This black and white film is one of the episodes of “Yesterday’s Newsreels”, an early 1950s TV show made from the General Newsreel collection. It features six segments of historic highlights. A City Collapses! 1921. Smoke and flames rise from building tops in Scranton, Pennsylvania. People scramble over walls to escape the area as the ground collapses into an underground coal mine. Houses are collapsed at weird angles. Boys climb out of a house onto its roof (:10-:53). Buddhist Temple in America Middle 1920s. Japanese Americans enter a Buddhist Temple in Fresno, California. Three leaders bow in front of a shrine. Others bow sitting in the pews (1:00-1:18). Service Deluxe 1928. A strongman dressed as a waiter picks up a tableclothed table with just his teeth. He carries an additional two chairs on each arm and moves the table to a new location has the patrons follow. He uses just his teeth and ropes to pick up a man sitting in a chair. He then stacks chairs on a table and tables on tables and picks them up with his teeth (1:24-2:05). Aviation 1927. The USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) is moored at Lakehurst, New Jersey before launch for its inauguration. The cockpit inside the dirigible is shown, as is the view of Baltimore, Annapolis, and the Washington Monument as it sails over. The Captain looks out through binoculars for the landing. The ground crew looks like ants as they scramble across the field and then secure the airship. President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge christan it the USS Los Angeles (2:10-3:41). Fashions of the Day 1923. The crowd is dressed in 1923 fashions at a dog show. A female trainer wears a masculine-looking coat and pointed shoes. Another pair of women are dressed in calf-length dresses with ruffles on the shirt portion (3:46-4:25). Sports 1925 and 1922. American Helen Wills loses at a tennis match in Paris, France in 1925. In 1922, skiers jump down tall hills at Grand Beach, Michigan. A jumper falls and slides down the hill, injured. The crowd rushes out to help. Olympic ski jumper Anders Haugen wins the competition (4:28-5:37).

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