This Yesterday’s Newsreel film (episode 32) offers the viewer “television highlights of the news of yesteryear” by providing vintage clips of famous people and events from the first half of the 20th century. The episode starts with women of the Salvation Army marching down a street and others cooking in outdoor kitchens for soldiers during World War I. Footage shows WWI soldiers standing on a street. The first female General of the Salvation Army, Evangeline Booth receives an award for her work during WWI. A woman serves tea to a British soldier standing in the rubble of a building. A Salvation Army van serves coffee and donuts to soldiers (02:25). America’s youth play in a Salvation Army rec center. In 1946 in New York, Evangeline Booth is awarded the Humanitarian Award; Booth speaks at the ceremony. The 1933 Personalities segment features novelist Joseph Conrad as he stands on a ship during his only visit to the U.S. (04:45). Mrs. Martin Johnson plays with an orangutan she and her late husband brought back from Borneo. In San Francisco, nine-year-old prodigy Yehudi Menuhin plays the violin. The next segment is on building “the world’s longest road,” the Alcan highway. Congressman Warren G. Magnuson stands next to a plane; his plane flies over Canada and Alaska while surveying for the highway. There is good aerial footage of snow-capped peaks. A regiment of Army Engineers clear a forest to build the road (06:40). A man drives a tractor grading the earth. Viewers see the first airplane pictures of the road and footage of the first automobile to travel the highway. Next, the episode shows the Coast Guard rescue of troops stranded on the Northern Pacific, a troop carrier, after it ran aground off Fire Island, NY on 1 January 1919 (07:48). Men paddle a boat out to the ship to rescue the soldiers. In “Aviation,” Ruth Nichols lands her plane after setting the record for longest time in flight for a woman (08:48), and Amy Johnson speaks to a crowd after her record-setting flight from London to Australia. “Fashions of the Day” features women growing out their hair in 1926, as well as women’s and men’s shoes. The episode ends with a look at two sporting events. At Oyster Bay, NY in 1923, men climb onto an abnormally long bob sled and fly down the track. Despite the downpour, jockey Earl Sande rides Flying Ebony to victory at the 1925 Kentucky Derby.

We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 — President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.”

This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com