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Kinograms 1931 World News Volume 1
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keywords: uss akron, airship, german fortress hoher kavalier, luxury liner ss commonwealth, ford auto plant, assembly line, gold panning, sports, hurling, louis jordan, mother jordan, white angel, soup line, eugenie hat, canoeing
Synopsis: First Pictures Of The Navy Airship USS Akron, German Fortress Hoher Kavalier Is Demolished Under Treaty Of Versailles, Large Scale Model Of Liner SS Commonwealth, Inside A Ford Automobile Plant, Depression Era Men Pan For Gold In South Dakota, Hurling Match In The Bronx, Louis Jordan aka Mother Jordan Helps The Poor In San Francisco, The Eugenie Hat The Latest In Fashion, German Canoe Race On River Rapids...(read more)
- Date: 1931
- Duration: 00:09:41
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Germany
First Pictures Of The Navy Airship USS Akron
First scenes of Akron, largest helium-filled rigid Navy airship ever built in America. The Naval patrol airship USS Akron (ZRS-4) was built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation in Ohio. The designer was Karl Arnstein, a German airship engineer.
German Fortress Hoher Kavalier Is Demolished Under WWI Treaty Of Versailles
The Hoher Kavalier Fortress is demolished in Germany in 1931 under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Shows blasting that destroyed the German Fortress of Hoher Kavalier.
Large Scale Model Of Luxury Liner SS Commonwealth
Pan actual view of Liner SS Commonwealth, a Dominion Line steamship, later re-named SS Canopic after take over by White Star Lines in 1903. Footage of a scale model of the SS Commonwealth underway on a lake in Fall River, Mass.
Inside A Ford Automobile Plant
A Ford car (automobile) rolls out of hugh Ford assembly plant in Edgewater, New Jersey each 36-seconds. A low aerial view of the Ford automobile assembly plant at Edgewater, New Jersey. Shows Ford automobile (car) assembly line and how Ford workers are able to assemble vehicles so a car rolls out of automobile plant each 36-seconds. Shows line of Ford vehicles leaving plant. Scenes when horse and buggies shared the road with early automobiles. By 1931 it was rare to see a horse and buggy on the road with cars. Excellent image of a woman driving a 1930 Ford convertible with a woman passenger in front and a couple in the rear seat. Image of Ford automobile approaching the camera.
Depression Era Men Pan For Gold In South Dakota
There's still gold in them thar hills at Spring Creek, South Dakota left from the 1876 gold rush days. Shows men, many unemployed in the depression years of the 1930's, panning for gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Hurling Match In The Bronx
A Hurling match makes the Bronx look like a “bit of the old sod”. With two teams of 15-players each played on a grass field Hurling is the national sport of Ireland. Footage of a Hurling match.
Louis Jordan aka Mother Jordan Helps The Poor In San Francisco
Lois Jordan, known as Mother Jordan and the “White Angel” helps feed and cloth the San Francisco's jobless during the Great Depression. Sign reads “ White Angel Jungle, Everybody Welcome”. Soup line in the depression years of the 1930's.
The Eugenie Hat The Latest In Fashion
Pretty young ladies model the Eugenie Hat in the 1930's. Ladies (women) hat fashions.
German Canoe Race On River Rapids
Scenes of canoe races in the rapids of the Isar River between Toelz and Munich Germany. Shows a group of Bavarians on large raft on way to canoe races. Shows Bavarians poring beer from a keg. Shows canoes racing through the raging rapids of the Isar River.
