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Newsreels: 1930 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1930 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1930. Our Public Domain Stock Footage newsreels cover every major world event, the not so major events, strides in technology, the lives of public figures, fads and trends. Newsreels 1930 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1930.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30081)

RECORD CROWDS SEE CARDS AND MACKMEN BATTLE FOR TITLE
ST. LOUIS, MO. – Forty thousand Mound City fans in frenzy of joy at crucial game in which Gabby Street’s Redbirds, flying in the train of Galloper Gelbert and sturdy Jess Haines, the Ohio speed-gas peddler, come from behind to beat Athletics and button up the old World Series.

EXPLOSION TRIALS THRILL MINERS AT SAFETY CONGRESS
BRUCETON, PA. – U.S. Bureau of Mines experts demonstrate how death lurks in dread black damp, also set off dynamite and powder blasts to show proper method of using explosives in loosening mineral riches.

NOTABLES PRESENT AS HOOVER OPENS LEGION CONVENTION
BOSTON, MASS. – Flanked by Ex-President Coolidge, Gen. Gouraud and Gen. Pershing, Nation’s chief commends law enforcement to veterans and sees peace guarantee in “Preparedness for defense that is impregnable, yet contains no threat of aggression.”

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
STONE HARBOR, N.J. – Boys contrive homemade diving bell! Roofing copper, sash-weights and bicycle pump aid youths in undersea trip.

HASLEMERE, ENGLAND – Inaugurate school for kennel-maids! New course teaches girls A.B.C.’s of canine showmanship.

COLLIESTON, SCOTLAND - S.S. City of Osaka ashore in fog! Crew saved as owners give up hope of salvaging 6,000-ton vessel.

THE HAGUE, HOLLAND – At home with 40 lions! Jungle crowd holds no terrors for intrepid army captain.

NAB COUNTERFEITERS AND BOGUS-MONEY PLANT IN QUICK RAID
TOLEDO, O. – A suspicious tailor’s “stitch in time” leads to capture of gang, including two women, with machine for turning out “queer”, twenty-dollar bills at rate of one thousand dollars a day. One conspirator escapes as police break into building.

KING GUSTAF REVIEWS ANNUAL CHARITY FETE FOR POOR CHILDREN
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – Benign monarch lends his royal influence to day set aside for raising funds to provide summer vacations for little ones, and watches 3,000 of them in dances and drills in vast stadium.

APE AERONAUTS DARE ELEMENTS IN FIRST INTERNATIONAL RACES
VENICE, CAL. – No monkey shines, but an on-the-level balloon derby with simian pilots in the baskets is staged from the edge of the Pacific Ocean; and the way a long-tailed stowaway climbs up a trailing anchor rope in midair is something to make daredevils blush with envy and chagrin.

COAST ARTILLERYMEN BREAK ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRING SPEED RECORD
FORT MCARTHUR, CAL. – Hurling 3-inch shells at flying targets at rate of 125 per minute, Battery B, of the 63rd Coast Artillery, the Army’s youngest regiment, more than doubles regulation requirements.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30083)

48 DIE IN FIERY RUINS; DESTRUCTION MARKS END OF ILL-FATED R-101
CARDINGTON, ENGLAND – Lord Thomson, head of British Air Ministry, Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, and other notable aircraft experts, all doomed to die a few hours later, board world’s largest dirigible for flight to India.

BEAUVAIS, FRANCE – Frightful toll of human life follows destruction of giant ship by explosion and flame. Only six persons survived.

YANK SCHOONER NIPS CANADA IN FIRST OF INTERNATIONAL RACES
GLOUCESTER, MASS. – The Gertrude Thebaud, called fastest fishing craft that ever slid off American ways shows her heels to Bluenose, champion of North Atlantic deep sea fleet, in inaugural of series for Lipton cup and purse of gold.

DE MAR VICTORIOUS IN 6TH ANNUAL MARATHON AGAINST 100 STARTERS
PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Greatest long distance runner of athletic history, 44-year old Bostonian, now living in Keene, N.H., adds another laurel to his wreath by capturing 26-mile, 385 yard race from Central Park. New York City, to this city. Time, 2 hrs., 46 mins., 15 secs. It is his second victory in this event, and fifteenth of career.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
WARD’S ISLAND, N.Y. – 7,236 patients crowded into space for 4,885! Lack of funds declared responsible for deplorable State Hospital conditions.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. – Machine gun server teaches tennis! Howard Kinsey’s new device aids net aspirants.

