Episode 76 of this “Yesterday’s Newsreel” film 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. This episode opens with the heroic exploits of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient known for his 1926 expedition to the North Pole and 1927 Trans-Atlantic flight, as he’s first shown taking off for the North Pole in a Fokker F.VIIa/3m Trimotor monoplane (mark 00:50) and we later see film of the frozen tundra beneath him. A failed practice attempt aboard the Fokker Trimotor airplane, America, for a non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean is shown at mark 02:40 — a feat eventually accomplished by Charles A. Lindbergh, shown with Byrd at mark 03:15. We see scenes of Byrd’s first flight to the South Pole starting at mark 03:45 with footage captured that day, and later watch as Byrd and members of his expedition are greeted by President Herbert Hoover (mark 03:55). A “Tale of Two Armies” begins at mark 04:18 at President Woodrow Wilson draws the first number for a national draft during World War I, and men selected for the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) are shown reporting to camp and eventually off to war in France. Flashing forward, at mark 05:50 we see Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson conducting the nation’s first peacetime draft prior to WW2, followed by scenes of men preparing for what’s to come. Personalities of 1930 (mark 06:40) include New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, silent film actress Dorothy Dalton, Sing Sing prison warden Lewis E. Lawes, and Coe mark 07:47 we watch scenes from the fight against 1928 forest fires in California’s Sierra Madre Mountains. The 1930 marriage of US ambassador and newspaper publisher John Hay Whitney to Pennsylvania socialite Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Altemus is revisited at mark 08:44, and by mark 09:45 we see the world of aviation in 1919 and fashion in 1921 (mark 10:33). As the film concludes there is a look at some of the sporting events of 1927 (mark 11:30).
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