American Legion Captures New York in Big Offensive (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1937)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. AMERICAN LEGION CAPTURES NEW YORK IN BIG OFFENSIVE / OLD MANHATTAN SURRENDERS TO THRONG OF WAR VETERANS FROM ENTIRE COUNTRY: NEW YORK CITY - Three Million Gothamites cheer themselves hoarse as members of the American Legion by the hundred thousand take over Fifth Avenue in a monster convention parade that lasts eighteen hours of daylight and darkness. Long before the opening of the national gathering, the Big Town is in the hands of the war veterans. Whistles and bells on their motorized “Forty and Eight” locomotives create a terrific din. New York’s Anti-Noise Ordinance is suspended and the Police Commissioner orders his men to take a lenient view of the proceedings.—100 PLANES GREET PARADE - SCORES OF GIANT four-motored Army ’planes salute the procession from the air. Several Governor’s and the City’s Mayor lead contingents as endless columns of men march through fifty-three blocks of Fifth Avenue’s great parade-ground. A multitude of brass bands, their uniforms making gay splashes of color in the bright autumn sunshine, supply the martial music that keeps thousands of veterans in step during the biggest remembrance march in the history of the Legion and the City, a festival so big that Universal Newsreel proudly dedicates its entire reel to the subject. (LOCAL – CANADA) COACH STEVENS SURVEYS BIGGEST RUGBY TURNOUT.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library