Steam Engined Plane Sensational Success on First Trial Flights (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1933)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PRESIDENT’S INFLATION PLAN SPURS COUNTRY TO RECORD ACTIVITY: NEW YORK, NY - Hectic scenes in Wall Street and an orgy of speculative buying sweeping the nation follows the Government’s embargo on the exportation of gold and the promise of a $3,000,000,000 currency issue. 2. STEAM ENGINED PLANE SENSATIONAL SUCCESS ON FIRST TRIAL FLIGHTS: OAKLAND, CA - An amazing demonstration of a new type of aircraft, with its revolutionary power plant, which is almost noiseless and which flies 200 miles on a dollar’s worth of fuel. 3. 4 DEAD, SEVERAL HURT WHEN FLORIDA FLYER JUMPS TRACK IN CUT: CARTERSVILLE, GA - Remarkable views of the unusual wreck in the Altoona Mountains where hundreds of passengers, aboard the “Flamingo Limited” crack tourist train, miraculously escaped death. 4. HI-JACKERS FOILED AS SHERIFF’S POLICE GUARD BEER TRUCKS: CHICAGO, IL - In a determined effort to prevent gangland from forcing its way into the legal brewery business, armed escorts are supplied for trucks delivering 3.2 beverage to Cook County road-houses and restaurants. 5. CONVICTS MOBILIZED TO COMBAT FLOODS AS RIVERS OVERFLOW: GLENDORA, MS - With thousands of lives threatened and hundreds of acres inundated, prisoners work frantically to stem the waters of the Tallahatchie River, as heroic rescues mark the evacuation of towns and villages. 6. NEW WORLD’S RECORD SET IN FAST RUNNING OF CLASSIC MARATHON: BOSTON, MA - Displaying amazing endurance, young Leslie Pawson, of Pawtucket, RI, defeats veteran rivals to win the historic race over a twenty-six mile course in two hours, 31 minutes, 1 and 3/5 seconds, lowering the thirteen-year-old Olympic mark. 7. LONE EAGLE AND MATE TAKE TO THE AIR AGAIN FOR ’ROUND U.S. FLIGHT: NEWARK, NJ - Lindy and his wife are at the controls together for the first time since their return from the Orient as they take-off into the rain and mist on the first leg of a two-months transcontinental tour. 8. SURF BOAT OARSMEN RISK LIVES BATTLING AGAINST GIANT WAVES: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Remarkable scenes of life guards launching their frail craft into heavy seas whipped into huge mountains of water. A daring exhibition of seamanship. (LOCAL – BROOKLYN) 1933 BASEBALL...AS J.H. McCOOLEG...

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library