1959 - 25 Years Ago Today: 1934 - Taxi Strike; NRA; FDR & Eleanor; Black Cat Contest; Inventions; Depression
Intertitle: 25 years ago Today.
12:36:08 Striking taxi drivers holding up newspapers & cheering, headline re Strike Over Tax; beside lot of parked cabs in snow. Placards: We Want Recognition Of The Union; We Don’t Want Blacklists By The Employers. Group marching around Union Square, Manhattan.
12:36:35 Stage for NRA meeting; MS large auditorium of businessmen listening; MS President Roosevelt (FDR) speaking at lectern (MOS), applause.
12:36:57 MS taxiing Pan American clipper; tying up. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt out of plane on return from tour of Puerto Rico & Caribbean Islands. CU & MS down gangway/
12:37:19 LS of arrival & landing of aircraft w/ round wing / parasol plane, aka Nemeth Umbrella Plane, designed by Steven P. Nemeth; MCU of rear flap moving. MS under wing w/ pilot & ?? beside. Invention - plane w/ saucer on top.
12:37:34 Exterior. MS children carrying cats walking past Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi judge for Black Cat show. MLS children posing w/ cats. CU two cats spitting / snarling at each other.
12:37:55 Paperhangers wallpapering Chicago’s Union League Club hall w/ worthless stocks / securities / bonds, elderly men reading stocks and bonds. CUs: Loop Building Corporation; United Railways of St. Louis; Insull Utility Investments, Inc.
1934; Movie Stars; Motion Picture Promotion; Union Organizing; Depression; Aviation; Gags;
NOTE: If requested will provide 12:35:16 - 12:41:37 (3 cards) at per reel rate.
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1959 - 25 Years Ago Today: 1934 - Taxi Strike; NRA; FDR & Eleanor; Black Cat Contest; Inventions; Depression Intertitle: 25 years ago Today. 12:36:08 Striking taxi drivers holding up newspapers & cheering, headline re Strike Over Tax; beside lot of parked cabs in snow. Placards: We Want Recognition Of The Union; We Don’t Want Blacklists By The Employers. Group marching around Union Square, Manhattan. 12:36:35 Stage for NRA meeting; MS large auditorium of businessmen listening; MS President Roosevelt (FDR) speaking at lectern (MOS), applause. 12:36:57 MS taxiing Pan American clipper; tying up. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt out of plane on return from tour of Puerto Rico & Caribbean Islands. CU & MS down gangway/ 12:37:19 LS of arrival & landing of aircraft w/ round wing / parasol plane, aka Nemeth Umbrella Plane, designed by Steven P. Nemeth; MCU of rear flap moving. MS under wing w/ pilot & ?? beside. Invention - plane w/ saucer on top. 12:37:34 Exterior. MS children carrying cats walking past Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi judge for Black Cat show. MLS children posing w/ cats. CU two cats spitting / snarling at each other. 12:37:55 Paperhangers wallpapering Chicago’s Union League Club hall w/ worthless stocks / securities / bonds, elderly men reading stocks and bonds. CUs: Loop Building Corporation; United Railways of St. Louis; Insull Utility Investments, Inc. 1934; Movie Stars; Motion Picture Promotion; Union Organizing; Depression; Aviation; Gags; NOTE: If requested will provide 12:35:16 - 12:41:37 (3 cards) at per reel rate.