Millions Pay Last Tribute to Pope (Universal Newsreel, Oct 1958)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. MILLIONS PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO POPE - Unusual scenes of the late Pope Pius Twelfth in the hours following his death at Castel Gandolfo. Following the procession to Rome, and through the Eternal City amid a glory of pomp and ceremony to be seen in the modern world only on the death of the Pontiff, Pius Twelfth lies in state in the great Basilica of St. Peter's as more than two million file by to pay last tribute to the ‘defender of the people,’ the "Pope of Peace." 2. PIONEER MISSES MOON BUT SETS NEW MARK - At Cape Canaveral, the launching of the Pioneer in America's attempt to put a satellite around Earth's own satellite. Specially prepared scenes explain the original plan. The multi-stage missile lifts off to hurl the Pioneer 80,000 miles out into space, the farthest ever! 3. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY 25 Years Ago Today - Then as now, Disarmament was of world concern, and the Great Powers met at Geneva, only to deadlock, on the issue of aerial bombardment. The U.S. Marines had been keeping order on foreign shores. The final detachment returned from Nicaragua ending 19 years' duty, to be joyfully greeted at Quantico. Labor unrest was explosive in the grim Depression years, with violence flaring in Gallup, New Mexico, in the National Miners Union strike, with the milk price war in Northern Illinois, at Amburg, Pennsylvania, when police fire on strikers, killing one. On the lighter side, Purdue co-eds were all shook up with a new vibration tester, and 1933 had its own ancestor of the hula-hoop, the "bouncing bike," for run and figure beautification all at once.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library