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PATHE NEWS -- NEWSREEL. NUMBER 53

Basic Information

Inventory ID 416002
Production Type NEWSREELS
Release Year 1924
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Donor Code 2853 - Packard Humanities Institute: Sabucat Collection
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Format & Technical

Format Size 35
Format Type NITRATE
Element Info PRINT
Film Base
Color Format B&W
Sound Format OPT^SD.^^^^
Item Holdings 1
Total Reels 1

Condition

Deterioration 0

Notes

Record number 116310^Pathe News 53 -- 6 stories described below 1) Modern Woodmen of America hold mammoth rainbow parade as feature of their 20th century quadrenniel encampment. Odd parade in which scores of men in uniform parade about and drill with axes!! On streets of Chicago -- great shots of non-built up Chicago. [Note: kind of a precedent to Doo Dah parade in Pasadena] Chicago Edition. [Keyword: Lumberjacks. Wacky parade.] 2) American school girls adopt European massed drills -- 5,000 maidens take part in unison formations which have long been popular abroad Los Angeles. POM POM DRILL with thousands of girls in sailor uniforms, pompomming in formation on huge grass field. [Keyword: Wacky drill.] 3) MONKEY CAM -- Windy, a monkey at the New York zoo, demonstrates his agility with the newsreel camera and tripod. [Keyword: Wacky story] 4) SUMMER WHITE HOUSE with PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE and his wife. Swampscott, Salem, Massachusetts. Cal and wife walk with dog outside on grounds. Shots of newsreel cameramen arriving by motorcar on running boards. Wife is a fashion plate! 5) 1920's BATTLE FOOTAGE -- Taunat, Morocco -- French drive Moors from border village in Nice. Shots: soldiers fighting battle. 6) ACROBAT PERFORMS HANGING FROM BALLOON OVER LOS ANGELES -- stunt from balloon 2,000 feet off ground by Ed Unger. Nice acrobatics, aerial shots of Los Angeles.

Inventory Items (1)

Reel # Barcode Can Size Reel Size Location Notes
1 NV0001044924 V013-L01-18 Numbered