Summary

1934 America's Cup features yachts Rainbow and Endeavour

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 7498
Clip SR004272_02_01.mov
Date 9/17/1934
Title 1934 America's Cup features yachts Rainbow and Endeavour
Description Title card: "America's Cup Races" / aerials of yachts of all sizes / John Beresford, Lord Decies, with young women on ship / US President Franklin D. Roosevelt waves from bridge of yacht Nourmahal (later USS Nourmahal) / WS ship's skippers Harold "Mike" Vanderbilt and Tom Sopwith talking / group shot Vanderbilt and others / Vanderbilt at the helm of Rainbow / Sopwith at helm of Endeavour / Endeavour on the water moving fast / deck of Endeavour with lots of people holding on / Mrs. Phyllis Sopwith waves / WS two ships / Lord Decies and others watching race with binoculars / aerials ships racing / CU Sopwith / Note: film has nitrate deterioration
Personality John Beresford, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harold Vanderbilt, Thomas Sopwith, Phyllis Sopwith
Country United States
Province/State Rhode Island
City Newport

Keywords

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America's Cup
USS Nourmahal
Rainbow
Endeavour
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