Southwestern U.S. travelogue flies around in modern 1930s airplanes, stopping off at Albuquerque and an Arizona dude ranch, all the time focusing on fashions worn by its cargo of aspiring Paramount starlets. Excellent pre-World War II fashion footage in Kodachrome, plus documentation of affluent tourist destinations. Produced and directed by Harry D. Donahue. With Mary Martin.
Newsreel footage of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother ),and the young princesses,Elizabeth and Margaret, in front of the cameras at Windsor Castle.
1937: The Luftschiffbau Zeppelin 129 Hindenburg. Almost unedited new color footage of the airship, including the Hindenburg burning.
Fan made trailer for William A. Wellman’s Wings. Won oscar for best production. It is more melodramatic than this trailer let think and also a bit dated. In my opinion it is not a great great film, too melodramatic for my taste, there’s a dozen of better films made that same year. But it is entertaining. If you think you can handle it, it’s maybe worth a look.
A clip illustrating the excitement in the motion picture business over the discovery of sound.
Enjoy the lampooning of Hindenburg, Coolidge, Al Smith and Will Rogers – great caricature work.
1918 ushered in mutinies within the French Army. General Petain, Hero of Verdun, was assigned the task of smoothing the way between the Poilus and the French leadership.
Period film clips accompanied by an admirable British voice-over performer explaining what was involved in the massive effort to put two-million Doughboys in the field.
Not exactly a “fashion video” as we have come to know them, but this is interesting silent film footage from 1917 depicting the fashions of that year -featuring fashion models who clearly have not skipped a meal.
Selected scenes from The Outlaw. Includes the controversial cleavage shot that outraged the censors in 1953. How times have changed
n 1914-15 on the Western Front, Germany drove her armies into Belgium and Luxembourg, leaving a trail of atrocities on a scale never witnessed before, giving rise to the legend of the “Hun”, while France fougth for her survival at the battle of the Marne.
A nicely pieced together short film of the Great War. The movie begins with footage of Franz Ferdinand’s funeral, jumps to scenes showing how excited everyone was in all the various European capitols to hear that the war has at last come; next we see the troops in training, the first marches and the last image shows the “Taxis of the Marne” – entirely accompanied by the appropriate music of the day. Well done.
A collection of Old footage of the real ship its self and the 1912 version of the story on film with some music dubed into it.
A time-lapse sequence of the Grand Review of the Army, taken in May 1865 after the end of the Civil War. Assembled from still photos and animated. A “movie” made in 1865!
