newsreel videos

News broadcast of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963.

Newsreel footage from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collpase. She was already known to move up in down in the wind, but in 1940, she began to oscillate due to resonance and would eventually collapse

Quite a rare material. Helen Keller, the American author, political activist and lecturer, whom I don't have to explain much about, and her instructor and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan, appears in a Vitaphone newsreel from 1930. In this footage Sullivan shows the way how Helen Keller learned to talk. The final line of this footage, "I Am Not DUMB now!" is somewhat touching. I know this footage have been shown on lots of more recent materials, but I was little bit surprised that nobody ...

From the silent film era right up until the 1960s, newsreels would play before movies, offering audiences a glimpse of events happening around the world. Take a trip into the past, with a newsreel that charts the dark history of Los Angeles, from the Chinese Massacre of 1871 to the infamous Black Dahlia murder.

Fashion Flashback from the VIDCAT Archive! See the chic swimsuit fashions of the 1950s.

Newsreels that used to play in movie theatres.

Mock the Week Newsreel featuring Prince Phillip and the Queen

The Editors of Universal Newsreel present dramatic highlights of an epochal year. 1) Help For Democracies - America's answer - ships, tanks, guns and planes for the brave actions fighting aggression. As the Arsenal of Democracy, the US delivers the goods!" - scenes include FDR speaking to Congress 2) The 3rd Term - "Unprecedented third term for President Roosevelt! Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes office at gravest crisis in America's history." 3) Sabotage and Strikes - "Flames of ...

This is a film made by McPetruk in 1938 showing and shows Krishnamacharya demonstrating yoga. Here we see a young Iyengar (still alive, well, and doing yoga, BTW) doing advanced poses that constitute the advanced A & B astanga series. This is obviously well before Iyengar dropped the vinyasa aspect from his practice and rebranded it as "Iyengar Yoga", putting greater emphasis on alignment.

2 newsreels from March 1945 when the third reich was collapsing.

This is an exerpt from a 1944 Newsreel about the Fifth Army Mobile Radio Station that followed the troops behind enemy lines during WWII. More about the Fifth Army Radio Station can be found at www.fiftharmymobileradio.com

This unit had its origins in the Estonian SS Legion which was first formed on the 28th of August, 1942. Wikipedia: Division - Battles at Narva In January 1944, the 20. Estnische SS-Freiwilligen-Division began formation. The majority of the troops were drawn from the 3. Estnische SS-Freiwilligen Brigade, however elements from Ost Battalions Nr. 658, also known as Pups of Rebane (="Fox") and Nr. 659, the 287.Polizei-Füsilier-Bataillon and the returned Estonian volunteers of the Finnish army ...

newsreel of the Eichler X-100, Steel House of the Future

Fashion Flashback from the VIDCAT Archive!Elegant vintage designer evening fashions from 1954.

The opening sequence from Citizen Kane featuring the news reel, "News on the March."

American newsreel on Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945.

This newsreel shows the NY World's Fair just prior to its opening in 1964.

Release Date: 25 September 2009 Genre: Sci-Fi | Thriller Cast: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Ving Rhames Director: Jonathan Mostow Writers: Michael Ferris, John D. Brancato Studio: Touchstone Pictures Plot: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others surrogates.

QUISLINGs 55 th.BIRTHDAY.(Executed 24th.October 1945)

This is an excerpt from a 1935 March of Time newsreel (produced by Time magazine) which re-enacts Leadbelly's release from Angola Prison, Louisiana. John Lomax plays himself, and Leadbelly performs 'Goodnight Irene'.

A video from the 1960s about the watts riots

Two newsreels featuring the AVG Flying Tigers

www.webalice.it PANORAMA - Wochenschau in Farbe (Autumn 1944) December 1944 (Circa)-Nazi propaganda color film (Excerpt). Original soundtrack. English subtitles. This is the inital section of this "Panorama" newsreel. Are shown: harvesting grapes on the Rhine in the sixth year of war, war landscapes (Carpatian mountains), Italian Alps: Allied fighters strafing a German convoy and AAA German fire, German ships in the North Sea engaging an artillery duel with Russian coastal batteries and an ...

Some hard to find actual news footage from Jonestown, Guyana After having this video posted for over a year now and the anniversary of the massacre approaching, it has been interesting to watch the various comments made on this video. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on what happened in the People's Temple. I have read racist remarks on here, religious points of view, conspiracy theories etc. I don't believe in censorship so I don't delete comments unless they are particularly ...

April 1947, Babe Ruth Day was celebrated throughout baseball. "The Babe" was battling throat cancer, a year later at age 53, he passed away.