Events in Italy and the United States during the Great Depression. Italy, 1933: Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini at a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of his march on Rome, Italy. Fascists gathered at the ceremony. Mussolini hugs and greets a fascist officer. United States: During the Great Depression, men of the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC at their first training camp cut trees. Men of the CCC sit and eat food in a forest. Men and women participate in a walkathon during the days of the economic depression in 1933 (the scenes look also like those from a dance marathon, with exhausted couples clinging together late in the marathon). From a August 11, 1958 newsreel giving a retrospective look at events 25 years prior.
Italian leader Benito Mussolini along with other officials in Rome, Italy, watches a fleet of Savoia-Marchetti SM.55 returning from Air Minister Italo Balbo’s historical flight from Chicago, United States. Pilots get off from the aircraft. Fleet of Savoia-Marchetti SM.55 in flight. Italian pilots march under the Arch of Constantine (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome and are awarded by Il Duce.
Horsemen from Tor di Quinto perform stunts in Rome, Italy. King Victor Emmanuel III and other officials watch the performance at the Tor di Quinto Cavalry School. Horsemen lined up in a field. Men make their horses cross the obstacles. They jump over barriers and move down steep slopes. King Victor Emmanuel III looks on.
Pope Pius XI performs the Orbis et Urbis Service in Rome, Italy. A crowd of 150,000 pilgrims kneel and pray in front of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Pope Pius XI, wearing the Papal Tiara, conducts the religious ceremony. The pope blesses the crowd from the balcony of the Papal Archbasilica.
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini reviews Fascist Youth in Rome, Italy. Thousands of boys and girls march during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Nation's entry into the World War. The advancement of the youngsters to higher grades in semi-military organizations fostered by the government. Benito Mussolini on horseback. Young girls and boys march in uniform.
Captain Raffaele Colacicchi sets a record in Rome, Italy. An airplane parked on an airfield. Captain Colacicchi seated in the cockpit of the airplane. A man stands nearby and talks to him. The airplane in flight. The pilot demonstrates inverted flying, by speeding head down in the air for 42 minutes and 37 seconds. The plane lands. Men gather on the street to congratulate him.