- Title: P-218-5
- Summary: DECADES: NEWSREEL STORIES FROM JANUARY 1941 01:56:57 MADELAIN CARROL SITS AND KNITS AS FRED MCMURRAY WATCHES. HE THEN TAKES OVER THE KNITTING. actor, actress, hollywood, movies, theater.
- Description:01:00:47 - TITLE: "SPORTS" - TRACK AND FIELD - ABOVE VIEW ONE MILE RUN IN PROGRESS - WINNER - DON MUNSKIE 4:14.04, RECEIVES TROPHY. 01:01:22 - MEN'S 2 MILE RUN - ABOVE VIEW RACE IN PROGRESS - WINNER: GREG WRIGHT 9:12.2. 01:01:45 - "BILLIARDS" - CHICAGO ILL. - VARIOUS SHOTS BILLIARD TOURNAMENT IN PROGRESS - CU SHOTS BILLIARD PLAYERS, IN FORMAL DRESS, MAKING SEVERAL TRICK SHOTS AS OTHER PLAYERS WATCH. CU TRICK SHOTS. 01:02:27 - ANNUAL MOTORBOAT SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY - VARIOUS SHOTS VARIETY YACHTS, MOTOR BOATS AT SHOW. PRETTY MODELS AT WHEELS OF LUXURY YACHTS AND SMALLER SPEEDBOATS. 01:02:55 - TITLE: "WINDSOR SEES U. S. AIR SHOW" - MIAMI, FLA. DUKE OF WINDSOR EXITS SMALL PLANE AT MIAMI AIRPORT, IS GREETED BY POLICE OFFICIALS WHO ESCORT HIM AROUND.. - VARIOUS SHOTS SMALL PIPER CUB TYPE PLANE DOING STUNTS. CU DUKE. 01:03:33 - TITLE: "FASHIONS FOR HIM" - 12941 MEN'S FASHIONS - NEW YORK CITY - MALE MODELS SHOW VARIETY SUITS AND HATS, INCLUDING FORMAL WEAR. MALE MODEL WITH BLACK POODLE, ANOTHER WITH GREAT DANE. 01:04:23 - 01 04 23 TITLE: "500,000TH YARD OF CONCRETE" - SHASTA DAM, CALIFORNIA - AERIAL VIEW SITE OF SHASTA DAM AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. GREAT SHOT OVERHEAD CRANE LOWERING AND DEPOSITING ONE OF MANY HUGE BUCKETS OF CONCRETE. EACH BUCKET CONTAINS 20 TONS OF CONCRETE. THE LONGEST CONVEYOR IN THE WORLD CARRYING FRESH STONES TO THE DAM, DELIVERS 1100 TONS OF STONE AN HOUR. 01:05:06 - TITLE: "DEFENSE BILL - FOR AND AGAINST" - ABOVE PAN GALLERY AND CONGRESS IN SESSION. FOR - MS SENATOR JOHN. B. LEE (DEMOCRAT - OKLA.) SPEAKS IN FAVOR OF THE DEFENSE BILL - "ENGLAND IS THE LAST AND ONLY BARRIER BETWEEN AMERICA AND TOTAL WAR ......". 01:05:10 - AGAINST - MCU ISOLATIONIST CHAMPION, SENATOR BURTON H. WHEELER (DEMOCRAT - MONTANA) - "....... APPROVAL OF THIS LEGISLATION MEANS WAR, OPEN AND COMPLETE WARFARE ......."REMEMBER THE INTERVENTIONISTS CONTROL THE MONEYBAG, BUT YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE CONTROL THE VOTE". 01:07:32 - "FOR" - WENDELL WILLKIE - MCU WILLKIE SPEAKS - SPEAKS IN FAVOR OF THE DEFENSE BILL.. 01:08:38 - TITLE: "GREEKS SWEEP FORWARD" - VARIOUS SHOTS GREEK ARMY UNITS IN ALBANIA FIGHTING WITH ITALIAN FORCES - ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENTS - GREEK FORCES ON HORSEBACK. 01:09:21 - VARIOUS SHOTS GREEK SOLDIERS TAKING THEIR FOOD SUPPLY WITH THEM IN THE FORM OF HERDS OF SHEEP AND OTHER LIVESTOCK. VARIOUS GRAPHIC SHOTS ITALIAN DEAD SOLDIERS ALONG ROAD AS WELL AS DESTROYED TANKS. SHOTS OF REFUGEES RETURNING TO THEIR HOMES. LITTLE REFUGEE BOY ON DONKEY. 