Yesterday's Newsreel International Radio Broadcasting (1920)
1920 · Silent film · 12 min
Synopsis
This Yesterday’s Newsreel film (episode 109) offers the viewer “television highlights of the news of yesteryear” by providing vintage clips of famous people and events from the first half of the 20th century. The episode begins with a look at the growth of international radio, 1920-1950. Viewers see a radio tower at Port Jefferson, Long Island. In Spain, King Alfonso XIII attends an exhibit and examines a radio. Viewers see the largest wireless station in Bordeaux, France, built by the U.S. Navy. The station, with its giant transistor (01:01), is turned over to French officials, with Admiral Thomas Magruder heading the formal presentation. The world’s largest radio tower sits in the British town of Rugby, home to England’s first wireless station to receive American radio. Captain West of the British Broadcasting Corporation listens to the broadcast. In 1931, Pope Pius XI speaks from the Vatican over radio. Footage shows Iva Toguri D’Aquino, aka “Tokyo Rose,” broadcasting on Tokyo Radio during the war (02:30). American GIs listen to a radio. The episode shows a radio station in Germany featuring a sign that reads “Gross-Rundfunk-Sender Leipzig.” Mildred Gillars, “Axis Sally,” is escorted off a plane in 1948 on her way to prison (03:22) after being the first woman to be convicted of treason against the U.S. Soviet radios are distributed in Czechoslovakia (04:00). Broadcasters read the news on “The Voice of America” (04:30). In El Paso, TX in 1930, a man climbs into a street…
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- Running time
- 12 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Tokyo Radio
- This Yesterday
- Port Jefferson
- Long Island
- King Alfonso
- Admiral Thomas Magruder
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Pope Pius
- Iva Toguri
- Tokyo Rose