1930 - Americana, Depression: Congress Opens; Unemployed Riot; Six-Day Bike Race; Leviathan Overhauled; Nobel Prize Winner; Mechanical Animals; German Depression; Oddities; Horse Racing; Weather; Auto Racing; Acrobatic Stunts.

1930 - USA & German Depression: Government Opens; Unemployed Riot; Marathon Bike Race; Ocean Liner Overhauled; Nobel Prize Winner; Mechanical Animals; Strike Ends; Oddities; Horse Race; Weather; Dirt Track Auto Racing; Acrobatic Stunts. Intertitle: New Congress Opens; Favors Jobless Aid; Red Rioters Quelled. 01:00:10 Crowd passing Washington DC Capitol building; int w/ Joint Session of Congress prayer. 01:00:20 Ext. high angle / HA crowd w/ police grabbing signs & men pushing, woman pushes policeman & teargas fired in crowd; police following exiting crowd firing teargas. Police carry off woman . 01:00:51 Intertitle: Prize Sprints Stir Jaded Appetites of 6-Day Bike Race Fans. New York City. 01:00:56 Bicycle racers lined up on track for photographers; race begins on banked wooden track. High overhead of racing, passing. 01:01:25 Intertitle: Leviathan Receives Winter Overhauling; Gives Work To 500. Boston, Mass. 01:01:31 CU bow of Leviathan docking seen from water; high angle. Workers on dock w/ ship behind, pulling ropes, etc. Ship in drydock & men working on side w/ hoses on planks hanging from ropes & in bucket from crane. Tilt up bow of ocean liner, men painting stacks, MCU. 01:02:11 Intertitle: Sinclair Lewis Sails! Famed author...to receive Nobel Prize... 01:02:23 MCU of Lewis w/ wife Dorothy Thompson. CUs. Lewis looking at Swedish dictionary. 01:02:37 Intertitle: NYC, Artists create Holiday beasts...! 01:02:43 MS animatronics animated dinosaur w/ head, neck & tail moving around; CU mouth opening & closing. Men walk up below head. 01:02:57 CU life-size Mastodon elephant head w/ trunk moving, men beneath mechanical animals. 01:03:03 Man sitting on dinosaur, upright bear moving beside; oxen team & farmer. Woman beneath bear. 01:03:16 Intertitle: Labor strike ends! 140,000 metal workers joyously resume. Berlin, Germany 01:03:22 LS HA factory buildings, many workers come & go; MCU entering building, walking past. Packed elevated railroad platform from below as train arrives; MCU woman walking past & young boys w/ bicycles. 01:03:44 Intertitles: Berlin, Germany. Monk musicians make merry... 01:03:50 Animal trainers behind chimpanzees in clothes on chairs w/ drum, violin & other instruments; pounding & fighting. 01:04:18 Intertitle: “Sweep All” Wins Last Big Feature of 1930 Racing Season. Bowie, MD. 01:04:23 Horses in paddock w/ people viewing from ground & above, jockeys mounting; riding out onto track to starting gate & beginning race counterclockwise on dusty track. 01:04:51 Crowd lining rail, horses around final turn & number 4 coming from behind to win. GOOD. 01:05:12 Intertitle: Gales And Floods Cause Heavy Damage As Rivers Overflow. Coblenz, Ger. 01:05:17 Man rowing & men poling children on flooded river; help children onto ground. 01:05:27 Intertitle: Thousands Gasp At Perilous Auto Skid In Furious Contest. Los Angeles 01:05:32 Cars race around banked dirt track, car loses wheel, spins out; flagman waving flag at passing cars. 01:05:43 Intertitle: Zero Weather Fails To Daunt Daredevil’s Roof-Top Thrillers. 01:05:51 From skyscraper roof w/ traffic & people on awning of adjacent building, tilt up to rooftop. Man balancing on table w/ four wooden chairs on top on edge of roof; bends over & picks up handkerchief w/ teeth; then does balances & stands on head. CU talking to camera (MOS). 1930s Unemployed Rioting; Violence; Depression Indoor Sports; Writer; Awards; Oddities; Gags; Travel; Transportation; German Factory Labor; Horse Race; Stormy Weather; Flooding; Dangers; Acrobats; NOTE: Any portion or all sold at per reel rate.