01:10:19 - GREEK SOLDIERS FILL PAILS OF GASOLINE THEY TAKE FROM BARREL OF GAS CAPTURED FROM ITALIANS, ALONG WITH OTHER CAPTURED ARMS AND AMMO. 01:10:45 - TITLE: "ON BRITAIN'S FRONT LINES" - "LIBYA" - VARIOUS SHOTS AND STORM HITS BRITISH FORCES. HUGE LINES OF ITALIAN SURRENDERING SOLDIERS BEING MARCHES TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN DESERT. PAN THOUSANDS ITALIAN PRISONERS. CU FACE SHOTS ITALIAN PRISONERS WITH HEADS WRAPPED WITH ALL KINDS CLOTH TO PROTECT THEM FROM SUN. 01:11:58 - "SIDI BARRANI" - PAN DESERT FORTRESS CITY BATTERED BY BRITISH AND AUSTRALIANS DURING ROUT OF ITALIANS. 01 12 27 VARIOUS SHOTS ROYAL AIR FORCE TRANSPORT PLANE LANDING AND DISCHARGING HIGH RANKING ITALIAN OFFICERS IN CAMP WHERE ON GENERALS AND HIGH RANKING OFFICERS ARE RECEIVED. 01:12:44 - TITLE: "AT SEA" - LS BRITISH CONVOYS PLOW THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ESCORTED BY BRITISH WARSHIPS AS NO ITALIAN WARSHIPS INTERFERING THE PRECIOUS LIFELINE. 01:12:58 - "MALTA" - VARIOUS HOTS BRITISH NAVAL BASE ON MALTA, BARELY 50 MILES FROM SICILY. LS MEN AT SHORE WAVE TO THE BRITISH AIRCRAGT CARRIER "ILLUSTRIOUS", IN HARBOR IN DISTANCE. 01:13:19 - "GREECE" - VARIOUS SHOTS RUINS OF ANCIENT METROPOLIS. BRITISH SHIPS UNLOAD TROOPS AND WAR SUPPLIES AT GREEK PORTS. 01:13:51 - MS BRITISH GENERALS CONFER WITH KING GEORGE OF GREECE AND PREMIER METAXAS AT WAR COUNCIL MEETING. MCU KING GEORGE. CU METAXAS. 01:14:00 - PRINCESS FREDERICA OF GREECE VISITS WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL. 01:14:24 - GREEK SOLDIERS WAVE FROM BOX CARS TAKING THEM TO FRONT. 01:14:28 - "TURKEY" - ABOVE VIEW ISTANBUL CITYSCAPE - VARIOUS SHOTS ISTANBUL HARBOR LOADED WITH BRITISH SHIPS CARRYING WAR SUPPLIES - MOVIE THEATRE AND NEWSPAPER CARTOONS HEAVILY FAVOR BRITISH VIEWS. CARTOONIST DRAWING ANTI-HITLER CARTOON. 01:15:05 - TO 01 18 20 TITLE: "LONDON BLITZ FIRE" - VARIOUS SHOTS MASSIVE DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NAZI INCENDIARIES ON LONDON SEN EARLY MORNING OF DECEMBER 30TH AFTER NAZI RAINED 10,000 INCENDIARIES ON THE CITY. PAN THE MASSIVE DESTRUCTION. PAN TOTALLY DESTROYED STORES IN BUSINESS SECTOR OF LONDON. LS HUGE SECTIONS OF BUILDINGS STILL COLLAPSING. MAP SHOWS HUGE AREA DESTROYED BY THE BOMBING. SHOTS OF HUGE FIRES, WITH FIREMEN POURING WATER ON THE FLAMES IN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY. 01:18:22 - TITLE: "THE MARCH OF DIMES" - VARIOUS SHOTS ELEANOR ROOSEVELT VISITS CHILDREN BEING TREATED FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN HOSPITAL. 01:18:52 - VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS WITH INFANTILE PARALYSIS, IN IRON LUNGS, WITH CAPTION: "WE'D LIKE TO GET WELL, TOO". 01:18:59 - MS AT WHITE HOUSE, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT SITS 9 YEAR-OLD GIRL (DELORES) ON HER LAP, TO SPEAK TO CAMERA, AS SHE READS PREPARED DOCUMENT, TELLING HOW SHE IS DEALING WITH THE DISEASE. medicine. 