U.S. Tests Latest Weapons (Universal Newsreel, Mar 1938)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. BATTLESHIP WINS GRAND NATIONAL: AINTREE, ENGLAND - Battleship, gallant son of Man O’ War, captures the 100th running of the Grand National Steeplechase, the first American-bred, American-owned horse in history to accomplish the feat. 2A/B/C/D. U.S. TESTS LATEST WEAPONS: FT. BENNING, GA - Soldiers at the Infantry School stage a realistic demonstration of the Army’s latest equipment. Rapid-fire guns rattle day and night and their tracer bullets cut bright streaks in the darkness. / BLAST FREES 38 PRISONERS: PETROS, TN - Thirty-eight convicts dynamite their way to freedom from Petros jail. Bloodhounds pick up the scent and possess recapture all but six of the men in short order. / HOOVER VIEWS EUROPEAN SCENE: NEW YORK CITY - Herbert Hoover returns from a short trip to the Continent. The former President sees Democracy waning with the rise of Dictators and points out that expenditures for arms are rocketing. / ARMY GETS NEW 30-TON BOMBER: DAYTON, OH - Pleased Army officials inspect a new Boeing bombardment plane weighing thirty tons. The huge craft has a wingspread of 150 feet and its streamlined body is ninety feet long. 3A/B. WARDENS CHEER IKE WALTONS: NEW BRITAIN, CT - (Exclusive) State Fish Hatcheries produce and “plant” large qualities of young trout as the fishing season nears. / DEL MONTE, CA - “Fishermen” hook a bevy of bathing beauty “porpoises” and the fun begins. 4A/B. CARAS CROWNED BILLIARD ACE: NEW YORK CITY - (Exclusive) Jimmy Caras beats Andrew Ponzi to regain the billiards championship. Close-ups of trick shots show Caras’ masterly control over cue and billiard balls. / AMERKS CONQUER BLACK HAWKS: NEW YORK CITY - In a slashing, tearing game that finds goalie Karakas knocked cold twice, the New York Americans beat the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team by the score of 3 to 1 in a playoff match.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library