YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - WINGS OF COMMERCE PIONEERING FLIGHTS

[Music] television highlights of the news of yester year [Music] it's 1919 and fighting in France halted 8 months ago so Britain's John Alcock and Arthur Brown will take this converted Army bomber on peaceful and historic flight across the North [Music] Atlantic success of Alcock Brown inspires flights in other giant planes near Milwaukee Wisconsin big Pullman of the air is Christen for for her maiden voyage and one more one-time bomber Roars into peacetime Skies airplanes and Pilots are still pretty much Freaks and novelties in years just after the Armistice here in Houston Texas big crowd of curious is attracted by Air Force veterans and pioneering Airmen on national barnstorming [Music] tour on plane like those which Saw Service in World War War one and sold by government as Army Surplus Daredevils thrill gabing populations with stunting in the sky but the plane too excites American Youth across the Atlantic Europe's Most enterprising Airmen launch some semblance of air travel between London and Paris in open cockpits passengers are lifted from ordinary Open Fields and flown across the channel in flimsy and slow-moving craft but it's one of Man's first attempts to put a device of playboys and Daredevils to commercial use the flying machine is suddenly a long way from [Music] Kittyhawk soon cockpits are covered for comfort of passengers but still most commercial planes are small then planes designed to carry bigger loads cut cost per trip it's 1921 and passenger list is now longer than list of crew [Music] then planes still bigger carry not only passengers but their baggage too as flying becomes more practical every day it's now May 2nd 1923 and in San Diego this giant fker is being heavily fueled for lieutenants John mccrady and Oakley Kelly at start of History making transcontinental flight next day they finish flight to New York non-stop but great greatest single contribution to advance and popularity of Aviation is made in May of 1927 by 25-year-old Charles A Lindberg and his Paris hop to every youngster in the world Lindy is the hero of Heroes and playing pilot out modes playing war or Cowboys and Indians here are Airmen of the future and here's thrill packed finish of 1927's second most important flight it's June 7th and Clarence Chamberlain with backer Charles LaVine has reached Berlin after journey of nearly 4,000 miles Chamberlain's flight was longest on record for years LaVine was first passenger to fly Atlantic and in Germany Begins the era of Sky Giants this ship carried eight passengers and crew of three on Great Lakes in 1929 this giant dorier is scheduled for service between Detroit and Cleveland carrying 50 passengers at a time bigger still in 1929 is the house like dox equipped with 12 water cooled Curtis engines with accommodations for 100 passengers on test flight the ox once Rose from Waters near friedrich's Haven with 169 passengers aboard it leaps oceans and continents with ease and gasoline to spare and then March 17th 1937 the root of the Great China Clipper spreads man's Wings across the yet unconquered vastness of the Pacific after trailblazing flights by Captain Edwin music and his Crews Sikorski Clippers make regularly scheduled flights to the Orient and ples are true luxury liners of the Skies man's dream of Glorious Castles in the Air come true and soon both land and sea around the entire Globe were covered with a net of Airline routs with distance conquered time is the next element to be assailed by man's UNF fluttering wings with jet propulsion this Canadian airliner speeds from Montreal to New York in just 1 hour and as more and bigger planes fly by power of jets the age of the propeller and gasoline engine seems doomed from Kittyhawk to Lindberg from Lindy to jetliners from Jets to Rockets who knows but what the next stop will be the moon or [Music] Mars it's 1929 and in Vienna Austria Mrs Van leer draws a Crowd by lying down on the job well this looks like like work anyway this is 1929 demonstration of what to do if you're caught in the middle of the street when the light turns green you just turn black and [Music] blue detectors don't lie it's August 3rd 1922 and convicted killer duding is taking one of first lie detector tests on record at nation's capital top criminologists question Dr duding Who spent 12 years in prison for Crime he claims he didn't commit again doctor says no when accused of killing and detector says he's telling the truth a republican Roosevelt it's 1921 and here's Teddy Roosevelt third grandson of the Roosevelt of r Rider Fame and he's pretty good on a horse himself for a lad of seven like his late father he served in World War II like his grandfather he may someday enter White House here with Arnold Daly in 1920 is actress Grace Laro and here she is with hail Hamilton wishing her bone Voyage star of Broadway and London stages from 197 to 1929 Miss laru created sensation singing song You Made Me Love [Music] You back from trip to Japan in 1926 here's finer Thomas W Lamont with Martin Eagan one of nation's biggest Bankers Lamont was expert in international finance prime mover in worldwide establishment of peaceful international relations Thomas Lamont Devon disaster no this isn't aftermath of atom bomb but the result of the fury of an explosion in a factory full of firecrackers for its April 3rd 1930 and series of three explosions has leveled 7 Acres of the Pennsylvania fireworks display company and damaged property in wide circle around the powder plant many residents are hurt and many Automobiles and trucks are wrecked Beyond repair State Police and Cadets of nearby Military Academy Patrol streets of strien area where 10 are dead four critically injured and scores more less seriously hurt all fatalities are in Factory itself but among injured are passers by and residents of area cut by flying glass when tons of firecrackers all went off at once [Music] Nature's service station it's 1924 and at Black Diamond Alberta Canada oil man ofen well that produces the finished product refined gasoline it's talk of newly open Turner Valley Field and if you don't believe fuel can be taken straight from well to autot tank just look at this Mother Nature's Own brand of gasoline has pep he hardly put his foot on the accelerator [Music] honest the bells of Riverside it's 10th of September 1930 and then biggest Bell in America starts journey to Laura Spelman Rockefeller carolon a top picturesque Riverside Memorial Church above the Hudson on Manhattan Island trip of 400 ft takes just 5 minutes minut weighing more than 20 tons Bell was made in England is next to last to be placed in four octave carolon its tone is low C and one more Bell low D almost as big has yet to be hoisted into place all told carolon will soon house 72 bells to fill the Manhattan air with music from heaven some shakes at Jacko Brian's reducing Salon a 1936 here's example of the fashionable way to get that girlish figure but it sounds as if the girls are also getting the giggles let's [Music] Len no they're not being tortured but for a flat fee are getting their tummies flattened it wasn't only fun it was also the [Music] fashion fcking Outboards it's 14th of July 1935 and here's start of outboard motorboat briata at Buffalo New York and it's speed speed speed sharp turns of Clos course make every turn a possible last turn for every racer and anything can happen anytime it's anybody's race anybody's well it's not going to be this fellows unless he wants to swim across the Finish Line only thing hurt by spill is his pride as he Treads water and watches other boats Buffalo's outboard motorboat enthusiasts are in for still more excitement as Fred jacobe Jr wins but this isn't jacobe this is just another also ran and also tipped over and almost ran over the cameraman