Description: UNITED NEWS UNITED NEWS 1946 NEWSREELS VOLUME 1 DVD VIDEO DISK United News produced newsreels from 1942 through 1946. Most were 9 to 10 minutes long each. Here we offer Volume 1 of these newsreels from 1946. There are 11 newsreels in this collection. Almost 2 hours of enjoyment. See below for synopsis for each. Please check out our other volumes to complete your collection. Chapter 1 Part 1: Shows the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena. Part 2: UN delegate Stettinius, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Senators Connally and Vandenberg pose. Part 3: General Wedemeyer and Chinese citizens greet General Marshall in Shanghai (12/20/1945). Part 4: Japanese POW's board a ship in California. Part 5: Truman calls 1946 a year of decisions. Part 6: Shows General Patton's funeral in Hamm, Luxemburg. Part 7: The 82nd Airborne Division disembarks from the "Queen Mary" in New York. Part 8: General Homma pleads innocent at a war crimes trial in Manila. Part 9: Shows skiing in New Hampshire and at Bear Mountain, New York, and bobsledding at Lake Placid, New York. Chapter 2 Part 1, Chiang Kai-shek greets Gen. Marshall at Nanking (Dec. 21, 1945). Chinese troops are flown to new stations following a truce between warring factions. Part 2 shows a dog mascot of a Coast Guard cutter crew. Part 3 shows a demonstration of the Army helicopter R-5. Part 4, Churchill disembarks at New York and addresses greeters. Part 5, a raging fire destroys a U.S. warehouse in Yokohama. Part 6, UN delegates visit Pres. Truman and then tour the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, New York, seeking a site for the UN building. Part 7, the 82nd Airborne Div. parades in New York. Shows Cardinal Spellman. Chapter 3 Part, 1 shows new Kaiser and Fraser autos; manufacturing at Willow Run, Michigan; H.J. Kaiser and J.W. Fraser. Demonstrates an auto-airplane. Part 2, Roosevelt dimes are coined at the Philadelphia mint. Nellie Ross inspects coins. March of Dimes funds are collected at Dime Box, Texas, the Trumans donate in Wash. Part 3, a plane is repaired in Burma and an airstrip built. A helicopter evacuates the wounded pilot. Part 4, the UN meets in London: Paul-Henri Spaak is elected president; George VI and Eden greet delegates; Attlee speaks on preventing W World War III. Part 5, Churchill detrains at Miami and attends a race at Hialeah. Chapter 4 Part 1 shows tower jumps in Illinois. Part 2, Sec. Byrnes pledges support at a UN meeting in London. Part 3, Greer Garson receives the Look Magazine award for "Valley of Decision." Shows scenes of the movie co-starring Gregory Peck. Part 4 shows Kansas farm destruction caused by hordes of crows. Bombs are placed in trees and dead birds are collected. Part 5, a jet plane takes off from Long Beach, Calif., and lands in New York, setting a transcontinental record. Part 6, Gens. Marshall and Wedemeyer witness the signing of a Chinese truce. Chiang Kai-shek addresses his people. Part 7 shows the shakedown cruise of the Roosevelt in the Caribbean. Planes take off. Chapter 5 Part 1, sailors at the San Francisco Navy Yard clean and lubricate parts and equipment prior to storage. Part 2, Army radar equipment is used to contact the moon. Part 3, Gen. McNarney rides across two new bridges across the Rhine. Part 4, Chinese troops are deloused and then board ships at Shanghai en route to Manchuria. Part 5, men and women race on ice skates in Minnesota. Girls race on snow-shoes at Lewiston, Maine. Men race and pole vault at Madison Square Garden. Part 6, British war brides board the liner Argentina, sail to New York, and are greeted by their husbands. Chapter 6 Part 1, mine detonators are tested. Part 2, Joe Louis bowls and Billy Conn does road and gym work, as the men train for their boxing match. Part 3, radar guides a ferry across foggy Puget Sound. Part 4, the carrier Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia arrive at Rio de Janeiro for the inauguration of Pres. Dutra. Shows