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220588 15:00:16 - 15:06:38 1914 - 1918 Si B/W
League
of Nations - Beginning of the League Reel 1
Beginning of the League: Highlights events that initiated WWI and inception
of League of Nations and its function.
Starts with street fight men in flat caps to illustrate arguments between
neighbours. Events that lead
up to WWI. Newspaper headlines
announce assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and animated maps trace progression
of war and the reorganization of Europe after the Treaty of Versailles. Shows
war graves / cemetery - widespread
destruction, including wounded soldiers and ravaged countryside. Wounded carried from battlefield on stretcher. Ambulances - Red cross ship returning.
220588 15:07:10 - 15:18:20 1914 - 1918 Si B/W
League
of Nations - Beginning of the League Reel 2
Beginning of the League: Highlights events that initiated WWI and inception
of League of Nations and its function.
Describes effects of war, with scenes of wounded soldiers in a hospital -
veterans wheeled in bath chairs / wheelchairs. Rehabilitation of victims of mustard gas - basket weaving.
Turkish peasants / refugees en-route to Greece - displaced persons / DPs,
destroyed homes in Germany, devastated plains of Poland, France pre-war -
lovely shots village streets / market / child - France post war showing barren land destroyed towns and villages.
15:12:50 Presents Woodrow Wilson's
proposal for League, his aim "to unite the countries of the world"
and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Animated map shows countries join League.
15:15:27 Shows Geneva after WWI, street scenes. Assembly and Council in session. (Jan1920)
15:17:20 International Peace Palace in The Hague and describes various branches
of League, including the International Organization of Workers Relations.
220586 13:23:12 - 13:31:31 Jan1920 Si B/W
League
of Nations - First Assembly
Geneva: Highlights of meeting with shots of various delegates and presentation
of aims of League of Nations. Delegates H. A. L. Fisher, Great Britain; President of Assembly Paul Hymens, Belgium; Wellington Koo, China; Lord Robert Cecil, South Africa; Leon
Bourgeois, France; Siamese delegation;
and Ignace Paderewski, Poland arrive at assembly hall.
13:25:21 Assembly in session - Speakers at assembly include Herbert Albert
Laurens Fisher; Sir George Foster, Canada; Sir Iman Ali, India; Senator Millen,
Australia; G.N. Barnes, Great
Britain; Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic
explorer from Norway; and Paul Hymens, who describes the purpose of the League
as "ridding the world of the greatest scourge, war."
13:27:06 Among delegates leaving assembly are, Prince Vibhaji Ranjitsinji,
India, and his secretary, C. B. Fry; and Lord Arthur James Balfour, Great
Britain.
13:28:14 Meeting of League Committee
on Disarmament with speeches by Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, H. A. L. Fisher,
Lord Robert Cecil, and the President of the Committee, Karl Hjalmar Branting,
of Sweden. Explanation of Registration
of a Treaty is given. Delegates
signing. Sir James Eric Drummond,
the Secretary General, is seen at his desk.
13:31:01 Shot of League of Nations building across park with lake
220511 03:00:45 - 03:02:46 1926 Sd b/w
Special
Inquiry into the Mosul Affair
League arbitrators visit Mosul, Iraq, to investigate border dispute between
Turkey and Iraq. Representatives view military review and cavalry manoeuvres.
03:01:34 Shots of street scenes, market places, people on camels, hillside
dwellings, river crossing cars onto pontoon. Group of European ? men / inquiry
team. Housing and streets. Harbour
220588 15:19:00 - 15:28:26 1926 Si B/W
League
of Nations - Seventh Assembly – Special Session (08Mar26)
Session on admission of Germany to League. Ext. Beau-Rivage Hotel, Geneva. Crowds outside hotel as Delegates arrive - press photographers. German Chancellor Hans Luther & Foreign Affairs Minister Streseman,
Skrynski (Poland), Ishii (Japan), Briand and Loucheur & Paul-Bancour (France),
Scialoja (Italy), De Leon (Spain), Benes (Czechoslovakia), Franco (Brazil),
Vanderwelde (Belgium), Bethlen (Hungary), Robert Cecil (South Africa, Da Costa
(Portugal). Da Costa as President of session &
Viscount Ishii delivering opening address at meeting of the Council at the
Secretariat.
Delegates leaving - Briand and Loucheur & Paul-Bancour (France), Sir Austen
Chamberlain (Great Britain), Mr Scialoja first delegate for Italy. In a group
Mr Quinones de Leon (Spain) and Mr Benes (Czech) Mr Mello France (Brazil)
M Vandervelde (Belgium)
15:22:22 Tracking shot from car - streets - pedestrian.
15:22:52 Count Bethlen, delegate for Hungary. Lord Robert Cecil talking with
two young ladies. Crowds outside assembly hall. Mr Da Costa who presided over session. Interiors session
in progress. Viscount Ishil makes opening speech. Mr Da Costa takes chair.
Delegates leaving hall after meeting.
15:26:47 Line of still and movie cameramen outside venue. Delegates leave
in groups.
220586 13:02:58 - 13:10:55 1926 Si B/W
League
of Nations - La Societe Des Nations Part One
English & French titles. Delegates
of VIIth Assembly in session and at leisure. Seen are Drummond (Great Britain), Briand
(France), Scialoja (Italy), Streseman (Germany), Adachi (Japan), Motta (Switzerland),
Apponyi (Hungary), Benes (Czechoslovakia), Nansen (Norway), Albert Thomas,
Pres. Of International Labor Organization, Von Bernstorff (Germany), Urutia
(Columbia), Guani (Uruguay), Villegass (Chile), De Bethancourt (Cuba), Dandurand
(Canada), Lytton (India).
Sir Eric Drummond in office with secretary who is typing. Flags of nations
erected on balconies. Hotel Beau Rivage. Press waiting outside hotels. Chauffeurs
sleep in cars. Delegates leaving hotels and in groups. Plaque outside building
in memory of Woodrow Wilson, Founder of the Society of Nations (in French)
Delegates in buses and cars, policeman on point / traffic duty. Newspaper
sellers. Movie and still cameramen.
220586 13:10:56 - 13:22:52 1926 Si B/W
League
of Nations - A Societe Des Nations [Reel 2 Part 2]
English & French titles. Delegates
of VIIth Assembly in session and at leisure.
13:10:56 In the lobby delegates meeting and milling about. Shots of individual
delegates. At Palais des Nations, interiors and in the gardens. Japanese delegate
poses for cameras. Groups of delegates at open air tables
13:15:13 Interiors - council room - meeting in progress. Shots in offices
of the secretariat where press releases are prepared - typists.
13:19:27 Rest day on Lake Geneva -
yachts. Playing golf - Sir Eric Drummond
13:21:30 Garden party
220586 13:32:00 - 13:38:54 1926 Si B/W
The
League of Nations - Seventh Assembly – [Reel 1 Pt 1] (Sep. 1926)
Proceedings of day include admission of Germany into League.
Displays Preamble to League's Covenant and casual atmosphere of League Headquarters. English & French titles. Delegates of VIIth Assembly in session and at leisure. Seen are Drummond (Great Britain), Briand (France), Scialoja (Italy),
Streseman (Germany), Adachi (Japan), Motta (Switzerland), Apponyi (Hungary),
Benes (Czechoslovakia), Nansen (Norway), Albert Thomas, Pres. Of International
Labor Organization, Von Bernstorff (Germany), Urutia (Columbia), Guani (Uruguay),
Villegass (Chile), De Bethancourt (Cuba), Dandurand (Canada), Lytton (India).
Sir Eric Drummond in office with secretary who is typing. Flags of nations
erected on balconies. Hotel Beau Rivage. Press waiting outside hotels. Chauffeurs
sleep in cars. Delegates leaving hotels and in groups. Plaque outside building
in memory of Woodrow Wilson, Founder of the Society of Nations ( in French
) Delegates in buses and cars, policeman on point / traffic duty. Newspaper
sellers. Movie and still cameramen.
220586 13:38:55 - 13:47:00 1926 Si B/W
The
League of Nations - Seventh Assembly – [Reel 1 Pt 2] (Sep. 1926)
Proceedings of day include admission of Germany into League.
English titles. Delegates of VIIth Assembly in session
and at leisure. Seen are Drummond
(Great Britain), Briand (France), Scialoja (Italy), Streseman (Germany), Adachi
(Japan), Motta (Switzerland), Apponyi (Hungary), Benes (Czechoslovakia), Nansen
(Norway), Albert Thomas, Pres. Of International Labour Organization, Von Bernstorff
(Germany), Urutia (Columbia), Guani (Uruguay), Villegass (Chile), De Bethancourt
(Cuba), Dandurand (Canada), Lytton (India).
13:10:56 In the lobby delegates meeting and milling about. Shots of individual
delegates. At Palais des Nations, interiors and in the gardens. Japanese delegate
poses for cameras. Groups of delegates at open air tables
13;15:13 Interiors - council room - meeting in progress. Shots in offices
of the Secretariat where press releases are prepared - typists.
13:45;12 Building Batiment Electoral where 11th Assembly held its meeting. Public queue in street for admission cards. La Salle de la Reformation where the Annual Assembly of the League
is held. Police on duty at entrance to assembly hall.
220586 13:47:30 - 13:56:20 1926 Si B/W
The
League of Nations - Seventh Assembly [Reel 2] (Sep. 1926)
Proceedings of day include admission of Germany into League.
English titles.
Eduard Benes, President of Assembly, opens VIIth Assembly. Mr. Nintchitch,
Serb-Croat-Slovene state, speaks; delegates vote on admission of Germany;
Secretary General Sir Eric Drummond informs Germany of final decision; Gustav
Stresemann of Germany replies; and Aristide Briand speaks. Emile Vanderwelde,
Belgium; Louis de Brouckere, Belgium; Eduard Benes; Guiseppe Motta, Switzerland;
Maharajah of Kapurtula, India; Louis Loucheur, France; Aristide Briand; Sir
Joseph Austen Chamberlain, Great Britain; Vittoria Scialoja; Viscount Cecil
of Chelwood (Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil), Great Britain; Mr. Loudon,
Netherlands; Jean Paul-Boncour, France; Joseph Beck, Luxemburg; Prince Afra,
Persia; Mr. Guetalcheou, Ethiopia; and Mr. Schubert, Germany, leave hall.
220587 14:14:12 - 14:26:04 1926 Si B/W
The
League of Nations - Preparatory Commission for Disarmament Conference
Meetings & delegates posing: Loudon
(Netherlands), Paul-Boncour, Robert Cecil & De Brouchere (Belgium). Outside of hall: Von Bernstorff (Germany), Jouvenal &
Briand (France), Cadogen & Anthony Eden (Great Britain), Japanese delegation,
Ethiopian delegation, Maharajah of Kapurthala, India, Turkish delegates &
Egyptian delegates.
