YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - 1929 PRISON BREAK IN CANON CITY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD TOKYO QUAKE

[Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear [Music] Canyon City catastrophe its fourth of October 1929 and there's riot in this Colorado prison burned and blasted penitentiary buildings are in shambles among dead are 5 convicts and 7 guards held as hostages by rioting prisoners and then murdered in cold blood Gordan Nephi Crawford and Helen grenfell of State Board weather heavy hail of bullets from prisoners so solidly entrenched that National Guardsmen bring up 75 millimeter gun ringleader Danny Daniels kills pals himself and riots over but damage remains here's gutted cellblock number four we're ill-fated break for freedom started here's where Daniels gave signal that led the turmoil and here we're wall is knocked out is where convicts guns were stored and this is what remains of cellblock three where hostage guards were murdered and tossed from windows into prison yard they wanted freedom but this is what they got [Music] rounding up a show at Madison Square Garden ballet artist Harriet hochter appears in New York City's famous arena it's May 26 1931 and miss Hotchkiss performance is one of highlights of Salvation Army benefit 17,000 Jam garden has more than 1,100 stars of stage screen and radio appear on pre gigantic stages Orchestra 300 plays as Miss hochter goes through her graceful dance such notables as Maurice Chevalier Al Jolson Harry Richman and Billy Burke appear audience includes former Governor Al Smith mayor Walker John golden master of ceremonies is well hey [Applause] showstopper is bill Robinson Bojangles of Harlem himself bills only youngster of 52 at this performance with nearly 20 years of top-flight tapping ahead of him [Music] [Applause] yes bills world's best tap dancer at one of New York's biggest show [Music] [Applause] [Music] tract ice it's March 1934 and the usually free-flowing Hudson is just so much hard water Coast Guardsmen from Qatar Comanche test depth of freeze one of worst in Hudson River history record cold spell stops river traffic with cover of ice foot thick tests show path can be broken through so cutter Comanche noses upriver to plow open water corridor and search for ice bound ships and barges distress call from waters near Newburgh ends days of isolation for this barge not until early in April our waters to Albany again fully opened the navigation during freeze Hudson River steamship company is forced to suspend operations and upriver ports are cut off it's scene of beauty with Hudson and surrounding hills under blanket of snow and ice but regular North River travelers feel like heading south [Music] a what broom third gives attention and lessons and typing to fame grandfather Haywood blown the original newspaper columnist war correspondent author and critic broom was one of most widely read writers of his time but here in the long ago he's just grandpa - Haywood third here's the Richard Strauss world-renowned German composer at home Strauss played piano when four-years-old started writing music when only six here in 1923 with Mayer Hyland left he sees New York City as one of biggest names in music gets official welcome from biggest city in the world novice men well you know his books for this is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald better known as f scott Fitzgerald it's just 1942 and author is just 26 here's his wife allegedly model for his heroines shown here but Emily great writer has still to offer The Great Gatsby [Music] ten tremors under Tokyo September 1st 1923 earthquake tidal wave fire and explosion bring almost total destruction to Tokyo and towns within 50 mile radius of Japanese capital after last of tremors tidal wave sweeps down all but few buildings which survived quake boss truckers flawless arsenal explodes many wooden homes and huts with thatched roofs Ridout rise and fall of Earth but are destroyed by fire which sweeps unabated through city and environs as water system fails fire is catastrophes most destructive element alone wiping out more than half of Tokyo these survivors leave danger areas and are housed in temporary shelters in new yen or park while authorities search surrounding miles of ruins for injured and the dead on my sewer pipe service homes for many luckless victims luckless yes but lucky to be alive at kaw B shiploads of survivors disembarked with stories of disaster almost too terrifying to tell almost too fantastic to believe but behind them are millions of homes destroyed friends and relatives dead or missing the edge of stricken area thousands flee in fear of further quakes frames are so jammed that all those who can take to rooftops and mad scramble to safety if this is confusion it's nothing compared to panic that followed earthquake tidal wave fire and explosion that rocked and grow in Tokyo and environs and in its wake left 100,000 dead flying high twin motored Kurtis Condor planes and Giants of the sky are among first of luxury liners to take the air if ship doesn't look luxurious well this is 1933 stewardess of the day wears polka dot dress or this one does anyway fitted out like swanky or Pullman there's even rack for coats flight begins in New York City and as part of luxury service airlines provide passengers with reading matter flying's probably getting so uneventful now it's dull the trip and big ship is so smooth it's even safe to protect a food and drink and you're not only allowed to smoke you're offered a light with Richmond Virginia final stop big ship cruise over Washington one of five scheduled stops on 310 mile route nobody asks jordiz what this is down there but with Richmond Airport now only few minutes away this pass you're asked for equipment to make her look beautiful for greeting boyfriend perhaps giant of Timeship lands a destination with 15 passengers nothing to get excited about today but in 1933 this is another amazing achievement in man's mastery of the air thirds of the early 1930s seemed Airmen wasn't enough to keep the warm those days fishermen be sports cups of Silver Fox at for Mama over her gallon of transparent velvet this model shows off an opera cape of eastern mink and takes off cape to display dress with low V back and high rounded neckline this young lady can have anything up her sleeve this evening this lovely rises to shine in cape of silver fox is followed by another phurba Dec lovely this one wearing Airmen again with white fox trim for at noon where the transistor swagger sportcoat this Laskin lamb has puffed sleeves Brenden center for this creation with bow at the neck and notice here the plaid of scarf and coat lining match yes in the early 1930s these were the latest things in furs [Music] al jolson swings a putter on Los Angeles Golf Links in 1929 famed entertainer watches Johnny Farrell show how golfing champions are made and what makes them this is movie milestones its first-time pictures taught with sound and picture made simultaneously so voices you're about to hear will not be as clear as they are in present day talking Bilson makes jokes and history you know when you're shooting yeah you let me see how you hold your club for that famous pendulum swing of yours good way to part of your home it I don't what you wish you could do that I know him don't you wish you could sing mammy oh yeah that's good golfing Johnny Farrell and Leo Diggle and good going Hal Jolson