Part one of two-part newsreel highlight of historical events and fashion trenches from the 1920s-1940s.
Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts where battlecruiser Lexington becomes USS Lexington (CV-2) or Lady Lexington due to Washington Naval Treaty (0:10). Captain A. W. Marshall (0:36). Admiral Chester W. Nimitz observing flight exercise (1:15). Japanese Air Attacks and Damage to USS Lexington by Kamikaze pilots (1:38). Vyacheslav Molotov and Joseph Stalin on inspection of Russian farming operations during the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party in Moscow (2:07). Maxim Litvinov and Nikolay Krestinsky at meeting (2:42). American politician Ruth Hanna McCormick with Alice Roosevelt Longworth (3:00). English actor Reginald Denny with Bebe Daniels (3:25). Mexican-American actor Ramon Navorro with Alice Terry and movie magnate Marcus Lowe (3:58). Marcus Lowe, David Warfield, and Louis B. Mayer (4:25). Fashion show of male students at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire (4:40). Riverside Church raising of largest church bell above the Hudson River in Manhattan (5:30). Crash of British Airship R-101 in France (6:17). Sprinter George Simpson in Los Angeles, California (7:24). Female bowler R.J. McCutcheon of Pueblo, Colorado (7:46). Rise of miniature golf (8:23). Fourth Annual Aquatic Forum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida featuring divers William Patrick, Claudia Eckert, Dwight Maine (9:04). Olympic swimmer Buster Crabbe while a student at University of Hawaii (10:06). Will James author of Smoky the Cowhorse in Greenwich Village (10:31). British actress Violet Heming (10:50). Chicago businessman Marshall Field III and founder of Field Museum (11:08). Actress Ann Harding (11:22). Building of the George Washington Bridge connecting New York and New Jersey (11:44). Franklin D. Roosevelt cuts ribbon and opens the new bridge (12:40). Runners Joie Ray and Clarence DeMar run from New York City to Long Beach, Long Island (13:18). 1928 canoe race on the Hudson River and East River towards the Brooklyn Bridge (13:49). Crash of race car driver Frank Lockhart in Daytona Beach, Florida (14:43). Juan de la Cierva flying an autogyro (15:14). 1930s women’s beauty and fashion trends (15:55). French aircraft factory in operation during WWI and a radial motor (18:16). 1914 Monoplane (18:42). Spad S.XIII (19:19). Bréguet 14 (19:28). Caproni Ca.3 (19:42). Pilot Al Wilson and Charles Lindbergh doing stunt flying (20:13). Navy aircraft Detroit ZMC-2 by Detroit Aircraft Corporation (21:32). Leo Tremblay flys glider plane in Concord, New Hampshire (22:16). Amelia Earhart preparing for departure from Honolulu, Hawaii and land in Oakland, California (23:07). China Clipper plane prepares for trip across Pacific from Alhambra Airport San Francisco to Hawaii, Philippines, and China (24:24). Pilot Howard Hughes testing new plane (25:40). Lt. Gen. John A. Lejeune of the US Marines in Washington D.C. (26:05). Inventor of Kodak and Kodak Film George Eastman (26:25). Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia (26:50). Author Mary Roberts Rinehart (27:09). First lady Grace Coolidge with Girl Scouts on the White House Lawn (27:31). Grace Coolidge with scouts founder Juliette Low and Mrs. Herbert Hoover (27:50). Couple dances the Rocking Chair 1920s dance (28:07). Pogo sticks on the streets of New York (28:37). Lawnmower plane (29:05). Smedley Butler with Philadelphia Mayor Kendrick and marine mission to China (29:37). Benito Mussolini (30:27). Secretary of state Henry Stimson (30:37). Accessories trends of late 1920s (31:00). Presidential election and literary digest(32:16). Presidential election: Hoover vs. Roosevelt (33:31). King Albert I of Belgium (33:45). Actor Emil Jannings with Ernst Lubitsch at Malibu Beach (35:21). Gilbert Keith Chesterton visiting Holy Cross University (45:45). Celebration of Fascist March on Rome in Naples Square (36:16). Gangster Legs Diamond (36:40). Sir Thomas Lipton of Lipton Tea (37:40). Track race (38:36). Douglas MacArthur (39:14). MacArthur in Manila with President Quezon (39:44). MacArthur reporting for duty at Atsugi Airport Japan by order of President Truman (40:03). MacArthur on USS Missouri (40:27). Independence day in the Philippines (41:32).
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