01:20:12 - TITLE: "AN HISTORIC AMERICAN EVENT" - 1ST TERM 1933 - 2ND TERM 1937 - 3RD TERM 1941 - SHIVERING CROWD OF 75,000 WAIT OUTSIDE CAPITAL DOME TO SEE FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT BE SWORN IN FOR UNPRECEDENTED 3RD TERM. GOOD SHOT CAPITAL POLICEMAN REACTING TO COLD WEATHER. STREET VENDOR CARRIES HUGE DISPLAY OF RIBBONS AND ORNAMENTS CELEBRATING THE EVENT. 01:20:47 - NEWSMEN, CAMERAMEN WITH ALL SORTS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT SET UP, WIPE LENS, FOR THE OCCASION. 01:21:01 - LIMO DRIVES UP, WENDELL WILLKIE, DEFEATED REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN THE RACE, EXITS LIMO. WILLKIE SITS AND SPEAKS WITH SECRETARY OF STATE CORDEL HULL, AS CAMERAS ROLL. MLS WHITE HOUSE. politics, u. s. history. 01:21:29 - VARIOUS SHOTS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN BLACK TOP HAT AND FAMILY IN OPEN LIMO, ESCORTED BY POLICE AND SECRET SERVICE, ON WAY TO CHURCH, BEFORE INAUGURATION, OTHERS IN TOP HATS RIDING IN OPEN LIMO ON WAY TO ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOR SERVICES BEFORE INAUGURATION. MS FDR HOLDS ON TO HIS SON JAMES ARM, WHO IS WEARING SPECIAL UNIFORM OF MARINE CORP. CAPTAIN. MCU FDR AND SON JAMES. MORE OF MOTORCADE DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVE. 01:22:00 - VARIOUS SHOTS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, HOUSE SPEAKER RAYBURN, SENATE LEADER BARKLEY IN LIMO, ALL WEARING TOP HATS, RIDE IN LIMO DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVE, ON WAY TO INAUGURATION, UNDER HEAVY ESCORT. GREAT SHOTS OF MOTORCADE. 01:23:03 - VARIOUS SHOTS OATH BEING ADMINISTERED TO NEW VICE PRESIDENT HENRY A WOLF, THEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS SWORN FOR THE 3RD TIME, BY CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES. VARIOUS SHOTS OF HUGE CROWD WATCHING. 01:23:26 - VARIOUS SHOTS COL. CHARLES LINDBERG TESTIFYING BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE, TELLS THEM THAT THE U. S. , EVEN WITH ENGLAND, CANNOT BEAT GERMANY IN WAR, AND URGES A NEGOTIATED PEACE WITH NAZI GERMANY. MS LINDBERGH SPEAKS AND EXPLAINS HIS IDEAS. 01:24:00 - TO 01 25 35 MS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MAKES HIS INAUGURATION SPEECH. 01:25:45 - VARIOUS ABOVE VIEWS ROOSEVELT MOTORCADE TAKES TRIUMPHANT RIDE DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVE AFTER INAUGURATION. HUGE CROWDS WAVE AND WATCH FROM BALCONIES AND WINDOWS OF APARTMENT HOUSES. 01:26:32 - LS VARIOUS SHOTS SQUADRONS ARMY BOMBERS PASS OVER CAPITOL DOME IN GIANT AIR SALUTE TO FDR. VARIOUS SHOTS ARMY TANKS, MECHANIZED UNITS IN PARADE, AS WELL AS ANNAPOLIS NAVY MIDSHIPMEN AND THOUSANDS OF ARMY TROOPS. 01:28:41 - TITLE: "WILKIE FLIES - LA CROWD OF WILLKIE SUPPORTERS WAVE FROM ROOF OF AIRPORT BUILDING AS WILLKIE BOARDS PLANE TO GREAT BRITAIN TO SEE WHAT IT'S (WAR) ALL ABOUT. MS WILLKIE SPEAKS BEFORE BOARDING PLANE. 