Universal Newsreel Volume 4, Release 33: Local Stories

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The original release sheet reads: 1. WINDY CITY MOURNS AS FLAMES SWEEP FAMOUS FUN RESORT: CHICAGO, IL - Spontaneous combustion of a paint supply, on hand to give Riverview Park a new dress, results in a fire that razes most of the pleasure pavilions in the amusement center. The conflagration proves unmanageable for the private fire-fighting force. The rapid spread of the blaze threatens the entire place, and the city department is summoned to assist in controlling the fire. The racing roller coaster, encircling the entire grounds is consumed, with other popular concessions, including the famous “Bug House” that provided gaiety for millions, as the licking flames mount 200 feet in the air. One of the capitals of hilarity crippled as the new season dawns. 2. PILGRIM HORDES JAM HISTORIC VILLAGE TO HONOR “BLACK VIRGIN”: LE PUY, FRANCE - Thousands of devout Catholics journeying from all corners of the world retreat to this village to commemorate one of the rarest fetes in the history of the faith. Occurring only when Good Friday falls on the Feast of the Annunciation, the picturesque rite has happened only 24 times in 700 years and will not take place again until 2005. The feast marks the celebration of the presentation by the Pagan Egyptian Sultan to King Louis IX of his conception of the Blessed Mother. A rare even never before pictured on the screen. 3. ARTISANS COMPLETE GREAT ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CARILLON: CROYDON, ENGLAND - One of the greatest sets of chimes in the world is finished by expert casters, and is prepared for immediate shipment to America. Ordered by John D., Jr. to honor his mother’s memory, the bells, comprising 72 different units are to be installed at the Chapel of the University of Chicago. Including a 17-ton Bourdon, one of the finest in the universe, the bells, frames and fittings weigh approximately 374,000 pounds. A 5-foot drum, electrically controlled, operating the console, is tested and approved, as the great multi-part instrument gets ready for its long voyage. 4. BOSTON, MA - Repairs on giant liner give work to scores! — Leviathan’s beauty treatments a boon to idle ship-workers. 5. 9 DEAD, 60 INJURED, IN $5,000,000 STATE BUILDING MYSTERY EXPLOSION: COLUMBUS, OH - Like a bolt from the blue, while 130 men toiled at double-time to bring the project to completion on schedule, a gas formation in the sub-basement set off a blast that rocked the whole city and wrecked the first floor of the 17-story structure. Scores of laborers, pinned under falling debris suffered injuries in the catastrophe in which the death toll mounted hourly. Ambulance surgeons and rescue squads administer to the stricken and comb the ruins for survivors, while state and local officials launch investigations into the underlying causes of the fatal explosion, under the personal supervision of Gov. White. 6. ANCIENT RITES MARK OPENING OF BIBLICAL FEAST OF PASSOVER: CHICAGO, IL - Jews of the world greet the advent of the famous spring festival by participating in the Seder ritual, the family fete that marks the beginning of the 7-day sacred holiday. Commemorating the liberation of the Israelites from the oppression of the Egyptians, devoted millions trudge back to the natal fire-sides to sip sacramental wines and keep a rigid diet of matzos with their parents during the holy period. One of the most picturesque occasions of the year in the ancient religion that has endured nearly 6000 years. 7. BEGIN HEROIC TASK TO RECLAIM AGE-OLD MALARIAL MARSHES: ROME, ITALY - Premier Mussolini sets off the hundred explosions that start the mountainous job of rehabilitating the pontine disease-infested swamps. Charges of dynamite loosen tree stumps on the 200,000-acre tract between this city and the Tyrrhenian Sea. And at a given signal hundreds of war veterans and farmers set to their task, in the reclamation of the vast area, which has been heretofore deemed impossible of salvaging. More than 100 tractors plow over the ground in the huge project, which Il Duce is determined to turn into fertile grain-growing land. Another feather in the cap of the indomitable Premier. (LOCAL – CANADA – A) “CATTLE.” (LOCAL – CANADA – B) BOY MAKES MODEL LOCO. WITH KNIFE.

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

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Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library