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POLIO                                                               

 

 

            220889          07:20:38 - 07:21:20            1938   B/W    SIL       New York, N.Y.
Bellevue kids horse show
Horse parade, trick horse,  bucking donkeys, jumping in twirling whips - kids with polio
? watch.  Sick children on donkey and horseback.

            221428          06:00:08 - 06:15:30            194?   B/W    SIL       [Tuskegee Trains Airmen Outakes]  R7 of 7

INCLUDING:
06:02:01  Dairy cattle in barnyard, moving to barn.  LS of cattle & campus buildings behind.
06:02:51  Nursing student & instructing nurse in hospital treating young boy w/ polio
.  Campus lawn, students talking.  Dairy farm cattle grazing.  Students out of building, down steps, walk past.
06:05:03  Aerial over campus w/ buildings, lawns, trees.
06:06:03

Note:  Has black frames between many shots.

 

220476          18:03:39 - 18:06:00            1945   B/W    SD        Meet Remarkable Shirley Ross Who Uses Feet As Hands
Australian polio
victim knits floormat with feet; folds mail; uses typewriter with feet; sewing machine; irons; fixes plug with screwdriver; threads needle with toes.
Shirley Ross talks to camera re encouraging soldiers who have lost their hands.

 

 

220880          16:24:22 - 16:26:04            1940s?           B/W    SD        [Polio Campaign]
Unid. actress speaks about campaign against polio
and makes plea for March of Dimes funds.  Shows kids in hospital.

220475          16:34:47 - 16:35:31            1944   B/W    SD        Little Sue Ann Thanks You - For Joining The March of Dimes
Little girl with
polio - legs in braces. Says cute thank you speech to camera.

 

            220468          02:40:44 - 02:41:19            1945   B/W    SD        Personalities In The News - Film Men Aid March of Dimes
Film industry leaders at White House re Infantile paralysis fundraising drive (polio
) - Nicholas Skank ? 
85 men posing outside White House.

 220471         08:35:14 - 08:35:42            1944   B/W    SD        Title:  Youngster Raises $50,000 For The March Of Dimes
08:35:20  Women taking dimes out of envelopes in background.  Eleanor Roosevelt receives check from boy on crutches at March of Dimes HQ.  Eleanor autographs boy’s football.
Disease; Infantile Paralysis; Polio
; Fund Raising; Public Service Promotion;

           

            220477          19:40:27 - 19:41:25            1945   B/W    SD        Title:  March Of Dimes - Drive Opens To Aid Nation’s Victims Of Infantile Paralysis
19:40:40  Eleanor Roosevelt opens drive by placing coin in motion picture theater “mile of dimes”.
19:40:50  Unloading bags of mail on table in office & opening envelopes filled with coin donations.  Pile of coins (money).
19:41:17  Smiling children in wheelchairs in hospital.  The End - Join The March of Dimes.
Diseases; Polio
; Charity; Fund Raising; 1945;

            221029          02:24:31 - 02:25:35            1945   B/W    sd         B-25 Fights Polio Plague
B-25 bomber loaded with DDT pesticide.  Plane sprays area to prevent spread of infantile paralysis epidemic.  Aircraft shots air to air.
Medical. 

 

220474          13:37:14 - 13:38:13            1946   B/W    SD        March of Dimes Fashion Show
Model in pants suit type pyjamas & evening wear modelled on catwalk.  Fancy dress from several angles - fundraising for infantile paralysis (polio
).  Evening gowns.  Barrel style bathing suit.  Strapless evening gown; bare midriff gown.  Dress decorated w/ design of dimes.

220474          13:14:41 - 13:17:19            1946   B/W    SD        Sports
Title:  Roller Skating

INCLUDING:
13:14:57  Amateur roller skating show for infantile paralysis (polio
) benefit at Madison Square Garden.  Choreography; chorus lines; couples dancing.
13:15:31

 

            220296          18:04:34 - 18:07:54            1947   B/W    Sd        News in Brief - Cheer from Santa Claus
St Nicholas on horseback - cheers from crowd - Royal family waving from balcony - Princess Juliana and daughters - Queen Wilhemina and Prince Bernhardt on balcony. Page in black face hands out sweets to children.  Royal family mingle with crowd to meet St Nicholas - Various shots children.
18:05:29 New York - Father Christmas is Babe Ruth playing Santa to polio
patients. He has trouble with his beard which keeps falling off - children not looking too happy.  Children with presents sing Jingle Bells. Various shots children - one toddler pokes dog in eye who proceeds to lick her. Babe Ruth takes off beard and wishes children all over the World a very merry Christmas.

