Oh, absolutely, and digitally enhanced as well. And a great job they did of it!
If I remember correctly Kodachrome color movie film wouldn’t come along until the late 1930s, and even then it was expensive. Newsreel cameras would use black-and-white film right up to the time when the movie newsreel concept died in the 1960’s.
I’ve been wondering–why is it that “GP” in the military become “Jeep” while on the railroads it became “Geep”? As Andy Rooney used to say, “Why is that?”
Please note that I am strictly guessing here - perhaps it’s because the “jeep” term came about in and around WWII, while the “Geep” didn’t come into existance until after the war.
Seems like I’ve seen it suggested that the Jeep (vehicle) may have taken it’s name from the animal in the Popeye cartoons. Or not.
Sec. of Commerce Herbert Hoover appears briefly near the VIP train. Hoover is not seen getting into the Dodge with Harding.
Would you rather have ridden in the Dodge, or on the VIP train.
Tough choice. For the experience, the Dodge. For rubbing elbows with the high and mighty, on the train…
Something I remember from my early childhood was a mention in Trains that the use of ‘Geep’ was to distinguish the locomotive from the Army car.
Something that DID come from the Popeye strip was the nickname for the CB&Q streamlined S-4 Hudson. A couple of these rather ponderous things were given even more ponderous stainless-steel shrouding, complete with a nameplate reading ÆOLUS (the Greek keeper of the winds – note the plaque on the nose of 4001) - both of 'em confusingly given that name. It was not long before roundhouse wags trying to pronounce this figured out it was the name of the Queen of the Goons in Thimble Theatre. And so, to go with the ATSF’s Mae West, we got Big Alice the Goon.
No question though, the girl could run. Note the Boxpok drivers, lightweight Timken rods … and those are 14" long-travel valves.
Given Harding’s soiled/sordid reputation [prostitutes entering and leaving by the backstairs in the WH and rampant corruption scadals brewing] it’s understandable that an upstanding guy like Hoover might distance himself.
OTOH, Harding was making noises about going after lynching and also helped push through the first arms limitation treaty.
Garsh! You make him sound like a bad enough guy that his wife might try to have him bumped off or something. [:-,]
Warren Harding’s train ride returning from Alaska would be his last.
http://intelligentcollector.com/blog/president-hardings-funeral-train-transfixed-the-world/
She did order him to come out of a closet once when she knew he had a housemaid in with him (according to a tale). I do not know what she did after he came out.
A different type of closeted male!!
― Warren G. Harding
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/35912-i-have-no-trouble-with-my-enemies-i-can-take
“There was no reasonable suggestion that Harding either knew about this affair or profited from it. His failure was not greed, but rather making some poor choices for cabinet positions and failing to monitor them. The Teapot Dome Scandal was lasting blot on the record of his administration.”
“It would be folly to ignore that we live in a motor age. The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present-day life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted to inquire about the prostrate figure which fell as its victim. With full recognition of motor-car transportation we must turn it to the most practical use. It can not supersede the railway lines, no matter how generously we afford it highways out of the Public Treasury. If freight traffic by motor were charged with its proper and proportionate share of highway construction, we should find much of it wasteful and more costly than like service by rail. Yet we have paralleled the railways, a most natural line of construction, and thereby taken away from the agency of expected service much of its profitable traffic, which the taxpayers have been providing the highways, whose cost of maintenance is not yet realized.”