Summary

NEWSREELS

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: NEWSREELS
File Number: PET-78 1 inch
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1918; 1932; 1967 (1910s; 1920s; 1932; 1967)
Description: Film on the History of Aviation (not great quality) 1. Universal Newsreel 1967 Vol. 40 #32 Anti-war peace march in New York City, CU feet, mass demonstration, draft cards burn, Martin Luther King, police scuffle, San Francisco peace march. Rome riots at night, water hoses spray people. Apartment cleaned out, construction. Fashion, CU goggles. Clown act. Baseball: Red Sox vs. Yankees, Bill Roher, Elston Howard. Kayak race in New Hampshire. 1910s B W FOOTAGE (MOSTLY FROM FORD EDUCATIONAL FILMS): 2. William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, opens the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive, at Washington, DC. The First Regiment, French Foreign Legion particpates. September 21, 1918. Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford. 3. Ford Motor film from 1910s - 1920s basket weaving (poor black family in rural South Carolina title card reads "The grass from which the baskets are made is peculiar to the Cooper River district and is not found elsewhere"), EXT black family on porch of log cabin, cutting palmetto leaves into strips with which the baskets are sewed Grand Canyon, tourists boarding horse carriages for a ride up Hermit Rim Road which follows the rim of the Grand Canyon, tourists riding on mules, "Hermits Rest" at the head of Hermit Trail - a cave home in the cliff where the tourist stops for rest and refreshment New York's elevated Railroad 'El' POV, great footage. Riverside Drive from 130th Street. Looking up Riverside Drive from 94th Street (early double decker bas passes). EXT Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Natural History. Broadway and 69th Street Ostrich Farm, Los Angeles (not enough contrast in shots), two ostriches named "President and Mrs. Wilson" !! Next, late 1910s Los Angeles: panoramic view, Hall of Records and the old Court House, Clunes Auditorium ("where Los Angeles plays on weekdays and worships on Sunday" note that this is where the famous film "Birth of a Nation" premiered on Feb.8, 1915)(poor quality), Los Angeles' Central Park (people strolling in park nice), Los Angeles downtown Retail District (EXT department store), Angels Flight Inclined Railway and end of Third Street Tunnel, Ethnic neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Mexican, Chinatown. Cars and trolleys entering North Hill Street double barrelled tunnel. Scottish Rite Temple, Westlake Park, oil derricks in Los Angeles area, LS man walking on top of huge water pipe (Los Angeles water supply), side driver's POV of beautiful large homes (Spanish-style, Mission style architecture) with palm trees in front of houses. Santa Catalina Island: people boarding ferry boat bound for Santa Catalina Island. Port of Los Angeles harbor lighthouse on end of breakwater. Ferryboat POV approaching Port of Avalon, Santa Catalina large sign in bg for "Hotel Stamford". People disembarking ferryboat. 4. 1932 Universal Newsreel Vol. 4 #6 STREETS FLOW WITH BEER RIVER AS POLICE RAID GARAGE HANGOUT CHICAGO, Ill. 1932 -- Halsted Street is swamped with a strange fluid in these days of the Prohibition era. A surprise raid nets agents under Administrator A. E. Aman, 537 barrels of banned brew. The cache discovered, the dry sleuths waste little time in putting an end to the illicit liquid. Armed with mallets and pegs the Federal men jam in the bungs and flood the highway and gutters with $30,000 worth of amber brew, as the Windy City's parched gullets moan and wail. Vol. 4 #65 SOUTH SIDE IN PERIL AS RAGING FIRE TAKES $6,000,000 DAMAGE TOLL CHICAGO, Ill. 1932 -- A grain dust explosion in the five-story Quincy Elevator starts the Windy City's worst conflagration in a decade. Leaping to the Omaha Packing plant and to the Crane Lumber Yard, the flames turn the Chicago River front into a seething furnace. Half the city's fire apparatus, including several fire-boats, seek to stem the blaze. Thousands of spectators risk danger to watch the billowing flame-clouds and falling walls. More than a thousand hogs, sheep and cattle are burned to ashes and a million bushels of grain go up in smoke. The most spectacular holocaust seen here since the Great Fire of 1871.
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