Summary

Universal Newsreels

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Universal Newsreels
File Number: DN-LB-529 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Description: 05:01:20:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 22Nov39 New York City Artificial `Snow' PUts Out Gasoline Fires In Test. Multiple fires burning in metal buckets as people watch. Hose pulled out from modern wagon and used to spray out fire. Couple in evening clothes sprayed with foam as gag. Compressed carbon dioxide is a bottled snowstorm. Invention 05:02:13:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. On The War Front British Expeditionary Force down road, into town, setting up artillery undercamouflage in woods. Scottish soldiers & officers. Mail call and clusters of soldiers reading letters. Officers inspect bakery bread out of field ovens. Pre-WWII. 05:02:57:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Easton, Pennsylvania 90,000 tons of rock at a Lehigh Portland Cement quarrey are blown up for benefit of Newcomen Society who are studying the industry. Men sit watching blast, flag waved and plunger pushed. Explosion & dirt wall falls away with much dust. Pan over rubble at foot of cliff with steam shovel sitting. 05:03:20:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Corvallis, Oregon World's largest bonfire, 85-foot tower of old boxes, torn-down houses and odds and ends is built by Oregon State college students and set off on the eve of their football victory over California. Truck arrives with wood and cardboard, children pass it up to top of tower and use winch. Fire burning in CU and LS. Kids silhouetted running around it. 05:04:08:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Kansas City, Missouri Local merchant Louis Cumonow gives 1,000 coats to unemployed and needy. Line of men on sidewalk towards camera, man fitting coats onto men. Woman passing out hot coffee. CU of business man & benefactor. Depression unemployment 05:04:36:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City: Look Out, Father! The Xmas Special Is Bearing Down! LS of model railroad with trains circling tracks, around curves. Man at controls. Coal unloaded, logs unloaded. Train off trestle. Work train automatically brought out and crane used to retrieve fallen cars. All from control panel. Elaborate toy. Christmas hobby gifts 05:05:41:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City Tricky New Styles In Footwear Seen At Swanky Show. Models posing by bamboo and beach umbrellas in sylized setting. CU of shoes, models and painted backdrop. Seated models with various decorated shoe fashions in CU shown by Delman at the St. Regis Hotel. Very tacky decorations. 05:06:46:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports Fordham 13, St. Mary's 0 in football in New York City. Touchdown run. 05:07:37:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City Sports. Bicycle racers begin 6-day bike race. Banked wooden track at Madison Square Garden with pack of riders seen from floor and center with spectators lining track. Vendors selling food in stands. No spills. 05:08:15:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City Leslie MacMitchell, 19 year-old NYU star wins 31st annual Intercollegiate Cross-country meet of 5 miles. Moriarty of Manhattan places second. Runners lined up and jogging in place, take off for start and running on gravel road, then through crowd at finish line. CU of race winner and others bent over getting breath at end. 05:08:54:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Mt. Baker, Washington Skiers with mountains in background side-stepping up hill, young boy falls, skiers seen descending from top and from bottom. Jumping on small jump with several falls. Winter recreation. 05:09:41 end 05:09:50:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 27Nov39 New York City Santa's On The Way! Fantastic Parade Ushers In Yuletide! 1939 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade with LA of large balloons and seen from windows. Large Santa Claus balloon and others. One shot of children watching. High angle of floats and toy soldier-like marchers accompanying it. Christmas. 05:10:21:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Warm Springs, Georgia FDR hosts Thanksgiving turkey dinner at infantile paralysis foundation. Ten year-old Ann Smithers sits next to President Roosevelt. Large room, many people FDR pretending to carve turkey and serves Smithers. 