Assembled from the General Newsreel Co.’s holdings, this issue of Yesterday’s Newsreel provides film clips of news highlights. Segments include 1936 Fashions at :14, featuring various hats for women including derbies and turbans. At 1:02, a sports segment shows the National Tennis Doubles Championship of 1933 featuring Frank Shields, Lester Stoefen, Frank Parker and George Lott. At 1:51 the 1927 Belmont Stakes, observed by Al Smith of New York. At 2:37, images of German troops and Panzer tanks advancing into France. At 3:00, a long line of wrecked French tanks are seen on the road to Dunkirk. At 3:25, a Spitfire crashes. At 3:33, the dock area of Dunkirk is seen as Germans move into place to ready a counter-attack. At 3:53, abandoned equipment is seen on the beaches. At 4:00, French prisoners are seen waiting their fate. At 4:20, the Germans swing towards Paris. At 5:00, the French burn buildings to try to slow down the Germans as they roll towards Paris, now declared an open city. At 5:40 the German flag flies over the French capital. At 6:10 Hitler dictates terms to the French in the famous railway car used at the WWI armistice. At 6:57, a human cannonball is shown in 1929. This is Hugo Zacchini (20 October 1898 – 20 October 1975), one of the Zacchini Brothers, was the first human cannonball to use a compressed-air cannon. His father Ildebrando Zacchini invented the compressed-air cannon used to propel humans in circus acts. He was known for being a daredevil and a painter.
At 7:50 in the personalities segment Dr. Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic, is seen at the White House. At 8:44, the ship SS Granby is shown leaving Chicago and headed to Europe. At 9:17, “The Kid” — Jackie Coogan — from the Charles Chaplin movies is shown operating a steam locomotive as part of a publicity stunt.
At 10:00, in the aviation segment, the Sikorsky S-42 seaplane built for Pan Am is shown as well as Count Sikorsky. The Sikorsky S-42 was a commercial flying boat designed and built by Sikorsky Aircraft to meet requirements for a long-range flying boat laid out by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) in 1931. The innovative design included wing flaps, variable-pitch propellers, and a tail-carrying full-length hull. The prototype first flew on 29 March 1934, and, in the period of development and test flying that followed, quickly established ten world records for payload-to-height. The “Flying Clipper” and the “Pan Am Clipper” were other names for the S-42.
At 10:56 is a segment about the so-called “Spruce Goose” built by Howard Hughes. The Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic flight transport for use during World War II, it was not completed in time to be used in the war. The aircraft made only one brief flight on November 2, 1947, and the project never advanced beyond the single example produced. Built from wood because of wartime restrictions on the use of aluminum and concerns about weight, it was nicknamed by critics the Spruce Goose, although it was made almost entirely of birch. The Hercules is the largest flying boat ever built, and it has the largest wingspan of any aircraft that has ever flown. The aircraft remains in good condition. After being displayed to the public for almost 11 years in Long Beach, California from 1980 to 1991, it is now displayed at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, United States.
At 11:30 another fashion segment shows winter swim clothes in Palm Beach, Florida in the 1920s. At 12:30, the 1926 Yale Bowl is seen between Yale and Georgia compete in football. At 13:25, the 1934 track meet with Oxford’s star Jack Lovelock shown.
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