Summary

MISC. NEWSREEL #11

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Title: MISC. NEWSREEL #11
File Number: ARI-11 Beta SP (PAL)
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 00:00:26:00 B W 1950s FIRST HELICOPTER MAIL SERVICE, 1950s: "New York Skybus" helicopter is rolled out of hangar mailbags are loaded aboard rotor blades begin to spin helicopter makes flight between New York City airports helicopter touches down on landing pad mailbags are unloaded into truck. 00:01:29:00 B W 1950s POPE PIUS XII, 1950s: two Papal guards Vatican soldiers take positions inside arched palace gate Pope Pius greets crowd from balcony of his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo. 00:02:01:00 B W 1950s TITO WITNESSES PLANE CRASH, 1950s: in Cambridgeshire, England airbase, President Tito of Yugoslavia looks into cockpit of British fighter plane Tito shoots a flare gun into air to begin an air show squadron of fighter planes begins to taxi squadron flies in formation firemen spray fire retardant foam over wreckage of crashed fighter plane plane crash scene: wreckage is scattered evenly over wide treeless field. 00:03:55:00 B W 1940s - 1950s DeGASPERI VISITS CHURCHILL, 1940s 1950s: Churchill and Alcide DeGasperi have meeting in a London garden, MS, CU. 00:04:34:00 B W 1940s - 1950s SINKING DUTCH OCEAN LINER, 1940s 1950s: men in lifeboat are lowered from ship, MS lifeboat full of passengers from the ocean liner Klipfontein is lowered from ship, is rowed in ocean the sinking Klipfontein off the coast of Mozambique Klipfontein submerges. 00:05:50:00 B W 1950s BRITAIN'S NORTHEAST COAST FLOODS, circa 1950: AVs of flooded villages and farmland derelict truck in flooded street man carries woman as he wades down street woman huddles in blanket as people get into rowboat people walk along dikes men fill sandbags. 00:07:12:00 B W 1940s - 1950s PHILADELPHIA TRANSIT WORKERS STRIKE, 1940s 1950s: trolleys streetcars idle in the depot striking workers walk the picket line in front of depot parked cars utilize the unused streetcar tracks as parking spaces commuters wait in long lines on sidewalk for taxicabs, chartered buses and the like. 00:08:03:00 B W 1940s - 1950s BALTIMORE CITY WORKERS ON STRIKE, 1940s 1950s: strikers on picket line children run out of side-door exit of school, "girls" is engraved over door children play on swings outside of school men empty garbage cans over burning pile in middle of field. 00:08:53:00 B W 1940s - 1950s "EMPRESS OF CANADA" SHIP BURNS AT DOCK, 1940s 1950s: firemen spray hoses on and climb on the half-capsized ocean liner in Liverpool, England. 00:09:38:00 B W 1940s - 1950s "CROWN PRINCE FREDERICK" SHIP FIRE, 1940s 1950s: the Danish ocean liner lies half-capsized alongside dock in Harwich, England smoke pours through hull vents as emergency crew man feeds firehose through vent to firemen inside ship. 00:10:21:00 B W 1950s VICE PRESIDENT NIXON AT UNITED NATIONS, 1950s: United Nations building, TD Nixon gets out of car, enters United Nations Nixon with Madame Pandit Vijaya Lakshmi Nixon and others on dais in the General Assembly hall, preparing for session. 00:11:44:00 B W 1920s DIRIGIBLE CARRIES AIRPLANE, 1920s: aviator ? Haig in airplane attached to underside of dirigible in mid-air the airplane detaches and drops the airplane approaches the dirigible to re-attach itself (not shown) Haig climbs inside the dirigible Haig, MS. [Daredevil stunt, aerial trick]. 00:12:23:00 B W 1925 WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN BURIED AT ARLINGTON, July 26, 1925: Bryan's flag-draped coffin is loaded aboard hearse coffin is carried from hearse into chapel long line of people stretching down sidewalk passes by the open casket as Bryan lies in state the coffin is borne toward grave site underneath tent at Arlington in attendance at the funeral are Secretary of State Frank B Kellogg, Josephus Daniels and Frank Morrison. Good pall bearer shots. 00:13:34:00 B W 1928 LINDBERGH AIRPORT IS DEDICATED IN SAN DIEGO, 1928: plaque unveiled dedicating Lindbergh Airport, CU squadron of biplanes flies over the new airport and crowd of onlookers, POV ground and AV another phalanx or airplanes decorates the sky with trails of thick white skywriter-like smoke. 