Film, Motion Picture

Can C, "Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund, 'Forgotten'"

Silent black and white 16mm film reel to promote the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund's 1942 effort by using footage from a 1925 Detroit News newsreel of the 1925 sales day, and film of the 1941 effort.

The reel begins with the 1925 Sales Day Detroit News Pictorial newsreel. A large group of Goodfellows are shown posing in their aprons and bags, then marching down the street. The camera rolls as actress Francis White buys the first paper from Herman W. Shmeman. The newsreel also shows former judge Ernest P. LaJoie, and the son of Goodfellows founder James J. Brady, Joseph W. Brady selling papers.

A title card introduces the next segment as "a pictorial record of some of the members of the executive committee... some of whom were in the first sales day in 1914 and who will be out there selling again this year! Presenting the Old Newsboys in action in 1941." There is a pan across a big group of Old Newsboys wearing their bags, followed by footage of the Detroit Police Department's mounted police and the Goodfellows' marching band in a parade. Numerous shots of Goodfellows, including Brady outside of the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit, selling papers follow. Afterward, Detroit police, and Boy Scouts are shown delivering gifts to children, and women are shown lacing up new shoes on children. One delivery occurs to a family in Black Bottom, living next door to Franklin's Grocery at 1518 Hastings Street.

The film ends with a title card promoting the December 15, 1942 sales day, and discussing the importance of the group's mission to the "future of America."

The film is on a 7" brown metal reel within a brown metal canister. A masking tape label marked, "Can C," is on the tin's lid above a taped-down newsprint of Thomas May's cartoon "Forgotten."