Summary

YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS

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Title: YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS
File Number: VTM-78BG Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1900s, 1920s, 1930s - 1939
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 00:00:48:00 B W 1934 THE MORRO CASTLE TRAGEDY, 1934: white smoke bellows from burning "Morro Castle" ocean liner off coast of New Jersey, POV AV, VS woman who swam ashore is helped out of the water and carried away in a stretcher, VS survivors of the fire come ashore to New York City aboard the ocean liner "Monarch," VS Captain Francis of the "Monarch" other survivors come ashore via the ocean liner "Andrea F Luckenbach" Captain Henry Hill of the "Luckenbach" weary passengers are helped down gangplank, stretchers are carried. 00:03:47:00 B W 1925 BILLY MITCHELL EXILED FROM ARMY, 1925: people gathered outside courthouse of Mitchell's trial for disobeying criticizing his superiors trial scenes, brief shots General Summerall and other military officials, MS Major General Haus, CU WWII bombing footage, POV HA AV, ship directly below incurs direct hits. 00:05:23:00 B W 1920 PERSONALITIES, 1920: the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II walks down country lane in Netherlands, MS Enrico Caruso with his wife and baby, MS Douglas Fairbanks, Sr and Mary Pickford relax and play with their dogs, on grounds of Pickfair, VS. 00:06:33:00 B W 1933 MACHINE GUN KELLY CAPTURED!, 1933: Kelly and wife Kathy are led out of building in Memphis, Tennessee, handcuffed ("perp walk"), VS Kelly and wife Kathy on trial in Oklahoma City, VS courtroom kidnapping victim Charles Erschel (sp?) in the courtroom, MS Judge Volk (sp?) reads aloud the sentences of life imprisonment, CU Kelly is led out of the courtroom EXT Alcatraz, VS. 00:08:49:00 B W 1935 AMELIA EARHART MAKES RECORD PACIFIC FLIGHT, 1935: Earhart, VS lands airplane in Oakland Earhart makes little speech about the boon of traveling by commercial airline passenger plane, MS, dark. 00:10:17:00 B W 1914 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1914: women model clothing, mostly heinous fur bathing suits. 00:11:24:00 B W 1929, 1935 SPORTS: 1929: a 220-yard freestyle men's championship swimming race in Los Angeles Arne Borg wins, MS 1935: speed racer Malcolm Campbell, CU Campbell drives along dry lake bed in Utah in his car "Bluebird," VS. 00:13:24:00 B W 1928 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS SELECT CANDIDATES, 1928: crowded street outside Convention Hall in Kansas City during Republican National Convention, WS Senator George Moses, CU Secy of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, CU Chairman Butler of the Republican National Committee, MS Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis, MS, CU Will Rogers, Henry Morgenthau, Sr and John Davis, MS, attending the Democratic National Convention in Houston Alfred E Smith speaks from podium after being nominated (? in Albany ?) Hoover and Coolidge sit on lounge chairs together, MS Hoover campaign scenes, VS Smith campaign scenes, VS, including ticker-tape parade down "canyon of heroes" in New York City in Palo Alto, California, Hoover casts his vote, drops ballot in box Charles Curtis, MS Joseph Robinson casts his vote at the ballot box in Little Rock, MS Smith tips his hat, MS Hoover at table with family, MS. 00:18:16:00 B W 1928 AUTO ROCKET - GERMANS EXPERIMENT WITH JET PROPULSION, 1928: rocket-powered car drives down track, at moderate speed, leaves trail of thick white exhaust. 00:18:54:00 B W 1928 BYRD EXPEDITION SETS SAIL TO EXPLORE ANTARCTIC, 1928: Admiral Byrd and Captain Melville on deck of ship a crewman embraces his girlfriend, goodbye kiss, MS crewman yells through bullhorn Byrd's ship pulls out of New York Harbor, VS. 00:20:20:00 B W 1928 AVIATION, 1928: aviators Clarence Chamberlin and Roger Williams land their airplane at Mitchell Field, New York, MS, after record-length flight Chamberlin and Williams, CU New York City Mayor McKee honors Amelia Earhart on steps of City Hall the Graf Zeppelin dirigible in flight Hugo Eckener, MS, CU. 00:21:39:00 B W 1928 PERSONALITIES, 1928: the elderly John D Rockefeller plays golf, VS Thomas Edison in tuxedo with Andrew Mellon, MS, CU. 00:22:26:00 B W 1928 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1928: line of women model the utterly non-functional bathing suits of the 1890s, then take them off to reveal the stylish and form-fitting bathing suits of their own era, MS PAN women model hats, VS. 00:23:47:00 B W 1928 SPORTS, 1928: Johnny Weissmuller wins freestyle event at the National Men's Swimming Finals in San Francisco Weissmuller, MS Bobby Jones and Johnny Farrell, MS, at the National Open in Madison, Illinois golfer Jones swings Farrell sinks a put and wins tournament, crowd carries him on shoulders Farrell with trophy cup 1928 Olympics at Amsterdam: athletes march during opening ceremonies John Kuck makes a shot put, MS, CU Edward Hamm makes running long jump, slow-motion Robert King makes high jump, slow-motion runner Paavo Nurmi wins the 10,000-meter race. 00:26:43:00 B W 1933 HOLY YEAR, 1933: Pope Pius XI is carried in sedan chair through crowd to St Peter's Basilica during the Feast of Divine Maternity Pope greets the Vatican crowd from balcony. 