05:10:49:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Yale Tops Harvard 20-7, In Renewal Of Famous Classic Cambridge, Massachusetts football on muddy field. Short pass and touchdown scored. Run over for two others. Crowd tears down goal posts. Sports. 05:11:55:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Screen Stars Open Xmas Season With Elaborate Parade in Los Angeles, California. Night looking down on lighted avenue. 5 VIPS including Harold Lloyd in Shriner's fez pose. Gene Autry on horseback and other western riders with majorettes following. Elaborate Santa Claus float sleigh float with Dorothy Lamour and Robert Preston. Crowd waving. Unid. woman on float. Jack Benny with cigar on statue of horse. Bathing beauties on Christmas floats. 05:13:02:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Toyland Parade Thrills Kiddies From Six To Sixty. Daytime parade with many marchers in roman costumes, other costumes pulling small floats. Blackface people pulling small floats. Mayor passing key to Santa Claus. Kids watch him climb ladder to balloon decorated balcony. 05:14:00:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Salt Lake City, Utah `Redskins' Scalp The `Aggies' 27-0, In Big Seven Tilt. Utah over Utah State in college football. Big crowd watch as coaches shake hands. Kick-off in sunny weather. Small cheering sections with cheerleaders. Half-time ceremony on field. People in stands do cheering routines. Sports. 05:15:35:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Long Branch, Ontario, Canada. Hockey Aces Train With Machine Guns For Rink Battle. Players putting on gloves, get up and leave bench in dressing room. On field players inspected by military officers then run and set up machine guns, march in trenches and fire machine guns in several situations while wearing hockey sweaters and berets. Pre-WWII Canadian army. 05:16:45:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Seattle, Washington Oregon `Webfoots' Lose Grid Battle To Wash. `Huskies' 13-20. Sunny kick-off to edge of football field. Goal line plays with touchdown. Pom-poms in stands. Pass into end zone. Other good passing and running with good coverage. 05:18:56:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Palo Alto, California U. of Cal. `Bears' Defeat Stanford In Gridiron Clash. Kick-off and runback from high angle. Closer shots of football action. Fast action. Running for touchdown and passing for another. CA 32, Stanford 14. Sports. End: 05:20:56. 05:21:03:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Sd. 27Nov39 London, England On The War Front. Winston Churchill seated at mic: We have been agreeably surprised that 10 weeks have been allotted to us to get into fighting trim. We are in a very different position than that we were in 10 weeks ago. We are far stronger than we were 10 weeks ago, we are far better prepared to endure the worst malice of Hitler and his Huns than we were at the beginning of September. I shall not attempt to prophesize whether the frenzy of a cornered maniac will drive Herr Hitler into the worst of all his crimes but, this I will say without a doubt, that the fate of Holland and Belgium--like that of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria--will be decided by the victory of the British Empire and the French Republic. Pre-WWII speech. 05:22:24:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. France Fliers around man on airfield. Fighter planes worked on, pilots to planes. Aerials of fighters and German bombers. Military inspecting crashed and burning planes. German bomber crashed with many bullet holes, Disassembled and loaded on trailer. 05:23:40:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Burbank, California Lockheed factory and assembly of large bombers for England. Men working, drilling holes, moving planes, attaching wings, looking at motors, leaving plant and in parking lot with cars. Pre-WWII aircraft industry. 05:24:13:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Port Washington, New York Movie star Charles Boyer and wife Pat Patterson arrive on clipper from France. Seen helped out of plane and posing. Wife waves and he waves hat. 05:24:37:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Boston, Massachusettes Adm. Byrd's ship USS Bear at dock in snow. Dogs on board as it leaves with sailors waving. In harbor with masts but sails down. 05:25:07:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Sd. The World of Sports New York City Runners outside city hall begin 10-mile walking race to Coney Island, across Brooklyn Bridge and along Brooklyn streets with traffic passing by. Slow motion. Winner Sid Grossman greeted by crowd. 05:26:08:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Sd. