Summary

MISC. NEWSREEL #13

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Title: MISC. NEWSREEL #13
File Number: ARI-13 Beta SP (PAL)
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 00:00:25:00 B W 1900s ANTIQUE CARS, circa 1900s: magazine advertisements or posters for early-model cars, VS man and woman ride in small, rudimentary car man winds up the engine crank of his car, has difficulty starting the engine, puts up the convertible roof as it looks like rain three people sit in car, it shakes from side to side after the engine starts a carriage-shaped car street scene, traffic jam, policeman directs traffic. Poor quality, totally washed-out. 00:02:39:00 B W 1941 JAPAN ATTACKS PEARL HARBOR, December 7, 1941: Japanese envoy Saburo Kurusu deplanes in Washington, DC speaks into microphone Kurusu, Ambassador Nomura Kichisaburo and Cordell Hull on their way to the White House, MS Japanese AV footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor, VS, good long sequence twisted wrecks and half-sunken battleships in aftermath of attack, POV boat. 00:05:33:00 B W 1910s MONTAGE OF PEACE TREATIES AND FORMAL SURRENDERS: French plaque commemorating the WWI German surrender in a train car at Compiegne, CU dignitaries gathered in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles to sign treaty to end WWI, 1919 Hitler, Marshal Petain, and various French and German officials enter the Compiegne train car, where Petain signs WWII surrender of France on June, 22 1940 Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery accepts the unofficial German surrender inside field tent at Lunenberg Heath on May 4, 1945 the official German surrender by General Gustav Jodl (assisted by General Admiral Hans Friedeburg) at Reims schoolhouse, presided over by General Walter Bedell Smith, VS, May 7, 1945 Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Honma of Japan sign documents of surrender, followed by General Wainwright (?), aboard the USS Missouri, September 2, 1945. 00:09:13:00 B W 1900s BRITISH ROYALTY: London street scenes, circa 1901 portrait of Queen Victoria Queen Victoria's funeral march King Edward VII, MS King Edward VII on visit to the WWI front, brief shot Edward, Prince of Wales on visit to America, shakes hands with WWI veterans in wheelchairs and rides in paddle boat with Wallis Simpson with their dog, circa 1930s the funeral march of King George VI, February 6, 1952: George VI and his wife Elizabeth (?) in carriage the hearse, MS the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, June 2, 1953, VS Elizabeth and Prince Philip Mountbatten wave from balcony after their wedding on November 20, 1947, MS. 00:12:01:00 B W 1910s WWI: soldiers marching, various countries, VS Kaiser Wilhelm II reviews soldiers, VS, circa 1910 WWI combat montage, most of it is obviously staged biplane drops bomb, brief shot President Wilson signs the US declaration of war on April 6, 1917, MS marching US soldiers blindfolded men draw straws in early draft lottery General John Pershing, VS Pershing with Marshal Ferdinand Foch large contingent of American soldiers walks down road coffin of America's unknown soldier is laid on catafalque in Washington, DC. 00:15:52:00 B W 1948 THE BERLIN AIRLIFT, 1948: cargo planes landing, VS General Lucius Clay on airstrip men unload supplies from cargo plane people scaling the wall of a building, WS crowded street, people in fist fights in crowded Berlin street a United Nations Security Council meeting on the USSR Russian blockade USSR Ambassador to the United Nations Andrey Vyshinsky speaks, MS USSR Ambassador ( spokesman ?) to the United Nations Jacob Malik in New York City after ending the blockade of Berlin, MS, May 12, 1949. 00:17:49:00 B W 1920...1940 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: William Jennings Bryan, MS 1920 Republican Convention, GOP elephant mascot Warren G Harding, MS marching suffragettes hold anti-Republican party banners Harding in the middle of large group of suffragettes William G McAdoo speaks at podium of 1924 Democratic National Convention FDR at podium nominates Al Smith for President, 1924 Democratic National Convention 1924 Democratic candidate John W. Davis, MS Calvin Coolidge and wife wave from rear railing of train car, MS Coolidge wears Indian feather headdress, surrounded by Indians also in headdresses Al smith, MS FDR at podium nominates Al Smith for President at the 1928 Democratic National Convention Herbert Hoover, brief shot side profile, CU FDR sworn in at podium at his