Tornado (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1967)

Description

The original release sheet reads: TORNADO At least 52 people killed, thousands injured as 18 tornadoes rip through Illinois with no advance warning. A Chicago suburb, Oak Lawn, and Belvidere, a farming town nearby, are the hardest hit. Homes, busses, buildings all crumble before the 500-foot high, half-mile wide funnel. Many people are still missing, believed buried under debris. SURVEYOR Surveyor III makes the first soft-landing on the moon and proves the lunar surface is firm enough to support great weights. A space shovel digs into moon soil, and finds it much like coarse damp beach sand. Next stop: America's first Man-On-The-Moon! CYPRUS PLANE CRASH A Swiss charter airliner is hit by lightning over Cyprus' mountains and crashes into a hillside, killing all aboard except four of the crew. It's the worst air disaster in Cyprus history; and one of the worst serious in civil aviation. Most of the victims were Swiss and German tourists returning from a cut-rate tour of the Far East. SVETLANA Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, arrives in the U.S. seeking asylum. She'll publish her memoirs soon. She said religion had changed her and that Communism had lost its significance for her. She'll seek seclusion in New England to translate her autobiography. NEW NIZAM The kingdom of Hyderabad, India, gets a new Nizam. He's "Nawab Mir Barka ali Khan Behaudur," successor to his late grandfather. His yearly "take-home" pay 275 thousand dollars! His wife, Princess Esra Birgen, was a Turkish student in London when they were married, 8 years ago. AIRMAN SURVIVAL TEST NATO military pilots go through a rugged "winter survival course" in snow-covered mountains of Norway. Their equipment: snow shoes, knife, parachute, and rubber dinghy. They practice for the time they may crash-land in remote areas. Some meals: entirely snow! FLYING SAUCER A Canadian professor of Aeronautics at the University of California demonstrates his "flying saucer." It hovers three-feet off the ground, in a five-minute test flight. Powered by two motorcycle engines, it's the predecessor of a two-seat saucer which might replace the car and/or helicopter. RYUN MILE World record-holder Jim Ryun wins the Glen Cunningham mile at the Kansas Relays, setting a national intercollegiate record of "three, fifty-four, seven." His world record is "three, fifty-one, three." He aims for a flat "three-fifty" mile by the end of the season.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library