- Title: VM-794
- Summary: MOVIETONE NEWS:
- Description:07:00:37 - FLOODS TAKE HEAVY TOLL IN 5 STATES AERIAL FLOOD WATERS INUNDATE A SUBURBAN AREA IN BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK. EXTREME WEATHER 07:00:50 - ROWBOAT IS USED TO GO FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE WHILE A FIREMAN WALKS THROUGH KNEE DEEP WATER TOWARDS A STORE. 07:01:09 - MAN DIRECTS VINTAGE 1930s AUTOS DRIVING BOTH WAYS ON STREET IN A FOOT OF WATER. 07:01:33 - AERIAL KINGSTON, PENNSYLVANIA ALSO FLOODED PAN. AERIAL FLOODED BASEBALL PARK IN WILKES BARRE, PENN. WATKINS GLENN, N. Y. ALSO SEEN FROM AIR. 07:02:16 - TREES & DEBRIS AGAINST HOUSE. TREE TRUNK JUTS OUT OF HOUSE WINDOW. WORKERS PILE SAND BAGS ALONG RIVER IN ELMIRA, N. Y. 07:03:02 - PEOPLE LOOK OVER BRIDGE TO SEE HOUSE WHICH WAS SWEPT DOWN RIVER UNTIL IT LODGED AGAINST BRIDGE. VINTAGE CAR ROOF IS VISIBLE ABOVE FLOOD WATER 07:03:27 - GRIEF STRICKEN MAN HOLD BACK TEARS AS HE TELLS TRAGIC STORY OF ATTEMPT TO SAVE 3 CHILDREN. 07:04:22 - BELGIANS HONOR WAR'S GREATEST MAN OF PEACE KING LEOPOLD, QUEEN ASTRID AND CARDINAL ARE FOLLOWED BY CROWD TO SITE WHERE STATUE IS UNVEILED OF CARDINAL MERCIER IN TOWN HE WAS BORN. 07:04:43 - PROCESSION OF SCHOOL GIRLS PASSES IN HONOR OF CARDINAL. OLD FILM OF CARDINAL MERCIER POSING DURING WWI. 07:05:13 - PUBLIC WORKS GIANT CABLES SPAN GOLDEN GATE FOR GREATEST BRIDGE. GIANT PIERS FOR SUPPORTS OF SUSPENSION CABLES STRETCH ACROSS SAN FRANCISCO BAY ON UNCOMPLETED GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. 07:05:32 - GOVERNOR BERRY OF CALIFORNIA STARTS BALL ROLLING FOR SUPPORTING CABLES. WHEEL SPINS CABLE FROM TOWER TO TOWER 07:06:10 - NUMBER 1 G-MAN OPENS NATION-WIDE DRIVE ON CRIME FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER SPEAKS 07:07:03 - SPORTS BASEBALL: 1936 ALL-STAR GAME JIMMY FOXX STARS AS AMERICAN LEAGUE WINS CLASSIC. 07:07:14 - AMERICAN LEAGUE ALL-STARS POSE FOR GROUP SHOT. RIVAL MANAGERS MICKEY COCHRAN OF AMERICAN LEAGUE AND FRANKIE FRISCH OF NATIONAL LEAGUE POSE. 07:07:29 - LOU GEHRIG, JOE CRONIN, JIMMY FOXX & AL SIMMONS POSE. MEL OTT, PEPPER MARTIN AND BILL TERRY ALSO POSE. CU BOB FELLER WHO WILL PITCH FOR NATIONALS, POSES. PAN OF 70,000 IN STANDS 07:08:06 - AERIAL JIMMY FOX HITS HOMER IN 1ST INNING DRIVING IN BILL TERRY. AERIAL LEIGH HEMSLEY HITS TRIPLE & IS DRIVEN IN BY JOE CRONIN AS AMERICAN LEAGUE WINS 4-1. 