Summary

YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS

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Title: YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS
File Number: VTM-78BD Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Description: B W 1900 - 1948 Newsreels Of Past On Television 00:51:33:00 B W 1948 - The Gandhi Story VS, brief, of Mohandas Gandhi through the years Of interest: Police beat people (non-violent protesters) in streets Gandhi visits Lord & Lady Mountbatten Muhammad Ali Jinnah with Jawaharlal Nehru United Nations flag funeral procession of slain Gandhi, 1948 00:56:00:00 B W 1929 - Aviation 1929 Handsome stunt pilot, Roscoe Turner, in test flight experiment - to land a plane by parachute! 00:56:50:00 B W 1930 - Personalities 1930 Author Sinclair Lewis & wife, Dorothy Thompson, on deck of steamship, on way to receive Nobel Prize Irene Castle, widow of dance team that created popular dances Sidney Franklin, bull fighter from Brooklyn in Madrid ring 00:58:08:00 B W 1931 - Earthquake in New Zealand 1931 VS disasterbuildings, streets, cars, in ruins HA tent city for survivors In Napier, NZ 00:59:25:00 B W 1919 - DW Griffith Receives Award 1919 He gets War Bond citation while on set Dorothy Gish & Robert Harron are there 01:00:20:00 B W 1934 - Fashions of the Day 1934 Models show latest beach wear One takes off slacks to reveal bathing suit 01:01:10:00 B W 1936 - Sports Notre Dame basketball team out scores NYU, 1936 CAM follows horse race from starting gate to photo finish at Hialeah, Fla 01:03:48:00 B W 1900s - 1920s - Hollywood's Guiding Force Rare footage of EXT & INT Nickelodeon movie house early Hollywood studio site tracking shot movie sets with actors ready for shooting VS career of Will Hays (Hays Office production code Film Censorship) As politician, Hays campaigns for Warren Harding in 1921 presidential election Hays poses beside motion picture camerathen with Harold Lloydand Cecil B De Mille 01:07:54:00 B W 1920 - Surplus For Sale 1920 Gun cloth used in war time converts to making women's dresses also, cargo ship & airplanes 01:09:07:00 B W 1925, 1931 - Personalities Naval officer, Zachary Lansdowne who died aboard fatal voyage of dirigible, Shenandoah, 1925 actress, Marion Davies & tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen, 1926 actor, John Boles, in swim suit for some cheesecake, 1931 01:10:12:00 B W 1922 - US Treasury Building Blazes 1922 VS firefighters 01:10:55:00 B W 1923 - Library On Wheels 1923 Suburban children check out books Evanston, Illinois 01:11:34:00 B W 1925 - Aviation 1925 One hundred year old grandmother, puts on flying goggles and goes for ride in seaplane Portland, Maine 01:12:33:00 B W 1928 - Fashions of the Day 1928 Model shows stylish fur trimmed evening jacket & sack dress 01:13:24:00 B W 1900 - 1948 - Sports Expert Lawn Bowlers in Bernardsville, New Jersey, 00:26:49:00 B W 1925 - lawn bowling, boccie horse race, one long take, Sting wins Belmont Stakes, 1925 01:16:27:00 B W 1933 - 1933 FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT BECOMES 32nd PRESIDENT Rare footage at scene of attempted assassination of FDR in Miami, Florida woman bystander describes shooting (sync sound) assassin, Giuseppe Zingara Mayor Anton Cermak of Miami 01:18:35:00 B W 1900 - 1948 - FDR inauguration ceremony (voice audible) Takes oath of office from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughesgives inauguration address (THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR, IS FEAR ITSELF!)crowd reaction shots ECU FDR 01:21:57:00 B W 1920s - Personalities Lillian Russell in 1920 surrounded by a group of men admirers opera singer, John McCormack, on deck of ocean liner, 1928 Queen Marie of Roumaniadebarks ocean liner in USA tours Washington DC with politico (?) (soundtrack mentions J Butler Wright as Secy of State Actually Frank B Kellogg was Secy of State in 1926 Could this have been the Assistant Secy of State ?) cadets parade at West Point for Queen 01:23:00:00 B W 1929 - Mr and Mrs Lucky Lindy 1929 Charles Lindbergh & Anne Morrow Lindbergh seated in cockpits of biplanemake flight together 01:24:00:00 B W 1925 - Total Eclipse Giant telescope biplane Yale University observatory dirigible in flight overhead Moon passes in front of Sun (Jan 24, 1925) 01:25:25:00 B W 1922 - Fashions of the Day 1922 Models show evening gowns 01:26:23:00 B W 1928 - 1929 - Sports Golf champs, Gene Sarazen & Horton Smith, compete in Mexican OpenSarazen winsjokingly carts first prize money away in wheelbarrow, 1929 (voice audible) John Lockhart, racing car driver, crashes, gets killed at Daytona Beach during high speed test drive Tire blows after car reaches 232 mph, fatal car crash, 1928 01:28:37:00 B W 1912 - 1917 - RUSSIA 1912 - 1917 VS Czar Nicholas II reviews troops, 1912 Royal ceremony marking 300th reign of Romanovs Archduke Ferdinand's casket, 1914 closer look of Czar Nicholas reviewing troopssoldiers shout pledges as he passes them Russian troops march off to war mass crowds call for revolution street riot in Petrograd (St Petersburg) mass funeral procession, 1917 01:32:00:00 B W 1930 - Mt Vesuvius Erupts 1930 VS ** CU of molton lava flow building suddenly comes apart homeless survivors of disaster (Naples) excavation site at Pompeii 01:33:34:00 B W 1931, 1927 - Personalities Broadway's Fanny Brice, 1931 (voice audible) inventor, Guglielmo Marconi & wife, on deck of ocean liner, 1927 CU Norma & Constance Talmadge, silent screen stars 01:34:41:00 B W 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge 1937 VS construction of bridge: dirigible over it HA over the bridge's spans workmen work cables & lay 'mechanical spiders' panoramic view 01:36:11:00 B W 1928 - Fashions of the Day 1928 Models in Paris salon show latest dress styles CU latest in men's suits 01:37:30:00 B W 1928 - Aviation - Frank W Hawks (?) makes early glider flight, circa 1928 01:38:35:00 B W 1900 - 1948 - Sports Chick Evans beats Francis Ouimet in golf match, 00:26:37:00 B W 1918 champion ice skaters compete in outdoor speed skating race *** Exterminator wins 1918 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs (rare footage
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