YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - WILL HAYS IN HOLLYWOOD WWI SURPLUS GOODS MARION DAVIES BELMONT STAKES

[Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear [Music] wonder of the West here in the years just prior to World War one is the old Nickelodeon full afternoon of film fair for only five cents and Hollywood's first moneymakers were thrillers and chillers but they'd get the chill from an audience of today but here's how an early audience reacted and here's a typical scene in action commonly known as a cliffhanger this screen siren hangs just a little too far over and while of violent villain throws rocks the soft-hearted audience drops a few tears but our well solved watered heroine is saved by a friendly Indian you think he's a real one audience thinks her rescue was the real thing anyway and here's the Cisco Kid of filmdom surely days he wouldn't even rate a job as an extra in a modern Western film he's too much of an indoor man for the present outdoor extravaganza but he was real stuff in the teens and real tough too pictures like that were the product of Studios like this for here's one of the first film centers to appear in the wilds of Hollywood expedition by DW Griffith - West Coast in 1910 discovered fair weather and clear skies of California so essential to making of motion pictures and in years immediately flowing other East Coast filmmakers followed the leader to sunnier climes and as the studio's grew so did Hollywood so did the length and importance of the movies that were made please don't look here for soundproof walls and sound stages for this is years and years before the arrival of talking pictures al jolson wouldn't hear of leaving the stage to make a movie in this part off and forsaken corner of the world Hollywood in the early teens it's populated by crews of cockeyed people erecting castles of confusion but suddenly almost overnight bigger and better movies are coming out of Hollywood they're making more pictures faster and more money faster and rough raw plus with suggestive titles are packing the theatres at every performance with movies at their lowest moral level but riding high financially a new name appears on the national scene will Hays its 1920 and here Hays is harvesting the votes the send Warren Harding to the White House yes will Hays surprises America by becoming first Republican president maker in eight years there's no hint here that Hays will soon bow out of politics to become biggest and most important man in motion pictures in 20s and 30s in fact family man haze in 1921 accepts reward for his campaign work by becoming Postmaster General in Harding's cabinets but one year later he resigns to become head of motion picture producers and distributors of America and his reign in Hollywood is big boon to already booming industry newcomer haze gets greeting from harold lloyd as he hits hollywood to open his famed Hays office soon to be filmed hims guiding force here sussel B DeMille already a leader in the industry shows will Hays to Hollywood but from here on it was will Hays who showed Hollywood the way to star-spangled heights of achievement [Music] you're out of the army now it's 1920 and with World War still the hottest news in the history books service ships are sold the highest bidder honto Sam wants money but he won't get much for this battle-scarred cargo carrying craft [Music] surplice airships go pretty fast though and most of them are bought by fliers who saw service in France and will Barnstorm in these many strutted baby buggies remember when you bought your first airplane ride and maybe you remember buying surplus gun cloth in the early 20s it was once camouflage and shell casing but as Army Colonel Garrison demonstrates it was also great a self and when put the peacetime use made appealing apart my teen buddy who knew there be a war again in 19 years here's the navy's handsome lieutenant commander zachary lands down in 1925 ranking officer of ill-fated shenandoah aboard the r34 Lansdowne was first American to fly Atlantic he died in crash of Shenandoah same year this picture was taken coming out of her Swank and sprawling Hollywood home his actress Marion Davies as she appeared in 1926 and with her is French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen shone the air she avatar owned Helen wells at Wimbledon Marion Davies Suzanne Lenglen both great names in 1926 these ball players are actor John Bowles and Edward Carew Discoverer of Dolores Del Rio and here are balls to children showing a tiny playmate the sights of the 1931 seaside discovered by Gloria Swanson Bowles started in films aslha Swanson's leading man lorring rule it's 8 the February 1922 and pitch to be used to repair 'roof of Treasury Building in Washington catches fire and capital firemen have a high old time with a high blaze rooftop flames are so spectacular that President Harding watches for a while from White House steps but when told the nation's money isn't hot the chief executive goes back to work firemen confine Blaise to roof while down below they keep on making moolah [Music] rolling stacks here in poor districts outside Evanston Illinois is library on wheels designed to bring reading matter to suburban children who can't get into town to improve their minds it's 1923 and something new in education this is a good idea today too for those of us who can't get that book back to the library in time maybe this is the book of the Crypt club grandma goes gallivanting getting into her gargles grandma Bennett 100 year old resident of Portland Maine gets ready for her first airplane ride it's 1925 and grandma who knew nothing better than a horse and buggy first 75 years of her life decides she'll take a preview look at heaven with a little help from modern day means of transportation open-cockpit of what's now outdated pusher type seaplane a hundred-year-old woman enjoys every dip and turn of the round trip and looks as if she'll fly again when she's 200 only chances are she'll have to strap herself into a Mars bound Rock at them [Music] fashion fanciest in 1928 in heyday of the Wall Street boom and the pandemonium prohibition this is how the well-dressed woman looked well she claims she's dressed after you finished gaping at the shapeless grave of that fur-trimmed evening wrap take a look at the modern furnitures all angles isn't it and if it means anything to be all angles our model is a bit modern herself what did women do with their figures in those days answer they put them in pretty potato sack but wonder what they did with the potatoes [Music] [Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear [Music] wonder of the West here in the years just prior to World War one is the old Nickelodeon full afternoon of film fair for only five cents and Hollywood's first moneymakers were thrillers and chillers but they'd get the chill from an audience of today but here's how an early audience reacted and here's a typical scene in action commonly known as a cliffhanger this screen siren hangs just a little too far over and while of violent villain throws rocks the soft-hearted audience drops a few tears but our well solved watered heroine is saved by a friendly Indian you think he's a real one audience thinks her rescue was the real thing anyway and here's the Cisco Kid of filmdom surely days he wouldn't even from the lifted wire sting keep striding a safe distance ahead of the Challenger cherry pie there's purse of eleven thousand three hundred dollars for winner of this mile and a quarter - and that's bacon stayin looks as if he wants to bring it home [Music] [Music] still leading is the horses around the final turn and gallop into the stretch sting has stem heated away from every horse but Cherry Pie sting tires as who wouldn't after this spine-tingling sprint Cherry Pie comes on closes in but isn't faster close enough sting is across the wire winner all the way staying in jockey Bruning and the Belmont Stakes of 25 [Music]