- Title: P-217-10
- Summary: LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1932:
- Description:02:12:56 - AERIAL VIEW CHARLES LINDBERGH HOUSE IN ISOLATED COUNTRY AREA OF HOPEWELL, NEW JERSEY POV AIRPLANE FLYING ABOVE ON MARCH 2, 1932 AFTER REPORTED KIDNAPPING OF LINDBERGH CHILD AFTER BABY WAS PUT TO BED BY MOTHER AND NURSE. 02:13:08 - CHARLES LINDBERGH AND WIFE ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH WALK FROM HOME TOWARDS CAMERA. BOTH POSE FOR CAMERA. CU DISTRAUGHT MRS. LINDBERGH. 02:13:33 - POLICE OFFICIALS GATHER AT BASE OF LONG LADDER LEADING TO 2ND STORY BEDROOM WINDOW WHERE THE CHILD WAS KIDNAPPED. 02:13:57 - VARIOUS FILM CLIP SHOWING LINDBERGH CHILD STANDING IN CRIB NEXT TO WINDOW WHERE KIDNAPPER ENTERED AT NIGHT. CLIPS WERE USED BY POLICE TO ID CHILD. "HE IS 20 MONTHS OLD, WHEN STOLEN HE WAS DRESSED IN WHITE SLEEPING SUIT, HIS HAIR IS FAIR AND CURLY ........". OTHER FILM CLIPS OF CHILD. "AMERICANS WERE SHOCKED OF THE KIDNAPPING, BUT THEY SEEMED INDIFFERENT TO THE WAR THAT EXPLODED IN THE FAR EAST".". 02:14:14 - LS HUGE EXPLOSIONS IN CHINA CITY AS JAPS INVADE AND BOMB CHINA CITIES. VOICE OVER THOMAS, "BY MARCH THE JAPANESE HAD INVADED CHINA, CAPTURED SHANGHAI AND WERE ABOUT TO COMPLETE THE CAPTURE OF MANCHURIA". 02:15:05 - HEAVY TRAFFIC AUTOS, REFUGEES RUSHING DOWN CITY STREET (SHANGHAI ?) TO ESCAPE ONSLAUGHT. MORE OF BOMBERS OVERHEAD DROPPING BOMBS. LS HUGE EXPLOSIONS IN CITY FROM BOMBS. PAN RUBBLE AND DEVASTATION CAUSED BY BOMBING. BOMBED OUT BUILDINGS. GRAPHIC VIEW DEAD IN STREET AWAITING REMOVAL. 02:15:51 - LONG COLUMNS CIVILIAN REFUGEES CARRYING THEIR MEAGER BELONGINGS TRYING TO REACH THE HAVEN OF REFUGE IN THE SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT. 02:15:57 - VARIOUS SHOTS BRITISH TROOPS WATCHING REFUGEES ENTER BARRICADE LEADING INTO INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT. 02:16:17 - 1500 STRONG AMERICAN 31ST INFANTRY FROM MANILA, ARRIVE AND PARADE DOWN STREET IN THE INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT, PLAYING "STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER", WHICH WAS AWAITED BY AMERICAN RESIDENTS OF THE SETTLEMENT. 02:16:24 - ENGLAND'S SIR ARTHUR HENDERSON ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT ABOUT CRISIS. 02:17:47 - "HERE IS THE FIRST SIGN OF SPRING - BABE RUTH STARTS TRAINING FOR 1932 BASEBALL SEASON UNDER ARTIE MCGOVERN IN NEW YORK GYM". VARIOUS GREAT SHOTS BABE RUTH IN GYM WITH COMICAL TRAINER (?) SPARRING WITH BOXING GLOVES SMALLER TRAINER HITS RUTH IN STOMACH WITH LEFT AND RIGHTS AS RUTH HOLDS HIM BACK WITH HIS HAND TO TRAINERS HEAD, AS RUTH HAS CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE OFF CAMERA. TIRED OF HOLDING TRAINER BACK, RUTH PUNCHES HIM WITH LEFT HAND, KNOCKS HIM DOWN. ALL DONE IN JEST. 02:18:19 - BABE RUTH IN STEAM BOX WITH HEAD EXPOSED AS TRAINER WRAPS RUTH'S HEAD WITH COLD TOWEL. VERY FUNNY SCENES. baseball, NY YANKEES, PERSONALITY. 02:18:50 - LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS (COLOR) - MORE ABOUT RUTH - "NEARLY 13 MILLION AMERICANS, 1/4 OF THE LABOR FORCE, DESPERATELY SEEKING JOBS". THE CRASH OF 1929 MADE SOMETHING OF A MOCKERY OF THE GOP CLAIMS THAT THE PARTY CAN BRING PROSPERITY ...... ". IN DECEMBER 1931, PRESIDENT HOOVER URGED CONGRESS TO CREATE A RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION, AN INSTITUTION TO LEND MONEY TO BANKS, RAILROADS, INDUSTRY, ITS AIM, TO GET BUSINESS TO GET ITS AFFAIRS IN ORDER AGAIN (STIMULUS BILL ???). 