220587 14:26:33 - 14:28:40 1926 Si B/W
The
League of Nations - Mr Masaryk's Reception
Masaryk of Czechoslovakia arrives and poses w/ various delegates & Czech
Foreign Minister Benes. Leaving
building and into cars.
220587 14:38:41 - 14:50:21 1930s Sd B/W
The
League of Nations - League of
Nations At Work
Overview of League's inception with explanation of its various departments
and functions.
R.1: Montage WWI artillery - war graves - Outlines Woodrow Wilson's principles
for a League of Nations - arrivals
for Versailles conference. Map showing League members.
14:40:40 Woodrow Wilson reading newspaper. Leon Franz. Lord Balfour. M. Branting
( Sweden ) Gustav Stresman, Germany;
Fridjt Nanson, Norway; Aristide Briand, France; Albert Apponyi, Hungary; Vittorio
Scialoja, Italy; and Iguaz Seipel, Austria.
14:41:37 AVs Geneva - old and
new League of Nations building, Geneva, as well as Secretariat Chamber, Counsel
Chamber, and Library. Plane wing in corner of frame in some shots. League
members arriving by car at the assembly for the last time before moving. Swiss
policeman on duty. More delegates arrive.
Interior hall - assembly meeting in progress.
14:44:23 Empty rooms of Council with horseshoe shaped table. Council in session.
Delegates leaving after meeting including Maxim Maksimovitch Litvinov, Russia.
14:45:28 Press operations - journalists - committee rooms with notice board. Reporters talking to Pierre Laval, France Telephone booths. Bar -
journalists drinking. International newspaper stall. Cafe - waitresses.
14:47;17 The Secretariat, the international Civil Service. Typists pool, girls
collating speeches for distribution. Secretary General Joseph Avenol at his
desk in office.
14:48:06 International Labour Organization, exterior buildings interiors.
14:49:00 Permanent court of International
Justice in the Hague exteriors
14:49:38 Department of Finances. Secretary
General, the Treasurer, Seymour
Jacklin, group in garden, man speaking in French, English subtitles re finance.
220586 13:00:16 - 13:02:31 1930s ? Si B/W
League
of Nations - Interior Views
Seating with a few delegates. Unidentified men in group. People preparing
chamber.
221143 06:50:36 - 06:51:46 18Feb1932 Sd B/W
League of Nations Group Sails In Hope Of
Ending War Crises – Manchuria, Manchukuo
Men on shipboard shaking hands. CU of various men looking into camera.
06:51:19 Devastation & ruins in Chinese city, smoking wreckage and
bombed store fronts.
06:51:38 Ship leaving dock w/ streamers and crowd lining rail. People on dock.
220587 14:00:15 - 14:07:07 1933 Sd B/W
The
League of Nations - Construction of Palais Des Nations
Geneva: Top shots nearly completed building - cranes - flags of nations raised on wires - tree on roof ?
14:03:55 People looking at scale model of building.
Rear view men making speeches in French in gardens ?
220587 14:07:36 - 14:13:30 1934 Sd B/W
The
League of Nations - Disarmament Conference
Disarmament Conference (1934) US / France Delegates explain hopes for conference. Mary Wooley from US talks of her impressions of conference - impressed
by Friendliness and goodwill , Da Matta, Portugal, Maksim Litvinoff,
Russia.
14:12:43 Delegates in assembly & on street include League President Richard
Sandler, French Foreign Minister Jean Barthou, Disarmament Conference President
Henderson, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Benes, Irish President Eamon
De Valera.
LN
400-280 19:41:15 -
19:52:49 1935? Sd B/W
19:49:04 League of Nations meetings. Locarno, Geneva.
Including: 19:49:51 - 19:50:49 William B. Shearer, American propagandist lobbyist. Wrecked League of Nations Conference. London Naval Conference.
220587 14:50:50 - 14:52:06 1936 Sd B/W
The
League of Nations - League of
Nations At Work [Reel 2 Pt 1]
R.2: Displays diplomatic successes of League, Saarland returns to Germany
Map of region - international troops from League of Nations
countries who will keep order in Saarland when voting takes place on plebiscite.
Good shots British, Dutch, Italian and Swedish troops - reviewed by High Commissioner Geoffry Knox. People voting - ballot boxes - votes counted. Saar returns
to Germany (1935).
220587 14:52:10 - 14:59:48 1936 Sd B/W
The
League of Nations - League of
Nations At Work [Reel 2 Pt 2]
R.2: Displays diplomatic successes of League, The Dispute between Italy and Ethiopia
Map showing Ethiopia. Ethiopian
demonstration. Marching Italian troops and small tanks / armoured cars. Ethiopian
troops march through village - good close ups.
14:53:58 Assembly in session to discuss the Italian / Ethiopian problem. Baron
Aloisi Italy) makes speech in
French with English subtitles. M. Laval (France) makes statement. Anthony
Eden (Britain) makes statement re maintenance of peace. M Tecle Hawariate (Ethiopia). Graphic detailing costs of last
war - costs of world armaments - cost of League of Nations small in comparison.
Peace poster.
220588 15:50:57 - 16:00:43 1936 Sd B/W
Sixteenth
Assembly (July, 1936).
On invasion of Ethiopia by Italy. Assembly
President Van Zeeland (Belgium), Massey (Canada) & Bruce (Australia) speak
on possibility of withdrawal of sanctions against Italy. De Graef (Netherlands) & De Velies
(Hungary) speak. Sebahbodi (Iran)
says his nation cannot participate in motions which will abrogate the rights
of nations."
15:56:30 Man speaking in French re League - mentions United States of Europe..
15:58:10 Various unid.
15:58:24 Haile Selassie in London -
crowds at railway station. Selassie arriving in Geneva - surrounded by crowds as he leaves railway
station. Makes statement. Selassie at League of Nations - heckled by Italian
journalists.
220587 14:29:27 - 14:37:50 1936 Sd B/W
The
League of Nations - Message From Geneva
British policy towards League & operational functions.
Exterior Houses of Parliament - Big Ben - V/O speech of Edward VIII re opening
of Parliament and League of Nations. Exterior BBC Broadcasting House - Exterior
Post Office HQ - Man on telephone
arranging radio broadcast from League of Nations in Geneva. Map showing post office radio land lines
across Europe. Radio engineers preparing circuits.
14:31:10 Canterbury Cathedral -
good montage using telegraph wires and tracking shots to illustrate route
from Geneva to England.
14:31:38 BBC radio / broadcast technicians at desks, switching to Geneva.
Broadcaster in front of microphone in Geneva - speaks re relief.
14:32:00 Geneva stockshots - lake - buildings - hotels flying nations flags.
Delegates arriving at old electoral building - interior - Panning top shot Geneva. Construction
work on the new Palais des Nations which is being carried out by builders
of ten nationalities.
14:33:37 Interior Secretariat which is already up and running. Telephonists
/ switchboard. Meeting taking place in small room of Leagues Economic Committee. Post room. Post van leaving. Treasurer Seymour Jacklin.
14:35:10 Press office - journalists at desks. Telephone booths, reporters
phoning in report. Undersecretary
Frank Walters phones Radio Nations, part of Radio Suisse. Speaks to man re broadcast. Radio Nations building - aerials - interior.
14:36:59 AVs Palais des Nations. Radio aerials, technicians.
220588 15:29:00 - 15:38:26 1937 Sd B/W
League
of Nations - The League at Work [Reel 1]
La Societe L'Oeuvre (1937) Explores history of and explains the various
functions of each branch of the League of Nations.
Views of aftermath of WWI 1914-1918, cemeteries / war graves CU Private Harmon
/ Cheshire Regiment. Versailles
treaty. Explains covenant
of League and shows League's founder Woodrow Wilson.
15:30:06 Exterior League of Nations building - League President Joseph Avenol
speaks on the functions of each branch. League post office - man with post trolley - typing pool - girls at roneo / copying machines. Man
in office with secretary translating.
Post room where incoming and outgoing mail stamped. Reference library, man walking through
shelving holding books.
15:32:17 Mr Seymour Jacklin - treasurer tells of League finances. Writing on blackboard how budget is worked
out. Various buildings for which the League is financially responsible. Still Lord Balfour.
15;33:49 Information section - electricity pylons - radio transmitters. Radio
broadcasts in different languages - English, French, Spanish. League publications loaded onto van for
distribution. Pamphlets. Press
communications. Man walking into
hall is surrounded by reporters for press briefing. Newspaper headlines re some of the issues the League has to
deal with.
15;35:19 Legal section. Two men
in office. Large ledger removed from shelf and written in. Avenol to camera.
15:36:22 Political section - Frank P. Walters speaks to camera - is handed
files and talks of recent problems the league has to deal with over shots
of assembly gathering and taking seats. Anthony Eden at 15:37:17
15:37:46 Minorities - Political
agitator on soapbox addresses outdoor meeting. Black man addressing meeting. Hand writing in copper plate the work Petition.
220588 15:38:26 - 15:50:43 1937 Sd B/W
League
of Nations - The League at Work [Reel 2]
La SocietZ L'Oeuvre (1937) Explores history of and explains the various
functions of each branch of the League of Nations.
Men walking down stairs in League of Nations building.
Mr de Hallah ? speaks re the mandate system. Maps. Montage
brief shots mandated areas - Tropical forest / tea picking / rice picking. Interior League in session
15:40:00 Thanassis Aghnides speaks on disarmament policies. Montage short shots military action and
casualties. Arthur Henderson
speaks at World disarmament conference. Year books which give details about world's arms and trade in arms. Montage shots arms factories / docks loading. Avenol to camera.
15:41:57 Economic section - man along corridor. Economic section meeting in small room. Economic Intelligence service - Mr Alexander
Loveday speaks - montage shots financial districts. Statistical year book 1935 /1936.
15;43:20 Communications and transport - CU steam train wheel turning - docks
/ harbour - car along highway
- passport - small airport.
15:44:15 Social section - female voice over shots of poor children playing
on cobbled street - looks like England. Exterior prison. Run
down street and hotel sign as
commentary explains the League's work in the abolition of brothels and prostitution.
15:45:16 - Campaign against dangerous drugs / narcotics. Junks in harbour. Meeting of three men and one woman re
drugs. Old Scotland yard
? Shots heroin / hashish and other drugs. Smuggling.
15:46:19 Intellectual co-operation Montage the arts - painting / carving /
film making. Boys in classroom.
Radio broadcasts to 31 countries .
15:46:59 Health - Singapore bureau, doctor gets report re contagious diseases.
This information is passed to other countries and ships at sea. Meeting re nutrition. Boy carried up steps on stretcher / brief
shot hospital ward. Laboratory. Montage very brief Rio / China /
15:48:25 Avenol to camera introduces Anthony Eden who speaks of the League
and its future. Sums up purpose
of League, "...we have a consistent principle of action for peace."
