Focus on the 30s
Focus on the 30s
Entertainment of the 1930s: Charlie McCarthy & Edward Bergen, Orson Welles, newsreels, etc.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still of white man & woman radio players reading. Still of Edward R. Murrow with dog. Stills of Amos and Andy performing.
Focus on the 30s
MS of CHARLIE MCCARTHY and EDWARD BERGEN wearing cowboy hats & outfits, being made honorary Texas Rangers. TLSs crowds at New York World's Fair, 1939-40. MS New York City Mayor FIORELLO LAGUARDIA meeting w/ Charlie McCarthy and Edward Bergen at World's Fair. MSs Dean Dennis of Northwestern University awarding Charlie McCarthy & Edward Bergen an honorary degree. Funny stuff.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Stills of people at home, listening to radios. Stills of newsstands (magazines, comic books & funnies). Stills of movie theaters, people waiting in line, star names and movie titles displayed on marquees. CUs movie posters (film titles, names and illustrations of stars).
Focus on the 30s
Opening title sequence of mid-1930s Universal newsreel. MS newsreel cameramen filming in park with 35mm Mitchell cameras on tripods. TLS/MSs Ziegfield Chorus girls rehearsing a dance number; diss to MS girls changing in changing room. Newsreel of accident at auto race (lost in a dust cloud, a car flips over innumerably, stopping in the dirt). 1937 newsreel of daredevil "BATMAN" CLEM SONNE (sp) and his fatal aerial stunt in front of thousands-- parachute failure and Batman plummets to his death. Brutal. Newsreel of the Hindenburg dirigible disaster, May 6, 1937: aerials of Hindenburg flying over New York City; LS dirigible flying over Lakehurst, New Jersey; LS disaster. Still of theater marquee advertising the showing of the disaster.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Stills of people listening to radios, of radio announcers, of radios.
Focus on the 30s
"War of the Worlds" montage: audio excerpt of radio program - this audio may require additional clearances. MSs Caucasian couples & families listening to radio in homes; CUs radio engineers wearing headsets;
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still ECUs radio equipment dials.
Focus on the 30s
MS man reading New York Post: "U.S. Probes Invasion Broadcast; Radio Play Caused Wide Panic." MS very tired-looking ORSON WELLES talking to the press about the story & its effect on the radio audience.