19451940s NEWSREELS
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"PRESIDENT TRUMAN REPORTS ON WAR AGAINST JAPAN"
TRUMAN SITS AT DESK IN OVAL OFFICE AND READS FROM PREPARED SPEECH. |
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"YANKS BREAK JAPANESE GRIP ON OKINAWA"
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"HANGMAN'S END: HEINRICH HIMMLER, HEAD OF GESTAPO, COMMITS SUICIDE BEFORE HIS CAPTURE.
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"HIMMLER'S CRIME". RESCUED CAPTORS INSIDE NAZI DEATH CAMP AT BELSEN.
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"NORWAY TRAITOR, VIDKUN QUISLING, GOES ON TRIAL"
(*SAME AS ON VM-791*) |
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"GENERAL PATTON HOME IN TRIUMPH"
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"GRADUATION DAY". VARIOUS SCENES OF GRADUATION OF MIDSHIPMEN AT ANNAPOLIS AND CADETS AT WEST POINT.
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"JAPANESE SURRENDER MISSION TO MACARTHUR"
VARIOUS SCENES OF JAPANESE SURRENDER EMISSARIES ARRIVING IN OKINAWA, IN WHITE PLANES EMBLAZONED WITH CROSSES. THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY TO RECEIVE ORDERS FROM MACARTHUR FOR THE OCCUPATION OF JAPAN. |
| 00:08:27 506.68 |
SEVERAL JAPANESE GENERALS WITH THEIR MILITARY STAFF TRANSFE TO AMERICAN PLANE.
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"MACARTHUR IN MANILA"
MACARTHUR AWAITING SURRENDER DELEGATION, MAKES ADDRESS TO TROOPS FROM BALCONY, HAILING VICTORY & THANKING THEM. HE USES HAND-HELD MICROPHONE. |
| 00:09:17 556.68 |
"HALSEY CELEBRATES"
ADMIRAL HALSEY, FEET ON HIS DESK ON SHIP, AS HE READS BULLETINS TELLING HIM OF THE SURRENDER OF JAPAN. ALSEY, BRITISH ADMIRAL RAWLINGS, THREE OTHERS, DRINK TOAST TO VICTORY. PAN TO TWO SAILORS OUTSIDE CABIN ALSO DRINKING TOAST. |
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CU SHIP'S BAKER PUTS FINISHING TOUCHES ON VICTORY CAKE DESIGNED IN SHAPE OF RISING SUN, SYMBOL OF JAPAN.
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| 00:09:53 592.68 |
HALSEY PULLS OUT BAYONET, JOKINGLY HOLDS IT TO ANOTHER ADMIRAL'S NECK AS THOUGH TO CUT HIS THROAT, THEN CUTS CAKE WITH IT.
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| 00:10:08 607.68 |
"NAMES IN THE NEWS"
GENERAL CHARLES DEGAULLE ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON, IS MET BY SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES, THEN TO A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN AT WHITE HOUSE. |
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DEGAULLE, TRUMAN WALK AND CHAT IN WHITE HOUSE GARDEN
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"PREMIER SOONG". CHINESE PREMIER SOONG SIGNS UNITED NATIONS CHARTER AS SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES SITS NEXT TO HIM, OTHERS STAND IN BKGD.
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"MRS. WAINWRIGHT"
MRS. WAINWRIGHT, WIFE OF GENERAL JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT, WHO WAS CAPTURED BY JAPANESE AT BATAAN, SITS IN LAWN CHAIR AND TELLS OF HEARING NEWS OF HIS RELEASE. |
| 00:11:13 672.68 |
"RECONVERSION IN AMERICA"
VARIOUS SCENES OF DOMESTIC ITEMS INSTEAD OF WAR ITEMS, BEING PRODUCED IN FACTORIES AT WAR'S END. INDUSTRY; FACTORIES |
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MALE FEMALE WORKERS AT MACHINES AND ASSEMBLY LINES WORK ON POTS AND PANS AT ALUMINUM FACTORY.
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| 00:11:31 690.68 |
WORKER TAKES FRAME OF REFRIGERATOR OFF ASSEMBLY LINE, LINES IT UP WITH OTHERS. DOORS ARE ATTACHED.
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| 00:11:39 699.68 |
EXECUTIVES, A WOMAN, WATCH AS FINISHING TOUCHES IS PUT ON REFRIGERATOR.
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| 00:11:41 701.68 |
HOUSE WIFE OPENS DOOR TO WELL STOCKED REFRIGERATOR IN HER KITCHEN.
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| 00:11:47 707.68 |
AFRICAN AMERICAN ASSEMBLY LINE WORKER AT EDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY, LOWERS AN AUTO ENGINE INTO PLACE.
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FINISHED NEW 1946 MODEL CARS ROLL OFF ASSEMBLY LINE.
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| 00:12:03 722.68 |
CAR RIDING ON ROAD PULLING SMALL TRAILER, PULLS OFF INTO WOODED AREA. MAN WOMAN GET OUT TURN TRAILER INTO TENTED SHELTER. INVENTION; CAMPING
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| 00:12:26 745.68 |
GIRL GETS INSIDE TENT, WAVES TO CAMERA, ROLLS DOWN CLOTH DOOR.
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| 00:12:31 750.68 |
"SECRET OF GERMAN V-2 ROCKET WEAPON SOUGHT IN TESTS VARIOUS SCENES OF LARGE QUANTITIES OF ROCKET PARTS PILED UP OUTDOORS AT V-2 ROCKET CENTER, CAPTURED INTACT. WORKERS ASSEMBLE PARTS OF ROCKET.
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SMOKE STREAMS OUT OF TUNNEL AS TEST OF V-2 ROCKET IS PERFORMED.
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| 00:13:06 785.68 |
"SPORTS". INTERNATIONAL TRACK MEET IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
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OFFICIAL RAISES PISTOL AND RUNNERS TAKE OFF FOR TWO MILE EVENT. THE MAIN ATTRACTION IS GREAT SWEDISH RUNNER GUNDER HAGG, WHO COMES IN FROM SECOND PLACE TO WIN EASILY.
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OFFICIAL FIRES PISTOL, RUNNERS TAKE OFF FOR THE ONE MILE RACE. RACE BECOMES TWO MAN RACE BETWEEN "LONG-ARM" ANDERSON, HAGG'S RUNNING, MATE &
CORPORAL SIDNEY WODERSON, BRITISH TRACK STAR. WODERSON TAKES LEAD AND IS OVERTAKEN BY ANDERSON DOWN THE STRETCH. |
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"ART OF SAILING"
VARIOUS SCENES SAILORS FROM TABOR ACADEMY ON CAPE COD, ON SCHOONER "TABOR BOY", TAKING THE SAILBOAT OUT FOR TRIAL RUN. |
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SAILORS PULL TOGETHER ON THE LINES. SAILOR PULLS LINE TO LIFT SAIL. CU SAIL LIFTING ON MAIN MAST.
SCHOONER SAILING ALONG COASTLINE. |
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LOOKING UP AT SAILORS STANDING ON THE CROSS ARMS OF SAILS, HIGH ABOVE DECK.
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"NAVY DAY". "PRESIDENT TRUMAN LEADS THE NATION IN TRIBUTE TO OUR VICTORIOUS FLEET"
(*SAME AS VM-2067?) |
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"PIGSKIN PARADE". ARMY BEATS DUKE 48-13. NAVY BEATS PENN (*SAME AS VM-2067?)
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