Campbell Smashes Car Mark (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1935)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. CAMPBELL SMASHES CAR MARK: BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, UT - Driving his six-ton Bluebird automobile twice over a thunderous measured mile, the great British racer sets an all-time record of 301 m.p.h. A flat tire at the end of the run threatens Sir Malcolm with a horrible death. 2. MAN EATS ENORMOUS DINNER: PHILADELPHIA, PA - Tony Laurentis munches his way through twelve broilers, two steaks, a meat roast and four pounds of spaghetti, washing down the twenty-pound meal with a gallon of red wine and another of beer in an exhibition of gargantuan appetite. 3. CELEBRATE U.S. WINE HARVEST: ST. HELENA, CA - Gaily decorated floats and costumed paraders fete the arrival of the vintage in a big American wine-growing district. A barrel-rolling contest adds to the hilarity of the occasion. 4. BIG SHIPYARD STRIKE ENDED: CAMDEN, NJ - Hundreds of men return happily to work following a fifteen-week walkout at a yard holding important contracts for Government ships as an arbitration board begins consideration of the dispute. 5. ANTI-WAR PARADE DISPERSED: CHICAGO, IL - Police descend on an unauthorized demonstration by whites and Negroes against conflict in Ethiopia. The patrol wagon gets the leaders of the movement before a projected parade can start. 6. RECORD CROWD SEES RODEO: ELLENSBURG, WA - Fancy riding—and falling—with bucking broncs and vicious steers as “motive power” thrills the largest throng in history to attend the locality’s thirteenth annual rodeo. 7. DEFENDS HORSESHOE CROWN: MOLINE, IL - Ted Allen of CA successfully defends his title as champion horseshoe pitcher of the world despite tough opposition from the most accomplished handlers of the iron crescents in the country. 8. LION GOES IN FOR SWINGING: VENICE, CA - King Tuffy, a 400-pound, four-year-old jungle monarch, spends his off moments enjoying the soothing sway of an old-fashioned rope swing under the direction of his trainer. 9. AIR RACES THRILL 75,000: CLEVELAND, OH - Roscoe Turner’s ’plane comes down streaking smoke as the gallant flier loses the lead in the Thompson trophy race to Harold Neumann. A huge crowd gasps at the outside loop and other death-defying stunts of the “Human Bat” who keeps himself aloft on a pair of wings attached to his arms.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library