Summary

YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS
File Number: VTM-78BM Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 00:01:00:00 B W 1919 WINGS OF COMMERCE 1919: large WWI bomber biplane, converted for non-military use, is positioned on airfield aviators John Alcott and Arthur Brown in Milwaukee, another large converted bomber biplane takes off in Houston, children and spectators hold on to their hats as propeller of airplane about to take off whips up a wind daredevil man dangles himself from wing tip of biplane flying at a high altitude people get into open cockpit passenger bay fuselage of biplane for an early commercial flight passenger gets out of covered cockpit of airplane 1920s: passengers and their luggage get aboard airplane with an actual fuselage, VS 1923: in San Diego, aviators John MacCready and Oakley Kelly on airfield, preparing for transcontinental flight 1927: Charles Lindbergh, VS large group of boys, each plays with a model airplane and spins its propeller 1927: airplane of Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine pulls to a stop in Berlin, after 4000-mile flight, greeted by crowd large passenger seaplanes, taking off, VS, including the DOX airplane 1937: Captain Edwin Music (sp?) at the helm of a China Clipper Sikorsky Clipper airplane passengers on clipper at spacious dinner table, playing cards, woman at makeup mirror 1950s: an early Canadian commercial airline jet passenger plane takes off rocket lifts off, huge question mark graphic on screen, the unknown frontier of the future of space travel! 00:06:13:00 B W 1929 MRS ATLAS, 1929: in Vienna, daredevil Mrs Van Leer lies down in street and several cars slowly drive right over her body, painlessly, MS. [Wacky stunt, strongwoman, endurance test]. 00:06:45:00 B W 1922 LIE DETECTOR FREES MAN, 1922: "convicted killer Dudding" undergoes primitive non-polygraph lie detector test (it's a blood pressure test): doctor sets up the apparatus, three other men supervise and ask the questions the man shakes his head in response to the questions. Good shots, faked scenario. 00:07:18:00 B W 1921 PERSONALITIES, 1921: boy rides horse (Theodore Roosevelt, grandson of ex-President), CU, good shots actress Grace LaRue and Arnold Daley (sp?), MS LaRue and Hale Hamilton, MS financier Thomas Lamont, MS. 00:08:33:00 B W 1930 FIREWORKS EXPLODE, 1930: aftermath of explosions and fire at the Pennsylvania Fireworks Display Company firemen rake through and spray the still smoldering cinders amid waste and rubble wrecked cars, damaged houses, police and military cadets on patrol. 00:09:39:00 B W 1929 FREE GAS, 1929: in Black Daimond, Alberta, Canada: man stands beside oil pump at oil well, his head above frame line man pours gasoline through funnel into gas tank of car car approaches CAM, backs up and makes a K-turn, heads in opposite direction, all in fast-motion, comical. 00:10:11:00 B W 1930 THE BIG BELL, 1930: enormous bell is hoisted up from ground into the steeple of Riverside Memorial Church in New York City, VS. 00:11:06:00 B W 1936 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1936: Jack O'Brien's Reducing Salon: women use absurd exercise machines to reduce cellulite and flatten the stomach: in one excellent shot, two young women with more-than-adequate physiques sit astride a long, revolving cylinder covered by rows of small studs - nice phallic sexual metaphor, masturbatory other women hold onto strange apparatuses which move up and down and roll over their stomachs. Good sequence. [Fad, wacky machine, weight-loss machine, exercise]. 00:11:44:00 B W 1935 SPORTS, 1935: the Outboard Motorboat Regatta in Buffalo, New York, VS, two boats have small accidents, capsize and disgorge their occupants. 00:13:39:00 B W 1934 KING ALEXANDER I ASSASSINATED!, 1934: the King of Yugoslavia boards dinghy boat from the battleship "Dubrovnik" off the coast of Marseilles, France boats crowd the harbor and people crowd the street as the King comes ashore with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou greets various officials and gets into car car escorted by cavalry moves down street assassination scene: King in car lies mortally wounded as crowds around the carriage swirl in frenzy man (assassin?) lies on ground, trampled police struggle with crowd, etc. the King's successor, just a boy, Peter II, MS as he salutes. 00:16:37:00 B W 1939 DRAMATIC ATTEMPT TO SALVAGE SQUALUS, 1939: off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, crew men and Admiral Cowell of the salvage ship "Falcon" lower pontoons and air lines into the water in effort to raise sunken submarine, VS Commander Mayquin (sp?) of the "Squalus" diver in helmet is raised sunken pontoons rise with boiling white water, air bubbles the submarine raises its nose for a moment and then re-submerges. 00:18:27:00 B W 1932 US PAPER CURRENCY REDUCED, 1932: Secy of the Treasury Mellon and Assistant Secy Bond inspect uncut mint sheets of the new, smaller-size paper money. 00:19:40:00 B W 1922, 1926 PERSONALITIES, 1922: the Duncan Sisters sing for crowd in street and hold out collection baskets for donations to the American Relief Administration (for WWI relief in Europe) child actor Wesley Barry visits Chicago, VS, policeman carries the boy on his shoulder in middle of street crowd 1926: elderly horticulturist Luther Burbank CU, on his 77th birthday, stands over enormous birthday cake, counts the candles, cuts a big slice. 