Summary

YESTERDAY LIVES AGAIN

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: YESTERDAY LIVES AGAIN
File Number: AFP-70B 16mm; VTM-70B Beta SP; NET-449 Beta SP (at 01:00:00:00); DigiBeta
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1950
Description: B W 1900s VARIOUS NEWSREEL FOOTAGE, 1890s - EARLY 1900s 00:18:25:00 B W 1950 ms Titled "EXTRA! EXTRA!" THE FIRST MOVIE PLOT IS BORN" we see 1890s film of woman washing clothes in tub outside by front steps of house 00:18:44:00 B W 1950 ms Boy runs down steps, pushes wash-tub, which falls woman runs after boy 00:18:52:00 B W 1950 ws "CHICAGO'S FATIMA -- She Moved Her Muscles and the Camera Helped" belly dancer from 1890s 00:19:07:00 B W 1950 ws Men, woman square dancing in living room 1890s 00:19:19:00 B W 1950 ws TOP-HATTED MEN well-dressed woman on EASTER SUNDAY Park Avenue, 1890s 00:19:31:00 B W 1950 ws Well-dressed 1890s women walk up steps -- photographed at "derriere level" 00:19:38:00 B W 1950 ms Women's rear ends (completely dressed, of course) of the 1890s 00:19:45:00 B W 1950 ws AMPLE, FAT 1890s WOMAN, completely dressed, with huge hat 00:19:59:00 B W 1950 ws Turn-of-the-century: man, woman open door ON BACK SEAT OF AUTOMOBILE step into back seat of car 00:20:11:00 B W 1900s ws Early 1900s cars covered with decorations, filled with happy passengers 00:20:29:00 B W 1908 ws WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT beside airplane 1908 00:20:30:00 B W 1950 ws Men spin two propellers on WRIGHT BROTHERS' AIRPLANE 00:20:37:00 B W 1908 ws Dignitaries in reviewing stand, shaking hands (note: the notables include President Fallieres of France, & General French, later Field Marshal French of WWI fame. They are witnessing the first successful public flight in history, on August 8, 1908. JL.) 00:20:52:00 B W 1908 ws WRIGHT BROTHERS' AIRPLANE taxis on ground Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 1908 00:21:09:00 B W 1900s ms Full-figured LILLIAN RUSSELL, posing for camera in star's dressing room circa 1900 [could be used for cellulite commercial] 00:21:26:00 B W 1950 ws Great tenor ENRICO CARUSO, smiling, waving, holding cane 00:21:40:00 B W 1950 ws BUFFALO BILL CODY giving men "secret handshake" 00:22:01:00 B W 1950 ms White-bearded ANDREW CARNEGIE shakes hands with monocle-wearing man holding top hat 00:22:10:00 B W 1950 ws WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, "Free Silver's Champion" wearing cape, top hat, standing between two men 00:22:15:00 B W 1950 cu Face of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN 00:22:19:00 B W 1950 ws WILLIAM E. BORAH. "New United States Senator From Idaho", standing streetcar passes on street in BG 00:22:34:00 B W 1950 ws BOARDWALK IN ATLANTIC CITY, circa 1890s -- turn of the century 00:22:38:00 B W 1950 ms Well-dressed men, women strolling on boardwalk, turn-of- the-century people in sightseeing "strollers" carts 00:22:51:00 B W 1950 ws Early 20th-century girls in bathing suits with parasols on beach [flickery picture] 00:22:55:00 B W 1950 ws Smiling men in bathing suits, caps, pose for photograph 00:22:58:00 B W 1950 ms Turn-of-the-century woman poses in bathing suit by ocean [flickery picture] 00:23:09:00 B W 1950 ws At WILLIAM McKINLEY'S PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION: team of horses costumed, top-hatted riders crowd of onlookers 00:23:18:00 B W 1950 ws Stately men, women walking along street at McKINLEY'S INAUGURATION 00:23:24:00 B W 1950 ws New PRESIDENT McKINLEY MAKING INAUGURATION SPEECH 1897 -- first filmed record of a presidential inauguration 00:23:41:00 B W 1906 ws GREAT FIRE, SAN FRANCISCO, AT TIME OF 1906 EARTHQUAKE 00:23:49:00 B W 1906 ws VIOLENT, SWIRLING FLAMES, SAN FRANCISCO, 1906 "Three days of fire" 00:23:55:00 B W 1950 ws RUBBLE, WALLS OF BUILDING, EMPTY WINDOWS 00:24:00:00 B W 1906 ws Aftermath of devastating 1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 00:24:29:00 B W 1950 ws TEDDY ROOSEVELT, waving derby hat in the air in early car with three men flags on car 00:24:42:00 B W 1950 ms TEDDY ROOSEVELT giving dynamic speech to crowd 00:24:56:00 B W 1900s ws GERMANY'S KAISER WILHELM, followed by dachshund dog early 1900s Kaiser steps into car 00:25:07:00 B W 1950 ws KAISER WILHELM reviewing marching German troops 00:25:16:00 B W 1950 ws Uniformed German soldiers on horseback 00:25:24:00 B W 1900s ws RUSSIA'S CZAR "His Army and His Court" [very rare film, early 1900s] 00:25:55:00 B W 1900s ws EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH OF AUSTRIA steps down from carriage, early 1900s 00:26:11:00 B W 1910s ws Torpedoed AUSTRIAN BATTLESHIP, listing, sinking circa 1910 00:26:50:00 B W 1950 cu Title flashed on screen: "THE FUTURE", followed by a superimposed "?" question-mark over words "the future"
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