inaugural ceremony, MS Alfred Landon at podium as he is nominated at the 1936 Republican National Convention, MS Wendell Willkie insane at the podium as he is nominated at the 1940 Republican National Convention, MS Thomas Dewey at podium, MS President Eisenhower makes speech in House of Representatives, Vice President Nixon in is seat in BG, MS. 00:21:36:00 B W 1910s - 1920s 1916 EASTER RISING-related footage or possibly War of Independence-related material (perhaps both). Dublin, Ireland. Opens on Sackville Place (now O'Connell Street in Dublin's City Center) at General Post Office (GPO - central location of fighting and rebel stronghold). British soldiers and armored cars on street - boys have fun being chased by Brits. VS Eamon de Valera speaks - possibly on US fundraising and speaking tour in 1919 after he escaped from prison. MS "Black and Tan" soldiers patrol rubble-filled street, keep watch over crowd General Sir Neville Macready (probably ? (unlikely as woman in entourage is wearing a Tara brooch on her coat - more likely Anglo-Irish VIPs of some sort) and entourage, British negotiator with Sinn Fein British soldiers and Irish people during street rioting, VS Brits search cars, bus, roadblocks. Young man with cart says something to occupying force and soldier approaches him, city scene. British soldiers board ship to leave Ireland after Irish Free State is formed, 1921. Muddled sequence, poor shots. 00:24:17:00 B W 1958 BALTIMORE COLTS VERSUS NEW YORK GIANTS IN NFL PLAYOFF GAME AT YANKEE STADIUM, December 28, 1958: among the plays shown are: a field goal a hand-off for a five-yard touchdown a long pass is caught, fumbled and recovered for a touchdown a hand-off for a five-yard touchdown a short pass for a touchdown a 20-yard field goal a hand-off for a five-yard touchdown, and the Colts win 23-17 fans run on to the field. Among the players are Frank Gifford, Charlie Conerly and Kyle Rote. 00:26:16:00 B W 1919 BOSTON POLICE STRIKE, September 1919: National Guard men and a crowd of striking police officers, out of uniform, on Boston streets. 00:26:57:00 B W 1929 STREETCAR CONDUCTORS STRIKE IN NEW ORLEANS, 1929: unruly crowd of strikers, street riot scene toppled car on fire in the street, firemen spray hoses on it man throws brick through window, shattering it, good rioter shot crowd of strikers sets a trolley streetcar on fire. 00:27:57:00 B W 1910s - 1920s ARTISTS, circa 1910s 1920s: ??? man dancer Ruth St Denis, CU and dancing composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, MS, CU pianist and Polish politician Ignace Jan Paderewski, MS Enrico Caruso and friends, MS, CU Michael Arlen, MS, CU Joseph Conrad, MS, CU HG Wells, MS, CU John Galsworthy, MS, CU. 00:29:29:00 B W 1920s THOMAS EDISON, circa 1920 1930: still photographs of Edison Edison writing at desk Edison in his laboratory, pours liquid into flasks, performs various experiments, talks with his assistants man inspects Edison's bed and some phonographs. 00:31:57:00 B W 1930s - 1940s New York City MAYOR FIORELLO LaGUARDIA, 1930s 1940s: LaGuardia, MS, CU: in parade, on boat, at the controls of steamshovel, at desk, speaking from podium, wearing American Legion cap, signing autographs, talking with official, with his wife in Gracie Mansion, making his weekly radio address, etc. 00:34:38:00 B W 1900s - 1910s OLD New York City, circa 1900s 1910s: street scene with double- decker buses formally dressed-up aristocrats stroll in Central Park paperboy on the job streetcars, both horse-drawn and electric horse-drawn street cleaner vehicle sprays water vendors and their pushcarts line gritty working-class ethnic neighborhood sidewalk, probably Lower East Side, POV back of moving car, children run after CAM and wave Flatiron building and street traffic below, TU and TD (ca. 1920 footage one of the earliest skyscrapers, built in 1903) Ca. 1920: Trinity Church in distance, POV through narrow, cavernous downtown street pedestrian traffic horse-drawn streetcar on the "South Ferry and Central Park" line people outside, on the steps of St Patrick's Cathedral the cathedral tower and its shadow, cast over a busy Fifth Avenue below, POV HA skyscraper other tower. Some excellent shots. 