07:09:05 - COMIC LEW LEHR NARRATES SELF-DEFENSE COURSE FOR CAB DRIVERS. GROUP OF CABBIES ARE HELD AT GUN POINT BY THEIR INSTRUCTORS. THE CABBIES GRAB THE GUN ARM IN JU-JIT-SU HOLD AND TWIST GUNS AWAY. 07:09:32 - VINTAGE CAB STOPS ON ROAD, 3 MALE PASSENGERS STEP OUT, ONE HOLDS GUN ON CABBIE WHICH HE WRESTS AWAY, THE OTHER 2 GRAB HIM BY NECK AND PULL HIM OUT OF CAB. CABBIE SUBDUES BOTH USING JU-JIT-SU 07:10:45 - SCENES OF "DIXIE" SEA DRAMA AND FLORIDA GALE FILM TAKEN BY A PASSENGER IN HOUR OF PERIL SHOWS CONCERNED PASSENGERS ON BOAT WHICH IS BEING POUNDED BY HURRICANE WINDS AND WAVES. 07:11:27 - RESCUE SHIPS AS SEEN FROM STRICKEN VESSEL. PAN OF PASSENGERS SITTING CALMLY ON DECK BEFORE RESCUE. AERIAL VIEW OF "DIXIE". 07:13:00 - MONTAGE SCENE OF DEVASTATION CAUSED BY THE HURRICANE TO THE FLORIDA KEYS. 07:13:49 - UPTURNED AND TWISTED RAILROAD TRACKS ARE TESTIMONY TO FORCE OF HURRICANE. 07:13:50 - PAN OF 116 FLAG-DRAPED COFFINS LYING IN 3 MASS GRAVES IN MIAMI BEFORE BEING BURIED. GRAVES OF VETERAN RELIEF WORKERS 07:14:13 - BELGIANS MOURN ASTRID, KILLED IN AUTO CRASH KING LEOPOLD WITH SLING ON ARM AND BANDAGE ON FACE WALKS IN PROCESSION BEHIND COFFIN OF HIS QUEEN, KILLED IN CAR CRASH WHICH HE SURVIVED. 07:14:57 - THREE CHILDREN AT SITE IN ALPS WHERE CAR HIT A TREE & BOUNCED OFF INTO A LAKE. BOUQUET OF FLOWERS MARK SITE. DEVASTATED CAR BEING PULLED OUT OF LAKE 07:15:20 - KING IS ACCOMPANIED BY MILITARY MEN AS HE FOLLOWS CASKET INTO CATHEDRAL IN BRUSSELS. 07:15:36 - SENATOR HUEY LONG OF LOUISIANA SHOT TO DEATH BY ASSASSIN. SENATOR LONG SITS ON WINDOW LEDGE WITH SEYMOR WEISS AND ANOTHER FRIEND. 07:16:13 - KING EMMANUEL OF ITALY AND IL DUCE SEE WAR GAMES ON FRONTIER. MONTAGE MUSSOLINI AND THE KING WATCH ITALIAN MECHANIZED UNITS MANEUVER IN ALPS. IL DUCE WATCHES ARTILLERY FIRE THROUGH BINOCULARS. 07:17:00 - ITALIAN TROOP SHIPS PASS THROUGH SUEZ CANAL. 07:17:23 - PITTSBURGH GIRL WINS TITLE OF "MISS AMERICA". CONVERTIBLE AUTOS CARRY CONTESTANTS ON BOARD WALK OF ATLANTIC CITY. BEAUTIES WAVE FROM CARS. 07:17:46 - GIRLS IN SWIM SUITS PARADE ALONG BOARDWALK BEFORE JUDGES. HENRIETTA LEABRA IS CROWNED. 07:18:03 - DUKE OF GLOUCESTER ENGAGED TO MARRY LADY ALICE SCOTT DUKE REVIEWS NAVY MEN ABOARD WARSHIP. 07:18:52 - COMIC NARRATOR LEW LEHR WITH ELEPHANT STORY PEOPLE LEAN AGAINST MOAT TRYING TO FEED THE OUTSTRETCHED TRUNK OF ELEPHANT AT ZOO. 07:19:07 - ELEPHANT STRADDLES WOODEN RAILING WITH HIS FRONT LEGS AND GRABS TRAINER, WHO IS TRYING TO FEED A HIPPO, WITH HIS TRUNK. ELEPHANT JEALOUSLY GRABS AT TRAINER WHO TEASES HIM. 07:19:44 - AS HIPPO WATCHES FROM OTHER SIDE THE ELEPHANT GRABS TRAINER BY HIS NECK AND LIFTS