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This newsreel film from the World Telegram Screen News Digest shows several events from 1959-1963, including the Shirley Lykes’ voyage to Cuba, the Great Freeze winter, the 1959 UK election, Explorer 7 launch, and Canary Islands eclipse. The film begins with the SS Shirley Lykes ship dropping supplies in Cuba as part of the ransom for the release of prisoners after the Bay of Pigs invasion, and taking refugees to the United States. The ship sails into Cuba to make a supply drop; it sails past Morro Castle (0:23) and enters Havana Harbor (0:25). A Russian tanker ship (0:29); the Lykes unloading food and medical supplies; Russian tractors and farm equipment (1:03); Communist propaganda posters (1:06); Soviet trucks with red stars (1:13). Uniformed schoolchildren enter a classroom; the teacher writes in Russian on the board (1:37). A News Digest crew tours the island; they see Russian ships (2:05), idle factories, sugarcane workers (2:15), and stores with canned goods from Russia and China (2:30). Cubans outside of a movie theater to see “A Tourist in Moscow” (2:42). A newspaper with a photo of Fidel Castro (2:48). Refugees board the Lykes to go to the United States (3:10); 1,200 refugees were transported. Paralyzed people being transported on stretchers aboard the ship (3:33); refugees sit on Red Cross blankets in the ship’s hold (3:43). An American flag (3:57); a title card “Worst Winter of the Century” (4:01). The 1962-63 winter was known as the Great Freeze and affected much of North America, Europe, and Asia. A thermometer from National Shawmut Bank Fish Pier Office showing sub-zero temperatures (4:17). People battle high winds and blizzard-like conditions in the streets (4:31). People take frozen clothes off clotheslines in Japan (5:00). Workers shovel snow off Japanese railroads (5:23). Niagara Falls covered in snow and ice (5:46). Ships plow through ice along the Baltic coast (6:14). Palm trees in Sicily covered in snow (6:28); reindeer and sheep in Germany eat at emergency feeding stations set up due to snow (7:00). Citizens rescue a lamb from a snowbank (7:20) and attempt to drag a cow through feet of snow. Title card: “England: An Historic Election” (8:10). Big Ben and the River Thames in London (8:14). Campaign signs for George Rogers (8:23) and Robert Bulbrook (8:25) for the 1959 general election on Thursday, October 8. The decision for the election was whether to bring the Labour Party back into power after 8 years of Conservative rule. Hugh Gaitskill, the Labour Party’s leader, is greeted by voters in mining towns (8:31). Westminster City Hall (8:46); Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, the Conservative candidate, waves to voters (8:50); an 84-year-old Winston Churchill (8:53). The Conservatives won the election. Title card: “U.S.A.: ‘Kitchen Sink’ Satellite” (9:18). The Explorer 7, a NASA satellite launched October 1959, known as the “kitchen sink satellite” (9:25) and the Juno II rocket, which launched it from Cape Canaveral (9:36). A view of the launch, starting at 9:55. Title card: “Canary Islands: Solar Eclipse” (10:20). Scientists look through telescopes on the Canary Islands to view an October 2, 1959 total eclipse (10:36). Title card: “Partners in Power” (11:26). A power plant in Sweden loses function due to a storm; a standby crew at a Denmark power station activate generators to provide Sweden with power (12:11). The film ends with a view of the World Telegram building in New York (14:44).

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