Headlines On Parade

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Year Published: 1942

Complete Record: Talking head at desk. Shots of city- skyline, Showboat theater. Fire in the horizon. Citizens run towards fire. Huge black clouds and smoke rise in the air. Torched ruins of buildings. Police carry out the dead on stretchers. Nurses treat the sick, volunteers cover the dead. Men clear out the wreckage. Shot of cemetery. Shot of ocean liner. Old metal airplane. Auguste Piccard & brother come off of a train in Chicago (1934) and pose for camera. Townspeople help build and launch a hot air balloon that supports an airtight circular submersible a gondola with hot air balloon. Shots of Auguste Piccard gondola in flight and landing. Switzerland. 2:58 - 6:00 Taking the device across the snow on a ski. Small village in background.