LAWRENCE, KANS. – Indian babes and lassies in beauty meet! Jenora Hooper, full-blooded Cherokee, named Princess of America.

SUPREME COURT PAYS TRADITIONAL OPENING VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Led by Chief Justice Hughes, members of the most powerful judicial body on earth notify President Hoover tribunal is in session, ceremony supplying rare historical screen record on notable group together.

CITIZENS OF WORLD’S SMALLEST REPUBLIC HOLD ELECTION DAY
SAN MARINO – Founded 16 centuries ago, tiny nation, only 32 square miles in area, elects two new regents to administer its affairs, with church and military pomp – latter contributed by world’s smallest standing army – adding to impressiveness of event.

DISORDERLY CROWDS MAR BICYCLE FINALS WON BY GEORGETTI
CONEY ISLAND, N.Y. – Police compelled to employ force in quelling outbreak of violence among excited spectators at finish of thrilling bike contest, which is captured by young Italian star of six-day race fame and a champion among the sprinters.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30084)

SOLEMN RITES MARK DEPARTURE OF R-101 VICTIMS FOR HOME
BEAUVAIS, FRANCE – Soldiers and civilians unite to pay last tribute to ill-fated Britons who perished by explosion and fire which destroyed world’s largest dirigible. Forty-seven given last honors and their bodies trundled toward homeland.

COSTE AND BELLONTE RECEIVE $25,000 AWARD AND SAIL FOR FRANCE
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Famous non-stop flyers, heroes of Paris-New York-Dallas flight, are handed check by Col. Easterwood, who offered it as prize to first birdmen reaching Texas city from French capital. Winners and plane aboard steamer France after good-will tour.

NEAR RIOTS ATTEND FREE WINE ISSUE IN ANNUAL GRAPE FETE
MARINO, ITALY – Vine harvest festival is celebrated – and liquidated – with such enthusiasm neighborhood party has aspects of a sudden liberation of thirsty citizens of a country which has been denied its tipple by law.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
ATLANTA, GA. – Begin early training for Spring shows! Dog marvels display amazing facility in pre-season rehearsals.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Flour rush ends with Frosh victory! First-year men subdue sophomore in University “rowdy-o”.

SCIENCE BAFFLED BY ADULT FEATS OF 6-YEAR OLD BOY
TOLEDO, OHIO – Still in the “infant” class, Clarence Kehr, with a mustache and beard which he has shaved regularly, astonishes investigators with his strong-man powers. He’s 3 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 84-pounds, but his cigar smoking and other attributes make him a baby Gulliver among Lilliputians.

WHOLE TOWN HONORS 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF CELEBRATED JESTER
LESNEVEN, FRANCE – Church rites commemorate death of Salaun de Foll, poor crack brained shepherd whose religious fervor inspired Brittany during Hundred Years War, despite the fact that he was regarded as the village fool.

THOUSANDS OF REDS ROUTED BY POLICE PITCHED BATTLE
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Cordon of police around City Hall catch Communist leader on first bounce as he is pitched out, fight mob all over park, up and down Broadway and around Woolworth building. Clubs swing on heads of howling rioters who rip uniforms off officers in melee.

MOTORBIKE DEMONS RISK LIVES IN ANNUAL HILL-CLIMB TOURNEY
VALLEJO, CAL. – Daredevil riders of four Pacific states tangle with Tantalus, a slope averaging a 70-degree pitch with one point bearing over to 85. Tumbles are frequent as racers dig their way upward, but Fred Lindstrom, of San Jose, goes farthest and wins.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30086)

WOODS BEGINS RELIEF WORK; GOVERNMENT TO AID UNEMPLOYED
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former New York Police commissioner, called by President to lead work of rehabilitating man power of nation, agrees to tackle big job without pay and starts in by proposing stagger, or alternating labor plan for national and private industry.

IN NEW YORK
Franciscan Friars dole nickels to homeless and hungry for bed or bread.

CROWDS HAIL FIRST FLIGHT OF WORLD’S LARGEST LAND PLANE
VIENNA, AUSTRIA – President Miklas and Foreign Minister Seipel, after aerial excursion over capital in the G-38, greatest of passenger craft in lighter-than-air class, descend amid enthusiastic cheers of vast crowd gathered at airport.

