- Title: VM-985
- Summary: UNIVERSAL SELECTS:
- Description:05:00:17 - MS FDR SITS IN OPEN LIMO WEARING WHITE HAT & SUIT 05:00:22 - MS FDR STANDS TALL (HELD BY AIDE) AS HE SHAKES WITH SOUTH AMERICAN? LEADER (NO SOUND) 05:00:30 - LS US WARSHIP BEARING FDR? SLOWLY SLIDES AWAY FROM PIER CROWDED WITH PEOPLE 05:00:45 - MS MAN ATOP TRUCK MARKED "STEAM TRUCK" POURS COAL FROM SACK INTO COMPARTMENT ON CAB OF TRUCK 05:00:51 - MS MAN SITS IN DRIVER'S SEAT OF TRUCK, TURNS ON STEAM VALVES, DISENGAGES BRAKES & RIDES AWAY 05:00:57 - LS STEAM POWERED TRUCK RIDES UP DIRT HILL PUFFING SMOKE FROM EXHAUST ATOP TRUCK 05:01:17 - CU MAN HOLDS IN HIS FINGERS A SMALL MODEL PLANE WITH FLAPPING WINGS 05:01:25 - CU HE WINDS UP PLANE WITH PUMPING MOTION, THEN HE LETS GO OF PLANE WHICH FLAPS AWAY LIKE A BIRD 05:01:35 - MONTAGE MAN CHASES BIRD-PLANE AS IT FLAPS AWAY ACROSS FIELD & TOWARDS TRAFFIC ON ROAD 05:01:53 - LS CROWD WATCHES AS STATUE OF ARMORED MAN HOLDING SWORD IS COMMEMORATED (FOREIGN COUNTRY?) (GERMANY?) 05:02:00 - MS OFFICIAL IN TUX IS HANDED SMALL HAMMER BY SOLDIER HE HAMMERS PLAQUE IN PLACE ON STATUE 05:02:12 - CU GROUP OF BOY SCOUTS STAND AT ATTENTION FBI PUTS ON DEMO SHOWING USE OF PLANE TO CATCH BANK ROBBERS (1930s) 05:02:35 - LS 4 BANK ROBBERS RUN OUT OF BANK AND INTO AN OPEN TOURING CAR & SPEED AWAY 05:02:44 - CU AGENT GETS CALL & PUTS OUT AN ALERT OVER MIC 05:02:50 - LS PIPER CUB TAKES OFF FROM AIRFIELD 05:02:58 - CU PILOT GETS MESSAGE ON EARPHONES; HE FLIES OVER FLEEING BANK ROBBERS 05:03:07 - MS AGENTS CLIMB INTO CARS & PURSUE BANK ROBBERS 05:03:14 - CU AGENT AIMS TOMMY GUN FROM PLANE WINDOW AS BANK ROBBERS FIRE AT PLANE WITH SHOTGUN 05:03:24 - LS BANK ROBBERS FIRE AT AGENT PURSUING IN CARS - AS SEEN THRU WINDSHIELD OF AGENTS IN PURSUIT 05:03:29 - LS ROBBER'S CAR HITS TREE AS AGENTS' CARS ROLL UP AROUND THEM 05:03:33 - MS AGENT HOLDS MACHINE GUN AT ROBBERS AS THEY GET OUT OF CAR WITH HANDS UP 05:03:47 - MS ZOO KEEPER SITS DOWN AT A TABLE & SERVES A TRAY OF FOOD TO A LARGE CHIMP AS PEOPLE WATCH FROM BEHIND FENCE 05:03:49 - MS CHIMP TAKES A SPOON FULL OF FOOD THEN FEEDS THE KEEPER A SPOON FULL; WITH HIS ARM AROUND THE ZOO KEEPER'S NECK, HE KISSES HIM ON THE CHEEK 05:03:56 - CU YOUNG BOY & MOM ENJOY SHOW, BOY WAVES FRANTICALLY 05:04:07 - MS KEEPER SERVES CHIMP GLASS OF WATER. CHIMP DRINKS THEN KISSES KEEPER SQUARE ON LIPS 05:04:18 - AFTER KISS, CHIMP WIPES MOUTH WITH CLOTH 05:04:20 - RADICALS ROUNDED UP AS PEACE TALK GROWS IN WEST COAST STRIKE, SAN FRANCISCO CALIF 05:04:30 - MONTAGE PLATOON OF U.S. ARMY SOLDIERS (WORLD WAR I UNIFORMS) PULLING MACHINE GUNS ON BICYCLE TYPE WHEELS MARCH ALONG DOCKS TO TAKE UP POSITIONS AGAINST STRIKERS 05:04:41 - LS WWI TRUCKS CARRY TROOPS TO SITE 05:04:47 - MS SMALL TANK RUMBLES INTO POSITION 05:04:55 - CU SOLDIER LOADS SADDLEBAGS WITH TEAR GAS SHELLS 05:04:58 - MS MOUNTED SOLDIERS WEARING GAS MASKS & TEAR GAS GUNS ALREADY WITH HORSES WEARING GOGGLES 05:05:01 - ECU GOGGLED HORSES LOOK INTO CAMERA 05:05:08 - LS MOUNTED TROOPS GALLOP ALONG TRAIN TRACKS, STOP & FIRE TEAR GAS TOWARDS PASSENGER TRAINS 05:05:14 - ECU TEAR GAS CANISTER SPEWING GAS ON GROUND 05:05:16 - MS WORKERS RUN OUT FROM BETWEEN FREIGHT CARS AS CLOUD OF GAS FORCES THEM OUT 05:05:23 - MS TROOPS GUARD BEHIND BARRICADE AT END OF TOWN STREET 05:05:25 - MS SOLDIERS MAN MACHINE ON BACK OF TRUCK 05:05:29 - MONTAGE POLICE RIDE DOWN CITY STREET INSIDE TROLLEY CAR 05:05:34 - CROWD OF BUSINESSMEN WALK CITY STREETS TO JOBS 05:05:36 - MS HUGE CROWD OF BUSINESS MEN PACK TRAIN STATION 05:05:40 - MS MEN & WOMEN WALK TO WORK DOWN IDLE STREETS (VINTAGE CARS PARKED ALONG CURBS - 1930S) 05:05:42 - MS MAN STRETCHED OUT ON GROUND HELPED BY OTHERS, CARRIED ON STRETCHER INTO AMBULANCE 05:05:52 - ALEXANDER I OF YUGOSLAVIA ASSASSINATED 05:06:02 - MS ALEXANDER RIDES DOWN CROWDED AVENUE IN OPEN BACK LIMO 05:06:08 - MS POLICE GRAB ASSASSIN AS CONFUSION & PANIC GRIPS CROWD 05:06:16 - MS BODY OF ASSASSIN LIES ON GROUND AMID CROWD & POLICE AFTER BEING BEAT TO DEATH 05:06:17 - MONTAGE CAMERA ROLLS ON AMID PANDEMONIUM WITH POLICE WIELDING CLUBS TO CONTROL CROWD 05:06:28 - CU BODY OF LIFELESS ALEXANDER STARES BLANKLY AS PEOPLE TRY TO HELP HIM 05:06:33 - CU YOUNG PETER II, HEIR TO THRONE, IN SAILOR UNIFORM SMILES AT CAMERA AS HE SPOONS MOUTHFUL OF FOOD 05:06:41 - BRUNO HAUPTMANN - LINDBERGH KIDNAPPER 05:06:44 - MS HAUPTMANN SITS IN CHAIR AFTER ARREST FOR THE KIDNAPPING OF BABY LINDBERGH 05:06:47 - LS CROWD OF CURIOUS PEOPLE GATHER OUTSIDE SUSPECT'S HOUSE 05:06:49 - MS DOORS TO HAUPTMANN GARAGE WHERE $14,000 WAS FOUND HIDDEN IN TIN CAN 05:06:52 - CU MONEY PULLED OUT OF ONE GALLON TIN CAN 05:06:54 - CU FBI COUNT BILLS LAID OUT ON DESK 05:06:58 - CU SMALL PEARL HANDLED AUTOMATIC PULLED OUT OF NARROW BOX IN WHICH IT WAS CONCEALED 05:06:59 - CU ENVELOPE ADDRESSED "MR. COL. LINDBERGH, HOPEWELL" & ANOTHER, "MR. DR. JOHN CONDON," WHO WAS GO-BETWEEN IN RANSOM DEAL 05:07:04 - CU HAUPTMANN SITS WITH SOLEMN LOOK ON FACE 05:07:08 - STAVISKY - 200,000 FRANCS LOST BE DEPOSITORS IN BANK SCANDAL 05:07:13 - LS FRENCH GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS IN BAYONNE 05:07:19 - MS AS SPECTATORS WATCH, COFFIN PULLED OUT OF GROUND BY SEVERAL WORKERS & OPENED, EXPOSING BODY FOR INVESTIGATION. POLICE WATCH 05:07:27 - AERIAL RIOTOUS PEOPLE RUN WILDLY IN FRENCH SQUARE 05:07:29 - MONTAGE MOUNTED RIOT POLICE MOVE INTO POSITION 05:07:31 - LS PEOPLE RUN ABOUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS 05:07:35 - MS MAN IN OBVIOUS PAIN HELPED INTO CAR BY POLICE 05:07:38 - DILLINGER 05:07:40 - ECU JOHN DILLINGER LOOKS INTO CAMERA AFTER CAPTURE 05:07:43 - MS GUARDS CARRYING SHOTGUNS WALK BACK & FORTH OUTSIDE HOUSE & ON PORCH WHERE DILLINGER HELD 05:07:46 - CU DILLINGER SMILES & CHATS WITH