            221600          09:40:23 - 09:41:04            1952   B/W    SD        New York City
09:40:26  High Angle of models on catwalk among tables at 8th Annual March of Dimes
Fashion Show.  Low angle of gowns modelled.  MCU Helen Hayes talking w/ Basil O’Conner (head of Infantile Paralysis Foundation). 
09:40:38  MCU Mrs. Douglas MacArthur. 
09:40:40  Low angle models in dresses w/ long skirts.  Sarah Churchill, actress-daughter of Winston, modelling; poster-boy Larry Jim Gross, Judy Garland (barely seen).
Charity; Polio
; Diseases; Fund Raising; Society; Americana; 1952; Jan52;

            221555          02:16:06 - 02:20:22            1954   B/W    SD        [Surgeon General Leonard Scheele Announces Polio Vaccination Stoppage, 08May54]
Surgeon General Leonard Scheele at desk behind microphones waiting.
02:16:17  (recorded slow).  “As Surgeon General of the Public Health Service the day before yesterday I recommended the vaccination program against Poliomyelitis
be temporarily postponed...when a number of children developed polio after injection of the vaccine of one manufacturer.  That review has been completed.”
02:17:12  normal speed.
02:17:52  “We must all remember that, like other vaccines & medicines, this vaccine is not 100% effective.  Thus the percentage of children who have contracted polio
after vaccination this year is very, very small.  As of now there are only 52 cases among more than 5 million who have been vaccinated...”  The manufacturers have been cooperating...  goes on to say they hope to begin again at the end of next week.
02:19:31  “We have every faith that this vaccine...Dr. Jonas Salk...
NOTE:  Manufacturer was Cutter Laboratory.

            221626          03:39:55 - 03:40:26            1954   B/W    SD        Washington, D.C.  (March of Dimes Campaign Start, 1954)
President Eisenhower greets Polio
Poster Boy, 4 year old Debbie Daines arrives on small crutches in White House.  Posing.
03:40:08  Ext. of movie theater w/ crowd under marquee next to fund raising banner.  Mamie Eisenhower & poster boy put dimes in bottles marked w/ state names.  CU boy.
Infantile Paralysis Charity; Disease;

            220880          15:26:16 - 15:27:33            1955   B/W    SIL       News In Brief - Washington DC
Jonas Salk, developer of polio vaccine
, honored by Ike.  Salk with wife and kids.  Eisenhower reads speech and awards Salk.  Salk poses for photographers.

            220880          15:35:44 - 15:37:00            1955   B/W    SIL       Kids Get Vaccine For Polio
Polio
shots given to kids;
Vaccine storage.  Boxes stacked.  Children lined up in waiting room and doctors & nurses give vaccine shot.  Queue on street.  Polio
Shots here” sign.
Medical

            220880          15:42:55 - 15:46:34            1955   B/W    SIL       Vaccine Conquers Polio!
Salk polio vaccine

Exterior Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies.  Dr Salk
enters with VIPs.  Press conference.  .  Press room and typists.  Boxes of vaccines dispatched. Newsreel cameramen.  Salk answers questions from audience (no sd). 

            220880          15:49:57 - 15:56:18            1955   B/W    SD        Highlights of 1955

INCLUDING:
Salk polio victory
- Vaccine storage.  Scientist Jonas Salk at press conference.   Vaccines dispatched and kids queuing up and getting shots.
15:50:50

            220908          10:53:51 - 10:54:54            1957   B/W    SD        Fashion Parade
March of Dimes
charity fashion show, guests watching include Mrs Douglas MacArthur.  Models from the entertainment world including Dorothy Kilgowan? Elsa Maxwell. Various fashions modelled in benefit for polio appeal.
10:54:39 Salvador Dali in audience. Marlene Olsen? Polio
poster girl on catwalk, walking with crutches. 

