1940-19491940s NEWSREELS
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| 01:06:27 0.5 |
"THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS COMES TO AN END, U.N.
CARRIES ON". POLITICS; FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. |
| 01:06:34 7.5 |
LEAGUE OF NATIONS BUILDING IN GENEVA. VARIOUS SCENES OF DELEGATES IN SESSION AT LEAGUE OF NATIONS, WHICH WAS FORMED AFTER WWI TO PRESERVE WORLD PEACE BUT FAILED TO PREVENT WWII, VOTES ITSELF OUT OF EXISTENCE.
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| 01:07:01 34.5 |
SOVIET DELEGATE TO UNITED NATIONS ANDRE GROMYKO ENTERS TEMPORARY UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN GYM AT HUNTER COLLEGE, HE RETURNS AFTER WALKING OUT OVER DISPUTE WITH SECURITY COUNCIL. MLS HE SITS AT COUNCIL TABLE NEXT TO U.S. DELEGATE STETTINIUS.
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| 01:07:35 68.5 |
"NEW YORK WORLD FAIR SITE PICKED FOR U.N. HOME"
AERIAL VIEW OF SPHERE AND PYLON, 1939 WORLD'S FAIR SYMBOLIC STRUCTURES AND OTHER BUILDINGS ARE SEEN BY PLANE AS THEY APPEARED IN 1939. AERIAL VIEWS OF CROWDS AT THE FAIR. |
| 01:07:56 90.5 |
"U.S. NAVY DESTROYS CAPTURED JAP SUBS IN TARGET PRACTICE". VARIOUS SCENES OF SUBS, INCLUDING ONE BUILT TO LAUNCH WARPLANES FROM ITS HUGE DECK, BEING EXAMINED BY NAVAL OFFICERS. VARIOUS SCENES OF SUBS TOWED OUT TO SEA, SUNK BY BOMBARDMENT AND EXPLOSIVE CHARGES. VARIOUS SCENES OF WARSHIPS FIRING SALVOS, HITTING AND SINKING THE SUBS IN DISTANCE.
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| 01:09:16 169.5 |
"CANADIAN GOLD RUSH CREATES KLONDIKE AT YELLOWKNIFE"
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| 01:09:25 178.5 |
CU LONG DRILL CONTAINING SOIL SAMPLES ARE PULLED OUT OF GROUND BY WORKER. CU WORKER LAYS OUT LONG ROUND SHAPED SAMPLES ON RACK WITH OTHERS. ONE CONTAINS TREASURE ORE, GOLD.
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| 01:09:36 189.5 |
WORKER FIRES UP A SMELTING POT CONTAINING THE ORE.
HE POURS LIQUID GOLD INTO INGOT MOULD. EMPTIED BAR OF GOLD FROM MOULD. |
| 01:09:51 204.5 |
HUNTERS PASS SMALL BARBER SHOP IN THE SNOW BOUND TOWN. ICICLES HANG FROM ROOF. CRUDE SIGN ON DINER, "STEAKS WHEN WE HAVE THEM". "OMELETTES 80 CENTS".
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| 01:09:59 212.5 |
WAITRESS SERVES MAN AT CROWDED DINER COUNTER.
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| 01:10:05 219.5 |
LOG CABIN WITH SIGN ON ROOF, "BANK OF TORONTO".
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| 01:10:09 223.5 |
"NEWS OF THE NATION"
WAR ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE OF FILM INDUSTRY COME TOGETHER FROM ALL OVER TO MEET. THEY ACCOMPLISHED SO MUCH DURING WWII THAT THEY DETERMINE TO CONTINUE SERVICE DURING PEACE TIME. MOTION PICTURES; THEATER |
| 01:10:35 249.5 |
TED GAMBLE, CHAIRMAN OF NEWLY FORMED, "AMERICAN THEATERS ASSOCIATION" POSES ON PODIUM. CU FABIAN PRESIDENT OF ORGANIZATION, POSES.
