- Title: VM-320
- Summary: MOVIETONEWS:
- Description:00:00:38 - HARRIMAN & BEAVERBROOK ON HISTORIC MOSCOW VISIT. ALLIED CONFERENCE. OCTOBER 1941 00:00:46 - MONTAGE AVERELL HARRIMAN & LORD BEAVERBROOK ON WAR SHIP 00:01:08 - HARRIMAN & BEAVERBROOK ARE MET AT MOSCOW AIRPORT 00:01:37 - THE SIEGE OF ODESSA. LAST DAYS OF RUSSIAN CITY BEFORE ITS FALL. FINAL DAYS IN RUSSIAN BLACK SEA PORT BEFORE ITS FALL TO RUMANIAN & NAZI FORCES AFTER BITTER SIEGE LASTING 2 MONTHS. OFFICIAL SOVIET PICTURES, JUST RELEASED. 00:01:45 - MONTAGE SANDBAG DEFENSES ON STREETS OF ODESSA, BELEAGUERED CITY. CIVILIANS HELP IN THE BUILDING OF STREET BARRICADES. MEN, WOMEN, & CHILDREN. 00:01:48 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN NAVAL UNITS EMBARK WARSHIPS TO REINFORCE ODESSA. SAILORS FROM THE NAVAL BASE OF SEVASTOPOL ARE RUSHED TO ODESSA TO HELP. 00:02:05 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN GUN CREWS ON WARSHIPS FIRE AT ATTACKING NAZI PLANES. RED FLEET BOMBARDS GERMAN LINES FROM SEA. 00:02:20 - WARSHIPS BOMBARD SHORE 00:02:32 - MONTAGE MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN CARRY OR ROLL STONES AND SANDBAGS 00:02:52 - TRUCKS FULL OF RUSSIAN FIGHTERS 00:03:01 - JAPANESE REFUGEE SHIP BRINGS JAPANESE AMERICANS BACK TO AMERICA FROM JAPAN BECAUSE OF STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND U.S. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. STEAMSHIP BRINGS AMERICAN-BORN JAPANESE TO THE U.S FROM NIPPON. 00:03:36 - MONTAGE JAPANESE NON-CITIZENS AT PIER FOR RETURN TO JAPAN BECAUSE OF DETERIORATING RELATIONS WITH U.S. 00:03:43 - MONTAGE JAPANESE FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN WAIT TO BOARD SHIP 00:04:11 - JAPANESE ENVOY KURUSU HERE ON SPECIAL MISSION. ARRIVES AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF TOKYO GOVERNMENT TO DISCUSS CRITICAL NIPPONESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS 00:04:19 - FOUR PROP ENGINE PASSENGER PLANE IS GUIDED BY GROUND CREWMAN 00:04:23 - CU KURUSU SPEAKS TO REPORTERS AT AIRPORT OF PEACE 00:04:41 - KURUSU WITH SECRETARY HULL IN WASHINGTON 00:05:00 - KURUSU IS SILENT AFTER SEEING FDR ABOUT CRISIS 00:05:23 - U.S. JAPANESE CRISIS GROWS, BRITAIN GIRDS SINGAPORE DEFENSE. 00:05:32 - REPORTERS TAKE NOTES AS KURUSU SPEAKS TO THEM. JAPANESE AMBASSADOR NOMURA & SPECIAL ENVOY KURUSU RESUME NEGOTIATIONS AT WHITE HOUSE AMID INTERNATIONAL TENSION. 00:06:22 - U.S. DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN! FDR ADDRESSES JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, ASKING DECLARATION OF WAR. CONGRESS ACTS WITH SPEED, VOTING WAR 470 TO 1. 00:06:31 - FDR ADDRESSES CONGRESS WITH DAY OF INFAMY SPEECH 00:12:06 - WAR WITH JAPAN! SUMMARY OF EVENTS LEADING TO WAR. 00:12:18 - MONTAGE KURUSU & JAPANESE AMBASSADORS LEAVE STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICE AFTER SCATHING DENUNCIATION BY SECRETARY HULL 00:12:40 - TIMES SQUARE STORY OF ATTACK IS TOLD ON N.Y. TIMES BUILDING AT NIGHT. ELECTRONIC BILLBOARD 00:12:44 - LIT UP N.Y. THEATRE DISTRICT AT NIGHT 00:12:48 - MONTAGE SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL, SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON AND SECRETARY OF NAVY KNOX ARRIVE AT WHITE HOUSE FOR MEETING WITH FDR 00:13:07 - AERIAL PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII AFTER BOMBING 00:13:43 - AERIAL GREAT WALL OF CHINA 00:13:50 - MONTAGE TROOPS MARCH ON GREAT WALL. JAPANESE INVADE & CONQUER MANCHURIA 00:14:04 - DEFYING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, JAPANESE ENVOY MATSUOKA TELLS TO GENEVA ASSEMBLY THAT HIS NATION WILL NOT ACCEPT CENSURE OF THE LEAGUE & WALKS OUT AFTER SPEECH 00:14:34 - JAPANESE SET UP PUPPET STATE OF MANCHUKUO, SEVERING IT FROM CHINA PROPER, STARTING A NEW ORDER IN ASIA 00:14:48 - CU PUPPET EMPEROR HENRY PU-YI, MANCHU EMPEROR. 