PRESERVED FILMS

Bayshore Round-Up (1920)

Film showing the Bayshore Amusement Park in its heyday, preserved by the Maryland Historical Society with NFPF support.

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17 Days: A Story of Newspaper History in the Making (1945)

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17 Days: A Story of Newspaper History in the Making (1945)
Sponsor/Production Co.: New York Daily News. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 17 minutes.

Promotional film demonstrating the importance of newspapers in everyday life. Sponsored by New York’s largest-circulation newspaper, 17 Days is set during the citywide strike of newspaper delivery truck drivers in the summer of 1945. The film shows how the public literally went the extra mile to get their papers directly from the Daily News. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia does his part by reading aloud the Dick Tracy comic strip on the radio.

Note: Produced in Kodachrome.