Summary

YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS

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Title: YESTERDAY'S NEWSREELS
File Number: VTM-78BL Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Description: B W 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, - 1947 Newsreels Of Past On Television 00:50:00:00 B W 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, - 1947 - The Inevitable Dime (of The Rockefellers) Series of retrospective bio shots: Oil well gushes oil field filled with derricks early cars Rockefeller's Florida home JDR hands out dime on way into church swings golf club John D Rockefeller Jr at his Williamsburg, Virginia historic site John D Rockefeller Sr leaves church service RCA Building Nelson Rockefeller hands Trygve Lie check for purchase of United Nations site Mayor William O'Dwyer & Robert Moses look on 00:54:20:00 B W 1936 - Philadelphia Zithers' 1936 Convention of zither players gather to play concert 00:55:00:00 B W 1920 - Personalities 1920 Football coach Fielding Yost of Michigan U socialite, OHP Belmont, former society queen cowboy movie actor 'Hoot' Gibson 00:56:23:00 B W 1913 - Beautiful Ohio ? 1913 Flooded streets of Cincinnati people flee flood waters devastated street filled with wrecked homes 00:57:35:00 B W 1928 - Measure For Love 1928 Columbia U professor tests reaction of women watching movie love scenes between Garbo & Gilbert His invention a 'love meter' machine that records emotional responses to erotic optical stimuli 00:58:18:00 B W 1930 - Aviation 1930 AVs over Crater Lake, Oregon, viewed from Army Air Force bi-planes 00:59:22:00 B W 1919 - Fashions Of The Day 1919 Pretty model with daring hairdo, looks into mirrorshows & flutters variety of fans couple of bathing beautys show off swim suits Palm Beach, Fla 01:00:37:00 B W 1928 - Sports VS Matthew McGrath, Olympic Hammer Throw Gold Medal winner shows his record breaking form also in slow-motion McGrath wearing his New York City police captain's uniform (McGrath competed in Olympics from 1912-1932) horse race counter clockwise on race track Alacrity wins Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom Downs, 1928 01:02:40:00 B W 1930s - Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) VS warfare between Army General Francisco Franco's insurgent, rebel, Nationalist, & Fascist forces and government's Republican, Loyalist, and volunteer forces: crowds mobilizing to fight (July, 1936) armed fighting women streets patroled under martial law by tanks (Madrid) great shot of civilians attacking with rifles under fire in woods church on fire rebel artillery & soldiers attack and take Irun (Sept, 1936) Franco reviews troops (gives Fascistic Nazi salute) artillery & warplanes bomb Madrid scenes of war & devastation in Madrid artillery & warplane attack & take town near Barcelona Franco as victor (Madrid fell March 29, 1939, ending Civil War) 01:06:22:00 B W 1910 - Aviation 1910 PAN people at St Louis fairgrounds seated in stands for early airplane racing event French 'Dragonfly' monoplane outflies American Wright Brothers model 01:07:27:00 B W 1910s - 1930s - Personalities CU Adolphe Menjou in mid 1920s Albert Einstein on visit to New York City, 1930 opera singer, Schumann-Heink, at stadium filled with soldiers to sing National Anthem (circa 1918) 01:08:35:00 B W 1927 - The S-4 1927 Deep Sea divers help salvage sunken submarine (after disaster off Provincetown, Mass) submarine in Boston harbor dry dock rites & salute aboard ship to victim sailors CU sailor exhibits new 'rescue lung' device 01:11:08:00 B W 1919 - Police Strike 1919 Soldiers replace cops on duty Cu Governor Calvin Coolidge Coolidge inspects formation of policemen In Boston, Mass 01:12:00:00 B W 1914 - Fashions Of The Day 1914 Women's horseback riding outfit & ice skating clothes Interesting shot of sleeves forming into a muff Also, stylish winter fur hat 01:12:56:00 B W 1917, 1929 - Sports ** Excellent and unusual shot of racing cars speeding around high angled turns At Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn New York, 1917 VS ski jumpers Brattleboro, Vermont, 1929 01:15:00:00 B W 1923 - Forbidden City Of Tibet 1923 VS first photographs ever of region & peoples (Rohrick Expedition) : Giant Buddah tapestry Petola palace in Lhasa prayer wheels spin people wear ceremonial monster masks perform ritual dance finally, ms Dalai Lama 01:18:40:00 B W 1924 - Gold! 1924 Gold rush settlement men dig & pan for gold in Nevada hills mine shaft & hut Gilbert Brothers who started the Rush 01:20:10:00 B W 1934 - Trainer Trains Caged Beasts 1934 *** Clyde Beatty works with chair & whip to tame tigers & lions for circus act 01:21:00:00 B W 1938, 1921 - Personalities Wrong Way Corrigan weds, 1938 Chorus girl performs high kicks in slow-motion It's Evelyn Law She stopped the show in 'Two Little Girls In Blue' by Vincent Youmans, 1921 01:22:20:00 B W 1934 - The King Is Dead Long Live The King 1934 VS funeral procession for Albert of Belgium 01:24:00:00 B W 1930 - 60 Foot Head Of President Unveiled 1930 VS construction of Mount Rushmore Memorial: CU sculptor Gutzon Borglum blast clears, reveals face of George Washington unveiling ceremony South Dakota 01:25:00:00 B W 1920 - Fashions Of The Day 1920 Bathing Suit fashion show 01:25:45:00 B W 1936 - Sports 1936 Racing cars speed through Monaco Crash 01:27:35:00 B W 1919 - 1920 - Historic Steel and Coal Strike 1919-1920 VS workers on strike at steel mills, including women pickets soldiers guard & patrol struck mills in Gary, Indiana with machine gunsCU General Leonard Wood Personalities involved in talks CU Bernard Baruch William Wilson, Secy of Labor John L Lewis, President UMW William Green & Samuel Gompers, labor union leaders A Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General military tent city 01:30:00:00 B W 1930 - Welcome To Hollywood 1930 Actor James Dunn introduces three actress newcomers to Mayor of Los Angeles Linda Watkins, Conchita Montenegro, and Helen Mack They toast to starlet success with glasses of orange juice 01:31:36:00 B W 1920 - Ossining Cornerstone 1920 Governor Al Smith, New York, attends ceremony for opening of Sing Sing prison clinic 01:32:17:00 B W 1923, 1920 - Personalities Director Max Reinhardt, deck of ocean liner, 1923 artist illustrator, Norman Rockwell & wife 'Judge' (Kenesaw Mountain) Landis, new Baseball Commissioner, 1920 01:33:34:00 B W 1928 - London Streets Ravaged From Explosion 1928 VS streets after blast 01:34:11:00 B W 1927 - Super-Structure 1927 Dedication ceremony for highway bridge in Crockett, California 01:35:20:00 B W 1930s - Aviation, early 1930s British air show highlights RAF precision flying and parachute jumpers planes stunt & hedgehop close to spectators 01:36:55:00 B W 1927 - Fashions Of The Day 1927 Woman gets a Bob hairdo 01:38:00:00 B W 1927 - Sports Finish of cross country marathon race (Bunyon Derby) from New York City to Los Angeles, California, 1927 crew race
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