| UN Assembly: 7th Session Opens in New Headquarters | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1567 |
| Catalog #: | 352206 | |
| Clip Number: | 352206-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 025-405 | |
| Timecode: | 00:41:27 - 00:43:14 | |
| Location: | New York, New York | |
| Year Shot: | 1952 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Results ELECTIONS: Voting INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: United Nations LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York | |
| Description: | U.N. Assembly: 7th Session Opens in New Headquarters The United Nations General Assembly opens its seventh session in the new auditorium, built as its permanent home at $12 million cost. Delegates and statesmen arrive to begin a momentous series of debates. Establishing shots United Nations Building in New York: low angle shot, view with fountain in foreground, close shot of some flags including American flag. VS inside the U.N. - not the place where delegates meet, but other spaces, showing some of the architecture inside. Exteriors, various delegates arrive from nations such as India (Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, a woman); Britain (Sir Gladwyn Jebb); Canada (foreign minister Lester Pearson); United States (Dean Acheson, Secretary of State). VS meeting room for General Assembly, people arriving and milling about. Soviets Andrei Vyshinsky (Andrey Vishinsky) and Andrei Gromyko arrive. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt shakes hands with a man and photographers' flashbulbs pop. VS delegates casting ballots to vote for new president of the assembly. The newly elected Lester Pearson poses with Trygve Lie and Luis Pedilla Nervo; delegates applaud. | |
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