Movie in which actors portray bootleggers receiving liquor from a schooner offshore. They load containers into a small boat and bring them ashore. 'Oil' written on the containers. They pour liquor from the containers into bottles, at their hideout during prohibition.
Movie portrayal of gangster activities during prohibition, in 1920s in the United States. Illicit liquor trade and gang warfare. Clandestine liquor manufacture. The illicit liquor is loaded onto a truck for transportation. Truck hijacking after truck carrying liquor smashes into a car blocking the road. Metal milk containers filled with liquor being machine gunned by a passing car. Two business establishments being bombed. Gangsters interrogating two men and threatening them while holding handguns. Faceless gangster in 1920s fashions (actor) fires revolver. A policeman with a gun firing at gangsters during a getaway.
Law enforcement officials leaving a building. Wholesale arrests of gangsters. Police load them into police vans. A Police van drives out onto the street. Al Capone arrives by car and ascends steps of courthouse to appear before Federal Grand Jury. Large number of people mill about on sidewalk outside the building. Capone exits the building, descends steps, enters a car and drives away. Mayor William "Big Bill" Thompson exits the building with a woman. He reaches out to another woman who joins them at the top step by the doorway.
Marie of Edinburg, Queen of Romania, chats with ship's officer, as he pets her dog, aboard the deck of the United States Lines flagship, SS Leviathan, as it arrives in New York harbor. A welcoming party, including children dressed in Romanian traditional costumes, carrying welcome signs, and including a brass band, awaits Queen Marie's arrival. The band begins to play as Queen Marie comes down the gangplank to the pier.
William Tatem Tilden II, American tennis player plays a singles match in the United States. William Tilden often called 'Big Bill' plays a shot during a singles match. He hits backhands and forehands. He takes the ball in hand for service. A boy near the court to retrieve balls. The crowd gathered for the match.
These are clips from major league baseball games in the mid 1920s. President Calvin Coolidge throws out ceremonial first pitch before a Washington Senators baseball game under the watchful eye of team manager Bucky Harris. (Game is either a Senators home opener or a World Series game.) Views of crowd of fans, mostly men all wearing hats, but some women also, cheering in the stadium. In a different game, likely in New York, Babe Ruth hits a home run and tips his cap to a wildly cheering crowd.
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