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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 (UE30091)

NOTRE DAME SINKS PENNSYLVANIA IN 60-20 PIGSKIN ROUT
PHILADELPHIA, PA. – While 80,000 look on. Rockne’s South Bend terrors run wild over Quakers at Franklin Field, inflicting most humiliating defeat Red and Blue has suffered in more than a generation of fierce football battles. Marty Brill, Penn discard, revenges self by making three of nine touchdowns against former teammates.

VILLAGES DESTROYED AND VAST DISTRICTS INUNDATED BY FLOODS
GOERLITZ, GERMANY – Beautiful Silesian city on the River Neisse, along with stretches of surrounding territory, is submerged and all business activities are suspended as a result. Heavy damage to crops and urban property seen in wake of rushing waters.

ROY AMMEL MAKES 2270-MILE NON-STOP FLIGHT TO PANAMA
BARREN ISLAND, N.Y. – Chicago broker-aviator, flying alone in a low-wing monoplane similar to that now used by Col. Lindbergh, hops to France Field at Balboa, Canal Zone, in 24 hours, 34 minutes, more than half his remarkable feat being over water. He’s the pioneer on this sky lane.

DECLINING MARKET CAUSES DESTRUCION OF $40,000 TIMBER YIELD
AMBOY, WASH. – Wooden pyramid 185 feet high and 250 feet long, containing 190 miles of lumber, is deliberately put to the torch because prices and transportation costs could not be made to balance.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
SAN PABLO, CAL. – Painless bull-fighting flops! Portuguese toreadors not so hot in synthetic cape waving pastime.

CHESTER, PA. – Mounted tug-of-war tests cadets’ stamina! Falls aplenty feature latest in horseback sports.

PIGEON POINT, CAL. – Tanker ashore! Despair of floating giant 8,000-ton Tamiahua, slowly pounding to pieces on rocky reef.

EL PASO, TEX. – Street car breakfasts! First eat-as-you-go service makes a hit with trolley passengers.

RHINELAND CITIZENS GREET HINDENBURG ON POST-ELECTION VISIT
COBLENZ, GERMANY – The Grand Old Man of the Reich is wildly acclaimed as he tours capital of Occupied Area which was held for years after Armistice by American doughboys. Thousands of patriotic children join with their elders in honoring nation’s octogenarian chieftain.

CONVERTIBLE GLIDER HAILED AS COMING FLIVVER OF THE AIR
VAN NUYS, CAL. – Unlike Darius Green, who came to grief when he challenged the birds at their own game, Arty Green makes a success of a two-way flitting bathtub which can be driven through space at 75 miles per hour or glide motorless from hence to yon. This combination cloud hopper can land or lift from a corner lot.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30092)

GIRL SETS RECORD IN PARACHUTE LEAP FROM LOOPING GLIDER
GLENDALE, CAL. – Pretty Teddy Hall, 20, hops off Lyman Voelpel’s motorless biplane when almost a mile high and drops, like a bullet, for 1,000 feet before her parasol opens. As groundlings gasp in horror, she floats down 3,500 more feet to plump in a tree-top, which she evacuates pronto and scathless.

THE PRESIDENT PAYS NATION’S HOMAGE TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER
ARLINGTON, VA. – While the world stands still in silent tribute to men who died in the great war. Mr. Hoover and his wife join in reverent commemoration. Chief Executive places wreath on tomb symbolic of martyred American youth and First Lady starts tidal wave of blossoms which cover sanctified sepulcher.

JAIL AUTHORITIES OPEN SEWING CLASS FOR WOMEN INMATES
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Feminine prisoners in Raymond Street prison, awaiting trial, engage in voluntary tasks which serves double purpose of taking their minds off their troubles and providing cheap garments for selves and others who run afoul of law. Success of innovation to bring extension.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
CHICAGO, ILL. – Hoboes colonize in heart of city! Elect “jungle” mayor in real community government.

DUREN, GERMANY – Install triangle bridge! “Three-strap System” marks new engineering triumph.

STOUGHTON, MASS. – Wild crow adopts boy! “Old Black Joe” goes places and does things with favorite youth.

WEST POINT, N.Y. – High German Officer reviews cadets! Academy honors visit of Lieut. General von Blomberg.

