Homing pigeons rush news film to news offices, help speed news reporting; 1930s

Title card: "Pigeon Post Scoops Town," / pigeons fly and land on rooftop coop / man closes coop door / man at desk speaks into microphone calling car to an address, telephones on desk / MPOV through car windshield / high angle view car on street passing camera / car screeches as it pulls to curb where men have gathered; photographer and another hurry out of car / high angle police escort suspect with bandaged head out of building to car, man in crowd films scene with movie camera, reporter with notepad follows them to car; photographer takes picture of people getting into car / VS CU man attaching film rolls to homing pigeon's back / man releases pigeon; pan to follow as pigeon flies past city buildings / pan to follow as pigeon flies / ocean liner Majestic arriving in New York Harbor, smoke pouring from stacks / rear view photographers taking photos of three businessmen at ship railing, shore in bg / CU photographer shooting / photographer running on deck approaches to deliver film to waiting man / man on ship releases pigeons; they fly up / man going up White Star gangplank as newsmen descend; he shows disembarking man a newspaper / CU picture of the three businessmen on front page of New York Journal / man on gangplank tosses newspaper over side / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete