Crowds Hail Hitler Victory (Universal Newsreel, Feb 1933)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. HOOVER GIVES “FAREWELL” SPEECH: NEW YORK, NY - As a final official message to the American people before retiring from office March 4th, the President, speaking at the Lincoln Day Dinner of the National Republican Club, warns that economic recovery cannot be brought about in this country until Europe’s ills also are remedied. He calls upon all nations to unite to prevent an economic World War — the probable forerunner of armed conflict — and urges that some part of the foreign debt payments be set aside to help other countries back on a gold standard. 2. PIRATES STAGE BRILLIANT PAGEANT: TAMPA, FL - Gasparilla, the Scourge of the Spanish Main, sails again, and with his cut-throat crew of 130 freebooters, descends upon the city and sacks it as of yore, in a colorful re-enaction of the famous sea-rover’s attack in colonial times. Striking scenes of America’s most spectacular festival. 3. MUSSOLINI HONORS FASCIST HEROES: ROME, ITALY - 50,000 Black Shirt militiamen mass in the famous Piazza de Siena to be reviewed by Il Duce and to see several of their beloved leaders, including Gen. De Bono, Gen. Balbo and Deputy De Vecchi, quadriumvirs, and veterans of the “March on Rome,” decorated by the Premier in a colorful ceremony. 4. TROOPS MASS FOR DRIVE: SHANHAIKWAN, CHINA - Impressive scenes of the movement of Japanese troops into the battle zone near the eastern end of the Great Wall, and intimate views of Generals Nishi and Suzuki surveying the results of the First Nippon push in this sector. Fearful of the impending resumption of modern warfare in its most terrifying aspect, Chinese civilian inhabitants flee with their children across the ice-bound rivers and scatter gypsy-like through the countryside. 5. CROWDS HAIL HITLER VICTORY: BERLIN, GERMANY - Blood-shed is a daily occurrence as Nazis and Communists clash in street demonstrations and raids in various sections of the Republic. Pre-election fever mounts rapidly. The National Socialists, determined that their chief shall remain as Chancellor, hold monster rallies, parades and reviews, as the new cabinet plots its election strategy. 6. FIREMEN BATTLE $1,000,000 BLAZE: CHICAGO, IL - Amazing scenes of one of the most spectacular conflagrations in local history, which taxes the stamina of the firefighters and their apparatus, with the thermometer at 22 degrees below zero. A costly grain elevator on Goose Island is completely destroyed while streams of water turn to ice as fast as they are played upon the burning structure. Scores of men from the engine companies suffer frozen hands, feet and faces. 7. SET WORLD BOB-SLED RECORD: LAKE PLACID, NY - All previous speed marks are shattered in the A.A.U. championship coasting races on the Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic run, with Curtis Stevens and his Blue Bird four streaking down the ice-glazed course and around the breath-taking zigzag curves to make the mile-and-a-half in 1 min. 47.86 seconds.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library