Synopsis
Crisis: Hitler Alarms Nervous Europe map showing German incursions into Central and Eastern Europe 10 Downing Street Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden (resigns) Hitler reviews troops Havoc: Flood Wind and Dust Whip West Floods in California: Watsonville flooded streets, cars driving through water dead whale on coast near Golden Gate's "graveyard of ships"; wrecked ship in background gale damage in Sacramento, trees fall, houses and cars wrecked dust storm of 1938 in Colorado dust storm footage Sky Giant: Super Plane Douglas Aircraft, Santa Monica builds 42-passenger aircraft, largest airplane ever built construction scenes Sled Boat: Air Driven Amphibian combination sled and boat on St. Lawrence River, built by Charles Bruce of Alexandria Bay, New York Regatta: Opening the 1938 season: sailing at Long Beach, California Anniversary: F.D.R. Hails Boy Scouts Scout parade down city street President Roosevelt SOF speaks about working with youth as a means of maintaining democracy against totalitarianism Defense: U.S. Navy Expanded men in drafting room with blueprints hands and calipers, ship models steel mills, pouring factory making 16-inch gun barrels Rescue Tank: Mechanical Alligator alligator tank with caterpillar-type treads cuts swath through swamp country near Clearwater, Florida rolls off dock into water, then floats; seagoing tank Bob Run: Sled Racers Cheat Death, Olympic course in Bavarian Alps Bobsledding at high speed; a fall; sled over camera, etc. Speed: Outboards…
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- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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★★★ · Urgent! Not So Urgent! · Dodsworth the Cat · 2023-04-04
Newsreels are amazing. The Very Important News is coupled on the same reel with irrelevant fluff. Andre Baruch is at his most overwrought in this reel reporting on the menacing Hitler. It sounds like Clem McCarthy over top the bobsled and boat racing footage. The music behind the bobsled story is J.S. Zamecnik's "Traffic," heard in "Falling Hare" and other Warner Bros. cartoons. Newsreel camera men were always good and there are some excellent shots in this reel. Cock-a-doodle do!