Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: P-217-7B

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13:29:06 1.07	LS PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER MAKING SPEECH FROM PODIUM, TRIES TO ENCOURAGE THE PEOPLE AS DEPRESSION DEEPENS AND HE IS UP FOR ELECTION. politics, government.
13:29:42 37.07	MS LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS - "DESPITE HOOVER'S BEST EFFORTS, THE DEPRESSION CONTINUED TO DEEPEN IN 193; THE RECOVERY PREDICTED BY MOST ECONOMISTS FAILED TO MATERIALIZE; ...... FOR FIRST TIME ECONOMY BECAME NO. 1 POLITICAL ISSUE .......". WAITRESS OFFERS TO MARRY FOR MONEY, SO SHE COULD HELP HER DESTITUTE PARENTS. PRICE $1`0,000.
13:30:29 85.07	MCU MARY THE WAITRESS SAYS SHE WAS PROMPTED TO DO IT BECAUSE SHE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM HER MOTHER SAYING THEY WERE BEING PUT OUT OF THEIR HOME FOR NOT PAYING RENT. MARY SAYS SHE RECEIVED THOUSANDS OF PROPOSALS. SAYS SHE WILL LEARN TO LOVE THE SELECTED PERSON.
13:32:22 198.07	LS HERBERT HOOVER SPEAKS FROM PLATFORM AT VALLEY FORGE, DOES UTMOST TO RAISE MORALE OF THE PEOPLE DURING DEPRESSION. ABOVE PAN CROWD. GREAT DEPRESSION, POLITICS
13:33:28 264.07	THOMAS: "IN WAKE OF HIS RECORD BREAKING VICTORY IN NY GUBERNATORIAL RACE, GOV. ROOSEVELT WAS LAYING PLANS TO CAPTURE HIS PARTY NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT; "..... SECRETARY OF NAVY, CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1924, RUNNING WITH AL SMITH. THE "HAPPY WARRIOR AL SMITH EXPECTED TO GET THE NOMINATION IN '32. BUT ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN STYLE WAS ALREADY BEING SHARPENED".
13:33:58 294.07	ROOSEVELT SITS WITH MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, GRAND DAUGHTER ON HIS LAP, GRANDSON ON DAUGHTER'S LAP, ELEANOR THE REST OF THEIR SONS AND WIVES STAND IN BACK AS ROOSEVELT INTRODUCES ALL OF THEM. "HERE ARE 4 GENERATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC ROOSEVELT FAMILY". ASKS HIS DAUGHTER ON HIS LAP, "YOU A DEMOCRAT" SHE ANSWERS, "YES.
13:34:58 354.07	VARIOUS FILM SHOTS THOMAS EDISON A SHORT TIME BEFORE HIS DEATH. HIS WIFE HAS TO SHOUT INTO HIS EARS FOR EDISON TO HEAR HER. VARIOUS SHOTS EDISON AT WORK IN HIS LAB. AIDE ? SHOUTS INTO EDISON EARS FOR EDISON TO HEAR HIM. INVENTOR, PERSONALITY
13:36:03 418.07	"THE WIZARD ALWAYS LIKED HIS LITTLE JOKE". MS EDISON SEATED WITH MAN TELLS "ONE OF THE BEST STORIES I HEARD"., GOES ON TO TELL JOKE. MORE SHOTS EDISON.
13:37:08 483.07	THOMAS: "MOVIES AND AIRPLANES GAT STARTED AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME .........". COUNT VON ZEPPELIN IN 1900 STARTED TO BUILD LIGHTER THAN AIRCRAFT, AND OF COURSE THEY WERE WIDELY USED IN WWI, AND TO CARRY PASSENGERS AND MAIL AFTER THE WAR; IN GERMANY, DORNIER BUILT A LARGE FLYING BOAT WHICH CARRIED 170 PASSENGERS IN 1929".
13:37:42 517.07	VARIOUS SHOTS LA HUGE GRAF ZEPPELIN IN FLIGHT, FLYING OVER SWISS ALPS. 1ST EVER SHOTS SOUND FILM OF GERMAN CREWMEN AT CONTROLS OF ZEPPELIN, SPEAKING IN GERMAN. AERIAL VIEW OF ALPS AND OTHER GROUND VIEWS POV ZEPPELIN, CASTS GIANT HADOW AS IT SLOWLY FLIES OVER GROUND BELOW..
