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Universal Newsreels, Release 90, November 3, 1932
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Universal Newsreels, Release 90, November 3, 1932

in Universal Newsreels, Release 90 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1932, originally published 1932), 9 mins
This newsreel, published by Universal Pictures Company, is about the North American Air Defense Command, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle.
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Universal Newsreels, Release 90, November 3, 1932

in Universal Newsreels, Release 90 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1932, originally published 1932), 9 mins
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This newsreel, published by Universal Pictures Company, is about the North American Air Defense Command, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL VOLUME IV NUMBER 90 20,000 UNEMPLOYED LED BY REDS IN MONSTER RELIEF CUT PROTEST CHICAGO, Ill. -- Singing Communist songs, shouting slogans and flaunting banners calling for gratuities to the jobless as well as various radical "demands," a determined horde of men, wome... This newsreel, published by Universal Pictures Company, is about the North American Air Defense Command, Winston Churchill, and Charles de Gaulle. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL VOLUME IV NUMBER 90 20,000 UNEMPLOYED LED BY REDS IN MONSTER RELIEF CUT PROTEST CHICAGO, Ill. -- Singing Communist songs, shouting slogans and flaunting banners calling for gratuities to the jobless as well as various radical "demands," a determined horde of men, women and children stages a "hunger march" through Loop, tying up traffic for an hour and giving the city its first taste of organized and exploited discontent. Converging from three directions, despite a steady rain, the marchers push the police aside and carry their pleas to Mayor Cermak at City Hall, thereafter assembling in Grant Park for a mass meeting. Instigated as a demonstration against the impending reduction in municipal support of the needy, the movement falls into the hands of anti-government agitators and winds up with ominous threats and a call for recruits for the proposed hike of a new Idle Army to Washington in December. ROYAL SWEETHEARTS WED AMID SCENES OF POMP AND SPLENDOR COBURG, Germany -- With all the elaborate ceremonials that featured the old Hohenzollern regime, the first regal marriage held in the Vaterland since the beginning of the Republic, unites Prince Gustaf Adolf Oscar, eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, and Princess Sibyll of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, daughter of Duke Karl Eduard and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Glucksburg. Simple civil rites in the 300-year-old Hunting Room of her father's Castle are followed by impressive nuptials at St. Moritz Church before the most brilliant throng of royalty and nobility assembled this side of the Rhine since the World War. ODD BITS IN TODAY'S NEWS 56-MILE GALE RAZES RESORT DWELLINGS BROAD CHANNEL, N. Y. -- The worst wind and rain storm in this section in more than 40 years demolishes bungalows, garages and other buildings, washing some of them into Jamaica Bay and leaving the popular summer colony a mass of wreckage. Described as a regular "Kansas twister," the cyclonic disturbance would have cost scores of lives but for the fact that many houses were closed for the season. Several families, their homes lifted from pilings and dumped into the water, are rescued as they float out with the tide. BOY GENIUS PERFECTS AMAZING MINIATURES HOLLYWOOD, Cal. -- Remarkable models of steam locomotives, on a scale of 1/48, but which are complete in every detail and can haul a 2000-pound load, the equal of 15 man-power, are made and sold by Kenneth Dewar, 20 years old. He draws the plans, makes his own patterns and castings and does the assembling and testing. He started at the age of 14, and has marketed 15 in the last three years, at about $1,200 each. Big business from a little hobby. SEEK PROSPERITY WITH FIREWORKS AMECAMECA, Mexico -- The surest way to frighten off the evils of depression and insure the return of happy days, according to local tradition, is to tie a lot of real firecrackers to a lot of artificial bulls and then dance for all you're worth. Inasmuch as today is San Lucas day and the bull is the saint's favorite animal they decided to combine the two and ask for Old Man Prosperity to come back in the ceremony known as "burning the bull." They might do it. THROWING the bull won't, that's a cinch. RECLAIMS FORTUNE FROM OLD FLOORING BOSTON, Mass. -- The very dirt under your feet is valuable when you walk around in a jewelry shop. So much gold dust and small bits of the precious metal fall and are trampled into the floor that it pays, every now and then, to tear up the boards and recover the wastage. Maurice G. Alperin, a sweep smelter, gets as high as $5,000 worth of bullion from a single store. The wood is burned in a special stove and the ashes and floor sweepings are reduced in a crucible. What's left is gold alloy or pure gold. At $20.60 a troy ounce, it's a business. It looks simple, too, to see Maurice do it. WOOD-PAVED STREET RIPPED UP BY NEEDY AS FUEL FOR WINTER CHICAGO, Ill. -- It's a great thing when poor people get a break. The municipal authorities, deciding to put modern paving on Blue Island Avenue, notify the unemployed and hard-pressed residents of the neighborhood that the old oil-soaked blocks with which the thoroughfare's been covered for years, are to be had for the taking. With picks, crowbars, chisels and other tools, men, women and children rush to gather burning material for the cold weather. Regardless of traffic, they dig, pry and gather in tons of first-rate fire-wood. The city gets the old road-way taken out gratis and those in need get a supply of "coal" for the coming months. An odd turn of affairs that helps everyone concerned. ARMY AIRMEN ENGAGE IN THRILLING BOMBING COMBAT FOR CHARITY LONG BEACH, Cal. -- Squadrons of bombers swooping down and raining explosives on defenseless "villages," swarms of pursuit planes darting in winged assault on the ships of the bombarding force, "dog-fights," airobatics, and other exciting activities of warfare in the skies are demonstrated, before a huge crowd at the municipal airport by pilots from March Field, for the benefit of the needy. Power dives at 250 miles an hour and similar feats are among the breath-takers performed by the nation's crack bird-men. A remarkable "show" of military flying progress. "THE TALK OF THE WORLD" Show more Show less
Date Written / Recorded
1932
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Date Published / Released
1932-11-03, 1932
Publisher
Universal Pictures Company
Series
Universal Newsreels
Person Discussed
Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970
Topic / Theme
Communism, Political demonstrations, Government aid, Political dissidents, Great Depression, 1929-1941, Trade and Commerce, American History, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Universal Newsreels, Release 454, April 29, 1936
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Universal Newsreels, Release 454, April 29, 1936

