Pleads for Big Air Force (Universal Newsreel, Jan 1936)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PLEADS FOR BIG AIR FORCE: MIDDLEBURG, VA - General William D. Mitchell, aeronautics expert, sounds a stern warning that America must build up her strength in bombing ‘planes. The General demands the construction of a base in Alaska. 2. SELASSIE VISITS WAR ZONE: DEBRA BIRHAN, ETHIOPIA - The Emperor inspects military activities along the Northern “front,” traveling to the theatre of war with a large truck caravan. In Addis Ababa, machine-guns and pistols captured from the enemy are put on display. 3. CHAMPS SHOW FIGURE SKATING: NEW YORK CITY - Men and women leaders in the graceful rink sport exhibit their prowess on the ice at Madison Square Garden in the National Championships leading to selection of the American Olympic team. 4. SWIM STARS RACE IN SOUTH: CORAL GABLES, FL - The famed Kompa sisters compete against each other in a stirring A.A.U. contest at the Miami Biltmore pool while Adolph Kiefer and other nationally-known aquatic aces race against time. 5. SLEET CRIPPLES COMMUNITY: ATLANTA, GA - Bands of workmen struggle to free the city from its sheath of ice as telephone and power lines sag in a tangled mass and falling branches crush streetcars, endangering lives and halting communications. 6. NEW BEACH STYLES PARADED: MIAMI BEACH, FL - The season’s most exciting costumes for recreation under the sheltering palms make their entrance surrounding a bevy of the loveliest bathing girls to be seen in many a long year. 7. NEW BABIES HOWLING SUCCESS: NEW YORK CITY - A large crop of brand-new youngsters greets 1936 with a lusty chorus of healthy yells in the maternity ward of one of Manhattan’s big hospitals. The prospect is bright for lots of fond papas and lots of walking the floor. 8. ASTROLOGIST SEES ‘36 BOOM: NEW YORK CITY - Belle Bart, famous seer, reads a seven-year period of prosperity in the stars beginning with the New Year, but she warns that a war may engulf Europe during the twelve months to come. 9. GOTHAM IN WILD CELEBRATION: NEW YORK CITY - The biggest, spendingest crowds in twenty years hail the end of 1935 in a joyous, noisy demonstration of faith in the happiness and prosperity they expect from the coming year. (SPECIAL RELEASE) THRONGS PACK “ORANGE BOWL”: MIAMI, FL - A record crowd surges into the sun-drenched Orange Bowl to witness a stern battle between the grid-iron warriors from the University of Mississippi and the embattled pig-skin toters of Catholic University.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library