ceremonies in congress and scenes of La Guardia in the city and congratulating Dutra. Part 5 shows sponge fishing off Florida and market scenes at Tarpon Springs. Part 6, displaced persons are greeted on their return to Czechoslovakia. The Army transports and distributes UNRRA supplies. Chapter 7 Part 1, Archbishops Stritch, Glennon, and Spellman board planes for Rome. They are greeted by Eamon de Valera in Eire. Shows the Vatican and Pius XII. Part 2 shows unusual automobiles designed in the U.S. Part 3 shows race horses grazing in Australia. Part 4, the Dionne Quintuplets celebrate their 12th birthday by attending the Ontario Winter Carnival. Indians perform a ceremonial dance. Shows the quints at birth and at several previous birthday parties. Shows Dr. Dafoe. Part 5 shows ground and air views of a new Navy dive bomber. Part 6, Supreme Court Justices Frankfurter and Stone speak on racial toleration. Chapter 8 Part 1 shows bobsled-riding at the Lake Placid (New York) track. Part 2, Greeks wounded in the war arrive at La Guardia Field and pose for pictures. Part 3 demonstrates the capabilities and accommodations of the DC-6 airplane. Also shows scenes of America's first jet squadron at March Field (?), California. Part 4 describes and shows preparations for an exploration in Canada. Men drive snowmobiles, show arctic clothing, and build an igloo. Part 5, Archbishops Spellman, Mooney, and Stritch leave the U.S. for Rome. They are made bishops by Pius XII in ceremonies at St. Peter's Cathedral. Chapter 9 Part 1, Chiang deplanes, is greeted by Gen. Wedemeyer, and cheered in the city. Part 2, Japanese Gen. Homma is tried and sentenced to death by the U.S. Military Commission in Manila. Part 3 shows food conservation leaders: Hoover, Truman, Herbert Lehman, Henry Wallace, Eric Johnston, and Henry Luce. Sec. Anderson asks Americans to help. Part 4, soldiers ski at the 8th Army Enlisted Men's Rest Center on Honshu Island (Japan). Part 5, a concrete house is built by pouring cement into a large mold. Part 6, Hirohito tours Honshu Is. He watches U.S. occupation forces delouse Japanese and visits a hospital. Part 7 shows boxing in the Golden Gloves Tournament in Madison Square Garden. Chapter 10 Part 1 shows the last crossings before the border near St. Jean de Luz is closed. Soldiers close the gates at the bridge connecting the two countries. Part 2, Pres. Truman tells the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ that the U.S. will defend the UN charter. Part 3, ice from Lake Huron crushes homes in Bay City, Mich. Game officers feed wild deer in deep Washington snows. Soldiers throw and move inflated balloon decoys shaped like tanks and other equipment. Part 4 demonstrates a radio-controlled airplane. Natives prepare to evacuate Bikini Island before the atomic bomb tests. Part 5 shows several ski jumps from the tower at Iron Mountain, Mich. Chapter 11 Part 1 shows bowling in New York State. Part 2, Aga Khan III, in ceremonies at Bombay, contributes his weight in diamonds to India's needy. Part 3 shows the tip of an island near Japan that has been raised by subterranean volcanic eruptions. Shows the sun through instruments at a Colorado observatory. Part 4, Churchill decorates Roosevelt's tomb in Hyde Park, New York. Shows the two men at various historic meetings during the war. Part 5, a puma is treed and captured in Washington. Part 6, UNRRA distributes food to Italian children. Cattle and horses are prepared for overseas shipment. Herbert Hoover enplanes for Europe. INTRODUCE YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO THE AMAZING, STIMULATING AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING WORLD OF THESE AMAZING FILMS. THESE ARE GREAT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? TOTAL RUNTIME APPROXIMATELY 107 MINUTES. NTSC. DVD. ALL REGION. DVD MENU FOR EASY ACCESS. DISK WILL AUTO START AND PLAY IN YOUR HOME DVD PLAYER. THIS IS A DVD VIDEO DISK AS DESCRIBED ABOVE. 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