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Women flaunt tradition during "roaring twenties" in the U.S.
Women flaunting tradition in the "roaring twenties." Three women in flapper styles sit on a park bench and read tabloid newspapers with headlines: A woman puts on make up. Another woman smokes a cigarette.
Street scene in a small city of the U.S. during the 1920s.
Two women cross a street. Cars are parked along the curb and several other people are seen out walking. The shops along the street include a pharmacy that has an advertisement for a current movie: "Norma Talmadge in Secrets." The women pause to look at the adverstisement, and then go on their way.
1920's dramatization of young people drinking illegal liquor and behaving wildly, during the "roaring twenties," in the U.S.
Actors dramatizing people in a city of the United States. Cars parked on a road. Two men in a car. One man drinks from a personal flask of liquor, violating prohibition laws. Next scene shows a man and woman as they kiss in a car. Young men and women, some in flapper styles, crowded into an open car behaving wildly and having fun, portraying the wild "roaring twenties" attitude. Balloons tied on the car.
Movie portrayal of "flappers" dancing the Charleston and cavorting at dance hall during Prohibition in the U.S.
Movie portrays three women sharing an apartment. One is quietly writing letters at a desk, while her two roommates get ready to go out and have fun. The two put on lipstick makeup and perfume before leaving. They go down steps to dance hall or speakeasy where they dance the Charleston and cavort with others there. Couples are seen kissing off to the side, and some in the group carry flasks and drink illegal liquor. Women seen throwing dice in a game (woman on right at 1:08 is possibly Texas Guinan). Musicians play various persons in the group play the piano, saxophone, and ukulele. Top down view on phonograph record player as a vinyl record spins on the turntable.
Charles Lindbergh feted in Washington, DC and New York City, upon return to U.S. after his historic transatlantic flight
American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh arrives aboard USS Memphis (CL-13) at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. upon his return from Europe to the United States following his pioneering trans-Atlantic solo aircraft flight. He comes down the gangplank and is greeted by a phalanx of officials. They drive Lindbergh away in an open car. Two days later, June 13, 1927, the scene shifts to New York harbor, where there is a virtual traffic jam of ships and boats of all sizes and shapes, assembled to greet Lindbergh. Fireboats salute with streams of water as Lindberg arrives (as backseat passenger) in a seaplane from Mitchel Field on Long Island. The seaplane is seen flying over the harbor,and descending to land. The seaplane is seen in the water amongst the flotilla of vessels, as. Lindbergh is picked up by a police launch that takes him to the ship Macom, where he is helped aboard by passengers. (He almost falls into the water while stepping from the launch to the ship.) Lindbergh waves from the deck of the Macom, as they proceed in a parade of vessels toward a Manhattan pier. Upon arriving, Lindbergh is hustled into an open car and driven away surrounded by New york City policemen,including mounted police, who escort the car through mobs of spectators. Police form lines to hold back enthusiastic admirers. The car proceeds along a city street where cheering spectators jam the sidewalks and office workers create a virtual storm of ticker tape and confetti from their windows high above the street.
The U.S. National stock market craze during the "Roaring 20's" before the stock market crash.
An office entrance in Tacoma, Washington. Sign at door reads: "A.R. Blair & Co. Importers." A man smokes and reads the Tacoma Daily Ledger newspaper in his office. He reads the page with New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) prices for Thursday, August 30, 1928. A sign '"George R. McCall & Company, Stocks and Bonds, with offices at New York, Buffalo, Chicago & St. Louis." A number of the company's clients sit in chairs and watch as the latest stock prices are posted on display boards. Men are shown on the telephone communicating stock orders to their brokers. Hectic activity is seen on the New York Stock Exchange with floods of orders to buy and sell shares. Stock exchange number boards lit up with numbers. Men are seen in various places hovering over stock exchange ticker tapes running fast out of ticker tape machines. Scene of fireworks in the sky at the end (alluding to collapse of the stock market and the "Crash" on Wall Street that precipitated the Great Depression).
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