            221413          00:59:57 - 01:13:16            1957   COL      SD        Your Share In Tomorrow  R2 of 2
INCLUDING:

01:06:32  MS nurse working on paperwork, at patient bedside, at ambulance receiving patient & overseeing boy w/ polio
in iron lung.  Packing her suitcase at home, answers phone (MOS).
01:07:17 

 

            221440          06:17:56 - 06:18:19            1957   B/W    SD        New York City  (Polio Mother of Year Named, 1957)
Mrs. David W. Phillips of Los Gatos, California shown w/ family receiving award for regaining almost normal family life and she & three children were stricken.  CU of award.  MCU of smiling mother & children.

            221440          06:25:07 - 06:25:29            1957   B/W    SD        Washington, DC (Mrs. Eisenhower & Mothers’ March On Polio, 1957)
LS White House.  Mamie giving first contribution to Mrs. James Mitchell, wife of Secretary of Labor makes collection.  CU of reminder for polio
shots.

            221547          13:07:46 - 13:08:56            1960   B/W    SD        News In Brief - Florida  (Cox Oral Polio Vaccine In Mass Test, 1960)
13:07:51  Downtown Miami, Florida (?).  People taking oral vaccine developed by Dr. Harold Cox, Lederle Laboratories, for polio
in test using live vaccine.  Civilian female & military male nurses on air force base handing cups w/ vaccine to crew of SAC bombers.
13:08:23  Live of Women & children on sidewalk; MCU.  Stewardess taking sip; children taking sips & smiling.
NOTE says that given by needle uses dead virus; Dr Sabin’s vaccine tested in USSR.

            220317          22:00:08 - 22:07:59            1962   B/W    Sd        One Week in October  Pt. 1 of 3
Cuban missile crisis - American Version

INCLUDING:
22:01:17  Columbus Day parade.  Baseball match, Yankees vs San Francisco Giants.  Little girl in braces - poster girl for March of Dimes
( polio charity ).  Jackie Kennedy w/ 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

 

            221453          09:43:57 - 09:50:16            1978   COL      Sd        [Air Force Handicapped Access and Fair Employment Practices]

INCLUDING:
Air Force Now
Printing shop with printer going.  Handicapped man walks by, talks to printer about page laymout as narrator talks about 1977 Declaration by President Jimmy Carter to more fully comply with handicapped access laws & fair employment practices.  Various views of man crippled by polio
who is compositor working.  Views at home w/ horses, dogs, goats, donkey.  Riding horse.
09:45:45

 

 

FDR AND POLIO


                221539          00:20:50 - 00:23:19            1928; 1920 (?);      B/W    SIL       [FDR stock material pre & post polio]
Roosevelt on crutches posing w/ others including Al Smith.
00:21:02  Int. pan across large 1928 Democratic Convention w/ placards & demonstrators. 
00:21:50  CU Al Smith tipping hat to camera.  FDR & three others in front of large Alfred Smith poster & bunting.
00:22:05  View to Capitol building in Albany, New York.  FDR at desk.  Posing seated w/ family.
00:22:36  Pre-polio standing w/ others on railroad platform smiling.  Sitting in backseat of large open car wearing straw hat.  Up steps from car & kissing Eleanor (?) on large porch w/ palms in pots.
00:22:58  Speaking to crowd.  Shaking hands w/ suffragettes.  Posing w/ Eleanor.
Politicians; Infantile Paralysis;
NOTE:  Probably campaigning as Vice-President candidate, 1920.

 

 

            220771          06:35:47 - 06:36:13            1940   B/W    SIL       [FDR receives 350 lb. Birthday Cake]
Huge cake shown with figurine of polio
boy in crutches on top.  President Roosevelt given cake and cuts it. 

