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Clip #: MF-14B-3
Length: :32
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel about an oil well fire in Texas.
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Clip #: MF-14B-4
Length: :41
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel about the possible relocation of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor to Newark, New Jersey because of a tax fight with New York City government.
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Clip #: MF-14B-5
Length: :34
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel about the Royal Navy heavy cruiser H.M.S. Norfolk visiting New York, where sailors receive their daily ration of grog.
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Clip #: MF-14B-6
Length: :47
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
A newsreel from 1933 of Richard du Pont setting a new United States glider distance record in a flight from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Frederick, Maryland.
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Clip #: MF-14B-7
Length: :40
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
AÂ newsreel from 1933 about a mass parachute jump in Moscow.
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Clip #: MF-14B-8
Length: :32
Year: 1930
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel from 1933 about the foiled kidnapping attempt of the niece of Russell C. Leffingwell, partner of the House of Morgan (J. P. Morgan & Company) and daughter of Franklin K. Batcheller. The would be kidnappers also threatened to blow up Batcheller’s mansion in Yonkers, New York if...
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Clip #: MF-14B-9
Length: :40
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel about Admiral Richard E. Byrd bidding the United States goodbye as he accepts a Kellett autogyro and embarks from Boston in the Bear of Oakland on the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
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Clip #: MF-14B-10
Length: :29
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel from 1933 of aviator Jimmie Mattern’s last flight before disappearing on a flight from Siberia, where he was later found after having to make a forced landing.
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Clip #: MF-14B-11
Length: :34
Year: 1933
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel from 1933 about King Faisal I of Iraq’s first visit to England, where he is greeted by King George V who presents his sons the Prince of Wales and Duke of Gloucester before they all travel to Buckingham Palace in a coach escorted by the Life Guards.
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Clip #: MF-14B-12
Length: :32
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1930s
Description:
Newsreel about a drought in Nebraska that has massively affected agricultural production and the attempts to generate various sources of irrigation.
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