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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221571-17
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL and SD
Year / Date: 1938
Country: England,United Kingdom,USA
Location: California,Colorado,Denver,Los Angeles
TC Begins: 03:54:05
TC Ends: 03:56:48
Duration: 00:02:43
World-Wide News Events (British Naval Exercise; Aviation Invention; Colorado Pass Opened) 03:54:57 King George VI onto HMS Nelson during naval maneuvers, shakes hands; sailors; signal flags raised. 6 large biplanes overhead. Ships maneuvering at speed; King & ship officers watching thru binoculars. Plane launched from ship. Guns firing salute & target plane shot down. 03:55:36 Title: Los Angeles, Calif. (New Plane w/ Two Motors Geared To One Propeller) 03:55:39 Pilot adjusting engine. CU nose of plane. MS pilot into cockpit, engine cover off. Taking off past camera. 03:56:01 Title: Denver, Colorado 03:56:04 Western parade up street lined w/ people; stage coach, horses & riders, prospector leading pack mules, early car. Float of Union Pacific (?) streamliner. 03:56:18 Mountain pass & bunting draped reviewing stand with NBC banner. High school band in uniforms. Group of beauties, one wearing Miss Berth?? Pass sash crowned. Large rope ribbon & queen cuts. 03:56:35 MS Woman & group of children w/ fingers in ears. 03:56:38 Army firing artillery gun beside new highway w/ car past. Rocky Mountains w/ some snow; people beside road, horseback riders. Cars over summit of pass. Jul38; 1938; Military Exercises; Pre-WWII England; Highway Opened; Pre-WW2; NOTE: Sound not usable; chopped up.