Space Milestone (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1965)

Description

The original release sheet reads: SPACE MILESTONE The most ambitious U.S. Space Project to date gets off with the highly successful launch of GEMINI VII. With Spacemen Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr., aboard, the vehicle goes smoothly into orbit and the two men settle down for a record-breaking 14 days in space. No sooner are they launched than workmen go to work on Pad Nineteen to prepare it for the launching of GEMINI VI which will attempt a rendezvous with the GEMINI VII. PLANES COLLIDE Two airliners ram into each other just north of New YOrk City and there begin a miracle of pilot skill that saves the lives of 108 people out of the 112 aboard the two planes. One craft, a jet, flies safely into Kennedy Airport, 50 miles away, with 20 feet of wing missing. The other is crash-landed by Captain Charles J. White, in a stupendous feat of maneuvering, on a hillside in Westchester County. Captain White died in the cabin while making sure all of his passengers had been evacuated. CHRISTMAS RUSH ON The Annual Christmas shopping spree is bigger and better than ever, according to merchants across the country. Stores are jammed as gifts lists are checked. Statisticians figure that 4,000,000 people are going to forget some Aunt Ruth or other. The GI's in VIETNAM have not been forgotten. "Operation Christmas Star" is gathering and dispatching ton upon ton of gifts for the men fighting far from home. Thirty-five planes are air-lifting the gifts from all sections of the country.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library