WOMAN & CAPTIVES 05:07:51 - LS HUGE CROWD OF PEOPLE IN HOLIDAY SPIRIT GATHER AROUND THEATRE WHERE DILLINGER WAS SHOT 05:07:52 - BODY OF DILLINGER LIES ON SLAB IN MORGUE 05:07:56 - CU TAG ON DEAD DILLINGER'S TOE IDENTIFIES HIM 05:07:58 - ECU DEAD DILLINGER'S FACE WITH TRIM MUSTACHE 05:08:00 - AIRMAIL (1930s) 05:08:02 - MS PILOT, WEARING PARACHUTE & FACE COVERED WITH MASK TO PROTECT AGAINST WIND & SNOW, WALKS TO HIS PLANE 05:08:07 - MONTAGE BI PLANE WITH OPEN COCKPIT TAKES OFF IN BLINDING SNOWSTORM CARRYING MAIL 05:08:17 - EARTHQUAKE - NORTHWEST INDIA 05:08:19 - AERIAL DESTRUCTION ON BUILDINGS & HOMES 05:08:31 - MS NATIVE CARRIES MATERIALS ON SHOULDER PASSING BUILDINGS COLLAPSED BY EARTHQUAKE 05:08:41 - CUBA - REVOLUTION THREATENS CUBA'S EXISTENCE 05:08:44 - AERIAL LARGE CROWD ASSEMBLES IN SQUARE OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS 05:08:51 - AERIAL CROWD RUNS IN PANIC AS TROOPS SHOOT INTO THEM 05:09:04 - MONTAGE PEOPLE RUN IN ALL DIRECTIONS & BODIES LIE ON GROUND AS TROOPS FIRE 05:09:09 - KENTUCKY DERBY 05:09:21 - AERIAL HUGE CROWDS HUG RAILS ON BOTH ENDS OF TRACK AS HORSES SPEED BY 05:09:28 - LS "CAVALCADE" WINDS. HUGE CROWD RUNS ONTO TRACK 05:09:39 - AERIAL "CAVALCADE" WITH JOCKEY CROWNED WITH WREATH 05:09:41 - DOLLFUSS - CHANCELLOR OF AUSTRIA SHOT DOWN IN HIS OFFICE 05:09:46 - MS DOLLFUSS POSES WITH MUSSOLINI DURING TREATY SIGNING 05:09:52 - MS DOLLFUSS LIES IN STATE IN HIS COFFIN 05:09:54 - LS CROWD OF DIGNITARIES STAND AT ATTENTION AT FUNERAL 05:10:03 - MORRO CASTLE DISASTER 05:10:05 - AERIAL SMOKE RISES FROM LUXURY LINER AT SEA 05:10:17 - LS LIFEBOAT WITH SURVIVORS ROW TO SAFETY IN ROUGH WATERS 05:10:23 - MS DEAD BODIES ON DECK OF RESCUE SHIP 05:10:26 - VON HINDENBURG DEAD 05:10:30 - MS FIELD MARSHALL VON HINDENBURG REVIEWS GERMAN TROOPS BEFORE HIS DEATH (as opposed to AFTER his death???!!!) 05:10:32 - MS VON HINDENBURG'S DEAD BODY LIES IN BED 05:10:39 - MS GERMAN MILITARY STAND AT ATTENTION BY VON HINDENBURG'S COFFIN 05:10:45 - LS HUGE FLAG WITH IRON CROSS DRAPED ON BUILDING NEXT TO CROSS 05:10:47 - DROUGHT - 1934 DROUGHT SWEEPS COUNTRY 05:10:52 - MONTAGE CROPLESS & SAND-SWEPT FIELDS RESEMBLE DESERT 05:10:57 - LS DRIED OUT CORNSTALKS STICK OUT OF GROUND IN HUGE CORNFIELD. RULER JUTS OUT OF GROUND NEXT TO CORNSTALK TO SHOW HOW IT IS DWARFED BY DRYNESS 05:11:04 - MS CATTLE HERDED INTO CORRALS, SOME SHOWING SIGNS OF STARVATION WITH BONES PROTRUDING 05:11:08 - CU DEAD STEER LIES ON GROUND. SMALL CALF DEAD 05:11:12 - INSULL - SAMUEL INSULL, UTILITIES MAGNATE, IS RETURNED TO U.S. FOR TRIAL ON NUMEROUS CHARGES OF FRAUD 05:11:16 - MS INSULL SITS WITH WIFE & SON IN COURTROOM 05:11:24 - CU SOLEMN INSULL WEARS DOUBLE MONOCLE GLASSES 05:11:28 - STOCKYARD FIRE - CHICAGO 05:11:32 - LS FLAMES & SMOKE SEEN RISING IN DISTANCE 05:11:37 - INTENSE FLAMES ENVELOPE STOCKYARD BUILDINGS AS FUTILE EFFORTS MADE TO CONTROL