Summary

YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS

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Title: YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS
File Number: VTM-78BF Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 00:50:57:00 B W 1917 - 1923 SARAH BERNHARDT, 1917-1923: Bernhardt holds rifle, MS large crowd of mourners outside the Sarah Bernhardt Theater in Paris at her funeral, her son Maurice in attendance funeral march down Paris streets 00:52:46:00 B W 1926 BUCKY HARRIS MARRIES, 1926: bride and groom Elizabeth Sutherland Harris and Bucky Harris, MS President Coolidge and his wife in attendance, WS 00:53:21:00 B W 1916 WWI LONDON BLITZ!, 1916: minor bomb damage on row houses in Ipswich bobby policemen hold up unexploded German bombs bike brigade of civilian men marching civilian men 00:54:47:00 B W 1910s - 1928 PERSONALITIES: 1928: Secy of the Treasury William McAdoo and President of Mexico Alvaro Obregon, MS 1910s: Constance Binny (sp?), Grace LaRue and Clifton Webb sell poppies outside the New York Public Library (sp?) Lupino Lane, MS, CU 00:56:08:00 B W 1928 FLASH FLOOD IN CALIFORNIA, 1928: people wade across the normally dry Santa Clara river bed as flash flood waters flow past damaged houses and muddy ground in aftermath of flood caused by collapse of St Francis Dam, waters have already receded, VS 00:58:13:00 B W 1920s SEAWORTHY AUTOS: early 1920s: in Atlantic City, amphibious car is driven into water from beach 00:59:07:00 B W 1930 AVIATION, 1930: aviators John and Kenneth Hunter perform mid-air re-fueling during their 23-day non-stop flight, POV AV crowd on airstrip greets the landing airplane the Hunter brothers, MS, CU 01:00:10:00 B W 1921, 1926 FASHIONS OF THE DAY: 1921: women model various fashionable ensembles 1926: Louise Claire (sp?), America's Loveliest Girl, MS, CU 01:01:30:00 B W 1922 - 1923 SPORTS: 1922: billiard champion Wellker Cochran performs some fancy moves on the billiard pool table, VS 1923: in Newburgh, New York, speed skater Joe Moore, MS speed skating race on short track on the ice, VS 01:03:27:00 B W 1927 LINDBERGH MAKES EPIC FLIGHT TO PARIS, 1927: Lindbergh and his mother stand beside the Spirit of St Louis preparations on the airfield before the flight, VS the airplane takes off Lindbergh in Paris after his successful Atlantic crossing, VS on balcony with US Ambassador Lindbergh disembarks down the gangplank of USS Memphis in Washington DC President Coolidge decorates Lindbergh, MS ships pack the harbor as seaplane carrying passenger Lindbergh lands Lindbergh in ticker-tape parade down the canyon of heroes Mayor Jimmy Walker decorates Lindbergh on steps of City Hall in Albany, Governor Al Smith decorates Lindbergh 01:07:38:00 B W 1920s RUDOLPH VALENTINO DIES, 1926: Valentino, CU, around 1920 mourners gathered outside funeral home in New York City Valentino lies in state, MS pallbearers load coffin into hearse 01:08:50:00 B W 1926 PARACHUTE CARRIES AIRPLANE, 1926: test flight of airplane that returns to ground via parachute, rather than conventionally landing, VS 01:09:43:00 B W 1926 DISASTERS HIT THE EAST COAST, 1926: ruined houses in Glen Cove, Long Island after tornado men clean up railroad tracks in Brooklyn after heavy rains cause embankment to collapse onto train cars 01:10:50:00 B W 1926 PERSONALITIES, 1926: Jack Dempsey, his wife Estelle Taylor (sp?) and Mayor Kendrick of Philadelphia visit site of an old boxing match Nancy Langhorne and Husband Lord Astor visit her birthplace in Greenwood, Virginia Governor Smith of New York and Governor Moore of New Jersey shake hands inside the Holland Tunnel at its opening ceremony 01:11:54:00 B W 1929 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1929: women model fashion ensembles, mostly furs, VS 01:12:45:00 B W 1926 SPORTS, 1926: tennis player Helen Wills, MS, CU plays practice match, VS Glena Colette in golf tournament, wins, receives trophy, VS swimmer Gertrude Ederle boxes in sparring match with man, lifts weights Ederle in the water as she swims across the English Channel Richards & Williams defeat (sp?) Brunueax & Cochet in Davis Cup doubles