The Scoop of Scoops!! Bombing of Shanghai (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1937)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1A/B/C. THE SCOOP OF SCOOPS!! BOMBING OF SHANGHAI / In the most sensational scoop in years, Universal Newsreel brings you first...and best!...actual scenes of the spectacular, fear-fraught tragedy that has rocked the whole world!: THE BOMBING OF SHANGHAI Bombs splintering through the Cathay Hotel! 1,000 civilians, including women and children, killed! Over 5,000 injured! Fear-crazed populace fleeing from the scene of carnage! Dead and wounded stacked up seven deep on the sidewalk! You SEE it happen before your very eyes!/ GEORGE KRAINUKOV - Wounded in the head by a bomb fragment, Universal’s intrepid cameraman stood up under fire and kept on grinding—so that YOUR screen might be enriched by the most spectacular scoop of the century! The whole New Universal organization is proud of you, George! / HOWARD WINNER - Another Universal hero of the newsreel! While shells burst and bullets whistled by, he stood shoulder to shoulder with Krainukov, and together they shot nerve-tingling scenes of fleeing American refugees, the shelling and burning of Shanghai’s Chinese section, the landing of U.S. Marines from the Philippines and the spectacular department store shelling!

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library