Big Guns First to Go in Dismantling of Battleship Wyoming (Universal Newsreel, Mar 1931)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. BIG GUNS FIRST TO GO IN DISMANTLING OF BATTLESHIP WYOMING: PHILADELPHIA, PA - Only 19 years old, but a martyr to peace pyorrhea, the first-class fighting craft has its 12-inch molars extracted before it becomes training ship for Middies. 600 men get jobs, though, and world’s largest crane is seen tossing 65-ton rifles around like worn out piccolos. 2. ROCKET SLED RACES AT 85-MILE-AN-HOUR SPEED — FOR 50 FEET: SYRACUSE, NY - All the folks of the neighborhood for miles around, including the thrilled-to-pieces flappers, gather to see Harry Bull, 21-year-old University student, explode through space at breath-taking pace. Pioneer dash is success despite sudden termination in snow bank. He’s first ever to try this. 3. NATIVES HAIL END OF DEPRESSION WITH GAY PROSPERITY PAGEANT: COLOGNE, GERMANY - Traditional Rose Monday festival, surviving in the Rhineland through peach and war for many generations, is resolved this year into a fete celebrating advent of better times. Happy outlook of populace is reflected in humorous and grotesque masquerades and decorated floats. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: 4. DETROIT, MI - 12-speed auto appears! — Czech inventor introduces 6-wheeled car for rough terrain. 5. TAMPA, FL - Milkman delivers frozen orange juice! — Breakfast drink now brought in chunks to your front door. 6. PORTLAND, OR - Open canine “beaut-orium”! — Elite of dogdom patronize exclusive pulchritude parlor. 7. BERLIN, GERMANY - Calisthenics for cooks! — Restaurant Anti-fat Corps compels daily dozen for kitchen mechanics. 8. SOCIETY SPORTSMEN THRILL AT NEW GAME OF WATER-SKI POLO: WINTER HAVEN, FL - Outboards mounted on surf-boards put speed and peril into this latest sport, which has all the dash and danger of its counterpart on land. Collisions and plunges into the briny make this exclusively an expert swimmer’s competition, with boating and skimming skill as necessary adjuncts. 9. MARATHON BIKERS BRAVE ROUGH GOING IN ANNUAL SCRAMBLE: BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - Dozen doughty wheelmen meet in spectacular event over rocky, slippery roads which force many of them to their heels and other parts of the anatomy. Laughs are provided as men and machine toboggan down hillside, but with them it’s serious business and all seem glad when endurance battle is over. 10. GLIDER ACE BREAKS RECORD FOR FLIGHT IN MANHATTAN AREA: NEW YORK, NY - Wolf Hirth, German expert and partner of Hawley Bowlus, American soaring champion, sails above Riverside and the unfinished Hudson Bridge for 50 minutes, until ordered down by police so that traffic could be released. During test vehicles were detoured for 12 blocks. Thousands see pilot rise to 1,000 feet, then tour air calmly at 500.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library