552 ANNUAL KEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 193 9 



HOW WE APPE14.E, T-^VXK, AND ACT, AND SCENES OF OUB DAY 



298. Introduction. 



299. Technology of amateur and professional motion pictures. Encyclopaedia 



Britannica, vol. 15, pp. 867-871. 



300. Motion picture technology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 15, pp. 854r-867. 



301. Photoelectricity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 17, pp. 788-793. 



302. Production and Projection of the Motion Picture, by Terry Ramsaye, Edi- 



tor, Motion Picture Herald. 



303. How to build a projection machine (diagrams and photos). 



304. A projection machine. 



NEWSREEL 



Characterist'*' or significant scenes in sound film, prepared for the Time Capsule 

 by RKO-Pathe Pictures. Instructions for making a suitable projection machine 

 for the use of this film are included in microfilm Microfile. 



The newsreel runs about 15 minutes. It comprises the following scenes: 



1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, speaking at Gettys- 



burg, Pa., July 3, 1938, on occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the 

 celebrated battle of the United States Civil War. Veterans of both sides, 

 attending their final reunion, are present. 



2. Howard Hughes, celebrated aviator, who made around-the-world flight as 



"Air Ambassador" for New York World's Fair 1939, in 3 days, 19i/i hours, 

 July 1938. 



a. Plane flying over New York City's skyscrapers as Hughes sets out on 



first lap. 



b. Hughes' return at Floyd Bennett Field, New York City, after complet- 



ing flight. 



c. Hughes' New York reception, showing enthusiastic crowds lining the 



streets and paper showering down from skyscrapers. 



3. Jesse Owens, American Negro athlete, winning 100-meter dash In 1936 



Olympic games. 



4. Collegiate football: Harvard-Yale, November 1936 at Yale Bowl, New 



Haven, Conn. Yale wins 14-13. 



5. Baseball : Big League — All Star Game at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, 



28,000 spectators — July 1938. Nationals defeat Americans 4-1. 



6. United States Pacific Fleet setting out for 6 weeks of maneuvers, shovdng 



battleships in formation off Long Beach, Calif., in March 1938. 



7. Soviets celebrate International Labor Day, May 1938, in Red Square, 



Moscow, Russia. Two shots of soldiers marching. 



8. Greatest demonstration of military prowess in the United States since the 



World War, at Fort Benning, Ga., April 1938, showing tanks and other 

 war machines. 



9. Bombing of Canton, typical episode in the undeclared war between China 



and Japan. Canton, China, June 1938. 



a. Pathe cameraman, A. T. Hull, wearing helmet, in cockpit of plane, 



about to take off to make pictures. 



b. Smoke rising from explosions off in distance. 



c. Terror-stricken civilians in street. 



d. Red Cross men and women, many of whom are injured while minis- 



tering to the victims. 



