Yesterday’s Newsreel Ships For Peace is a black and white film created in the late 1940’s and early 1950s. This film is one of the episodes of “Yesterday’s Newsreels”, a TV show made of television highlights from the General Newsreel collection. In these films, vintage clips can be found of famous people and events from the first half of the 20th century. Narration of this film is done by Tom Hale, Roger Owens, and Sally Anderson, each having done 139 episodes over their career.
1918: German U-boats (submarines) stalking American ships (0:12-0:33). Hog Island in the Delaware River (0:37-0:46). Hog Island ship yard was built to create a merchant fleet (0:47-1:04). President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson (1:05-1:07). Launching of a ship (1:08-1:25). Building a ship of wood (1:28-1:49). Wooden ship Haverhill being launched ((1:50-1:58). Charles M. Schwab, director-general of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, established April 16, 1917 (1:59-2:13). The SS Faith, the first concrete ship built in the U.S., was built by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company (2:20-2:40). Hog Island is destroyed because it is no longer needed (2:58-3:25). 1921: Chicago residents trying to get thin. Doing exercises (3:30-4:02). Weighing on a platform scale (4:03-4:09). Antoinette Donnelly, a newspaper advice columnist and author of weight loss books (4:13-4:22). 1930: Carol II, King of Romania who reigned from 1930-1940, along with his mother Queen Marie (4:41-5:38). 1928: Personalities – Dudley Field Malone, an American attorney, politician, activist, and actor (5:43-6:04). Actress Mary Nash (6:06-6:26). Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez (6:28-6:48). 1921: Oil well fire being battled by firemen (6:56-7:30). 1930: Last of the homemade rope makers. Weaving rope strands (7:38-8:08). Final product (8:12-8:15). 1928: Aviation – One of Juan de la Cierva’s Autogiros (8:21-8:51). 1927: Fashion – Primrose House, a beauty school and spa (8:57-9:38). 1925: Sports – Car races at Frances Grand Prix (9:45-10:53). Valley Forge Marathon with Clarence DeMar as the winner (10:57-11:48).
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