02:19:55 - MS PRESIDENT HOOVER MAKING SPEAKS OF HIS PLANS. 02:20:24 - SENATOR ROSS (?) EXPLAINS RECONSTRUCTION CORPORATION PLAN TO CAMERA. "IT WILL HAVE A LENDING POWER OF 2 BILLION DOLLARS". " ......., IT IS A LENDING COMPANY, NOT A SPENDING COMPANY". 02:21:46 - THOMAS (COLOR) - "NO GROUP, NO GROUP, EXCEPT MAYBE THE BLACK WORKERS, WERE MORE BADLY HURT NOW THAN THE AMERICAN FARMER, BY THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE". 02:21:50 - VARIOUS SHOTS CROWDS OF TOWNSPEOPLE, WATCH PARADE OF TRUCKS FULL OF PROTESTING FARMERS RIDING DOWN MAIN STREET. 02:22:28 - ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL SPEAKS TRYING TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO SPEND MORE. "A DOLLAR OF CURRENCY TO A HOARDER IS JUST A DOLLAR, A DOLLAR OF CURRENCY USEFULLY EMPLOYED, FORMS THE BASIS FOR 10 TIMES THAT AMOUNT OF CREDIT .......". 02:22:42 - "MARY PICKFORD AS A BLOCK - AIDER". "SCREEN FAVORITE IS WORKING AS A VOLUNTEER SOLICITOR IN WANT STAMP SALE TO ASSIST UNEMPLOYED. 02:22:56 - MCU PICKFORD SPEAKS TO CAMERA ABOUT THE JOB OF BLOCK AIDERS. CU MARY PICKFORD SPEAKING TO CAMERA, SAYS "BLOCK AIDERS ARE VISITING EVERY HOME IN NEW YORK CITY TO GET PLEDGES OF 10 CENTS OR MORE A WEEK FOR 20 WEEKS, TO GIVE WORK TO HEADS OF DESTITUTE FAMILIES. VARIOUS SHOTS MARY DOES SKIT WHERE SHE VISITS HOME, CUTE LITTLE BOY GIVES HIS 10CENTS ALLOWANCE TO MARY. HOLLYWOOD, MOVIES,SILENT MOVIES, :AMERICA'S SWEETHEART". 02:24:25 - MS THOMAS REMEMBERS (COLOR) - SPEAKS OF 20,000 JOBLESS WWI VETERANS MARCHED ON WASHINGTON, ASKING FOR PROMISED BONUS THEY THOUGHT WAS OVERDUE. "THEY WERE WARNED TO LEAVE, OR ELSE!!!" 02:24:55 - CROWDS WATCH AS MOUNTED CAVALRY, TANKS AND TROOPS MARCH DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVE, AS CHEERS OR JEERS (?) VOICE OVER THOMAS, "GENERAL MACARTHUR WAS SAYING, ANY MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE BONUS ARMY HAD BECOME INEVITABLE". "IF DELAYED IT MIGHT HAVE LED TO UNCERTAINTY, EVEN INSURRECTION". 02:25:20 - VARIOUS SHOTS BURNING SHACKS AND LEAN-TOO, USED BY VETERANS FOR HOUSING DURING THE DEMONSTRATION (CALLED HOOVER CITY). 02:25:35 - THOMAS REMEMBERS - "AS THE PARTY IN POWER DURING THE DEPRESSION, THE REPUBLICANS FACED THE INEVITABLE, DEFEAT IN 1932". 02:25:45 - VARIOUS SHOTS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN PROGRESS. "EVERYBODY KNEW HE (HOOVER) HAD THE NOMINATION SEWED UP". MS UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER ON PODIUM SPEAKS DRAMATICALLY IN HOOVER'S BEHALF. 02:25:56 - VARIOUS VIEWS DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS TO REPORTERS AS HE BOARDS PLANE TO CHICAGO WHERE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WAS HELD. LS FDR PLANE TAKES OFF. 02:27:23 - MLS ROOSEVELT MAKES ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, AT CONVENTION. "THIS IS MORE THAN A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN, IT IS A CALL FOR TO ARMS. GIVE ME YOUR HELP, NOT TO WIN VOTES ALONE, BUT TO WIN IN THIS CRUSADE TO RESTORE AMERICA TO ITS OWN PEOPLE". 02:27:59 - VARIOUS SHOTS PRESIDENT HOOVER TRYING HARD TO HANDLE VACATION IN BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, RIDES ON HORSEBACK, HIS DOG "LUIGI" RUNNING ALONGSIDE. LS HOOVER FISHING IN MILL POND CREEK, HAVING NO SUCCESS. 