Before the TV was commonplace, people saw the news at their local
movie theaters. Newsreels were shown before feature films and at
dedicated newsreel movie theaters in larger cities.These vintage
Universal Newsreel collections are a way to glimpse special events
of the past.
A note on quality: Newsreels were not preserved with the same care
as much other old film footage. Although most of the footage is
of very good quality, this collection may have portions that are
silent or have degraded audio or video.
This collection includes the year of 1946 and has a run time of
2 hours 8 minutes on 2 DVDs.
Some of the news items covered in this collection include: Douglas
DC-6 luxury airliner tested in Long Beach; Scenes of the first flight
on August 8 of the Convair B-36 'Peacemaker' ; Presidential yacht
Williamsburg takes Truman on his first vacation; Japanese Americans
of 442 batallion come home; Philippine's Independence Proclaimed;
The wraps are taken off the new Lockheed 'Constitution,' 168-passenger
plane built for the Navy; Howard Hughes seriously injured in plane
crash in Beverly Hills, Cal; Japanese Films of atomic bomb blast
at Hiroshima, released one year later; Underwater atom blast rocks
Bikini; Philadelphia mint strikes new Roosevelt dimes; MacKenzie
King of Canada and Churchill and King and Queen review parade in
London; A new chapter in aviation development is written as the
twenty-five-ton Northrup flying wing takes to the air; The mortal
remains of five American airmen, shot down by Tito's fighter planes
over Yugoslavia, arrive by plane from Europe; UN has picked N.Y.
site for permanent 18 acres site; White Sands NM V-2 rocket with
camera makes film of earth as rocket rises and spins, 65 miles down,
shows curvature of earth; Nuremberg War Criminal Trials Draw Towards
End; Fourteen-ton Nazi V-2 rockets, launched by Army technicians
in the first phase of our new long-range missile program and much
more
Here are some sample clips from the DVD
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