Al Capone, gangsters, prohibition
Al Capone, gangsters, prohibition
1920s era gangsters, prohibition B/W 1930s newsreel footage of gangsters, including Al Capone, going to and from courthouses, Chicago, Illinois. Crowds milling about; old car with cops on the runningboards; photographers with flash guns; Capone himself appears going into and out of courthouse (looks like city hall).. Good crowd scene, photographers. B/W newsreel footage of Chicago, pre-20s. Crowd milling around, man speaking in front of billboards ("Camel", "Prince Albert", "Charlie Chaplin in Sunnyside..."; 1910s (?)Crowds in streets, soldiers; People being loaded into paddy wagon; horrifying shots of scene of tenement fire; man digging through garbage can; police wagon moves through crowd (late 20s); overturned streetcars; street scene with soldiers on guard ; soldiers on march through street; 1920s cars on street (could be Mich. Ave.); crowds (racially mixed); train tracks, POV front of train. 1910s (?) footage of Chicago, Brief shot from streets to top of tenement buildings. Aftermath of huge building fire,; distribution of blocks of ice to crowds, huge crowds of kids being hosed down by fire hoses in the streets--heat wave-.