Moscow Plane Crash
Here's what happens in this radio episode: You'll hear the dramatic crash of a Russian airplane. The country is running low on helium, which people with asthma need to breathe easier. Doctors are warning mothers not to use pain medicine during childbirth. Hungary holds a special baptism ceremony that hasn't happened in nine hundred years, celebrating Atilla The Hun. Mussolini has to make a tough choice about staying with the League of Nations. An Ohio farmer talks about going to school with Adolf Hitler. And in December of 1932, France stops paying back the money it owes to America.
The March of Time is an American newsreel series sponsored by Time Inc. and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951. It was based on a radio news series broadcast from 1931 to 1945 that was produced by advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO). The "voice" of both series was Westbrook Van Voorhis. Produced and written by Louis de Rochemont and his brother Richard de Rochemont, The March of Time was recognized with an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.
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“Moscow Plane Crash.” The March of Time. Radio broadcast, May 15, 1936.