100,000 ATTEND RITES AT DIAMOND JUBILEE OF ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. – With Cardinal Hayes of New York as principal guest, Catholics gather to participate in celebration of 75th anniversary of famous educational institution, a feature being a mammoth open-air religious service in honor of the church head in America.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
DIETRAMSZELL, GERMANY – Hindenburg celebrates 83rd birthday! Children honor anniversary of aged warrior-statesman.

TOLEDO, OHIO – Healthy babies compete for title! 11 months old physical marvel runs away with first honors.

COLOGNE, GERMANY – Hock der Flivver! Ford sails for home after laying cornerstone of new European plant.

ROYALTY PRESENT AT BAPTISM CEREMONY OF HEIR PRESUMPTIVE
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – Tiny Prince Heritier Baudouin, son of Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid of Sweden is hailed with joy by populace and regal relatives at ostentatious ritual, despite a heavy downpour of rain which falls upon rich and poor alike at brilliant event.

PRIZE LIQUORS AND 11 PRISONERS NABBED IN RUMBOAT CAPTURE
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Schooner “Thorndyke,” with an alleged record of ten years as booze transport, operating between this port, Canada and Bahamas, is finally brought up short by Coast Guard after chase at sea close to Absecon, N.J. Vessel, 1,500 cases of intoxicants and prisoners towed to port under seizure.

REMOVE MARITIME MENACE BY BLASTING HULK OF FT. VICTORIA
SANDY HOOK, N.J. – When “ghost” of wrecked Bermuda liner rises from watery grave in Ambrose Channel, outside New York harbor, pointing scrawny masthead above surface, divers and dynamiters rush to lay it low again with charge of two-and-a-half tons of explosive.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30087)

HURL NAVY PLANES FROM CATAPULTS IN SENSATIONAL TRIALS
PHILADELPHIA, PA. – Newest aid to battle eyes and aerial gunfire guide is a giant impulse gun which shoots sea flyers from shore to scout enemies from the air. Thrilling tests reveal score of biplanes being sent unerringly from mother ships, device proving its efficacy as a wartime weapon.

PRINCE LEOPOLD DIES; HAVARIA MOURNS AT WAR LORD’S FUNERAL
MUNICH, GERMANY – Nobles and paupers at rites for man who, in early part of World conflict, was mentioned for King of Poland after he routed 1,000-mile front and captured Warsaw, an epic battle in which 6,000,000 were engaged. He previously had won renown in Franco-Prussian campaign.

OPTIMIST BREWER SPENDS $1,000,000 HOPING FOR DRY LAW CHANGE
MILWAUKEE, WIS. – Co-incident with report that President Hoover would recommend 4.4 percent beer, it becomes known that leading malt beverage makers here and in other parts of country are betting vast sums in the biggest industrial gamble of history, wages taking form of money put into machinery for expected great output of thirst-slaker.

DRAIN GIANT LAKE TO EXHUME ROYAL SHIPS LAUNCHED IN 39 A.D.
NEMI, ITALY – Workers pump 50,000 cubic meters of water to reach state barges on which the Roman Emperor Caius Caesar (called Caligula) and his retinue frolicked amid Oriental splendor 1900 years ago. Sunk by Claudius two years after predecessor’s murder by a soldier, craft are cradled above mud to show ancients used methods still employed in boat building.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
VENICE, CAL. – Disaster follows train-auto collision! Realistic demonstration illustrates grade crossing perils.

VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. – Australian aviatrix breaks cross-country mark! Mrs. Keith Miller creates new two-way flight record.

PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA – Display King’s skull in parade! Odd rite features anniversary of ancient ruler St. Wenceslaus.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Gospel Mission feeds hungry! Practical religionists minister to 700 human derelict everyday.

“HELLDORADO” FETE REVIVES ACTIVITIES OF OLD-TIMERS OF ‘79
TOMBSTONE, ARIZ. – The rootin’, tootin’, shootin’ men who fought to live and lived to fight, in the gold rush 51 years ago, are brought back in pageantry to give the moderns a touch of the hectic era that made the lark double in brass by making his morning song a funeral dirge for some good or bad man gone over the Divide during the night. Paches, lynchers, vigilantes are all there.

