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Yesterday's Newsreel Actors Strike of 1919 First U.S. Airmail Halifax Explosion 60694 (1950)

1950 · Short film · 12 min

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This black-and-white film is an episode of “Yesterday’s Newsreel”, an early 1950s TV show made from the General Newsreel collection. It featured 8 segments of historic highlights: the first U. S. airmail, the actors’ strike of 1919 on Broadway, various famous personalities of the 1920s, the collision between the SS Mont-Blanc ship and the Norwegian SS Imo known as the Halifax Explosion, popular dances, history’s first wire photos, the Balinese batik clothing trending in the 1920s, and sports. The film is presented by ZTV, and all the reels are narrated by Tom Hale, Roger Owens, and Sally Anderson. “Yesterday’s Newsreel” title banner (00:08). “Airmail History Begins” title banner (00:37). A 1918 Curtiss Model R U. S. airmail plane (00:45). U. S. mail is loaded into the plane (00:54). Former President Woodrow Wilson (01:00). Pilot Lieutenant George Boyle (01:06). The plane takes off (01:09). Postmaster Thomas Patten hands pilot Lt. Torrey Webb mail in Belmont Park in New York (01:17). Patten gives a send-off speech (01:28). The first stamps for U. S. mail by air (01:33). The plane takes off (01:37). The plane lands in Bustleton, Philadelphia (01:45). Mechanics check the plane and refuel it (01:51). Pilot James Edgerton flies the plane (01:57). The plane lands in Washington and the mail is unloaded (02:08). Edgerton receives flowers (02:20). A plane flying over San Francisco (02:26). A Junkers F13 plane (02:31). The public approaches the landed plane and applauds the pilot…

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Running time
12 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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