- Title: VM-136
- Summary: FIORELLO LA GUARDIA: FIORELLO LAGUARDIA, THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY. A STORY OF A FIERY POLITICAL CRUSADER. THEY CALLED HIM THE LITTLE FLOWER. CHAMPIONED THE CAUSE OF THE LITTLE MAN, SPENT YEARS FIGHTING PARTY BOSSES, CORRUPT JUDGES AND PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS. HE BECAME A LEGEND TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK CITY AND WON THE RESPECT AND ADMIRATION OF A NATION.
- Description:00:01:19 - LA GUARDIA MAKING RADIO SPEECH AT DESK ABOUT "THE SUCCESS OF A DEMOCRACY DEPENDS ON ENLIGHTENMENT OF ITS PEOPLE". CAMPAIGN SPEECH ABOUT KEEPING PEOPLE INFORMED IN A LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND. 00:02:21 - GETTING OFF AIR FORCE AIRPLANE. 00:02:27 - AT PODIUM WITH MICROPHONES MAKING SPEECH 00:02:38 - PHOTO MONTAGE OF LA GUARDIA'S EARLY YEARS 00:03:11 - 1906 NEW YORK CITY STREETS. BUSTLING WITH TRAFFIC 00:03:25 - POV OF LOWER EAST SIDE. DRIVING DOWN STREET LINED WITH IMMIGRANT VENDOR CARTS 00:03:30 - BOY EATS FOOD FROM GARBAGE CAN 00:03:34 - OLD MAN IMMIGRANTS WITH LONG BEARDS 00:03:44 - YOUNG LA GUARDIA AS LAWYER WORKING AT DESK 00:03:59 - WWI NEWSPAPER HEADLINES 00:04:02 - CROWDS OF PATRIOTIC AMERICAN WAVE AMERICAN FLAGS 00:04:04 - DOUGHBOYS MARCH TOWARD SHIP AT DOCK 00:04:06 - BOARDING TROOP SHIP 00:04:10 - SHIP COVERED IN SOLDIERS 00:04:14 - PHOTOS OF WWI LA GUARDIA 00:04:18 - MILITARY AIRFIELD, PLANES TAXI BY HANGAR 00:04:23 - PILOTS AT AIRFIELD 00:04:28 - YOUNG PILOT LA GUARDIA IN UNIFORM 00:04:31 - ARMISTICE CROWD CELEBRATIONS, END OF WWI. HOLDING "GERMANY SURRENDERS" HEADLINES. AMERICAN FLAG-WAVING CROWDS. 00:04:38 - TICKER TAPE PARADE IN NYC WITH MARCHING SOLDIERS 00:04:50 - TIMES SQUARE NEON AT NIGHT 00:04:53 - THE JAZZ AGE: BLACK PARTY JAZZ BAND 00:04:56 - NIGHCLUB GIRLS DANCE IN BAR 00:04:59 - FLAPPER DRINKING 00:05:00 - BARTENDERS MIXING DRINKS 00:05:03 - CHORUS GIRLS DANCE 00:05:05 - CHAMPAGNE MONTAGE: POPPING CORK, DRINKING ALCOHOL 00:05:15 - LA GUARDIA SPEAKING 00:05:25 - LAGUARDIA AS CONGRESSMAN IN WASHINGTON, DC IN 1920s WITH OTHER CONGRESSMEN 00:05:35 - JIMMY WALKER SWORN IN AS MAYOR OF NYC IN 1926 00:05:47 - JIMMY WALKER STANDING WITH AMERICAN FLAGS DURING PHOTO SHOOT, LAUGHING & SCHMOOZING 00:05:54 - JIMMY WALKER POSING 00:06:01 - WILLIAM ST-WALL ST STREET SIGN 00:06:07 - HUGH CROWD OUTSIDE THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 00:06:10 - HEADLINES OF STOCK MARKET CRASH 00:06:12 - INVESTORS ON FLOOR OF STOCK EXCHANGE 00:06:17 - THE