tennis match in Boston, VS British Ambassador Howard, MS Noah McIntyre (riding an Indian motorcycle) wins motorcycle hill-climbing contest in California desert, VS, wacky sports 01:15:37:00 B W 1910s - 1940s INDESTRUCTIBLE EDDIE: 1918: in France, WWI ace Eddie Rickenbacker in cockpit, CU, biplane takes off French General Girard decorates Rickenbacker in uniform, MS 1924: crowd greets Rickenbacker on airfield after completing first coast-to-coast mail run with his wife (sp?) Adelaide Durant, MS 1928: Rickenbacker lands the then world's largest airplane, built by Fokker, at Camden, New Jersey 1930: President Hoover decorates Rickenbacker with Congressional Medal of Honor early 1940s: Rickenbacker shakes hands with General Hap Arnold, gets into airplane weary Rickenbacker slowly climbs down out of airplane, after being rescued from lost ocean raft 1948: attends ground-breaking (?) ceremony for his company, Eastern Airlines 01:19:50:00 B W 1933 BOARDIN' WITH JORDAN, 1933: white angel Mrs Louis Jordan serves food to indigent men at her San Francisco encampment she ladles out the beans to two parallel lines of men with both hands the matronly Ma Jordon distributes shirts and jackets to the needy Great Depression victims, helps one man to put on shirt Warm, positive atmosphere, not the usual dreary poverty 01:20:46:00 B W 1920s PERSONALITIES: 1923: pharmacological pioneer Emil Quay (sp?), MS, CU 1922: Marjorie Rambeau, MS 1920s: King Christian X of Denmark, MS, CU 01:22:00:00 B W 1926 EXCURSION TO DISASTER, 1926: Hudson River Dayline ship lies along New Jersey pier half-submerged in the water 01:22:37:00 B W 1930 METHUSELAH, 1930: Zaro Agha Bey Effendi (sp?), allegedly 156 years old, MS, CU 01:23:09:00 B W 1919 AVIATION, 1919: Marjorie Stinson, MS, gets into airplane 01:23:45:00 B W 1927 PERILOUS PERCH, 1927: Shipwreck Kelly in flagpole sitting stunt atop the Hotel Belvedere in New York City, VS 01:24:27:00 B W 1919 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1919: older men and women engage in conversation at party, VS 01:25:42:00 B W 1928, 1931 SPORTS: 1931: Iron Bobby mechanical golf instructor illustrates the proper golf swing form to a group of women who watch and try to imitate his perfect swing, VS, wacky sports 1928: collegiate track and field events at Harvard University: runner Lumen wins foot race Krems wins shot put Ray Barbiutti wins 220-yard dash Sabin Karl wins pole vault 01:27:59:00 B W 1919 VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY SIGNED, 1919: WWI combat scenes General Douglas Haig and Georges Clemenceau outside the German headquarters in Paris Baron von Wersner (sp?) VS diplomats arriving at Versailles, including Jan Paderewski, Charles Evans Hughes, David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and Vittorio Orlando Hall of Mirrors scenes pages of the treaty, CU 01:30:49:00 B W 1935 WILL ROGERS AND WILEY POST DIE IN PLANE CRASH, 1935: last footage of the comedian and aviator alive, leaning against seaplane in Seattle Post, VS Post dons his stratosphere flight helmet Rogers, VS 01:32:52:00 B W 1928 PERSONALITIES: 1928: John D Rockefeller, Jr, MS Senators Gerald Nye, Thomas Walsh, John Kendrick and Bryson Cudahy (sp?) all investigating Rockefeller, MS 1934: Jimmy Walker and his wife, MS, in England, gives brief interview 01:34:18:00 B W 1927 US MARINES SAIL FOR WAR-TORN CHINA, 1927: Chiang Kai-shek's marching Nationalist soldiers in China Marshal Chang Tso-lin, MS, and his soldiers Brigadier General Butler and Colonel Miller, MS Colonel Harold Snyder, MS US Marines ship out from San Francisco Pier, VS 01:35:59:00 B W 1922 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1922: women in Miami model bathing suits, VS women in Paris model fashion ensembles 01:37:32:00 B W 1930, 1934 SPORTS: 1930: Golfer Bobby Jones takes a few swings at the National Amateur Crown tournament in Interlaken, Minnesota Jones makes putt, VS Jones is presented with the tournament trophy 1934: Glen Cunningham, Gene Bensky, Bill Bonthrom (sp?) and other runners in 1500-meter foot race in Milwaukee Bonthrom wins
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