Barred Swimmer Tells Story (Universal Newsreel, Aug 1936)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. SAVE TWO IN GAS-FILLED PIT: MOBERLY, MO - Rescue workers hack their way through the stony entrance to a 200-foot coal shaft, saving the lives of two out of four miners entombed in the pit for three days. The survivors’ companions are found dead from poisonous gasses. 2. BARRED SWIMMER TELLS STORY: NEW YORK CITY - Eleanor Holm Jarrett, banned by official edict from the Olympic team before competition began, discusses the action taken against her, in a timely newsreel interview, and defends the conduct for which she was suspended. 3. JESSE OWENS WELCOMED HOME: NEW YORK CITY - The “Fastest Human” gets a big greeting as he reaches American soil on the fastest ship, the record-breaking Queen Mary. The colored athletic wonder explains his plan to return to college for his final year of studies. 4. HURL TROOPS AGAINST REBELS: BARCELONA, SPAIN - Train-loads of Workers Militia leave gaily for the fighting around Zaragoza as the Loyalist Government begins the grim task of cleaning up evidences of the bitter hand-to-hand conflict that raged throughout the city. 5. COUPLE WEDDED A LA JONAH: LONG BEACH, CA - A prospective bride and groom step right up and take their places in the mouth of a huge whale captured coastal waters. A minister ties the knot, and Jonah’s fantastic tale begins to look like a possibility. 6. NEW GLASSES FIT EYEBALLS: CHICAGO, IL - The days when a gal’s beauty was ruined by protruding eye-glasses reach an end as an oculist demonstrates new lenses fitter and cut so they’ll clamp almost invisibly over the patient’s own eye-balls. 7. SWIMS TWENTY MILES AT 76: VENICE, CA - (Exclusive) To celebrate her seventy-sixth birthday, Mrs. Anna Van Skike dolls up in a 1900-Model bathing-suit and takes to the water for a twenty-mile swim. Her beauteous grand-daughters and great-grant-daughters help her from the water. 8. WINS WILD SPEEDBOAT RACE: RED BANK, NJ - One contestant’s boat turns over spectacularly on a sharp turn as Melvin Crook takes the national sweepstakes championship for the third time. Mrs. Maud Rutherford breaks all existing records for speed in her bounding craft. 9. COWHANDS TRY THEIR SKILL: HOLLISTER, CA - (Exclusive) Four hundred cowboys and cowgirls, all from San Benito County, dare bruises and broken bones in broncho-busting contests with total prize-money of $3,000 at stake. Many are called, but most are let down hard. (LOCAL – CANADA) EDMONTON HONORS 3,000 WAR HEROES BY…

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library