00:20:44:00 B W 1924 AVIATION, 1924: Army aviators complete their multi-airplane around-the-world flight, the first of its kind: Lieutenant Lowell Smith comes ashore from seaplane in Labrador, Canada and is greeted by officials the airplanes in flight seaplane lands in Boston Harbor Smith and the other aviators are greeted by officials and crowd at Boston Common, Mayor Curley (sp?) honors the aviators. 00:22:17:00 B W 1920 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1920: at Redondo Beach, California, women file through crowd as they model bathing suits in Chicago, women model fashion ensembles. 00:23:19:00 B W 1931, 1939 SPORTS: 1931: Ellsworth Vines defeats George Locke, Jr in National Championship tennis match in Forest Hills, VS Vines holds trophy cup 1939: the Grand Sweepstakes steeplechase horse race in England: horses and jockeys leave paddock, head for post the race, VS two jockeys are trampled horse and jockey stumble over obstacle and fall, in slow-motion horse "Workman" wins the horse in the winner's circle, a nimbus of steam rises from its body. 00:26:18:00 B W 1926 ADMIRAL BYRD IN FIRST FLIGHT OVER THE NORTH POLE, 1926: Byrd and his crew look over plans maps the expedition's Fokker airplane is prepared and snowpack runway is smoothed over by crew men, in Greenland the airplane, on skis, takes off, flies the North Pole, POV AV Byrd is greeted and cheered upon his return to the Greenland base camp Byrd, CU. 00:29:39:00 B W 1922 PERSONALITIES, 1922: newlyweds Marilyn Miller and Jack Pickford, after their wedding, on the grounds of Pickfair they kiss briefly, MS Douglas Fairbanks, Sr and Mary Pickford in attendance. 00:30:30:00 B W 1935 - 1942 LATEST LUXURY LINER, THE NORMANDIE, 1935-1942: the ocean liner "Normandie": the ship at sea and in New York Harbor, VS, POV AV the lavish INT: huge foyer doors are opened a palatial dining hall fancy swimming pool large murals the ocean liner moored at pier in New York City, on fire the ruined ship half-submerged alongside pier. 00:32:16:00 B W 1937 THE HINDENBURG EXPLODES!, 1937: here we go again. Hindenburg flies over New York City, approaches Lakehurst, New Jersey VS as the dirigible...explodes! and the skeletal wreck billows black smoke. 00:34:24:00 B W 1917 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1917: women in Paris model coats and skirts with thick fur trimming, and wide-brimmed hats, CU. 00:35:39:00 B W 1928 FAMOUS STARS PORTRAY SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS, 1928: as part of fundraising drive for new Shakespearean theater in England, various actors dress in period costume: George Arliss in costume as Shylock Ernest Lawford in costume as Malvolio Madge Kennedy in costume as Maria Peggy Wood in costume as Alice Leslie Howard in costume as Romeo and Dennis King in costume as Mercutio Beatrice Lillie in costume as Audrey Katherine Cornell in costume as Cleopatra sequence is step-printed. Good shots, but image quality better on ARI-14. 00:36:55:00 B W 1929 - 1930 SPORTS: 1929: golfers Horton Smith and Walter Hagen in golf tournament on Catalina Island, both drive and putt, VS winner Smith and Hagen shake hands "pocket billiard champion of the world" Ralph Greenleaf (sp?) shoots pool, makes fancy trick shots competitor Frank Dibursky (sp?) shakes his hand 1930: in Los Angeles, runner George Simpson wins the 220-yard dash Frank Wyckoff wins the 100-yard dash. 00:38:57:00 B W 1938 THE MUNICH PACT, 1938: Neville Chamberlain at desk, MS the signing of the Sudetenland agreement, in attendance are Hitler, Goering, Mussolini, Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Daladier Chamberlain in London announces the appeasement, cheers from crowd, VS Nazi occupation soldiers and Hitler in open convertible car cross the German-Czech border into Sudetenland, VS. 00:41:11:00 B W 1928 - 1936 BOULDER DAM, 1928-1936: construction site of the Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam), VS the dam starts operation, water pours through floodgates. 00:42:39:00 B W 1928 AVIATION, 1928: in Oakland, Aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew on airfield their airplane, the "Southern Cross" takes off in Sydney, Australia, crowds greet the crew after landing, VS. 00:43:46:00 B W 1927 PERSONALITIES, 1927: Ziegfeld girl Ruth Etting bends forward slightly, swivels body calisthenically, MS artist Raymond Katz draws a quick sketch of her, gives her the drawing in WWI war bond drive, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks animatedly address crowd in street from stage, VS. 00:44:47:00 B W 1923 THE ROYAL WEDDING OF THE DUKE OF YORK, 1923: crowds line the streets of London as royal procession and gilded carriage travels between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, VS King George V, Queen Mary and newlyweds the Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowles Lyon on balcony of Buckingham Palace. 00:46:09:00 B W 1914 FASHIONS OF THE DAY, 1914: woman sits in front of large vanity mirror and dressing table she tries on a series of hats and regards herself. 00:47:25:00 B W 1916 New York City TROLLEY STRIKE, 1916: vintage 1900s New York City street scene, trolleys streetcars, lower Broadway vicinity Fifth Avenue street scenes during 1916 strike, jitney buses meander down the crowded street striking trolley conductors and motormen on street march, hold signs a streetcar, MS. 00:48:20:00 B W 1920 SPORTS: 1920: girl holds parasol, WS cricket players walk onto field cricket match, VS the well-dressed, haughty spectators eat proper snacks on the sidelines, VS 1928: the Kentucky Derby horse race, from start to finish, "Raycount" wins, the horse in the winner's circle. Terrible-quality footage
}