HIM HIGH INTO THE AIR AND THROWS HIM DOWN. 07:19:57 - BAER & LOUIS GET READY FOR COMING HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT BAER SPARS WITH BLACK PARTNER AT TRAINING CAMP. JOE LOUIS SPARS WITH SPARRING MATE AT HIS TRAINING CAMP IN POMPTON LAKES, NY. LOUIS KNOCKS OUT SPARRING MATE. 07:20:43 - FOOTBALL: GRIDIRON WARRIORS LIMBER UP FOR 1935 SEASON CU TEAM COMES SMASHING THROUGH PAPER SIGN: "DARTMOUTH 1935", TOWARDS CAMERA. 07:21:04 - MONTAGE TEAM IN PRACTICE AND CALISTHENICS. NAVY TEAM RUNS TOWARDS CAMERA ONTO PRACTICE FIELD. DO CALISTHENICS AND TACKLE PRACTICE. 07:21:45 - COLUMBIA TEAM POSES. PLAYER SHOUTS "WE'RE READY TO GO" THEN TOSSES FOOTBALLS INTO THE AIR. 07:22:54 - ETHIOPIA: ADDIS ABABA PREPARES FOR WAR WITH ITALY POLICEMAN SHOUTS AS HE DIRECTS FOOT TRAFFIC OF TRIBESMEN IN CAPITAL CITY 07:23:23 - COLORFUL TRIBAL CHIEFTAIN ON HORSE IS FOLLOWED BY RUNNING TRIBESMEN WITH RIFLES. HUNDREDS OF BLACK TRIBESMEN WITH RIFLES FLOCK INTO CITY 07:24:50 - MONTAGE WHITE FAMILIES AT THE RAILROAD STATION LEAVE BEFORE ITALY ATTACKS. 07:25:35 - ETHIOPIAN TROOPS BIVOUAC AND DIG TRENCHES. CAVALRY MEN CARRY RIFLES AND TRIBAL SPEARS TO FACE ITALIAN HEAVY ARTILLERY 07:26:41 - MONTAGE THOUSANDS OF ETHIOPIAN TROOPS MARCH TO THE FRONT. 07:26:46 - N. Y. PORTER WINS $20,000 IN 1ST U. S. LOTTERY WINNER WILLIAM CREST HOLDS A MOP AS HE TELLS HOW HE WILL SPEND THE MONEY. "HE WILL TAKE DAY OFF, GO TO NIGHTCLUB AND BURLESQUE SHOWS, AFTER THAT GET A NEW MOP AND START ALL OVER AGAIN". 07:27:23 - HITLER PLACES HIMSELF ABOVE GERMAN STATE HITLER STANDS IN OPEN LIMO AND GIVES NAZI SALUTE AS HE PASSES CHEERING CROWDS. 07:27:50 - HITLER IS GIVEN SYMBOLIC SWORD MODELLED AFTER SWORD OF MIGHTY EMPEROR CHARLEMAGNE. HITLER ON BALCONY GETS NAZI SALUTE FROM MASSES BELOW. 07:28:06 - COMIC NARRATOR LEW LEHR'S ANIMAL STORY TRAINER HAND FEEDS HAY TO LONG NECKED GIRAFFE INSIDE CAGE AS BABY GIRAFFE LOOKS ON. WHEN TRAINER TRIES TO FEED BABY, MOTHER MAKES THREATENING GESTURE AND TRAINER JUMPS BACK IN CAUTION. 07:29:00 - FASHIONS: CIRCA 1935 MODELS SHOW GOWNS AS MILITARY MEN IN VARIOUS ORNATE UNIFORMS STAND BY. MODELS ARE EACH ESCORTED OFF BY MILITARY MEN. MODELS & SOLDIERS DO A WALTZ. 07:30:10 - SPORTS BASEBALL: IGERS CLINCH FLAG IN AMERICAN LEAGUE, CUBS LEAD NATIONAL DETROIT TIGER TEAM POSES FOR GROUP PHOTO. CU MANAGER MICKEY COCHRAN POSES. 07:30:30 - TIGER SLUGGER HANK GREENBERG AT BAT. ACE PITCHER TOMMY BRIDGES POSES. SCHOOLBOY ROE PITCHING FROM MOUND. 07:30:41 - CU TIGER PLAYER SLIDES INTO CAMERA. 