- Title: VM-60
- Summary: MOVIETONE NEWSREELS: BASEBALL SCANDAL. DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE. PHILADELPHIA SESQUI EXPO. MISS AMERICA. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE. CHRYSLER BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION. LYTTON PEACE CONFERENCE. FDR. PARIS RIOTS.
- Description:00:00:24 - STORY# 4813. BASEBALL; CHICAGO "BLACK SOX" SCANDAL. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 9/29/20. SOME OF THE WITNESSES & VICTIMS AS THE BASEBALL SCANDAL THICKENS. ARRIVING BY CAR & TAXI, NEWSMEN. GETTING IN CARS. 00:01:36 - STORY# 4914. BASEBALL SCANDAL TRIAL. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 9/28/29. CHICAGO "BLACK SOX" BASEBALL SCANDAL. JURORS POSE OUTSIDE COURTHOUSE & IN COURTROOM. JUDGE CHARLES MCDONALD. 00:03:00 - DISAMAMENT CONFERENCE: DELEGATES MET AT DOCKSIDE. CU ASIAN DELEGATES 00:05:16 - Arms Limitation Conference. CRUISE SHIP AT SEA. CU ASIAN DELEGATE (JAPANESE?). GROUP POSING ON DECK 00:07:39 - STORY# A9914. CHARLESTON AT SEA. ATLANTIC OCEAN. 11/24/23. MISS STELLA DOYLE DEMONSTRATES NEW CHARLESTON DANCE STEP TO PASSENGERS ON THE "AQUITANIA". ORCHESTRA. WOMAN DANCING ON DECK. DANCE FADS. 00:09:47 - ARMS CONFERENCE DELEGATES PHILADELPHIA SESQUI EXPO. GROUP POSING. CALVIN COOLIDGE 00:10:22 - ANIMALS TO SESQUICENTENNIAL EXPO. MEN TRYING TO CONTROL BEAR CUB ON LEASH, WILD CUB. MAN SHOVES BEAR INTO CAGE. 00:11:08 - MEN PUT DOWN LARGE CRATE, TAKE OUT GIANT PYTHON SNAKE. 16 MEN MOVING SNAKE 00:11:56 - REPLICA OF TUN TAVERN AT PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. HONOR GUARD, FLAGS. EARLY AMERICAN FLAG, 13 STARS. 48 STATES AMERICAN FLAG. MEN IN AMERICAN REVOLUTION UNIFORMS. 00:13:08 - PRESENTATION OF SWORD IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. CEREMONY: WHITE NAVAL OR MARINE UNIFORMED MEN, MILITARY CEREMONY. LITTLE GIRL DRESSED IN OLD-FASHIONED DRESS CURTSIES, CURTSY. HOLDING OPEN CASE, CAN'T SEE WHAT'S INSIDE. UNIFORMED MAN MAKES SPEECH AT PODIUM. 00:14:06 - TILT DOWN CLOCK TOWER, SQUARE 00:14:25 - SESQUICENTENNIAL EXPO IN PHILADELPHIA. BEAUTY CONTEST, TWO BEAUTY CONTESTANTS PUSHED IN ROLLING CHAIR. WEARING STATE SASHES. CU FRECKLED-FACE BEAUTY. 00:14:53 - BEAUTY CONTESTANTS IN HAND-POWERED LITTLE PADDLE BOATS 00:15:06 - MISS GEORGIA SITTING IN MINIATTURE TRAIN 00:15:16 - STORY# B4417. INTERCITY BEAUTIES SPEND THE DAY AT SESQUI. MISS AMERICA-TYPE CONTEST 1928. MISS NORMA SMALLWOOD WITH PAGEANT ORGANIZERS ON SHIP. BEAUTY CONTESTANTS ON SHIP. WEARING STATE SASHES. 00:16:08 - BEAUTY CONTESTANTS IN PARADE. MARCHING BAND, MILITARY. 00:16:59 - BEAUTY CONTESTANTS GOING UP IN HOT AIR BALLOONS 00:18:12 - ACTIVITIES OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AT SESQUI. AMERICAN LEGION PARADE IN PHILADELPHIA. PHILLY SKYLINE CIRCA 1928. 00:19:13 - DEDICATION AT MEMORIAL 00:20:01 - TILT DOWN CLOCK TOWER 00:20:13 - PLANTING TREE AT BASE OF MEMORIAL, STATUE. 00:20:50 - CU OLD, AGED COUPLE WITH SHOVELS. THROW DIRT INTO TREE HOLE. PLANTING TREE. 00:21:22 - VIRGINIA DAY AT PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. BASEBALL PRACTICE, TEAMS POSING. PHILADELPHIA A'S ATHLETICS BASEBALL TEAM. MINOR LEAGUE TEAM WEARING "YONKERS" UNIFORMS. CONNIE MACK THROWS BASEBALL OUT. 00:22:28 - INDIANS IN HEADDRESSES. PUTTING HEADDRESSES ON WHITE MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT. 00:22:51 - MILTARY PARADE, MARCHING BAND. CIVIC LEADERS POSING. OFFICERS. 00:23:40 - SOLDIERS IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR COSTUME. SIGN BEHIND THEM: "GOV. HARVEY". SOLDIERS IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR UNIFORMS PERFORM. FLOATS, SPEAKERS (MOS). 00:24:27 - IRISH CELEBRATION AT THE SESQUI. PARADE IN PERIOD COSTUME, REVOLUTIONARY WAR UNIFORMS. VARIOUS BRANCHES OF MILITARY UNIFORMS. PAN GROUP OF IRISH, IRISH-AMERICAN MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY & CITIZENS. FLOATS 00:27:32 - NEW YORK SKYLINE FROM RIVER. (EMULSION DETERIORATION). BIRD'S EYE, STREET LEVEL 00:32:44 - FLIRTING WITH DEATH ON NEW YORK PINNACLES. DAREDEVILS REPLACING LIGHTS ATOP SKYSCRAPER 00:35:50 - CHRYSLER BUILDING: CONSTRUCTION OF TOP FLOORS, INSTALLING WINDOWS, WORKERS ON GIRDERS, NEW YORK SKYLINE, COMPLETING SPIRE, POV DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT 00:45:29 - LORD LYTTON PEACE COMMISSION CONFERENCE: LITTER CARS CARRIED BY CHINESE PEASANTS 00:46:56 - TOURISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS AT THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA, TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS. LYTTON AND EMPEROR 00:48:36 - CONVOY OF LITTERS. LITTER CARS CARRIED BY PEASANTS DOWN MOUNTAIN ROAD 00:49:48 - PEOPLE TOURISTS WALKING DOWN STEEP COBBLESTONE WALK. CHINESE & BRITISH GROUP POSING. 00:52:40 - FDR SPEECH ON BANK CONDITIONS (1933) ROOSEVELT MAKES STATEMENT ADDRESSES TO MOVIE AUDIENCES. TELLS CITIZENS TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL STRUCTURE. SPEECH MADE DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. 00:57:10 - PARIS RIOTS: COMMUNIST MARCHERS, EMPTY STREETS, POLICE BARRICADES, CROWDS MILLING AROUND, DAMAGES. CIVIL UNREST. MARCHERS WITH PLACARDS SINGING, RAISING FISTS IN THE AIR. LITTER STREWN STREETS. GNARLED BITS OF METAL 01:00:29 - PARIS STREETS, MONUMENTS, STATUES, WIDE AVENUES 01:00:38 - CITIZENS GATHERED IN PARK, MAN STANDING ON TOP OF STATUE, CITIZENS SINGING.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-60