Newsreels highlight historical events and fashion trends from the 1920s-1940s.
Machine Gun Kelly is shown in front of a courthouse. Men whisper to each other in a courtroom while a judge convicts Kelly to life in prison along with his wife. Aerial view of Alcatraz. Helen Hicks swings her golf club in front of a large crowd. Calvin Coolidge’s home and schools are shown. The Coolidge family poses for a portrait. A crowd congratulates Coolidge on becoming president. Coolidge ties a medal around Charles Lindbergh’s neck. A native American woman puts a native headdress on Calvin Coolidge as he is made “Indian Chief” (4:56). Shots of Coolidge’s funeral. Shots of the grand opening of Chicago’s Union Station. Rich women prep for a benefit on Long Island to fund a new hospital. Acrobats perform for children. A woman teaches sailors the Black Bottom dance on a ship. Boys participate in a stilt walking contest. Igor Sikorsky prepares to take off from his passenger airplane. Shots of the wreckage of navy planes is shown in the ocean. Jimmy Doolittle flies through the sky breaking speed records. A blimp hovers over the ocean refueling from a ship. Bombs are dropped from airplanes. Harry Sinclair is being investigated by a committee. A fashionable couple dines on a ship at the captain’s table and smoke cigarettes, including the woman which is very modern for the time. Women show off their fashionable 1920s outfits. John Miles wins a marathon. Shots from the Women’s National Golf Tournament, Mrs. Stetson wins the trophy. Men compete in a doubles tennis match. Shinto priests pray for the recovery of their emperor Hirohito in Japan (17:55). People avert their eyes as Hirohito visits the Sea Port of Saruga. Japanese soldiers train. Japanese bombs are dropped on China. Planes take off from Japan and fly to Pearl Harbor, bombs are dropped on planes (19:38). The mushroom cloud erupts in Hiroshima from the atom bomb. Hirohito gives his speech surrendering. A German U-boat sinks a British ship (22:20). British crew members escape on a lifeboat. A woman models WWI era fashion. More women model new fur bathing suits (24:19). Women cook outdoors for soldiers. A woman is awarded a medal by a soldier. Crowds gather while trolley driver strike in England. Poncho Villa charges New Mexico with his troop on horseback (26:50). Douglas McArthur poses. Mexican prisoners are traded for American troops. A new smaller bill is shown by an old one. Men move stacks of new bills in the Federal Reserve (30:10). George Kojak breaks a swimming record in San Francisco. Johnny Weissmuller poses after his win. Montage of A diver diving into a pool. Women compete in Los Angeles for most beautiful back in a bathing suit. A judge examines them and tickles their backs (32:05). A woman is given a makeover at Prim Rose house. Girl Scouts make their own hats and model them. Hot air balloons race through the sky. People, mostly African Americans, dance the lindy hop in a Harlem dance hall (34:30). A man holds an American flag standing on top of a flag pole. The S-4 submarine is salvaged from the bottom of the sea. Victims of the submarine sinking are put to rest at sea on a Navy ship. A man demonstrates a rescue lung intended to save men in sinking submarines (37:39). Albert De Winton is tied up and jumps from a bridge into the water in Long Beach. Strong man Ricardo Nelson bends a horse shoe with his teeth. Henry Cowell pounds on a piano. A library on wheels brings books to rural children. Author Eleanor Glenn receives a bouquet. Émile Coué writes at his desk. Mary Hay climbs a ladder and breaks a champagne bottle on the marquee of a theatre (40:30). A woman gets flowers painted on her knees (42:54). A woman gets a perm in 1923.
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