00:27:52:00 B W 1930s FLOATING CABARET, early 1930s: couples dance on deck of ship, day scene one free-spirited woman does weird dance alone. 00:29:19:00 B W 1939 RETURN BOUT, 1939: ex-boxers Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey play-fight and briefly waltz with one another, MS. 00:30:08:00 B W 1920s PERSONALITIES, 1920: Assistant Secy of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, Jr and Republic National Chairman Will Hays, MS Roosevelt and Rear Admiral Plunkett inspect ocean liner "America" at the Brooklyn Navy Yard opera singer Marion Talley sits on rock in Central Park, MS 1929: Talley with her mother, MS, CU 1925: explorer Don McMillan greeted by crowds and Navy personnel as he prepares to disembark in search of "lost continent" in Maine, Governor Brewster and General Greeley greet McMillan. 00:31:55:00 B W 1929 BLIZZARD CRUSHES CHICAGO, 1929: snow and wind batter the city streets, low visibility, VS circus elephants are walked down streets during snowfall snow plows at work. 00:33:06:00 B W 1926 ARMY MINES SAN FRANCISCO BAY, 1926: mines are lowered from ship by soldiers in training exercise mines explode in the water, WS. 00:34:06:00 B W 1926 PAVING THE WAY, 1926: officials stand on the road during opening ceremony of new road through Yosemite National Park Indians in traditional clothing, racist VO: "The local Indians are whooping it up, no doubt thinking that now they'll be able to sell their blankets and trinkets all year-round!" Governor Richardson stands up in car, the first to travel the length of the new road. 00:35:03:00 B W 1928 AVIATION, 1928: Amelia Earhart and her crew come ashore from seaplane after landing in Southampton, England, Mayor greets them Earhart, CU. 00:35:45:00 B W 1926 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1926: women model bathing suits in beauty contest in front of crowd of men, VS. 00:36:35:00 B W 1923, 1929 SPORTS: 1923: Tommy Milton drives hot rod-style car along dry lake bed in effort to set land speed record of 151 mph, VS 1929: men grease up their bodies in preparation of 15-mile swim race in Toronto, MS the swimmers dive into the water the hundreds of swimmers in the water, VS boat follows the leader, Edward Keating winner Keating wrapped in blanket, MS. 00:39:04:00 B W 1890s - 1919 THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1890s-1919: Roosevelt, VS cavalry soldiers, possibly Rough Riders, ride through field, Spanish-American War footage??? mounted policemen bludgeon rioters Navy sailors climb up and down rigging of ship Washington, DC in 1905: parade and Roosevelt in horse-drawn carriage, inauguration scenes, VS ship passes through the Panama Canal Roosevelt makes speech around time of WWI. 00:42:10:00 B W 1926 HOUDINI IN DEATH DEFYING FEAT, 1926: on outdoor stage, men tie Houdini in a straitjacket, MS Houdini is then suspended upside-down by a pulley, several storeys up, and Houdini easily escapes from the straitjacket. 00:42:57:00 B W 1931, 1928 PERSONALITIES: 1931: evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson and her third husband, David Hutton, MS MacPherson speaks, with her usual silly, dense bombast 1910s: Theda Bara, MS 1928: Sir Harry Lauder leads a a bagpipe marching band Lauder with Sir Thomas Lipton. 00:44:47:00 B W 1925 THE DARWIN CASE, 1925: outside the Scopes monkey trial courthouse are John Scopes, Clarence Darrow and Duffy Malone, MS INT crowded courtroom Darrow speaks in the courtroom, MS William Jennings Bryan speaks in the courtroom, MS good shots. 00:46:04:00 B W 1928 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1928: women model outfits, mostly furs, on catwalk in fashion show women model hats, CU. 00:47:00:00 B W 1936 JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, 1936: severe flood in residential area, POV AV house floats away with flood waters, WS people run down city street in a panic, toward higher ground, reads well as riot, disaster, etc. 00:47:41:00 B W 1927 AVIATION, 1927: aviatrix Ruth Elder and her co-pilot George Halderman, MS, CU Elder in airplane after landing in France the well-dressed Elder and her husband Lyle Womack, MS, CU Elder signs theatrical contract. 00:48:52:00 B W 1930, 1932 SPORTS: 1930: swimmer Eleanor Holm, CU Holm does the backstroke in swim race in New York 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles: Mildred "Babe" Didrikson throws javelin Lillian Copeland throws discus Ed Gordon makes a running long jump Leo Sexton makes shot put Patrick O'Callaghan makes hammer throw Eddie Tolan wins the 100-meter dash
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