YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL

[Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear it's 1911 and following June death of Edward the seventh George the fifth is King of England with lovely Queen Mary at his side here Britain's rulers review the fleet and here in 1918 the world's greatest empire celebrates 25th wedding anniversary of its beloved king and queen it's July and fighting in World War 1 will not be over till the November yet to come so sovereigns celebrate the occasion by paying tribute to the women who manned the nation's wartime factories the nurses of the nation's crowded hospitals where there was often as much heroism as on the shell pop fields at the fighting front and here a grateful king and queen reviewed the Yanks who came and conquered even his mother Queen Alexandra is their aging but still beautiful seven years prior to her death and standing by graciously as Alexandra's successor Queen Mary ever at her husband's side an important tax of state in peacetime or in war and here's Queen Mary in 1922 as she and King George reopened famed Westminster Hall closed for eight years for vital repairs to the ancient edifice and Queen Mary rides in golden coach of state as her monarch husband heads for Parliament and annual Opening Day ceremonies she is on hand for lighter duties to sharing honors with her husband at opening of Ascot races here is royal party gracing grounds in 1926 all's well with England and the Queen in Wallis 1920s the king and his beautiful Queen are on hand to open cow's regatta one of England's most famous sports events the Queen's colorful son David is still the youthful and energetic Prince of Wales son Albert Ashe I do visiting royalty seems more important at the moment as Queen Marie of Romania is escorted through Wembley exhibition by George and Mary here at Burmese exhibit are two great and beautiful Queens in 1936 like any wife Queen Mary is relieved of a great burden of fear King George who had been dangerously ill is well again and England cheers as she brings him home to Buckingham Palace the future comes swiftly later in 1936 George the fifth is dead and Queen Mary is Queen Mother as son David ascends the throne as Edward the eighth for 26 years she has ruled nation and Empire at her husband's side and now her eldest son is no longer Prince of Wales but a sovereign with a saddened heart and a future of his own Edward abdicates and in 1937 Queen Mary's second son is crowned King George the sixth as his proud but brokenhearted mother watches one King is dead one Department long lived the king in 1939 at 72 Queen Mary still takes an active part in social affairs of state age has not changed her queenly bearing or lessened her interest in the welfare and happiness of the Empire's varied and far flung population as always she favors little children and is the favorite of every British child here she is on her 83rd birthday Britain's Queen Mother we marry one of the greatest and best loved women in the world it's April 7th 1929 and the eight-year-old French luxury line of Paris is a ground on house head flats off Bay Ridge Brooklyn with 1000 passengers liner entered New York Harbor and heavy fog and rammed her gigantic bar deeply into the mud freedom sixteen tugs are assigned to the slosh the 34,000 ton ocean-going steamship and it takes 24 hours to get her afloat word of merriment aboard stock steamer reaches prohibition officers but French officials won't let investigators come aboard ship spar is sealed tight they say but passengers are just openly gay [Music] in late 1920s there's a rare sight in New York City's worst 145th Street for here stands one of last of fast wind link Ribe of cigar store Indians now a great value rarely if ever seen outside museums cigar store Indian stood woodenly outside nearly every tobacco shop in America and in England too for it was in England at the first of the tribes showed up through representatives of how Britain sculptors imagined the American tobacco smoking natives must appear early in 1700s they spread silently over all of England late the same century they migrated to America and their forebears then not so happy hunting ground for more than 100 years big cheap tobacco shop flared fiercely out at cigar puffing pale-faces now fine figure of Redman is fine memory [Music] here in 1929 is Army's all-american Chris Cagle and here in action in 29 game with Yale Kegel intercepts a pass and Fox 45 to a touchdown three times all-american back Cagle wonder of West Point its 9th of December 1929 as Patrick Hurley six oath of office and becomes Secretary of War in President Hoover's cabinet born in Indian Territory of Oklahoma in 1883 Hurley became Supreme Court lawyer in 1912 big step up ladder to international prominence Patrick early [Music] director for Pola Negri Emil Jannings a maurice chevalier here at his bungalow on Malibu beach is Ernst Lubitsch once an actor himself go Beach came to America in 1922 to direct movie starring Mary Pickford here in 1930 he's with actress owner Monson and others keeping in trim for a career of continued success [Music] struck by a bolt of lightning 35,000 barrels of oil are ablaze in Bayonne New Jersey it's May 16 1922 and looks as if this fire will burn around the calendar firemen are powerless to prevent loss of fuel but successfully wet down adjacent structures and thus stop spread of flames [Music] there was a vote from the blue and $200,000 was blown away crews of the Southern Cross in last luscious months of Roaring Twenties people with nothing better to do but spend time and money are sailing the Atlantic Seas for South America yes it's 1929 business is good on Main Street and on Wall Street people are getting richer with each click of the ticker Lindburgh is still a new hero and Charlie Chaplin is the best thing in movies here bootleg booze is forgotten with bondage stuff and life on the high seas is the same high old time as it is at home only better seven wing wonder yes this is a plane with seven wings for its July 20th 1923 and at McCook Army Air Base Dayton Ohio inventor WF Gerhart pedals something for posterity cycling into the wind it's now well things could be worse the contraption might have flown before it fell apart [Music] fashions for fun in 1925 here's the belle of the beach anything in the middle 1920 and the ball of the 1925 beach gets bounced around by the outdoor guys and gals of the Jazz era no doubt getting rid of speakeasy 10 Sleeping Beauty's that 19:25 bathing spots looked like this and here's a mother-daughter duo keeping cool with Coolidge almost a year after the campaign looks as if all the surf maids at the time wore black stockings but there's nothing dated about this pose or the empty deck chair bait for any men in bathing suit or Sunday best this was the bell of 25 live ringers at st. Petersburg Florida it's the 9th of February 1929 and the National horseshoe pitching championships are in session William Tell did it with bow arrow and Apple but these fellows do it with a horseshoe and it's a ringer every time there's more excitement when they miss than when they make it well there are more ringers here than in a contest of look-alikes among participants is this woman golfer of the barnyard link she's good for this is really pitching champion for 1929 is a man though Blair nunamaker of Cleveland years best ringer slinger [Music]