- Title: VM-130
- Summary: THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY: JUNE 1942. ACTUAL COLOR FOOTAGE OF BATTLE FROM NAVY FILMS.
- Description:00:31:14 - ANIMATED MAP OF PACIFIC OCEAN, WEST COAST USA TOKYO, PEARL HARBOR, WAKE ISLAND. MIDWAY ISLAND MIDWAY IN BIG LETTERS WITH USA FLAG IN MIDDLE 00:31:24 - NAVY PLANE ON ROUTINE PATROL. 00:31:37 - CU PILOT. LEATHER AVIATOR CAP & SUNGLASSES 00:31:41 - POV PILOT FLYING OVER MIDWAY ISLAND 00:31:46 - NAVY PATROL PLANE IN FLIGHT 00:31:49 - LS, MIDWAY ISLAND FROM SEA. PANS ISLAND 00:31:57 - MONTAGE OF AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS NEAR ISLAND. 00:32:03 - US NAVY SEAPLANE COASTS IN WATER 00:32:08 - MONTAGE OF NAVAL PERSONNEL, MANY IN SKIMPY BATHING SUITS HELP BRING SEA PLANE ASHORE 00:32:21 - MONTAGE OF US MARINES MARCHING ON MIDWAY ISLAND. 4 MEN MARCH CARRYING US FLAG & SIXTH DEFENSE BATTALION 00:32:42 - SEAGULLS FLY IN BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKY. PANS TO GRASSY DUNES 00:32:48 - CU SEAGULL WADDLING THROUGH SAND 00:32:55 - MONTAGE OF SEAGULLS-BIRDS WALKING AROUND ISLAND CUTE LITTLE FURRY ONE BITES ITS BUTT 00:33:14 - FLOCK OF SEAGULLS FLYING. FADES INTO BEAUTIFUL SUNSET. LONE MAN SITS ON EDGE OF BOAT WATCHING. 00:33:24 - SOLDIER PLAYS ACCORDION DURING SUNSET. ENTERTAINS HIS DIVISION. MONTAGE OF MEN LISTENING. SMOKING, LOUNGING, LOOKING OUT AT WATER. 00:33:58 - DARK & STORMY SKY. CRACK OF THUNDER AUDIBLE. 00:34:03 - POV FROM PATROL PLANE LOOKING AT ISLAND & SEA 00:34:07 - MILITARY PLANES ON GROUND 00:34:14 - MILITARY OFFICERS-PERSONNEL HOLD COUNCIL ON BEACH. 00:34:22 - MONTAGE OF READYING FOR BATTLE. SOUND BYTE FROM A HENRY FONDA MOVIE THRU 00:34:46 - CU SOLDIER FILLING PLANE WITH GAS 00:34:49 - MONTAGE OF SOLDIERS CONFERRING 00:35:04 - CU ENGINEER CHECKING OUT MACHINE 00:35:11 - CU " MOTHER " KNITTING. OLD FASHIONED. CROSS ON NECK. 00:35:18 - " SISTER " ON PHONE. DRESSED IN 1940s OUTFIT SMILES AT CAMERA. RIBBON IN HAIR. 00:35:28 - FIGHTER PLANE TAXIS 00:35:46 - CU LOW ANGLE MARINE GIVING PLANE DIRECTIONS 00:35:49 - MONTAGE OF FIGHTER PLANES TAKING OFF. 00:36:27 - CU LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS. INTERCUTS JAPANESE PLANES ABOVE 00:36:30 - MONTAGE OF ATTACK ON JAPANESE PLANES. GUNS FIRING, PLANES HIT 00:36:42 - CU MEN IN BLIND-DITCH-HOLE FIRING 00:36:44 - MONTAGE OF AIR-LAND BATTLE. 00:37:26 - CU HUGE EXPLOSION HITTING GROUND. RED SMOKE, FIRE, SOUND. 00:37:32 - LS MONTAGE OF GROUPS OF SMOKE COMING FROM LAND HIT BY PLANES. 00:37:37 - CU MONTAGE OF BURNING BUILDINGS 00:37:46 - LOW ANGLE PLANE ABOVE. HITS TARGET, EXPLOSION. 00:37:53 - MARINES RUN AWAY FROM PLANES. FIRES ALL OVER 00:37:57 - MEN HANG TATTERED OLD GLORY AMID WRECKAGE. SOUND BYTE IN LOW SOFT VOICE "YES, THIS REALLY HAPPENED". MUSIC UNDER, SINGING STAR SPANGLED BANNER AMID TOTAL CHAOS. BILLOWING BLACK SMOKE. BOMBS. 00:38:31 - CU TWO US SOLDIERS. ONE WEARS FUNKY GOGGLES. 