in Universal Newsreels, Release 454 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1936, originally published 1936), 11 mins
This newsreel features political demonstrations, government aid, and unemployment.
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Universal Newsreels, Release 454, April 29, 1936

in Universal Newsreels, Release 454 (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood: Universal Pictures Company, 1936, originally published 1936), 11 mins
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This newsreel features political demonstrations, government aid, and unemployment. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL Volume VIII Number 454 JOBLESS STORM STATE HOUSE TRENTON, N. J.--Hundreds of unemployed, cut from relief by the legislature's failure to provide funds, descend on the capitol, occupying the Senate and Assembly chambers. Leaders insist that "delegates" will remain until relief is arranged. SPLIT HUGE DIAMOND 12 WAYS NEW YORK CI... This newsreel features political demonstrations, government aid, and unemployment. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL Volume VIII Number 454 JOBLESS STORM STATE HOUSE TRENTON, N. J.--Hundreds of unemployed, cut from relief by the legislature's failure to provide funds, descend on the capitol, occupying the Senate and Assembly chambers. Leaders insist that "delegates" will remain until relief is arranged. SPLIT HUGE DIAMOND 12 WAYS NEW YORK CITY.--The famous monster Jonker stone is sliced by experts into several smaller fragments. The largest of the new stones weighs 156 karats, third largest gem in the world. The other eleven will all be bigger than anything sold in the Five and Ten. TOURS NATION IN DOG WAGON SAN GABRIEL, CALIF.--Forced into the great outdoors to restore his health, Karl Lindauer travels 25,000 miles in a "covered wagon" drawn by dogs he has befriended. Starting with two animals, Lindauer now has eleven "huskies" to pull his cart. NIPPON FLOATS DRIFT TO U. S. WALDPORT, ORE.--Thousands of glass balls, used by Japanese fishermen as floats for their nets, are cast ashore on American soil after drifting 5,000 miles across the Pacific since they were lost in a tidal wave in Nippon several years ago. NATURE OPENS BEAUTY SHOP STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, NEV. -- Beauties keep their schoolgirl complexions by visits to an open-air beauty parlor provided by natural hot springs. Daubing themselves with clay from head to foot, the girls take beauty naps above steam vents in the earth. 22 CARS DERAILED IN WRECK (Chicago & Indianapolis Only) PLYMOUTH, IND.--The middle section of an eighty-car freight jumps the tracks, many of the twisted cars falling to the street in the underpass below the right of way. Almost miraculously, no one is injured as the train piles up. INSHORE TAKES HUNT TROPHY GLYNDON, MD.--Running a beautiful race and fencing superbly, J. W. Y. Martin's Inshore brings the prized Maryland Hunt Cup back to its home State. The timber-topping society classic is witnessed by twenty-five thousand ardent fans. HEAVIES GET PLAYFUL ON MAT SEATTLE, WASH.--Two beefy groan-and-grunt boys, Wee Willie Davis and Casey Columbo, mix it up for the entertainment of spectators and the increased use of arnica. Columbo looks like a midget next to his giant competitor, but he gets in a few healthy swings just the same. REVIVE GAY MEDIEVAL FETE FLORENCE, ITALY.--A rocket-propelled wooden bird flies through the doors of the Cathedral to ignite a tower covered with fireworks in a revival of an ancient festival instituted in the Fourteenth Century by a knight returning from the Crusades. INDIAN WAR STARTS ON LINKS SPOKANE, WASH.--Federal troopers and redskins resume their ancient contest, but this time golf clubs take the place of shooting-irons as a famous battle ground becomes the Indian Canyon course. The soldiers win, but a brave makes the best individual score. BUSTERS BUCK TOUGH BRONCS RED BLUFF, CALIF.--Spills, bruises and injured bones are the order of the day as champion cowboys find indifferent luck in attempts to maintain position on the heaving backs of vicious mustangs and plunging steers. CARAS HOLDS BILLIARD TITLE (Philadelphia Only) PHILADELPHIA, PA.--Erwin Rudolph forces world's champion Jimmy Caras to the limit to retain his pocket billiards crown. Two points behind near the end of the match, Caras plays a careful, expert game to win. "THE TALK OF THE WORLD" Show more Show less
Date Written / Recorded
1936
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Graham McNamee, 1888-1942
Date Published / Released
1936-04-29, 1936
Publisher
Universal Pictures Company
Series
Universal Newsreels
Speaker / Narrator
Graham McNamee, 1888-1942
Topic / Theme
Political demonstrations, Government aid, Unemployment, Great Depression, 1929-1941, Trade and Commerce, American History, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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