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1952 - Cold War: British Train Wreck; Japan & Chile Elections; Flying Wing; Korea Fighting

Reel Number: 221778-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s,1952

Country: Chile,England,Japan,Korea,United Kingdom,USA,USSR

Location: California,Harrow,London,Tokyo

TC Begins: 08:58:35

TC Ends: 09:05:17

Duration: 00:06:42

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1952 - Cold War: British Train Wreck; Japan & Chile Elections; Flying Wing; Korea Fighting Main title. 08:58:45 Intertitle: Train Wreck - 95 Killed, 200 Hurt In British Disaster. 08Oct52 Aerial over burned wreckage in Harrow And Wealdstone railroad station from Night Scot Express after collision w/ commuter train; ground shot of crane & rescue workers after second express train runs into debris. Bodies & injured removed on stretchers. Workmen w/ cutting torches; Red Cross workers tear sheets for bandages. Smoking wreckage; aerial. 09:00:12 Intertitle: News In Brief - Russian military mission prepares to leave Japan for USSR, men & families w/ children on dock. Boarding ocean liner, people lining ship’s rail waving. 09:00:41 Truck w/ campaigning Japanese in back waving, slogan on side & loudspeaker, thru street; people into polling place / station in first election since end of Occupation. MCU voting; counting votes. “Not one Red was elected to the legislature...” High angle / HA Crowd watching outside, MS posting results for anti-Communist winner Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida (not seen). 09:01:19 Chile - HA pan woman waiting to vote for first time in election. 04Sep52 General Carlos Ibanez elected President. CU woman putting on lipstick VO: “No lipstick worn while voting, lest they smear the ballot while sealing it & nullify the vote.” Ballots into box. “...potent Feminine Party credited w/ giving him the victory.” HA crowd, CU Ibanez waving small broom. 09:01:54 Scotland - Bronze memorial to WWII British & American Commandos, Queen Mother Elizabeth pulls flag from large statue of 3 soldiers. Queen mother & other women looking up at it, MS. CU statue. 09:02:18 California - Horton Wingless HW-X-26-52 w/ two men, CU retractable stabilizers retracting. CU Inventor Bill Horton. Stabilizer extending. MLS taxiing & taking off from car traveling alongside. 09:02:58 Title: Korea - See-Saw Fight Rages For Strategic Peaks. 09:03:04 LS across ridges to smoke rising from canyon. MS Marine Sikorsky HRS-1 (?) helicopter HR 69 moving over rocket launcher, CU hooking to cable & lifting off. Another w/ crew leaving. LS of 3 helicopters away. POV from inside helicopter. Landings & marines out, rocket launchers moved into position & set up. 09:04:01 MCU & MS Loading rockets, fuzing, firing. Tracers & smoke. 09:04:20 Tanks moving up dirt road. Old Baldy rubble & debris after US attack on sandbagged positions. Bodies. CU captured Chinese or North Korea weapons. Exhausted sleeping Marines. 09:04:59 LS single soldier silhouetted walking on distant ridgeline. 09:05:05 Title: Vote Your Choice But Vote! - The End. 1950s; Transportation Disasters; Cold War; Anti-Communist Narration; Elections; Suffrage; Women’s Liberation; Sexist; Stereotyping; WW2 Remembrance; Honoring; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; Flying Wing; Experimental Aircraft; Korean War; NOTE: 113 eventual death toll in worst peacetime British rail crash. NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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