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Newsreels 1931 April 23
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keywords: king alfonso xiii, king prajadhipok, queen ramphaiphanni, autogyro plane, collier cup, processional of the holy blood, circus training, lion taming, french president gaston doumergue
Synopsis: Celebration In Spain As King Alfonso XIII Abdicates, King Prajadhipok And Queen Ramphaiphanni Of Siam Visit America, Pilot Jim Ray Lands AutoGyro Plane On White House Lawn, Bruges Belgium Hosts Annual Processional Of The Holy Blood, Polar Explorer Richard Byrd To Get A New Puppy, Circus Clowns Serious About Leaping, Animal Trainer Melvin Koontz On The Job, Speeding Plane Makes A Daring Rooftop US Mail Pickup, French President Gaston Doumergue Visits Tunis Tunisia...(read more)
- Date: 1931
- Duration: 00:07:30
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Spain, Belgium, Tunisia
Celebration In Spain As King Alfonso XIII Abdicates
Madrid Spain. Spain transitions from monarchy to republic. After the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed King Alfonso XIII went into exile and a provisional government of the young Spanish Republic under Niceto Alcala-Zamora was established. Cheering, swirling thousands, massed in celebration of new freedom born when the nation hear Alcala Zamora, rebel chief and first provisional president of former monarchy, tell of the fall of the Bourbons represented by King Alfonso XIII, and give promise for the future.
King Prajadhipok And Queen Ramphaiphanni Of Siam Visit America
King Prajadhipok of Siam (Thailand) and his Queen Ramphaiphanni arrive by train in Scarborough, New York. CU of King Prajadhipok and Queen Ramphaiphanni on rear platform of train Pullman car.
Crowd of Americans welcome him and his queen to the U.S. King Prajadhipok came to America for an eye operation in effort to avoid blindness.
Pilot Jim Ray Lands AutoGyro Plane On White House Lawn
Pilot Jim Ray, flying the Pitcairn PCA-2 autogyro plane, is first aviator to descent in front of White House. President Herbert Hoover presents Collier Cup, for greatest aeronautical achievement of year, to the flier and Harold F. Pitcairn, head of Pitcaim-Cierva Autogyro Company.
Bruges Belgium Hosts Annual Processional Of The Holy Blood
High church dignitaries and laymen join in annual religious rite in Bruges Belgium which includes floats, sacred relics and devout players who enact the scenes attendant upon the descent from the Cross by Christ. Spectacle is one of the most beautiful and impressive of all Passion Week fetes. A man portraying Jesus carries a large wooden cross.
Polar Explorer Richard Byrd To Get A New Puppy
Maggie the dog hopes her son will replace the late Igloo, Polar Explorer Richard Byrd's favorite pet dog. Maggie holds puppy in her mouth. Pups placed in socks and bottle fed. Great dog lovers footage.
Circus Clowns Serious About Leaping
Shows men leaping (jumping) over a group of elephants and landing on large pad. Crowds watch men train to be circus clowns. Men show acrobatic flip while in air.
Animal Trainer Melvin Koontz On The Job
Animal trainer Melvin Koontz bathes a lion named Jackie. Shows trainer with water hose and soap bathing a lion. Lion jumps from stool and Melvin Koontz wrestles with lion. Man and lion in wrestling match.
Speeding Plane Makes A Daring Rooftop US Mail Pickup
Bandleader and Aviator Roger Wolf Kahn, makes daring test at low altitude. Swooping down to within a few yards of a building roof a hook extended from the plane snags mail pouches suspended between two up-right poles. The mail pouch is air-dropped to a waiting vehicle in a field for local delivery. Shows Kahn in cockpit and taking off in a 1930 Bellanca CH-4 Skyrocket plane.
French President Gaston Doumergue Visits Tunis Tunisia
President of France Gaston Doumergue, prior to retirement, is guest of native ruler, in Tunis, Tunisia.
President Doumergue arrives by car and watches foot and mounted tribesmen in military display, with skilled horse warriors giving him an exhibition of riding ability which is not excelled anywhere in the world. Horse mounted Spahis (Ottoman Turkish mounted troops), rifles waving aloft, dash furiously across sands in mock attack.