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Cornell 26, Penn 0 in football. Crowd noise as good running play seen. Pass for touchdown and cheering. Good run and avoiding tackles for touchdown. Touchdown pass. 05:27:20:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. South Bend, Indiana USC 20, Notre Dame 12 in football. Good pass and catch coverage. Touchdown with short run. Good camerawork of other touchdown plays. 05:28:40:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Sd. Los Angeles, California Oregon State `Beavers' and UCLA `Bruins' Battle To A Draw, 13-13. Announcer gives good coverage of kick-off and some of the plays by Robinson, Oberlin and others. Excitement and exciting announcing college football. End: 05:30:52 05:30:59:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 04Dec39 Chicago, Illinois 40th International Livestock Exposition with 13,340 entries is world's largest. Work horses around arena. Sheep shearing contest. People watching, beef cattle parading and CUs with 4-H students and cattle. Farmers. Show 05:31:48:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports New York City New York Giants 9, Washington Redskins 7. Running, long field goal, women in stands applaud. Field goal. Pass interception. Field goal kick. Long touchdown pass. Field goal nullified. Arguing. People tearing down goal posts and fighting. Professional football. Sports. 05:33:47:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Lexington, Kentucky, Tennessee 19, KY 0. Dog onto field, play, college football fans applaud, cheering. Runner up middle for touchdown. Passing for another. 05:34:28:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cadets march onto field as 102,000 watch Navy win 10 to 0 over Army. Cadets then into stands. Military VIPS watching with wives. MCU of Army cadets. Fog and rain. Tearing down goal posts. College football. 05:36:08:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Boulder, CO Colorado Defeat U of Denver, 27-17, Cheerleaders and display of rock? on field. Kickoff. Long touchdown run but not exciting college football. End: 05:37:36:00 05:37:59:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 11Dec39. Ft. Lewis, Washington Congress Group Checking Up On Army Might. Soldiers of Army's Third Division march on field before Congressional Military Affairs Delegation. Armored vehicles past & planes over. Pre-WWII. 05:38:29:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Kansas City, Missouri. Chubby 1-yr. Old Chosen As Miss New Year 1940. Father Time with baby wearing sash, crown and wiping eyes. Gag. Stunts. Age. 05:38:56:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City: Lambert Brothers, Victor and Henry, exhibit world's largest pearl weighing 14 lbs and valued at 3 million dollars. Pretend to look at with loup. Model lifts while wearing pearl necklace. Jewelry. 05:39:27:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Stamford, CT Models wearing after-ski fashions of in set of cabin. Model sweaters, coats, boots, pants designed by Jay Thorpe showing Scandinavian influence outside of suburban house. 05:40:29:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports Milwaukee, Wisconsin Green Bay Packers 27, New York Giants 0. Long touchdown pass. Tackles, field goal, pass interception and short touchdown run. Professional football. 05:41:50:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Knoxville, TN Tennessee 7, Auburn 0. High angle then closer coverage. Mostly running, with touchdown. College football 05:42:47:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Ottawa, Canada Winnipeg Bombers Beat Rough Riders To Win Rugby Title. Snow covered field and rough play. End: 05:43:48 05:44:05:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Canada Largest Lifeboats Being Built For Liner Queen Elizabeth. Mne working by machinery hammering metal and then riveting for lifeboats. Shipyard. Industry. 05:44:34 Men shake hands, and man points to various autographed pictures in large room. Includes Hitler, FDR etc. Page with many signatures. 05:45:25 End. 05:45:30:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports New York City Looking down on ice skating rink at its opening in Rockefeller Center from top of building. Girl with man on ice practicing as crowd watches. She does amateurish spins and twirls for crowd. Other recreational skaters. Hazel Franklin, 12 year-old skater in black dress, does elaborate turns and spins in slow motion & at regular speed. MCU smiling. 