RETRO MAN RECEIVES WRONG NUMBER ON PHONE After "Uncle Bill" lightly reprimands his young neice for playing with the telephone, a call comes in and it's the wrong number.
BOY USES ROTARY PHONE TO CALL HIS FRIEND CU boy dialing an old-fashioned rotary telephone and using good manners when he speaks to the person on the other end of the line.
DIAL 'O' FOR OPERATOR IN EMERGENCY Using an instructional poster as a visual aid, a police officer teaches a boy how to dial 'O' for operator in an emergency. Retro footage highlights out-dated telecommunications technology.
PANORAMA OF WESTWALL FIGHTING Strasbourg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine, is captured by the Americans and the French. Flooded canals testify to the unruly weather being encountered. Tons of heavy equipment have been left by the Nazis in their headlong retreat. And swastikas by the thousand, are trod under foot by sullen Nazi prisoners. Various villages, including Baseweiler, are bombarded, then entered. Many Yanks are wounded. Pursuing the scorched earth policy, the Nazis have applied the torch to many of the towns, causing the natives to band into volunteer fire departments, to save their homes.
LITTLE KIDS ANSWER PHONE After a little girl's toy duck "answers" an old-fashioned rotary telephone, her brother grabs it from her and answers properly.
BYRD'S CREW SETS UP 2ND ANTARCTIC BASE CAMP Upon arriving in Antarctica, the crew unloads the vessel and digs up their first base camp left behind in 1930. Sled dogs pull cargo.
WINTER DESCENDS ON BYRD'S ANTARCTIC CAMP Explorer Richard Bryd and his crew quickly assemble base camp before winter descends. Harsh Antarctic winds cover the camp in snow, burying the sled dogs to their necks.
RICHARD BYRD FLIES TO SOUTH POLE From his Antarctic base camp, explorer Richard Byrd and his crew prepares their plane, the Floyd Bennett, to make the historic trip to the South Pole.
Date: November 29, 1929 - BLACK/WHITE Source: Video: BetaSP Length: 00:01:21:00, With Audio
BRYD'S TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT Richard Byrd's co-pilot Bernt Balchen recalls their historic New York to Paris flight: "The take-off was a masterpiece of work."
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