00:36:59:00 B W 1926 GERTRUDE EDERLE, FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO SWIM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, August 6, 1926: Ederle, coated in body grease, begins her swim from beach in Cape Gris-Nez, France people in rowboat follow and feed Ederle as she swims, MS, CU people receive her on English beach, night scene ticker-tape parade for Ederle down the "canyon of heroes" in New York City. 00:38:05:00 B W 1950s FLORENCE CHADWICK, FIRST WOMAN TO SWIM ENGLISH CHANNEL IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, 1950, 1951: swimmer Chadwick dons bathing cap Chadwick swims, day and night scenes, people in two boats follow her and feed her crowd waits for her on shore Chadwick kisses baby. 00:38:41:00 B W 1940 TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE COLLAPSES, November 7, 1940: the bridge nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" at the time of its dedication opening day in July, 1940, a parade moves across the swaying bridge road during high winds, VS abandoned car and person walking calmly down roadway, WS roadway breaks up, center span collapses, the actual collapse is not shown the roadless bridge, WS, after the gale storm has subsided. Yet another film immortalized by Bruce Conner. Excellent quality, disaster, humanity vs nature, etc. 00:40:20:00 B W 1925 THE "MONKEY" TRIAL OF JOHN SCOPES, July 1925: inside the crowded Dayton, ennesee courtroom, shots of Scopes and his lawyer Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan in BG. 00:41:45:00 B W 1947 FOREST FIRES IN BAR HARBOR, MAINE, October 1947: forest fires, firemen, burning and collapsing houses, water is sprayed on the still-smoking cinders of houses, smokestacks only things remaining after the fires. 00:44:05:00 B W 1920s BILLY SUNDAY, circa 1920s: evangelist Sunday makes animated soapbox speech. 00:44:27:00 B W 1938 HOWARD HUGHES GETS TICKER-TAPE PARADE, July 1938: after setting new around-the-world flight record, Hughes in parade down "canyon of heroes" in New York City, good sequence of both parade and Hughes. Parade is interrupted by strange motorcycle accident which draws Hughes' attention. 00:45:53:00 B W 1927 GENE TUNNEY DEFEATS JACK DEMPSEY TO RETAIN HIS HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE, September 22, 1927: the famous "long count" boxing match at Soldier's Field in Chicago slow-motion shots of the boxers in action and of the referee making count to a knocked-down Tunney (?) Mayor Jimmy Walker with Gene Tunney on the steps of City Hall. 00:46:37:00 B W 1910s - 1920s ARTISTS, circa 1910s 1920s: an elderly Madame Curie, CU tenor John McCormack, MS, CU Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and family, MS, CU Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, MS ??? man ??? man (looks like Guglielmo Marconi in some sort of military uniform) an older Sarah Bernhardt, disembarking from ship, VS George Bernard Shaw, MS, CU. 00:48:08:00 B W 1920s WOODROW WILSON, circa 1920: Wilson with his wife VS having a drink the Treaty of Versailles conference in the Hall of Mirrors waves hello from deck of ship in harbor upon his return to the US from Europe after WWI in motorcade parade. 00:49:42:00 B W 1900s A SCENE FROM A WILLIAM S HART WESTERN SILENT FILM, circa 1900s: two cowboys play cards at saloon table, a doe-eyed woman watches one man cheats, keeps cards in hollow under the table other cowboy realizes it, charges and shoots the cheating gambler. Good CU shots of furtive hands, hiding cards. 00:50:17:00 B W 1951 NEW YORK GIANTS DEFEAT BROOKLYN DODGERS TO WIN NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT, October 3, 1951: Jackie Robinson circles the bases after hitting home run Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and other Dodgers in the locker room after a win, MS plays from pennant games, VS crowd shots, including lone man trying to start a "wave" Bobby Thomson hits a 9th inning three-run home run off Dodger pitcher Ralph Branca to win the pennant series for the Giants, WS Giants fans slowly spill onto the field. 00:52:20:00 B W 1940s NATURAL DISASTERS IN HILO, HAWAII, circa 1946: AV footage of vast lava flows, caused by earthquake ? a wrecked residential community on the Hilo coast in aftermath of tidal wave caused by earthquake, POV AV and ground collapsed buildings, telephone poles, rubble tidal wave victims refugees are helped off of truck by emergency workers. 00:53:57:00 B W 1936 POTOMAC RIVER FLOODS WASHINGTON, DC, 1936: the swelling river and its flooded banks, a house underwater, POV AV the swelling river, buildings of the capital in BG men fill sandbags, pile them on levee, buildings of the capital in BG FDR in backseat of car, CU the rising river sweeps over the road of bridge a house gable is swept downstream.
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