Congress Hears Roosevelt (Universal Newsreel, Jan 1938)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. CONGRESS HEARS ROOSEVELT: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The President reads his Annual Message before a special joint session of the Senate and House. The Chief Executive outlines the “State of the Nation” and offers his plans for the immediate future. 2. FLOODS, STORMS LASH COAST: OREGON AND WASHINGTON are hit by torrential rains, high winds and floods that wreak havoc throughout the Northwest. Two men are killed when a train hurtles from tracks spread by floods at Washougal, Wash. Whole towns are inundated and cut off from the world. 3. MACHINEGUN SCOOTER DEADLY: FT. BENNING, GA - The Army demonstrates a new machinegun-carrying doodlebug that rips over the ground at 28 m.p.h. with two men on board. The pair are enabled by the ingenious contraption to do the work of an entire machinegun squad. 4. ACES IN SIZZLING BALL GAME: MIAMI, FL - Champion players of Jai-Alai, the Spanish-Cuban ball game, put on a triples match at the Biscayne Fronton. With six men on the court action is fast and furious, and many a contestant finds himself bumping the floor boards. 5. 1,500,000 SEE ROSE TOURNEY: PASADENA, CA - Tremendous multitudes view the colorful festivities of the 49th Annual Tournament of Roses. Movie stars in costume ride hundreds of floats of magnificent design as the world’s champion parade moves through the city. 6. RECORD THRONGS HAIL 1938: NEW YORK CITY - Times Square is jammed to the building-line from side to side as enormous (and noisy!) crowds salute the birth of the New Year. Buses and streetcars almost halt as the joyous gathering whoops it up. 7. BEARS CAPTURE BOWL CLASSIC: PASADENA, CA - The University of California’s Golden Bears defeat their gridiron opponents from Alabama, 13 to 0, in the annual revival of the Rose Bowl game, California hands the Crimson Tide its first defeat in five tries. (LOCAL – ATLANTA & DETROIT) AUBURN CONQUERS MICHIGAN.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library