LN
400-282 01:35:25 – 01:44:01 1940-42 SD B/W
Why We Fight - Prelude to War Reel 2 Pt 2
Including: 01:41:32 Stimson denounces Japanese aggression, League
of Nations team including Lord Lytton and Frank McCoy go to Manchuria. Lord Lytton delivers report denouncing
Japan's seizure of Manchuria. Brief
Ext. League of Nations, interiors League censures Japan as aggressor nation. Japanese delegate speaking and Japan leave the League. Brief montage
America, England, France re not convinced enough to go to war over Manchuria.
UNITED
NATIONS – 24OCT45 - >
Background
and Institutions
220471 07:33:33 - 07:34:34 1944 SD B/W
Stettinius
Tells of Peace Program of Dumbarton Oaks
Stettinius speech re creation of organisation to maintain peace (United Nations)
220468 01:56:37 - 01:58:39 1945 SD B/W
Opening
of World Peace Conference at San Francisco
Apr45 Delegates seated. Stettinius opening conference. President Truman speech broadcast from
Washington DC - "... just and lasting peace... we must provide the machinery
which will make peace not only possible but certain... If we do not want to
die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace..."
Stettinius closes first day session with speech.
Title: Join 7th War Loan Victory Drive'.
220468 02:17:11 - 02:17:19 1945 SD B/W
Names
In The News - P Premier Soong
Chinese PM signs United Nations charter and shakes hands with Sec of State
Byrnes.
220608 06:13:46 - 06:15:38 1945 Sd b/w
Nations
Meet to Map World Security Plan
San Francisco: Exterior conference hall. Delegates entering through crowds
- including Anthony Eden - Jan
Smuts - McKenzie King - Molotov
- French delegation - King Ibn
Saud and entourage from Saudi Arabia. Senator Connally and Commander
Stasson ?. Interior, delegates register. Top shot convention hall. Stage - Edward R. Stettinius applauded as he opens meeting. SOF "
The conference of the United Nations ....". Shots of audience as they
listen to recorded speech from President Truman. Brief shot Truman speaking.
220608 06:15:45 - 06:18:19 1945 Sd b/w
World
Parley Gets Down to Business
Stettinius making speech at San Francisco conference - remembers war dead
of civilians and military and that conference must take the responsibility
of seeing that this calamity never again falls upon the World.
06:17:02 Molotov addresses conference in Russian. Various shots delegates.
06.17:22 Chinese delegate T.V. Soong
on stage, bangs gavel. Shot Madame
Chiang Kai-Shek in audience. Molotov bangs gavel. Senator Connally in audience. Two delegates holding newspaper with headlines
Nazis Quit. Molotov applauds.
06:17:59 Exterior - street scenes - crowds outside cinema / movie theatres. Men putting up sign which says Wars End - Nazis Quit (premature
announcement of peace) Crowds gathered in streets cheering including many
sailors.
220608 06:19:31 - 06:21:51 1945 Sd b/w
Argentine
Admitted to World Parley
War veterans, some on crutches enter Opera house where San Francisco conference
of United Nations is taking place. Mexico's
Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ezequiel Padilla on stage - speaks in favour
of Argentine inclusion - not heard, narration only. Molotov on stage requests further time
for study - interpreter speaking. Stettinius speaking in favour of Argentina.
Anthony Eden calls for vote - delegates in favour stand. Only four nations vote against Argentina.
06:21:34 Argentine Ambassador arrives in Washington - Oscar Ibara Garcia or
Garcia Arias (discrepancy between narration and release sheet) Down aircraft
steps and greeted by South American and US officials.
220469 03:25:18 - 03:33:08 1945 SD B/W
Roosevelt
Dies Suddenly
brief summary of his career.
Including: With American
delegation to San Francisco United Nations conference. Headlines re allies approaching Berlin
and Elbe. Truman sworn in. Good
CU FDR.
220608 06:28:50 - 06:34:16 1945 Sd b/w
President
Truman Closes World Peace Parley
Stettinius greets Truman off plane. Motorcade through cheering crowds for
Truman en route to Hotel. Nimitz
meets with Truman. Halifax speaks & standing unanimous vote. China signs charter , followed by USSR,
etc. Truman speaking to conference,
standing applause (slightly out of sync) . Truman returns to Independence, MO &
parade. Arrives at summer White
House there & waves from porch.
220609 07:00:15 - 07:10:56 1945 Sd b/w
San
Francisco 1945 - United Nations Conference Part 1
4 motor planes over S.F. harbour with many ships. Views of Golden Gate Bridge;
street scenes - traffic - cable cars; pedestrians; military; boy scouts. Chinatown;
airport arrival. Delegates arrival
including Jan Smuts - Molotov - Stettinius - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek with T.V.
Soong. Delegates at RR / railway station. Airport Control tower. Wounded returning vets collected from planes by line of ambulances. Int. of meeting & delegates. A message from dead President Roosevelt (FDR) is played
to conference who are standing in silence. Exterior people including children of different nationalities
looking up at flag. Roosevelt in his speech says we cannot fail and expect
the World to survive again. President
Truman reading speech to over radio to conference. Loudspeakers - filmed recording of speech.
Truman says conference is to set up organisation to keep World peace. Top
shot delegates applaud. Delegates
talk & leave. Registration.
07:06:20 Committee meetings both
small and large.
07:07:27 Graphic showing proposed system of UN: General Assembly, Security
Council, International Court of Justice, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship
Council, Secretariat. Conference
in session. Delegates milling about. Smaller meeting.
07:09:28 Delegates on tour of San Francisco. Unloading ships at docks. Molotov with workers. Housing projects; art museum interior; paintings of Benton & Rockwell.
220609 07:11:15 - 07:17:20 1945 Sd b/w
San
Francisco 1945 - United Nations Conference Part 2
Exterior Movie Theatre / cinema with boards stating that it is exclusively
for the delegates of the World Security conference. Interior cinema, people watching newsreel of German Surrender. Screen seen over tops of heads in audience. Surrender document signed. Brief
shot projection room. Almost
full screen end of war - devastation and death. Survivors cry - children - bomb damaged buildings.
07:12:26 Conference in session - delegates debate.
07:13:30 Lord Halifax makes speech to conference - calls for a vote for approval
on charter for United Nations. Count
taken - conference applauding.
07:14:48 24Oct45 Crowds outside
waiting for result. Interiors
delegates signing Charter. Press photographers - Stettinius signs and shakes
hands with President Truman. Wounded
veterans arrive by bus and enter conference hall, some on crutches.
07:16:19 President Truman addresses conference re success " ... to find a way to end wars"
Flags of all nations flying.
220609 07:17:42 - 07:26:16 1945 Sd B/W
24Oct45
World Charter Signed - President Truman Speaks at San Francisco.
Lord Halifax addresses San Francisco Conference. Stettinius presented with scroll in recognition of his efforts
during conference. Halifax calls
for standing vote on World charter. President Truman's plane lands - he is met by Mr Stettinius and other
delegates including Jan Smuts, McKenzie King. Truman in open top car - parade through streets of San Francisco
- crowds line route to watch motorcade. FBI men ride bumpers of car. Interior - signing of United Nations charter. Chinese - Dr Wellington Koo ? - Russian
- Mr Gromyko - Britain - Lord
Halifax - France - Joseph Paul-Boncour - USA - Stettinius signs and speaks
to press. Says re importance of occasion. Senator Connelly signs for US. Senator Arthur Vandenburg signs. Commander Stasson ? Last meeting of conference
is addressed by President Truman who congratulates delegates and talks re
peace
07:25:21 Interior US Congress. Film of dead President Roosevelt (FDR) asking
Congress to accept the result of conference as the beginning of a permanent
structure of Peace (sound poor on FDR speech)
220474 13:40:18 - 13:45:26 1945 SD B/W
Charter
Signed For World Peace - Great Conference of United Nations At San Francisco
Closes In Triumph
Truman out of plane greets Stettinius. Motorcade through San Francisco. Standing vote at conference re charter.
Signing charter: Wellington Koo signs for China and speech (sd); Gromyko signs for Soviet Russia; Halifax for
UK; France; Mexico; Greece; Saudi
Arabia; Brazil; Stettinius for USA.
Stettinius speech "... the San Francisco conference has fulfilled its
mandate".
Truman speech closing conference (sd) "... you have won a victory against
war itself. If we had had this charter a few years ago, and above all the
will to use it, millions now dead would be alive. If we shall falter in the
future in our will to use it,
millions now living will surely die... let us... make [this charter] a living
thing"
Mentions ratification by senate.
220470 06:00:04 - 06:02:29 1945 SD B/W
MacLeish
Explains The San Francisco Peace Program
Assistant Secretary of State speech re UNO mission: " the purpose of
the United Nations Organisation is to preserve peace and to advance prosperity
and social and human rights... peace has always been the policy of the American
people... if there is another
war... the United States will be the first target..."
MacLeish stands in front of UN chart showing structure and explains role of
each department: General Assembly, Security Council, International Court of
Justice.
"...to stop wars by every means peaceful and forcible"
220472 09:09:51 - 09:15:14 1945 SD B/W
1945
- Year Of Victory
Newsreel Review of Greatest News Year In History
Including:
Truman speech re lasting peace at United Nations Organisation (Sd).
220476 18:46:56 - 18:47:34 1945 SD B/W
Meeting
of Peace Parley's Executive Committee Filmed
San Francisco Conference Exec. Committee meeting w/ Stettinius after German
surrender. Molotov. Mackenzie King. Anthony Eden. All stand for a moment of
silence.
220477 19:41:51 - 19:43:30 1945 SD B/W
Washington
News - France Joins United Nations - 79th Congress Convenes
Stettinius and French Ambassador Bonnet; Stettinius speech "... the United
Nations will be stronger because France is herself again".
Bonnet signs and shakes hands w/ Stettinius
Majority Leader administered oath of office.
Senator Taylor of Idaho sings campaigning cowboy song on banjo with wife and
children on steps Capitol - song re housing shortage.
220479 01:02:35 - 01:03:24 1945 SD B/W
Byrnes
Announces Charter of United Nations In Effect
Byrnes signing protocol re United Nations Charter being in force. Byrnes speech
to camera. " The United Nations charter is now a part of the law of nations...
In the days ahead of us... we will do our utmost to keep the peace".
Debates
on Peace and Non-proliferation
220481 04:16:45 - 04:18:00 1945 SD B/W
Problem
of Atomic Energy Given To UNO Commission
Byrnes speech at United Nations (UN) re atomic energy
"We won the war by fighting together. We must now preserve the peace
by working together. Peace and
reconciliation require common action... problem of devising the necessary safeguards to ensure that atomic energy will be used for the benefit
of humanity and not its destruction. We have fought together for freedom. Let's now show that we are worthy
of the freedom that we won."