05:46:51:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Miami, Florida Sammy Snead wins $10,000 National Open professional golf tournament. Teeing off, crowd watches as 3 begin, follow along, putting on greens. Long putt, crowd applauds. Smiling winner receiving check and holding cup. Sports. 00:05:47:50 - 00:05:49:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City Long Island U 56, Oregon 55 in college basketball overtime. Good shooting by both sides, large crowd. Free throw made. Tie on scoreboard. Sports. End: 05:48:55 End title. 05:49:09:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 10Jan40 Miami Beach, Florida Colorful Hats To Be `Tops' For Feminine Charm. G. Howard Hodge collection modelled at Roney Plaza. CU of fashion models in flat hats, feathered hats and with fabric. 05:49:40:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports Los Angeles, California Giant golf trophy behind golfer teeing off. Crowd follows. Man sweeping water off green. Putting, Short putt for winner and Lawson Little kisses check and holds it up after winning the $1500 Los Angeles Open. 05:50:32:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Miami Beach, Florida. Jack Dempsey dedicates the Tex Rickard Memorial Pool at the Depsey-Vanderbilt Hotel. Gate opens then bathing beauties and Dempsey walk through, they throw him into pool and dunk him. Views of diving board and pool. Promotion. 05:51:10:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City: 1940 Golden Gloves boxing tournament. Fast action. CU of excited spectators. Several matches. Sports. Boxers 05:52:20:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Glen Ellyn, Illinois. LS of crowd and skaters, MS of women racing in snow. Spectators. Mens race won by Vic Ronchetti after several men fall. CU of winner. Winter sports. 05:53:23 end. 05:53:27:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 15Jan40 New York City Exotic Headwear For Women In The Cards in Spring. Tables of women lunching with fancy hats, oddities, flowers, fruit salads, etc. Man fitting hat for woman. Women fashion models. 05:54:24:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Mission, Texas Bathing beauties beside swimming pool tumble into water with grapefruit. Modeling clothes made from peels of oranges and grapefruit. Pan over group on stage. Oddities. Winner down steps, women turn to show dresses. CU with hat swimming suit. Gags 05:55:09:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports Boston, Massachussetts. Track meet indoors with hurdlers, sprinters, and distance running as Gene Venske beats Cunningham in the mile at VFW meet in Boston Garden. 05:56:04:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Miami, Florida Maetall, a 19 to 1 long shot wins the $6,740 Hialeah Park Inaugural before 20,000. Cu of woman with binoculars. Horses begin on backstretch, crowd at rail, down home stretch and winner of horse race by a nose. 05:56:54:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Woodland, California. Miss Gloria Jacobs, 17 year-old high school student shooting pistol at targets. Shooting out candles on top firing pistup upside down. Showing board with medals and trophy as world's champion. Hobby. Oddities. Women. 05:57:40:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Lake Placid, New York AAU Junior Bobsled Championships. Two-man teams down course. 4-man teams down courses. POV. Winners. Winter sports. 05:58:32:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Toronto, Canada New York Rangers defeat Maple Leafs 4-1 in professional hockey. Face-off and fast skating (has micro-spotting in rinkside shots). LS are okay. 05:59:38:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Providence, Rhode Island. Noted Dove Dancer Visits The Capitol In Plea For Peace. LS of Capitol, flags inside. Men speaking and applauding. Pretty woman shows up with white dove on shoulder and speaks to session of senate who applaud. End 06:00:25 06:00:32:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 17Jan40 On The War Front Finland fighting USSR invaders. Destruction, wounded in hospitals with doctors and nurses. Burial with families in cemetery as bodies lowered into graves. Troops march thru woods in snow. Oxen & sleds along road. Fire tower and women watching. Artillery firing and captured prisoners standing. Destroyed equipment along roadside with overturned cars and picture of Stalin. Cans of film. Bricks. Bodies of soldiers and horses. WWII 06:02:25:07 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. England British submarine Ursula, sister-ship of undersea craft sunk by the Germans, returns after sinking a Nazi cruiser near Wilhelmshaven. Men off along deck, smile to camera. Kiss girl friends and shake hands. WWII 06:02:50 The first division of Canadian troops arrive in England waving and viewed by Anthony Eden & British officer. Men off ship, Sec. of War Sir Leslie Hore-Belisha talking with officers & reviewing troops on parade grounds. WWII. 06:03:35:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. France Artillery on railroad moved up, 4 16-inch guns side by side, loading shells & firing to German lines. 