The League of Nations and United Nations
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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 ˆ 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 SocietŽ ˆ 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: ÔJoin 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.