00:14:53:00 B W 1920s ??? FRENCH DEBT MISSION MEETS WITH US OFFICIALS, late 1920s: meeting of officials regarding the French debt to the US lots of stodgy old white men pour onto steps of Washington, DC building: Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, Secretary of State Frank Kellogg, President Hoover and Joseph Marie Auguste among them. 00:15:16:00 B W 1920s PRINCETON WINS BOAT RACE, 1920s: crews from Harvard, Yale and Princeton Universities row their shells in boat race on the Charles River, pass beneath bridge, Boston in BG. Good shots of this sport, POV moving boat. 00:16:03:00 B W 1925 "STING" WINS IN PHOTO FINISH, 1925: crowd of men in straw hats at Belmont Park, New York City a horse race (Belmont Stakes ???), starting gate not shown, "Sting" beats "Cherry Pie" by a nose Sting and jockey in the saddle after the race, MS. 00:17:29:00 B W 1920s COLISEUM IS DEDICATED TO THE CHURCH, 1920s: church procession through crowd in the Coliseum in Rome to reconsecrate it as site of martyrdom. 00:17:56:00 B W 1920s TIBETAN YAK FIGHT, 1920s: two male yaks lock horns in fight on barren hillside in Tibet, WS. 00:18:32:00 B W 1920s ALLENTOWN FIRE, 1920s: EXT of the badly damaged Lafayette Hotel after a fire, in Allentown, Pennsylvania fire engine in street icicles hang from clotheslines. 00:19:02:00 B W 1920s JAPANESE AVIATORS MAKE TOKYO-PARIS FLIGHT, 1920s: at Paris airfield, crowd of Japanese people waving many small Japanese flags greets two Japanese aviators as they pull their biplane to a stop after completing flight with stops on three continents the aviators receive flowers the aviators, CU. 00:19:32:00 B W 1920s KING GEORGE V ATTENDS AIR SHOW, 1920s: two men with parachutes fall through sky as the two biplanes from which they jumped fly away above them King George V at the Hendon, England air show, shakes hands with and greets various people a biplane squadron, POV ground and AV biplanes drop bombs, explosions. 00:20:31:00 B W 1920s EXPLOSION IN ST LOUIS, 1920s: hectic street scene in front of building with damaged ground floor, blown-out windows due to gas explosion firemen and others work in the street. 00:20:54:00 B W 1909 JACK JOHNSON VS STANLEY KETCHEL IN HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT, October 16, 1909: early footage of a championship boxing Match. 00:21:22:00 B W 1933 JACK SHARKEY VS PRIMO CARNERA HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT, June 29, 1933: championship boxing match Carnera is knocked down (but goes on to win match, not shown). 00:22:01:00 B W 1945 AIRPLANE CRASHES INTO EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, July 28, 1945: the Empire State Building shrouded by fog, smoke rising from 79th floor, LA firemen inside building spray water from hose ambulance, firemen, and emergency crew men help injured woman on street firemen and others inspect the gaping hole on the 79th floor, caused by B-25 bomber plane which crashed into the building during fog, VS. 00:23:11:00 B W 1951 DiMAGGIO RETIRES FROM BASEBALL, 1951: in double-header games against Washington on June 29, 1941 DiMaggio hits double to tie George Sisler's post-1900 hitting streak record of 41 games, then a single to set new record of 42 games DiMaggio and Casey Stengel in dugout, CU DiMaggio in batting practice DiMaggio speaks into microphone at press conference, probably announcing his retirement DiMaggio hits a homerun. 00:25:11:00 B W 1930s J EDGAR HOOVER AND GANGSTERS, 1930s: Hoover speaks from behind desk, MS gangster (???) in handcuffs and ankle irons is led out of airplane and across tarmac under heavy guard of G-men men stand over corpse of Pretty Boy Floyd, one points out bullet hole, MS John Dillinger, CU corpse of Baby Face Nelson, arms behind head, a fly around his armpit, MS confiscated gangster guns the Karpis-Barker gang (???) seated behind table, MS the Karpis-Barker house hideout, man points out bullet holes in walls and windows two almost fake-looking corpses, maybe Kate and Fred Barker (???). 00:26:29:00 B W 1926 GLADYS INGLES REPAIRS CRIPPLED AIRPLANE, 1926: biplane flying, has only one landing wheel, CU aviatrix Ingles straps a spare wheel to her back, gets on wing of taxiing biplane, biplane takes off once alongside the other biplane in mid-air, she fearlessly jumps over and screws in the spare wheel biplane lands with Ingles riding on the wing Ingles and the rescued pilot, MS. [daredevil stunt rescue attempt, etc.]. 00:28:12:00 B W 1926 JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA FLOOD, 1926: people leave their homes in flooded town via rowboat and raft man and woman stand on their house's porch overhang as flood waters flow briskly by below them wading flood victims horse is led through water up to his neck flood victims eat and sit in large hall filled with cots men clean up the town, shovel deposited silt, etc., in the messy streets hands reach into wet, muddy cash register drawer, CU. 00:30:23:00 B W 1926 RUDOLPH VALENTINO DIES, August 23, 1926: two women are hooked up to primitive EKG-like machine kymograph which records their "emotional responses" as they watch Rudolph Valentino kissing a woman in film "Son of the Sheik" (CLIP FROM FILM REMOVED) Valentino, CU newspaper headline reporting Valentino's death corpse of Valentino lies in state, MS, brief shot Valentino's wife (?) in black mourning clothes and veil gets into car, crying pall bearers solemnly leave building pall bearers and mourners leave church, coffin is loaded into hearse a few CU shots from "Son of the Sheik". 