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 1959 and has a run time of
1 hour 9 minutes on 1 DVD.
Some of the news items covered in this collection include: Detroit
Redstone missile production factory visited by NATO representatives;
Test of Mercury space capsule automatic parachute; Groton CT launch
of USS George Washington Polaris sub; Iran - 40th birthday of Shah
of Iran, fireworks and pyrotecnics display; Denver model homes with
built-in fallout shelter, bunk beds, air blower, CD sticker; New
American embassy opens in New Delhi India; White Sox vs LA Dodgers
in first baseball World's Series on West Coast; Havana Rally. Peasants
Mass To Support Castro; Cape Canaveral flight of 2 monkeys Baker
and Able in test of nose cone re-entry, night launch of rocket,
capsule fished from waters of Caribbean, Navy tug makes recovery,
opened, monkeys removed unharmed, Baker is tiny squirrel monkey
and Able is rhesus monkey; Ike signed proclamation in White House,
49th star added to new staggered star design; Explorer VI, the "Paddle-Wheel
Satellite" is launched by Thor-Able rocket to elliptical orbit
for a year; X-15 Aloft. First Free Flight Of Manned Space Plane;
Hawaii becomes 50th state, "gives lie to communist charges
of American colonialism" and much more
Here are some sample clips from the DVD
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