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Nifty Nighties On Display In Parade Of Boudoir Styles
Shaky, jumpy and blurry a bit overexposed Pretty mannequins at the Merchandise Mart exhibit the fall season's cutest offerings in negligees, nighties and abbreviated under things in a revealing parade of fashion.
Early Snow Gives Bathing Beauties Chance To Frolic
Shaky, flickering dull in contrast and imagery The continental divide warms up after a heavy snowfall, so the summer sirens, clad in skimpy bathing suits, get out skis and snowshoes for a romp among the sparkling crystals.
Italian Auto Ace Wins Celebrated Road Race Classic
Jumpy, shaky dark in contrast and imagery Europe's foremost daredevil of the road. Tazio Nuvolari, averages the terrific speed of sixty-six miles an hour on the turning, twisting course of the new Roosevelt Raceway as he leads forty-five American and foreign speedsters to the finish line in a grinding, thrilling three hundred mile battle for the Vanderbilt Cup. Sixty thousand racing fans jam the stands, with an estimated 150,000 persons seeing the great classic. Four and a half hours, the drivers push their roaring machines around the track through a maze of dangerous loops and hurtling down the straightaway. Motion pictures made thirty years ago show the thrills of the race of 1906.
Hundreds Injured In London's Worst Blackshirt Riot
Headline: "Hundreds Injured in London's Worst Blackshirt Riot." Adult Caucasian male police officers, on foot and horseback, using large batons, trying to quell and clear large crowds of adult Caucasian men led by Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of British Union of Fascists, from area of London's East End; stalled double-decker trolley and buses in street. Police beating back crowd, occasionally grabbing and detaining rioters. By 1934, there were 40,000 avowed, card-carrying, stiff-arm-saluting fascists in Britain, and Mosley regularly spoke to crowds that numbered over 100,000. Right up until the outbreak of the Second World War, British fascism remained popular and "peace" rallies were frequently held in support of Hitler and Mussolini.
Big Freighter Aground Near Golden Gate
Shaky, dark and light in contrast and imagery The freighter Ohioan barges into seal rocks at midnight as dense mist shrouds the harbor in dangerous uncertainty. The vessel is left high on the rocks by the retreating tide.
Winter's Coming! Aged Oil Magnate Heads For Florida
Shaky, jumpy light in contrast and imagery The aged oil magnate boards his special train with members of his family and starts southward in a drizzling rain in his special car. Title on side of passenger car - Central / Glen Arden. Train pulling out of station.
Bronk Busters Thrill Gotham At Garden Rodeo
Jumpy, light in contrast and imagery The pick of the west's bronco-busters, cowboys and girls, open the metropolitan rodeo season with a glittering pageant and plenty of ups and downs. Bucking horses with cowboys, bucking bulls.
Fordham "Rams" Beat SMU 7 - 0 By Suprprise Play
Jumpy, light in contrast and imagery, drop out spots The Fordham Ram beats Southern Methodist, 7 to 0, on a spectacular 77-yard run made from the interception of an attempted forward pass by the Mustangs.
Intersectional Rivals Clash
Jumpy, light in contrast and imagery Southern California stops Illinois, 24 to 6.
Electrical Fete Marks 1st Power From Boulder Dam
Shaky, jumpy light in contrast and imagery Gay floats and a big celebration in the streets mark the arrival of the first light and power from towering Boulder Dam, huge government project producing thousands of volts. (Hoover Dam)
Ancient Dog Sale Revived
Shaky, jumpy light in contrast and imagery Canines of many breeds, but most of them mixed, are put up at auction in search of bidders. The dogs bring from twenty-five cents to a hundred dollars as they're marched off by their new owners.
British Airman Reaches 9 1/2 Mi Ceiling In Plane
Shaky, jumpy light in contrast and imagery Climbing nine and a half miles into the stratosphere for a new plane altitude mark. Squadron leader Swain is forced to slash the front of his oxygen helmet when his supply fails at a tremendous height.
Plans Perfected for Elaborate N.Y World's Fair
Jumpy, shaky light in imagery and contrast Grover A. Whalen, President of the big city's World's Fair Committee, exhibits a beautiful scale model that indicates exactly how the exposition grounds will look for the monster spectacle.
