News Digest No. 4

Creator: Pathe News

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Crisis: Hitler Alarms Nervous Europe; map showing German incursions into Central and Eastern Europe; VS 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; CU 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 in Battle Royal; high-speed motorboat racing; Pathe rooster logo, crowing