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1920s Personalities

Reel Number: 221428-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1910s,1920s

Country: Austria,Germany,Israel,Italy,Japan,Palestine,USA

Location: Berlin,Centralia,Iowa,Jerusalem,Sioux City,Vienna,Washington,Yokohama

TC Begins: 06:15:50

TC Ends: 06:27:14

Duration: 00:11:24

1920s Personalities ca Feb22 Joffre arrives Yokohama, Japan, Japanese in top hats on dock greet him out of rowboat & up ramp led by Emperor Hirohito; young girls present flowers. Soldiers lined up waiting at Tokyo Station, flags. 06:16:53 05Mar19 - 04Mar21, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer holds daughter on lap & reads to her. CU wife w/ ornate hat & veil. posing w/ daughter & husband. Note: Known for anti-communist raids. 06:17:28 Albert Einstein outside Erich Mendelson designed tower (1921), Potsdam, Berlin, Germany, poses & turns & walks up steps. LS of expressionist-style multi-story tower; MCU of observatory on top; arched windows. 06:18:15 Irving Berlin & wife, Ellin Mackay (married 04Jan26) posing on Atlantic City honeymoon in hotel & outside. 06:18:35 William E., Pussyfoot, Johnson (ca 1920) raids bootleg plant, Sioux City, Iowa during prohibition raid (appears staged) as police break down door & arrest laughing man; carry out copper still. Johnson takes off coat & hat & smashes top w/ sledge hammer as man watches. 06:19:39 George Bernard Shaw visits Prince Paul Troubetzkoy’s studio in Suna, Italy; walks up kisses wife’s hand. Lake Maggiore & mountain behind. Another man introduced & all sit on wicker lawn chairs w/ dog. CU Shaw (GOOD). Sculptor Troubetzkoy working on sculptured bust of Shaw outdoors as Shaw poses. 06:21:20 Obituary for William Jennings Bryan (died 25Jul25). CU, walking in rain in Washington, DC stops & takes off hat. CU; MCU w/ brother Charles. Speaking to large crowd in Florida. ON Miami, Florida balcony w/ President Harding & others. 06:22:37 Ceremony w/ French VIPS as large painting Pantheon de la Guerre is shipped to USA. Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt cuts ribbon releasing 500 ft panorama depicting World War (WWI). CU of portions of painting. 06:24:11 National Guard patrolling CENTRALIA, Washington after Armistice Day IWW massacre (11Nov19) in gunfight between American Legion & Wobblies. Cars past patrolling soldiers; kids moved out of street. Troops march up street to police station to guard prisoners, Wobblies held in jail. Ext. of IWW Union Hall, men outside looking in; picking thru debris outside. UNION VIOLENCE AFTERMATH. 06:25:21 ca 25Aug25, Lord Plummer, British High Commissioner of Palestine & wife on reviewing stand upon arrival. Reviewing line of troops. 06:25:49 Ext. of Vienna, Austria government building & military lining up. Overhead shot of crowd of men in plaza & alongside building, raising hats & cheering; walking away. A few women present. Men marching behind man w/ flag. Celebrities; Germanic Modern Architecture; Popular Music Composer;

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