06:04:10 CU Wallis Simpson & other society women packing boxes for troops and loading in van. 06:04:29 WWII Women working in aircraft factory, drilling, riveting and moving wings of planes. Run out of factory. 06:04:56:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Jasper, Alberta, Canada Nurses and quadruplets born in cabin to Mrs. Clyde Short, wife of a `share cropper' coal miner. 3 girls named Faith, Hope & Charity, son Franklin. Mother & husband. Doctor & nurses with multiple babies. Pan over young. 06:05:33:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Rome, Italy Pope Pius XII And King Victor Emanuel exchange Visits. Down steps of Vatican as Swiss Guards watch. Shaking hands and driving away. People applaud, motorcade passing kneeling soldiers. Pope in limousine giving blessing. Catholic Religion. Royalty. 06:06:23:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Miami Beach, Florida `Grilled Chicken' The Newest Idea For...Tan Man measuring sun-tan with light meater over bathing beauties. They lay on grill and are turned by man as another sprays with a spray gun. Then they are hung up to dry. Sexism. Stunts Gags. 06:07:12:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports Hollywood, California 18,000 fans watch Green Bay win 16 to 7 over National All-Star team of other professional league football players on field goals and a 92 yard pass. Well-dressed crowd watching. 06:08:06:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Lake Worth, Florida Tomatoes dumped into ring and six professional wrestlers have tag-team bout. Much punching and falling. Oddities sport as gag. 06:08:57:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. South Bend, Indiana Notre Dame Head Becomes A Bishop in Catholic Rites. Ceremony with priests down aisle, Bishop ordained at front of church and procession leaving. Religion. 06:09:42:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Franklin Honored As University of Pennsylvania opens Bicentennial year. Military and VIPS around monument of Benjamin Franklin for wreath-laying. Pan over tombstone as prayer is given. 06:10:32:00 06:10:40:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si 29Jan40 Baltimore, Maryland Ship Nazis Seized Home Again After 4-Month Adventures Freighter `City of Flint' into harbor with captain on board and people waving from dock. People greeting, kissing. Nazi flag and and souvenirs shown by crewmen. Ship seized by Nazi pocket-battleship and taken to Russia, finally set free in Norway, arrives in port after 113 days with Capt. Gainard & crew of 40 Pre-WWII 06:11:33:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Seattle, Washington Large Boeing 4-motor sub-stratosphere bombers assembled and take off on test flight over Seattle. Model shown in wind-tunnel. Aircraft & aviation industry 06:12:13:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Washington, DC FDR gets 350 lb. birthday cake presented by William Green, AF of L chief and baked by Bakery and Confectionery Worker's Union. Also checks for $5,800 for infantile paralysis drive. Chefs finish decorating cake, Man with crutches on top of cake and presented to FDR in White House. Polio disease research. Charity. 06:12:40:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Ottawa, Canada James R. Cromwell, newly appointed Ambassador to Canada, is greeted by Prime Minister MacKenzie King. Mrs Cromwell, former Doris Duke, is the world's richest woman! Good MCU of Duke. Diplomacy. Wealth. Tobacco heiress. 06:13:03:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. St. Paul, Minnesota Many people down hill toward camera with Capitol behind. Gov. Stassen rides horse and King of Winter Carnival on float waving. People packing sidelines and enormous dragon thru streets. Ice Palace with King saluted and lights inside turned on. King crowned. Winter recreation. 06:13:52:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City Famous Paintings Of Old Masters Put on Exhibition. Truck unloading outside Museum of Modern Art while people watch. Vertical sign for Museum. Nelson Rockefeller and 2 others view oil painting Birth of Venus by Botticelli and other paintings. Busts of marble and bronze and sculpture. People walking past sculpture. Christ on Cross in painting. 