02:28:44 - MS ROOSEVELT MAKING SPEECH AT PODIUM GETS ROUSING CHEER WHEN HE SAYS HE FAVORS REPEAL OF "VOLSTEAD ACT" (PROHIBITION). 02:29:42 - VARIOUS SHOTS MEN WITH SLEDGE HAMMERS CRASHING OPEN BARRELS OF LIQUOR, BEER, POURING IT DOWN SEWERS.. MS SEVERAL BARRELS BOOZE SPURTING SHOWER OF LIQUOR INTO AIR. CU AGENT SMASHING OPEN BARREL OF BOOZE BELONGING TO NOTORIOUS GANGSTER AL CAPONE. 02:30:07 - CAPONE IN FAMILIAR WHITE FEDORA, EXITS COURTROOM ON WAY TO LEAVENWORTH TO A CELL FOR NEXT 7 1/2 YEARS. criminal justice, mafia. 02:30:22 - VARIOUS SHOTS PAN, ATLANTA PENITENTIARY AT LEAVENWORTH, WHERE CAPONE SPENT HIS JAIL TIME AS CONVICT #40 886. 02:31:09 - "HERE'S ANOTHER OF PROHIBITION'S WOES" - "DIZZY BARMAIDS IN POPULAR BERLIN CAFE, DEMONSTRATE WHAT WE ARE DEPRIVED OF IN LAND OF THE DRY". VARIOUS SHOTS BERLIN CHORUS GIRLS LINED UP BEHIND BAR WITH BARTENDER USE DRINK SHAKERS IN THEIR DANCE. SHAKING THEM TO SOUND OF JAZZY MUSIC. GIRLS DANCE WITH THEIR SHAKERS, AROUND PEOPLE DINING AT THEIR TABLES. 02:31:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS VICTORIOUS CANDIDATE (2ND PRESIDENT OF GERMANY) 85 YEARS OLD VON HINDENBURG, IN FIELD MARSHAL UNIFORM REVIEWS TROOPS AS CROWD WATCHES. MS VON HINDENBURG IN FORMAL WEAR, SPEAKS, SAYS "THE CHIEF REASON FOR UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE IS THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES". 02:32:26 - ABOVE VIEW TENS THOUSANDS BERLINERS CHEERING WILDLY AS MOTORCADE WITH ADOLPH HITLER RIDES DOWN STREET. VARIOUS SHOTS HITLER MAKING DRAMATIC SPEECH TO CROWDS AT SITE OF BRANDENBURG GATE. MS HITLER MAKING SPEECH. NAZISM, DER FUHRER, LANDMARK 02:33:37 - VARIOUS SHOTS FASCIST TROOPS MARCH ON MUSSOLINI'S 10 ANNIVERSARY IN POWER. MS MUSSOLINI ON HORSEBACK, WHITE PLUMED HAT, REVIEWS PARADE. ABOVE SHOT PARADE IN ROME TOWARDS ROMAN COLISEUM RUINS IN B/G. LANDMARK. IL DUCE 02:34:15 - "NEW MARK SET IN FLIGHT ACROSS U. S". "TOMMY HAIZLIP OF ST LOUIS, BETTERS DOOLITTLE'S TIME IN 10 HOURS, 19 MINUTES DASH FROM COAST TO N. Y." VARIOUS SHOTS PLANE LANDING. MS TOMMY TELLS OF HIS FLIGHT SAND SAYS HE IS DELIGHTED IF HE BROKE ANY RECORDS. 02:35:17 - ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ON STAGE WITH ANOTHER WOMAN, SINGS HYMNS. THEN SPEAKS TO AUDIENCE 02:36:05 - MS LOWELL THOMAS (COLOR) - SPEAKS OF FDR LANDSLIDE VICTORY - "BUT FOR FDR IT WAS NO TIME FOR JUBILATION". 02:36:25 - MS FDR SPEAKS OF RECOVERY PLAN HE IS SUBMITTING. THOMAS (COLOR) "AND STILL THE DEPRESSION DEEPENS". THOMAS TELLS OF BAD TIMES. "AH, BUT IT COULDN'T BE THAT BAD". THERE WAS LOTS OF FREE ENTERTAINMENT ON RADIO. EDDIE CANTOR, AMOS AND ANDY, THE GOLDBERGS, AND FOR 15 CENTS YOU CAN SEE GRETA GARBO, THE BARRYMORES AND JOAN CRAWFORD ALL IN "GRAND HOTEL AND BESIDES THERE WAS BEER, BEER FDR HAD PROMISED". 02:37:12 - "CONGRESS PASSES BILL LEGALIZING REAL BEER". LAGUUARDIA OF N. Y., MRS. KAHN, CAL., REJOICE OVER 3.2 % VICTORY". 02:37:36 - MAYOR FIORELLO LAGUARDIA OF NEW YORK CITY AND MRS. KAHN AND OTHERS, STAND IN FRONT OF TABLE CONTAINING SEVERAL BOTTLES OF BEER AND SPEAK TO CAMERA. 02:37:46 - CU LAGUARDIA, "THIS BEER IS FAR BETTER THAN THE POISONOUS HOOCH THAT IS NOW BEING SOLD UNDER TOTAL PROHIBITION". MS MRS, KAHN SPEAKS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1932
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: P-217-10