Air-Minded China Speeds Training Of Young Aviators
Shaky, jumpy light in contrast and imagery The harassed far Eastern Nation goes air-minded, with hundreds of girls and young men signed up for instruction at the civil aviation school where they're trained on American machines.
Motorbike Stars Competein 50-Mi. Obstacle Race
Jumpy, light in contrast and imagery, drop out spots A champion turnout of roaring, bucking motorcycles drives over a bumpy dirt trail and over the tops of dangerous cliffs in a thrilling, noisy race. Some drivers even take their girl friends along on the back seat.
Fire Department Celebrated 200 Years
Jumpy, light in contrast and imagery With historic Independence Hall as background, the city's firemen give a demonstration with ancient equipment. Then they turn to acrobatics on their towering ladders, in defiance of all laws of gravity.
Future Admirals Get Sea Training In Square-Riggers
Shaky, jumpy light in contrast and imagery Several score hopeful young sailormen get their first real taste of the sea on the old Square-Riggers, Christopher Columbus and Americus Vespucci. The lads man the yard-arms with agility and daring. A beautiful replica of a 17th century ship.
Old Movie Stars Celebrate Early Days Of Screen
Jumpy, Shaky light in contrast and imagery Maurice Costello, Kate Price, Paul Panzer, Virginia Pearson, the screen's first vampire, and many others famed in by-gone days drop nickels in the mutoscope (similair to the Kinetoscope) for another look at pictures they made twenty-five years ago. Hand places nickel in slot, CU flip-book in motion. Behind the scenes production, film footage from unknown silent movie. An older overweight woman looking into view-finder gets quite a shock, she smiles, laughs and covers her mouth in embarrassment (funny). 00.58.23 - DO NOT USE - still photos Charlie Chaplin
German Cyclists Try New Bicycle Built For Two
Shaky, jumpy light in contrast and imagery A new Tandem Bicycle, with its seats one on each side of the frame so it takes persons of equal weight to ride the machine, is tried out in Germany. The queer contraption rolls along with ease, too, if it's properly balanced. There's some wild German music playing.
Suckers Lament As Jack Pot Goes To Watery Grave
Image quality is original to the master Mayor LaGuardia heaves a few sledge-hammer blows at slot machines seized by the city police as a scow leaves for the open sea to dump the illegal gaming devices. Many thousands of dollars of the equipment go to amuse the salt-water fish.
Baby Gorilla Quick To Learn American Ways
Shaky, jumpy, light in contrast and imagery Year-old 'Miss Congo,' more dead than alive when she made the trip to the Chicago zoo (Brookfield Zoo) from her native Belgian Congo, puts on weight and tries out stunts for her keeper. An embargo makes the beast the last of its kind that will come to America. A little baby gorilla no more than a few months old is taken out the nursery and showed off to the public. He is given a ball to play with for awhile and later handed a glass of juice, he is quick to learn how to drink properly out of a cup.
New Car Styles Shown At 30th Paris Show
Jumpy, shaky light in imagery and contrast The 30th automobile salon presents the very latest thing in gas-buggies and many startling innovations include a very tricky effect that can easily be turned by hand from a roadster into a coupe.
Hundreds Die As Terrific Quake Wipes Out City
Shaky, jumpy, rolling, light in contrast and imagery A terrific temblor razes this departmental capital during a religious procession in honor of the community's patron saint, bringing death to more than two hundred fifty persons and causing injuries to countless others. Ancient buildings are demolished or weakened to such an extent that they collapse a day later. Rescue workers rush from the national capital at San Salvador to bring medical aid and food supplies to survivors. The disaster strikes a severe blow at one of the most populous and prosperous regions of Central America.
Noted Fliers Aid Search For Lost Transport Plane
Shaky, jumpy, rolling, light in contrast and imagery Amelia Earhart Putnam, famous aviatrix and Trans-Atlantic flier, volunteers her aid in the long, vain search for a missing airliner with seven persons on board. The Birdwoman joins hundreds of others seeking the craft.