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| 01:10:49 263.5 |
"MIDSHIPMEN OF POST-WAR PERIOD PARADE AT ANNAPOLIS"
VARIOUS SCENES NAVAL CADES MARCHING SMARTLY. |
| 01:11:12 286.5 |
"FASHIONS FOR A RAINY DAY FEMALE MODELS SHOW RAIN GEAR. DOG ALSO HAS RAINCOAT. ANIMALS; POST WWII FASHIONS, WEATHER.
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| 01:11:43 317.5 |
"MOTHER" AND TWO "DAUGHTERS" WEAR MATCHING RAINCOATS, HATS, UMBRELLAS. MODEL SHOWS FORMAL RAINCOAT.
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| 01:12:15 348.5 |
MODEL TAKES OFF SHORTY RAINCOAT, REVEALS SWIM SUIT UNDER IT.
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| 01:12:24 358.5 |
"ANIMAL WORLD"
DOMESTIC DEER. DEER RAISED FROM FAWN WITH FAMILY DOG INTERACTS WITH DOG, FROLICS INSIDE THE HOUSE AS THE DOG DOES. ODDITY; PETS. |
| 01:12:31 365.5 |
CU "WHITE FLAG" THE DEER, AND "BLACKIE" THE DOG EAT SNACKS FROM HANDS OF MAN, WOMAN, WHO RAISED THEM TOGETHER ON FARM.
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| 01:12:39 373.5 |
"BLACKIE" THE SHEEP DOG, JUMPS WIRE FENCE, SO DOES THE DEER. WHO DOES EVERYTHING "BLACKIE" DOES.
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| 01:12:47 381.5 |
DEER TRIES TO HERD SHEEP LIKE DOG, IS CONFUSED, JUMPS BACK OVER FENCE.
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| 01:12:54 388.5 |
DEER CLIMBS UP STEPS TO BEDROOMS IN HOUSE. DISTURBS MOTHER OF HOUSE WHO IS KNITTING IN LIVING ROOM.
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| 01:13:13 406.5 |
"SPANIEL HAS RECORD LITTER OF 13 PUPS. ANIMALS.
DOGS. BLACK COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES PLAYING IN GARDEN FOLLOW MOTHER AROUND. ANIMAL ANTICS |
| 01:13:31 425.5 |
HILARIOUS SHOT, PAN ALL THIRTEEN PUPS HANG ON CLOTHES LINE, EACH WITH THEIR HEADS HANGING FROM INSIDE A STOCKING. NARRATED BY LEW LEHR. ODDITY;
COMEDY. |
| 01:13:47 441.5 |
"DARING SURF RIDERS END SUMMER SURF SEASON IN AUSTRALIA". SPORTS.
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| 01:13:52 446.5 |
HIGH ANGLE OVER A DOZEN FIVE-MAN LIFE GUARD TEAMS SET OUT FROM BEACH IN ROWBOATS TO BRAVE HIGH WAVES AND BREAKERS, TRYING ROW OVER THEM AS THEY TRAIN TO SAVE LIVES IN TREACHEROUS SURF. BOATS TIP OVER AS THEY ARE HIT BY SMASHING WAVES.
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| 01:14:09 462.5 |
CROWD, BACKS TO CAMERA, SIT ON BEACH IN F/G, WATCH THE DAREDEVIL LIFEGUARDS GET POUNDED BY THE WAVES IN DISTANCE.
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| 01:14:41 495.5 |
BOAT & MEN RIDING HUGE WAVE INTO SHORE GET INUNDATED BY LARGER WAVE, TOSSING THEM OUT OF BOAT AND TURNING THE BOAT OVER.
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| 01:15:36 549.5 |
"THE BIG THREE YALTA CONFERENCE IN CRIMEA". (1945)
FDR, CHURCHILL, STALIN MEET TO PLAN POST-WAR STRATEGIES. |
| 01:15:45 559.5 |
SECRETARY OF STATE STETTINIUS IS MET BY SOVIET MINISTER MOLOTOV ON HIS ARRIVAL IN SOVIET UNION.
