Homing pigeons rush news film to news offices, help speed news reporting; 1930s
Title card: "Pigeon Post Scoops Town," / pigeons fly and land on rooftop coop / man closes coop door / man at desk speaks into microphone calling car to an address, telephones on desk / MPOV through car windshield / high angle view car on street passing camera / car screeches as it pulls to curb where men have gathered; photographer and another hurry out of car / high angle police escort suspect with bandaged head out of building to car, man in crowd films scene with movie camera, reporter with notepad follows them to car; photographer takes picture of people getting into car / VS CU man attaching film rolls to homing pigeon's back / man releases pigeon; pan to follow as pigeon flies past city buildings / pan to follow as pigeon flies / ocean liner Majestic arriving in New York Harbor, smoke pouring from stacks / rear view photographers taking photos of three businessmen at ship railing, shore in bg / CU photographer shooting / photographer running on deck approaches to deliver film to waiting man / man on ship releases pigeons; they fly up / man going up White Star gangplank as newsmen descend; he shows disembarking man a newspaper / CU picture of the three businessmen on front page of New York Journal / man on gangplank tosses newspaper over side / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
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DETAILS
Editorial #:
2210909602
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 01, 1935
Upload date:
License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:01:55:16
Location:
New York City, New York, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr006500_01_01
- 1930-1939,
- Adult,
- Archival,
- Arrival,
- Bandage,
- Black And White,
- Boat Deck,
- Building Exterior,
- Built Structure,
- Business,
- Business Finance and Industry,
- Businessman,
- Camera - Photographic Equipment,
- Camera Film,
- Car,
- City,
- City Street,
- Closing,
- Corporate Business,
- Crowd of People,
- Cunard Line,
- Curb,
- Desk,
- Document,
- Door,
- Economy,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Finance and Economy,
- Flying,
- Front Page,
- Gangplank,
- HD Format,
- Head,
- High Angle View,
- Homing Pigeon,
- Horizontal,
- Incomplete,
- Journalist,
- Land,
- Law,
- Letter - Document,
- Majestic,
- Men,
- Microphone,
- Movie Camera,
- Moving Up,
- New York City,
- New York Harbor,
- Newspaper,
- Newsreel,
- Note Pad,
- Ocean Liner,
- Office,
- Passenger Craft,
- Passenger Point Of View,
- People,
- Photographer,
- Photographic Print,
- Photographing,
- Photography Themes,
- Pigeon,
- Police Force,
- Produced Segment,
- Railing,
- Real Time Video,
- Rear View,
- Releasing,
- Rooftop,
- Running,
- Ship,
- Side View,
- Smoke,
- Smoke Stack,
- Speech,
- Stack,
- Street,
- Suspicion,
- Telephone,
- The Media,
- Throwing,
- USA,
- Video with Sound,
- Windshield,