Crimson Tide Swamps Cards in Rose Bowl Grid Battle (Universal Newsreel, Jan 1935)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. CRIMSON TIDE SWAMPS CARDS IN ROSE BOWL GRID BATTLE: PASADENA, CA - Tearing through the Stanford defense, the University of Alabama’s eleven wins the great annual East-West encounter by the score of 29-13 before 85,000 wildly excited spectators. 2. CRASH SINKS SOUND STEAMER: NEW YORK, NY - Nearly three hundred persons face death when a tanker rams the forty-five year old side-wheeler Lexington, sending the Providence bound vessel to the bottom of the East River. 3. WOMAN PILOT CARRIES MAILS: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Helen Richey takes off with the first postal consignment ever flown by a woman. An Assistant Postmaster General speeds her on her way. 4. MILLION VIEW ROSE PARADE: PASADENA, CA - Colorful costumes and sixty-seven gorgeous floats mark the passage of the famed Tournament of Roses procession through sun-drenched streets. More than six million freshly cut flowers decorate fanciful coaches. 5. GAS BLAST RAZES CITY HALL: SEMINOLE, OK - A mysterious explosion wrecks the Municipal Building, killing three persons, causing $50,000 damage and rocking the entire community by its force. 6. ’PLANE FOUND IN WILDERNESS: GLOVERSVILLE, NY - Forced down near here in a howling blizzard, but unharmed by the landing, the crew and one passenger of an air transport wait many hours while state troopers search for them in a bleak mountain region. 7. RECORDS FALL AT SWIM MEET: CORAL GABLES, FL - Tank aces Eleanor Holm Jarrett and Ralph Flanagan set new national marks in a brilliant series of races at the Miami-Biltmore pool. 8. TRIAL OF HAUPTMANN STARTS LINDBERGH CRIME’S LAST ACT: FLEMINGTON, NJ - Bruno Hauptmann begins a fight for life, charged with the murder of the Flying Colonel’s baby son. Universal Newsreel presents a graphic view of the most sensational case of a generation.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library