Universal Newsreel Volume 23, Release 380: Local Stories

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. AIR STRIKE IN KOREA - The Air Force unleashes the most massive B-29 attack of the war. More than a hundred Superforts drop 4500 tons of bombs. With strafing fighters, they break up a planned Red offensive against hard pressed UN forces along the Naktong River. 2A/B/C/D. TRANSPARENT WOMAN: GERMANY - After 30 years, experts evolve one of the most perfect replicas of the form divine. Its preview has the crowds gaping. / BARUCH HONORED: NEW YORK, NY - The nation’s most distinguished park bench sitter is made honorary Commissioner of Works for the Borough of Manhattan on the eve of his eightieth birthday. / NEW ARMY STYLES: WASHINGTON, D.C. - There’s a new look for women of the Air Force. Smart new uniforms are modelled by WAF’s who could do duty as models if duty didn’t call them to the Air Force. / TANKER BLASTED: NEW JERSEY - Off the Jersey coast, a tanker torpedoed in 1942 is blown up with 15 tons of TNT, after it proves a menace to navigation. 3A/B. A BULLY TIME : ESTELLA, SPAIN - In an annual fiesta, bulls are loosed through the streets of the city, then corralled in the arena and the results do not leave the amateur matadors sitting pretty. / HIGH WIRE ANTICS: MUNICH, GERMANY - One hundred and sixty feet above the ground, the Zugspitze acrobats do their stuff—like riding a bicycle and acting like they were on the ground. (LOCAL – KANSAS) NATIONAL SEMI–PRO BASEBALL. (LOCAL – CANADA) ENGLISH YOUTH TOUR OF DOMINION. (LOCAL – CANADA) NEW PLANT TO PRODUCE DIESELS.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library