GREAT DEPRESSION: MAN SELLING APPLES ON SIDEWALK 00:06:21 - UNEMPLOYED ON PARK BENCH WITH HEAD IN HANDS 00:06:25 - SOUP KITCHEN BREAD LINES 00:06:28 - PAN FROM SKYSCRAPERS OF NEW YORK CITY TO MEN IN SHANTY TOWN. HOMEMADE TIN SHACKS. HOMELESS 00:06:37 - NEW YORK JUDGE SAMUEL SEABURY, 1932 00:06:43 - MAYOR JIMMY WALKER ARRIVING AT COURT HOUSE 00:06:53 - WALKER ON THE STAND IN COURTROOM DURING TRIAL ON CORRUPT POLITICS 00:06:56 - JIMMY WALKER LEAVES BUILDING UNDER POLICE ESCORT. MAKES "NO COMMENT" SPEECH TO REPORTERS' BOX MICROPHONES. "THATS ALL I CAN SAY NOW". 00:07:14 - SEPTEMBER 1, 1932: JIMMY WALKER ON BOARD SHIP SAILING TO EUROPE AFTER RESIGNING BECAUSE OF SCANDAL 00:07:25 - JUDGE SEABURY & SUPPORTERS OF THE "FUSION REFORM" TICKET LEAVE COURT HOUSE 00:07:32 - LA GUARDIA SPEECH ACCEPTING NOMINATION FOR CANDIDACY FOR MAYOR TO "LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST TAMMANY HALL". AGAINST CORRUPT POLITICAL MACHINE 00:08:23 - CAMPAIGNING ON TOP OF TRUCK 00:08:30 - APPLAUDING, CHEERING CROWDS 00:08:33 - VOTERS GIVE THEIR TESTIMONIALS ON WHY THEY WILL VOTE FOR LAGUARDIA: REDUCED TAXES, HELP UMEMPLOYED 00:08:52 - "ELECTION BOOTH" SIGN WITH POINTING ARROW 00:08:54 - PEOPLE VOTING: VOTING BOOTHS, CU PUTTING BALLOT IN BOX 00:09:00 - CROWD IN TIMES SQUARE AT NIGHT AWAITING ELECTION RESULTS: COP ON HORSEBACK, KLIEG SPOTLIGHTS, KID CLIMBS LIGHTPOST 00:09:14 - NEW YORK TIMES ELECTRIC NEWS TICKER ANNOUNCING LAGUARDIA'S VICTORY 00:09:20 - PEOPLE CHEER, WAVE HATS (COULD PASS AS NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION) 00:09:26 - LA GUARDIA SWORN IN AS MAYOR 00:09:51 - JUDGE SEABURY SHAKES HIS HAND 00:09:57 - LA GUARDIA WALKS UP STEPS & ENTERS BUILDING 00:10:03 - SPEAKS TO REPORTERS IN HIS OFFICE WHO TAKE NOTES 00:10:10 - TYPES AT TYPEWRITER 00:10:16 - ESCORTED THROUGH CROWD BY COPS 00:10:22 - THROWING OUT FIRST BASEBALL AT BASEBALL GAME 00:10:26 - SWEEPING NEW YORK CITY STREETS WITH LARGE STREET SWEEPER'S BROOM 00:10:29 - SIGNS AUTOGRAPH FOR BOY 00:10:31 - LA GUARDIA WITH BURBANK? 00:10:34 - CONDUCTING ORCHESTRA IN OUTSIDE CONCERT IN PARK 00:10:36 - LA GUARDIA EATING 00:10:39 - DANCING WITH TALL WOMAN AT ETHNIC FESTIVAL 00:10:42 - SHOWING BLACK KIDS HOW MACHINE WORKS 00:10:44 - LA GUARDIA IN HARD HAT WITH CONSTRUCTION WORKERS 00:10:47 - MORE BASEBALL 00:10:50 - FIRETRUCK SPEEDS TO FIRE IN NYC. POV RIDING ON TRUCK 00:10:56 - BUILDING ON FIRE. LONG LADDER & FIREHOSE AS FIREMEN PUT OUT FIRE 00:10:58 - LA GUARDIA OBSERVING WITH FIREMEN 00:10:59 - CAMERAMAN WITH HAND-HELD CAMERA 00:11:01 - WATCHES FIRE 00:11:05 - MANY HOSES USED TO FIGHT FIRE 00:11:06 - AERIAL AS LA GUARDIA LEADS COPS ON GAMBLING RAID 00:11:09 - USES SLEDGEHAMMER TO BREAK WINDOW 00:11:12 - LA GUARDIA ON BARGE THROWING CONFISCATED RIFLES INTO THE HARBOR 00:11:19 - LA GUARDIA SPEECH ABOUT "THIS IS ROUTINE WORK OF POLICE DEPARTMENT". GIVING THEM NO QUARTER TIN HORNS. 