Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial, No. 20
The United States collier Prometheus starts from San Francisco to tow the steamer Crescent to New York on the longest trip of its kind on record. When Chicago society women, enthused by the call for preparedness, joined a cavalry troop, a Hearst-Vitagraph cameraman caught the festive item, and another was on hand when the students of two classes at the University of California staged their annual fight. And in New York when six barefooted girls rehearsed their vaudeville act in the ice-crusted snow of Central Park, a Hearst-Vitagraph "movie man" was present to show their blood trickling feet, which resulted from the cruel experience. In like manner, a big blaze in Chicago's loop district was caught on the moment. Even Newton D. Baker, the newly-appointed Secretary of War, and Lindley M. Garrison, the retiring secretary, did not escape the Hearst-Vitagraph cameraman. This issue also includes the novel sight of Gordon Ronneberg, of Chicago, aged six, in a thrilling high leaping ski exhibition and shows also society afoot on a winter hunt near Burlingame, California. And from over the seas, the French front in Greece and the Allied fleet in the harbor of Salonika are brought to the eyes of the Western world through the medium of Hearst-Vitagraph. T. E. Powers, the cartoonist, drops in one of his famous gloom killers. Hearst-Vitagraph never neglects the women. In this release the fair ones may see the choicest creations of New York designers, of negligee, bathing costume and morning dresses, all veritable dreams of novelty and newness.
- Released
- 1916
Details
Release year: 1916
Storyline
The United States collier Prometheus starts from San Francisco to tow the steamer Crescent to New York on the longest trip of its kind on record. When Chicago society women, enthused by the call for preparedness, joined a cavalry troop, a Hearst-Vitagraph cameraman caught the festive item, and another was on hand when the students of two classes at the University of California staged their annual fight. And in New York when six barefooted girls rehearsed their vaudeville act in the ice-crusted snow of Central Park, a Hearst-Vitagraph "movie man" was present to show their blood trickling feet, which resulted from the cruel experience. In like manner, a big blaze in Chicago's loop district was caught on the moment. Even Newton D. Baker, the newly-appointed Secretary of War, and Lindley M. Garrison, the retiring secretary, did not escape the Hearst-Vitagraph cameraman. This issue also includes the novel sight of Gordon Ronneberg, of Chicago, aged six, in a thrilling high leaping ski exhibition and shows also society afoot on a winter hunt near Burlingame, California. And from over the seas, the French front in Greece and the Allied fleet in the harbor of Salonika are brought to the eyes of the Western world through the medium of Hearst-Vitagraph. T. E. Powers, the cartoonist, drops in one of his famous gloom killers. Hearst-Vitagraph never neglects the women. In this release the fair ones may see the choicest creations of New York designers, of negligee, bathing costume and morning dresses, all veritable dreams of novelty and newness.
Top credits
- Newton Baker — Self
- Lindley M. Garrison — Self
- Gordon Ronneberg — Self