Telenews Weekly, September 19-October 8, 1950

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A new review of the week presented with the combined facilities of TeleNews Productions, International News Service and International News Photos.

The war is carried north of the 38th parallel.

These scenes give a quick idea of North Korea.

TeleNews films believed to be the only ones available of the red area.

They show heavy industry there as opposed to agricultural South Korea.

Even locomotives are manufactured in the north.

Culture is completely under Soviet influence.

For example, one of the first projects undertaken at this university after the country's liberation from Japan in 1945 was the translation of Joseph Stalin's biography.

Elections, loosely speaking.

There is campaigning but only one party.

There is voting but only one slate of candidates.

The people cast either yes or no ballots.

Distribution of land makes good propaganda, but as in all communist countries it ends up as state In South Korea, a similar step really benefited the landless farmers.

Beyond this point is the Russian border.

Those words have had an ominous meaning in Europe.

Today they arouse even greater fear than before.

Here Soviet troops in Berlin stand guard at their own border facing British soldiers only a few feet away.

This is Berlin where Russia's blockade was defeated by America's airlift last year.

Berlin, a western island surrounded by red territory where the Soviet Union is again provoking border friction.

But Berlin is not the only hot spot.

In Vienna where east -west relations have been cordial until now, similar incidents begin.

These films symbolize American -Russian friendship.

They show a Soviet military band playing as U .S.

troops participate in a ceremony marking the monthly transfer of the city's controls from one of the occupying powers to the next.

The stars and stripes are hoisted over the administration building, but Vienna, like Berlin completely surrounded by red territory, the only spot clashed was in for a shock this week.

Riots broke out, communist riots inspired by Soviet occupation forces.

A strike was called, a strike to paralyze the city.

When it failed, communist hoodlums seized key railroad stations.

They threw roadblocks across the only highway to the western sector.

rabble rousers in sight of the population result in widespread property destruction, severance of communication and transportation links, and a threat of blockade.

Is Vienna becoming another Berlin? Margaret Truman drops in on the patients of Calleran Veterans Hospital on Staten Island, not as the president's daughter, but as a fellow musician.

The boys have been studying under the musician's emergency fund.

One of the most talented pupils is 23 -year -old Marine Corporal Herb Frankhauser.

He not only plays, but writes music.

His sidekicks like it, and so does Mr.

Margaret Truman.

She tells the boys they're playing would do justice to a Hollywood production, but they can't talk her into rendering a song herself.

So the disabled vets strike up the band and give her a concert.

Two new buildings for New York City bring important contributions to modern living.

At the Museum of Modern Art, a model of Bellevue's new medical center breaks the 19th century's pattern of monotony.

A unified design, college, dormitory, clinic, and 20 -story hospital.

Another improvement for cave dwellers is Lieber House, an office building.

Its ground floor will go unrented, used as an open concourse for the public.

Looking out onto the terrace is the cafeteria, a geometric mass of 21 stories, as much a civic monument as Rockefeller Center.

A quite old American custom really gets the treatment in Portugal.

It's a beauty contest, in case you hadn't guessed, and the proceedings start off with a show of female fashions rule the ages.

This garment was favored by Miss Egypt of 30 BC.

And these are the Miss Portugal candidates of 1950 AD.

Too bad Cleopatra isn't in the running.

She could teach her 20th century sisters a thing or two.

This is Miss Portugal.

Looks like American gals haven't got a worry in the world.

Military band at the port of Busan, Korea, blares out a welcome for United Nations reinforcements.

Their Filipino troops prepared to join in combat.

United Nations observers go aboard the transport to greet the vanguard of 5 ,000 expected from the Philippines, the first country from Asia to send its men to the front.

In Berlin, the European Industrial Fair is a feather in the cap of retiring ECA Chief Paul Hoffman.

He observes that this exhibition of Marshall Plan results contrasts sharply with East Berlin, where he says desolation is piled on desolation.

Washington's Secretary of Labor Morris Tobin has good news for the working man.

He says there is no unemployment.

Occupational manpower shortages are developing in many of the states, but as yet there is no general manpower shortage.

Almost every man desiring a job is able to get a job today.

Almost everything that is being produced finds a very ready market.

In New York, the celebrated hostess Pearl Mester arrives from Luxembourg where she's US Minister.

Reason? A rumored request for a higher diplomatic post and an appearance at the Broadway play Call Me Madam, a satire on her career.

England, a mass for Catholic servicemen by Francis Cardinal Spelman.

He visits a US Air Force base near London during his tour of the country on the 100th anniversary of Roman Catholic restoration here.

Quote from the Cardinal, courageous prayers are mightier than at home.

American track and field stars parade in Tel Aviv, Israel as the Maccabee Games, the Jewish Olympics, get underway.

A delegation from India is among the 30 nations represented.

The Israeli team, men and women, numbers 240, the largest of all squads.

America has 43 ,000 men and women.

Three competitors.

Irv Monsheim, former US decathlon champ and leader of the American group, watches the runner carry the traditional torch.

In total points, America finished second behind Israel, the first defeat for a US track team in international competition since the war.

Identifier

F.2012-03-0185

Date Of Production

1950

Abstract

Telenews Weekly presented by Telenews Productions, International News Service and International News Photos presents a news review of events spanning September 19 through October 8, 1950.

Description

Telenews Weekly reports upon heavy industry above the 38th parallel in North Korea; communist riots and strikes occur in Vienna, Austria; Margaret Truman visits Halloran Veterans Hospital in Staten Island, New York where she meets with patients including Marine Corporal and musician, Herb Frankhouser; models of new building construction which are featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art include Bellevue Hospital Center and Lever House; Miss Portugal Beauty Contest takes place; Philippine troops under United Nations command arrive in Busan, South Korea on September 19, 1950; Paul G. Hoffman, administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration, attends the European Industrial Fair in Berlin; in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin declares there is no unemployment; Perle Mesta, U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, travels to New York; Cardinal Francis Spellman celebrates Mass at a U.S. Air Force base in England during his tour recognizing 100 years of Catholic restoration in the country; the Maccabiah Games occur in Tel Aviv, Israel from September 27 – October 8, 1950.

Run Time

0:08:50

Format

16mm

Extent

300 feet

Color

B&W

Sound

Optical

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Print

Genre

Journalism
Magazine

Form

Newsreels

Subject

War
Korean War, 1950-1953
Beauty Contests
Religious services
Sports
Political Activists
Economic and social conditions
Strikes

Related Collections

SERIES I: Newsfilm

Related Places

Europe ➜ Austria

Asia ➜ South Korea

North America ➜ United States ➜ New York ➜ New York

Europe ➜ Germany ➜ Berlin

Asia ➜ Israel

Europe ➜ England, UK

Distributor

Telenews (Firm)

Main Credits

Koza, Frank (is filmmaker)

Participants And Performers

Spellman, Francis (is participant)

Tobin, Maurice J. (is participant)

Hoffman, Paul G. (is participant)

Truman, Margaret (is participant)

Mesta, Perle (is participant)

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