Produced for the home market and sold in catalogs and in camera stores, this “News Revise of 1948” newsreel was made by Official Films. It is narrated by Ed Herlihy. Text card with “Gandhi Assassinated!” appears on the screen at 0:32. Ghandi is shown on screen at 0:39. The narrator explains that he was slain by a fanatic at 0:42. Ghandi’s coffin is shown being led down a street at 1:04. The funeral pyre where Gandhi’s body will be burned is shown at 1:10. Another title card with “Warfare in Palestine” is displayed at 1:20. Flyover Israel is shown at 1:29. A map is shown, displaying Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem at 1:31. Kings Ibn-Saud of Arabia, King Farouk of Egypt, and King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan are shown at 1:43-45. Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion is shown with his cabinet, planning resistance at 1:57. The capture of Haifa is shown at 2:09. Immigrant ship with Zionists is displayed at 2:13. A third title card “Palestine Conflict!” is displayed at 2:28. Review of women in the Palestinian army is shown at 2:35. UN observers with a white flag of truce are shown at 3:00. Count Folke Bernadotte is shown at 3:16. The fourth section of the news review, “Crisis in German Capital!” starts at 3:23. Allied control council is shown during a meeting at 3:30. General Lucius D. Clay, representing the United States, representing Britain, General Bryan Robertson, and General Kernig of France are shown at 3:38. The Russian commander in Berlin Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky is shown at 3:44. German’s in the West received news that the Soviets issued new currency of their own, which is shown at 3:55. U.S. and England planes are shown, with workers loading the planes to organize the Airlifts at 4:25. U.N. General Assembly is shown at 4:35. U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall is shown at 4:39. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky of is shown at 4:47. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is shown on screen at 4:55. The fifth section “Congressional Committee Probes Red Spy Scare!” starts at 5:19. Self-confessed Soviet agent Elizabeth Bentley is shown at 5:32. Nathan Silvermaster is shown at 5:42. Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina is shown at 6:13. Mikhail Samarin, a Russian teacher like Mrs. Kasenkina is shown going to testify before the Un-American Activities Committee at 6:40. Section six “Freedom Train Thrills Americans!” begins at 7:02. The Freedom Train is displayed at 7:10. Original documents from the Treaty of Paris are shown in the train at 7:33. Signatures of John Adams, Ben Franklin and John Jay are shown at 7:37. The first ten amendments to the constitution are shown at 7:42. Washington’s farewell address is then displayed at 7:48, with his unique signature. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, with his own corrections to the speech is also shown at 7:56. Section seven, “Truman Scores Dramatic Triumph” rolls at 8:21. President Truman is shown at 8:36. Candidate Dewey is shown on election day, leaving a voting booth at 9:15. Truman is also shown filling out his ballot at 9:22. The worldwide broadcast of the United States’ election is shown at 9:38. The title slide for the final section of the News Review, “England Rejoices at Birth of a Prince” is shown at 9:44. Princess Elizabeth the Second and Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh are shown at 9:52. Queen Elizabeth II’s marriage to Phillip is displayed at 10:05. Announcement of the new Prince at Buckingham Palace with a massive cheering audience is shown at 10:23. The News Review ends at 10:29.

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