MILKMAIDS REPLACED BY MERRY-GO-ROUND IN NEW DAIRY SYSTEM
PLAINSBORO, N.J. – Large-scale producer, with herd of almost 2,000 hand fed bovines, installs giant “rotolactor,” first of its kind, on which animals go for joy ride while being drained of lacteal fluid. Cows, air and mechanical milkers are all sterilized and 240 bossies are treated each hour.

POLICE QUELL RIOTS A CARNERA FANS MOB GIANT PUGILIST
ROME, ITALY – Homecoming of Herculean youth who sprang from barefooted poverty to financial independence and international fame in less than one year brings emotional outburst which requires force and fists of mammoth fighter to subdue.

COAST GUARD SAVES DOOMED SHIP’S CREW WITH BREECHES BUOY
PIGEON POINT, CAL. – Steamer Tamiahua being hard aground on reef and a hopeless loss, officers and men abandon her to fate, risking own lives in perilous dash above Pacific seas to attain safety aboard rescue cutter.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30093)

NEEDY WAIT IN RAIN AS POLICE DISTRIBUTE FREE FOOD PACKAGES
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Apples play important role in providing for temporary jobless relief, even Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein, widow of the opera impresario, taking a stand near City Hall and peddling pippins from a crate. Poor families eagerly accept provisions and fuels paid for by bluecoats.

UNIQUE ENGINEERING
85 feet high… 14,000 cubic yards daily… 40 city blocks leveled

VAN CORTLANDT PARK, N.Y. – Fleet junior from Wolverine state covers distance in 30 mins., 19 2/5 sec., beating some of the best harriers in the country. Twenty-two colleges nominate men for intercollegiate title, with Penn State capturing second and third places.

GOVERNMENT SALMON HATCHERY PRODUCES RECORD 54,000,000 ROE
AUBURN, WASH. – Largest fish egg plant in world traps spawning pink beauties rushing to maternity grounds and forces them to breed under scientific conditions. Giant Chinooks battling torrent like streams meet fate in form of great nets and electric dams which are but steps to the ultimate can opener.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
NEW YORK, N.Y. – What price glory! Pawnshops swamped with war medals and decorations - $2.00 each.

LONDON, ENGLAND – Hot dough! Annual custom attracts scrambling crowds in battle for sizzling pence.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – Canine widow adopts kitten! “Scotty”, recently bereaved, mothers newly-born orphan.

IOWA FARMER WINS FOURTH CORN-HUSKING CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE
NORTON, KANSAS – Peeling the overcoats off a ton of roastin’ “years” – 2,123 pounds, to be exact. Fred Stanek of Fort Dodge captures crown as King of Huskers in 80 minutes. By skinning 30.34 bushels against strong competition, he takes down more than $1,000 in cash prizes.

HOCKEY USHERED IN WITH 1-0 AMERICAN WIN OVER MONTREAL
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Fifteen thousand tense and boisterous fans, probably the wildest of the breed, gather in Madison Square Garden to watch inaugural of ice sport. Rough ice and rougher players combine to give them an inaugural thrill, with Normie Himes, Yankee center, as hero.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30095)

MAURETANIA SAVES OVIDIA’S CREW AFTER THRILLING SEA DASH
MID-ATLANTIC – On the spot shots, taken from former speed queen of the ocean, give remarkable record of thrilling rescues after great Cunarder out-races Capt. Fried and his America, to pick up 28 men, Captain’s wife and “Puts,” the engine room cat, after Swedish ship founders in gale.

BARBARIC SPLENDOR MARKS RAS TAFARI CORONATION RITES
ADDIS ABABA, ABYSSINIA – Envoys of kings and presidents, tribal chiefs and dictators, participate in $3,000,000 pageant to mark inauguration of Haie Selassi I, descendant of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, in most gorgeous regal ceremony of modern times.

TROOPS AND FIREMEN SEEK BODIES OF 50 LOST IN LANDSLIDE
LYONS, FRANCE – This old city, lace-making and fine china center of French industrial art, is scene of extraordinary disaster when earth suddenly opens and plunges scores of homes, with sleeping occupants, into pit hundreds of feet deep.

OLA, ARKANSAS – Tornado injures 16 and wipes out business section; storm takes property toll of $200,000.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Turkey pluckers compete! Establish feather-denuding record of 30 birds in 50 minutes.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Portable mooring mast a success! Air experts test new mobile apparatus to speed up blimp traffic.