06:15:21:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports Bear Mountain, New York Men and women ice skating stars in 440 and 880 yard speed dashes in the Interstate Championships on Hession Lake. Various views of crowd watching, feet of skaters and MS of racers. Winter sports. 06:16:25:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City Women pose with dogs at dog show. MCU of various breeds. Winner given check and beagle posed on stand. 06:17:16:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City LIU 34, Michigan State 25 before 10,000 spectators at college basketball game in Madison Square Garden. Fans applauding baskets. Good baskets and shooting. 06:18:27:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. New York City Annapolis MD Many gymnasts working out or ropes, parallel bars, rings, and bar. Flips. Military academy 06:19:17 End 06:19:22:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 26Sep38 World-Wide News Events Hartford, CT. Flooding in New England as hurricane aftermath. Raging water over falls and views of flooded city with people sandbagging. People looking out of second floor windows and rescued by police in boats 06:20:02:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Burbank, California. Army Air Corps Chief, Gen. Westover is killed when his small attack plane crashes during landing approach. People looking at wreckage near house. Family nearby. 06:20:28:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Flint, Michigan City Celebrates As Auto Workers Go Back To Jobs. Walking into plant, parade up street with horses & buggies and early cars. Floats. People lining streets watching queen on float. 24,000 called back to work as new models are due. 06:21:13 end 06:21:21:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 28Sep38 World-Wide News Events New York City TD city hall to street full of trucks. Declaring a war on public emergency in the labor strike of 15,000 truck drivers (Teamsters) which has hampered shipping, Mayor LaGuardia turns out hundred of old Sanitation Dept. vehicles at the City Hall and begins, with union men to move needed supplies. Men sitting around trucks, at table, putting sign emergency service on trucks and leaving. 06:21:53:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Haneda, Japan Smoking wreckage of plane and house in crowded area. 70 killed when 2 planes crash in air and fall on factory scattering gasoline over a large area. Aviation disaster. 06:22:19:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Science In The News Stillwater, Oklahoma Otto Gray raising miniature cattle on farm. Family with miniature and regular sized cattle. Milking cow. Oddities. 06:22:56:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Detroit, Michigan New windshields for 1939 aid vision. Interior of car looking at grid, illuminated and woman polishes window to show enlarged size. Car on street and old and new window size shown. POV of car through residential traffic. Auto safety designing. Industry. 06:23:33:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Puyallup, Washington Record Crowds See Exhibits At Western State Fair. Amusement rides, grandstand show with draft horses and performing elephants. Kids and crowd laughing. Well dressed man (famed radio announcer Graham McNamee) milking cow while women wave & laugh. Dairy cows and bull paraded. (1938-09-28, Vol. 10 Rel. 706). 06:24:25:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. The World of Sports Paris, France 150 mile walkathon staged to Lille. Took 32 hours. Crowd of men out of town followed by people on bicycles. Arriving in Lille and tired winner. Oddities. Sports. Physical fitness. 06:25:00:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. Bonneville, Utah Fred Ludlow, Pasadena motorcycle policeman and holder of the 50-mile track record hits 137 mph with streamlined motorcylce. Working on streamlining and putting shell over rider. Towed to start. CU of buttons. Running from distance with mountains behind. 06:25:41:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. White Plains, New York Golfer teeing off, crowd follows. Putting. Hitting out of sand trap. Crowd held back at green. MCU of Snead holding up ball and smiling. Sam Snead wins $5,000 prize beating Bill Burke and followed by gallery of 5,000 fans. 06:26:35 06:26:42:00 B W 1939, 1940, 1938 Si. 03Oct38 War Sc
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