Helicopter Lift (Universal Newsreel, May 1953)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. HELICOPTER LIFT: KOREA - As rains and mud take over the Korean roads and trucks bog down, the faithful helicopters come to the rescue and move tons of supplies to all parts of the far-flung battle lines. 2A/B/C/D/E/F. FATE TAKES A HAND: HOLLAND - Thirty-four persons aboard an airliner escape with their lives as it crashes. Ironically, two spectators are killed and five injured in the accident. / PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME: SPAIN - Generalissimo Franco stages one of the most colorful welcomes in recent Spanish history for president Francisco Lopes of Portugal. / NEW LIFE FOR A BOY: SEATTLE - Eleven-year-old Song Yong Cho, legless orphan of the Korean war arrives in America to begin a new life in Boys Town. He was rescued by GI's and sent to America to begin a new life. / PRESIDENT AND VETS: WASHINGTON, D.C. - President and Mrs. Eisenhower, along with government dignitaries, play host to 1700 sick and disabled men and women of the armed forces. / AIRMEN LEARN JUDO: JAPAN - Airmen of the Strategic Air Command, required to be in top physical condition, learn the ancient art of Judo from Japanese instructors. / EDUCATED LAWN MOWER: NEW JERSEY - Your lawn mowing worries are over. This gadget with a trick arm keeps going around and around the grass plot, while you sit on the porch sipping a cooling drink. 3. MONSTER TREADS LIGHTLY: CALIFORNIA - Army officers watch the Rolligon go through its paces on enormous tires, which spread out so widely the truck can climb the side of a building and run over the inventor without injuring him. (LOCAL – CLEVELAND) CANDY QUEEN. (LOCAL – NEW ORLEANS) RODGERS MEMORIAL.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library