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MISC. 1920'S NEWSREELS #18
Footage Information
Source | Archive Films by Getty Images |
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Title: | MISC. 1920'S NEWSREELS #18 |
File Number: | AFP-72W 16mm; VTM-72W Beta SP; NET-130 DigiBeta (at 01:00:00:00); Beta SP |
Color: | B W |
Type: | Newsreel |
Year: | 1920 |
Description: | 00:00:12:00 B W 1920 ms 5 different grades? of Girl Scout pose for CAM 00:00:25:00 B W 1919 ms Miss Juliette Gordon Lowe in 1919 - she was founder of Girl Scouts in America 00:00:31:00 B W 1920 ws 1920 Girl Scouts parade - Miss Lowe and associate salute as they pass 00:00:40:00 B W 1920 ws Girl Scout bugler blows reveille at camp and girls come pouring out of their tents 00:01:00:00 B W 1920 ms Girl Scouts weave baskets 00:01:22:00 B W 1920 ws Girls Scouts go out on a hike with full pack 00:01:34:00 B W 1920 ws Scouts take walk in woods near camp wearing their lighter, looser uniform 00:01:45:00 B W 1920 ws Scouts lined up to watch as a scout with 21 merit badges receives highest honor the Golden Eaglet - rest of girls cheer 00:01:58:00 B W 1929 ws ms 1929 Mrs. Hoover (President Hoover's wife) in New York City at exhibits on behalf of Girl Scouts drive 00:02:28:00 B W 1920 ws ms Doctor shows scouts how to put splint on arm then place it in a sling scouts make up hospital bed learn to cook watch demonstration of washing a baby sitting in a basin 00:02:41:00 B W 1937 ms cs 1937 Mrs. Roosevelt (Presidents wife) at Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. speaks at the 25th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America girls from all over the world sit and listen NEXT is segment on first nonstop fixed-wing aircraft westbound flight over North Atlantic (first transatlantic crossing from east to west, ie Europe to North America), April 12-13, 1928, piloted by Baron Gunther von Hunefeld, Captain Hermann Kohl, and Commander Major James Fitzmaurice (of Ireland). The plane was a Junkers named Bremen D1167. 00:03:06:00 B W 1928 ws April 11, 1928 the Junkers airplane named Bremen D1167 is prepared for its transatlantic flight after arriving in Ireland from Germany 00:03:16:00 B W 1920 cs Baron von Hunefeld backer and member of the crew 00:03:22:00 B W 1920 cs Captain Hermann Kohl 00:03:24:00 B W 1920 cs Commandant James E. Fitzmaurice of the Irish Free State Airport 00:03:29:00 B W 1920 ws 5:28 AM airplane takes off from Baldonnel Airdrome Flying Field (near Dublin) bound for Mitchell Field, New York crowds jam the field waiting for the landing - night arrives and fire is lit as they wait 00:03:40:00 B W 1920 ws Aircraft is down on Greenly Island, Newfoundland and it is badly damaged - but crew is safe 00:03:53:00 B W 1920 ws In Canada Floyd Bennett takes off in a Ford Trimotor to try and rescue the flyers he is forced to return due to illness he is helped from the airplane and taken to the hospital in Quebec where he dies 00:04:15:00 B W 1920 ws The three fliers are rescued and are given a heroes welcome crowd surrounds the airplane that brings them to New York )403 ws They are given a ticker tape parade up Broadway in New York City greeter Grover Whalen and Mayor Jimmy Walker ride with flyers 00:05:05:00 B W 1928 ws ms Fashion models wear the 1928 fur coat fashions 00:06:01:00 B W 1928 ws November 1928 Santa Fe Springs, California - huge oil fire destroys oil and derricks fire is brought under control after 3 days 00:06:56:00 B W 1928 ms 1928 drive to raise funds for new Shakespeare theater in England brings out famous actors and actresses dressed as Shakespearean actors from his plays - George Arliss as Shylock - Ernest Lawford as Malvonio? in Twelfth Night - Madge Kennedy as Maria in Twelfth Night - Peggy Wood as Alice in Henry the V - Leslie Howard as Romeo and Dennis King as Mercutio - Beatrice Lillie as Audrey in As You Like It - Katherine Cornell as Cleopatra Bill Slater shows clips of famous All America Football Players 00:08:12:00 B W 1928 - 1929 ws ms 1928 Army's Chris Cagle (All American in 1927, 1928, 1929) he could run, kick and pass shots of him in action against Yale in 1929 shots of him in action in the Yale game 00:08:56:00 B W 1920 ms Grantland Rice official selector of the All America team 00:09:00:00 B W 1931 ws ms 1931 USC triple threat fullback Gus Shaver action shots of him in Los Angeles in the USC-Stanford game 00:09:34:00 B W 1930s ms ws Early 1930s Notre Dame's All American half back Marchmont Howard Schwartz (Marchy) Knute Rockne's named is shown on cards in the stadium with a heart around the name action shots of Marchy in the Notre Dame-Usc game in 1930 00:09:58:00 B W 1920 ws Yale Bowl - All American half back Yale's Clint Franks in action shots in a Yale-Princeton game 00:10:26:00 B W 1939 ms ws 1939 Sugar Bowl group of pretty girls pass CAM on way to stands TCU's back Davey O'Brien in action scenes in game against Carnegie Tech 00:11:10:00 B W 1922 ms July 21, 1922 Washington DC Secy. of State Charles Evans Hughes announces that agreement has been reached to negotiate boundary disputes