Universal Newsreel Volume 8, Release 522

Description

The original release sheet reads: THE LAUGH PARADE OF 1936 AND LATEST NEWS EVENTS: 1. Big Army Bomber Crashes Almost Hitting a House. / Unemployed Get Free Goats from Poor Man's Friend. / Florida Peaches Find Oranges a New Beauty Aid. 4. BLIND MAN’S BIFF: Turn a bunch of blindfolded heavyweight wrestlers loose in a Battle Royal and the result is shocking, to say the least. The referee’s the only one who can see, but he takes a beating anyhow. 5. JUST PLAIN NUTS: The year’s goofiest diet crops out when an “Algerian” visitor to these shores warms up a plate of nuts and bolts with a blowtorch and proceeds to feast on the strange assortment of hardware. 6. DUCK DUCKS WATER: A duck that won’t take to water adds a laugh to the world’s store for 1936. The bird is a family and community pet, but it just won’t go for a swim or stay under the spray of a garden hose. 7. ONE-MAN HURRICANE: Last summer was so hot; it inspired the first “air-conditioned” suit, a queer arrangement of tubes supplying a breeze through the whole costume from bellows fastened to the wearer’s shoes. 8. LOVE BELOW ZERO: Just to prove the warmth of their affections, a couple gets themselves married while each is immured in a huge block of ice. It’s a pretty shivery proposition before the knot is finally tied. 9. STRATO HOP FIZZLES: A be-whiskered inventor’s strato-gyro-lane rumbles and bumps, but somehow doesn’t quite get anything but a cloud of smoke into the blue. The pilot has to walk back from his “flight.” 10. A GENTLEMAN PLUG: Here’s a horse that sleeps in a regular bed, with blankets and a downy quilt. He’s a bit undersized, so his owners try to fatten him up at a place laid at their own table. (Mrs. Astor Please Note). 11. HE WON THE SWEEPS: A picture of perfect calm is provided by one of the men whose luck brought him the first prize in the Irish Sweepstakes. But his wife gives “a good substantial yell” over their fortune. 12. HE LOST THE SWEEPS: John Q. Dohp represents the majority of Sweepstakes ticket-holders in his sad but un-tearful explanation of how it feels to lose. This was a three-week hold-over on Broadway.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library