Summary

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S INAUGURAL RIDE IN 1789 IS DUPLICATED

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Title: GEORGE WASHINGTON'S INAUGURAL RIDE IN 1789 IS DUPLICATED
File Number: DN-LB-525 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1939
Description: 21:01:18:00 B W 1939 Historical recreation: Mount Vernon, VA. Reenactment marks the 150th anniversary of Washington's inaugural ride from New York to Washington. Washington, wife Mary and daughter stand outside of mansion. Black footman and servants. Washington boards carriage and leaves past CAM 21:02:08:00 B W 1939 Second annual outdoor exhibit of Sculptor's Guild.: Park Avenue, New York City. HA of sculpture garden with traffic on Park Avenue in BG, good. People saunter through garden looking at statues, one of Babe Ruth. CU of sculptures, heads, busts. Visitors read programs 21:02:51:00 B W 1939 Jamaica, Queens, New York. Large crowd watch horses and jockeys parade past. Race begins, VS of racetrack, race, and excited spectators. El Chico, undefeated 1938 juvenile champ, is nosed out by Gilded Knight in a thrilling photo finish 21:03:44:00 B W 1939 Marinette, Wisconsin. Smelt put into ring and spread on floor. Four wrestlers in tag team fight, slide and fall on fish. Wrestler falls out of ring. Woman puts crown of smelt on man who flexes his muscles. (Stupidity 21:05:02:00 B W 1939 San Francisco, CA. VS boxing bout 21:09:01:00 B W 1939 Ontario, Toronto, Canada. Fast skating after puck. Good lighting, passing, action. Playing without helmets 21:10:00:00 B W 1939 VS workmen dismantling the Sixth Avenue El train, New York City. Release sheey, "Manhattan hails the demise of the old Sixth Avenue Elevated with a "funeral" parade of city officials, as thousands see the last steel girders come down 21:10:34:13 B W 1939 Delman designer shoes: New York City, CU shoes being modeled by women, good. Man fits two women with shoes. Woman on turning platform lifts skirt to show shoes. CU shoes and women's legs. Excellent fashion 21:11:22:00 B W 1939 Fourth Annual Silver Skis Classic at Mt. Ranier. Competitors take off and are timed on their way down snow slope. Several racers fall. Good view down slopes as skiers pass. Peter Radacher of Sun Valley streaks across the finish line to win - good CU of Radacher smiling and holding trophy 21:12:08:00 B W 1939 Wilamette Falls, Oregon. Very good shots of fishermen in small rowboats on Columbia River catching and gaffing in large salmon during spawning season. Fishermen holding up large salmon for CAM 21:12:36:00 B W 1939 VS car race around uneven dirt track with oil derricks in BG. Jalopies bounce around track in steeplechase format, lots of dust and a few mishaps. VS spectators watching. Man stands in car and falls out. MCU Winner, Don Farmer, with dirty face 21:13:41:00 B W 1939 Young boys box in ring, one flattens and knocks other down while parents and spectators look on. Toddlers in ring refuse to box, one climbs under ropes to his mother. (Child abuse) US Naval Academy 21:14:43:00 B W 1939 Embassy Newsreel theater, New York. Women in bathing suits scrub sidewalk in front theater with mops and buckets. Sailors from USS Tennessee cheer them on as they clean. Washer women on knees scrubbing as spectators watch. MCU of feet and high-heels. One woman falls down to be helped up by sailors. "Universal Newsreel" on marquee 21:15:47:00 B W 1939 Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia. Heavy fog and rain as cadets march around field, marching band. Newsreel cameramen in rain. Tarp covering field is unrolled. Man rides Navy mascot (goat). Kickoff. Crowd shots. Running plays and tackles. Male cheerleaders, brief. Women sitting under umbrella. Army touchdown. Tearing down goal posts at end of game. (with sound 21:17:50:00 B W 1939 Los Angeles. Mountainslide from Elysian Park Drive. Men look at landslide damage on road. Cop diverts traffic at roadblock. Men work with shovels in water. VS damage. Night time shot of badly damaged bridge. AVs of scene from blimp. VS massive boulders near road. Few very eerie shots of damage, very good. Car partially buried. Large reinforced concrete bridge with portions broken off. Release sheet "Nearly a million ton of earth and rocks fall from Elysian Park Drive 300 feet to Riverside Drive below. Warned by gigantic fissures in the cliff, authorities prevent loss of life 21:19:10:00 B W 1939 Baltimore, MD. VS of four-motor airplane in flight. Landing on water, taxiing, and turning, good. Release sheet, "The Glenn Martin factory takes a monster flying, built for the Soviets, on its trial flight 21:19:41:00 B W 1939 Mexico City. View from bell tower, MCU of marchers parading. Gymnast swings on parallel bars on floats. Women drilling with dumbbells march toward CAM. Police control huge crowd using butts of rifles. Mass exercises. Release sheet, "Thousands of girls and men, dressed in the uniforms of their athletic clubs, march in a colorful celebration of the 1910 Revolution anniversary. Gymnasts show off their talents before President Cardenas of the Mexican Republic 21:20:28:00 B W 1939 Monfalcone shipyard, Trieste, Italy. HA of launch of three submarines, crew on top of sub as it plunges into water. Release sheet, "The Monfalcone shipyards send three powerful submarines down the ways at the same time in a gala launching. The new undersea boats will make 17 knots an hour. They carry eight torpedo tubes each and two four-inch guns 21:21:07:00 B W 1939 Chicago. VS Steers walked around the arena, work horses quarter horses, draft horses paraded around. Sheepdog herds sheep into pen as crowd watches. MCU of sheep dog panting. Three young women pose with their prize cows. Boys and one girl pose with sheep 21:22:00:00 B W 1939 Thanksgiving Day Parade, Broadway, New York. HA of balloons and parade as it moves through streets lined by spectators, good crowd shot, brief. Pinochio, dragon and policeman balloons move through Times Square. Boy points and laughs. Helium balloons designed by Tony Sarg 21:22:44:00 B W 1939 South Bend, IN. Pan over packed stadium. VS game, good close photography. Pass interception and runback. Pass for touchdown. MCU of running till tackled. Good shot of touchdown run, tackle and touchdown 21:24:23:00 B W 1939 New York. WS stadium. LA of plays in rain. Good spectator shots, cheering. Running plays with breakaway run for touchdown. Tackles, passes. Muddy players. Interception and runback for close to touchdown. End and players running off field 21:26:04:00 B W 1939 Ontario, Toronto, Canada. Kickoff, views from above and alongside field. Rainy, foggy day. Fumble. Touchdown
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