Smashes All Speed Records in Schneider Cup Air Races (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1929)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. SMASHES ALL SPEED RECORDS IN SCHNEIDER CUP AIR RACES: CALSHOT, ENGLAND - Flying Officer H.R.D. Waghorn averages 328 miles an hour for course. Italy loses to Great Britain. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald is among the distinguished visitors. The Prince of Wales is there, too. Waghorn, in Supermarine No. 2, takes off. The race — at times Waghorn reached a speed of 375 miles an hour. The winner returns in triumph. 2. PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS OF TO-DAY: MILAN, ITALY - Huge crowds hail arrival of new Cardinal Schuster on way to cathedral. 3. TILDEN SAILS: NEW YORK CITY - “Big Bill,” fresh from Forest Hills triumph, goes abroad to be a play actor. 4. HOOVER’S SON AT HARVARD: CAMBRIDGE, MA - Allan, President’s youngest, starts his studies at School of Business Administration. 5. JEWRY LEADER HERE: NEW YORK CITY - Rabbi Schnayerson, head of Orthodox Church, comes to U.S. from Latvia. 6. ALL VENICE AGLOW AT GONDOLA REGATTA: VENICE, ITALY - Canals are a blaze of color as hundreds of craft pass in historic procession. The Rialto Bridge immortalized by Shakespeare in his Merchant of Venice. 7. ODDITIES IN TO-DAY’S NEWS: FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, GERMANY - A new home for the “Graf Zeppelin” — 150 feet high and 900 feet long. 8. INVENTS NEW LIFE RAFT: NEW YORK CITY - Test of a preserver that looks like a waffle is made in Hudson River. 9. LINDY AND BRIDE OFF ON LONG AIR TRIP: ROOSEVELT FIELD, NY - Colonel will inaugurate new air mail-passenger service from Miami to Dutch Guiana. Off on the first leg to Central America. 10. NEW SKYSCRAPERS WILL BE HIGHEST EVER KNOWN: NEW YORK CITY - (Exclusive Pictures) “Big Town’s” map is rapidly changing as scores of brick and steel monsters rise. How mid-town tenements are giving way to mammoth office structures. The Woolworth, 60 stories, 792 feet high, soon to lose its title of “world’s tallest.” Almost complete — Chrysler, 67 stories, 808 feet. Biggest of all — Views from Bank of Manhattan, 65 stories, 838 feet. A nervy Universal cameraman gets an airplane view.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library