Twenty-five Years Ago
Twenty-five Years Ago
Twenty-five years ago they were peeling supposedly worthless bonds from the walls of Chicago's Union League Club as the depression began to fade. Workers with steam instrument remove bonds from wall. Old businessmen going through find. Cutting apart with scissors. Howard Hughes lunched in Chicago and ate dinner in Los Angeles after making an eight-hour flight phenomenal for those days. Shot of Hughes in restaurant, front view of propeller on plane starting up, CU of Hughes with goggles on forehead, plane flying, Hughes climbing out of plane, LS of crowd around plane. Amy Mollison flew from London to Cape Town, South Africa in four days. One of the countries most famous general, John J. Pershing cut a cake for the red cross fund drive. Max Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis and crowed - (but in a return bout the brown bomber flattened him in a round.) Just shows CU footage of Schmeling being interviewed ? Bold venture won the preakness at Baltimore in a photo finish - a race thriller that proved the horse classic of the year. Crowds on race day. Great shot of crowd of men wearing fedoras. Woman with binoculars. Slow motion race. Horses neck-and-neck.