Tornado Rips Miami (Universal Newsreel, Jun 1959)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. TORNADO RIPS MIAMI - A night of terror and calamity in Miami, as a rare tornado smashes through the city, unroofing houses, overturning autos, and hurling telephone poles like monstrous arrows. Casualty lists top one hundred, and property damages exceeds $1 million. 2A/B. COMMEMORATE ANTI-RED UPRISING - West Berlin and all West Germany join in observances commemorating the 1953 anti-Red uprisings in East Germany. In Berlin, Mayor Willy Brandt leads wreath-laying ceremonies. Library films show the day of desperate and gallant revolt when civilian workers fought Red Army tanks and guns. / CHINESE ART TREASURES - Some of the world's most priceless art objects, national treasures of Free China, are removed from the air-conditioned bomb-proof cave on Formosa where they have come to rest after decades of flight from China's stormy recent history. 3. W—a—r—n—i—n—g / "THE MUMMY" is HERE! - An eerie herald of a new screen horror classic, Universal-International's "THE MUMMY", arrives in New York to begin a national tour. THE MUMMY, insured for a million dollars with Lloyd's, is escorted by exotic Norma Maria, who bears a striking family resemblance to an ancient Egyptian Queen, and by one of Britain's top Egyptologists. 4.A/B. HEEL AND TOE CHAMPIONSHIP - In Baltimore, half a hundred heel and toers hoof it down the pike in the National A.A.U. 20-kilometer Walking Championship. The winner strides across the line at an average 8 m.p.h., while a winded observer rides! / JUNIOR WATER-SKIING CHAMPS - At celebrated Cypress Gardens, Fla., Junior Water-Skiing Championships, with 15-year-old Barbara Cooper and 12-year-old Perry Boswell making record jumps to become pace setters for aquatic American youth.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library