The US Navy of 1915 - silent film
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 4:48 pm
http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserv ... ntary-1915
Video at the link, but I don't know how to make non youtube vids show up in the forum.
Video at the link, but I don't know how to make non youtube vids show up in the forum.
We are indebted to independent scholar Charles “Buckey” Grimm for identifying this 11-minute piece of the celebrated “lost” three-reel documentary U.S. Navy of 1915, produced by the Lyman H. Howe Company. (The piece had formerly been known only as “U.S. Navy Fragment.”) The film was made with the full support of the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, who believed in the power of motion pictures to convince isolationists of the importance of building a strong American navy. A former newspaperman who knew the value of publicity, Daniels allowed Howe’s camera crew remarkable shipboard access. The results show sailors as they go about their day—doing repairs, cleaning the deck, exercising, as well as demonstrating naval might. The film drew praise as capturing “the pulse-beat of the complex life that throbs through our dreadnoughts from reveille to ‘taps.’”
Maybe you could get someone to play a piano in the background. 