FDR'S ADVISER HARRY HOPKINS ARRIVES, IS MET BY MOLOTOV, GROMYKO. |
| 01:16:01 574.5 |
STETTINIUS, MOLOTOV, ANTHONY EDEN, POSE AT AIR SIDE. GENERAL MARSHALL AND ADMIRAL KING IS THERE.
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| 01:16:12 585.5 |
CIGAR SMOKING WINSTON CHURCHILL HOBBLES DOWN STEPS OF PLANE, IS MET BY MOLOTOV.
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| 01:16:22 595.5 |
PRESIDENT HAGGARD LOOKING ROOSEVELT ARRIVES IS GREETED BY MOLOTOV, OTHERS. FDR, CHURCHILL REVIEW SOVIET GUARD OF HONOR. CHURCHILL WALKS ALONGSIDE SLOW RIDING JEEP, CHATS WITH FDR SITTING IN JEEP.
DISABILITY; HANDICAPPED. |
| 01:16:42 615.5 |
FORMER PALACE OF THE GUARDS, WHERE CONFERENCE IS HELD. STALIN ARRIVES BY LIMO, ENTERS. CHURCHILL, CIGAR IN MOUTH ARRIVES.
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| 01:17:06 639.5 |
STALIN TAKES SEAT AT ROUND TABLE, PAN TO MARSHALL STANDING, FDR SEATED. ALL SEATED AROUND THE TABLE CHURCHILL PUFFS CIGAR. PAN OF GROUP AT TABLE.
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| 01:17:44 677.5 |
CHURCHILL, FDR, STALIN, SIT OUTSIDE BUILDING FOR GROUP SHOT.
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| 01:17:50 684.5 |
CHURCHILL'S DAUGHTER MRS. SARAH OLIVER, AMBASSADOR HARRIMAN'S DAUGHTER AND FDR'S DAUGHTER MRS. ANNA BONNIGER POSE OUTSIDE BUILDING.
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| 01:18:12 705.5 |
"WORK OF THE NAZI BEAST"
"CARNAGE IN LUBLIN, POLAND, WHERE RETREATING GERMANS CREATED A DEATH HOUSE OF MURDERED POLES". DISASTER; MASS MURDER; ATROCITIES. |
| 01:18:29 722.5 |
TILT DOWN FROM TOP OF ANCIENT CHAPEL IN LUBLIN, WHICH WAS TURNED INTO FACTORY WHERE SLAVE POLISH WORKERS TOILED, TO GRIM SCENE OF HUNDREDS OF LABORERS, MASSACRED BY RETREATING GERMANS, LAYING ON GROUND AND GRIEVING TOWNS PEOPLE VIEWING THEM.
CU CRYING, EMBRACING, WOMEN FAMILY MEMBERS. |
| 01:18:52 745.5 |
PAN GRAPHIC VIEW BODIES OF LABORERS ON FLOOR INSIDE FACTORY, WHO WERE SHOT AT THEIR MACHINES. GRIEVING WOMAN.
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| 01:19:15 768.5 |
MASS BEING HELD OUTSIDE FACTORY BUILDING. NUNS KNEELING ON GROUND, PRAYING. MS CRYING WOMEN HOLDING FLOWERS IN ARMS.
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| 01:19:35 788.5 |
"POPE PIUS XII RECEIVES POLISH OFFICERS IN PRIVATE AUDIENCE". VARIOUS SCENES POLISH OFFICERS PRESENTING POPE GIFT. POPE BESTOWS BLESSING ON THE OFFICERS.
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| 01:20:03 816.5 |
"CHAMPIONS OF DOGDOM". "WESTMINSTER KENNEL CLUB SHOW", THE CANINE (K-9) WORLD SERIES DOG SHOWS, STAGED IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. ANIMAL ANTICS
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| 01:20:11 825.5 |
MEN, WOMEN MASTERS PARADE THEIR PRIZED DOGS BEFORE JUDGES. WOMAN RUNS WITH HER WHITE POODLE ON LEASH, FOLLOWED BY MAN WITH SMALL BLACK SCOTTY.
