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Cold War Era News 221778-10 | Footage Farm

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[1952 - Cold War:  British Train Wreck; Japan & Chile Elections; Flying Wing; Korea Fighting] 
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08:58:45  Intertitle:  Train Wreck - 95 Killed, 200 Hurt In British Disaster.  08Oct52  Aerial over burned wreckage in Harrow And Wealdstone railroad station from Night Scot Express after collision w/ commuter train; ground shot of crane & rescue workers after second express train runs into debris.  Bodies & injured removed on stretchers.  Workmen w/ cutting torches; Red Cross workers tear sheets for bandages.  Smoking wreckage; aerial.
09:00:12  Intertitle:  News In Brief - Russian military mission prepares to leave Japan for USSR, men & families w/ children on dock.  Boarding ocean liner, people lining ship's rail waving.
09:00:41  Truck w/ campaigning Japanese in back waving, slogan on side & loudspeaker, thru street; people into polling place / station in first election since end of Occupation.  MCU voting; counting votes.  "Not one Red was elected to the legislature..."  High angle / HA Crowd watching outside, MS posting results for anti-Communist winner Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida (not seen).
09:01:19  Chile - HA pan woman waiting to vote for first time in election.  04Sep52  General Carlos Ibanez elected President.  CU woman putting on lipstick  VO:  "No lipstick worn while voting, lest they smear the ballot while sealing it & nullify the vote."  Ballots into box.  "...potent Feminine Party credited w/ giving him the victory."  HA crowd, CU Ibanez waving small broom.
09:01:54  Scotland - Bronze memorial to WWII British & American Commandos, Queen Mother Elizabeth pulls flag from large statue of 3 soldiers.  Queen mother & other women looking up at it, MS.  CU statue.
09:02:18  California - Horton Wingless HW-X-26-52 w/ two men, CU retractable stabilizers retracting.  CU Inventor Bill Horton.  Stabilizer extending.  MLS taxiing & taking off from car traveling alongside.
09:02:58  Title:  Korea - See-Saw Fight Rages For Strategic Peaks.  
09:03:04  LS across ridges to smoke rising from canyon.  MS Marine Sikorsky HRS-1 (?) helicopter HR 69 moving over rocket launcher, CU hooking to cable & lifting off.  Another w/ crew leaving.  LS of 3 helicopters away.  POV from inside helicopter.  Landings & marines out, rocket launchers moved into position & set up.
09:04:01  MCU & MS Loading rockets, fuzing, firing.  Tracers & smoke.
09:04:20  Tanks moving up dirt road.  Old Baldy rubble & debris after US attack on sandbagged positions.  Bodies.  CU captured Chinese or North Korea weapons.  Exhausted sleeping Marines.
09:04:59  LS single soldier silhouetted walking on distant ridgeline.  
09:05:05  Title:  Vote Your Choice But Vote!  - The End.
1950s; Transportation Disasters; Cold War; Anti-Communist Narration; Elections; Suffrage; Women's Liberation; Sexist; Stereotyping; WW2 Remembrance; Honoring; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; Flying Wing; Experimental Aircraft; Korean War; 
NOTE:  113 eventual death toll in worst peacetime British rail crash.  
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