This Yesterday’s Newsreel film (episode 86) 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 footage of the United Kingdom’s Queen Mary, wife of King George V. She climbs into a carriage during a celebration of her wedding anniversary (01:00). She stands by her husband as he speaks to nurses who just returned from World War I. She stands for a review of the American soldiers who fought in WWI (01:32). In 1922, she attends the reopening of Westminster Hall. Footage shows her riding in a horse-drawn carriage, climbing into a boat to celebrate a regatta (02:42), and waving to supporters from a balcony in Buckingham Palace (03:20). She watches the coronation of her second son, George VI. Queen Mary strolls through a garden on her 85th birthday (04:50). The next segment shows the ocean liner Paris after it ran aground in New York Harbor on 7 April 1929; tug boats work to pull the ship free. The next segment shows a rare statue of a cigar store Indian out front of a store (06:05). In “Personalities,” viewers see Chris Cagle of Army playing in a football game against Yale (07:10), Patrick Hurley being sworn in as Secretary of War in 1929, and Ernst Lubitsch enjoying leisure time at his bungalow in Malibu Beach. The next segment shows a blazing fire in New Jersey resulting from a lightning strike on barrels of oil. Aboard the Southern Cross (09:10), people enjoy games, gambling, and dancing— Charlie Chaplin is one of the patrons. In the aviation segment, viewers see the failed flight attempt of a seven-winged aircraft by W.F. Gerhart at McCook Army Airfield (10:00). In “Fashions of the Day,” viewers see bathing suits from 1925: a woman sips a drink, people on the beach toss a ball around, and women cool themselves with fans. The episode concludes with footage of the 1929 horseshoe championships in St. Petersburg, FL (11:42).

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