Missiles Replace Navy Big Guns (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1956)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. MISSILES REPLACE NAVY BIG GUNS - Radar-guided war rockets replace big guns aboard the Navy's first guided missile cruiser, the U.S.S. Boston. Designed specially to launch the potent "Terrier" missile, the Boston can load and launch a full salvo from its capacious below-deck magazines. The first of a new combat class, foreshadowing the Navy of tomorrow. 2. SCORES DIE AS TWISTERS RIP MIDWEST - Killer winds strike in the wake of spring's coming. Twisters rip across the Midwest, killing over 43, injuring hundreds, flattening entire towns in a great scar of destruction across fourteen states. The worst tornado damage in 36 years takes a bitter, heavy toll of the nation. 3A/B/C. ROBOT WEATHER STATION - Designed for exploration of isolated areas, a robot weather station designed to be para-dropped, shows how it rights itself, shoots up an aerial, takes weather readings, and radios reports to base, all automatically. / OLYMPIC JUMPING TEAM emplanes for Stockholm, horses and all. Leaving from New York City via trans-Atlantic airliner, they'll arrive early to train for the big international event in June, and later European meets. / GRACE KELLY DEPARTS for Monaco, and her wedding to Prince Rainier. A milling crowd of newsmen and photographers, on hand for a last-minute press conference, manages to drown out just about all of the film star's words. Pandemonium and bon voyage. 4. EXERCISE ARCTIC NIGHT - In the first airborne operation north of the Arctic Circle, 700 men of the 82d Airborne climax two weeks of sub-zero training with a mass jump and mock battle at 40 below, on the Greenland ice cap. 5. SPRING BRINGS CIRCUS - A sure harbinger of spring, as the Circus reappears. The greatest show on earth opens its '56 season in New York, unveiling breathtaking new acts, and death-defying favorites, a preview before the Big Top takes to the road. The Slide for Life, aerialist Pinita del Oro, clowns, animals, and a million thrills, return with the coming of spring.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library