YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - MARCONI & BROADCAST RADIO 1930s FASHIONS

[Music] Delavan highlights a news of yesteryear the rise of Radio Rocky Point Long Island 1933 guglielmi Marconi and David Sarnoff visit the birthplace of broadcasting radios first castle was this rustic Shack in 1921 radio fans are all earphones listening to a pioneer station whn crystal set explorers here such performers as Miriam Bautista child movie star one of radios trailblazing announcers introduces what he calls a little peach from a Broadway show the peach poses as radio gets called everything from gag to gadget at best the plaything in the fan but fate is to make radio a power in a world of peace and war herbert hoover's Secretary of Commerce in 1922 who finds infant radio facilitates news gathering as to many others in high public office andrew white comes to a WJZ microphone with latest news in sports in what is then the latest in broadcasting studios but growth of radio is Swift from toothpick antennas sprout these beacons of broadcasting the Fort Jefferson tower and at Arlington Virginia here's one 600 feet high radio waves over ocean waves in 1923 one of the first American overseas broadcasts is heard in England by captain west of the BBC and relayed to all England by a wondrous thing called Wireless [Music] Chicago's Edgewater Beach hotel houses this top studio of its time drapes hide microphones glass walls shut out unwanted sound here are among the first motion pictures of broadcasting members of Chicago's Civic opera singing the quartet from Rigoletto here's Florence Macbeth and Angelo Ming Getty famed Uncle Joe Kenan becomes a fan as 19 year old Marion Talley in 1926 sings in New York for a radio audience of 16 million listeners radios big time here to stay in the marine room at the Edgewater Beach Hotel broadcasting branches out on one of radios first remotes the famed Oriole orchestra plays for an unseen audience please discover the power of broadcasting from mobile units alarms are sent out to officers equipped with receiving instruments it's in trial stages now but it works a mounted policeman gets instructions by radio in 1923 baseball goes to that buyer radio world famous gram Acme described the doings of the World Series it's a hit for the runner and for radio late in the 1920s radio finds new fields cloud bound over the trackless Kansas Plains this airship contacts the Wichita air station the question how's the weather ahead and the answer ok Wireless aides the pioneers of the sky Franklin Roosevelt famous for his fireside chats makes radio contact between president and people from the White House he says when I was in France during the World War our boys over there used to call the United States God's country let us make it and keep it God's country radio today is different powerful networks span the nation from coast to coast shortwave radio girdles the globe radar has reached the moon now radio has mothered television and the future promises even more startling things to come [Music] [Applause] dizzi doings of dancers Paris France 1929 dancers not content to be just up on their toes decide they'll go up in the air so it's bye-bye to dance floors as they biplane for a chorus or two in the clouds this could be called fun in a fuselage well cutting up in cramped quarters anyway a high time is had by all if this makes you dizzy it's not the dancing it's the altitude [Music] mind your manners here's Emily Post in 1923 home from Europe where she studied European etiquette with her is New York banker George F Baker pillar of social graces Emily Post just a couple of car hands the late 20s sees Will Rogers mix it with tommix and string along as Tom shows him how to handle rope now lodges will show mix a few tricks a lady named Brady its 1922 and here's proof that women take up makeup in a serious way [Music] Alice Brady shows that eyes with a mascara have it and the best polished nails get the brush-off Dericks of disaster Santa Fe Springs California November 1928 in flames a hundred feet high oil worth a million dollars goes up in smoke [Music] no welcome visitor to Santa Fe Springs the blaze destroys oil and Dericks alike firemen are helpless against the heat experts say the inferno was started by sparks from flying gravel in casing of new well after three days the fire is brought under control but here at the height of the conflagration thirty-eight wells are idle and the export of oil from Santa Fe Springs hits a record low miracle of faith before the Basilica of the Rosary 1931 in solemn procession the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes France comes to a close here some will set aside their crutches others find hope in these blessings at the grotto the ailing weight and covered wheelchairs to be bathed in healing waters those not help now will return for such is man's faith in the miracle of Lourdes [Music] what could attract such a smart audience in fashionable East Hampton New York back in 1930 why fashions of course modeled by society matrons de tan fashions look much more up-to-date than those flowing for most lady and airman or what the society matron will wear to the local fish fry no hint of the stock market crash in this ermand elegance the show must go on the bridal procession standard fashion show finale then as today the bride wears satin and determined expression [Music] Washington DC 1931 de la cierva inventor of the autogyro is here to see what's new since he first gave a windmill wings over the Whitehouse US version of Sierras craft comes in for a landing on the lawn pilot must set his ship down within space of a few feet watch him do it [Music] model general engineers are rewarded for their work by President Herbert Hoover gentlemen on behalf of the National air Nauticus OCA ssin it gives me great pleasure to present to you and your associates the Collier trophy for your development and demonstration of the practicability they autogyro in the United States what comes down can also go up but this goes up in a skip a hop and a hurry [Applause] Lipton loses again it's 1920 and the race for the America's Cup is on with a shamrock the fourth Sir Thomas Lipton plans to take yachting's highest honour home to England good luck Sir Thomas at the midway point America's resolute is leading this is the final race with victories already garnered by each side but the American skipper Charles Francis Adams won't be beaten now in Cup races closest finish the residue dispersed and America wins loser Lipton and friends wave to the winners crew members of the resolute wave back winter olympics Switzerland February 1936 Sonja Henie queen of figure skaters for ten years wins her third consecutive Olympic championship topping 23 skaters from 12 nations here's Miss Hannah a winning Fame at the gateway to a fortune Broadway and Hollywood beckoned and Sonja's silver skates turned to gold ice hockey in fast-moving finals the US team in dark uniforms tackles Germany's best puck pushers a tense crowd watches as the boys from over here do all right over there a hard American smash is blocked Germany heads for US territory at an American player intercepts a flurry of play and Germany's guard is down America's scores and wins [Music]