220972 09:50:21 - 09:51:25 1940s c SIL B/W
[UN
Security Council Meeting]
Vars MS and LS United Nations Security Council? meeting in chamber.
220917 00:21:51 - 00:32:12 1945 & 1967 SD COL&B/W
Pursuit
of Peace Reel 1 Pt 3
Autumn trees - home of Professor Tom Shelling. Prof. raking leaves with son. Family walking with dogs on heath. Prof. working
at night - speaking into dictaphone. Smokes pipe - dog watches. Open
reel tape recorder. Grandfather
clock shows midnight - cu second
hand moving.
00:24:43 Switzerland - Control tower at Geneva airport - Swissair plane landing
- delegates arriving for Disarmament Conference. Crowds watching. William
C. Foster, director of US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency arrives to head
American delegation. Foster at press conference - says the most important
point of conference should be the achievement of a non-proliferation treaty.
00:25:57 Lake Geneva, pan round
to Palais des Nations - dedication stone to Woodrow Wilson. Exteriors new League of Nations building
- European HQ of United Nations. Soviet
/ Russian mission which is a secluded house surrounded by trees. In centre of town is American mission - glass and aluminium building.
Interior US delegation meeting. William Foster at desk working.
00:27:59 Top shot Lake Geneva and UN building. Interiors empty conference chamber.
00:28:19 US flag on front of car. Foster in car as travelling to UN building. Good shots Palais des Nations. Interiors - reporters and cameramen crowd round delegates. Foster arrives and out of car. Peacock on steps. Various
delegates arrive - interiors as delegates meet and greet.
00:30:03 B/W Montage pivotal
points - Meeting on the Elbe - destruction
of Nazi sign at Nuremberg - German surrender - VE day celebrations. San Francisco conference to sign charter for United Nations. President Truman speaking at conference. Troopships coming home to US. Russian soldiers going home. Brief shot casualty being transported
home.
Cold War
220468 01:00:51 - 01:01:35 1946 SD B/W
News
Flashes - UNO Banquet England
United Nations banquet presided over by Lord Mayor of London: Attlee smoking cigar - Bevin laughing. UNO President Spaak of Belgium. Secretary-General Lee of Norway. Bevin, Martin & others drink from enormous loving cup.
221357
22:09:09 - 22:10:29 1946 B/W SD England Central Hall, London; UNO Hears Stettinius
Ed Herlihy announces. Edward Stettinius shaking hands across table w/ USSR
Andre Gromyko as Vishinsky watches. Table w/ Netherlands & Mexico representatives
behind signs. Ernest Bevin sitting betwween Stettinius & Gromyko.
22:09:35 Stettinius: “Mr President, the Security Council today begins
its history. It will be a history momentous in the consequences for the human
race. This is a new beginning in the long conquest of peace & security.
Many failures lie behind this day, & many difficulties lie ahead. This
time we can not afford to ?. We have a great deal of organizational work today
before we can complete the security system intended by the Charter. Let us
begin now upon this work. If we build sensibly & steadily, and in loyal
friendship together we will not betray the hopes of the men & women everywhere
that today are placed in our hands.” Applause.
220470 05:23:25 - 05:25:11 1946 SD B/W
UNO,
Mankind's Hope For Peace, Opens In London England
Central Hall, London exterior. United
Nations meeting. Saudi Arabian delegation; Canadian delegation; Stettinius
and Byrnes. Attlee speech. Delegates cast votes for President of Assembly. Spaak opens first session.
05:25:01 King George's reception for delegation heads. Bevin and Byrnes laughing with King George.
220475 15:49:04 - 15:49:55 1946 SD B/W
Film
Report Of News Events - UNO Delegates Hear Soldier's Viewpoint
Field Marshall Sir Harold Alexander addresses United Nations conference in
Albert Hall; describes daily life of soldier "... physical discomfort
of war but also mental ones, the least of which are long periods of extreme
boredom... sheer stupidity that
civilized mankind should try to resolve its problems by resorting to the laws of the jungle."
220917 00:32:31 - 00:42:10 1946 - 1963 SD B/W
Pursuit
of Peace Reel 2 Pt 1
B/W War Graves - blowing up aircraft
after WWII. Demobilization in
US - fleet in mothballs - scrap jeeps. Production of household / white goods,
irons, electric cookers. Whiz-pan.
00:33:15 1946 - United Nations
- Bernard Baruch - proposal for international control of all atomic energy.
00:33:40 Aerial views Berlin post WWII, bomb damage. US aid / Marshall Plan / Cargo ships unloading. Montage shots European countries benefiting from aid - construction
work - laying new RR tracks - steam train - agriculture - haymaking.
00:34:24 AVs Berlin 1948 - ground shots empty railway stations and roads -
travel restrictions - blockade. Berlin airlift - planes flying in low - supplies unloaded. Blockade lifted - border
gates opened.
00:35:11 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Flags flying - montage military
- naval - aircraft - troops marching. Scots guards. (NATO)
00:35:31 Korea - Night shots artillery barrage. Day, Korean refugees. United Nations Security Council. Battle scenes Korean war. Injured soldier carried on stretcher. Blood transfusion given in the field. Korean peace talks - delegates arrive - sign.
00:36:40 Rocket fired - space race - Russian experiments with weightlessness
etc. Missile launched. Nuclear
powered submarine. Russia - Military
parade in Moscow's Red Square - montage shots Russian and US Military hardware
intercut.
00:38:12 USAF Reconnaissance plane landing. Still pix missile bases on Cuba. Brief shots re missile crisis - press. President John F. Kennedy addresses
the nation re crisis - announces Cuban blockade - speech continues over shots
Recon. planes landing - film removed, developed and studied. operations rooms. B-52
bombers taking off. Brief shot
JFK on small TV screen, people watching.
00:40:02 Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations - asks USSR delegate if they are putting missiles in Cuba. Russian delegate refuses to answer. AVs Russian ships approaching Cuba - UN Navy ship running parallel.
00:41:26 Averill Harriman with Dean Rusk arrive at Kennedy holiday home after
negotiating atmospheric atomic test ban treaty in Moscow. Press - photocall
with President.
00:41:45 Moscow - Kremlin - treaty signed by US, Soviet Union and Great Britain.
Cold War
220627 04:09:48 - 04:10:52 1946 ? Si b/w
United
Nations, CU of Delegates & small meeting
Interior of United Nations. CU of ?? Horseshoe table, people get up, pan around.
220627 04:13:57 - 04:15:21 1946 ? Si b/w
[United
Nations, pre-meeting activity]
Interior of United Nations. Audience
shots; views of newsreel cameramen. Chinese in military uniforms. Poland, USSR, delegates. Photographers taking pictures of two women beforehand, one
very pretty in fur coat. Man
with scar on left cheek.
220627 04:15:23 - 04:15:54 1946 ? Si b/w
[United
Nations, pre-meeting activity]
Still photographers & man with bandage on forehead & nose. Pan over delegates at horse-shoe table.
220357 02:00:21 - 02:04:23 1961 SD B/W
"Peace
Race" Is Kennedy Challenge
Exterior UN building. John F Kennedy out of car. JFK to speaker's
stand. UN audience sits.
JFK speech: "Dag Hammarskjold is dead. The United Nations live... the
task for which he died is at the top of our agenda... his place can only be
filled by one man... contemplate
the day when this planet will no longer be inhabitable... every woman, man
and child lives under a nuclear .... weapons of war must be abolished before
they abolish us... it is our intention to challenge the Soviet Union not to
an arms race but to a peace race... until disarmament has been achieved... Never have the nations of the world had
so much to lose, or so much to gain... "
Applause
220308 10:09:20 - 10:10:11 1962 Sd b/w
Crisis
Eases - Wary US Awaits Missile Removal
United Nations building. Photographers. Russia's first deputy foreign minister Vassilei Kuznetsov with U Thant
and others to dismantle Soviet bases in Cuba.
220317 22:00:08 - 22:07:59 1962 Sd B/W
One
Week in October Part 1
Cuban missile crisis - American Version
Reconnaissance photographs showing Russian missiles and same area following
missile crisis with no missiles.
22:01:17 Columbus Day parade. Baseball match, Yankees v San Francisco
Giants. Little girl in callipers
- poster girl for March of Dimes ( polio charity ). Jackie Kennedy with children
of foreign diplomats. Fireworks in Uganda celebrating independence. Vatican - torchlight vigil. President John F Kennedy - JFK - with
Ahmed Ben Bella, Premier of Algeria.
22:02:57 Havana AVs. Ben Bella
with Castro.
US moon rocket launch, man follows ascent through telescope. Defence department training in fall out
protection - civil defence - Fall out shelter stocked - various other fall
out shelters including community shelter in Kansas. Food and water drums, medical supplies - radiological monitoring
equipment off assembly lines and transported by rail to various parts of America. Naval Supply Centre Oakland. Forklift trucks moving goods. Sign erected for community fallout shelter - radiation signs.
22:04:42 Election campaign -
American Legion meeting - Truman making speech. Helicopter landing on White House Lawn.
22:05:15 Cuba - beach scenes. Military parade. Desecration of monument. Riots and demonstrations. Fidel Castro
entering Havana 1959 - crowds celebrating.
22;06:21 United Nations - Castro and Khruschev embrace. Mikoyen visit to Havana.
Trade agreement between Russia and Cuba signed. Russian cargo ships en route to Havana. Cuban refugees in small boats - women and children. Map showing proximity to USA.
220317 22:18:12 - 22:29:24 1962 Sd B/W
One
Week in October Part 3
Cuban missile crisis - American Version
22:18:12 White House - Vox pops re possibility of war and relationship with
Russia
22:19:02 Civil defence shelters - supermarket shelves stripped - queues at
checkouts.
22:19:21 Governor Rossolini and Governor Rockefeller re civil defence bulletin.
Community fallout shelters stocked - Lorries and trucks on road carrying supplies.
22:20:12 AV United Nations building - UN Ambassador Stevenson asks of the
USSR delegate whether there are missile bases on Cuba.
22:20:53 Kennedy signs Quarantine order; 22:20:57 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara speaks
at Pentagon re enforcing quarantine, row of newsreel cameramen; - 22:21:37
Strategic Air Command B-52 bombers take off - Interceptors and fighters take
off - radar dishes / radio communications. Air craft carriers - US battleship
at sea . US intercepts Soviet tanker and allows her to proceed. reconnaissance
aircraft over Cuba
22:24:42 Kremlin - White House - SAC bombers / aircraft and missiles prepared - on alert.
HQ American Air Defence command - interior control room. People waiting for news - White House
and Kremlin
22:26:10 Press Secretary Salinger re message Kennedy has received from Khruschev
saying he will dismantle missile sites in Cuba; 22:26:20 Kennedy gets out
of car to church.