BOOTH INJURED IN 7-7 TIE BATTLE BETWEEN YALD-ARMY GRIDDERS
NEW HAVEN, CONN. – West Point heavy guns attack Eli’s 145-pound star and mainspring of big Blue team in mass fire, resulting in his being rendered hors du combat on his first play and carried off field by stretcher bearers. Injuries keep him in college infirmary two days.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30088)

16th SOVIET CONGRESS PLEDGES INTENSIVE 5-YEAR PLAN SUPPORT
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. – Stalin, Litvinoff and other chiefs of the New Russia perfect program for great agricultural and industrial drive, involving millions of workers, which is intended to put nation on a par with rest of world in production of raw material, foodstuff and manufactured goods.

EVICTED SCULPTOR IS GRANTED STAY TO FINISH MASTERPIECE
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Art and Humanitarianism lock horns when George Grey Barnard is notified he must vacate studio on “God’s Thumb,” a rocky projection overlooking Hudson river to make room for parkway donated to city by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Artist faces interference with work on $600,000 Arch of Peace he has been modeling ten years.

POLICE MOBILIZATION FEATURES REVIEW BY PREMIER MUSSOLINI
ROME, ITALY – Nation’s dictator presents colors to Metropolitan Corps, guardians of ancient capital, in spectacular review. Medals for heroism are presented to several members of crack organization in presence of country’s outstanding leaders.

RICH BENEFACTRESS GIVES $1,000,000 ESTATE IN ANTI-CANCER DRIVE
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. – Mrs. William Conners, young widow of famous Buffalo publisher and Democratic leader, offers Drs. Coffey and Humber, San Francisco scientist, 40-room mansion for free clinic and guarantees maintenance fund. Home, known as The Monastery, has one room whose floor is made of tombstones.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Dog heroes decorated! Medals awarded to brave canine life-savers.

WACO, TEXAS – Dares aim of 78-year old cut up! “Buckskin Bill” Stacker’s granddaughter tests knife-throwing ability of aged Indian fighter.

ALDERSHOT, ENGLAND – Imperial Conference sees war games! “Tabloid” maneuvers illustrate scope of military mechanization.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Seek parents of foundlings! Authorities search for trio of child abandoners.

NATIVE HORDES GREET LAST OFFICIAL VISIT OF FRENCH PRESIDENT
FEZ, MOROCCO – M. Paul Doumergue, about to retire from highest office in France after serving for seven years, returns a state call made upon him by Sultan Mulai Mohammed, and, accompanied by his Minister of Marine, is welcomed by Moorish tribesmen and soldiers from the picturesque country.

FRESHMEN SUNK AS SOPHS WIN ANNUAL POLY TECH DISC RUSH
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – On Ebbetts Field, scene of such mild pastimes as baseball and prize fight battles, two classes of young Samsons being taught the finer things of life, come together with all the tenderness of two runaway locomotives in a riot over a barrel of saucers. Raiment becomes rags, mud and mayhem mingle in a jolly admixture of bruises.

AIR-RAIL CAR SPEEDS AT 100 MILES AN HOUR IN SENSATIONAL TRIAL
HANOVER, GERMANY – The newest motor demon produced in the cradle of radical mechanical inventions attains terrific momentum in test, giant machine equipped with propeller and 500-horse power engine resembling a Zeppelin on wheels. Its originator is Franz Kruckenberg and it will carry 40 passengers.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30089)

GREAT CROWDS HAIL COSTE AND BELLONTE WITH WILD ACCLAIM
PARIS, FRANCE – Proud nation gives to the utmost of its warm and volatile enthusiasm in welcoming home its two ocean-hopping sons, first men to fly like a non-stop arrow, straight from Le Bourget to New York City. They duplicated, from East-to-West, Lindbergh’s great West-to-East triumph.

THRONGS CELEBRATE CANADIAN-AMERICAN TUNNEL COMPLETION
DETROIT, MICH. – Officials of Dominion and the Wolverine state clasp hands at center of mile long tube. 75 feet under water, an international link formally welded when President Hoover presses button in Washington. Thousands inspect subway built at cost of $25,000,000.

JOBLESS SEEK WORK FOR BOARD, BED AND SALARY OF $1 A WEEK
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Urbain Ledoux, better known as “Mr. Zero,” whose soup and coffee kitchen abaft the Bowery has been the haven of thousands in past winters, now plunges into the unemployment vortex with a proposal that “The Tub,” as he calls it, will supply men for work at almost zero compensation.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
SPARTA, MICH. – Vegetables for a haircut! Barber patriot accepts produce and wheat to aid Farm Relief.

