The Wall (Universal Newsreel, Aug 1962)

Description

The original release sheet reads: THE WALL It was just a year ago that authorities in Communist Germany threw up their Wall of Hate in Berlin. Today, demonstrators in Free Berlin arch along a Wall in protest against the barrier and hold memorial services for those who died trying to escape from East Germany. CADETS WELCOME COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF A well-known weekend sailor, President Kennedy, is greeted with spit and polish as he visits the Coast Guard training bark "Eagle." DUTCH-INDONESIANS SIGN PACT An agreement is reached between The Netherlands and Indonesia on the administration of New guinea, claimed by both countries. The UN will administer the country until Indonesia takes over. MT. BLANC AUTO TUNNEL A 7 1/4 mile automobile tunnel that will cut 125 miles from the Paris-Rome route is holed through with appropriate ceremonies. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A huge air-sea search fails to find any clue to the disappearance of AMELIA EARHART and her navigator, who were lost in the Pacific. The RUSSIAN AIRMEN were setting records 25 years ago, too. Three men set a new mark in flying over the North Pole from Moscow to Los Angeles. The HEAT was setting a RECORD and so were those who were thinking up goofy ways to beat the heat. They may not have beat the heat but they had fun trying.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library