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Newsreels 1930 December 1
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keywords: 71st US Congress, Communist Demonstrators, Sports, Competitive Cycling, The Sixes, Cruise Ship USS Leviathan, Nobel Prize Winner Author Sinclair Lewis, Animatronics, Steel Union Strike, Jungle Jazz Jugglers, Monkeys, Horse Racing, Racehorse Dixiana Stable, Jockey Sonny Workman, 1930 Endurance Handicap, Wicked Weather, Rainstorms, Flooding, Car Racing, Race Car Driver Ernie Triplett, Legion Ascot Speedway, High-Rise Balancing Act
Synopsis: 71st United States Congress Convenes, Madison Square Garden Hosts Six-Day Bike Race, Cruise Ship USS Leviathan Docks For Winter Overhaul, Famed Author Sinclair Lewis To Be Awarded The Nobel Prize, New York Artists Created Animatronic Animals For Display, Monkeys Make Music As The Jungle Jazz Jugglers, Berlin Labor Union Strike Ends, Racehorse Dixiana Stable Wins 1930 Endurance Handicap, Rain And Flooding Sweeps Germany, Race Car Driver Ernie Triplett Wins At Legion Ascot Speedway, Roof-Top Daredevil In High-Rise Balancing Act...(read more)
- Date: 1930
- Duration: 00:06:44
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Germany
71st United States Congress Convenes
With unemployment, prohibitions, farm relief and tax problems as major problems, short session of the United States seventy-first U.S. Congress is one of most vital in generations. Democrats pledge help to Hoover as malcontents engage police in battle at the Capitol. Police use tear gas to disperse the Red rioters.
Madison Square Garden Hosts Six-Day Bike Race
Six-Day bike race thrilled thousands as fifteen teams compete in a 6-day track cycling race, called Sixes, at Madison Square Garden in 1930.
Cruise Ship USS Leviathan Docks For Winter Overhaul
The overhaul of the ocean liner cruse ship SS Leviathan, originally built as the SS Vaterland, gives work to 500 in Boston. SS Leviathan sailing into the Boston Navy dry-dock. Repairs include straightening dents in one of the propellers, which is 16 feet long and weighs 19,000 pounds.
Famed Author Sinclair Lewis To Be Awarded The Nobel Prize
Sinclair Lewis, famed author en route to receive Nobel Prize awarded for outstanding literary achievements.
New York Artists Created Animatronic Animals For Display
New York artists create Holiday beasts intended for store displays. Shows very unique, animated creatures in motion.
Berlin Labor Union Strike Ends
140,000 metal workers joyously returns to work and resume interrupted tasks. Scenes of people in Berlin, Germany in 1930.
Monkeys Make Music As The Jungle Jazz Jugglers
In Berlin Germany musical monkeys make merry until discord disruption of the Jungle Jazz Jugglers.
Racehorse Dixiana Stable Wins 1930 Endurance Handicap
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.
Rain And Flooding Sweeps Germany
Aftermath of wicked weather in Europe, Coblenz, Germany, first pictures of terrific torrents that swept through southern part of the 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.
Race Car Driver Ernie Triplett Wins At Legion Ascot Speedway
Ernie Triplett wins the race at the Legion Ascot Speedway Raceway in Los Angeles, California November 23, 1930. Historic Legion Ascot was definitely big and unique to Lincoln Heights and the surrounding areas during the racing era of 1924-1936.
In 1928 the Glendale American Legion Post took over the promotion and brought in the cars and drivers of the American Automobile Association AAA. The AAA was the leading racing organization in the country and controlled all the major speedways including Indianapolis. The soon to be legendary Legion Ascot Speedway was born!
Roof-Top Daredevil In High-Rise Balancing Act
In Louisville, Kentucky a daredevil performs a balancing act on the edge of a high-rise building.
