Description
Universal Newsreels: July 4, 1934
SS Dresden Hits Submerged Rock
Four die, 1400 rescued as liner hits submerged rock. With s crowd of 1,000 German excursionists aboard the North German Lloyd Liner Dresden hits an uncharted reef in a Norwegian Fiord and slowly keels over. All but four of the passengers are recused. Various scenes of the half-submerged passenger ship. Showed passengers boarding another ship after rescue.
Heat Wave Grips Gotham
Scorching sun and high humidity in New York City drives millions to the Long Island seashore seeking relief from the hot weather. Aerial view of the Long Island seashore in New York. Children frolic in fountains.
Italian Peasants In Colorful Fete
In Nola Italy hundreds of villagers honor their patron Saint Paolino on the anniversary of his victory over the Turks in the crusades by carrying a 90-foot tower-like shrine through the streets of Nola, Italy during the festival.
Reversible Propellor Tested
A newly developed airplane propellor with varying pitch that permits planes to back up, climb at greater angles and come to short stops after landing is demonstrated for the first time in Burbank California.
Mrs. Samuel Insull Returns To America
The wife of the former utilities magnate is greeted by her son and a large crowd as she arrives in New York City and prepares to leave for Chicago where her husband faces trial on several fraud charges.
U.S. Government Pays Bank Depositors
For the first time in history a Government corporation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) operating as an independent agency, created by the Banking Act of 1933 reimburses bank customers of the failed Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois one hundred cents on the dollar. CU of Fon Du Lac Bank sign. Shows people crowding into the bank to receive their money on deposit. Shows young boy at bank window counting his coins.
Super Passenger Plane Tested
With Colonel Charles A. Lindberg at the controls a new 32-passenger seaplane attains a speed of 190 miles an hour in a final test flight before being licensed for service between North America and South America. Shows Lindberg in the cockpit; shows seaplane in flight.
Police Quell Rioting Longshoremen
1934 West Coast waterfront strike at Port of San Francisco. Guns and tear gas used by police in San Francisco, California to disburse rioting longshoremen. Shows three policemen wearing gas masks. Rioters throw objects at police. Arrest is made. Tear gas is fired into crowd. Shows loaded truck over-turned in street. Police on horseback disbursing longshoremen.
Runtime: 00:07:42
Sound: no
File: high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422.
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