Universal Newsreel Volume 5, Release 191

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. U.S. THRILLED AS PRESIDENT OUTLINES RECOVERY PROGRESS: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a dramatic message to the nation, the Chief Executive outlines in clear terms the steps the Government will take to speed economic recovery in America. Mr. Roosevelt describes striking plans for the stabilization of currency, and for mortgage and home relief. 2. RUSSIAN RECOGNITION NEARS: MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. - Unusual close-ups of Soviet Government leaders now taking an important part in the negotiations between their nation and the United States that may ultimately lead to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. These views show Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Socialist Republic; Joseph Stalin, head of the Communist party and Maxim Litvinoff, Commissar of Foreign Affairs, who has been selected as the Union’s envoy to America. 3. TORPEDOES LAUNCHED FROM AIR: SAN DIEGO, CA - Extraordinary scenes in the Pacific as Naval planes from the U.S.S. Saratoga fire two-thousand-pound projectiles at moving targets while traveling at terrific speed a few feet off the water, in a startling demonstration of a new style in sea warfare. 4. POPE PIUS BLESSES WORLD IN SPECTACULAR CEREMONY: ROME, ITALY - Impressive scenes as His Holiness extends the Pontifical Benediction to the Universe from the Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore, in one of the most colorful of church rites, witnessed by a crowd of more than eighty-thousand pilgrims. 5. MICHIGAN BEATS OHIO STATE, 13-0: ANN ARBOR, MI - Thrilling scenes as the Big Ten’s championship eleven crashes through the Buckeye line in the second and fourth period to win the game by two touchdowns, while a record crowd of 93,508 fans, the largest number ever at a Conference game, goes wild with excitement. (LOCAL – TENNESSEE) ALABAMA ELEVEN WINS 12-6 VICTORY IN GRIDIRON FIGHT WITH TENNESSEE. (LOCAL – PITTSBURGH) CARNEGIE TECH BEATS NOTRE DAME ELEVEN, 7-0, IN THRILL-PACKED GAME.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library