1931 - Newsreels: Germany Launching; Prison Riot; Placer Mining; Inboard Racing; Monument Unveiling; Swimming Oddity; Japanese Ritual; Turkey-USSR Naval Pact; US Tank Maneuvers. May31

1931 - Newsreels: Germany Launching; Prison Riot; Placer Mining; Inboard Racing; Monument Unveiling; Swimming Oddity; Japanese Ritual; Turkey-USSR Naval Pact; US Tank Maneuvers. May31 Intertitle: Cruiser Slips Away At Launching To Mark Christening Rites. Large crowd watching launching. Hindenburg & other military VIPs seen from above. Ships fires salutes. Von Hindenburg w/ ?? walks up incline to viewing & launch platform at front of ship. High angle shot of sailors. MS of Hindenburg & Naval officer, other VIPs in top hats. Hull w/ banner Deutschland sliding down ways. 01:00:50 Hindenburg w/ paper by microphones. Ship into water. Moved w/ tugs, small boats around. Pocket Battleships; Cruiser Class; German Military Navy Ships; NOTE: Deutschland was deployed three time to Spanish Coast between 1936 & 1939 to aid in Spanish Civil War; was renamed Lutzow at outbreak of WWII. It survived until the last weeks of the war. 01:01:01 Intertitle: Rioting Convicts Fire Dormitories On State Penal Farm. Vandalia, Illinois. Pan gutted & burned buildings w/ standing chimney & remains of bed frames in ashes. Multiple views. 01:01:41 Guards in uniform & suits w/ long rifles at low guard tower outside penitentiary fence gate. 1930s; Prison System; Riot Aftermath; Inmates; 01:01:48 Intertitle: Resort To Hydraulic Mining To Reclaim $50,000,000 Mountain. Weaverville, Calfornia. High pressure water hoses cutting stream bank; men riding hose pipe guiding nozzle, breaking rocks & gravel into stream. VERY GOOD but needs context. Placer Mining; Landscape Destruction; Silting; Gold Mining; Gold Mine; California Sierras; Ecology; Ecological Ruins; Erosion; Environmental damage. 01:02:32 Intertitle: Kay Don Fails In D’Annunzio Cup Try! Warrior-Poet Withdraws Speedboat Trophy Until... MCU Poet Gabriele D’Annunzio walking w/ military, police & others. Inboard motorboat drivers w/ life-jackets & helmets on boat Miss England II. Boat starting onto lake w/ black smoke. Racing at speed around course. 01:03:06 Racers on boat afterwards. MCU D’Annunzio in white gloves gesturing w/ military or police. CU boat racer sitting w/ mechanic in boat. CU D’Annunzio. CU Boat racer. Lake Garda Shield Trophy Race; NOTE: 09Jul31 Kaye Don set world’s speedboat record of 110.223 on Lake Gardain w/ Miss England II powered by twin Rolls-Royce engines. Henry Segrave & his co-driver was killed the previous year 13Jul30, in this same boat while trying to set a record on Windermere in Britain’s Lake District. The boat was rebuilt for the 1931 year of racing. 01:03:24 Stockholm, Sweden - Prince Carl Honors Flying Heroes! Dedicates Bronze Memorial To Aviation Immortals. Prince & other VIPs standing in square. Undraping statue of eagle by Carle Milles on plinth w/ military honor guard. Prince & others watching. Man beside Aviator Monument reading names while man puts pilots’ medals in urn in base. Military men lay wreaths. Prince & others seated watching. Dedication; Royalty; Aviators; 01:04:04 Intertitle: Queer Device Teaches Swimming Painlessly! New Invention Guaranteed To Do Its Stuff In One Lesson. Man & boy, in full one-piece bathing suits w/ floats w/ cranked bicycle type chain & propelling propeller. CUs Man & boy swim cranking device. Woman in water w/ device. Oddities; Gags; 01:04:33 Intertitle: Maids & Widows Pray For Husbands! Yearning Females Flock To Shrine On All Saints Day to seek connubial bliss. LS down wooded hill, men & women walk up & down crowded paved walk. 01:04:45 POV from bottom, large pennants w/ calligraphy hang above crowd climbing steps; large paper lantern near top. Hanging signs/pennants. Women & men pray at small shrine, temple behind. CUs. Religion; Japanese Religious Rites / Ceremony; Holiday; Ethnic Prayers. NOTE: Doubt this is All Saints Day. 01:05:09 Intertitle: Turko-Soviet Naval Pact Signed As Russ Union Urges Peace. EXT Moscow Bolshoi Theater in winter w/ constructivist state & zeppelin on plinth in front; flags. View from doorway of arriving VIPs; invitation papers checked. GOOD CU checking women’s & others papers. Arrival of open limousine, VIPs enter. Interior, conference table w/ VIPs. Good CUs pact signed. Russia / USSR - 1930s; Sixth / 6th Soviet Congress; Diplomacy. Note: Pact signed on 08Mar31 halted naval building operations in Black Sea freezing size of fleets; either country could expand their navy after a six month notice. 01:06:11 Intertitle: Tanks Hold Hi-Jinx In Field Maneuvers For Army Expert. Wrightstown, N.J. Various size tanks cross field firing guns amidst explosions & smoke. Large tank. (target?). Small tank over tree; four tanks over ridge. Several target tanks explode; men inspect burning remains. 01:06:51 Small tank crawls onto tread of another while both moving & rolls onto side, officer runs to assist. 01:06:55 Tank on army base parade ground climbing over obstacle w/ one tread & rolls onto side, officer rush to assist. Tanks drive thru barn & barn collapses. The End. Military Exercise; Promotional Film; Gags; 1930s Military Training;