22:26:29 US fleet - wives return to Guantanamo - celebrations - sign on Tuba "Hi Honey - dinner's
defrostin". Small church,
Americans going to services. Recon
photos showing missiles dismantled - Soviet ships carrying missiles out of
Cuba.
Americans on streets.
Rolling caption by Department
of Defense re importance of civil defence - radioactive fallout etc.
220522 18:12:19 - 18:17:58 1964 Sd B/W
US
Bolsters Forces - Planes and Men Rushed to Asia
US ship Maddox, one of two patrol boats attacked off Gulf of Tonkin near North
Vietnam. Aircraft Carriers USS
TICONDEROGA, USS CONSTELLATION planes taking off. White house at night - President Johnson address to the Nation re crisis
- unprovoked attack - US seeks no wider war - re instructions to Ambassador
Stevenson. Exterior United Nations
building. Interiors, Stevenson speaks re attacks in S.E. Asia.
18:15:33 US forces in South Vietnam - out of helicopter - across fields. Fighter bomber aircraft landing.
LBJ speaks re solemn responsibility - firmness will always be measured - its mission is peace.
220522 18:40:24 - 18:42:22 1964 Sd b/w
Khruschev
Resigns
Montage profile shots. K waving from train. K at meeting. K with Mao Tse Tung.
K with Nasser. K at United Nations making speech and gesticulating - banging
desk with fists. Khruschev waving with hat at parade in Red Square. Interiors
meeting of Central Committee - Khruschev seated and applauded by audience
and Brezhnev who has now taken over. Brezhnev making speech at microphone
- some natsof.
18:42:02 Newspaper headlines and picture Khruschev. K's 70th birthday party
Debates
re Palestine Issue
220685 01:17:18-01:18:33 1947 SD B/W
UN
Ponders Palestine Problem / Cairo Haifa Express Blown Up
Flushing Meadow - exterior of building. Interiors - United Nations meeting in progress. Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, President of the session.
Assembly seated.
01:17:47 Palestine - Terrorist attack at Rehovoth - Cairo to Haifa express
blown up and derailed. British soldiers looking through wreckage of train. Eight dead and 41 injured. Injured Turkish woman mourning over body
of her 3-year old son. Injured
carried from train. Wreckage.
220656 23:20:54 - 23:22:54 1947 SD B/W
US
- Russia Back UN Plan for Holy Land
Two former US vessels carrying Jewish refugees arrive in Haifa (Hagana ships). Immigrants on board ship hold up dead baby which had suffocated on
over-crowded ship. Refugee being deloused. Jews disembark including women and small
children. Sick carried on stretchers. Refugees transferred to other ships which will deport them
to Cyprus detention camps.
23:21:56 Lake Success, New York,
United Nations meeting in progress. Herschel Johnson (sync) states US backs UNSCOP majority partition plan - calls for UN assistance. Meeting in progress. Narration mentions
Russia's support for the plan.
220669 20:13:49 - 20:23:59 1947 ? Sd B/W
United
Nations Security Meeting on Palestine
Jewish Agency representative speaking re mandate in Palestine and the future
of Jerusalem. Pan round other
delegates. Israeli man speaking
of atrocities committed against Jews in Jerusalem by Palestinians. British representative speaking re mandate
and evacuation of British troops from Palestine. Warren Austin speaking re draft resolution
204 calling for truce in Palestine - objective is to save human life - calls
for cessation of hostility. Votes
taken re resolution on Palestine / Jerusalem and Jewish State - motion carried.
220579 03:32:41 - 03:35:38 1948 Sd B/W
United
Nations - Austin Reads Letter re Palestine
Warren Austin (US ambassador
to UN) at table talking about proposals that have not yet been submitted to
Security Council. ...statement
adopted by Jewish Agency for Palestine & National Council of the Jews
of Palestine which meet on March 23rd.' Express concern with US actions in UN re Palestine. Says Jewish state will be glad to cooperate with Arab neighbours. (re
proposal for UN trusteeship of Palestine)
220684 22:29:24-22:36:23 1948 Sd B/W
[United
Nations Meeting On Palestine]
Walter / Warren Austin speaking to United Nations Security Council on Palestine
partitioning and problems; Security Council urges UN to take steps necessary
to bring about cease-fire. US
wants temporary trusteeship established until Arabs & Jews can solve their
problems. Wants Security Council
to call for special session of UN. 1. All parts of plan must be carried out. 2. Further steps must be taken immediately,
towards this end establishment of UN trusteeship. Calls for special session. 3. Security Council should instruct Palestine Commission to suspend
its efforts to impose the partition plan.
221029 02:45:45 - 02:46:57 1948 SD B/W
Strife
& Death In Palestine: UN Headache
VS UN Security Council meeting; CU sign United Nations Palestine Commission';
US? delegate speech "...the United States will be ready to consult under
the charter with a view to such action as may be necessary to maintain international
peace...not to enforcing partition".
Sound
incomplete
200541 15:25:37 - 15:27:57 1947 - 1948 SD B/W
YBS
- Founding of Israel
1947 - Jewish refugees from Europe on board ship attempting to land in Palestine. Sign United Nations Palestine Commission, UN in session. 15:26:14Jewish troops routing Arabs from Haifa, bodies on ground. Negev desert area, 15:26:27Arabs rounded up and taken prisoner.
15:26:38 Tel Aviv, David Ben
Gurion arrives by car for new government installation. Jewish soldiers present arms. Israeli flag flying. UN soldiers with Israelis waving white
flags as they retrieve dead from battlefields.
15:27:13 Dr. Chaim Weizmann with wife Vera, accompanied by Chief of Staff
Ya'akov Dory and others wave to crowds. 15:27:12 UN in session - Abba Eban, Moshe Shertok (Sharet) seated in
session; Arabic members walk out when Israel admitted to UN, empty seats. Eban and Shertok looking up at Israeli flag raised.
220857 02:25:21 - 02:35:31 1948 - 1949 SIL B/W
United
Nations Delegation
18Oct48 - 14 advisors from US UN Delegation arrive Templehof Airport to see
airlift. Group w/ US officers
& officials at airport. Delegation
visit sights of Berlin incl. Soviet World War II Monument & border between
USSR and US Zones. Ground man
signals in a twin engine plane. UN delegation off plane; posing & into cars, leaving.
02:29:14 - 11Jul48
- Australian prime minister ben
chiefley arrives in Germany. Gatow,
Berlin, Germany. Chiefley off
plane greeted by VIPs including Gen. Herbert, British Commandant Berlin. Chiefley speaking to greeters and newspapermen.
02:31:24 - 14Mar49 - DP Jews leave for Palestine from Germany.
Young men & women look at Palestine poster on door. Crowds in camp w/ Israel flag in BG. Band thru & young listen to speakers, Israeli flag flying from
stand, German monument beside. People
run alongside bus leaving grounds. procession of private cars, some decorated with branches, moving
out of grounds and arriving at railroad station. Group at station singing. Young Jews board trains. Saying good bye to people at train.
220926 12:56:56 - 12:58:44 1950s SIL B/W
[United
Nations Meeting]
GVs UN Security Council meeting with Israeli man listening. NY,
220539 11:39:53 - 11:42:12 1950s Si b/w
[United
Nations Security Council (?) Meeting]
Man behind Turkey name plate at United Nations. Abba Eban talking with ??? Others pose for pictures. Delegates at UN Security Council meeting. Full auditorium. People come & go. End of meeting.
East-West,
Cold War related debates
221016 09:37:13 - 09:47:54 1947c SD B/W
[United
Nations - Australian Delegate & Austin Speeches on Article 27]
UN meeting, Chairman gavels meeting to order; speaks in French; Australian
delegate speaks. Calls on major
delegates re Article 27 & Security Council of 1946. All members have a duty to comment
on functioning of United Nations.
09:39:54 American delegate Warren
Austin speaking, refers to speech made the day before by Russian delegate. "In war we gave our allies all the
help and cooperation a great nation could ... In peace will support the United
Nations with all the resources we can send... I shall not participate in any
exchange of recriminations". Speaks
of disarmament and regulation re atomic weapons. "World society and world rule of
law...where the veto withers away..."
09:47:18 Session closed - speaks
in French.
220669 20:00:15 - 20:13:29 1947 ? Sd B/W
United
Nations Security Meeting on Czechoslovakia
Warren Austin at table speaking re "the poor peoples of Czechoslovakia" Talks of anti-American propaganda about
external affairs of USA made by Russia. Chinese president calls council to order. Russian delegate speaking. Vote taken. Czech
representative speaking to Security Council. Tells United Nations they must not fail
the freedom loving people of Europe. Warren Austin saying Soviet Union has reduced the good people of Czechoslovakia
to slavery. Says it is the duty
of the Security Council to save people and countries from indirect aggression.
220843 17:17:17 - 17:23:58 1950 ? SD B/W
[UN
Security Council Debate]
United Nations Security Council meeting. Various delegates in CU & MS. Full shot of room. Discussion re Korea & Taiwan. US delegate speaks about USSR raised point
and how it obscures... no one has a right to put through a plan or scheme
whereby a guest would control the Security Council's agenda, or how it would
handle its problems.
17.23.29 Delegates arriving,
through hallways. US delegate,
Taiwanese(?).
220843 17:24:00 - 17:28:19 1950 ? SD B/W
[Acheson
on Chinese Appearing Before United Nations]
Dean Acheson talks about Chinese appearing before UN & wanting to talk. Says how US soldiers have been fighting heroically. Speaks of China's reckless course.
Cold War
LN
505-114 21:53:32 - 21:56:05 1950? SD B/W
[Warner
Pathe News Magazine Of The Screen] title
missing
Personal Appearances:
Charles E. Wilson, President of General Electric appointed chief of US defence
production. With George Marshall
in office.
21:54:06 China's Gen. Wu to the United Nations. MCU USSR delegation
looking grim. Wu speaking before
Security Council.
21:54:40 Wu leaves from NYC shaking
hands with Malik.
21:54:54 Brussels hosts meeting
of 12 nations Acheson and 11
other Atlantic Pact foreign ministers meet.
Appointment of Dwight Eisenhower named for Atlantic Council armies. He is with wife and in uniform. In cars in uniform thru crowds after WWII.
Bad film till 21:52:13
220570 19:54:04 - 19:59:40 1950s ? Sd b/w
[Marshall,
George Speaking to U.N. General Assembly]
George Marshall speaking to United Nations (poor sd quality) General Assembly.
(light leak in camera?) Talks
about Korea.
220747 09:11:08 - 09:12:05 1953 SD B/W
Sidelights
at the United Nations
UN in session, balloting re series of amendments on future of Korea. Mistaken voting causes laughter among
delegates.
