Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, North Beach Airport, N.Y.: Taking off from the waters of Bowery Bay, the Flying Colonel and his wife are seen in unusual pictures on the start of their flight to Greenland to survey a route across the North Atlantic for Pan American Airways. Reel 2, Freeport, Ill.: A remarkable screen interview with Mrs. Caroline Mattern as she...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the 1935 Toledo Strike. Toledo, Ohio: Huge crowds of picketers patrol the approaches to an automobile factory when negotiations between workers and owners fail. Francis J. Dillon explains the American Federation of Labor's position in the industry.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, New York, N.Y.: Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller, The War of the Worlds, as staged by Orson Welles. Reel 2, London, England: Patients at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street get a great thrill when King George and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Elson, Robert T.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1976
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORSummary: FDR sailing with a friend
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930
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Summary: Things Are Bad In Germany: collecting old clothes for the poor.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1931
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on a Nazi SA parade. Berlin, Germany: An unprecedented display of power and organization by the brown-shirted forces of the German Chancellor marks the final pre-election activities of the Social Democrats, with long columns of uniformed men in spirited procession down Unter den Linden from Brandenburg Gate to the Lustgarten, with Swastika banners fluttering over...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the killings of Alexander I of Yugoslavia and France's Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Universal Newsreel brings you the first actual motion pictures of the murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Barthou, shot down in the streets of Marseilles; furious spectators batter the killer to death!
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Washington, D.C.: J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, attacks the methods of lenient parole boards in releasing known criminals. Reel 2, Quantico, Va.: Machineguns rattle as Federal agents "raid" a prop gangster hideout.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Death of former President Woodrow Wilson. Footage of last public appearance
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1924
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Summary: Delegates at the Versailles Treaty. Group includes Australian PM Hughes; Serbian, Greek, Japanese leaders; Berthelot of France.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1919
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Summary: Paris disarmament conference, closing session.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1931
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Summary: Scene after mine pit catastrophe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1923
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Summary: Germany joins League of Nations at 7th Assembly of League of Nations.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1926
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Summary: Empire day celebration; great start title about "Imperial Unity"; British Patriotism
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1922
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Summary: Mussolini observes giant 100K rally in Rome on anniversary of Fascist power;
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1929
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat No. 2. Washington, D.C.: In a dramatic newsreel interview at the White House, the Chief Executive reviews the accomplishments of his two-months-old administration, promising further legislation designed to better economic conditions throughout the United States and to improve the financial standing of the industrial...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the town crier of Provincetown. Provincetown, Mass.: The brassy voice of this historic village's recently appointed town crier forces attention to his recital of community news delivered in time-honored manner.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay by Japanese naval aircraft. Footage of the Rape of Nanking is followed by the U.S.S. Panay bombing in its entirety--exactly as photographed! Filmed by Norman Alley.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Fort Meade, Md.: Mechanical monsters of the 66th U.S. Infantry (Light Tanks) sweep everything before them as they advance through smoke and shell fire to the attack. A thrilling sight, from daylight to dark, as the "battle wagons" roll along. Reel 2, Pimlico, Md.: In the horseracing classic of the century, War Admiral, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: 1919 Boston police strike: VO explains Governor Calvin Coolidge fired the strikers; Massachusetts State House, scene of strike; Coolidge inspecting police recruits; Coolidge taking oath after election.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1919
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Summary: Civil War in China. Armed soldiers patrol the streets and search cars after anti-foreign riots in Shanghai.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1925
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Summary: Shots of artificial silk factory in Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930
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Summary: President von Hindenburg reviews troops [German remilitarization]
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1932