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MFI 286   [Original title]

Country of Origin: Hungary
Year of origin: 1929
Genre: Newsreel
Locations of shooting: n/a

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Production Company: Magyar Filmiroda Rt.


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HUNGARIAN NEWS 286.
Released by the Hungarian Film Bureau Ltd., 7 Bródy Sándor Street, Budapest VII
(1)
On a separated train 28 trucks loaded with pigeons arrived in Budapest. In the 1240 km long race between starting in Budapest and finishing in Germany 15 000 carrier- pigeons participate.
{Train with pigeon boxes arrives; boxes are taken out, birds flying.}
(2)
The participants of the European round flying in Budapest. The plains that head the field arrive at the Mátyásföld airport.
{Mátyásföld airport, receiving of the arriving plains. A pilot gets into a car.}
(3)
The members of our national boxing team win over Italians for 9:7. Saracini beats Énekes.
{Boxers in the ring.}
(4)
Gelbai is bound to win over De Horatis.
{Boxers in the ring.}
(5)
70 000 acres of land were fertilized by regulating the Hungarian part (about 30, 4 km long) of river Túr.
(5a)
The embanking was done by the construction company owned by Oszkár Bátori and Count János Teleki with participation of Count Ferenc Haller.
{River-regulating works, a dredging machine in use.}
(6)
The dredging machine built by the latest technology lifts the canal and raises the dikes at the same time.
{Pictures of building dams.}
(7)
Baron Zsigmond Kende and Gyozo Kövessy , arrangers of the embanking, open the new bed of river Túr
{A celebration when the works are finished.}
(8)
The regulated tide-lands yield heavy crops already this year.
{Cropland, cornfields}
[9]
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Sound: Silent film
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