| BATTLE OF THE PICKETS Anti-Communist picket the Cultural and Scientific Conference of World Peace. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8030 |
| Catalog #: | 239264 | |
| Clip Number: | 239264-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 2092 D | |
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| Location: | New York, NY | |
| Year Shot: | 1949 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DEMONSTRATIONS: Protest INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Conference, Peace PERSONALITIES: Willkie, Wendell | |
| Description: | BATTLE OF THE RALLIES - BATTLE OF THE PICKETS Anti-Communist picket the Cultural and Scientific Conference of World Peace. New York, NY, United States of America. LS Pickets outside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. MS Pickets carrying placards walking in front of porch of the hotel. MS Pickets. One man carries baby. CU Placard - 'Shostakovitch' Jump through the window. MS Pickets. MS Croatian girls, in national costume, carrying picket placards. MS Catholic women kneeling outside the Hotel. CU Woman, carrying crucifix and counting her rosary, kneeling in street. CU Placard - 'pal Stalin wants peace ' pan down 'piece of every national.' to woman carrying it. LS interior of the Waldorf Astoria with the conference in session. MS Man at microphone. MS Shostakovitch at microphone. MS Henry Wallace, in audience, applauding. CU Shostakovitch at microphone. LS Rally. MS Shostakovitch on platform bowing. LS Exterior of 'Freedom House' where counter rally is being staged under the auspices of Americans for Intellectual Freedom. CU Banner - 'Freedom House ' which bears the U.N.O. (UNO) insignia. MS People entering Freedom House, which has notice over porch to effect that they carry on spirit of Wendell Willkie's service. LS Interior of Hall showing platform with Chairman Doctor Sydney Hook speaking. Banner at back says - 'One World or None'. MS Hook speaking in front of placard - 'Freedom of the Mind. MS Audience applauding MS Hook speaking. MS Audience. MS Mrs Oksana Kasenkina, who jumped out of Soviet Consulate last year at mike. CU Mrs Oksana Kasenkina, who jumped out of Soviet Consulate last year, at mike. MS Audience applauding. MS Mrs. Kasenkina on balcony waving to crowd in street. LS Crowds in street. MS Exterior of Madison Square Gardens at night. MS Neon Sign - 'Tonight - World Peace Rally Arts and Sciences Thurs. Basketball'. | |
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