This Yesterday’s Newsreel film (episode 44) 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 begins with a segment on Herbert Hoover and his humanitarian work. Hoover poses for the camera. Footage shows West Branch, IA and Hoover’s childhood home. Hoover poses with his wife and two children (01:21). For the Belgium Relief operation, women stack canned goods and men load cargo onto ships. In Belgium, Belgians line up for food rations. Hoover walks with King Albert near the war front. Next, Hoover oversees Vienna relief; in Vienna, people line up for food. Hoover sits on a chair with his wife. The segment ends with Hoover being sworn in as the 30th President (04:24). A woman at Cartier’s in New York works with the famous Their pearls after the jeweler purchased them from the Louvre Museum. In the personalities segment, viewers see Rabbi Steven S. Wise, Harry K. Thaw being released from the hospital in 1915, and Thaw’s wife Evelyn Nesbit (06:15). Composer Maurice Ravel plays the piano. Next, viewers see footage following the recovery of two kidnapping victims on 15 May 1934: six-year-old June Robles stands with her family in Tucson, AZ and William F. Gettle stands at his home with his family. Footage shows Gettle’s kidnappers in jail—Roy Williams, Larry Kerrigan, and James Kirk. At Curtiss Field in New York (08:30), people crowd the grounds and await the arrival of Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte as they fly their plane, Question Mark, from Paris to New York in 1930; Charles Lindbergh is on hand to greet the pilots. In “Fashions of the Day” (09:24), viewers see a department store showing of formal gowns and wraps. The episode concludes with footage of an 8 January 1939 hockey game at Madison Square Garden between the New York Rangers and the New York Americans, as well as footage of the 1927 Saratoga Handicap, which is won by Mars and jockey Earl Sande.

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