between Chile and Peru 00:12:39:00 B W 1922 ws April 15, 1922 Beardstown, Illinois - 15 feet of water cover the town caused by 75 foot break in Cold Creek? Levee (Illinois River) shots of the devastated area people getting around in various types of boats photographer taking photos in the downtown area canoe enters store for shopping and leaves by another exit 00:13:52:00 B W 1922 ws 1922 Orangefield, Texas - near Tornado velocity winds hit field of wooden derrick oil well structures and smashes them to the ground series of shots of workers trying to sort out the mess 00:14:35:00 B W 1920s ms 1920s Ida Bailey Allen leading home economics expert sits by fireplace looking at magazine friend arrives for tea maid brings tea service trolley hostess fills metal teaball steeps for tea and serves - tea is sweetened with candy small sandwiches are served friend leaves 00:15:30:00 B W 1920s ms cs Early 1920s Fashion designer Sally Milgrim wearing one of her own designs poses on deck of steamship 00:15:38:00 B W 1920s ms Early 1920s Albert Spaulding son of famous sporting goods manufacturer - he has become a top concert violinist he poses for photographs 00:15:47:00 B W 1920s ws ms Early 1920s Bernarr MacFadden health culturist and philanthropist strides bare foot along New Jersey country road on his way to work in New York City - claims shoes are ruinous to health rejects a lift offer from car driver crosses cobblestone streets and streetcar tracks still bare foot leaves the ferry in Manhattan still barefoot 00:16:31:00 B W 1922 cs ms April 14, 1922 Lawrence Sperry demonstrates his invention the Sperry Stabilizer - the large size instrument is being installed aboard an ocean liner to prevent sway when the sea is rough - it works (GYROSCOPE) 00:17:09:00 B W 1920s ms cs 1920s Value of bulletproof vests are proven by shooting with revolvers at men wearing the vests and showing they suffer no harm 00:17:43:00 B W 1922 ms cs August 3, 1922 Washington DC one of the first lie detector tests is given to a Dr. Dudding? who has spent 12 years in prison denying his guilt as a murderer - detector says he is telling the truth 00:17:57:00 B W 1920s ms cs EARLY DAYS OF RADIO: Middle 1920s Broadcasting studio - Mills Group Violins? are shown - they are violins played mechanically group of 4 singers sing along as mechanical violins play woman wearing headphones listens to broadcast in her Winnetka home 00:18:54:00 B W 1926 ms French Flying Ace Rene Fonck September 1926 is ready to make transatlantic flight attempt in a giant 3 engine Sikorsky aircraft - flight ends in tragedy as plane crashes and burns killing two crew members (but not Fonck, as this newsreel seems to infer! Fonck died in 1953! JL) 00:19:18:00 B W 1920 cs ws 6 months after Fonck Richard Byrd attempts the Atlantic crossing - his Fokker trimotor aircraft crashes onto its back but the flyers survive 00:19:45:00 B W 1927 ms April 26, 1927 Noel Davis and Stanton Wooster try next but die in a crash in swampland near Langley, Virginia 00:20:01:00 B W 1927 ms May 9, 1927 French Flying Ace Capt. Charles Nungesser and his companion Francois Coli try next and disappear over the Atlantic 00:20:21:00 B W 1927 cs ms Charles Lindbergh partially assembled Ryan NYP monoplane Spirit of St. Louis in the air enroute to Paris May 20, 1927 00:20:40:00 B W 1928 ws ms December 17, 1928 Kitty Hawk Secy. of War Dwight Davis lays cornerstone commemorating the Wright Brothers as first men to build and fly a powered airplane - Orville Wright looks on (Wilbur died in 1912) Senator Bingham on behalf of the National Aeronautical Association unveils a monument to the Wright Brothers doves? fly out of the draping December 17, 1903 the Wrights made their successful flights 4 of them the longest 852 feet the original airplane The Kitty Hawk as it was brought out for a re-enactment in 1908 the 4 cylinder engine developing 12 horsepower sends airplane down 60 foot inclined track to a successful take off shots of the airplane flying 00:22:17:00 B W 1920s ws ms 1920s Hawaii the active volcano Kilauea - series of shots of the bubbling lava in the crater and all the curious people standing and watching the lava bubble and steam 00:23:12:00 B W 1920s ms cs 1920s Broadway, New York City Producer Earl Carroll checks legs of girls he has chosen for his latest show girls do leg split on stage for Carroll 00:23:30:00 B W 1920 ws ms Show girls rehearse on rooftop they have a good time eating lunch leading lady Eileen Wilson studies script Carroll directs his star in a stage action while in the the roof setting PAN of some of the Earl Carroll Vanities Girls smiling for CAM 00:24:14:00 B W 1920s ws ms Middle 1920s Gilbert City, Nevada scene of a gold strike by the 3 Gilbert Brothers hundreds of prospectors came to try their luck and they set up a makeshift city series of shots of the prospectors trying but not finding any substantial amount of gold Gilbert Brothers pose for CAM - show how they found small nuggets by panning Gilberts crude mining shaft and hut called the Last Hope mine one of the few operations that paid off |