30,000 Gymnasts in Mammoth Sokol Drill (Universal Newsreel, Oct 1929)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. 30,000 GYMNASTS IN MAMMOTH SOKOL DRILL: PILSEN, CZECHOSLOVAKIA - Men and women athletes parade through streets before tremendous crowds. President Masaryk attends. The exhibition is held in the athletic field. 2. 13 LOSE LIVES IN WORST PRISON RIOT: CANON CITY, CO - First pictures of Colorado State Penitentiary where 200 convicts mutinied. Flames follow the dynamiting of cell houses No. 2 and 4. After the holocaust — Cannon used in the attack. Part of Cell Block No. 3 where seven guards were murdered. Warden Crawford and his wife. He was shot twice while defying the rioters. 3. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: STATEN ISLAND, NY - Gives whoopee party at 108 — Children help Mrs. Levapresto celebrate birthday. “No prohibition for me,” she says as she drinks her medicinal wine. 4. MACDONALD MEETS HOOVER: WASHINGTON, D.C. - England’s Prime Minister calls on President at White House. It was shortly after this meeting that the two Statesmen decided on a world naval parley to be held in London. Mr. MacDonald addresses the Senate telling them that there will be no secret Anglo-American pact. Senators congratulate the Premier. Mrs. Hoover and Miss MacDonald attend a gathering of the Girl Scouts. 5. DENMARK’S RULER GREETS OLDEST REGIMENT: FREDERICIA, DENMARK - Reviews crack 12th Infantry on its 250th birthday. 6. ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS RIDDLE FLOATING TARGET: CAPITOLA, CA - Sixty-third Coast Artillery gives fine exhibition of marksmanship. A sighting machine and modern range finders. What they did to the target. 7. ODDITIES IN TO-DAY’S NEWS: PORT LIMON, COSTA RICA - Deep sea shellbacks race at furious speed of two miles an hour. Snapper wins! 8. MR. AND MRS. FELIS LEO PRESENT — : EL MONTE, CA - Some brand new productions that will soon be roaring successes. They all seem to be mad at somebody. 9. A BOY HERCULES: TOLEDO, OH - Clarence Kehr, Jr., five years old, smokes his father’s pipe, and performs amazing feats of strength. He smoothes the lawn with a 200 pound roller. Nobody in the family ever picks an argument with him. 10. JAPANESE WOMEN START BIG PROHIBITION DRIVE: TOKIO, JAPAN - (Exclusive Pictures) Drys gain first foothold in Nippon when 3,000 hold a Wineless Day procession. Miss Moriya, President of the Temperance Society. The parade is held on the sixth anniversary of the great earthquake. 11. SERGEANT YORK AGAIN SILENCES “ENEMY GUNS”: WASHINGTON, D.C. - “Outstanding feat” of Argonne hero is re-enacted at the Army War College. The battle. How Sergt. York and his men captured 32 machine guns and 132 prisoners.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library