Fire Sweeps White House Offices — Save Priceless Records (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1929)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. FIRE SWEEPS WHITE HOUSE OFFICES — SAVE PRICELESS RECORDS: WASHINGTON, D.C. - President’s study wrecked in $75,000 blaze — Only walls remain. Firemen bail water from the flooded rooms. “By the dawn’s early light.” 2. $45,000,000 WARSHIP HAS ANNUAL SCRUBBING: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Giant airplane carrier, “Saratoga,” goes to dry dock for New Year bath. Battling the barnacles. 3. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: ABERDEEN, WA - Forest giant, 1,000 years old, is victim of lumberman’s axe. 4. SAVE STARVING BIRDS: BUFFALO, NY - Thousands of pheasants, cut off from food supply by deep snows, fed by humane sportsmen. 5. “SKYSKATING” IS NEW FAD: CHICAGO, IL - Hotel manager opens rink on top of thirty-five story building. 6. HOOVER GREETS RUBIO AS GUEST OF NATION: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mexico’s President-elect is accorded unusual honors in Capital. In the center are Ortiz Rubio, the President, Mrs. Rubio, and Mrs. Hoover. 7. SEA-ELEPHANTS BEWAIL WATER RIGHTS INVASION: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - Monsters roar protest as pert penguins plunge into pool. “Auk! Auk!” — (Get-outa-here!). 8. HELEN WILLS GOES TO ALTAR FOR “LIFE DOUBLES”: BERKELEY, CA - World’s champion tennis star is bride of Frederick S. Moody, Jr. Five years ago — How our Helen looked after winning 1924 Olympics. Off on the honeymoon — A love set on the blue Pacific. 9. PARIS DENIES STYLE EXTREMES, SAYS WORTH: NEW YORK CITY - (Exclusive Pictures) Noted French designer blames American modesties for exaggerated “longies.” He warns our girls against drifting back to fashions of 25 years ago, something like this --- 10. RESCUERS RISK DEATH IN MOUNTAIN BLIZZARD: ON THE ZUGSPITZE, GERMANY - (Exclusive Pictures) Merciless gale foils hunt for lost climbers on towering peak. Part of the dangerous descent is by torchlight.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library