First Sea Trials for Super-Carrier "Independence" (Universal Newsreel, Feb 1959)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. FIRST SEA TRIALS FOR SUPER-CARRIER "INDEPENDENCE" - The Navy's newest aircraft carrier “INDEPENDENCE” starts her first sea trials down New York's East River. Tugboat workers, still on strike, helped the "INDEPENDENCE" out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and down the River. The carrier clears the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges by tilting its hinged mast. 2A/B/C/D. BRITISH BATTLE WEATHER - As Britain gropes its way through a classic "pea-soup" fog, the worst in years, researchers speed up work on a new electronic weather forecasting-reporting system. / SOVIET COMMUNIST CONGRESS - In a seven-hour address, Red Premier Nikita Khrushchev boasts to the thousands of delegates in attendance that Russia has the ICBM on mass production basis. / BAHNHOF BLASTED - Since 1871, a West Berlin landmark, the Bahnhof is dynamited to rubble. The classic facade of the war-scarred railroad station crumbles. It’s the end of a great structure which had been inactive since 1950. / INDIA'S REPUBLIC DAY - With pride and pageantry, India celebrates Republic Day. In New Delhi, a V.I.P. guest-spectator, the Duke of Edinburgh, watches the colorful parade. Later he visits India's great Bhakra Dam. A massive engineering achievement. 3. SPORTS — 52ND ANNUAL MILLROSE GAMES / JOHN THOMAS – DON BRAGG TOPPLE RECORDS - At New York's Madison Square Garden, the Millrose meet brings multiple upsets. In the exciting Track and Field competition Paul Winder tops Olympic dash champion Bobby Morrow in the 60-yard event. Don (Tarzan) Bragg pole-vaults to a new indoor mark, 15-6½, for a Garden record. And in another first, Boston U's, 17-year-old freshman, sensational John Thomas clears high jump bar at seven feet setting world record for indoor mark.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library