Rocky Marciano, Retired Heavy Weight Champion, Returns Home to Cheering Fans (May 4, 1956)

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Story No. NY-3 TELENEWS DAILY NEWS FILM Vol. 9, Issue No. 90
RELEASE: Immediate May 4, 1956-(Friday)
Film Title: MASSACHUSETTS
Story: TWENTY THOUSAND GREET ROCKY IN HOMETOWN WELCOME Footage: 44
Time: 73 sec.
(1 min. 13 sec.)
SC NO TL FT TL TM PIX NARRATION
A. 2 3 (TITLE)
1. 4 7 PLANE ARRIVES Back to his own home town from a sensational whirl in boxing's big time comes the retired heavyweight champion of the world, Rocky Marciano. A warm-hearted reception in Brockton, Mass., awaits the champ who decided to turn his back on the lure of the "big gate" for a happier home life with his wife, Barbara, and their daughter. Winner of well over a million dollars in purses while compiling an unbeaten string of 49 fights, Rocky returns to a stirring welcome.
2. 6 10 MRS MAR. & MAYOR WAITING
3. 8 14 ROCKY WAVES FROM PLANE
4. 10 16 CU SAME
5. 11 18 MS OF PHOTOGS
6. 14 24 ROCKY KISSES WIFE & SHAKES HANDS
7. 16 26 KISSES WIFE
8. 18 30 HS ROCKY & WIFE & CROWD
9. 20 32 CU SIGN (WELCOME) Some 20,000 friends and fans cheer lustily for their hero as he passes in a 200-car motorcade. Almost obscured by the crowds, Rocky's 3-year-old daughter Mary Anne rides in the car of honor with her parents. It was on his first extended vacation with his family in four years that Rocky decided he was missing too much in life following the busy boxing trail. He decided, then, his wife and daughter were missing too much also.
10. 23 38 LS PARADE THRU STS.
11. 25 42 PEOPLE RUNNING BY CAR & ROCKY WAVING
12. 27 45 SIGN
13. 30 49 ROCKY & WIFE IN CAR, WAVE
14. 31 52 KIDS IN TREES
15. 33 54 CROWD
16. 34 57 PARADE IN STREETS
17. 38 63 A.A.SAME And for stepping out of the gladiator's arena, Rocky finds the hometowners, far from feeling let down, love him all the more. The man who never got licked in the ring wins the big battle between a career he cherished and a family he loved even more. Happy and thrilled, the Rock comes home.
18. 40 66 CU SIGN (WELCOME)
19. 44 73 (1:13) CAR PAST CAMERA ROCKY WAVING