HE 1920'S A chronicle of America's Jazz age D v 00.44. Armistice celebration World War 1, crowds; 00.45 steam whistle; Woodrow Wilson on steamship, New York skyline, streets of NY circa 1919; human fly, amazing; building walker; huge crowd; fashion; night gowns; women's legs; hats; traffic jam; cop gives speeding ticket; 00.46 Atlantic City boardwalk; wing walker stunt; NC4 Navy aircraft; R34 dirigible (blimp); post office airmail plane; 00.47 Eddie Rickenbacher with Burt Alcosta; Prohibition headlines; 00.48 still Carry Carrie Nation; woman with hatchet; destroying liquor; steamship; soldiers arrive waving; Sgt. Alvin York; Black Jack Pershing with men in cap and gowns; Adm. William Simms; 00.49 American Legion Parade; more crowds; foreign admirals (Belgium and England , cannot decipher names); Pershing; "Mob Rule" headline; riot; 00.50 national guardsman with machine gun; KKK, Ku Klux Klan burning cross and marching; Mr. Zero labor auction at Boston Common; labor strikes, riot, crowd with hands up, raisng hands; Old Mother Jones; assorted leaders of organized labor, (Phil Murray, John L. Lewis); "Boston Mobs Loot" headline; Boston Police Strike circa. 1919; militia; 00.52 police wave; Calvin Coolidge; small crowd cheers; man waves his hat; Coolidge as governor; many men laying on grass, unemployed strikers; Samuel Gompers with Charles Schwab; Wall Street explosion; still; 00.53 huge crowd; Jay P. Morgan peers out window; raid on communist HQ; piles of confiscated papers; prisoners exit bus; communist trial hearing; 00.53 Sacco & Vanzetti; ship departs and police wave goodbye; 00.54 Vaudeville acts; dance; juggler; 00.55 Houdini card trick shuffle; Gallagher & Sheen; 00.56 crowded beach; woman jazz band, funny, bathing beauties; beauty parade led by police in bathing suits; crowning Miss America; dance marathon; woman gets leg massage, funny; 00.57 ballet class; Rusa Dennis teaching ballet; Folkee; Anna Pavlova and Theadore Chiliopin (sp?) feeding birds; Rachmaninov; Paderewski; Enrico Caruso; 00.58 Capitol building; Woodrow Wilson; politicians sit around conference table, meeting; Henry Cabot Lodge; suffragettes; women stumpers; woman barber gives man a shave; 1920 women endorse Warren Harding; old man with hand to ear gesture trying to hear, funny; Al Jolson; Harding with Tuba; Charles Evan Hughes; Lillian Russell; Coolidge; 01.00 Political stumping; Cox and FDR Roosevelt; Capitol Building; Harding and Wilson inauguration; Andrew Melon; construction; men on beams; Gompers; Eugene Debbs released from prision; 01.01 Harding arrives at Armaments Conference; diplomats pose with Hughes (then Secretary of State); 01.02 men in top hats; agreements signed; battle ship; sailors dance the Black Bottom with girl; Peggy Hipkins Joyce; The Countess of Cathcart; ball room dancing; man cuts in; 01.03 kiss; audience reaction meter, (two girls are strapped onto a device which tests their reaction to a Valentino love scene); early voltage meter; 01.04 Will Hayes; Gloria Swanson; John Barrymore with Dolores Costello; Valentino; Valentino funeral; small scale riot; dead Valentino; Paula Negri; Rod Laroque and Vilma Banke wed; 01.06 clip from Chaplin "Dough & Dynamite," french tart scene, funny, gets hit in face with a pastry; Douglas Fairbanks clip from "Robin Hood" 1922; clip from 1927 "The Flesh and the Devil," with Garbo and Gilder, Kiss "blow out match," 01.07 Clip from Will Rogers movie, says "all I know is what I read in the papers;" Jolson sings "Mammy" from "The Jazz Singer;" 01.08 Prohibition; bar; pour beer; drinking bootleg liquor; reaction, (ie YUK); Gerald Chapman, in cuffs, (he was condemned to death for killing a cop); bootleggers arrested in Chicago; 01.09 Bill Thompson, (Mayor of Chicago); Al Capone; Billy Sunday gives a sermon; Emille Coulle (sp? - a French Pharmacist); 01.11 Dr. Adolf Laurentz (sp? - bloodless surgery scene); Madame Curie; 01.11.28 Thomas Edison. B/W, 1920'S, WORLD WAR 1 ARMISTICE CELEBRATION, END OF WAR, PROHIBITION, FLAPPERS, POLITICS, PRESIDENT WILSON, HUMAN FLY, FASHION, BOARDWALK, WINGWALKERS, ZEPPELIN, PROHIBITION, PERCY, RIOTS, KU KLUX KLAN, OLD MOTHER JONES, LEWIS, BOSTON POLICE STRIKE,(1919 ?), PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, SAMUEL GOMPERS, SCHWAB, MORGAN, SACCO & VANZETTI, VAUDEVILLE, JUGGLER JUGGLING HOOPS, HOUDINI AND SLEIGHT OF HAND, PAVLOVA, CARUSO, CABOT LODGE, HARDING, JOLSON, RUSSELL, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, DIBBS, JOYCE, VALENTINO, HAYES, SWANSON, BARRYMORE, VALENTINO'S FUNERAL, CHAPLIN, GARBO, ROGERS, CAPONE, SUNDAY, CURIE, EDISON, INVENTOR, ACTORS, DANCER, SCIENTISTS, CELEBRITIES, LATE PRESIDENT

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