00:11:31 - DESTROYING SLOT MACHINE WITH SLEDGEHAMMER 00:11:39 - TELLS GANGSTERS & RACKETEERS TO KEEP OUT OF NYC 00:11:46 - THROWING SLOT MACHINES INTO EAST RIVER 00:11:53 - MAYOR'S OFFICE STAFF WORKING HARD. ANSWERING TELEPHONE, DOING PAPERWORK 00:12:00 - LAGUARDIA AT DESK SIGNING PAPERS & GETTING BRIEFED BY ASSOCIATE ABOUT SWINDLING COAL DEALERS 00:12:38 - LA GUARDIA LEAVING HOUSE WITH WIFE. GETTING IN LIMO 00:12:45 - MAKES SPEECH ABOUT HOW SUCCESSFUL HIS NON-POLITICAL, NON-PARTISAN ADMINSTRATION HAS BEEN 00:13:11 - WRECKING BALL ON CRANE 00:13:14 - CONSTRUCTION SITE, DESTROYING BUILDINGS IN SLUMS. BUILDINGS FALL & CRUMBLE 00:13:18 - LARGE AREA OF CLEARED PROPERTY WITH RUBBLE 00:13:22 - LA GUARDIA SEATED IN DRIVER'S SEAT OF CRANE. 00:13:28 - STEAM SHOVEL DUMPS DIRT 00:13:29 - KIDS PLAYING IN PLAYGROUND 00:13:32 - HUGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. BUILDING BEING BUILT. ORANTE BRIDGE IN BACKGROUND 00:13:34 - QUEENS MIDTOWN TUNNEL SIGN OPENING OF QUEENSBORO BRIDGE 00:13:37 - LA GUARDIA PULLS SWITCH AT CEREMONIAL OPENING 00:13:42 - QUEENSBRIDGE, LOW RENT HOUSING PROJECT SIGN 00:13:44 - LA GUARDIA LAYS CORNERSTONE. PUTS DOWN CEMENT WITH TROWEL 00:13:52 - LA GUARDIA SPEECH AT HOUSING PROJECT CEREMONY 00:14:13 - CONSTRUCTION WORKERS LISTEN TO SPEECH 00:14:31 - WALKS UNDER LARGE AIRPLANE 00:14:33 - HUGE CROWD AT OPENING OF LA GUARDIA AIRPORT IN 1939 00:14:36 - MAYOR AT DESK DOING OFFICIAL BUSINESS 00:14:42 - ANTI-HILTER, ANTI-NAZI POLITICAL PARADE IN 1937. PROTEST SIGNS 00:14:49 - LA GUARDIA SPEECH AT PODIUM 00:14:58 - 1939 WORLD'S FAIR SITE 00:15:04 - LA GUARDIA CUTS RIBBON AT DEDICATION CEREMONY 00:15:10 - LA GUARDIA AS MASTER OF CEREMONIES LEADING PARADE 00:15:18 - IN WASHINGTON DC TALKING WITH REPORTERS AFTER BEING NAMED HEAD OF OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE BY FDR 00:15:26 - FDR & LA GUARDIA IN CAR TOGETHER 00:15:30 - COMING OFF PLANE, AT AIRPORT 00:15:36 - LA GUARDIA SPEECH ABOUT WAR BEING DECLARED ON OUR COUNTRY. BEGINNING OF WWII. ASKS FOR CIVILIAN COOPERATION ON THE HOME FRONT 00:15:53 - ADULTS IN HALL IN AIR RAID DRILL 00:16:01 - FEMALE RED CROSS WORKERS 00:16:03 - MAN ON LADDER