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1961 - Newsreel: Cuba Releases Jet; Hoover’s Birthday; Award; Royalty In Belfast; Grand Prix; Waterskiing Championships. Aug61

Reel Number: 220293-20

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1961,1960s

Country: Cuba,Germany,NORTHERN IRELAND,United Kingdom,USA

Location: belfast,Miami, Florida,New York City,NYC: San Diego, California

TC Begins: 13:08:33

TC Ends: 13:14:44

Duration: 00:06:11

1961 - Newsreel: Cuba Releases Jet; Hoover’s Birthday; Award; Royalty In Belfast; Grand Prix; Waterskiing Championships. Aug61 Intertitle: Hijacked Plane - Jet Released By Castro. 13:08:37 Passengers & crew arrive off Pan American jet in Miami. MS across tarmac w/ boxes, luggage, bags. 13:09:00 Press conference - spokesman talking MOS. 13:09:08 Intertitle: News In Brief - New York. 13:09:14 Ex-President Herbert Hoover into press conference in his NYC apartment on 87th birthday. Cameramen / journalist. 13:09:26 MS lighting pipe at desk. CU SOF: “The Russians no more want a nuclear war than we do and therefore some sort of a solution ought to be possible. 13:09:52 “Mr. Hoover, how do you size up the performance of the Kennedy Administration after eight years of Republican rule.” 13:10:01 “I am not going to answer any political questions. I have retired into a monastery where there is no politics. (laughter). 13:10:13 Exterior San Diego Hotel del Coronado w/ car arriving. Interior, San Diego Labor Council members honors Kirk Douglas for using all American labor in his movie Spartacus. MS Kirk Douglas & Vice-Mayor. 13:10:30 Douglas at lectern (applause); receives plaque from John W. Quimby, Secretary of Labor Council CU of award. 13:10:48 Intertitle: Ireland. Spectators in rain to greet Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip; touring in closed car past people lining streets. Arrives at Belfast City Hall, waves walking in. 13:11:19 Intertitle: Sports - Germany. Start of German Grand Prix road race w/ Sterling Moss in Lotus, car no. 7; Wolfgang von Trips in Ferrari, no 3; Phil Hill in Ferrari, car 4. 13:12:41 MS Moss w/ wreath. 13:12:52 Intertitle: Germany. High angle / HA boats pulling water skiers in 1961 German Championship. Woman runs slalom. CU winner. 13:13:43 Man jumping, falls. Cameraman. Winner Karl Heinz Benzinger doing slalom. Repatriation; Foreign Relations; Celebration; Economics; Motion Picture Industry; Movie Stars; Motion Picture Actors; Promotions; Royalty; Monarchy; Automobile Racing; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.

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