Gorgeous Floats Mark “Revolution Day” Review (Universal Newsreel, Nov 1929)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. GORGEOUS FLOATS MARK “REVOLUTION DAY” REVIEW: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - President Portes Gil honors heroes who helped put down last uprising. Decorating the widow of a general. The parade — The marchers with floats are from the athletic divisions of the Army. 2. SANTA CLAUS HERE WITH HIS XMAS PACK: NEW YORK CITY - Big department stores display wonderful array of Yuletide toys. Doggies that never, never bite. Mechanical marvels. St. Nick greets a lot of good little girls and boys. 3. FOIL SMUGGLERS AND GET $25,000 IN “DOPE”: BLAINE, WA - U.S. Customs men on Canadian border find old “flivver” filled with drugs. And what they don’t do to “Lizzie.” 4. BUILD BIGGEST BONFIRE ON EVE OF GRID CLASH: PALO ALTO, CA - Stanford “U” freshmen erect huge pile as defy to California rivals. Somebody’s screen door is taken for a ride. Up she goes. 5. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THESE NEWS PICTURES?: LONDON, ENGLAND - (Exclusive Pictures) First — take a good look at this Englishman’s clock and see if you can detect an error. Answer: There are two “elevens,” but no “nine.” Tommy Atkins is striking an incorrect posture outside the Royal Exchange. What is it? No good soldier covers a rifle muzzle with his hands. The Duke of Wellington is all wrong — why? He hasn’t any stirrups or spurs, and the reins look like a rope. 6. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: PARIS, FRANCE - Georges Clemenceau dies — “Tiger of France” succumbs to illness after valiant fight. 7. SHIP WHOLE RAILROAD: ESSINGTON, PA - Seventeen locomotives and thirty cars are loaded on steamship for South America. 8. PAIR LEAP AFTER ’PLANE WEDDING: ROOSEVELT FIELD, NY - Marjorie Klinger and Donald Babcock make parachute jumps after midair marriage. 9. MONKEY ON TIGHTROPE RIVALS CIRCUS STARS: CULVER CITY, CA - “Lady” Chimpanzee does her daily dozen on aerial walk. Her name is Mary and she’s a coolheaded girl. Blindfolded. But the slack wire’s not so easy. 10. 20,000 DRILL IN HONOR OF JAPAN’S “EMPIRE BUILDER”: TOKIO, JAPAN - School children fill stadium in memory of late Emperor Meiji. High school girls. The whole company joins in one vast display. (LOCAL - NEW HAVEN AND BOSTON) 60,000 SEE HARVARD TRIUMPHS OVER YALE, 10-6.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library