Ankle Experts Take a Walk (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1934)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. COAST GUARD RESCUES CREW FROM WRECKED LAKE STEAMER: MUSKEGON, MI - Twenty-three sailors are landed safely from a castaway freighter in the teeth of a 60-mile gale. One Guardsman is swept to his death in the icy water. 2. MEXICANS HAIL NEW LEADER: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - Fifty thousand cheering citizens greet Lazaro Cardenas on his inauguration as forty-fifth President of the Republic. The young executive takes the oath amid impressive rites. 3. STRIKERS ATTACK TROLLEYS: LOS ANGELES, CA - Surface line employees derail and overturn street cars during a walkout after their employers refuse to submit the dispute to arbitration. 4. PRESIDENT AIDS FOUNDATION: WARM SPRINGS, GA - Additional buildings for the great infantile paralysis cure center are formally opened by the Chief Executive in ceremonies during which master keys are presented to him. 5. CYCLISTS START LONG GRIND: NEW YORK, NY - Jack Dempsey gives the signal for the beginning of the year’s dizziest whirl as the Six-Day bicycle riders get under way in the 144-hour circuit of Madison Square Garden. 6. STUDENTS UNITE IN PARADE: HAVANA, CUBA - For the first time in history, radical and conservative undergraduates join in a demonstration honoring class-mates who fell in the Revolution. 7. ANKLE EXPERTS TAKE A WALK: CONEY ISLAND, NY - Seventy-six “heel-and-toe” champions compete in the twenty-fourth annual walking race, ten and one-half long miles from City Hall to the famous seaside resort. The winner covers the course in 1:42:14. 8. GOBLINS “INVADE” MANHATTAN: NEW YORK, NY - Immense comic animals float down Broadway on “wings” of helium gas in a big department store’s amusing holiday parade to usher in the Christmas season. 9. NAVY SAILS THROUGH SWAMP TO VICTORY OVER ARMY GRAY: PHILADELPHIA, PA - The Middies take advantage of every break in a thrilling game to score a 3 to 0 triumph over a heavier Army eleven which bogs down in a field of mud in the annual service classic. The Annapolis gridmen defeat the Cadets for the first time in thirteen years.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library