00:14:54 - RUTHLESS BOMBINGS OF CIVILIAN CENTERS. MONTAGE BOMBS EXPLODE IN SHANGHI CITY 00:15:07 - MONTAGE BURNING BUILDINGS 00:15:11 - AERIAL CROWDS RUN IN PANIC IN SHANGHI 00:15:28 - CHINESE WOMAN WITH CHILD CRIES OVER LIFELESS BODY OF HUSBAND IN STREET. DEVASTATION & DEATH TO INNOCENT VICTIMS. 00:15:42 - US GUNBOAT PANAY IS BOMBED & SUNK ON YANGTZE RIVER BY JAPANESE 00:15:46 - U.S. SAILOR IN LIFE JACKET HOLDS BANDAGED ARM 00:15:58 - U.S. SAILOR FIRES MACHINE GUN AT ATTACKING PLANES 00:16:29 - AERIAL JAPANESE BOMBS FALL ON CHUNGKING CITY, CHINA 00:16:48 - MONTAGE JAPANESE ENVOY MATSUOKA MEETS HITLER AS JAPAN JOINS AXIS. SIGNS PACT. 00:16:55 - MATSUOKA & HITLER WAVE FROM BALCONY AS HUGE CROWDS CHEER 00:17:12 - U.S. WARSHIPS IN LINE AT SEA 00:17:15 - MONTAGE SAILORS RUN ABOUT ON DECK OF U. S. BATTLESHIP (FRONT VIEW) AND MAN BATTLE STATIONS 00:17:36 - MONTAGE WARSHIPS FIRING CANNONS ON OPEN SEA AS PLANES FLY OVERHEAD 00:18:55 - WAR NEWS FROM RUSSIA 00:19:03 - MONTAGE STALIN OK'S & SIGNS SOVIET-POLISH TREATY. POLAND JOINS RUSSIA IN THE FIGHT AGAINST NAZI GERMANY. SIKORSKI & STALIN SIGN PACT OF FRIENDSHIP & ASSISTANCE. 00:19:41 - MONTAGE SOVIET TROOPS FIRE ARMS FROM TRENCH 00:19:45 - CU SOVIET OFFICERS DIRECT OFFENSIVE OPERATION ON BATTLEFIELD OUTSIDE TULA AREA 00:19:56 - SOVIET TROOPS RUN TO MAN TANKS AND LITERALLY DIVE IN 00:20:06 - BRANCHES TO CAMOUFLAGE CANNONS ARE REMOVED 00:20:11 - SOLDIER PICKS UP SHELL AND LOADS IT INTO CANNON 00:20:17 - MONTAGE CANNON, ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS FIRE 00:20:21 - MONTAGE GUNS & CANNON FIRE FROM ARMORED TRAIN 00:20:32 - MONTAGE WRECKAGE OF NAZI EQUIPMENT IN SNOW 00:20:43 - MONTAGE SOVIETS PICK UP ABANDONED SMALL ARMS & PILE THEM 00:20:48 - 21 PAN AMERICAN NATIONS WIND UP PARLEY IN BRAZIL 00:21:00 - MONTAGE DELEGATES OF LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS MEET TO BREAK RELATIONS WITH AXIS, IN RIO DE JANEIRO 00:21:09 - ARGENTINA DELEGATE SPEAKS - DISPLAYS RELUCTANCE 00:21:20 - BRAZIL DELEGATE MAKES STRONG PLEA IN FAVOR 00:21:40 - MOVIETONE FILMS OF JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR 00:21:50 - VISUAL STORY OF PEARL HARBOR. THE ONLY PICTURES OF THE TREACHEROUS JAPANESE ATTACK FILMED BY STAFF CAMERAMAN AL BRICK, & NOW RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION BY U.S. NAVY 00:22:19 - JAPANESE ENVOY KURUSU WITH SECRETARY HULL TALKS PEACE WHILE JAPANESE PLAN ATTACK 00:22:39 - JAPANESE MINISTER TOJO AND NAVAL COMMANDERS EXIT LIMOS FOR MEETING IN TOKYO TO PLOT ATTACK 00:22:57 - MONTAGE JAPANESE WARSHIPS AT SEA 00:23:24 - MONTAGE U.S. AIRCRAFT DESTROYED AT PEARL HARBOR ON GROUND. HANGER IN FLAMES 00:24:00 - MONTAGE BATTLESHIP ARIZONA STILL SMOKING HALF SUBMERGED IN HARBOR 00:24:35 - WARSHIP PASSES DAMAGED AND SMOKING SHIPS 00:24:48 - MONTAGE BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA CAPSIZED ON ITS SIDE (*NOTE: ALTHOUGH OBVIOUS DAMAGE IS EXTENSIVE, NARRATOR LOWELL THOMAS MINIMIZES DAMAGE IN APPARENT PROPAGANDA STYLE OF THE TIMES*) 00:25:35 - MONTAGE BATTLESHIP UTAH & 2 DESTROYERS, DESTROYERS CASSIN AND DOWNES, DESTROYED 00:25:47 - MONTAGE HULK OF ARIZONA AFTER FIRE IS PUT OUT. PAN
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1941
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-320