Universal Newsreel Volume 18, Release 359: Local Stories

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. GREENLAND FREED OF NAZIS: Nazi weather and radio stations in Greenland are located and destroyed by the U.S. Coast Guard who dynamites its way through the Arctic ice fields to reach the enemy. Sleek German trawlers are destroyed or captured, and the Nazis are driven from their North Atlantic observation posts. 2. YANKS SHELL KEHL: Yanks in Strasbourg shell Kehl, the Nazi city on the opposite banks of the Rhine, with telling effect. 3. THE WAR IN POLAND THE WAR IN POLAND: World War II opens in Poland as the Panzer divisions strike Warsaw and burn large portions of it. Peace is signed in a railway coach and starving Poles eat every shred of meat from the carcasses of horses. The Poles go underground. They publish 110 newspapers, commit continuous sabotage, daub the city with signs of defiance and hang Hitler in effigy. In 1944 they arise prematurely and are smitten down. Their ghetto is completely destroyed. 4. AMBASSADOR BONNET: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ambassador Henri Bonnet takes over the French embassy on behalf of the de Gaulle provisional government. 5. GUARD DEMOBILIZED: HYDE PARK, ENG. - The Home Guard, 7,000 strong, pass by the Royal Family in their final review before "standing down." 6. TEXAS AMAZONS: HOUSTON, TX - (Exclusive) Mildred Burke, World's Champion Woman Wrestler, defends her title against Mae Weston convincingly. The rules are thrown out of the ring, and so is Mae—three times. (LOCAL – CANADA) GENERAL’S NEW YEAR MESSAGE. (LOCAL – CANADA) CANADA’S V.C. WINNERS.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library