News Parade of 1939 Spanish Civil War Ends, Uss Squalus Sinks (Better Version) 42434 (1939)

Synopsis

This sound news parade of 1939 shows various news events including Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, Pan Am Boeing 314 Clipper trans-Atlantic service, King George and Queen Elizabeth return to London from their North American trip, Franco-British Unity at Bastille Day (2:11) in Paris, terrible earthquake in Chile, and more. At 3:45 the rescue of the submarine USS Squalus, SS-192, is shown. The boat sunk after a training accident off the coast of New England. Featuring the use of salvage and support vessel USS Falcon, whose highly-trained crew saved precious lives using a rescue diving bell. At 5:08 the Tienstein Foreign Settlement in China is threatened by the Japanese. The Tientsin incident was an international incident created by a blockade by the Imperial Japanese Army's Japanese Northern China Area Army of the British settlements in the north China treaty port of Tientsin in June 1939. Originating as a minor administrative dispute, it escalated into a major diplomatic incident. At 5:46 floods inundate China. At 6:12 a mass wedding is shown in Montreal. At 6:47 the German invasion of Poland is shown with Warsaw being bombed. At 7:50 a grain elevator fire is shown in Chicago. At 8:30 U.S. cruisers are shown roving across the tip of South America and Cape Horn. The Boeing 314 Clipper was a long-range flying boat produced by the Boeing Airplane Company between 1938 and 1941. One of the largest aircraft of the time, it used the massive wing of Boeing’s earlier XB-15…

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Running time

9 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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