01:29:17 - TITLE: "KENNEDY'S OPINION" - RETIRING AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND JOSEPH P. KENNEDY (FATHER OF FUTURE PRESIDENT JFK) SPEAKS BEFORE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE. CU KENNEDY SPEAKS, ASKS FOR ALL OUT AID TO GREAT BRITAIN. 01:30:12 - TITLE: "FORD AIDS NAVY" - PLANT IN DEARBORN, MICH., TURNED OVER TO NAVY FOR MECHANICAL TRAINING BY NAVY MEN. - VARIOUS SHOTS SAILORS IN CLASSROOMS AND AT MACHINES IN PLANT UNDERGOING TRAINING. 01:30:35 - VARIOUS SHOTS HENRY FORD AND NAVY OFFICERS ARRIVE FOR THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF SCHOOL. - ALL AT ATTENTION AS FLAG IS RAISED AT SITE, MS HENRY FORD ADDRESSES THE NAVY MEN. 01:31:25 - TITLE: "BRITISH SPREAD WAR EFFORT" - ICELAND - VARIOUS SHOTS CANADIAN TROOPS MARCHING IN STREETS OF REYKJAVIK, CAPITAL OF ICELAND. FIRE ARTILLERY AND DO MANEUVERS. LITTLE BOY STANDS AT ATTENTION AND SALUTES CANADIAN SOLDIER WHO RETURNS SALUTE. 01:32:09 - TITLE: EGYPT - ABOVE PAN LARGE SUPPLY ARMY TANKS BEING UNLOADED AT PORT IN EGYPT. WITH CAPTURE OF TOBRUK, ARRIVING BRITISH MECHANIZED UNITS MEAN A STILL BIGGER OFFENSIVE COMING. 01:32:27 - "TURKEY (KEY TO BALKANS)" - BRITISH AMBASSADOR ARRIVES IN TURKEY - VARIOUS SHOTS SOME OF 800,000 TURKISH TROOPS ON PARADE. YOUNG MEN IN BOY SCOUT-LIKE UNIFORMS, ON THE MARCH. HORSE DRAWN ARTILLERY. 01:33:11 - "ENGLAND" - "WOMEN IN WAR" - VARIOUS SHOTS BRITISH WOMEN UNITS ON THE MARCH. THOUGH THEY ARE NOT COMBAT TROOPS, WOMEN FILL NONE COMBATANT MILITARY ROLES, FREEING THE MEN FOR COMBAT. CU FACE SHOTS WOMEN IN UNIFORM. 01:33:32 - MS BRITISH WOMEN IN GYM SHORTS DOING CALISTHENICS OUTSIDE ARMY BARRACKS. WOMEN IN BARRACKS LAVATORY WASHING THEMSELVES AND THEIR CLOTHING. UNIFORMED WOMEN HAVING CHOW IN BARRACKS, LAUGH AND HORSE AROUND. 01:33:58 - TITLE: "SPORTS" - WRESTLING RING BEING DOUSED WITH TAR AND FEATHERS. SEVERAL WRESTLERS IN SWIM TRUNKS AND HATS ENTER RING, WRESTLE EACH OTHER IN THE TAR, THEN THROWING BAGS OF FEATHERS ON THEIR OPPONENTS, SLIPPING, SLIDING AND FALLING AS THEY DO SO. ONE WRESTLER LIFTS UP ANOTHER AND SLAMS HIM TO GROUND, ALL THEIR BODIES COMPLETELY COVERED WITH TAR AND FEATHERS. oddity, comedy, wrestling. 01:34:55 - TITLE: "HIGHEST PRICED PITCHER" - PITCHER BOB FELLER ARRIVES AT CLEVELAND INDIANS OFFICE, WAVES TO CAMERA, BEFORE ENTERING TO SIGN CONTRACT FOR $30,000. HIGHEST PITCHER PAID IN BASEBALL HISTORY. 01:35:07 - MS UNKNOWN FARMER BOB FELLER PITCHING HAY, WHEN HE WAS AN UNKNOWN FARM BOY. FARMER FELLER PLAYS CATCH WITH FATHER, ON FARM. FELLER AT DESK IN HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM. MS SLOW MOTION SHOT BOB FELLER ON MOUND PITCHING. 01:35:22 - BOB FELLER SIGNING $30,000 CONTRACT. sports, major leagues baseball. 