Passengers and Crew Saved as Liner Is Cast on Reef (Universal Newsreel, Jan 1935)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED AS LINER IS CAST ON REEF: OFF THE FLORIDA COAST - Battling tropical seas in lifeboats for hours after the S.S. Havana goes aground, fifty holiday trippers and 126 seamen are brought safely through the ordeal of shipwreck. 2. ACE SKATER GIVES POINTERS: BUFFALO, NY - Free lessons in the difficult art of making progress on the ice are offered by Kit Klein, girl speed champion, to hundreds of youthful sports enthusiasts. 3. KIDDIES PARADE NEW STYLES: CORAL GABLES, FL - Frills and furbelows for the youngest generation are exhibited at a brilliant children’s fashion show held at the Miami-Biltmore Hotel. 4. ARMY TRIES NOVEL TARGETS: WASCO COUNTY, OR – Machine gunners of Co. H, 186th Infantry, turn their weapons on model airplanes in a test of marksmanship under unusual circumstances. 5. COLORFUL RITES MARK FEAST: TARPON SPRINGS, FL - High dignitaries of the Orthodox Church and leading Greeks join in ceremonies in observance of Epiphany, commemorating the arrival of the Magi at Bethlehem. 6. MINE FIRE ENDANGERS TOWN: NEW STRAITSVILLE, OH - Government aid is sought to halt the menace of a blaze that has continued for fifty years along a coal vein near the community. 7. AMERICANS TO VOTE IN SAAR: SAARBRUECKEN, SAAR PROTECTORATE - Dozens of United States citizens return to their birthplace with funds supplied by Germany to participate in the plebiscite as foreign troops arrive to keep order. 8. BIGGEST LION CLASS STARTS: EL MONTE, CA - A daring trainer opens school for the largest number of lions that ever went through its paces at one time, forcing eighteen of them to do tricks simultaneously. 9. CONDON INDICATES PRISONER AS RANSOM-MONEY RECEIVER: FLEMINGTON, NJ - The famous “Jafsie” definitely points to Hauptmann, claiming that he was the “John” with whom negotiations for the return of the Lindbergh baby were made, and insisting that he paid $50,000 to the carpenter.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library