Air Carnival (Universal Newsreel, May 1950)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. HOLLYWOOD WELCOMES PREMIER OF PAKISTAN: HOLLYWOOD, CA - Leading personalities of filmland honor Liquat Ali Khan who also visits Universal-International’s Harvey set and gets a firsthand interpretation by Jimmie Stewart, star of the picture. 2A/B/C. AIR CARNIVAL: BIRMINGHAM, AL - From jets to venerable bi-lanes, the air dare devils pull out all the stops to show what they think of gravity. Military and civilian planes make the Fourteenth Annual event a memorable one. / PASSION PLAY REVIVED: OBERAMMERGAU - After sixteen years, the famous religious spectacle, closed by Hitlerism and war, draws an audience from all parts of the world. / MONKEY BUSINESS: ST. LOUIS, MO - Stars of the zoo come up with a high grade performance and some brand new tricks that bring down a packed juvenile house. 3A/B/C. RODEO A LA CHILE: CHILE - They paly rough when Chilean cowboys tangle with steers. It takes horsemanship of a high order to control an ornery steer with nothing but the horse’s maneuvers. / BRUSH WITH DEATH: GERMANY - during a road auto race one of the cars goes out of control and plows into a crowd. Miracles happen and everyone survived. / MOTOR JOCKEYS: TACOMA, WA - They never give up on Blue Baron Hill. Forty motorcyclists try the almost perpendicular climb and the results find riders and cycles strewn all over the hillside. (LOCAL – CANADA) SUMMER SKI MEET.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library