01:35:30 - TITLE: "ICE EYEFUL" - NEW YORK CITY - ICE CAPADES (MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (?) - VARIOUS SHOTS, SOME PROVOCATIVE, PRETTY FEMALE ICE SKATERS PUTTING ON SKATES, COSTUMES, MAKEUP, IN LOCKER ROOM BEFORE SHOW. 01:35:43 - ABOVE SHOTS LONG CHORUS LINES OF SKATERS PERFORMING SPECTACULAR COORDINATED ICE DANCING. 01:36:00 - VARIOUS SHOTS OLYMPIC STAR, ACTRESS, BEAUTIFUL SONJA HENIE DOES SOLO FIGURE SKATING PERFORMANCE. hollywood, sports, ice skating, movies. 01:36:19 - TITLE: "CANADA GETS NAZI AIRMEN" - HUNDREDS NAZI CAPTIVES FROM BRITAIN, POUR INTO CANADA FROM TRANSPORT SHIPS, TO BE HELD IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS THERE. CARRYING THEIR BELONGINGS, SOME WAVE TO CAMERA. - CAPTIVES BOARD RAILROAD TRAINS FOR TRIP TO IMPRISONMENT. 7 ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE, AND ONE ACTUALLY REACHED NEW YORK. SIX WERE RECAPTURED BY CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE. 01:36:48 - TITLE: "PROBE MYSTERY PLANE CRASH" - ST. LOUIS, MO. - OFFICIALS EXAMINE WRECK OF PLANE WHICH KILLED 2. VARIOUS SHOTS WRECKAGE. WOMAN SURVIVOR IN HOSPITAL BED SMILES TO CAMERA. 01:37:25 - TITLE" "QUADS MARK 2ND BIRTHDAY" - GALVESTON, TEXAS - PAN SHOTS OF 4 LITTLE GIRLS IN HIGH CHAIRS, EACH WITH BIRTHDAY CAKE, WITH TWO CANDLES, IN FRONT OF THEM. THE LITTLE GIRLS WALK AROUND WEARING THEIR MOTHER'S HIGH HEELED SHOES. (CUTE) 01:37:53 - TITLE: "CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS" - AERIAL VIEW BRITAIN'S 35,000 TON BATTLESHIP "KING GEORGE V" ANCHORS OFF ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, BRINGING BRITAIN'S NEW AMBASSADOR LORD HALIFAX AND HIS WIFE TO AMERICA. PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL SEES THEM OFF AT ENGLAND PORT. VARIOUS SHOTS HALIFAX AND WIFE IS TRANSFERRED TO THE PRESIDENTIAL YACHT, WHERE HE IS GREETED. 01:37:57 - VARIOUS SHOTS UNIFORMED WOMEN ON PARADE IN PARADE GROUNDS. 01:38:23 - AMERICAN FLAG WAVING IN WIND, AND QUOTE FROM CONSTITUTION, "ONE NATION UNDER GOD, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL". 01:38:46 - MCU LORD HALIFAX MAKES HIS FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENT AT HIS DESK IN WASHINGTON. 01:40:01 - TITLE: "ON THE WAR SCENE" - LONDON - VARIOUS SHOTS HARRY HOPKINS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT ARRIVES AT 10 DOWNING STREET BY LIMO. ENVOY. MS HOPKINS AND WINSTON CHURCHILL WITH CIGAR IN HAND, EXIT DOWNING STREET HOME OF PRIME MINISTER, POSE FOR CAMERAS. 'VARIOUS ABOVE SHOTS OF BLITZ DEVASTATED LONDON AS SEEN BY HOPKINS. TRAFFIC AS USUAL IN LONDON DESPITE THE DEVASTATION. ;LONDONERS READ BULLETIN BOARDS WITH LETTERS TELLING NEW ADDRESSES OF THOSE WHOSE HOMES WERE DESTROYED. 40 46 MS FEMALE SECRETARY AT DESK AMID RUBBLE, TYPES LETTER FOR EXECUTIVE, WHO SITS ON CHAIR IN RUBBLE WITH HER. 01:40:48 - TITLE: "ALBANIA" - VARIOUS SHOTS GREEK TROOPS EXAMINING CAPTURED ITALIAN WAR MATERIALS LEFT IN THE RUBLE OF DESTROYED CITY. MS GREEK SOLDIER LOOKS UP BARREL OF ITALIAN MACHINE GUN. ALBANIAN SOLDIERS RIDE IN ITALIAN TANKS CAPTURED IN BATTLE. MOST OF THE CAPTURED WEAPONRY WAS USED TO CAPTURE 15,000 TROOPS BY USING THEIR OWN WEAPONS AGAINST THEM. VARIOUS SHOTS ALBANIAN REFUGEES RETURNING TO RECAPTURED VILLAGES. 