https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b5fdf24d-9191-4ccb-a82d-47869bb23d4d Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com "News and Views" is a black-and-white, silent amateur home-style film dating to the mid-1930s combining various clips. It was filmed and Edited by Rockwell Hoag, a member of the Amateur Cinema League (ACL). (The Amateur Cinema League (ACL) was the first international association for non-professional moviemakers, spurred on by the increasing popularity of the amateur filmmaking subculture in the late 1920s.) The footage in "News and Views" includes local spectacles around Upstate New York, two short clips of entertainer Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly in West Virginia and the All-American Soap Box Derby in Ohio. The film also features shots of parades, a Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Bros Circus, Playland Rye amusement park, and then New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering a speech for the inauguration of a new bridge. Film opens, combined split screen view of parade and other B-roll, opening credits (0:08). Footage of White Plains Memorial Day Parade, procession led by high school brass band and also includes men in military uniform holding American flags, convoy of 1930s-era Ford Model As, 21-gun salute (0:49). Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly, famous pole sitter in 1920s/30s, sitting atop Keith Albee Theatre (West Virginia) and performing various tricks i.e. open umbrella (2:09). Birds-eye view of Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly atop theater (2:46). Scenes from Chappaqua Firemen’s Annual Parade: Firemen drive along street lined with parade goers in 1930 Seagrave Pumper Fire Truck, men in formal uniform pull decorated cart (3:02). Scenes from Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Bros Circus: Crowded entrance to circus tent, animal trainers guide herd of show elephants and miniature horses, various performers and side shows, brass band accompanies performers (4:04). View from Bear Mountain Bridge (Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge), camera pans view of Hudson River (5:53). Scenes off of the Bronx River Parkway: Small waterfall flows through rocky creek, cars speed along freeway amid barren forest blanketed in snow (6:19). Scenes from Playland Rye, N.Y. Amusement Park: Kids jump into pool, women and children walk around park grounds, various rides and roller coasters, Benjamin F. Packard Clipper Ship, beaches and swimmers crowd beach (7:16).The All-American Soap Box Derby (July 1935) in Akron, Ohio: Boys stand next to their soap box cars ahead of race, scenes of boys racing down track in their miniature vehicles (8:58). Close-up one of the winning soap box cars (12:00). Domestic pets: Two border collies and a cat (12:04). Perhaps friend of filmmaker, Ed Bennet, shows off his thoroughbred police dog on agility obstacle course (12:44). Shots of flooded roadways along the Bronx River Parkway (13:21). Roaring waters fall in wild cascades over spill-way at Croton Dam Westchester, New York (14:18). Opening of new Croton Lake Bridge (November 1931): Camera pans nature landscape, American flags wave from iron frame of bridge, procession of cards lead by marching band, then New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers dedication address (15:30). Film ends (17:18). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxIsTtw1TZw Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:15:43 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b5fdf24d-9191-4ccb-a82d-47869bb23d4d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.