Season Moves in on Artists (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1938)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. CLASS STUDIES UNDER WATER: SILVER SPRINGS, FL - Girls from a University of Miami zoology class take Mohammed to the mountain by donning helmets and descending to the floor of the sea to get first-hand information on marine specimens. 2A/B/C/D/E. F.D.R. SEES HOMESTEAD PROJECT PINE: MOUNTAIN VALLEY, GA - The President wishes some “scoffers” at Government aid to agriculture could share his inspection of the Pine Mountain Valley Homestead, built to aid share-croppers. / SCORES DIE AS TWISTER HITS STATES: FROM OKLAHOMA to Illinois are ripped by a terrific tornado that tears its way through the section. Thirty-six are known dead and hundreds injured. Farms and homes are crushed by the twister’s wrath. / SPEED PLANE CRASHES, BURNS: MINES FIELD, CA - (Exclusive) Harry Crosby tries out his new bullet plane at 350 m.p.h., but comes to grief in a ground spin when he tries to land. Flames lick the plane, but flier and machine are saved. / HUGE STABLE GUTTED BY FIRE: NEW YORK CITY - (Exclusive) A Fire Lieutenant is killed, 3 firemen hurt, and 138 horses burned to death as flames sweep a big livery stable at 238 Cherry Street in the heart of Gotham’s Lower East Side. / CLIMBERS TRAPPED BY STORM: MT. HOOD, OR - A sudden blizzard traps a party of climbers, killing two persons. Search parties dig for a lost man’s tracks through several feet of snow and finally come upon his frozen body. 3. DOE REFUSES TO ‘GO NATIVE’: GOWANDA, NY - Dr. Robert Tuttle binds up the wounds of an injured doe and nurses her back to health. Now he can’t get the beast to leave him. She refuses to return to the woods and live a proper sylvan life. 4. SEASON MOVES IN ON ARTISTS: WESTWOOD, CA - The American Artists Congress meets for its Spring masquerade, and things get goofier and goofier. Nymphs and other very fanciful creatures disport themselves in the greenwood. 5. DAFFODIL QUEEN HAILS SPRING: TACOMA, WA - Bevies of beautiful girls gather bright golden daffodils to grace the royal procession of the Queen of a Springtime festival. Immense Western fields are splashed with the blooms. 6A/B. JUNIOR ADMIRALS MIX IT UP: ANNAPOLIS, MD - Pugnacious younger sons of naval officers fight it out for Junior Boxing Championships at the Academy. Most of the “battlers” are only four years of age. / MIDGET AUTOS CRASH IN RACE: NUTLEY, NJ - Daring knights of the road dare death and injury as they race midget automobiles at a fast clip around the Nutley Velodrome. A driver crashes into the fence and is carried off seriously hurt. (LOCAL – NEW YORK) GOTHAM GREETS FILM CELEBRITIES.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library