PAINTING WINDOWS BLACK, BLACKING OUT WINDOWS 00:16:07 - BLACKOUT DRILLS. PULLING HUGE CURTAIN OVER WINDOW IN RESTAURANT 00:16:13 - FAMILY EATING DINNER PULLS DOWN BLACK SHADE 00:16:16 - CIVIL DEFENSE WORKERS STOP CARS & BUS & DIRECT PEOPLE TO AIR RAID SHELTERS 00:16:22 - CU FRONT END OF CAR SHUTS OFF HEADLIGHTS 00:16:24 - 48TH STREET THEATRE MARQUEE GOES BLACK. LIGHTS SHUT OFF. ("BROCK PEMBERTON PRESENTS FRANK FAY IN "HARVEY" WITH JOSEPHINE HALL") 00:16:27 - STREET LIGHT GOES OUT 00:16:30 - AERIAL OF NEW YORK AREA AS THE LIGHTS GO OUT 00:16:39 - LA GUARDIA ARRIVES AT TRAIN STATION TO CROWD. SHAKING HANDS 00:16:53 - SURROUNDED BY REPORTERS AS HE APPLIES TO THE ARMED FORCES 00:16:57 - WOMAN'S HAND FILLS IN COLUMNS IN HUGE LEDGER BOOK 00:16:58 - LA GUARDIA AT CEREMONY WITH MILITARY PERSONNEL 00:17:02 - CROWD OF PHOTOGRAPHERS, FILM CREW, REPORTERS 00:17:08 - LA GUARDIA HANDING OUT CIVIL DEFENSE INFORMATION PAPERS. 00:17:12 - CU CD INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT TO DO DURING AIR RAID 00:17:14 - SPEECH AT PODIUM 00:17:16 - HUGE STADIUM CROWD 00:17:17 - MADISON SQUARE GARDEN RED CROSS BENEFIT 00:17:24 - LA GUARDIA CONDUCTS MILITARY BAND 00:17:42 - MSG ERUPTS INTO APPLAUSE 00:17:47 - ABBOTT & COSTELLO ON STEPS OF NY CITY HALL LOOKING FOR MAYOR. LA GUARDIA CONGRATULATES THEM ON THEIR WAR BOND EFFORT 00:19:03 - LA GUARDIA PARADING IN OPEN CAR WITH CHARLES DE GAULLE 00:19:07 - PEOPLE LINE PARADE ROUTE 00:19:13 - DE GAULLE PINS MEDAL ON LA GUARDIA & KISSES HIM ON BOTH CHEEKS 00:19:26 - SPEECH AT PODIUM 00:19:32 - FAMILIES AT HOME LISTEN TO RADIO 00:19:40 - LA GUARDIA READING NEWS INTO WNYC RADION MICROPHONE 00:19:57 - BOY LISTENS 00:19:58 - LA GUARDIA READING COMICS ON RADIO. DICK TRACY 00:20:03 - PEOPLE LISTEN TO RADIO. MAN DRINKS ORANGE JUICE. WOMAN POWDERS HER FACE. ADJUSTING KNOBS ON RADIO 00:21:30 - CU OLD-FASHIONED RADIOS 00:21:45 - LA GUARDIA MONTAGE IMAGES 00:21:54 - LA GUARDIA AT HIS RURAL HOME WITH WIFE & KIDS 00:22:14 - DECEMBER 31, 1945: LA GUARDIA SHAKING HANDS WITH SUCCESSOR NEW MAYOR WILLIAM O'DWYER 00:22:29 - LA GUARDIA AT MAYOR'S DESK SHUFFING PAPERS 00:22:39 - LEAVING OFFICE. COMES DOWN CITY HALL STEPS WITH WIFE. WAVES HAT GOODBYE 00:22:58 - 1947. CROWD OUTSIDE CATHEDRAL FOR LA GUARDIA'S FUNERAL 00:23:06 - MAYOR O'DWYER ENTERS CHURCH 00:23:08 - CROWDS LINE UP & SLOWLY ENTER CHRUCH TO PAY LAST RESPECTS 00:23:13 - WALK PAST COFFIN
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1900
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1900s
- File Name: VM-136