C-V News were reel serials shown in movie theaters before the main feature. The were produced in Southern California in the early-1920s. It was a short lived newsreel and was an offshoot of the Vanderbilt tabloid newspaper chain (Vanderbilt Newspapers Inc.). "C-V" stands for Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. - the producer of the series.
This is the most famous of the C-V newsreels to survive, as the filming of "Greed" in Death Valley at the height of summer is still infamous today.
Director of this news short remains unknown.
The DVD print of this short was copied at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A 35mm positive preprint (from the donated nitrate print) at 19 and 23 frames per second.
One of the 50 films in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. This film is preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, has a running time of 4 minutes and an added piano music score.