           

            220481          04:41:42 - 04:46:38            1942   B/W    SD        America Honors President On 60th Birthday
04:44:47  Polio
poster boy, Gary King, on crutches arrives at White House; posing, enters & surrounded w/ dozens of people; next to him are Eleanor Roosevelt & actress Dorothy Lamour; little boy punches actress (laughter).  Large crowd at birthday ball applauds as Eleanor Roosevelt cuts cake, gives slice to Betty Grable.
04:45:26  MCU  FDR at desk & microphone give birthday speech, SOF:  “In the midst of a world tragedy, in the midst of sorrow, suffering, destruction & death it is perhaps natural for most of us to say, even on a birthday or a feast day, isn’t the word happy a bit out of place now?  That was perhaps my dominant thought this morning; and yet the day itself, and the evening, have brought with them a great reassurance which comes from the deep knowledge that most of this world is still ruled by the spirit of fate, & hope, & charity.  For all that you have done I am very grateful.”
04:46:18  High angle of dancers at the formal Diamond Jubilee Ball at Waldorf hotel in New York. Crowd watching & balloons dropped on crowd.
Charity Fund Raising; 1942; Infantile Paralysis;

                       

            220469          03:25:18 - 03:33:08            1945   B/W    SD        Roosevelt Dies Suddenly
Headlines

INCLUDING:
FDR as young State Senator; Asst. Secretary in the Navy; swimming and playing ball in pool with polio
kids.  By fireplace with Eleanor and sons.  First inauguration as president incl. speech.  Headlines re FDR’s actions against depression: incl. closing of banks.  FDR signing  New Deal reform (foundation social security?)
FDR starts operation of ?? Dam.
03:27:05

 

            220470          05:01:03 - 05:04:44            1945   B/W    SD        Title:  Movietone News
05:01:14  Title:  Rest In Peace - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

INCLUDING:
05:01:20  Warm Springs, Georgia military parade.  Infantile Paralysis children in wheelchairs watch
.  Funeral train leaving station; POV from train passing people on roadside.
05:01:41  Washington DC Union Station.  President Truman, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace & James Byrnes, Sec. of War Stimson, Admiral Leahy & FDR family members greeted.  Coffin on caisson draped w/ US flag pulled by horse cart to White House.  Aerials cortege.  Kids watch.
05:02:20 

 

            220470          06:11:48 - 06:13:44            1945   B/W    SD        Roosevelt re-elected to 4th Term
FDR at desk. FDR at 1933 inauguration in car with Hoover. Swimming with polio kids
. Yalta with Stalin and Churchill. With Ike reviewing troops in North Africa.  MacArthur explains strategy against Japan to FDR (Nimitz present). Dewey out of voting booth.  Truman as Senator Times Square at night; people waiting for election results. FDR after hearing of electoral victory.
Dewey defeat speech.
FDR at desk

 

 

            221351          11:50:26 - 11:52:52            1945   b/w     Sd        Yesterday’s Big Story - Yalta Conference
Yalta - Anthony Eden w/ Molotov & Stettinius await arrival of Winston Churchill.  Churchill exits plane.  FDR  Roosevelt looking ill shakes hands w/ Russians.  FDR’s daughter, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger w/ Sarah Churchill.
Summer Palace of Tsar Nicholas where conference takes place.  Cars arriving.  Harry Hopkins w/ Anthony Eden.  Stalin arrives, enters building.  Meeting in progress.  Ext. posing for photographers.
11:51:34  FDR addresses Congress - apologises for making address sitting down & makes reference to his polio
/ heavy iron leg braces.  This is Roosevelt’s last major public appearance.  FDR gets standing ovation.
           

            220481          04:20:29 - 04:21:26            1946   B/W    SD        Pres. Truman Leads March Of Dimes Tribute to F.D.R.
04:20:35  Truman poses w/ his family & Hollywood film stars for celebration to honor FDR memory. 
04:20:44  Mrs. Truman cuts piece of huge cake & serves Van Johnson, William Bendix, Caesar Romero. 

04:21:06  Postmaster General Bob Hannigan presents Truman with new Roosevelt stamps.
04:21:15  Brief Truman speech, SOF, re fight against infantile paralysis
.
Diseases; Polio
; 1946; Fund Raising; Charity;

 

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