Newsreel Stories (1932)

Year Published: 1932

Description:

The film features a segment on San Francisco's innovative method of sending greetings via an auto gyro piloted by Captain Claude Owen, who successfully lands a plane in a tight space at the Civic Center. Additionally, it showcases baby week at the Zoological Park, highlighting the care given to newborn animals, including twin African lion cubs.

Keywords
San Francisco, auto gyro, Captain Claude Owen, Civic Center, baby week, Zoological Park, lion cubs, aviation

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Complete Record: The film features a segment on San Francisco's innovative method of sending greetings via an auto gyro piloted by Captain Claude Owen, who successfully lands a plane in a tight space at the Civic Center. Additionally, it showcases baby week at the Zoological Park, highlighting the care given to newborn animals, including twin African lion cubs. Keywords San Francisco, auto gyro, Captain Claude Owen, Civic Center, baby week, Zoological Park, lion cubs, aviation Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.

Transcription

[Music] the Golden Gate City figures out an upto-date way to send its greetings to the World by way of the sky in letters 10 ft High a new idea that's just as bright and cheerful as San Francisco itself the auto gyro is piloted by Captain Claude Owen and the captains taking an awful chance in that crowd of building one little slip and the greetings will turn into something not quite so cheerful he's aiming for the beautiful Civic Center and he's only got a space to land in 125 ft by 300 for the trolley line at the upper end but the captain knows his stuff and for the first time in history a plane lands on San Francisco's front porch well it's a ninth thought San Francisco and the same to you and many of them [Music] it's baby week at the Zoological Park here all these young lions tigers panthers wolves and coyotes were born within a few days of each other Julius and Brutus are twin African lion cubs if there's anything these Cubs hate worse than being stethoscop it's being paw printed but these babies need just as much care as human babies smacko right on the snazzle how do you like that it's what you get get for being born in a zoo you're lucky at that they don't say goooo to you anyway you big brute what a playmate you'll make

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