Summary: This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series transports viewers to the summer of 1961 as President John F. Kennedy addresses the United States in a televised address to explain the significance of the situation in the now-divided city of Berlin, Germany. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration is a graphic portrayal of the steps this nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Japan: Dramatic pictures of atom bomb damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki foreshadow the coming Bikini Atoll experiment. Intense heat and light of the Hiroshima blast left blackened outlines of people on destroyed bridges! Reel 2, Italy: Following mass demonstrations and a democratic referendum, Italian voters cast their lot with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the United Nations. The UN General Assembly approves the permanent site for its international headquarters: a six-block parcel in mid-town Manhattan, a gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on five topics, as follows. Reel 1, At the Geneva summit conference, Ike proposes Open Skies, "a precedent-shattering proposal" to verify disarmament with aerial photographs. Reel 2, Morocco riots overrun Casablanca due to discontent with French rule. Reel 3, Russians visit an Iowa farm. Reel 4, An air show in Moscow featuring the new Bison bomber and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on three topics, as follows. Reel 1, Concept cars on display at a NYC car show. Reel 2, An Austrian "hotel on wheels" recreational vehicle. Reel 3, A first look at the new look: the latest Paris fashions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, At the Yucca Flats Proving Grounds, in Nevada, the largest A-bomb ever to be tested in the U.S. is detonated. Reel 2, A Redstone missile is put on display at New York City's Grand Central Station.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the American space program. An Atlas rocket, launched at night from Cape Canaveral on a secret mission, establishes orbit through its own guidance system. Using a new communications system, it broadcasts a message from Ike via satellite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Hawaii statehood. Hawaii becomes America's 50th state and "gives the lie to Communist charges of American colonialism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the American space program. To test the re-entry capability of a Jupiter rocket nosecone, two monkeys--Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey--are launched into space. Post-splashdown, the monkeys are removed, unharmed, and later appear at a press conference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Soviet clandestine operations during the Cold War. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge supports his accusation that the Russians bugged the U.S. embassy in Moscow by displaying a Soviet gift: a wooden carving of America's Great Seal that, when pried open, reveals a listening device.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Alan Shepard, space pioneer. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard--the first American in space--receives a medal from President Kennedy at the White House and takes part in a parade up Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on three topics, as follows. Reel 1, First Lady Jackie Kennedy swims and water-skis with astronaut John Glenn during a Hyannis Port boat outing. Reel 2, Arnold Palmer is defeated by Gary Player in the P.G.A. golf tour. Reel 3, America and Russia square off at a track meet; the U.S. athletes soundly defeat their Soviet competitors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy speaks to the nation on America's proposed response to the construction of offensive nuclear missile sites in Cuba. "To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson. Key moments of the day are highlighted: LBJ being driven to the Capitol, taking the oath of office, delivering his inaugural address, and reviewing the parade in his honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on four topics, as follows. Reel 1, An action during Operation Pershing shows U.S. infantry conducting a village sweep. Reel 2, The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Coral Sea returns from duty in Vietnam. Reel 3, President Johnson signs the 25th Amendment; the yacht Phoenix, a mercy ship manned by American pacifists, sails from Japan to bring medical supplies to the North...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Charles De Gaulle
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Summary: DeGaulle at Verdun to campaign for a stronger French Constitution
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1948
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Summary: Formation of German Federal Republic (West Germany) Konrad Adenauer becomes Chancellor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1949
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Summary: French raid at Annam, Vietnam (Indochina)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Chinese nationalist soldiers and refugees flee the country after defeat by Communists in China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: This episode from the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series, narrated by motion picture, stage, and television star Henry Fonda, turns its attention to the soldiers of the Special Forces. Viewers will find this video from the National Archives and Records Administration entertaining and informative as they see the rigorous, demanding training at the Special Warfare Center in Fort Bragg,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Faced with the most serious labor stoppage in its history, the U.S. is hard hit by a strike of railroad men. Reel 2, In Nanking, U.S. Chief of Staff Eisenhower receives a gala welcome as he visits China's leader during his tour of U.S. Far Eastern bases. Later, in Tokyo, he meets General MacArthur and reviews an 8th Army parade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Nuremberg trials. Nuremberg, Germany: It is doomsday and the day of reckoning as 21 Nazis learn their fate at the end of their 10-month trial. Half will hang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on three topics, as follows. Reel 1, Ike greets Richard Nixon at Wheeling airport; Adlai Stevenson, in Baltimore, speaks on taxes. Reel 2, Two white mice and a rhesus monkey named Albert soar 38 miles in a rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, making Albert "the world's first space cadet." Reel 3, The palace of exiled Farouk I of Egypt is opened,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010