Inaugurate Electric Timer at Opening of Winter Race Meet (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1930)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. UNEMPLOYMENT HIT AS 6,000 MEN GET WORK AT NEW AUTO PLANT: EDGEWATER, NJ - Industry makes considerable dent in ranks of jobless as regiments of mechanics march to places and hop to task of turning out cars at rate of one each forty-six minutes. Absorption of this large group is one of most significant in turning tide of economic conditions. 2. INAUGURATE ELECTRIC TIMER AT OPENING OF WINTER RACE MEET: AGUA CALIENTE, MEXICO - New device, which catches flying thoroughbreds at fixed points of course, records Caruso’s victory in Christmas Handicap, feature of initial program of beautiful new course, at 1 min., 12 2/5 sec., for the six furlongs, and is proved a masterpiece of accuracy. 3. WRECKERS LOWER FINAL CURTAIN ON $2,000,000 DRAMA FLOP: NEW YORK, NY - Century Theater, finest of its kind on American continent when built 21 years ago, is torn down to make room for modern skyscraper to face Central Park. Debris topples from 90-foot high proscenium which revealed more failures than any other in metropolis and is gobbled up by giant jaws of steam shovels. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: 4. NEW BEDFORD, MA - Mother Goose comes true! — Only this time it’s Marion and her little ram. 5. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Nippon actors stage thriller! — Imperial artists here to entertain lovers of Japanese theater art. 6. TURKOMAN, SSR Soviet educates peasant women! — Drastic move to liberate fair sex from centuries of ignorance. 7. ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - Firemen introduce broom-hockey! — Smoke-eaters star in latest ice sport. 8. FAMOUS CATARACT DONS WINTRY CLOAK AFTER RECENT STORM: NIAGARA FALLS, NY - Throngs gather at frozen edges of great natural wonder to gaze on its crystal beauties and to toboggan down steep ice-clad slopes which, in other times, are roaring sheets of down-pouring water. Scene this year one of most beautiful ever known. 9. MARIONETTES APPEAR IN HOLIDAY PLAY OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND: NEW YORK, NY - Annual frolic for children and grown-ups includes captivating performance by puppets so life-like that their unreality, as behind-scenes manipulation is revealed, spices what has come to be a fixture in seasonal novelties. 10. LONDOS RETAINS MAT TITLE IN THRILLING BOUT WITH HOLUBAN: NEW YORK, NY - Newest sensation of wrestling world, using airplane or pinwheel whirl to throw his 240-pound opponent to floor of ring, finally leaps on fallen challenger, obtains half nelson and wins bout in 20 min., 47 sec., while $50,000 crowd which jams Madison Square Garden bursts into frenzy. Half of proceeds go to aid of unemployed.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library