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Loyalty Day - Red Practices Scored In All-Nations Rally (1951)

Reel Number: 221687-25

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1949

Country: USA

Location: New York City,NYC

TC Begins: 08:28:13

TC Ends: 08:29:33

Duration: 00:01:20

Title: Loyalty Day - Red Practices Scored In All-Nations Rally 08:28:19 Military color guard leading parade along Central Park past reviewing stand w/ only a few people on sidewalk watching. CU American flag in wind. 08:28:27 Francis Cardinal Spellman w/ hat over heart, other VIPs; Mayor O’Dwyer saluting beside WNYC microphone. 08:28:31 Float of Statue of Liberty w/ Boy Scouts. Marchers w/ anti-Communist placards. 08:28:42 High angle w/ marchers past Metropolitan Museum. Ground shot of Boy Scouts marching w/ flags. 08:28:50 Polo Grounds grandstand filled w/ spectators for rally sponsored by Catholic Church. Cardinal Spellman walks onto field. Pan over standing priests. 08:29:07 Vice President Alben Barkley standing beside Spellman, people applauding politely. MCU people standing, listening & reciting prayers w/ rosaries.. 08:29:28 Large cross & candles. Anti-Communism; Cold War; Loyalty Day; Right Wing; Post-WWII; Americana; Christian Religion; NOTE: sound distorted.

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