Hardy Drivers Risk Lives in Record Mountain Ascent (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1934)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL EXPLAINS INDUSTRY’S CODE: HOLLYWOOD, CA - Joseph I. Breen, Administrator of the film production code, presents an illuminating outline of his policies and tells of the producers’ plans for future screen plays. 2. HARDY DRIVERS RISK LIVES IN RECORD MOUNTAIN ASCENT: PIKES PEAK, CO - Louis Unser plunges up the famous hill to set a new mark for the climb in the sixteenth annual driving of a spectacular automobile race which claims national interest. 3. STRIKE CRIPPLES INDUSTRY: FALL RIVER, MA - Cotton, wool and silk mill-hands all over the country join in a walkout that quickly produces clashes between strikers and guards. Both sides are preparing for a fight to the finish. 4. POST SET FOR ALTITUDE HOP: GLENVIEW, IL - In a final test of his ’plane and special flying-suit, Wiley Post prepares for a perilous climb into the stratosphere. 5. WOODSMEN LAUGH AT DEATH: BRIDAL VEIL, OR - Daredevil lumberjacks tear down the side of a mountain at breakneck speed on a three-mile logging flume from their camps high in the hills when the five o’clock whistle is sounded. 6. REDMEN STAGE VIVID RITES: GALLUP, NM - Three hundred Indians gather for a striking inter-tribal pow-wow, presenting colorful Devil dances and ceremonials in serious and comic backgrounds. 7. AUSTRIAN LADS PLAY AT WAR: GOETZENS, TYROL, AUSTRIA - Even the youngest Tyrolese sport uniforms of military cut and swagger—but drilling fails when the youngsters break ranks at sight of the national sausage. 8. SPEED ACES VIE FOR TROPHY: CLEVELAND, OH - Roscoe Turner captures the classic Thompson Cup in a thrilling battle with the country’s fastest-flying airmen which is marked by a sensational crack-up.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library