Fire Sweeps Oil Refinery (Universal Newsreel, Oct 1938)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. SCIENTISTS TRACE LOST RADIUM: PORTLAND, OR - (Exclusive) Thrown away by mistake, a tiny $1,000 capsule of the element is traced to a garbage truck just before the driver dumps the load. A special scientific “electroscope” locates the missing disc in the nick of time. 2A/B/C/D/E. FIRE SWEEPS OIL REFINERY: LINDEN, NJ - Spectacular scenes as a Cities Service plant goes up in smoke! The blaze rages on with intense fury, destroying many tanks and defying desperate fire-fighting efforts. / FIRE DESTROYS ORIENTAL CITY: HIMI-MACHI, JAPAN - Scores dead, thousand injured or homeless and damage estimated in the millions follow in the wake of a serious storm and blaze that swept the thriving coastal town, leaving nothing standing but blackened ruins. / COSTERS HONOR OLD PARSON: LONDON, ENGLAND - The famous Coster-mongers, and their families bedecked in their noted pearl-button finery, turn out in force on the Old Kent Road to bid good-bye to their aged “Bishop,” who is retiring. / “DOUG” TEACHES GIRL TO FLY: ROOSEVELT FIELD, NY - (Exclusive) “Wrong-Way” Corrigan, hero of the epochal “hop” to Ireland, gets over his girl-shyness and is now instructing a New York Miss how to pilot a plane. Wonder where he’s headed now? / PEACE HAILED AT WAR SHRINE: PARIS, FRANCE - Fresh from the Four-Power conference at Munich that averted a new World War, Premier Daladier is acclaimed by thousands during an impressive parade and ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe, where he re-lights the Eternal Flame. 3A/B. DIXIE FETES BIG COTTON CROP: CLARKSDALE, MS - King and Queen Cotton are crowned and a colorful pageant marks the Delta’s annual crop festival. / CLOVER HILL, MS - Forerunner of an economic and social upheaval, a mechanical cotton picker is tested that will revolutionize Southern agriculture. 4A/B. U.S. PUTS BEAVERS TO WORK: MEDICINE BOWL NAT’L PARK, WY - (Exclusive) The elusive dam-builders, amphibious tree-cutters whose quaint homes dot Pole Creek, are caught by forest rangers in special cages and transported to other regions, to aid the government in stream control. / MAKE RECORD HAUL BY HAND: TANNER CREEK, OR - (Exclusive) Huge salmon are caught by hand as they fight their way to the headwater streams of the Columbia River to spawn. Millions of eggs are extracted by government experts for the fish hatcheries. 5A/B. BRONC RIDERS THRILL GOTHAM: NEW YORK, NY - The Wild West comes back to Manhattan for the 13th annual Rodeo at Madison Square Garden and urbane New Yorkers thrill again to the parade of cowboys and cowgirls, the “ride ’em and bump” antics of bronc and steer riders. / SCHOONERS RACE FOR TROPHY: BOSTON, MA - Rivalry on the high seas! In the first race for the Internat’l Fisherman’s cup, the American ship, Gertrude Thebaud, beats the Canadian champion, Bluenose, by a half-mile in a thrilling 36-mile marine classic.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library