RUSHVILLE, IND. – Canine jumper breaks record! Dot, diving dog star, makes safe leap from 96-foot bridge.

CLEVELAND, OHIO – Save time for bridge fiends! New device shuffles and deals cards in 7 seconds.

YARMOUTH, ENGLAND – Prince of Wales dedicates new bridge! Royal visitor opens $1,000,000 structure across River Yare.

MYSTERY MINE BLAST DISASTER TAKES TOLL OF 338 DEAD AND DYING
ALSDORF, GERMANY – One of the greatest underground disasters in world records results in almost 250 workers being killed outright and 90 landing in hospital tragically maimed. Red Cross crews and rescue squads equipped with gas masks plunge into death pit even as fire and crumbling rock continue to menace life.

SENSATIONAL RIDING FEATURES ANNUAL CAVALRY STUNT FETE
FORT MEYER, VA. – Daredevil army horsemen uncork hair-raising equestrianism. Third Cavalry stars galloping in five-man pyramid formation, leaping obstacles with two and three horse units, also going over human hurdles and through ring of fire.

RAIN MARS WEDDING MARCH OF BORIS AND PRINCESS GIOVANNA
ASSISI, ITALY – Undaunted by weather, loyal throngs pay tribute to Bulgarian monarch and his bride as they emerge from old St. Francis church, preceded by Italy’s King and many other crowned heads of Europe. Regal pair shown in happy hours prior to trip to Sofia, on which it is alleged they were targets of assassins.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30090)

ZEPP FLEET AMAZES EXPERTS IN UNUSUAL FORMATION FLIGHT
AKRON, OHIO – Giving us a tiny glimpse into what the future may hold in the sphere of air travel, six flivver blimps are caught in the clouds at one shot. Observers believe ‘twill not be many years before these aerial transportation cars will be filling skies in regular home-to-office transit for business men.

TROOP-LINED STREETS GREET SOVEREIGNS AT PARLIAMENT OPENING
LONDON, ENGLAND – With all the ostentatious display characteristic of the ancient formality, King George and Queen Mary, in royal coach, are driven to the Parliament buildings, where horny-handed sons of toil, making up the Labor party majority actually do the ruling of the British empire.

WESTERN RANCHERS PROMISE LOW PRICES FOR HOLIDAY TURKEYS
LANCASTER, CAL. – Thousands of feathered candidates for ax-idents this month grin foolishly into camera, unaware their pictures are being made for an obituary preview. Growers report exceptionally large flocks for Thanksgiving and Christmas markets, with round-up and shipment already under way.

HOOVER GIVES HONOR MEDAL TO NOTED ACE CAPT. RICKENBACKER
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Highest cards in aviation deck see President loop their leader’s shoulders with ribbon carrying Congressional tribute for his bravery in World War. Credited with 26 victories Eddie’s citation is for a free lance stunt in which, single-handed, he attacked seven enemy planes and bagged two of them.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
NORTHAMPTON, PA. – Explode 6,000 pounds of dynamite! 40,000 tons of rock unleashed in cement quarry blast.

TINOS, GREECE – Honor unknown soldier! Solemn rites attend transfer of hero’s remains to Holy Shrine Church.

HOLLYWOOD, CAL. – “All Quiet on the Western Front” receives gold award! Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science presents trophy to Carl Laemmle for producing year’s best picture.

SEATTLE, WASH. – Debutantes learn self-protection! Police experts holds jiu-jitsu class for society buds.

DO-X TAKES OFF ON FIRST LEG OF LONG TRANSATLANTIC HOP
ALTENRHEIN, SWITZERLAND – World’s largest seaplane, carrying 16 passengers, covers 500 miles to Amsterdam, Holland, whence it will fly to England and Portugal, then to the Azores and America, landing in New York about late November.

TRHILL FINISH MARKS VICTORY OF EQUIPOISE IN PIMLICO FUTURITY
BALTIMORE, MD. – About the precise moment when it is revealed, in a New York court, that he has inherited two million dollars direct and one fourth of the 200 million dollar estate of his father, Cornelius (Sonny) Whitney sees his great horse capture $50,360 stake, making Equipoise champion 2 year old money winner of year.
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