL CEREMONY, 1946: 1. Archbishops Stritch, Glennon, and Spellman board planes for Rome. The Vatican and Pius XII. 2. Unusual automobiles designed in the U.S. 3. Race horses grazing in Australia. 4. The Dionne Quintuplets celebrate their 12th birthday. 5. A new Navy dive bomber. 6. Supreme Court Justices speak on racial toleration.
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Produced by United Newsreel Corporation RELEASED: February 22, 1946Contents Sheet No. 195
1) New Cardinals go to Rome for papal ceremony
Archbishops Stritch, Glennon, and Spellman board planes for Rome. They are greeted by Eamon de Valera in Eire. Shows the Vatican and Plus XII.
2) Something new in automobiles
shows unusual automobiles designed in the U.S.
3) Young horses for Australia's favorite sport
shows race horses grazing in Australia.
4) Quintuplets attend Canadian winter carnival
the Dionne Quintuplets celebrate their 12th birthday by attending the Ontario Winter Carnival. Indians perform a ceremonial dance. Shows the quints at birth and at several previous birthday parties. Shows Dr. Dafoe.
5) U. S. Navy shows latest airplanes
shows ground and air views of a new Navy dive bomber.
6) Supreme Court justices urge racial tolerance
Supreme Court Justices Frankfurter and Stone speak on racial toleration.