YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - NEW YORK CITY 300th BIRTHDAY

[Applause] in 1926 with a look back into the good old days of its comparative youth New York City celebrates its 300th anniversary times and city's change [Music] here's Bowling Green as it looked in 1826 when father Knickerbocker was just two hundred 100 years later in 1926 here's same spot here's site of Flatiron Building way back when everything was low and here's what same corner sported as New York became 300 years old young New Yorkers of 1926 get into the getup that was common when granny was a girl and grandpa whistled the lowdown on the high wheeled horse-drawn carriage is in sharp contrast to the overcrowded underground convinces the transported New Yorkers in cities 300-year direct descendants of Indians who sold Manhattan Island for $24 and beads agree that property has been somewhat improved since they unloaded a few square miles of forests on unsuspecting men from across the sea in days of pegleg Peter Stuyvesant yes this was New York in 1926 this was the great city's gay white wave in 1926 yes here was New York 300 years of age and here's New York in 1950 well on its way to a 400th anniversary and more amazing changes yet to come here are the 1920s doctor guy Brewster's modern armor to demonstrate the United States Army that he has the final word in bulletproofing facing firing squad Brewster disappears in cloud of smoke but after volley of led the bulletproof dr. Brewster is still standing there the show likeness of suit Brewster simulates attack against the enemy in Chicago in the 1920s traffic moves steadily across Chicago River at Wells Street even though old bridge is being replaced by one that's new and cost of more than 1 million dollars big steel structure goes up around less modern one without even causing a delay in Chicago traffic travellers coming out of Windy City's Luke use old bridge until new one gets a roadway its miracle of modern engineering against pretty stiff odds and Chicago gives you credit to bridge engineer Bertie and his construction superintendent crowed [Music] it's 1921 at a Southampton movie comedian Charles Chaplin gets a rousing welcome from brother Britishers as he comes home this is year after making the kid for years before he did hit movie the goal rush here's Mildred Harris in a silent movie scene from borrowed clothes a role she played shortly after she became mrs. Charles Spencer Chaplin Miss Harris doesn't look at all happy but then this isn't her real-life wedding it's only make-believe [Music] on visit to the United States in 1921 is marshal Ferdinand Porsche with General Pershing during World War one Bush was not only French Field Marshal but supreme commander of all a tide forces and planned strategy in 1918 which moved Germans back from on to utter ruin and defeat its 29th of September 1927 twister has world through sections of st. Louis Missouri for just four minutes and here are the results as deadly as it was destructive whirlwind injures hundreds and in tumbled rubble 90 persons are dead survivors of sudden storm are stunned by the twister which spun down city streets to rip faces from building search for lost belongings goes on amid scenes of utter ruin blasting wind wrecked streets and broke every window in this trolley till cleanup squads can get going there's little to do but get fed damage it was an ill wind that left lots of st. Louis pretty sick in 1915 as high school girls raced through fire drill somebody smelled smoke and these girls know that old adage so out comes the hand-drawn fire equipment they're making pretty good time when you consider the number of petticoats they're carrying in the days before nylon girls thought even hold such as this was pretty sheer and you can be sure that this is one old flame that's going to die [Music] it's 1920 and love scapa flow England salvage crews have raised ships sunken sea battles of recent war this big to stacker won't be a total loss now she'll be dismantled and sold at high price for precious scrap it's dangerous underwater job and only the most expert of divers try some jobs only another sinking will run out this noise here's the German battleship kaiser coming up from our watery grave her metal will now be put to peaceful use [Music] it's 31st of January 1930 and attached to underside of Navy dirigible Los Angeles Leiter prepares for free flight with Navy lieutenant Barnaby snugly and gladder cockpit everything is ready at 3,000 feet gliders released from big airship and begins its journey back to the airfield this is first attempt to launch motorless aircraft from dirigible and so far experimenter Barnaby is flying high after riding winds and air currents for 12 minutes glider pilot Barnaby glides smoothly toward landing strip or what he hopes will be a happy ending to a happily successful test finish couldn't be better even in the snow the Navy is more than satisfied with experiment and Lieutenant Barnaby is very happy landing [Music] harden their backs it's the 9th of August 1928 and chiropractors in Los Angeles hold a contest to find the girl with the most perfectly shaped spinal column here's a whack at work now on a supposedly beautiful sacroiliac it goes tickle tickle having viewed a variety of feminine vertebra judges demand a longer look so back owner to put on parade you not only have to have a beautiful backbone you have to be able to bend it if you want to win and the girl with the most beautiful and most bendable backbone is Miss Rooter schmuck chiropractor president wood gives Ruth her award and the second most sensational spinal works belongs to Iris Adrienne this was 1928 it's the 19th of January 1929 and mrs. Edwin Clarke is lone woman driver in 210 mile dog team Derby from Berlin New Hampshire to Boston Massachusetts it's cold eh and the ice is slick and slippery but it's still rough and tough going even for the male contestants at new Nashua New Hampshire mrs. Clarke stops for well-earned rest for her team and if these Huskies show the strain of the contest you can imagine how race has affected mrs. Clarke here's mr. Clarke taunting his team into strong effort for rest of the race and when lead team gets to Boston it is in mrs. Clarke who's first to cross the finish line that honor goes to mr. Edward Clarke an injured knee and frozen foot kept mrs. Clark from finishing ahead of pack but she deserves and needs these warm congratulations just the same it's 25th of November 1926 and Thanksgiving handicap is featured race of opening day card at Southern California's Tijuana and they're off to a fast start on a fast track with cherry tree number one pulling ahead of the pack as the horses leap from the starting gate and lean into the first turn the pack spins out only slightly as the field sticks with cherry tree down the backstretch the leaders margin hardly varies as the contenders drive for the far turn [Music] out of the bar turning into the homestretch it looks like anybody's race till Cherrytree puts on a finish drive to keep the lead and pounding towards the wire it's cherry tree and victory and a win for number one [Music]