YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - FALL OF POLAND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS 1936 OLYMPICS

[Music] [Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear [Music] [Music] it's August 1939 and people of Poland are faced with more than mere threat of war in Warsaw even women are among civilian volunteers digging trenches in cities public parks power-crazed Adolf Hitler has demanded German control of free city of Danzig Poland's only Avenue to the sea but answer of Polish government is mobilization of army 60 divisions strong heading for German border they intend to fight Hitler without loaded weapons and spirit of free people who want to stay free on Baltic Sea Poland's fleet maneuvers into position to defend port of Danzig against Nazi attack by water outsized an out man by the Fuhrer x' feet of surface craft and underwater vessels the poles are nonetheless confident of victory if war should come remember these pictures their German propaganda films sent here in August 1939 to impress us with power of Nazi war machine and here are members of Hermann Goering 'he's great air for studying maps of bombing missions over Poland though no war has been declared these are winget weapons that of Hitler will pit against what Poland calls her modern mechanized army and now it's 1st of September 1939 and though Poland is waiting for invasion it is not expecting such an all-out attack as this as Nazi bombers blaze across Poland's border 1,700,000 Nazi troops stamped heavily on polish soil and German bombs dropped like lethal hailstones from Polish skies bomb bursts open boulevards of destruction for advancing Nazi troops prepare to do battle as in world war one banana Hitler here proves his boast of a new kind of war [Music] now a meaning of word blitzkrieg is clear as mobile artillery fires broadside after broadside into Poland shells sing over polish countryside beating drums of quick enemy defeat into Polish towns pummeled by bombing planes and shattered by shells Swift moving Nazi foot soldiers advance yard by cautious yard battered shaken stunned and stricken Polish troops fall back out man dubbed last outweighed but not once out [ __ ] then Warsaw heart and capital of Poland is staggered by steady stamps of explosive lightning from the sky after first few flurries of flesh resistance in the air not one polish plane is left to beat these Nazi bombers bang and these bombs burst not on any military objective but on an open and defenseless City by mid-september Poland is overrun but almost all resistance stops thousands are dead millions enslaved in less than one month the power of a Dolf Hitler's Frankenstein of war stuns the world and frightens Russia with Warsaw rekt at all Poland smoldering in utter ruin there are grave misgivings in most Moscow mines pattern of craters attest to accuracy if Nazi Bombardier 's wreckage everywhere is evidence of Hitler's warring might so shattered Poland is invaded from the east as powerful divisions of bread soldiers swarm across the land at fortress of brest-litovsk where Russian and German troops met on September 17 Poland is divided as the spoils of a despoiling war Warsaw surrendered September 27 now September 29th red and Nazi officers partitioned pulverized and plundered Poland westward 26 days ago both France and Great Britain went to war for Poland but German and Soviet armies march in triumph on polish soil after four weeks of victory that launched months and years of war [Music] here's inventor and innovator Paul burkhardt's latest creation a seagoing bicycles it's the early 1920s and burkhardt spike goes into New Jersey's Hackensack River for tests rudder is controlled by handlebars propeller by petals using waters of Hackensack for highway in Vetter Burkhart pedals his way over the waves well he claims his fancy bike is safe enough even for stormy seas guaranteed to carry up to 250 pounds bike of briny deep sure lives up to bike of burkhardt's claims at sea worthy and safe here's Harry Sinclair April 1st 1928 prominent figure in teapot dome affair of 1920s oilman Sinclair has just been absolved of fraud charges in nation's capital he did however have to serve six months in jail for bribery senator for a day its 1921 that in Katers Ville Georgia 87 year old Rebecca Felton has been appointed u.s. senator from Georgia by state's governor unruffled by Hodder the agent Rebecca Felton goes about her daily work and play named a Senate seat for 24 hour period she holds office between death of state's most recent senator and election of his successor it's again 1921 and in Los Angeles young son of movie Idol Douglas Fairbanks comes to movie Capitol to launch career of his own in motion pictures yes he's none other than Douglas Fairbanks Jr greeted by Jacqueline Logan Douglas Fairbanks Jr in 1921 [Music] [Music] here in the early 1930s England is sea of snow as one of worst snowfalls in Island history smothers and paralyzes land three days of snow have wrecked communications and here in Wales children trapped in country church must walk 18 miles through high drifts to get the shelter warmth and safety of their snowbound homes [Music] after spring thaw flood is second disaster of season for England thousands are homeless as snow turns to water an over wide-area British homes look as if they're in the English Channel [Music] here in Chicago in the early 1930s is 4 and 1/2 million dollar shedd aquarium after 4 years work building is finished and to fish its tanks a lot among most interesting of tenants is this queen triggerfish top customer among most expensive is their national champion goldfish worth their weight in scales these perky looking fellows are sea horses truly among the most delightful looking denizens of the deep from day it's first opened shedd aquarium as popular place in Chicago visited by millions of Americans from everywhere will gathered in Windy City to see even more unusual wonders at Chicago's World's Fair [Music] it's 1925 and here at Dayton Ohio Army airplane engineers make big wrecks out of little ones as they crash planes against Stovall to see what happens true purpose of these destructive doings is to see what can be done to keep down danger of fire an event of trash or forced landings this fuselage is wrecked but note that where there was a wreck there was no fire not this time anyway [Music] let's look at tests in slow-motion camera tricks can't bless an impact crash but you can see for yourself there's no hint of flame after crack-up only plumes of steam escaping from crushed airplane engine tests aren't perfect for them what is the world best dressed in 1926 here are fashionable cigarette girls at meeting of wives of diplomats in society debuted in 1926 here's the well-dressed mrs. Tim Thomas today era wife of Japanese ambassador to United States here having tea our minister from Egypt Mahmud Hani Pasha and his wife incidentally each triangle and crown of that hat is a different color on the left is madam Somali wife is ambassador from Greece with David our daughter of Undersecretary of the Treasury Juhi and this fashion played his wife of Austrian ministers Madame Edgar approached Nick [Music] it's June 17th 1922 and here are closing matches of New Jersey marble championship site of contest is New York the Aggies fly is one ringmaster after another gets hot [Music] here's little miss Alice Earhart one of several girl contestants and here's another of the fairer sex making marbles fly here's the finals and the title goes to shot expert Jake Goldberg best to the lot - the winner belongs the cup of victory and then everybody at the contest shakes hands with a new champ now everybody in Newark shakes his hand know everybody in New Jersey well alright then everybody in the whole world the universe it's 1936 and with Winter Olympics in the offing hens Killians and his four-man bobsled team from Germany takes trial run down Olympic bobsled courts they look as if they already know their way around dangerous twists and turns but Adolphe Hitler's Representatives won't listen to advice of inferior non-germans you're watching them and tryout for injury and death for an later run they failed to make famed hairpin turn fly over lip of shoot that's more than a mile a minute and never race again [Music]