YESTERDAY’S NEWSREEL 1931 BALKAN EARTHQUAKE TRANSCONTINENTAL PHONE CALL WILL HAYS 19374

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: Consider becoming a channel member This black & white film is an episode of the early TV show “Yesterday’s Newsreel“, which drew on the archives of the General Newsreel Co. and added contextual narration. It was aired on television in the early 1950s. Opening titles: Yesterday’s Newsreel. Title: 1931 - Serbian Shake-up! (:07-:41). Worst earthquake in Serbian, March 8, 1931, donkeys roam, crumbled homes, destroyed buildings. Animals wander. Stunned sheep. Survivors, children, tents. A child eats. People work through the dirt. People try and remove debris and chop at wreckage (:42-2:11). Title: 1924 - College Invaded. Middle 1920s, girls at Harvard. Men take off their hats, people cheer and throw confetti at one another (2:12-2:47). Title: 1915 - California, Here I Call! Mountains. January 25, 1915. On trine tracks. San