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NEWSREELS - LUSITANIA, New York City EL TRAIN, CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Footage Information
Source | Archive Films by Getty Images |
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Title: | NEWSREELS - LUSITANIA, New York City EL TRAIN, CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS |
File Number: | DN-LB-411 Beta SP |
Type: | Newsreel |
Year: | 1910s, 1920s, 1930s |
Subjects: | New York City, railroads, trains, cities, Congo, Africa, Blacks, crafts, basketweaving, Arizona, National Parks, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Old Faithful, Civilian Conservation Corps, FDR, Great Depression, New Deal, oceanliners, tragedies, Lusitania, ships, breadlines, hunger, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, US Coast Guard, camps, military, government, institutions |
Description: | 01:01:20:08 - 01:05:22:10 b w silent 1915 Newsreel of Cunard RMS Lusitania oceanliner leaving New York Harbor May 1, 1915. (same film on DN-LB-339). Caption: 'bona-fide' picture, only existing film of last voyage of ship before sinking at sea from torpedo. Excellent scenes w intertitles. Cars carry passengers to dock for departure. Bustling groups of men and women in elegant dress. HA passengers board steps to ship. TU Passengers on decks. Women wave kerchiefs. PAN over ship. Crewmen runs to raise flag. Slow PAN over ship as it leaves dock. Title: author Elbert Hubbard waves to CAM from upper deck. WS ship in harbor with tugboat. Side view of SS Lusitania departing with tugboat beside it, smoke rising from large smokestacks. 01:05:30:03 - 01:06:57:21 b w silent 1916 Caption: Petrified Forests, Arizona. Side view: man crossing fallen petrified tree as bridge. WS tree trunks, rock formations, cliffs in desert. 01:06:57:22 - 01:08:20:08 b w silent 1916 African Congo. Basket weaving lifestyle. Caption: Copper River district. Black family sits on porch of cabin. Man walks with boar on leash. Caption: On cutting of Palmetto fronds for baskets. Woman sits on edge of porch, weaving basket with Palmetto leaves. Caption: 'finished product.' Man opens lids on finished baskets. 01:08:20:09 - 01:13:09:05 b w silent 1916 Grand Canyon. Caption: WS Great Valley scenics etc. Horsedrawn carriages. Men mounting horses, entering through ranch gates. Overhead men and pack mules on winding switchbacks of canyon rim trail. Good MS male and female riders on mules turning corner and riding down slope. Side view people atop cliff throwing objects off. WS landscape of desert valley. Arizona River. MS mule. 01:13:09:06 - 01:19:33:12 b w silent 1916 Excellent POV New York City elevated train - turning curves, passing trains. View of Hudson River, Riverside Dr. from 130th St., West Side Manhattan. WS buildings on Riverside Dr., N. of 94th St. Fifth Ave. double-decker tour bus. EXT. American Museum of Natural History. Train passes Hippodrome Theater. VS good views of neighborhoods, passing people at stations. 01:19:33:13 - 01:27:57:08 b w silent 1916 CU turbines turning, throwing water off. US Coast Guard operations on Lake Michigan. Ferry on lake. VS offices, sleeping quarters, dining area. Coast Guard crew in rowboat. Crewman makes semaphore signals on lakeshore with flags. Caption: drowning drill to practice water rescue. Guardsmen in uniform on beach carry 'drowning' victim on stretcher. VS guardsmen rowing scull. Excellent front view from bow of boat of guardsmen rowing in unison. Guardsman walks on beach patrol carrying lantern. Guardsmen launch rescue boat from hangar into water. Good sequence of rescue on extremely stormy water. Guardsmen shot from cannon, rig pulley system with life preserver sack to rescue man clinging to mast of sinking ship. Lighthouse seen through life preserver with US Coast Guard logo. 01:27:57:09 - 01:28:10:07 b w silent 1916 Black bear sitting in forest runs into woods when branch hits him on back. Bear in zoo pen sits on haunches, paws at camera. 01:28:16:19 - 01:31:21:07 b w silent 1934 Civilian Conservation Corps relief activities during Great Depression, New York City. VS crowds. Priests distributes things at big rallies. EXT: Employment Agencies. Street scenes of idle unemployed men. Homeless men sleeping in Central Park. Speaker on stage addresses men at rally. Police throw arrested men in paddy wagon. VS FDR speaks at podium. (silent) VS unemployment bill, reforestation plan to employ CCC. Churchill, Charles Lindbergh with wife Anne, others. Men in bread lines, eating over barrels. Man points to map of CCC camp, work locations in US. 01:31:21:08 - 01:38:44:07 b w silent 1934 CCC volunteers wave from double-decker bus. Train travels in desert, mountain landscape. Men with paperwork enter tents to join CCC. Uniformed officers sit at tables, signing them up. Young men in line enter cabins. VS men swearing in with oath, having feet measured. Men enter cabins, receive clothing supplies. Before and after shots of young men in civilian clothes, CCC gear. Men march with shovels. Crew digging. WS train unloading recruits. Construction crew building longhouses. (Yosemite or Yellowstone National Park?)Crews in jeep, digging with pickaxes w mountain scenery in BG. Waterfall- Men dig w pickaxes at base of waterfalls. WS Old Faithful geyser spouting. FDR, Truman in car surveying CCC work. 01:39:11:25 - 01:48:36:18 b w silent 1934 'Day in the life' lifestyle and routine of CCC troops. INT: Barracks of CCC. Bugleboy blows morning call. Young men awaken from cots, get dressed. Young men lined up at soundoff, shaving and making beds. Man rings meal bell. Shirtless recruits eat from trays in mess hall. Volunteers walk on trail through woods, carrying tools. Construction vehicles. Men work at docks, chopping wood. Line of men walk along wooden pier. Men chop large tree stumps (redwoods?) outdoors. Controlled dynamite blasts to take down trees. VS men laying sod, starting fires. CCC officers in boat survey men working on rooftops in flooded terrain. Clerk uses typewriter. Military dentist pulls man's tooth in clinic. Officers have meeting. Men pushing carts and unloading supplies. 01:48:50:07 - 01:55:17:22 b w silent 1934 CCC cadet stirs food in giant pots. Cooking and food preparation. Officer watches man cut meat from carcass. Men line up to receive and read mail from home. Men in trigonometry class. Construction projects. Man feeding deer, dog and cat playing together. Two men chase bear from camp with broom. VS baseball game, men wearing uniforms. Black corps members play music as man dances. Men swimming in surf, diving from shore. Men singing and playing piano. Men outside barracks in winter, grabbing shovels and pushing wagon. Men work in snow outdoors, chopping and throwing wood in pile. Snowball fight. Boxing match. Lowering of American flag. 01:55:17:23 - 01:57:28:04 b w silent 1934 Train drops CCC volunteers off. They sign forms, take oath. 'Changing of guard.' Men carry belongings over shoulders. Man holds certificate of service. Crowd of CCC volunteers stand in group. HA Men stand in formation, waving hats and spelling out 'CCC.' |