220705 02:54:30 - 02:54:57 1956? SIL B/W
[United
Nations - Hungarian Overthrow Demonstration]
Tilt down UN building to demonstration against Hungarian overthrow. Placards
& marchers many older marchers.
220634 12:56:10 - 12:59:29 1959 SD B/W
Highlights
of Mr. K's US Tour
Including: Motorcycle outriders - Khruschev arrives at United Nations Building
in NYC with wife and entourage. Greeted
by Dag Hammarskjold. Khruschev
making speech to UN General Assembly.
221084 09:15:04 - 09:20:34 1959 c SD B/W
[Castro
Welcomed By USSR Following Cuban Revolution]
Cuban rebels w/ Castro in countryside. Montage guerrilla fighting - machine guns firing, planes overhead,
jeep exploding, black smoke over town. Victory parade through Havana - crowds cheering & running in streets
- vehicles w/ Castro's troops swamped. Castro addressing crowd at night, white dove perched on shoulder. Aerials Havana.
09:16:30 Khruschev greeting Fidel
& Raul Castro at the United Nations & posing for photographers. Che Guevara & unid. Cuban? man signing
document, then shakes hands w/ Kruschev. Brief shots ?? addressing conference hall.
09:17:46 Cuban flag. Street scenes, Havana? - armed guards
- slogans inc. Patria o Muerte'.
09:18:27 Party Congress scenes.
09:18:50 Top shot Red Square
November military parade. Kruschev
& others saluting from mausoleum. Troops, tanks & rockets pass in review. Marchers in shape of star - parade in honour of October Revolution.
Cheering crowds w/ banners & portraits inc. Khruschev hugging Castro. Cuban flag waved.
220917 00:42:11 - 00:51:15 1964 - 1967 SD COL&B/W
Pursuit
of Peace Reel 2 part 2
Montage aid programmes - cargo ship unloaded - medical care in Africa - inoculations
- construction work - education - Peace Corp volunteers. UN peace keeping troops in Middle East? UN Special forces military training - patrol walking through river.
Mass parachute drop.
00:44:13 Vietnam war - Troops
firing machine guns and rifles - helicopters fly in formation - battle scenes
- jungle fighting. Casualty airlifted
out by chopper. Helicopter crashed
in field, troops running for cover.
00:45:14 Switzerland - Colour
- UN flag flying - mural on ceiling of UN building. United Nations meeting to discuss Nuclear arms treaty. CU various
delegates including William Foster for US - Russian delegate - Lord Chalfont
for UK - empty chair for France. Russian delegate Sarobkin? speaking. Later at press briefing Russian representative says Soviet Union favours full discussion with US to stop spread of
Nuclear weapons. Foster speaking re urgency of treaty.
00:47:44 Foster stands in park overlooking Lake Geneva. Flock of seagulls.
00:48:28 Girl folk singer Judy Collins (?) at peace demonstration in Washington. Huge crowds watch in silence as she sings.
00:49:32 Montage children of all nationalities playing and laughing. Kids standing next to radar scanner. Close
shots children's faces, some happy, some sad.
00:50:16 Interior missile silo crew room at Minuteman Missile Base, Malmstrom
AFB, Montana - two man crew at consoles. 24 hour clock.
Cold War
220523 19:39:08 - 19:40:11 1965 Sd b/w
UN
Bars Peking - Close Vote Rejects Move to Seat Reds
Interiors United Nations in session
- ballot board. Result of vote announced in French.
220294 14:53:06 - 14:53:39 1967 Sd B/W
News
in Brief - United Nations
Crude bomb discovered at US Mission to United Nations. Police bomb squad remove
bomb which is placed in bomb proof vehicle and driven away. Crowds on pavement.
Middle-East
related issues
220604 01:19:05 - 01:20:58 1951 Sd b/w
UN
meeting on Iran
Pan round meeting CUs of delegate from United Kingdom. Man calls Security
Council to order. British delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb says his government wants to bring to the attention of the
Security Council the dispute re removal of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company concessions.
Russian ? delegate speaks. French delegate. Voice says Russians have protested.
220604 01:24:18 - 01:27:32 1951 Si b/w
UN
meeting re Iran
Various shots conference room - observers / press listening with headphones.
Arrival delegates. Security Council in session - shots various delegates -
Sir Gladwyn Jebb UK representative speaking 01:26:47 Mossadegh speaking (
mos ) . Flags flying outside United Nations.
220604 01:39:25 - 01:40:30 1951 Si b/w
UN
Meeting re Iranian Oil.
US representative and ? in discussion. Interior Security Council chamber .
Mossadegh takes his seat. Shots of room.
220604 01:44:03 - 01:45:20 1951 Sd b/w
UN
Meeting re Iranian Oil
Wide shot security council room. Arrival Mossadegh. Mossadegh speaking over
shots UK rep Sir Gladwyn Jebb. Mossadegh reading from paper in French. Jebb
speaking says he hopes new provisional scheme will allow flow of oil to be
resumed. Mossadegh listening intently through headphones.
220657 00:30:48 - 00:35:06 1956 Si B/W
Suez
Crisis
00:30:45 Exterior and interior United Nations building with delegates. Interior
council chamber - delegates from Finland, Thailand, Greece, United Kingdom,
Egypt, Abba Eban from Israel. Various
shots round chamber and previous shots repeated - cuts.
00:34:03 Aerials Suez Canal area -
Naval ships in port. British soldiers marching (Scots ?) Streets with British
soldiers and native Egyptians.
220780 18:41:51 - 18:51:40 1957 SD COL
King
Saud visits President Eisenhower
Naval salute fired - King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud leaves SS Constitution
and is transported by Coastguard vessel to SS William A. Lee, leader of destroyer
squadron who will escort King and party to land. Rainy conditions as past Statue of Liberty.
18:43:20 King Saud down gangplank - Henry Cabot-Lodge Jnr. with party. King
makes speech in Arabic.
18:44:01 King Saud arrives by car at United Nations for luncheon hosted by
Dag Hammarskjold. King Saud gets
standing ovation as enters council hall to address UN. King speaking from
podium - translation over.
18:48:13 Reception given for King Saud
by Saudi ambassador. King in welcome line shaking hands with VIPs. King greeting
Lebanese envoy Dr Charles Malik ? and envoys from Yemen and US Ambassador Wadsworth.
18:48:41 King arriving in Washington - down steps of presidential plane. Met at airport by President Eisenhower.
Prince carried down steps.
18:49:14 Ike speaks at microphones
- welcomes King. Says US was
fortunate in calling late King Saud a friend - values friendships with Saudi Arabia. King Saud replies.
220808 13:48:20 - 13:49:11 1957 SD B/W
Deadlock
Ends - Israelis To Quit Egyptian Territory
Crowd outside Israeli Parliament (Knesset) awaiting decision re Gaza and Egypt. Golda Meir at United Nations and others from Israeli delegations; Egypt
delegation.
220908 10:49:27 - 10:50:51 1957 SD B/W
Royal
Visitor - King Saud Confers with President
Ambassador Lodge greets King Saud on arrival in New York. King inspects guard of honour. Ext. United Nations Building. King with Dag Hammarskjold. King on podium making speech to United
Nations.
10:50:23 Honour Guard waiting at airport. Eisenhower waiting and greeting Ibn Saud off Presidential Plane "Columbine". Ike with Saud at White House.
220511 02:19:40 - 02:22:15 1958 Sd b/w
Mid
East Crisis - Area Quiet Pending UN Summit Talks.
Nasser walking in group, crowds cheering Nasser on 6th anniversary of the
overthrow of Farouk. Nasser speaking from podium - microphones.
02:20:17 Lebanon - Robert Murphy, US negotiator, meets President Chamoun.
02:20:37 Rome - American evacuees from Iraq arriving at airport - men women
and children down aircraft steps
02:20:53 Jordan - street scene - flags flying at half mast for King Feisal
and government leaders killed by Iraqi rebels nine days previously. King Hussein
addressing press conference. US airlift vitally need fuel to Jordan - unloading
gas cans from globemaster plane.
02:21:50 United Nations - Khruschev calls for summit talks. Top shot New York
- UN building
220637 15:00:06 - 15:02:10 1967 SD B/W
Egypt
Accepts United Nations Cease-fire
Tank past camera; Israeli soldier
with binoculars; in fox holes near Jordan River?; Sign Welcome to Gaza being covered with Army sign in Hebrew.
15:00:37 - Moshe Dayan, Defence Minister briefing journalists? (beside him
Moshe Perlman -army spokesman). - damaged buildings; soldiers move forward;
searching Egyptian prisoners.
15:01:07 -Exterior of United Nations; Arthur Goldberg & other delegates
to Security Council debate; Abba Eban Foreign minister (MOS) speaking; voting;
pan of United Nations Building & tilt up. (Bethlehem only mentioned in sound track)
220526 22:36:16 - 22:41:12 1967 SD b/w
Cease-Fire
Uneasy Truce in Mid-East
United Nations Security Council in session re six day Middle East War. Syrian Ambassador - Russian delegate Federenko - Israeli
Ambassador Gideon Raphael -
22:37:25 Burning buildings - bodies lying in desert. Israeli troops
with prisoners of war - one blindfolded. POWs walking with raised hands. Train and car with bullet holes. Military vehicles. Injured
soldier on stretcher. Tracking
shot past wrecked UAR military vehicles along Gaza Strip. Body hanging out of jeep. Arab under arrest. Egyptian POWs. Empty office with picture of Nasser.
22:39:05 UAR commander General Abdul Husseini meets with Israeli military
leaders and surrenders unconditionally. Signing surrender. Israeli
troops by tank. Israeli flag
raised. White flags flying
22:39:44 Bethlehem - Israeli troops on the streets with tanks - some locals
watching. More locals coming
on to streets.
22:40:07 Tank entering Jerusalem - people crying. Jews on streets. Israeli
troops entering Old City. Moshe
Dayan at Wailing Wall - Israeli flag. Israeli troops march towards camera.
220526 22:42:57 - 22:44:47 1967 SD b/w
United
Nations - Goldberg Proposes Durable Peace
UN in session. CU Kosygin. US Ambassador Goldberg making speech. "What the Middle East needs today are new steps towards real peace
..... "
22:43:56 Whiz pan - Jericho,
Israeli flag flying over occupied territory. Arab refugees with belongings heading for Amman. Refugees climbing over wrecked bridges. Refugee aided by Israeli soldiers - man carries little girl. Refugees struggle to get across Jordan River.
221088 15:20:24 - 15:23:03 1967 SD B/W
United
Nations: Kosygin Dims Hope For Early Peace
Alexei Kosygin & Soviet delegation off plane in New York City for special
session of UN Security Council. Kosygin
& daughter Ludmilla posing for cameras. INT UN chamber - Kosygin & Gromyko
- LS & zoom-in Kosygin addressing council w/ demands for Israel to withdraw
troops [MOS].