07:30:43 - CHICAGO CUBS POSE FOR GROUP PHOTO PITCHER GABBY HARTNETT THROWS IN PRACTICE. CUB PITCHING TRIO, WANAKE, LEE AND PRINCE THROW IN PRACTICE 07:31:01 - CU CUB MANAGER CHARLEY GRIMM POSES. 07:31:10 - COAST RUNNERS RACE OVER SCENIC TRAIL IN DIPSY MARATHON LARGE GROUP OF MARATHON RUNNERS TAKE OFF. RUNNERS RUN, WALK UP STEEP STAIRS IN WOODED PARK 07:31:29 - RUNNERS GO FROM PARK TO BEACH THROUGH HIGH GRASSY AREAS AND HILLS OVERLOOKING PACIFIC WATERS. 07:31:53 - FOOTBALL: SING SING GRID TEAM ROUTS HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPS OF NEW YORK CITY WITH SEATS FILLED WITH INMATES MONROE HIGH KICKS OFF AT OSSINING PRISON FIELD. 07:32:36 - CHEERLEADER LEADS INMATES IN CHEER. AS INMATES WIN 38-0 07:33:43 - THE FUNERAL OF GEORGE V WITH CROWN ON TOP OF COFFIN, NAVY MEN PULL CAISSON WITH COFFIN THROUGH STREETS CROWDED WITH GRIEVING ENGLISH. 07:34:18 - NEW KING EDWARD XIII, WHO WILL SOON ABDICATE FOR LOVE OF AMERICAN COMMONER, FOLLOWS BEHIND COFFIN. KINGS AND LEADERS OF MANY COUNTRIES FOLLOW BEHIND. 07:35:00 - MONTAGE CAMERA FOLLOWS PROCESSION, PANS THROUGH TREMENDOUS CROWDS 07:35:22 - COFFIN IS CARRIED OFF TRAIN AT WINDSOR AND PROCESSION CONTINUES INTO THE ROYAL CASTLE. 07:36:26 - ITALIANS SEND CRACK TROOPS INTO THE ALPS LONG SINGLE LINE OF COLORFUL ITALIAN ALPINE TROOPS CLIMB UP SNOW BOUND MOUNTAIN ON SKIS. 07:37:05 - TROOPS SKI DOWN MOUNTAIN BY THE HUNDRED. 07:37:17 - FASHIONS: 1935 MODELS SHOW CHINESE STYLE DRESSES AND HATS. 07:38:27 - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW COMES TO AMERICA WITH FREE ADVISE CU SPRY LOOKING SHAW SITS ON DECK CHAIR ON SHIP OFF MIAMI AND SCOLDS THE AMERICANS FOR NOT ABOLISHING THEIR CONSTITUTION. HE SAYS, "YOU HAVE A GOOD PRESIDENT AND A BAD CONSTITUTION". 07:40:03 - SPORTS ENGLISH OLYMPIC BOBSLED TEAM POSES BEFORE TAKING OFF ON RUN AT ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND. AUSTRIA'S TEAM GOES NEXT FOLLOWED BY U. S. TEAM. 07:41:03 - BERLIN SONJA HENIE OF NORWAY DEFENDS HER CROWN IN ICE RINK. CU PRIME MINISTER GORING APPLAUDS SONJA'S PERFORMANCE. SONJA WINS. 07:41:40 - NEW YORK CITY AERIAL SILVER SKATES TOURNAMENT GETS UNDER WAY ON ICE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. AERIAL YOUNG SKATERS FALL ON THE TURNS. 07:42:15 - IN MEN'S FINALS ICE SKATERS SPEED AROUND CIRCULAR AS CLIFF SPELLMAN WINS. 07:42:31 - RAY SHIPSTON "THE HUMAN TOP" IN SILVER OUTFIT, SPINS DIZZILY IN CROUCHED AND UPRIGHT POSITIONS 07:43:38 - WORLD NEWS: U. S. PEOPLE STAND AND WATCH HELPLESSLY REMAINS OF BRIDGE IN MAINE SMASHED BY FLOOD AND ICE. SECTION OF BRIDGE TORN LOOSE LIES ON PILES OF SOLID ICE IN MIDDLE OF RIVER. 