00:38:38 - HIT PLANE DISSOLVES MID AIR. 00:38:39 - TRUCK DRIVES THROUGH RED FIERY LANDSCAPE 00:38:49 - CU YOUNG U.S. FIGHTER LOOKING OUT AT BATTLE SCENE 00:38:53 - MONTAGE OF WAR & DESTRUCTION ON MIDWAY ISLAND. 00:39:42 - PLANE GOES DOWN, NATURAL SOUND, CRASHES. CU ON GROUND BURNING 00:39:56 - MONTAGE AIR-SEA BATTLE. BATTLESHIPS. 00:40:17 - CU B-11 FIGHTER PLANE & PILOTS. POV ANOTHER PLANE. 00:40:24 - POV PLANE LOOKING DOWN AT BATTLESHIP. 00:40:36 - NAVY PLANES TAKE OFF U.S. CARRIERS. ARMY BOMBERS, MARINES 00:40:52 - CU MARINES LOAD GUNS ON BATTLESHIP. INTERCUTS GROUP OF INVASION FORCES PLANES ABOVE, ALL HIT. LOADING & FIRING MONTAGE OF PLANE-SHIP BATTLE. AIR-SEA 00:41:53 - CU OF U.S. MARINES ON BATTLESHIP. 00:42:14 - MONTAGE OF FIGHTER PLANE PILOTS SURVIVING DAY'S BATTLE. ONE HOLDS UP FOUR FINGERS AS VOICE ASKS HOW MANY MORE TODAY SKIPPER? (HENRY FONDA) 00:42:57 - CU THREE PILOTS STAND BY PLANES ALL HAPPY TO HAVE SURVIVED. FULL PILOT GEAR, GOGGLES, CAPS CU ONE LOOKING UP 00:43:04 - MONTAGE OF POST BATTLE DAMAGE. SHELLS OF BUILDINGS. BIRDS AMID WRECKAGE. 00:43:18 - BLACK U.S. MARINE LOOKS OVER REMAINS OF DOWNED PLANE 00:43:24 - SEAGULL SITS AMONGST WRECKAGE. PANS PILES OF METAL. 00:43:35 - SOLDIER HOLDS PIECE OF WRECKAGE STICKING OUT OF GROUND. OTHERS AMBLE AROUND. HUGE BLACK CLOUD OF SMOKE BURNS IN BACKGROUND. 00:43:43 - MONTAGE OF PATROL PLANES SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS 00:43:54 - POV LOOKING DOWN AT TINY CORAL REEF FROM PLANE 00:44:01 - POV LOOKING DOWN AT DOWNED PLANE IN SEA. 00:44:07 - MONTAGE OF SURVIVORS BEING HELPED OUT OF PLANES. 00:44:16 - CU SURVIVOR SMOKING HIS FIRST CIGARETTE. 00:44:33 - MEN HELP PUT EMPTY METAL STRETCHER INTO PLANE 00:44:40 - MEN HELP TAKE WOUNDED SOLDIER ON METAL STRETCHER 00:45:02 - CU WOUNDED MAN HELPED INTO JACKET, KISSES IT. 00:45:05 - TWO ECSTATIC SURVIVORS SMILING, PSYCHED. HELPED INTO TRUCK, LEAVE FOR HOSPITAL 00:45:28 - PAN OF SHELL WHERE HOSPITAL USED TO BE. BED FRAMES..WOMAN'S VOICE OVER FROM MOVIE. "GET THEM TO HOSPITAL..." 00:45:47 - REMAINS OF RED CROSS SEEN THROUGH WRECKAGE 00:45:58 - MONTAGE OF FUNERAL SERVICES HELD ON BEACH. CHURCH BELL AUDIBLE. 00:46:09 - U.S. MEN IN UNIFORM STAND IN MOURNING IN FRONT OF BODIES OF DEAD WITH U.S. FLAGS OVER THEM. 00:46:14 - PANS FELLOW SOLDIERS DURING SERVICE. PANS TO CHAPLAIN MUTTERING SERVICES. 00:46:37 - "21" GUN SALUTE. 00:46:39 - PANS INDIVIDUALS SALUTING THEIR DEAD FELLOW SOLDIERS. (HYMN SUNG THRU 00 47 53, MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE) 00:46:54 - BATTLE OF MIDWAY ISLAND MONTAGE 00:47:34 - CU SOLDIER ON KNEES PEERING THROUGH BINOCULARS. 00:47:56 - STATISTICS ON SCREEN OF SUNK JAPANESE CARRIERS, HAND PAINTS RED OVER STATS. DRIPS LIKE BLOOD. 00:48:09 - MORE STATS THIS TIME HAND MAKES BLACK X IN PAINT OVER STATS 00:48:21 - HAND PAINTS RED V OVER STATS. MUSIC OVER
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1942
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-130