This Yesterday’s Newsreel film (episode 110) offers the viewer “television highlights of the news of yesteryear” by providing vintage clips of famous people and events from the first half of the 20th century. This episode begins with a look at President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s trip to South America in 1936. The USS Indianapolis arrives at Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian President Getulio Vargas meets with FDR. FDR speaks to Brazil’s parliament (01:30). FDR stops in Montevideo and rides in a parade through the capital city (02:34). He reviews Trinidad troops on a stop at the island on the voyage home. Next, viewers see West Point cadets rehearsing for the Academy musical show in 1926 (03:17). Men put on pantyhose and dresses for the rehearsal. Several men and men dressed as women dance. In April 1928 the Connecticut State Highway Commissioner flips the switch to turn on the first automatic traffic light in New Haven (04:46). In the “Personalities” segment, the episode features Vice President Thomas Marshall standing with a group of boys (04:58), actress Pola Negri smiling for cameras in Pasadena, and “King of the Hobos” Jeff Davis visiting the White House. Next, viewers see the luxury train “City of San Francisco” as it travels from Chicago to California (06:06). An aerial view shows the wreckage of the train as it went off the tracks at the Humboldt River Trestle just outside of Harney, NV in 1939. Rescue workers look for bodies in the crushed cars. An engineer interacts with a robot, “Mr. Golem,” in Berlin, Germany in March 1930 (07:46). At Wrigley Air Field Dale Drake climbs into glider and goes to set new distance record for gliders in 1929 (08:22); the glider flies over Los Angles behind the tow plane. Drake poses with his wife at Long Beach after a successful landing. In the episode’s segment “Fashions of the Day,” women vacationers aboard a passenger liner model a fur coat, a sleeveless dress, a “King Tut” ensemble, and a swimsuit. The episode ends with a co-ed students fencing at Northwestern University in 1926 (10:58) and Billy Arnold and his No. 4 car winning a 1930s race at the Altoona Racetrack.
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