Filipinos Elect Roxas (Universal Newsreel, May 1946)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. FILIPINOS ELECT ROXAS: MANILA - For the first time in their history, Filipinos go to the polls to vote for more than one candidate, and the winner is Manuel Roxas, spirited campaigner who promised full cooperation with the U.S. 2. EXPLOSION BLASTS DESTROYER: LEONARDO, NJ - Seven men are dead and scores injured following an ammunition blast, on board the Destroyer Escort Solar. The blast shattered the foreword part of the ship, leaving it a twisted hulk. 3. DUCE BODY TAKEN FROM GRAVE: MILAN, ITALY - Stolen from the grave where he was buried after his ignominious end, the body of Italy’s strutting ex-dictator has disappeared. Only tattered clothing remains to mark the amazing robbery. 4. NAZI ROCKET BACKFIRES: GERMANY - These amazing films, found in Germany, show V-2 rocket launchings against enemy targets. One of the giant missiles backfires and explodes in the launching site, killing scores. 5A. PRINCESSES AT THE CIRCUS: LONDON, ENGLAND - Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose go behind the scene at the first post-war circus and get a royal thrill out of the animal acts and clownish antics. / POPE HONORS U.S. ADMIRAL: ROME, ITALY - Admiral Hewitt, commander of the U.S. Naval Force in Europe, meets Pope Pius at a private audience, following reception of a high award from Crown Prince Umberto. 6. DOG NURSES LION CUBS: OAKLAND, CA - “Queenie,” a dog with maternal instincts which transcend matters of heredity in animals, adopts three motherless lion cubs and nurses them along with her own. Momma and children are doing nicely! (Except Philadelphia) 7. G.I. DREAM COMES TRUE: NEW YORK - Former-Sergeant Bass Lewis made a wish when he went overseas—and it comes true at the Hotel Astor when he has breakfast in bed and is waited on by Col. Joseph Snyder. Peace, it’s wonderful! (LOCAL – PHILADELPHIA) FIRE LADDIES ON PARADE.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library