HOLLYWOOD, CAL. – Fishing cat angles without bait! Feline Izaak Walton uses paws instead of rod and line.

COAST GUARD MAKES $1,000,000 RUM HAUL AND SEIZES 19 SUSPECTS
BOSTON, MASS. – Indiscreet wasps of the sea – lightning-fast little liquor craft – buzzing around a tug and two heavily-laden barges off Maine coast tip off alert dry navy and patrol boat Jackson nails huge supply of holiday hooch intended for New York. Three captive vessels, with cargo and crew, herded into Hub by ocean cowboys.

NOTRE DAME DEFEATS NORTHWESTERN, 14-0, IN GRILLING GRID DUEL
EVANSTON, ILL. – Rockne’s robust ramblers conquer in last stages terrific battle, probably their toughest engagement of the year, but for three periods purple Wildcats, Western Conference champs, play like inspired giants, cracking the great Irish line like an eggshell.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30096)

TREES DOWN, HOUSES DAMAGED AS FREAK GALE WREAKS HAVOC
GLENDALE, CAL. – Vagrant 40-mile wind whips out of north to unroof houses, pile up shipping, wreck a $60,000 cabin plane and deal out death to five Southern Californians in area around Pasadena, Altadena and Culver City.

HITLER COHORTS LOSE IN ELECTION MARKED BY BITTER RIVALRY
VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Heimwelir, as Fascisti are known here, get only five delegate seats in Parliament out of total of 165, while their principal foes, the Socialists, capture 72. Vociferous minority threaten trouble unless dictatorship is created.

FUNNY-PAGE FOLK FEATURED IN ANNUAL “BALLOONATIC” FROLIC
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Holiday season is officially inaugurated with arrival in metropolis of annual toyland parade, in which grotesque animals and mammoth pneumatic figures, that usually people Nightmareland, cavort on Broadway.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
TETERBORO, N.J. – Lindy tests new plane! Noted flier achieves 200-mile speed prior to greet South American swing.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Jewels to adorn milady’s tresses! Coiffures demand precious gems for new winter mode.

LONDON, ENGLAND – Indian delegates add color to Conference! Potentates arrive for most crucial meeting in Empire’s history.

GATOW, GERMANY – Society buds soar! Modern belles inaugurate glider fad among Berlin’s “400”.

ROADS BLOCKADED AS HEAVY SNOWSTORM STRIKES NORTHWEST
RAINIER, WASH. – With scores of travelers by plane and auto marooned or lost in record drifts, automatic plows have been steadily at work in this section, where fall in 36 hours reached six feet. Blizzard grips Oregon, Washington, Dakotas, British Columbia and other areas.

ENGINEERS, ON VISIT TO MONO-RAILWAY, PLAN AMERICAN LINE
ELBERFELD, GERMANY – Group of technical experts from United States here to study construction and operation of single-strand road, let it be known they will soon test out system in their own country. First experimental plant expected to be installed on Long Island, N.Y.

DARK HORSE WINS 20TH ANNUAL 10 1/2/ MILE HEEL-AND-TOE CLASSIC
CONEY ISLAND, N.Y. – More than 100 hardy bunioneers celebrate by toddling from New York’s city hall, crossing Brooklyn Bridge and hoofing it to great shore playground. Event won by Nick Volos, an unknown, who tip-toed distance in 1 hour, 42 mins., 41 secs.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30097)

NEW CONGRESS OPENS; FAVORS JOBLESS AID; RED RIOTERS QUELLED
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With unemployment, prohibitions, farm relief and tax problems as major problems, short session of Seventy-First national legislature is one of most vital in generations. Democrats pledge help to Hoover as malcontents engage police in battle at Capitol.

PRIZE SPRINTS STIR JADED APPETITES OR 6-DAY BIKE RACE FANS
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Dizzy season opens with fifteen teams of human squirrels whirling round-and-round Madison Square Garden cage, going nowhere but determined to get there in a week of fast travel. Sometimes they spill and fracture wheels and funny bones, but spinning goes on.

LEVIATHAN RECEIVES WINTER OVERHAULING; GIVES WORK TO 500
BOSTON, MASS. – Giant of the seas and queen of America’s merchant fleet, sails majestically into Navy drydock and is immediately taken in hand by throng of mechanics. Repairs include straightening dents in one of the propellers, which is 16 feet long and weighs 19,000 pounds.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Sinclair Lewis – Famed author en route to receive Nobel Prize awarded for outstanding literary achievements.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Artists create Holiday beasts! Show unique animals intended for store displays.

