This “Yesterday’s Newsreel” film (episode 18) 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 begins with the Munich Agreement of 1938. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sits at his desk. In Munich, Adolf Hitler sits down with Chamberlain. Hitler, Chamberlain, Italy’s Benito Mussolini, and France’s Edouard Daladier sign the agreement. Upon arriving back in Britain, Chamberlain shows off the agreement to cheering crowds. Crowds continue to cheer the Prime Minister as he stands on a balcony with the King and Queen of England. Nazi soldiers salute Hitler as he rides a jeep into the Sudetenland (02:15). The next segment shows the construction of the Boulder Dam (02:43), which is later renamed the Hoover Dam. The Colorado River runs through the canyon where the dam is to be built. Men, harnessed to ropes, chisel rock off the canyon’s cliff. The dam is built and the dam gate is lowered, creating a man-made lake. The episode shows the completed Hoover Dam (04:08). In “Aviation,” viewers see footage of the crew of the Southern Cross (a Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane) prepare to depart Oakland, CA for a transpacific flight to Australia. Upon arriving in Sydney, Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and the rest of the crew (Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon and James Warner) are cheered on by a large welcome crowd. In the “Personalities” segment, Ruth Etting is sketched by an artist; actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin energize a crowd while promoting liberty bond sales during WWI. The next segment shows the procession of the 1923 royal wedding of the Duke of York (06:30). Horses pull an ornate carriage carrying Prince Albert, Duke of York (who becomes George VI) to Westminster Abbey to wed Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Guests wait outside of Westminster Abbey. The newlyweds leave the church down a street lined with cheering people. The procession’s guard passes through the gates at Buckingham Palace. In “1914: Fashions of the Day,” a woman tries on various hats (07:48). The next segment of the episode shows idle trolley cars in 1916 New York City during a trolley strike (09:09). Buses are packed with people looking for transportation, while trolley drivers march in protest. In the episode’s final segment, viewers get a glimpse of the annual cricket match between Eton College and Harrow School, as well as Reigh Count’s impressive come-from-behind win over Misstep during the 1928 Kentucky Derby (10:50).

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