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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 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..."

 

221125 21:00:17 - 21:11:37 1950 - 1953 B/W SD Korea: The Long Road To Peace [Part 1 of 2]
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.

 

LN 501-601 22:24:32 - 22:26:52 1960 SD B/W
[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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