13:38:29 564.07	GIANT 12 ENGINE "DOX" SEAPLANE IN FLIGHT, ON IT'S WAY TO NEW YORK. PILOT AT HUGE STEERING WHEEL. MS BARTENDER MIXES COCKTAILS FOR THE PASSENGERS AS VOICE OVER PILOT (?) TELLS ABOUT IT. BARTENDER WITH TRAY OF COCKTAILS WALKS DOWN AISLE BETWEEN PASSENGERS, TOWARDS CAMERA. PASSENGERS HAVING DINNER ON BOARD. VOICE OVER, REMEMBER THIS PLANE IS 130 FEET LONG, YOU CAN PUT 10 AUTOMOBILES END TO END IN THE PLANE". MS COUPLES DANCE ON DANCE FLOOR OF PLANE. OTHERS FALL ASLEEP IN COMFORTABLE LEANING EATS.
13:39:31 626.07	LS GIANT SEAPLANE LANDS IN HUDSON RIVER (?) SPEEDING BY GREAT SHOTS OF NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE IN B/G.
13:40:07 663.07	THOMAS: "THE DOX NEVER WENT INTO SERVICE; DORNIER IN THE 1930S TURNED TO MILITARY AIRCRAFT, AND BY 1938 HIS COMPANY PRODUCED AN AIRCRAFT CAPABLE OF 305 MPH; JIMMY DOOLITTLE WON THE BENDIX TROPHY, AND JOHN BOOFMAN (?), TOOK THE SCHNEIDER CUP, AVERAGING 340 MPH"; THOMAS TELLS OF WILEY POST FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD.
13:40:55 711.07	MS WILEY POST AND HIS NAVIGATOR HAROLD GATTY POSE IN FRONT OF PLANE, WILEY SPEAKS TO CAMERA AT ROOSEVELT FIELD, NEW YORK, WHERE THEY START FLIGHT. WILEY TELLS HIS FLIGHT PLANS. THEY SAY GOODBYE, BOTH CLIMB INTO PLANE, WILEY INTO COCKPIT. PLANE TAKES OFF. VARIOUS SHOTS PLANE IN FLIGHT.
13:42:13 789.07	LS LESS THAN 9 DAYS LATER, POST COMES HOME A HERO - VARIOUS SHOTS PLANE LANDING AT NIGHT. VARIOUS SHOTS POLICE HOLDING BACK CROWD AFTER WILEY AND NAVIGATOR GET OUT OF PLANE.
13:42:40 816.07	VARIOUS SHOTS WILEY POST MOTORCADE IN TICKER TAPE PARADE IN NEW YORK CITY.
13:42:59 835.07	WILEY POST SPEAKS OVER RADIO MICROPHONES AND TO CROWD.
13:43:22 858.07	MCU KING ALFANSO OF SPAIN SPEAKS ABOUT HIS DRIVING HIS MOTORCAR TOO FAST IN AMERICA, BUT NEVER HAVING A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. ALFONSO SOON RENOUNCED HIS THRONE BECAUSE OF INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.
13:44:27 923.07	HUGE RALLIES IN SPAIN WHICH TURNED TO RIOTING, BURNING AND LOOTING AGAINST THE KING. KING ALFANSO FLED TO ENGLAND WHERE HE WAS GIVEN A CELEBRITIES WELCOME. VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE CROWDS IN LONDON WELCOMING ALFONSO.
13:44:59 955.07	ABOVE LONG SHOT IF THE BRITISH PROVIDED SANCTUARY FOR A KING, THEY WERE NOT QUITE SO CORDIAL TO A GREATER MAN, MAHATMA GANDHI, WHO LED THE CRUSADE FOR LIBERATION OF INDIA FROM GREAT BRITAIN. HE WAS ARRESTED OFTEN FOR PASSIVE RESISTANCE.
13:45:16 971.07	GANDHI IN HIS ATTIRE OF WHITE SHEETS, SITS ON PLATFORM AS HE ADDRESSES NEWSMEN AND RADIO MICROPHONES AS TRANSLATOR TRANSLATES HIS ENGLISH STATEMENTS INTO FRENCH.
13:46:51 1067.07	HITLER WHO WAS BUILDING QUITE A FOLLOWING IN GERMANY, REVIEWS HIS BROWN SHIRT TROOPS AS THEY MARCH DOWN STREET, GIVING NAZI SALUTE. HUGE CROWDS CHEER. LS PAN APARTMENT HOUSES AND OFFICE BUILDINGS FULL OF PEOPLE LOOKING OUT WINDOWS AND CHEERING.