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| 01:20:21 835.5 |
TWENTY FULL-SIZED PUPPY BEAGLES, ALL FROM ONE LITTER, FROLIC IN SAND. CU "LINA", THE PUPPIES MOTHER.
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| 01:20:32 846.5 |
BEAUTIFUL QUARTET OF COCKER SPANIELS.
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| 01:20:37 851.5 |
LITTLE BOY PLAYS WITH HIS THREE BEDLINGTON TERRIERS. CU OF THE UNUSUAL BREED.
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| 01:20:45 859.5 |
CU HAIRY MEXICAN HAIRLESS WHO LOOKS LIKE PERSON WHO HAD A BAD NIGHT, STANDS NEXT TO BASKET WITH HEAD OF TINY CHIHUAHUA PEERING OUT.
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| 01:20:54 868.5 |
CU WINNER, BLACK SCOTTY, "BEST IN SHOW".
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| 01:21:09 882.5 |
"SAGA OF WANDERING CHINESE BOY WHO FOUND A HOME"
VARIOUS SCENES OF FOUR GIS IN A JEEP WHO FIND A TINY CHINESE BOY WANDERING ON ROAD, PICK HIM, ADOPTING HIM "RECRUITING" HIM INTO THEIR COMPANY. |
| 01:21:28 902.5 |
AMERICAN SOLDIERS RIDING ON DIRT ROAD IN JEEP COME UPON TINY CHINESE BOY WALKING ALONE DOWN ROAD. THE BOY REFUSES TO RESPOND TO THEM, KEEPS WALKING.
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| 01:21:39 913.5 |
CU OLD CHINESE MAN WITH BEARD, NATIVE DRESS TELLS BOY IT'S OK BOY GETS INTO JEEP.
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| 01:21:53 927.5 |
GIS CARRY WAIF TO COMMANDING OFFICER TO GET OK TO ADOPT.
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| 01:22:09 942.5 |
GI'S GIVE BOY A SCRUB NUDE BOY IN SHOWER, DRESS HIM IN UNIFORM OF 9TH AIR FORCE. BOY IN UNIFORM REPORTS TO COMPANY COMMANDER. CU SALUTES HIM.
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| 01:22:24 958.5 |
CU CHINESE BOY BUSY WRITING AT DESK WITH SIGN, "ASST 1ST SGT." BOY SMILES FOR CAMERA.
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| 01:22:31 965.5 |
BOY JOINS OTHER GIS AT TABLE IN MESS HALL. PAN GIS AT ATTENTION BEFORE DRILL SERGEANT, WITH LITTLE BOY AT ATTENTION AT END OF LINE. SOLDIERS MARCH IN DRILL, BOY FOLLOWS CLOSE BEHIND.
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| 01:23:27 1021.5 |
"PRESIDENT TRUMAN DELIVERS A HOLIDAY MESSAGE TO NATION". HUGE CROWD ON LAWN OF WHITE HOUSE TO HEAR PRESIDENT TRUMAN MAKES CHRISTMAS SPEECH FROM STEPS, AT NIGHT. 1945 (?)
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| 01:24:05 1058.5 |
"GENERAL PATTON DIES OF INJURIES IN AUTO ACCIDENT"
12/21/45. VARIOUS SCENES OF PATTON, "OLD BLOOD AND GUTS", LEADING HIS TROOPS DURING WAR. WWII HERO. |
| 01:24:16 1069.5 |
CU PATTON WITH THREE STARS ON HELMET POSES AT FRONT.
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| 01:24:32 1086.5 |
PATTON, BACK TO CAMERA, WEARING PEARL HANDED PISTOL, WAVES TO TROOPS ON PASSING TANK.
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| 01:24:40 1094.5 |
GENERAL PATTON RIDES IN JEEP WITH GENERAL IKE.
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| 01:24:52 1106.5 |
PATTON AMID HIS 3RD ARMY TROOPS IN ENGLAND, BEFORE INVASION
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| 01:25:16 1129.5 |
PATTON SPEAKS TO WAR CORRESPONDENTS OUTSIDE HIS TENT IN GERMANY. THE GENERAL THE NAZIS FEARED THE MOST.
