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On Universal Newsreels now: 36 of the titles in rotation
- Extra!! Scoop! - First Actual Pictures - Assassination, 1934/10/17 (1934)
- First U.S. Satellite Launched! 1958/02/03 (1958)
- Gen. Adolf Takes Over, 1942/01/07 (1942)
- Farmer Plays Tune With Hands, 1933/10/11 (1933)
- Space Movie. Camera Records Missile In Flight, 1963/11/14 (1963)
- Nazis Face War Crime Evidence, 1945/12/06 (1945)
- Eve of Battle, 1944/06/06 (1944)
- Peace March. Thousands Oppose Vietnam War, 1967/04/18 (1967)
- The Wall, 1962/08/16 (1962)
- 'Dead' A-Bomb Hits U.S. Town, 1958/03/13 (1958)
- Rally For Castro. One Million Roar 'Si' To Cuban Executions, 1959/01/22 (1959)
- Fashions, 1964/10/26 (1964)
- New Moon. Reds Launch First Space Satellite, 1957/10/07 (1957)
- Soldiers Stage 'Girlie' Show, 1942/02/04 (1942)
- First Pictures Atomic Blast!, 1946/07/08 (1946)
- Jap Films of Hiroshima, 1946/08/05 (1946)
- First Pictures Nazi Rocket Bomb in U.S, 1946/05/13 (1946)
- Nazi Murder Mills, 1945/04/26 (1945)
- Anti-War Demonstrators Storm Pentagon, 1967/10/24 (1967)
- The Cuban Crisis, 1962/10/25 (1962)
- Hughes Plane Crash, 1946/07/11 (1946)
- RAF Sinks Tirpitz, 1944/11/22 (1944)
- Loyola Students Compete For Keg, 1933/11/15 (1933)
- Norman Alley's Bombing of USS Panay Special Issue, 1937/12/12 (1937)
- Kansas, 1957/04/04 (1957)
- The Red Threat. President Orders Cuban Blockade, 1962/10/22 (1962)
- Space Triumph! Glenn Flight Thrills World, 1962/02/22 (1962)
- Extra! Special! Roosevelt Inaugurated 1933/03/05 (1933)
- Showdown in Vietnam, 1965/02/08 (1965)
- Special Release - Zeppelin Explodes Scores Dead, 1937/05/10 (1937)
- Dedication. Warren, Hoover, Hail New Truman Library, 1957/07/08 (1957)
- Mussolini Executed, 1945/04/30 (1945)
- Long Way to Go Says FDR, 1943/09/09 (1943)
- Manila Free of Japanese Domination, 1945/03/22 (1945)
- 1949 In Review, 1949/12/26 (1949)
- Universal Newsreel Volume 36, Release 97, 11/28/1963 (1963)