Red China Profits From Famine (Universal Newsreel, Feb 1961)

Description

The original release sheet reads: RED CHINA PROFITS FROM FAMINE Scenes from Hong Kong exposes how Red China profits from the famine now afflicting its own people. Despite grave shortages behind the Bamboo Curtain, food is shipped out to Hong Kong, and sold to refugees with families still in China, who buy the food and ship it back in relief packages - on which the Communists charge an import duty. Sharp trading and a lucrative traffic in human suffering. SCIENTISTS WITH A "PORPOISE" At China Lake, California, a porpoise named "Notty" goes through her paces for scientists. It's a Navy project, seeking clues to the secret of porpoise sonar, which is more accurate than man's electronic version, and of the porpoise's incredible swimming speed. "Notty's" voice is heard as she cruises round the pool, almost conversationally. GOLDEN GLOVES BOUTS The New York Golden Gloves quarter-final bouts, with three sets of sub-novices mixing it up in unskilled but vastly enthusiastic go-tos. An evening of exciting boxing. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO WINTER clamped a crippling grip on the nation from coast-to-coast, with record snows and freezes in Colorado, Illinois, New York. DUST STORMS scourged northwest Texas and Oklahoma. People in the news included J.P. MORGAN, testifying before a Senate Committee; evangelist AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON leading a parade of her Four Square Gospel followers; MR. AND MRS. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH entering self-imposed seclusion in England. An IMPROBABLE INVENTION tested in Kansas City, a sort of wind-tunnel atop a car, was a remote forerunner of currently proposed convertiplanes .

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library