15:21:54 Australian Prime Minister
Harold Holt & wife meeting President Johnson at Camp David after LBJ speech
same day as Kosygin address - photocall on terrace.
15:22:18 Jerusalem Wall dividing
East and West of city demolished after Israeli victory; orthodox Jews pilgrimage
to Wailing Wall.
Africa
– Congo-related issues
220308 11:09:14 - 11:10:18 1960 Sd b/w
UN
Considers Katanga Crisis
Emergency session inside United Nations Security Council, delegates from Congo,
overview of a full assembly hall. French, Belgian and Congolese delegates at desk. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
Secessionist province of Katanga.
220272 03:52:22 - 03:56:45 1961 Sd B/W
Main
Title: Universal International
Newsreel
03:52:34 Riots At United Nations.
-- Congo Crisis At New Peak
Premier Lumumba w/ President Kasbubu at Congo independence Day celebration
on airport runway with others in formal dress. King Baudouin of Belgium arrives in formal military dress and
down airplane stairs; shake hands. Leaving Belgium troops march to military plane.
03:53:07 Lumumba at UN. Shot of Mobutu (repeat of footage of Lumumba eating speech
etc.) 03:53:51 Moscow march outside of Belgium embassy. 03:54:09 Outside UN w/ pickets. 03:54:30 Interior of UN as Ambassador Stevenson speaks (his first address in
UN).
03:55:11
Fighting breaks out in gallery and people are thrown out.
03:56:2?
speech continues.
Other
– Miscellaneous
220884 00:36:03 - 00:38:14 1956 / 1957? SIL B/W
Japanese
VIP visits United Nations in New York
Japanese man and ? arrive and seated in room. Brief shot skyscrapers. Fountain outside UN. Flags flying outside UN. Car with US and Japanese flags arrives with
police outriders. Start of tour,
looking at model of Japanese building ?
220526 22:02:32 - 22:03:16 1967 SD b/w
News
in Brief - New York City
King Constantine of Greece arrives with Queen Ann-Marie and tour United Nations. Greeted by U Thant. Pickets and demonstrators led by actress
Melini Mercouri. Signs: Royal
Junta Your Days Are Numbered.
221021 18:00:09 - 18:10:49 1982 SD COL
In
Search of a New Understanding [Part
1]
[Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's State Visit to America 27-31Jul82.]
Arrival ceremony - PM Gandhi and President Ronald Reagan make speeches.
18:00:41 Titles. Animated map shows route from India to
New York. Gandhi arrives at United
Nations. Unveils gift to the
UN of an ancient Indian sculpture. Gandhi
makes speech at presentation ceremony. Secretary General Perez de Cuellar makes speech of thanks.
18:02:53 Gandhi arrives in Washington
- off plane w/ US Ambassador in India Harry Barnes - met by US Sec of State
George Shultz. Brief shot of
Reagan and Gandhi meeting in Mexico in 1981.
18:03:35 Crowds gathered in front
of White House. Welcoming ceremony. Ronnie and Nancy Reagan down red carpet. Greet PM Gandhi on arrival by car; greets gathered dignitaries and
onto podium; national anthems of India and US played as cannons fired. Military ceremony on lawn w/ parade of troops in Revolutionary
uniforms playing whistles.
220539 11:10:13 - 11:11:53 1985 Sd col
U.N.
/ Terrorism
United Nations meeting of Security Council. Press conference / briefing. Italy
? Prisoner in cage ?
220619 18:00:20 - 18:03:13 1988 sd Col
United
Nations - Children on the Frontline
South African young people from the cast of the Broadway musical "Sarafina"
performed at the United Nations on the International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination.
Black gospel singers sing Lord's Prayer at UN meeting where Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar is delivering report after his visit to Africa
- seated next to Coretta King ?
18.01.27 Fighting scenes - Black
soldiers firing guns. Injured
man carried away by comrades. Large
group of native children looking at dead bodies. Refugees. Panning shot over group of sad looking
children. Black baby crying. Food supplies distributed. Black baby looking into camera sitting
next to fire.
18.02.31 White police beating demonstrators and camera crew. Men removing boxes from building ? Large
group of Black people demonstrating - raised fist salute.
18.02.57 Cast from Sarafina perform "Free Africa " chant
220619 18:50:46 - 19:09:22 1989 sd Col
UNICEF
Convention (United Nations)
UN meeting / convention - speakers sitting on platform. Man with microphone says there are a number
of questions and statements from the children who have attended. Glen Coppersmith from New York makes statement
re needs and rights of the children. Child from Nepal asks question of Professor ? from Poland who
is chairing convention. Professor says
Poland wants to help in the protection of human rights from the perspective
of children. Two students from
New York make statements. Kiriam ? from Quebec makes statement. Student from Norway asks what children can do to help ratification
of convention, Mr Grant, Executive Director answers. Man with microphone introduces a panel of six children from "Kids
Meeting Kids" who make joint statement re rights of the child.
220619 18:36:25 - 18:39:20 1990 sd Col
World
Leaders Meet for World Summit for Children
Interior of United Nations building - delegates arriving - some with children.
George Bush and Margaret Thatcher. Conference hall - delegate in African robes
walking to podium.
18:36:50 Montage of different nationality children living in illness or poverty.
18:37:08 Man speaking re summit over shots baby having vaccination and child
getting sugar- salt solution.
18:37:33 E.T. entertaining children. Child delegate speaking - cameras.
18:37:54 Photocall of World leaders who attended summit. Meeting in progress
- delegate from Nicaragua speaking. Signing of agreement
18:38:43 Child delegate from England speaking at microphone. Child delegates
crowd onto stage and pile up agreements.
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LN
505-051 19:00:57 - 19:16:31 1950s - 1960s SD B/W
International
Zone: 26 x 36 Messenger [Part
1 of 2]
United Nations Post Office film for UNTV with Alistair Cooke. Animated introduction / titles. INT post office in New York City - customers
queuing at counter, letters & parcels sorted - illuminated sign United
Nations Post Office' - clerk fixing special United Nations stamps to parcel. Cooke to camera re importance of national postal services - talks over
montage of stills re postal history: origins in ancient Egyptian, Persian
& Inca Empires - drawings depicting development of early US service -
Cooke VO re high charges & pioneer Sir Rowland Hill - seen on Portuguese
postage stamp - devised notion of single pre-paid rate for all letters - CU
English Penny Black of 1840 - CUs other stamps. Interview w/ postage history expert Ernest Kier [?] on first period
prior to issue of first US federal postage stamps - stills of stagecoaches,
Pony Express etc. Portrait of US Postmaster-General Montgomery
Blair. Universal Postal Union
HQ in Berne, Switzerland.
19:09:22 Cooke to camera re stamp
collecting / philately & famous collections of Queen Elizabeth II &
Franklin Roosevelt; CUs valuable stamps & commemorative issues. UN Postal Administration established 1951
- proceeds from UN stamp sales go to pay off loan for UN HQ building NYC.
19:13:24 UN stamp designer to
camera re purpose of designs - to reflect work of specific agencies or world
issues e.g. malaria - malnourished African child given food - Freedom From
Hunger' & Economic Commission for Latin America' stamps - scenes of poverty
- Human Rights. International
co-operation fostered by UN - meterologists releasing weather forecasting
balloon - UN stamps representing meterology, International Labour Organisation,
Civil Air Traffic, Telecommunications, Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO, International
Monetary Fund. Flags flying outside
UN HQ. Stamp designer at desk
w/ more UN designs.
Collectors - Philately. US Mail. Hobbies.
LN 505-051 19:16:32 - 19:28:12 1950s - 1960s SD B/W
International
Zone: 26 x 36 Messenger [Part
2 of 2]
United Nations Post Office film for UNTV with Alistair Cooke. UN selection panel [all male] reviewing
new stamp designs submitted by international artists - arguing about which
designs are most meaningful - gradually narrow down candidates. In-house designer showing design for UN
Emergency Force stamp rejected because it suggested war rather than peace
- other rejected designs.
19:20:06 Approved stamp design
for UN Operations in the Congo taken to engravers in Switzerland - brief street
scene - INT engraver touching up design & photographer making negative
- stamps printed & checked - machines locked at end of day - stamps shipped
& opened in NYC. Orders from
stamp collectors for first day cover of this design opened & processed. Queues at United Nations Postal Administration - Philatelic &
Postal Sales Counter' - collectors inc. nuns buying new stamps & fixing
to letters straight away.
19:23:47 Vars collectors interviewed
on reasons for buying UN stamps inc. young boy w/ thick NYC accent. Judge J. Howard Rothsbach in office talks to camera re appeal of UN
stamps. Celebrity UN stamp collector & Hollywood star Celeste Holm
to camera briefly re hobby. Alistair
Cooke sums up - "...on these tiny rectangles of paper is contained an
account of Man's struggle to keep the world at peace..."
March of Time Forum Films
INCLUDING:
21:03:33 Gen John McCaylis of West Point interviewed by Westbrook van Voorhees
re first weeks of war when he commanded US Army 27th Infantry “Wolfhound”
Regiment - “...very few were willing to fight overwhelming odds...they
were in fact fighting for their way of life...strain, intensity, confusion,
fatigue that all the men had and yet the remarkable sense of humour...”.
Voorhees recalls tension back in US - cut to United Nations Main Gate - INT
Security Council in session, USSR delegate Jakob Malek [?] accusing US of
aggression against Korea - Warren Austin replies “this statement has
been repeated over and over through every Soviet-inspired channel on Earth...It
is a lie. It is a big lie”. Animated map showing 15Sep50 amphibious
attack by Marines at Inchon.
21:06:40 Voorhees in studio w/ Time Life Correspondent Frank Gibney, first
American to be wounded in war - talks re Battle of Inchon - “one of
the most complex operations I’d ever seen...in boldness it was certainly
a steal...” END SECTION:21:07:55
AND:
21:09:50 Rows of dead South Korean civilians murdered by Communist troops
laid out for identification - relatives file past. Animated map showing advance
of UN troops past 38th Parallel into North Korea. AV Wake Island - President
Truman off plane, greeted by MacArthur - conference building - Truman &
MacArthur pose w/ Gen Bradley & Army Secretary Pace - low angle shot MacArthur
& Truman shake hands. Animated map showing US 8th Army & 10th Corps
advance almost to northern border. Maj Gen Edward Amman [?], Commander of
10th Corps, w/ generals. Lt Gen Walton Walker of 8th Army consults map.
[United Nations: King Hussein Anti-Communism; Hammarskjold no resignation;
Khrushchev Fist Pounding]
King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan speaking (SOF) before the United Nations,
saying Communism is far worse than Colonialism & Imperialism was before...worse
than anything this world has ever known. Applause
22:25:06 Sep60 Dag Hammarskjold says he will not resign as he has responsibility
to all the State members... Khruschev & others of the USSR delegation
pounding desk in LS. Hammarskjold continues his speech “..it is very
easy to resign... More fist pounding.
