Assembled from the General Newsreel Co.’s holdings, this issue of Yesterday’s Newsreel provides film clips of news highlights. This piece is episode 62 and it is narrated by Tom Hale, Roger Owens and an un-named female narrator in the fashion section. It features the first visit to America by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in 1933 with his wife, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (:40). It includes a speech he gave in his garden (1:05) where he discussed the desire people have to renew their minds and soul. At 3:34, the US Navy practices bombing captured German ships during training exercises in 1921 and there is footage of the bombers laying their ‘touchy eggs’ on the German vessels. At 4:21, some of the personalities of 1929 are shown, including US Minister to Britain (Ambassador) former Vice-President Charles Dawes who is shown speaking in front of his ancestral home in England (4:29). At 4:48, we see the Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, his wife, Countess Estelle Bernadotte (Estelle Manville) and their baby son, Gustav. There is footage of the Archbishop of New York, Patrick Hayes, in 1921 as he prepares for a trip to the Vatican. In the late 1920’s, a fire destroyed the Springfield Ave city block in Newark, New Jersey. Footage shows buildings on fire and firefighters (5:30). At 6:35, Here Come the Brides and footage of a mass wedding of 105 couples at a stadium in Montreal, Canada. Susquehanna Salvage footage begins at 7:46 from 1920. The Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is dredged for coal run-off from upstream mines (7:56) with footage of the operation from paddle-wheel powered barges in the river to delivery of the dredge to the shore. 1930 Aviation is featured at 8:49 and the story of pilot Ruth Nichols and her record breaking coast to coast flight from Los Angeles to New York in 13 hours and 22 minutes (8:55) at Roosevelt Field and with her mother. There is a brief look at women’s chorus line fashion in the 1900s (9:36) and the standard ‘chorus de la floridora’ hats for chorus lines (9:50). At 10:15, quick-change artists The Tumble Sisters are showcased. The 1926 Sports clip shows the 1926 US Open and the winner, Bobby Jones, and the January 28, 1926 ISUA World Outdoor Speed Skating Championship winner Charles Gorman (11:30). Gorman beat the Olympic champion Clas Thunberg of Finland (11:43) with Chicago’s John O’Neil Farrell taking second place (11:53). World record breaker, Lela Brooks of Toronto, Canada won the women’s division (12:06).
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