00:32:55:00 B W 1940s - 1950s "TEMPO VI" WINS speed boat RACE, 1940s 1950s: bandleader Guy Lombardo wins speed boat race in his Tempo VI Lombardo in the winner's circle receives trophies Lombardo, CU. 00:34:15:00 B W 1926 FLORIDA HURRICANE, September 1926: damaged buildings and wet streets in Florida city (Pensacola ?) after hurricane. 00:34:57:00 B W 1910s WOMAN SUFFRAGE, 1910s: suffragettes hold anti-Republican party banners marching suffragettes suffragettes distribute white feathers women in bulky, uncomfortable-looking dresses climb over fence flapper woman in collar and tie hikes up her skirt as she dances the Charleston, marching band in BG woman barber at work President Harding in middle of crowd of suffragettes. 00:37:06:00 B W 1938 DON BUDGE WINS TENNIS GRAND SLAM, 1938: Budge in various Grand Slam tennis matches (finals ?), jumps over net after winning Budge swept the Grand Slam events this year, and he won each Wimbledon event. 00:38:58:00 B W 1956 ANDREA DORIA SINKS, July 1956: ocean liner Andrea Doria steadily sinks the ocean liner Stockholm with a huge gaping hole at its bow survivors of the collision between these two ships crowd the deck of the ocean liner Ile de France. 00:40:08:00 B W 1955 LAST RIDE ON THE THIRD AVENUE EL IN New York City, May 1955: near the 149th Street station demonstrators with signs protest against the demolition of the el train stops at station, crowd of passengers gets on for the last time, many hold still cameras or movie cameras El tracks, POV front of moving train. [End of an era, last New York City El to be torn down]. 00:41:10:00 B W 1957 BENNY HOOPER, JR, May 1957: emergency workers gathered in suburban backyard in Manorville, Long Island, New York in effort to rescue boy who fell into well man cuts section of corrugated aluminum cylinder with torch priest administers last rites boy is carried by stretcher through crowd into ambulance boy in hospital bed with stuffed animal and sack full of fan mail. [rescue operation emergency crew]. 00:42:37:00 B W 1937 AMELIA EARHART'S LAST FLIGHT, July 1937: Earhart with floral bouquet, receives applause, MS, CU donning aviator's hood waving from cockpit airplane takes off: her last flight, on which she disappears over the Pacific. 00:43:37:00 B W 1920s AERIAL STUNT, 1920s: daredevil man rides on wing of flying biplane dangles himself into air, climbs onto top wing grabs hold of wing tip of another biplane, climbs onto wing. 00:45:15:00 B W 1920s PRINCE OF WALES JIMMY WALKER, 1920s: New York City street scene, brief shots the Prince of Wales (Edward II) shakes hands with WWI (?) soldiers in wheelchairs Prince of Wales horseback riding [while visiting New York?] Betty Compton, CU parade down "canyon of heroes" New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker with wife Betty Compton on the steps of City Hall. 00:46:35:00 B W 1930 ADMIRAL BYRD ON EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTICA, 1930: Byrd and other explorer in their bulky parkas, MS airplane takes off from snowfield, flies above Antarctica quonset hut-style shelter garbage mound and supply crates, CU shots of Heinz baked beans, Fry's cocoa and the like shots of a later (1950s ?) expedition, men getting off of airplane. 00:48:08:00 B W 1930s HORSE RACES, 1930s: VS horses come down the stretch, MS in slow-motion. 00:50:10:00 B W 1900s - 1910s THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1900s 1910s: in vicinity of his Sagamore Hill home in Oyster Bay, New York: Roosevelt dismounts and feeds horse Roosevelt, CU Roosevelt walks with ax slung over shoulder Roosevelt chops down a tree Roosevelt converses with a Girl Scout troop. Roosevelt on hunting expedition safari in Africa, crosses stream on horse with long caravan of native bearers. 00:51:27:00 B W 1947 AMMONIUM NITRATE EXPLOSION IN TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, April 16 - 19, 1947: smoke plumes darken sky, road sign in FG reads "Texas City" black plumes of smoke rise from burning factories in coastal industrial park, POV AV smoldering factory ruins, warped, skeletal steel building frames lot piled with toppled cars emergency crew men on road quonset hut sign reads "Monsanto Chemical Company". Fires caused by explosion aboard ship just off coast [industrial accident].
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