American History In Video: United News, Release 209, 1946
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RG 208 UNITED NEWS ROLL 209 UNITED NEWS COPYRIGHT MCMXLVI UNITED NEWSREEL INTERNATIONAL, INC. U.S. PLANS TESTS OF ATOM BOMB ON PACIFIC ATOLL
Narrator On remote Bikini Atoll in the Central Pacific, preparations are speeded for America's test of the atom bomb against ships of war. Steel towers will support cameras to record the explosion. For months, from San Francisco and other ports, the vast armada of obsolete target ships has been heading for its rendezvous with the 4th atomic bomb. Among them are the Japanese cruiser Sakawa. The Japanese battleship Nagato, and the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. These are the ships that will bear the shock of the test bomb. Upon the result of this tests, the navies of the future will be based.
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Narrator To record the blast pressures, towers for special instrument are made ready. Target ships are loaded with material: bulldozers, jeeps, planes are lashed to the decks, themselves targets on the target ships. On the deck of the famous Shangri-La, flagship for the experiment, pilotless planes rehearse their part in the operation. Guided by radio, four of them will fly through billowing masses of smoke following the atomic blast. Each will carry airtight bags that will scoop up samples of the smoke. The bomb will be dropped from a B-29 super fortress, piloted perhaps by Colonel Paul Tibbets , who piloted the plane that bombed Hiroshima .
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Narrator Within Bikini's 21-mile lagoon, the future of America's navy will be determined. Hundred of expert eyes will focus on these floating targets as destructive force, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, determines whether existing naval vessels are obsolete. Over the exact center of the Navy's most powerful warship types, the bomb will be exploded. The old battleship Nevada will serve as the aiming point. Around it will be arrayed more than a score of ships, concentrated within a circle of a thousand yards radius. Destroyers, submarines, landing craft, every type of ship. This is a test which the Navy needs to answer many vital questions for the future.
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Narrator Out of the fire and smoke of the weapon that changed the thoughts of the entire world, will come the United States Navy of the future.
DDT INSECTICIDE USED TO FIGHT CHILD PARALYSIS
Narrator With the possibility of a serious infantile paralysis epidemic, health authorities of the city of San Antonio, Texas attack the germ carrier throughout the city. With the war-discovered DDT in special sprayers, sections of the city are blanketed with the insecticide in the fight to stop the spread of the dread Poliomyelitis. Every suspected spot is sprayed.
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Narrator Even the screens are disinfected, and in the parks and public places, children are forbidden to gather.
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Narrator Tons of DDT are used in this fight against the dread disease, whose principal target is the young. Again, war has contributed one of its discoveries to save life.
PRES. TRUMAN GREETS WOUNDED WAR VETERANS
Narrator At the White House in Washington , war veterans from hospitals in this capital area are entertained at a lawn party given by the President and Mrs. Truman. The veterans, all twelve hundred of them, were wounded in the war.
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Narrator Secretary of State Burns and other government dignitaries joined the Trumans in the receiving line.
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Narrator The men in the party represent all branches of the Armed Forces, from all the theaters of war.
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Narrator Light refreshments are served as, for an hour and a half, the president fulfills the duties as host to heroes of the nation before returning to the complex problems of government.
QUADRUPLETS BORN TO U.S. MOTHER
Narrator Four of a kind, quadruplets are born at Memorial Hospital in the state of North Carolina in Southeastern United States . Mrs. Annie Mae Fultz , mother of the quadruplets, gets a congratulatory kiss from father James Fultz , a local farmer. And here is Dr. Fred Klenner , who saw the four little girls into the world. All of them weighed just a little under four pounds each, and they're all doing nicely. There are six children in the family already, and this sudden quadruple addition will keep everybody busy at home.
LOUIS AND CONN IN FINAL TRAINING FOR TITLE BOUT
Narrator Joe Louis , world heavyweight boxing champion, puts the finishing touches to his training for the championship bout with Billy Conn . The champion keeps his sparring partners busy with the fight only a few days off. Louis knows he will have a fight on his hands.
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Narrator Mike Jacobs , the fight promoter, watches carefully as challenger Billy Conn gets into fighting trim.
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Narrator The last time the two met, Conn fought the champion to a standstill for thirteen rounds, only to lose by a knockout. Both the fighters are supremely confident as boxing resumes its big time bouts.
NEW CHAMPION SHEARS 5 SHEEP IN 12 MINUTES
Narrator On the slopes of the Rocky Mountains in America's far west, thousand of sheep graze contentedly, a heavy crop of wool on the hoof. The round-up begins and the sheep head for the shearing stations and the market.
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Narrator Everybody in this Colorado town comes out for the season's leading social event. They come from the farms of the area to watch the sheep-shearing contest.
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Narrator And Coro Myers(ph) wins the competition. He sheared five sheep in twelve and a half minutes.
GEN. EISENHOWER VISITS FAR EAST
Narrator General Dwight D. Eisenhower , is greeted in Nanking, China by his former chief, General George Marshall , now United States Ambassador to China . The General's first call is at the home of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek . He arrives in China just a year after the German surrender in Europe.
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Narrator Leaving the Chinese capital, Eisenhower continues his tour of army inspection. At Atsugi airfield, General MacArthur welcomes him to Japan . During the war, the two supreme commanders led millions of men to victory. Now, they meet to discuss the problems of the peace. By special train, Eisenhower leaves for a tour of the Japanese islands with the occupation armies commander General Eichelberger . At Kobe , Chief of Staff Eisenhower talks with the soldiers of the occupying forces.
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Narrator Back in Tokyo , on the reviewing stand with the representatives of the Allied nations, Eisenhower reviews American troops on parade. One year ago, as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, Eisenhower led his armies to complete victory. Now, as Chief of Staff of the United States Army, he looks to the welfare of his men at home and abroad.
UNITED NEWS RG 208 UNITED NEWS ROLL 209
Atom Bomb Test on Bikini Atoll, 1946 02:49
U.S. PLANS TESTS OF ATOM BOMB ON PACIFIC ATOLL, ETC, 1946: 1. Camera towers are built on Bikini Island. 2. DDT is used to combat infantile paralysis. 3. Truman and Secretary Byrnes greet wounded veterans. 4. Newly born quadruplets. 5. Joe Louis and Billy Conn train for boxing match. 6. A sheep shearing contest. 7. Eisenhower is greeted in Nanking by Chiang Kai-shek and Gen. Marshall.
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Produced by United Newsreel Corporation RELEASED: May 31, 1946Contents Sheet No. 209
1) U. S. plans tests of atom bomb on Pacific atoll
camera towers are built on Bikini Island and ships are prepared for anchoring in the lagoon; radio-controlled planes take off from the Shangri-La.
2) DDT insecticide used to fight child paralysis
DDT is used in San Antonio to combat infantile paralysis.
3) Pres. Truman greets wounded war veterans
Truman and Sec. Byrnes greet wounded veterans at a White House lawn party.
4) Quadruplets born to U. S. mother
shows a North Carolina mother and newly born quadruplets.
5) Louis and Conn in final training for title bout
Joe Louis and Billy Conn train for their boxing match.
6) New champion shears 5 sheep in 12 minutes
shows a sheep shearing contest in Colorado.
7) Gen. Eisenhower visits Far East
Eisenhower is greeted in Nanking by Chiang Kai-shek and Gen. Marshall and in Tokyo by Gens. MacArthur and Eichelberger. He visits troops in Kobe and reviews a parade in Tokyo.