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| 01:25:27 1140.5 |
FOUR-STAR GENERAL ARRIVES HOME, IS MET BY FAMILY AT PLANE
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| 01:25:42 1156.5 |
AERIAL VIEW OF CROWD IN BOSTON GREETING HIS MOTORCADE.
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| 01:25:45 1159.5 |
PATTON, STANDING IN OPEN LIMO, BLOWS KISS TO CROWD.
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| 01:25:56 1170.5 |
PATTON WALKS ON WHITE HOUSE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN.
TOWARDS CAMERA. |
| 01:26:09 1182.5 |
"GENERAL YAMASHITA SENTENCED TO HANG IN MANILA TRIAL"
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| 01:26:20 1193.5 |
GENERAL YAMASHITA BEING QUESTIONED ON STAND IN MILITARY TRIAL AS GI STENOTYPIST TAKES DOWN MINUTES. YAMASHITA, ANSWERING IN JAPANESE, CLAIMS HE KNEW NOTHING OF ATROCITIES COMMITTED IN MANILA BY MEN UNDER HIS COMMAND.
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| 01:27:01 1234.5 |
PROSECUTION ATTORNEY ASKS FOR THE DEATH SENTENCE.
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| 01:27:24 1257.5 |
YAMASHITA AND HI ATTORNEY FACE JUDGE WHO SENTENCES HIM TO DEATH BY HANGING.
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| 01:27:45 1278.5 |
"HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT". "GALAXY OF STARS ATTEND WORLD MOVIE PREMIERE". "LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN".
MOTION PICTURES; THEATRE; MOVIES. |
| 01:27:56 1290.5 |
MOVIE THEATER MARQUEE, "GENE TIERNEY, WILDE, CRAIN", "LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN".
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| 01:27:59 1293.5 |
STARS ATTENDING, VIVIAN BLAINE ESCORTED BY MANNY FRANKS. WILLIAM IVES ESCORTS BARBARA WHITING. MR.
& MRS. DARRYL ZANUCK. DIRECTOR OF MOVIE, JOHN M. STAHL AND WIFE. RODDY MCDOWALL AND JANE POWELL, TYRONE POWELL AND WIFE ANABELLA, JUNE HAVER AND VICTOR MATURE, JEANNE CRAIN ESCORTED BY PAUL BROOKS, MR. AND MRS. CORNEL WILDE, & GENE TIERNEY. |
| 01:28:38 1331.5 |
"SUMMER SEASON SPORTS START IN AUSTRALIA"
HORSE RACING. THE BANGTAILS GALLOP". |
| 01:28:50 1343.5 |
AERIAL VIEW OF CRUSHING CROWD OF HORSE RACING FANS AT RACE TRACK.
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| 01:28:52 1345.5 |
CROWD IN FOREGROUND WATCH LARGE FIELD OF HORSES LEAVE GATE FOR START OF RACE. MS TWO WOMEN FANS HOLD ONTO THEIR HATS, JUMP UP AND DOWN AS THEY ROOT FOR THEIR HORSE. HORSES MAKING THE TURN TOWARDS CAMERA.
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| 01:29:03 1356.5 |
SLOW MOTION FILM OF WINNING HORSE TAKING THE LEAD FROM THE FIELD OF HORSES.
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| 01:29:19 1372.5 |
"SURF BEAUTIES". VARIOUS SCENES OF ARMY AMPHIBIAN VEHICLE FILLED WITH DOZENS OF BATHING BEAUTIES DRIVING ALONG AUSTRALIAN BEACH, ENTERING WATER, BEING POUNDED BY WAVES. GIVING THE GIRLS, BOYS A ROUGH, WET, RIDE. AQUA SPORTS.