BLAZE 05:11:48 - BABE RUTH 05:11:51 - AERIAL YANKEE PLAYERS, VIPS & PHOTOGS CIRCLE HOME PLATE AT YANKEE STADIUM TO PAY TRIBUTE TO RETIRING RUTH 05:11:55 - MS AS HIS WIFE LOOKS ON, BABE GIVEN LARGE PLAQUE 05:11:56 - CU BABE CLOSE-UP 05:12:01 - MS BABE, AT BAT FOR LAST TIME, ADJUSTS HIS PANTS THE TAKES HIS LAST SWING & FLIES OUT 05:12:09 - AIR DERBY 05:12:12 - ENGLISH AIRMEN SCOTS & BLACK POSE BY THEIR PLANES 05:12:16 - LS AFTER 71 HOUR FLIGHT BRITISH AIRMEN LAND ON FIELD IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA TO WIN RACE 05:12:25 - MS HUGE CROWD MOB AIRMEN AT FIELD 05:12:28 - STRIKES - SAN FRANCISCO'S GENERAL STRIKE 05:12:31 - AERIAL SAN FRANCISCO CITYSCAPE 05:12:36 - MS LONG LINE OF CARS PARKED IDLY ALONG CURBSIDE IN BUSINESS DISTRICT (1930s) 05:12:38 - MS IDLE GAS STATION WITH "OUT OF GASOLINE - DUE TO STRIKE" SIGN 05:12:41 - MS CROWD OF MEN & WOMEN WALK STREETS TO WORK 05:12:43 - MS CROWD OF WORKERS JAM RAILROAD STATION 05:12:47 - MS PEOPLE WALK TO WORK ON UNTRAFFICKED STREET 05:12:49 - AERIAL CROWD OF RIOTING STRIKERS BATTLE POLICE IN MINNEAPOLIS TRUCK DRIVERS' STRIKE 05:12:50 - LS POLICEMAN LIES ON GROUND AS OTHER POLICEMEN FIGHT WORKERS IN STREET USING THEIR CLUBS 05:12:57 - MONTAGE ARMY SOLDIERS THROW ROCKS BACK AT CROWD OF STRIKERS AS OTHERS SHOOT TEAR GAS INTO CROWDS 05:13:09 - MS AS GAS CLOUDS RISE IN THEIR MIDST, A STRIKER PICKS UP GAS SHELL & THROWS IT BACK AT SOLDIERS 05:13:20 - MONTAGE SOLDIERS RUN INTO CROWD & PHYSICALLY GRAB SOME WORKERS & DRAG THEM AWAY 05:13:25 - CAMERA THRILLS 05:13:34 - MS SMALL RACING PLANE COMES IN FOR LANDING & TOPPLES OVER. SURVIVING PILOT SMILES FOR CAMERA 05:13:46 - AERIAL CARS & CROWD AT INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY 05:13:48 - ELS CAR BECOMES AIRBOUND & FLIES OVER WALL OF TRACK 05:13:57 - LS AS CARS CIRCLE TRACK, ONE CRASHES INTO WALL IN CLOUD OF SMOKE 05:14:08 - LS AS ONE CAR GOES OUT OF CONTROL, 2 OTHERS SMASH INTO EACH OTHER & ROLL OVER 05:14:17 - MS SENATOR ROBERT TAFT MAKES SPEECH IN FAVOR OF HIS TAFT-HARTLEY ACT (LATE 40s) 05:14:19 - MS TAFT PAUSES FOR AWHILE UNTIL HE IS GIVEN CUE TO SPEAK AGAIN 05:14:32 - CU TAFT EXPLAINS THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ACT WHICH LIMITS STRIKERS' POWER. TAFT PAUSES SEVERAL MORE TIMES THEN CONTINUES HIS SPEECH 05:18:09 - MS WALTER REUTER, PRESIDENT OF AFL-CIO UNION, SPEAKS AGAINST TAFT-HARTLEY ACT 05:18:41 - MS REUTER PAUSES BETWEEN SEGMENTS OF SPEECH TO WAIT FOR CUE 05:19:52 - CU REUTER SCRATCHES HIS NOSE AFTER ENDING A SEGMENT OF HIS SPEECH. AFTER LONG PAUSE HE CONTINUES SPEECH 05:21:20 - CU ROBERT TAFT SPEAKS AGAIN REITERATING WHAT WAS SAID BEFORE 05:22:11 - CU REUTER SPEAKS AGAIN AS BOTH SAY THE SAME THINGS, OBVIOUSLY IN REHEARSAL FOR EDITING PURPOSES
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1934
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-985