YESTERDAY’S NEWSREEL 1933 CUBAN REVOLUTION MAN-O-WAR WWI VICTORY GARDENS FLIGHT OF R-34 19364

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: Created from the archives of the General Newsreel Co., “Yesterday’s Newsreel“ aired on television in the early 1950s. This episode features the 1933 revolution in Cuba (:39). It opens with a bird’s eye view of Havana and President Gerardo Machado y Morales (:48). Morales had consolidated his power as a popular revolt struck out against him (1:04). Railway cars and buses stood idle as turmoil broke out (1:09) and the military had split allegiances with officers siding with the President and soldiers with the populace. In Miami, the American ambassador Sumner Wells (1:38) sought to mediate. He was unsuccessful and the revolution began in August of 1933 (1:42). Riots in the streets around police on horseback are seen (1:46). The Cuban Air Force flew over head. Street fights still continued (1:55). A piano is dropped from the hotel balcony in which Macha