Fan Dancers Bare Technique (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1936)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. CORD BETRAYS TUB MURDERER: NEW YORK CITY - A forgotten piece of upholsterer’s twine proves the undoing of 24-year-old John Fiorenza, ex-convict and psychopathic case seized by police for the brutal killing of Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton. 2. FAN DANCERS BARE TECHNIQUE: SAN DIEGO, CA - Feather flippers gather in convention to form the Western Federation of Fan Dancers and the United Fan, Bubble and Specialty Dancers. Experts show the meeting how to twirl the plumes as the audience registers approval or professional jealousy. 3. NEW CUBAN CHIEF VISITS U.S.: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez, President-elect of the Island Republic, receives a warm welcome from Secretary of State Hull as he arrives in the nation’s capital on a good-will tour preceding his inauguration. 4. PET FROGS IN STEEPLECHASE: SAN JOSE, CA - A bouncing collection of two hundred pairs of frog’s legs in the raw shows its science when egged on by the trainer, following bait up a ladder and leaping into the pool beyond. 5. RUSS GIRL TENDS 216 LOOMS: IVANOVO, U.S.S.R. - Twenty-one-year-old Dusya Vinogradova controls 216 looms at once as she introduces the Stakhanovite Speed-up system into Soviet textile mills. 6. HUGHES CRACKS SPEED RECORD: NEW YORK CITY - Zooming into Floyd Bennett Field, Howard Hughes, wealthy sportsman, finishes the 1196-mile flight from Miami, FL, in the amazing time of 4 hours, 21 minutes, 32 seconds, clipping 10 minutes, 7 2/5 seconds, from the mark set by the late James Wedell. 7. SKIDS MENACE AUTO RACERS: MONTE CARLO, MONACO - Teaming rain turns the Grand Prix automobile course into a slippery, deadly trail as eighteen contestants let their motors out full blast in the famous race. Collisions and skids decimate the field. 8. SKI ACES IN MIGHTY CONTEST: RAINIER NAT’L PARK, WA - Tearing down the steep slippery slopes of Mt. Rainier in a great speed classic, ski champions from all over the world compete in a four-mile race that’s packed with danger. (SPECIAL RELEASE) TWO BURIED 10 DAYS IN MINE BROUGHT TO SURFACE BY RESCUERS: MOOSE RIVER, N.S. - Frantic squads of rescue workers toil night and day, finally reaching two men and the body of a third, entombed 141 feet below the surface in a gold mine since Easter Sunday. Communication is established with the victims by means of a line sunk by diamond drill, and food and medical supplies passed to the survivors whose families wait in anguish on the surface. The prisoners reveal that disease, which carried off the third member of the party, seriously threatened another.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library