LN
505-044 16:01:00 - 16:13:02 1963 SD B/W
International
Zone: 18th Year [Part 1 of 2]
United Nations lighted at night w/ traffic past. Story of the 18th year since San Francisco and end of
WWII. tilt down lighted building. 16:01:34 title. International Zone w/ Alistair Cooke. Cooke sitting in office by globe talking
about UN embroiled in Congo.
16:02:23 UN soldiers in Katanga;
rebels destroyed river bridge and supplies carried across. Tshombe meeting UN reps in Elisabethville
in mid January & signed agreement to allow UN in.
16;03:3? Cooke speaks of cost
to UN financially & militarily. U-thant talks to General Assembly on possibility of bankrupt UN. USSR & France said they would't pay
as it was authorized by General Assembly rather than Security Council. U Thant explains.
16:05:4? February, Geneva exterior
and interior scientists meeting to discuss how to break poverty problem &
beginning of 10 year attack on poverty. Italian President of UN Scientific Conference speaks.
16:07:1? Starving & poor
children and farmers. Grain loading into ships. Enormous large warehouse of sacks of grain. 1963 Washington DC World Food Conference in Washington w/ Krishnan
of India speaking.
16:08:5? Cooke explains pricing
of food commodities & UN attempts to stabilize.
16:09: Phillip ?? chief economist of UN explains problems
to be addressed in UN conference. Trade
of manufactured goods to be important in future.
16:11:3? Delegates standing in
honour of Pope John at time of his death. Cardinal speaking a few weeks earlier at presentation to UN of 11Apr63
Encyclical Pacem in Terris from Pope John.
16:12:2? U Thant responding. Fate of mankind hangs in balance of nuclear
devastation.
Peace Keeping Mission;
LN 505-044 16:13:02 - 16:27:12 1963 SD B/W
International
Zone: 18th Year [Part 2 of 2]
Alistair Cooke in map room of UN headquarters. Pointing to Yemen on map. Aerials of desert & canyons. Capital city Sana'a; northern Royalist village.
16:13:55--16:14:00 Ibn Saud CU.
16:14:01 Yemen city & village
scenes. UN arrival of 200 UN
soldiers in jeeps and 50 Royal Canadian Air Force. Patrolling barbed wire fence. Oct63 Pierre P. Spinnelli appointed UN special representative
to Yemen
16:15:54 01May63 Hollandia became
Kota Baru and territory of West New Guinea became Indonesian province of West
Irian. UN had overseen governance
for nine months. Dutch leaving
Oct62. Arrival of UN soldiers. Russian civil engineer overseeing public works. Iranian diplomat Dr. Jallal Abdell (sp?) oversaw.
16:17:2? Cooke at map. Points out new Federation of Malaysia UN mission went there and to South Vietnam to see if Buddhists has
religious freedom.
16:18:3? South African Race Question
being discussed in UN.
16:19:2? South African representative
asking UN to stay out of its politics and most delegates walk out during speech.
16:20:13 Hailie Selassie speaking
to General Assembly of need for racial equality, translated.
16:21:12 Cooke in map room. Aug63 signing of nuclear test ban treaty
in Moscow and U-Thant giving airport statement re general disarmament..
16:22:17 Night exterior of United
Nations. Interior General Assembly
opening.
16:22:45 Adlai Stevenson speaking
of JFK after assassination.
16:24:14 Sept61 JFK speaking after Hammarskjold's death. "...UN lives..."
16:26:34 End credits
16:27:12 End
LN 505-044 16:27:36 - 16:41:15 1963 SD B/W
International
Zone: What Do You Know [Part 1 of 2]
Men digging with hand tools in Africa.
16:28:1? Opening Titles
16:28:4? Alistair Cooke w/ trowel
explaining hand tool's advance and defining difference between rich and poor. United Nations is trying to get better tools into the hands of the
poor.
16:30:26 U Thant speaking of
UN attack on poverty, ignorance & disease.
16:31:0? Cooke talks about scientists
meeting in Geneva in 1963 to address what could be done. Cars arriving in snow at UNCSAT.
16:32:14 Maniquel Thacker of
India speaks to conference. Cooke
describes papers presented by various nations.
16:34:0? Boys in outdoor school
at desks. Rivers and streams
over rocks. Grain fields. Nurse and mother with baby. Electric railroad, communication antenna,
boys on African street corner. Men
at drafting boards in Africa. Man
at blackboard with atom on board. African woman sewing on singer sewing machine outdoors.
16:35:5? Geneva conference addressed
by PMS Blackett British Nobel Prize winner in physics. Speaks of a sensible shopping list.
16:37:26 Walsh McDermott US representative
explains how pipelines can be the solution to getting goods to the poor.
16:38:52 Frederick Hobeson (sp?)
tells why slow education will not be tolerated by developing countries.
Says that education is one of the most technologically backward systems that
exists. Needs a scientific revolution
to address needs of newly developing countries.
LN 505-044 16:41:15 - 16:56:10 1963 SD B/W
International
Zone: What Do You Know [Part 2 of 2]
Charles Edosion (sp?) head of Nigeria's
Ibadan hospital talks of costs of medicine in Africa.
16:43:1? Writers Gerald Wendt,
Peter Collins & Tibor Mende discussing solutions from the sea: seaweed, desalination, salt resistant
plants. Uses of science for benefit
of all rather than the rich richer and the application of science for all. Also integrating various disciplines and users.
16:47:1? Various people
talking about developing people to have power to change and solve problems.
16:48:0? Leo Szilard?; PMS Blackett; ?? reading papers.
16:49:55 Margaret Mead
speaking about changing cultures, family as a unit of change.
16:54:?? Alistair Cooke
summarises with various statistics including 93% of all the scientists that
have ever lived are alive today.
16:55:34 Closing Credits
16:56:10 End.
221144 08:00:17 - 08:15:36 1961-1967 SD B/W International Zone: The People
And The Machine Pt. 1 of 2
United Nations /
UNESCO production for UNTV with Alistair Cooke
Cooke at desk smoking
cigarette, pours glass of water & talks of shortage of water in most parts
of world & drudgery of collecting it for many due to lack of pumps. Introduces re-enactment of water supply
project in small village of San Nicholas in Mexico province of Guanajuato.
08:03:00 Young Mexican boys play football in village
of San Pedro - narrated by "Pepito". The boys stop at sound of strange noise & run over to find
engineer operating machine drilling for water. Talk to man.
09:05:17 Pepito arrives home for supper, tells
father what he saw; father takes over narration, mother pours water from large
glass container. Women washing
clothes in stream. Father fills
jugs w/ water from well, loads them on mule for trek home. Pepito's father visits priest to ask about
getting fresh water for homes in San Nicholas; both go to San Pedro &
engineer who explains how to proceed to apply for funding from government
& UN.
09:10:34 Village council meeting addressed by engineer
& mayor & they vote in favour of water project. Papers sent to state government for approval. Government engineer arrives in jeep marked OPS-OMS & looks at plans
w/ consultant from World Health Organisation (WHO). Pepito's father shops for new hat.
09:13:43 INT Pepito in school classroom, teacher
points to diagram of water table & well on blackboard w/ date 1960; Pepito
answers question. Villagers gather
for blessing or Benediction of new machinery - hats off - priest & altar
boys in robes thru crowd as villagers cross themselves; priest blesses w/
holy water & drill is started.
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221144 08:15:36 - 08:29:17 1961 - 1967 SD B/W International Zone: The People
And The Machine Pt. 2 of 2 Series produced 1961-1967
United Nations /
UNESCO production for UNTV with Alistair Cooke
Work under way, drill
starts hammering up & down in hole, watched by villagers, men in cowboy
hats. Harvesting in fields, Pepito
helps. Men take turns operating
the drill. Drill finally raised
out of hole, pipeline lowered & attached to pump, water pours out but
runs out. More money needed to
drill deeper.
08:20:11 Pepito's mother into church, lights candle
& kneels in prayer next to young woman. VO "We had been hoping so hard, & now the hope was
gone with the money". Village
women discuss problem & go to see priest, joined by men ["They always
have to have someone to lead them"]. Priest agrees to use church funds if villagers pay it back; CU money
onto silver dish as people enter church. "I didn't know there was so much money in San Nicholas". Drill started up again; villagers catching
up on work: plowing, milking
cow. Pepito watches drill brought
back up & water pours out. Pepito
rings church bell to alert villagers. Pipes laid & water tanks installed around village, materials
provided by UN Children's Fund. Water
tested in laboratory for purity.
09:25:32 Pepito washes from tap.
09:26:31 Cooke in office - says 1000 similar projects
were carried out in Mexican villages; most money given by villagers, equipment
rented by government, technical assistance from UN. UNICEF provided San Nicholas' pump. "The results though impressive do not constitute a victory". Cooke gives statistics - 100 million people in Latin America without
decent water supply.
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LN
505-110 13:45:30 - 14:14:38 1965 SD B/W
Dateline:
United Nations
Prod. National Educational Television - NET / UNTV
Presenter James Fleming introduces film re 20th Anniversary Session of UN
Security Council & issues under discussion - zoom out to show three correspondents
in studio with him - Bruce Munn [?] of United Press International, Michael
Littlejohns of Reuters & Anne Tuckerman of Agences France Press. Discussion re effectiveness of UN General
Assembly. Littlejohns praises
contribution of Britain & others to clearing UN deficit - points out lack
of France & USSR contribution.
13:50:54 Group discusses world
issues to be dealt with at 20th Session - Littlejohns re progress of disarmament
- more digs at France - Munn talks about MLF - Tuckerman "the Soviet
Union and the United States do seem to have a rather moderate attitude to
one another..." Littlejohns
"this could be the last time that Communist China is excluded from the
United Nations..." Tuckerman
& Munn add their comments on likelihood of Communist China being voted
into UN.
13:59:51 Discussion of new US
Mission headed by Arthur Goldberg. Munn
re importance of getting Communists to negotiating table to "end the
Vietnam War, or episode or fracas or whatever we have going on out there..." Comparisons to Adlai Stephenson.
14:10:12 Tuckerman talks about
changes in Washington's policy since time of Governor Lodge - now "less
concerned with the image of the United States". Journalists give closing comments re future of UN - Munn "if
there is a Third World War those few who survive will be building something
on the ruins of the United Nations...we have to have this sort of organisation". Tuckerman "the fact that the Vietnam War...is not on the agenda
of the United Nations shows there is something wrong..." Littlejohns "I think over the years the UN will become effective". Fleming wraps up. End credits over aerial shots of Manhattan
& UN building.
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