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| 01:30:09 1423.5 |
"CHILDREN OF MANY COUNTRIES GIVE YOU SEASONS GREETINGS". VARIOUS SCENES OF CHILDREN OF FOREIGN DIPLOMATS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. FACE CAMERA IN LARGE GROUP & INDIVIDUALLY WISH SEASONS GREETINGS IN U.S. & THEIR COUNTRY'S LANGUAGE, INCLUDING BOLIVIA, SYRIA, DENMARK, SIAM, INDIA, CHINA. THEY THEN ALL YELL OUT "HAPPY NEW YEAR".
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| 01:31:32 1506.5 |
"ENGINEERS CLEAN UP BEHIND THE ALLIED ADVANCE IN FRANCE". VARIOUS SCENES OF WORKERS CLEANING UP RAIL YARDS, DANGEROUS TOPPLING WALLS, AND OTHER BUILDINGS LEFT PARTIALLY STANDING AFTER BOMBING BY ALLIED PLANES OR DEMOLITION BY RETREATING GERMANS.
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| 01:31:34 1508.5 |
RAIL YARD DEMOLISHED BY RETREATING GERMANS. WORKERS PICK UP PARTS OF DEMOLISHED LOCOMOTIVE. WORKERS & GIS REPAIR DAMAGED TRACKS. STAND ASIDE AS A LOCOMOTIVE SLOWLY RIDES TOWARDS CAMERA ON REPAIRED TRACK.
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| 01:32:04 1537.5 |
CU HANDS OF ENGINEER TWISTING DETONATOR. DANGEROUS, TOPPLING WALL BLOWS UP. MONTAGE OTHER DAMAGED BUILDINGS BLOWING UP. EXPLOSIONS.
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| 01:32:36 1570.5 |
"NAZI WEAPONS OF DESPERATION".
VARIOUS SCENES OF UNFINISHED ROCKET RAMPS, WHICH WHEN FINISHED WOULD BE USED FOR ROCKET ATTACK ON U.S. GERMAN TROOPS FIRING MULTIPLE BARRELED ROCKET ARTILLERY BEING USED ON RUSSIAN FRONT. |
| 01:32:44 1578.5 |
AERIAL MONTAGE HUGE ROCKET ROBOT LAUNCHING PLATFORMS UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON NORMANDY PENINSULA, CAPTURED BEFORE USED TO ATTACK AMERICA.
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| 01:33:28 1622.5 |
CAPTURED GERMAN FILM SHOW GERMAN ROCKETS FIRING ON RUSSIAN FRONT AND THE DEVASTATING EXPLOSIVE POWER.
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| 01:33:34 1628.5 |
GERMAN SOLDIERS LOADING AND FIRING BATTERIES OF MULTIPLE BARRELLED ROCKET LAUNCHERS. A NIGHTMARE OF SIGHT AND SOUND.
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| 01:33:49 1643.5 |
MONTAGE HUGE AREAS OF LANDSCAPE BLOWING UP ON IMPACT OF THE AWESOME ROCKETS. EXPLOSIONS. ENDLESS FIRING OF THE ROCKETS FROM MANY LAUNCHES LINED UP IN FIELD.
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| 01:34:11 1664.5 |
"ALLIED AIR FORCES AID LAND ATTACK IN DRIVE ON CHERBOURG". VARIOUS SCENES OF BOMBERS DROPPING BOMBS ON CHERBOURG ON DAY OF INVASION. AERIAL AWESOME SCENES OF THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF BOMBS RAINING AND EXPLODING ON TARGETS BELOW.
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| 01:35:23 1736.5 |
"IN MEMORIAM". "HONOR FOR MEN WHO FOUGHT AND DIED AT ANZIO". ITALIAN WOMEN CHILDREN BRING FLOWERS TO AMERICAN DEAD AT U.S. CEMETERY IN ANZIO. FROM THE GIFT OF FLOWERS, AMERICAN SOLDIERS SELECT FLOWERS TO PLACE ON THEIR COMRADES.
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| 01:35:53 1767.5 |
AMERICAN SOLDIERS DECORATE THEIR COMRADE'S GRAVES WITH FLOWERS. WACS AND ARMY NURSES DO THE SAME.
CEMETERY. |
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