Seven Die as Huge Airliner Crashes on Top of Mountain (Universal Newsreel, Jun 1934)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. SEVEN DIE AS HUGE AIRLINER CRASHES ON TOP OF MOUNTAIN: DEBRUCE, NY - A giant American Airways plane is discovered—a charred wreck—in the Catskill Mountains, after a three-day search by state police and airmen. Four passengers and three members of the crew, one a woman, are discovered burned to death. At Selleck, WA, seven persons escape with their lives when a United Airlines plane comes to grief in the Cascade Range. 2. CADETS ON DRESS PARADE: WEST POINT, NY - The Corps marches in a colorful graduation dress review in which the members of the first class of the United States Military Academy make their last appearance in their gray uniforms before being commissioned as officers in the Regular Army. 3. GREAT SAND AND DUST STORMS SWEEP OVER MID-WEST FARMS: MIDWEST - Terrific winds carry millions of tons of dust and sand through the air, darkening the sky and burying farms and buildings under huge drifts of dirt. Cattle, cut off from their grazing lands, die of starvation as government workers seek to relieve the poverty-stricken farmers by buying their cows before they perish from lack of food. 4. 3 DIE, 12 HURT IN SHIP BLAST: PHILADELPHIA, PA - An explosion of gas in the forward part of the 350-foot oil tanker, W.D. Anderson, owned by the Atlantic Refining Company, wrecks its plates, blows two men to bits and fatally injures another. 5. ITALY MARKS CONSTITUTION DAY: ROME, ITALY - King Victor Emmanuel and his staff head a large gathering of state and diplomatic notables at a colorful parade of 30,000 soldiers, marching to celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the national charter. 6. HUMAN ICICLE SHIPPED BY AIR: NEWARK, NJ - “Slim” Jones, a rugged young man, has himself sealed in a cake of ice and shipped by airplane to Philadelphia, in an exhibition of his remarkable vitality. 7. ORIENTAL WRESTLERS CLASH: TOKYO, JAPAN - Nippon’s leading grapplers compete for the national mat crown in thrilling matches before a large crowd of enthusiasts. 8. “PEACE CHANCE” WINS CLASSIC: BELMONT PARK, NY - Joseph E. Widener’s big bay colt leads a fine field, including the Preakness winner High Quest, across the finish line to set a new record for the sixty-six-year-old Belmont Stakes—the richest in the world for three-year-olds. (LOCAL – TENNESSEE) BOYS IN GREY GATHER WITH THINNER RANKS FOR ANNUAL REUNION. (LOCAL – NEW YORK) IMPRESSIVE PILGRIMAGE TO FDR GRAVE. (LOCAL – OREGON) THOUSANDS WITNESS DIAMOND JUBILEE DAY.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library