President Puts Nation on All-Out War Footing (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1950)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PRESIDENT PUTS NATION ON ALL-OUT WAR FOOTING: WASHINGTON - Calling on all Americans to tighten their belts in the face of the gravest threat to our national security, Pres. Truman signs the emergency proclamation that puts this nation on a war footing. No appeasement of communism is the rallying cry as America heeds its President's call to arms. 2A/B. ANCIENT TOMB DISCOVERED (No title on film): EGYPT - In the famed "Valley of Kings" at Luxor, archeologists have dug down 150 feet to discover the tomb of Mentemhet, Prince of Thebes. Mummies and other amazing relics of the Seventh Century Before Christ are found in the well-preserved tomb. / GIRL WHO WED MOSLEM HOME: HOLLAND - 13-year-old Bertha Hertogh, the Dutch girl who was married to a Moslem and whose annulment set off a wave of Moslem rioting in Singapore, comes back to Holland with her mother after a stormy life in the Orient. 3. UN FORCES GRIMLY HOLD ON TO THEIR KOREAN BEACHHEAD: KOREA - Dramatic first pictures of the arrival of the entrapped First Marines at Hamhung, and the evacuation of UN forces from Hungnam, the nearby port. With the Chinese reds pressing in from three sides, 10th Army troops fight a skillful delaying action to complete the evacuation by sea of much valuable arms and equipment. Nearby, at a Korean cemetery, Marines bury their dead and salute their buddies fallen in combat.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library