BERLIN, GERMANY – Labor strike ends – 140,000 workers joyously resume interrupted tasks.

BERLIN, GERMANY – Monk musicians make merry! But discord threatens disruption of Jungle Jazz Jugglers.

“SWEEP ALL” WINS LAST BIG FEATURE OF 1930 RACING SEASON
BOWIE, MD. – Sonny Workman, midget master horseman, captures Endurance Handicap, worth $10,000, with Dixiana Stable’s flashy two-year old, while his running mate, Admiral Cary Grayson’s Happy Scot, is second, less than a length behind. Victor expected to be championship contender next season.

GALES AND FLOODS CAUSE HEAVY DAMAGE AS RIVERS OVERFLOW
COBLENZ, GERMANY – First pictures of terrific torrents that swept through southern part of Reich, carrying ruin to homes and death to livestock, give a vivid impression of what has happened in many parts of Europe as result of ceaseless rains and windstorms.

THOUSANDS GASP AT PERILOUS AUTO SKID IN FURIOUS CONTEST
LOS ANGELES, CAL. – Horrified thousands lifted to their toes as one of the speed demons, rounding turn at hair-raising pace, throws a wheel and rolls to disaster even as runaway part shoots along track for hundreds of feet. Struggle won by Ernie Triplett after veteran Ralph De Palma puts up game fight.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30098)

ROUMANIAN KING AND QUEEN MARIE ATTEND UNIVERSITY JUBILEE
KLAUSENBURG, TRANSYLVANIA – At his first official appearance in a public capacity and one of his last in company with his magnetic mother, Dowager Queen Marie. Carol reveals nervousness, but goes through program at tenth anniversary of University’s operation under his nation’s auspices.

CRACK PARIS-NANTES EXPRESS DERAILED; 1 KILLED, 12 INJURED
OUDON, FRANCE – With roadbeds washed out by torrential rains, famous flyer leaves tracks and engine, with two coaches, goes into river Loire. That tragedy occurred at night, with communications broken by storm, makes comparatively light casualty list seem almost miraculous.

CHILDREN MARVEL AT TOYLAND SURPRISES AS CHRISTMAS NEARS
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Remarkable mechanical animals, acrobats, war tanks and other devices give pre-Holiday season a new element of thrill which grips not only the youngsters but grown ups as well. Display this year regarded as most remarkable ever put on.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – William N. Doak sworn in as Secretary of Labor! Ex-Secretary Davis welcomes his successor to office.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Sir Thomas Lipton receives “Best Loser” Cup! Gold trophy presented by admirers of British sportsman.

CHICAGO, ILL. – Odd poultry featured at exposition! Spectators gape at rare fowl on display.

CROWN PRINCE GIVES BRAVERY AWARDS TO HERO INFANTRYMEN
TURIN, ITALY – After reviewing Ninety-second Regiment of Piedmontese, his own command, future king presents medals to men who distinguished themselves in line of duty. His bride, former Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, accompanies royal husband at ceremony.

MUD AND RAIN BAFFLE MOTORBIKE KINGS IN GRAND NATIONAL RACE
HOLCOMBEMOOR, ENGLAND – hardy riders make ten laps around course aggregating three of the toughest miles speeders ever tackled, route lying through flowing streams and mire made gooey by downpour which has flooded parts of Britain as well as countries on the Continent in recent weeks.

MIDINETTES HONOR ST. CATHERINE’S DAY WITH RACE AND DANCE
PARIS, FRANCE – Pert and pretty mamselles of the fashion ateliers, where the world’s best dressed women look for their styles, engage in athletic contest on fete date of their patron, then stage an elaborate costume ball which is an Adamless Eden, no males being admitted to the party. It is an annual a spectacle of the capital.

BUCKAROO RANGERS COMPETE IN ANNUAL STOCK SHOW RODEO
LOS ANGELES, CAL. – Best riding men and girls of the west, including national and state champions, meet in arena where they’ve got to stick on, pull leather or do a nose dive into the sawdust. And good as they are, wild broncs, and steers toss these experts around plenty and promiscuous.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30099)

TROJANS LOSE TO FIGHTING IRISH, 27-0, IN GRIDIRON UPSET
LOS ANGELS, CAL. – Record throng of 90,000 sees Notre Dame super-team run wild over great University of Southern California eleven, regarded as finest in West, and clinch 1930 football championship in whirlwind display of strategy and skill.

