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Army versus Notre Dame in a football game at Yankee stadium in New York City, United States
Highlights of U.S. Army versus Notre Dame college football game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York City, New York. Nearly seventy four thousand spectators gather to witness the game of the century between unbeaten Notre Dame, and the Army team from Westpoint who have won 25 consecutive games. The audiences also include Major General Taylor, Academy Superintendent watching Army (horse) versus Notre Dame (terrier dog) mascots greeting. The voiceover commentator is shown on camera. Secretary of war Patterson and Navy Secretary James Forrestal also lend their support to Army. General Jacob Devers and the Postmaster General Robert Hannegan also turn out to cheer. Teams come out on the field as audiences cheer them loudly. Army player Arnold Tucker is seen. Aerial view of the packed stadium is seen from a nearby rooftop observation point. Game play underway. Army stops Notre Dame on the 4 yard line and then Irish check Blanchard and Davis with superb line play. Until the half time none of the teams scores a point. During the half time break a band performs and an artist performs a mask dance wearing a giant "Lena the Hyena" mask. Play resumes. Jim Brennan from Notre Dame makes a good run and the two teams battle it out as the spectators cheer them on. Brief view of General Eisenhower watching the game. The two teams end the game tied at zero, ending the winning streaks for both teams.
1800 patients saved from fire at St. Michael the Archangel in Quebec city, Quebec.
St. Michael the Archangel, largest mental institution in North America is blown by fire. Firemen trying to stop the fire. Fire blows whole building. Snow covers the shattered asylum.
American citizens gather around living room console radios and portable radios in other locations, listening to news.
Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.
Military and civilian applications of radar and electronics
1946 Film about military and civilian applications of radar and electronics. View of the LaGuardia Airport Administration Building (passenger terminal) in New York, with control tower and various antennas on its roof. A TWA Constellation and DC-3 airplane on the airport ramp, as another aircraft is on the final approach to land. Commercial cargo vessels in New York harbor (Statue of Liberty barely seen in the misty background). A passenger railroad train speeding along the tracks. Radar returns shown on a plan position radar scope, tracking weather returns. Tropical storm hitting a seaside area. Scientists and technicians at work in a laboratory filled with electronic equipment. View of buildings at U.S. Army Signal Corps' Camp Evans, New Jersey. Sign above one entrance reads: "Evans Signal Laboratory." Inside the laboratory, images created by radar signals bounced off the moon are seen on a radar scope, during "Project Diana," on January 10, 1946. View of the Army's GB-4 radio controlled television glide bomb, suspended on a chain inside a building. It rotates around showing various views. Scene shifts to a launching track outdoors at a coastal facility, where a glide bomb takes off raising smoke as it accelerates along the launch path. Next, a GB-4 glide bomb is released from underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. It is seen flying away from the aircraft. Inside the aircraft, a crew member views its progress by means of television images received from a transmitter in the front of the bomb. Glimpse of the television images. View from the ground of the GB-4 bomb gliding to the ground and exploding. Views of a German V-2 rocket at Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Ground , New Mexico, where it was being tested by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1946. Inside a control room, an Army technician gives the signal to launch, and the V-2 rocket fires and rises straight into the sky, with its fiery tail visible as it gains altitude. More views of scientists, engineers, and technicians inside a Signal Corps electronics laboratory. Soldiers being trained in radar technology, seated at an electronic array. An army staff sergeant technician working on radar components. A variety of different radar antennas rotating outdoors.
General Claire Chennault receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from Lieutenant General Stilwell
Flying Tiger's Fighter Plane Curtiss P-40 seen. General Claire Chennault receiving the distinguished Service Medal from Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell in front of (AAF) American Air Force Headquarters at Kunming in China. A group of AAF soldiers standing behind General Claire Chennault. A map of China with Chinese symbols on the side. (World War II period).
Coal miners prepare to return to work and listen to news over a radio about end of labor strike in December 1946.
Westland Mine coal mine workers, wearing helmets with lights, are gathered in a room as they listen to a radio news broadcast in a local office of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to the labor strike by 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. Maps of Westland mines No. 1 and 2 are among many that line the walls of the office. The mine workers look at a notice of the Government takeover ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, and a notice to their union, The United Mine Workers of America. Coal miners check their personal equipment in preparation for entering mines, with the strike now ended.
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