01:41:33 - TITLE: "MEDITERRANEAN" - VARIOUS SHOTS BRITISH WARSHIPS FIRING AT ATTACKING NAZI BOMBERS. BOMBS EXPLODE NEAR IN WATER WARSHIP - VARIOUS SHOTS BRITISH WARSHIPS IN MEDITERRANEAN, BOMBARDING ITALIAN FORCES IN LIBYA, AS BRITISH SAILOR KEEPS SCORE WITH CHAULK, EACH TIME THE SHIP FIRES SALVO. 01:42:26 - TITLE: "LIBYA" - THOUSANDS OF ITALIAN PRISONERS IN LIBYA BEING MARCHED AND SHIPPED VIA RAIL TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS. PAN HUNDREDS ABANDONED AND DESTROYED ENEMY TANKS, TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT. PAN ITALIAN PRISONERS SEATED ON GROUND ALL HUDDLED UP AS SAND STORM HITS. 01:42:52 - TITLE: "SPORTS" - ICE SKATING - 450 YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN ICE SKATING ENTHUSIASTS LINE UP AT RAILROAD STATION FOR AMERICAS 31ST ICE SKATE TRAIN TO NEW HAVEN. MS. SIGN: "TRACK 27, NEW HAVEN SKATE TRAIN". VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG WOMEN SEATED ON TRAIN KNITTING AND ENJOYING THE RIDE AS WELL AS THE MEN. TRAIN ARRIVES. VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG WOMEN SEATED ON LUGGAGE PUTTING ON THEIR SKATES. 01:43:33 - VARIOUS SHOTS LONG CONGA LINE HUNDREDS MEN AND WOMEN ON SKATES, SKATING ON ICE AT NIGHT, LIT UP WITH LIGHTS AND SMOKE BOMBS, CREATING FESTIVE ATMOSPHERE. 01:44:25 - EVENT - KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MILE RUN. VARIOUS SHOTS RACE IN PROGRESS JOHN MUNSTER OF MISSOURI AND WALTER MERRILL OF WISCONSIN, RUN NECK AND NECK - WALTER MERRILL WINS IN 4:9.07. 01:44:38 - TITLE: "FAST SLEDDING" - BRIDGTON, ME. - NATIONS LARGEST BOBSLED, 76 FEET LONG, WEIGHING 1730 POUNDS, CARRIES 113 RIDERS, SPEEDS UP TO 90 MILES PER HOUR, AS IT CRASHES THROUGH LARGE PAPER SIGN HELD BY 2 MEN,, "BRIDGTON MAINE WINTER CARNIVAL" TOWARDS CAMERA, FULLY LOADED WITH RIDERS. VARIOUS SHOTS SLED, CROWDED AT FULL CAPACITY WITH RIDERS, SPEEDING IN SNOW. oddity 01:45:15 - TITLE: "HOW MUCH AID FOR BRITAIN" - VARIOUS SHOTS PAN SENATORS DEBATING AID TO BRITAIN AT SENATE HEARING IN WASHINGTON, D. C. 01:45:31 - "VOLUNTEER AID" - MIDWEST -VARIOUS SHOTS LARGE GROUP OF WOMEN VOLUNTEERS, SITTING AND KNITTING ARTICLES OF CLOTHING FOR BRITAIN'S NEEDY. 01:45:53 - "MIAMI BEACH" - VARIOUS SHOTS BEACH BEAUTIES SEATED ON SAND AT BEACH IN MIAMI KNITTING GOODS FOR BRITAIN - "COLORADO" - COWBOY WITH HORSE AND HIS AND WIFE SIT OUTSIDE HOME ON RANGE, PREPARE PACKAGE FOR BRITAIN, COWBOY WITH HORSE MAILS IT AT RURAL MAILBOX ON COUNTRY ROAD. 01:46:21 - "HOLLYWOOD" - VARIOUS SHOTS HOLLYWOOD ACTORS AND ACTRESSES DOING THEIR PART. - MS ACTRESS MARY PICKFORD ("AMERICA'S SWEETHEART") SITS AT LAWN TABLE AND PRODUCTION CHIEF GO OVER BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN ADS. silent movies, hollywood, movies. 