07:44:03 - ICE FLOWS TOWARD BRIDGE ON DELAWARE RIVER. 07:44:10 - RIVER OF ICE FLOWS BY ATTACHED BLOCK OF HOUSES OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 07:44:20 - PASSAIC RIVER INUNDATES FACTORY BUILDINGS IN PATERSON, NEW JERSEY. CATTLE STAND KNEE DEEP IN WATER ON LAWN OF FARM HOUSE. 07:44:31 - BOY SITS ON EDGE OF CANOE AND WRINGS OUT TAIL OF HIS DOG AFTER RESCUING HIM FROM FLOOD. 07:44:35 - LOCOMOTIVE AND CARS LAY ON THEIR SIDES ON TRACKS IN NEW YORK. FLOWING RIVER OF ICE. 07:44:52 - BRAZIL THE WORLD'S GREATEST CRANE DWARFS WORKERS. GIANT BOOM IS 250 FEET LONG. IT SCOOPS UP MOUNTAINS OF EARTH, DROPS IT TO GROUND. 07:45:34 - GERMANY GERMANS SUPER ZEPPELIN "VON HINDENBURG" IS SLOWLY PULLED OUT OF HUGE HANGAR. THE SHIP RISES FROM GROUND TO BEGIN TEST FLIGHT. MONTAGE "VON HINDENBURG" IN FLIGHT, NAZI SWASTIKA ON TAIL 07:46:24 - FASHIONS MODELS SHOW STYLISH GOWNS AT SALON IN HOLLYWOOD. 07:47:27 - NEW YORK CITY FIREMEN BRAVE HEAVY SMOKE AS THEY CLIMB LADDER ON BURNING BUILDING AT ERIE BASIN, BROOKLYN. FIREMEN POUR WATER FROM HOSES AS SMOKE MAKES IT HARD TO SEE. 07:48:07 - WATER CASCADES FROM SMOKING BUILDING POURING ONTO A FIREMAN. 07:48:15 - FLORIDA PRINCE SERGIE GOVANY POSES ON HORSE WITH OTHER POLO PLAYERS GETS KILLED DURING GAME. 07:48:48 - CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS PRESIDENT FDR'S SON JOHN SINGS AND DANCES IN COLLEGE CHORUS LINE 07:49:45 - NEW JERSEY 4 LOCOMOTIVES, CONVENTIONAL & STREAMLINED, RACE SIDE BY SIDE DOWN TRACK IN TEST DEMONSTRATION. CU TRAIN PASSES OVER CAMERA. 07:50:19 - SPORTS. HORSE RACING: HIALEAH WONDER HORSE "BREVITY", FAVORED TO WIN KENTUCKY DERBY, IS TAKEN OUT OF STABLE FOR PHOTO SESSION. CU PAN OF "BREVITY" FROM LEGS UP. 07:51:42 - "BREVITY" IS WIPED OFF BY 2 BLACK TRAINERS AFTER TRIAL RUN. 07:52:00 - THE CIRCUS IS COMING 6 MEN AND WOMEN ACROBATS FORM PYRAMID AS THEY RIDE ATOP 4 WHITE HORSES AROUND CENTER RING 07:52:23 - ACROBAT RIDES STANDING ON HORSE AS LITTLE DAUGHTER STANDS ON HIS SHOULDERS 07:52:30 - 4 ACROBATS JUMP SIMULTANEOUSLY ONTO HORSES BACK AS IT CIRCLES RING 07:52:43 - MAN USES LONG POLE TO WASH GIRAFFE'S LONG NECK 07:52:52 - CU SEAL USES SNOUT TO PLAY TUNE ON SERIES OF HORNS. CHIMP LEADS ELEPHANT BY THE TRUNK. 07:53:05 - ELEPHANT STANDS ON ITS HEAD.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1935
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-794