13:47:41 1116.07	VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE RALLY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, IN HUGE OPEN STADIUM. HITLER SPEAKS FROM HIGH PLATFORM. GOERING ALSO THERE. ABOVE PAN HUNDREDS THOUSANDS CHEER "HEIL HITLER", , GIVE NAZI SALUTE.
13:48:28 1163.07	VARIOUS SHOTS JAPANESE SOLDIERS ON PARADE IN JAPAN. VOICE OVER THOMAS, WARLORDS OF JAPAN HAD LAUNCHED A FULL SCALE INVASION OF MANCHURIA. BY THE END OF THE MONTH, MIKADO TROOPS HAD SEIZED EVERY POINT OF MILITARY IMPORTANCE. THE CONFLICT WAS WOULD LAST ANOTHER 15 YEARS, AND END ONLY IN ATOM BOMB".
13:48:56 1192.07	VARIOUS SHOTS JAPANESE TROOPS IN MANEUVERS.
13:49:13 1208.07	MS JAPANESE EMPEROR HIROHITO REVIEWING HIS TROOP, INCLUDING MOUNTED TROOPS AND MILITARY BRASS BAND MARCHING. .
13:49:47 1242.07	MS THOMAS: "AS FAR AS NEWSREELS WERE CONCERNED, THE ROARING TWENTIES DIDN'T STOP ROARING WITH THE GREAT CRASH, THEY KEPT RIGHT ON GOING THROUGH DEPRESSION; NIGHT CLUBS, GANGSTERS, HOT JAZZ, FLAPPERS ............". "MOTION PICTURES AND THEIR STARS SEEMED TO DOMINATE SEEM TO DOMINATE THE AMERICAN SCENE ................". "MOUNT RUSHMORE WAS BEGUN IN IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF CALVIN COOLIDGE ............., REQUIRED DAREDEVIL SKILLS". FAMOUS SCULPTOR JUSTIN BORGLUM WAS PROJECT DIRECTOR".
13:50:42 1298.07	MLS GREAT VIEW JUST STARTED GIANT SCULPTURES ON MOUNT RUSHMORE, WITH UNFINISHED FACE OF WASHINGTON BARELY DISCERNIBLE IN THE GROUPING.
13:50:49 1305.07	MLS GREAT SHOTS SCULPTORS SEATED IN CHAIRS HANGING ON WIRES, WORKING ON FACE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. SOUNDS OF JACK HAMMERS. JUSTIN BORGLUM (?) SPEAKS TO CAMERA. MONUMENT, LANDMARK, ART.
13:51:33 1349.07	VARIOUS SHOTS GEORGE GERSHWIN AT PIANO IN MIDST OF SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON STAGE, PLAYING SOLO VERSION OF HIS SONG, "WHO CAN ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE". MUSIC, BROADWAY, THEATER, HOLLYWOOD
13:52:27 1403.07	MS LOWELL THOMAS - SPEAKS OF HARD DRUGS, "IF WE THINK OF PROHIBITION AS YEAR OF BATHTUB GIN, WE HADN'T BEEN HEARING ENOUGH ABOUT HARD DRUGS. BUT AT THIS TIME THAT EXOTIC CONTRABAND WAS WAS GETTING CONSIDERABLE PUBLICITY".
13:52:42 1418.07	CU OFFICIAL SPEAKS OF AND DEMONSTRATES USE OF OPIUM AND HOW IT IS SMOKED THROUGH AN OPIUM PIPE. VARIOUS SHOTS AGENTS BURNING OPIUM PIPES IN FURNACE.
13:53:41 1477.07	MS GANGSTER JACK DIAMOND'S GIRLFRIEND BEING INTERVIEWED AFTER HIS ASSASSINATION BY OTHER GANGSTERS. "HOW DID THIS FAMOUS GANGSTER TREAT YOU?"HE TREATED ME WONDERFUL, KIND AND LOVINGLY, I WOULDN'T KNOW A GUNMAN IF I SAW ONE". MORE OF INTERVIEW.
13:55:05 1560.07	LOWELL THOMAS SIGNS OFF FOR 1931 - "SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW".
13:55:23 1578.27	END