Summary

THE JAZZ AGE

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: THE JAZZ AGE
File Number: DAV-5 1 inch; Beta SP; NET-518 Beta SP (at 01:00:00:00); DigiBeta
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1920
Subjects: Aerials
Description: B W 1920s - 1950s Documentary about 1920s America, made up of newsreel and feature film footage in quick montage (Some 1930s, even 1950s, footage appears) 00:00:00:00 B W 1919 VS Palace of Versailles crowds celebrate victory, WWI Georges Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando, & Woodrow Wilson, and his wife, Edith Wilson, arrive Versailles for peace conference Big Four together, Jan 18, 1919 00:02:22:00 B W 1920 Washington DC CU isolationist Senators William Borah & Hiram Johnson Henry Cabot Lodge at Senate Committee meeting VS President Woodrow Wilson, around country by railroad train, to crowds of people, 1920 (campaigning for League of Nations) 00:04:07:00 B W 1920s CU President Warren G Harding Harding plays golf soldiers on guard duty with rifles & machine guns unemployed veterans sitting around with nothing to do police beat up & arrest rioters (aliens) VS secret meeting of KKK in the woodsscary skull-mask burning cross KKK big parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC 00:08:00:00 B W 1920s VS small town main streetcar traffic young girl eating ice cream cone motorcycle policeman pulls car over to give driver ticket husband comes home from work in suburbskisses mother & small child 00:09:37:00 B W 1920s VS Wall Street, New York City INT & EXT New York Stock Exchange MONTAGE: Stock ticker tape superimposed over busy trading floor three women reading newspapers one puts on make-up, one chews gum, and another smokes a cigarette women wearing stylish fur coats, step into men's barbershop for haircut man, wearing straw hat, seated in car, drinks whiskey from bottle (Prohibition) man, also wearing straw hat, kisses his girl in front seat of car car, speeding along, filled with young couples screaming with delight & waving flapper, or It, girls go out on the town, dance Charlestoneveryone in a frenzy, having a 'wild' time (JAZZ AGE MONTAGE) 00:13:18:00 B W 1920s - 1950s MONTAGE CONTINUED: George Gershwin, seated at piano, playing with concert orchestra (early 1930s same clip as MT-62, but MOS) Paul Whiteman fronts orchestra, playing violin VS black musicians playing jazz couples dancing to latest music craze (although some film footage mixed in from 1950s) 00:14:25:00 B W 1920s - 1930s PROHIBITION AND CRIME MONTAGE: Much of 1930s footage mixed in - VS bootleggers smuggling whiskey CU hand knocks on door speakeasy man knocks on door of speakeasy, peephole window opens baby carriage filled with bottles of booze people drinking, crowded bar couples dancing, having a good time CU bartender mixes drinks & pours into glasses rolling barrelsmen stack them in delivery trucks truck crashes into car (hijacking) dry cleaning store & barbershop explode gangsters in ride-by car, machine gun and riddle cans (milk, beer ?) with holes hoodlum tortures victim gangsters shoot guns at police and use getaway car VS police arrest gangsters Al Capone under police guard, big sidewalk crowd outside courthouse Chicago mayor Big Bill Thompson & women 00:19:39:00 B W 1920s VS Duke of Windsor, Prince of Wales, Edward VIII, adoring crowds, mob and cheer him VS Queen Marie of Roumania arrives on ocean liner, Leviathan, as band plays on the dock for her (1926) TRAVEL MONTAGE: VS crowds on pier waving to passengers on departing ocean linerNew York City skyline (cityscape) at Battery VS passengers having fun, cruising on board ocean liner two men standing at bar pop down drinks chef takes a swig of wine from bottle as he cooks VS railroad train, passengers, CU railroad tracks at high speed VS, excellent montage of streets of Paris with dense traffic and loads of people rushing around 00:25:00:00 B W 1920s ENTERTAINMENT MONTAGE: Woman shops for jewelry in exclusive French department store models show off latest dress fashions Paris mainstem at night in lightselectric light spectaculars Moulin Rouge Cinema, Bal du Moulin Rouge, French Cancan, Folies - Bergere stage & night club performance Josephine Baker dances, gets wild applause (brief) drinkers at crowded cocktail bar MORE TRAVEL: VS Paris cityscape F Scott Fitzgerald, writing (brief) street artists of Left Bank people seated outdoor cafe enjoying drinks, smoking, talking, or just looking