01:46:32 - MS ACTRESS DOROTHY LAMOUR SITS ON LAWN CHAIR AND KNITS WITH OTHER HOLLYWOOD WOMEN.. hollywood, actress, movies, theater. 01:46:36 - PRETTY GIRLS SITTING ON ROOFTOP OVERLOOKING BROADWAY TRAFFIC, KNITTING 01:46:47 - ACTRESS MERLE OBERON SITS AND KNITS WITH TWO OTHER WOMEN AS SHE HAS HER HAIR DON. hollywood, movies. 01:47:02 - "NEW YORK CITY" - VARIOUS SHOTS GROUPS AND CHILDREN MAKING BUNDLES FOR BRITAIN. AMERICAN TRANSPORT LINER SAILS OUT OF NEW YORK HARBOR ON WAY TO BRITAIN WITH AID BUNDLES. 01:47:42 - TITLE: "AIR DEFENSE - OVER HERE!" - WITH AIR RAID ALARM SOUNDING, LIGHTS SCANNING SKY AT KNIGHT WITH FLOODLIGHTS SPANNING SKY, ANTI- AIRCRAFT CANNONS FIRE AT IMAGINARY ATTACKING BOMBERS DURING AIR RAID PRACTICE DRILL. 01:47:57 - IN AN HISTORIC EXPERIMENT, MAKE-BELIEVE ENEMY BOMBERS INVADE 18,000 SQ.. MILES OF U. S. SOIL, FLY OVER CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND, MASS., AND NEW YORK TO TEST OUR DEFENSES. VARIOUS SHOTS "ENEMY" PILOTS RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS, THEN BOARDING BOMBERS WITH THEIR PARACHUTES ON. VARIOUS SHOTS BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS TAKING OFF ON MISSION. 01:48:30 - VARIOUS SHOTS AIR RAID WARDENS ON ROOFS AND OTHER STATIONS SPOTTING THE ENEMY AND GOING INTO ACTION. MS TELEPHONE OPERATORS AT PASS ON THE ALERT. WOMAN WORKER AT HUGE WALL MAP SPOTS THE LOCATION OF INVADERS, DEFENSE UNITS ARE ALERTED BY PHONE. 01:48:46 - TRACK AND FIELD - TITLE: "SPEED ON BOARDS!" - BOSTON, MASS. - VARIOUS SHOTS 1000 YARD RUN IN PROGRESS. WINNER: CAMPBELL KING FOR BOSTON, IN 2:11.'08, A NEW RECORD. 01:48:56 - FIGHTER PILOTS SCRAMBLE, RUN TO THEIR FIGHTER PLANES, TAKE TO AIR TO INTERCEPT THE BOMBERS. . VARIOUS SHOTS FIGHTER PLANES IN FLIGHT. AERIAL VIEW ENEMY BOMBERS FLYING OVER NYC SKYLINE. 01:49:30 - TITLE: "ART - AT CLEARANCE" - NEW YORK - DIGNITARIES ARMAND HAMMER AND FREDERICK GIMBEL SIT AT DESK IN GALLERY LOOK OVER THE $25,000CABRINI CUP - CU CABRINI CUP, AS "50,000,000 HURTS (?) ART COLLECTION GOES ON SALE. PROSPECTIVE BUYER LOOK AT ROW OF ANCIENT SWORDS ON SALE. MS VARIOUS SHOTS KNIGHT IN ARMOR ON HORSE, TILT UP STATUE OF MAN IN ARMOR BEING EXAMINED BY WOMAN, COST $9,897.00. WELL TO DO WOMEN LOOK OVER RARE TAPESTRY. RARE CHINE, ONLY $25,000. 01:50:32 - "TITLE: SNOW SWEEPS SIERRAS" - VARIOUS SHOTS ICE COATED POWER LINES AND POLES, AUTOS, COMPLETELY INUNDATED WITH SNOW. TRAFFIC SLOWLY TRAVELLING ON SNOW COVERED ROADS, TREES, AS 45 DAYS OF CONTINUOUS STORMS HIT THE HIGH SIERRAS. 01:50:49 - MS TRUCKER ATTACHES CHAINS TO HIS 18 WHEELER TIRES. VARIOUS SHOTS SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT WORKING DAY AND NIGHT.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1941
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: P-218-5