ARTISANS RISK LIVES ON NEW CITY HALL TO INSTALL GIANT CLOCK
CAMDEN, N.J. – Mounted 250 feet in air, mammoth timepiece taxes skill and stamina of workers to set it in place. Minute hand cast in solid bar of aluminum, weighs 87 pounds and is 120 inches long. Powerful lights behind dial will make numerals visible at three miles.

STREETS TEEM WITH MILLIONS OF EARLY CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS
NEW YORK, N.Y. – “Buy Now” adherents jam streets and stores to claim triple advantage of escaping last minute crush, seizing on bargain prices and providing work opportunities for thousands who might otherwise face cheerless holidays.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
BERLIN, GERMANY – Bike stuntsters regale passerby! Family of mono-cyclists add to queer sights of capital.

SHARON HILL, PA. – Railway mail launched at 65 miles an hour! Speeding train succeeds in new pick-up test.

MIAMI BEACH, FLA. – Freak aircraft makes good! Claim unusual safety factor for odd tailess biplane with arrowhead wings.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Youthful hero saves feline tree-sitter! Effects rescue after 120 hours of self-isolation.

ARMY BLASTS 250-FOOT CHIMNEY TO ENLARGE BOLLING FIELD AREA
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dynamite charge topples huge stack which has stood as obstacle and menace to fliers landing at capital, including Lindbergh, Hawks, Byrd and other world famous birdmen. Cleared space will make airport one of largest in East.

EARL WINTER ICE JAM LOCKS VESSELS IN SOLID FROZEN SEA
SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH. – First blizzard of season which swept in from East and West makes world’s greatest commerce canal a prison for shipping, with crews and pickmen and sawyers working to free them, in sub-zero temperature.

TEUTON HUMAN FLY GIVES GRATIS THRILLS TO GAPING CROWDS
BERLIN, GERMANY – Daredevil climbs face of building, in imminent peril of his life, then further startles spectators by riding a bicycle back and forth along parapet of structure to show his contempt for danger.
NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1930 (UE30100)

DIEGEL WINS FIRST OPEN MATCH PLAY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. – Agua Caliente Pro beats Al Espinoza of Chicago, 6 up and four to go in what may come to be an annual national links fixture. Smith, Von Elm and other great stars among those who fall to the wayside.

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NEW JERSEY – Big he-men of football wars and track battles don wigs in performance to be presented by the famous Triangle Club. They fall into dance routines with bovine alacrity and elephantine grace.

DETONATE 3 ? TONS OF DYNAMITE IN WORLD’S BIGGEST QUARRY SHOT
EGYPT, PA. – Blast of unprecedented size pulverizes 618,000,000 pounds of virgin rock at workings of Giant Cement concern, causing greatest set explosion every known. Shattering of bluff makes event a startling industrial drama.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS
VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. – Ruth Nichols sets flight record! Dashes from Los Angeles in 13 hours, 22 minutes.

BERLIN, GERMANY – Invents convertible auto-top! Roller “sun-rain” device a boon for all-weather mototists.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Einstein arrives! German scientist here for lecures tour and scientific research.

“PRESIDENT HOOVER”, NEW $8,000,000 LINER, NAMED BY FIRST LADY
NEWPORT NEWS, VA. – Throng sees wife of Chief Executive christen largest passenger ship ever built on American ways, this newest addition to the New York – California – Orient fleet being 653 feet long and of 31,000-ton displacement. Her nine decks will accommodate 1,260 voyagers and crew of 300.

SHIP RECORD LOAD OF FEDERAL LIQUOR LAW VIOLATORS TO JAIL
CHARLESTON, W. VA. – Fourscore prisoners, linked in pairs by handcuffs, climb aboard “Atlanta Special” for journey to government penitentiary, where they are to serve terms of varying length. They are part of the 193 convicted persons, ranging from 16 to 74 years, penalized by the iron rule set up by U.S. Judge George McClintic.

CHAMPION MARKSMEN COMPETE IN ANNUAL CLAY-PIGEON TOURNEY
BERLIN, GERMANY – Crack shots from all parts of the republic gather at traps for national test, which long has been part of the training imposed upon youth, combining sport with perfection of sharpshooting skill for use in mere serious times.
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