elderly man & young boy, selling newspapers on street 00:28:43:00 B W 1920s CHARLES A LINDBERGH FLIGHT, MONTAGE: Spirit of St Louis airplane takes off bundles of newspapers, just off presses, loaded into news delivery trucks CU individual headshots of people looking up at Lindbergh plane in flight people listen to radio for news storm clouds gather family in living room, listening to news on radio (re-creation of 1920s scene) newspaper boys running on street, hollering the news AV, lighthouse on rocky shore of Ireland VS Paris landmarks, night people listening to radio for news crowds pack airfield at night, waiting for Lindbergh plane to arrive big crowd rushes across airfield as Lindbergh plane comes in for landing (which happended on May 21, 1927, after flying non-stop from New York to Paris) VS Lindbergh arrives USA on navy ship his motorcade, Washington DC AV, New York Harbor filled with ships, greeting arrival of Lindbergh by seaplane (June 13, 1927) Lindbergh reviews parade of ships in harbor Lindbergh waves to crowds from limo (Grover Whalen, city official, seated in limo) children, on perch, waving back at Lindbergh vast crowds mob streets of Lindbergh route policemen hold back pushing crowds ticker tape parade up Broadway (** great shots of this, tho nothing at City Hall!) 00:38:00:00 B W 1920s SPORTS MONTAGE: Crowds, people, line up at ticket window Heavyweight Championship boxing match in which Jack Dempsey knocks down Gene Tunney, for famous Long Count, (but still lost decision and failed to regain his crown, July 22, 1927) Bill Tilden, tennis match (brief) VS sports spectator crowds in stands & stadiums Bobby Jones, golf (brief) racing cars speed around turns President Calvin Coolidge throws out first ball to start baseball game Babe Ruth hits home run, lifts cap to cheering crowds in ball park as he rounds bases big stadium crowd watches football game, forms letters in stands for Knute Rockne brief shot of him some football game action 00:40:20:00 B W 1920s POLITICS MONTAGE: Crowds cheer, wave flags, at Republican presidential convention CU Herbert Hoover, nomination speech to cheering delegates (August, 1928) Al Smith waves to delegates at Democratic convention jam packed convention floor, delegates waving placards (July, 1928) Al Smith motorcade parade, waves to crowds Herbert Hoover speaks to small town crowd from rear of railroad train (whistle stop') electioneering campaign truck for Hoover rides by AV of Broadway on election night cheering, waving crowds pack sidewalk New York Times Building news-zipper reads Hoover Electedbut, very brief electric light spectacular shows images of Hoover & Curtis 00:42:00:00 B W 1920s 'PROSPERITY' MONTAGE BULL STOCK MARKET VS, HA brokers & dealers trading on busy, crowded, floor of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) man, seated at office desk, smokes cigarette, reads newspaper financial pages INT brokerage officewall-size market trading board businessmen talk to each other on telephone stock market clerks take buy & sell orders for processing New York Stock Exchange Big Board brokers taking telephone orders just off Exchange floor Buy orders, zoom toward CAM (super-imposition, montage) exploding fireworks display at night VS New York City car trafficchauffeured cars: chauffeur stands in front of Rolls-Royce limousine, then CU of Rolls-Royce nameplate (brief, good) CU, LA, stacks of coins growing, fingers punching keys on cash register Broadway at night electric light spectaculars - Chevrolet, Pepsodent George M Cohan theater, Ziegfeld Follies, New Amsterdam Glorifying The American Girl, Paradise, Cotton Club, Hollywood Restaurant, 21 Club car pulls up to theater entrance, couple get out and go in to see the show night club musical number, showgirls on swings overhead of audience couples dancing near bandstand at Villa Vallee Rudy Vallee plays saxophone (brief) CU hands rubbing champagne bottle in ice bucketpouring into cocktail glass fingers playing saxblack band musicians play on stage Texas Guinan on stage (brief)followed by series of dance numbers in quick montage as ticker tape soars (to record high prices) 00:48:00:00 B W 1920s STOCK MARKET 'PANIC' MONTAGE Crowded trading floor of New York Stock Exchange brokers on telephone taking 'sell' orders (this time, fading away from CAM (super-imposition, montage WALL STREET PANIC) discarded paper on floor (NYSE ?), swept up
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