# Yesterdays Newsreel 20th Century, Amelia Earhart, Cologne Cathedral, New York City 62424b

This Yesterday’s Newsreel film (episode 139) offers the viewer “television highlights of the news of yesteryear” by providing vintage clips of famous people and events from the first half of the 20th century. This newsreel opens with footage of Amelia Earhart. Earhart is escorted from her plane Friendship with pilot Wilmer Stultz after arriving in South Hampton, England. The famed aviator is greeted by South Hampton Mayor Mrs. Lucia Foster Welch. Earhart is cheered on by supporters upon her arrival in New York City and is escorted by ticker-tape parade guru Grover Whalen. Acting Mayor Joseph McKee welcomes Earhart. The film then shows footage of Earhart flying an autogiro (02:05)—she is the first woman to fly one. She lands the aircraft and smiles for the camera. Earhart is celebrated in 1932 with a New York ticker tape parade; she is shown standing with Mayor Jimmy Walker. The segment on Earhart wraps up with footage of her preparing to land in Oakland, CA after the lengthy flight from Weber Field, Hawaii. The next segment shows German Hans Swoboda displaying his model of the Cologne Cathedral in New York City in 1930; the model is made entirely out of match sticks. In the following segment, viewers watch as soldiers test a new machine gun (04:36) and throw grenades. New tank prototypes move across a field. A biplane is equipped with a gun for aerial combat (05:07). In the “Personalities” segment, viewers watch John Philip Souza lead the High School of Commerce Band in…

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1930
- Runtime: 12 min
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: News
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yesterdays_Newsreel_20th_Century,_Amelia_Earhart,_Cologne_Cathedral,_New_York_City_62424b.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: PeriscopeFilm
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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