- Title: VM-324
- Summary: MOVIETONEWS:
- Description:00:01:05 - FIRST PICTURES OF THE BOMBING OF USS PANAY CAUSES CRISIS BETWEEN JAPAN & US. (DEC. 1937) 00:01:50 - MONTAGE NANKING, CAPITOL OF CHINA, IS BOMBED & CAPTURED BY JAPANESE. WIDOW & ORPHANS MOURN DEAD 00:02:08 - MONTAGE SMOKE RISES OVER CITY 00:02:41 - MONTAGE CHINESE JUNKS FLEE OF YANTZE RIVER. MASS EVACUATION 00:02:47 - MONTAGE USS GUNBOAT PANAY TAKES ON REFUGEES AS SAILORS HELP 00:03:09 - USS PANAY STEAMS UP YANTZE. JAPANESE LAUNCH HALTS THE U.S. GUNBOAT FOR QUESTIONING 00:03:29 - MONTAGE USS PANAY IS BOMBED BY JAPANESE PLANES. AMERICANS MAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS TO FIGHT SKY ATTACK 00:03:48 - MONTAGE U.S. SAILORS ABANDON SHIP, WOUNDED FIRST 00:04:46 - SURVIVORS LAND ON SMALL ISLAND. HIDING IN REEDS FROM BOMBS & MACHINE GUNS 00:05:06 - PANAY SLOWLY SINKS 00:05:14 - MONTAGE WOUNDED ARE CARED FOR BY SHIPMATES. 00:06:17 - ITALIAN PASSENGER TENDS TO ITALIAN WOUNDED JOURNALIST 00:06:43 - MONTAGE SURVIVORS & WOUNDED GO INLAND & ARE ATTENDED AT THE NEARBY VILLAGE-TOWN OF HOSHIEN. 00:06:56 - SAILOR WASHES HAND OF WOUNDED BUDDY. LIEUT. COMMANDER HUGHES, LIEUT. ANDERS 00:07:16 - MONTAGE CHINESE PEASANTS & SOLDIERS CARRY WOUNDED TO U.S. GUNBOAT DOWN RIVER 00:07:29 - MONTAGE WOUNDED ARE PLACED ON SMALL BOATS FOR TRIP DOWN STREAM 00:08:10 - MONTAGE WOUNDED ARE PLACED ON BRITISH & U.S. SHIPS THE BRITISH SHIP "LADYBIRD" RIDDLED BY SHRAPNEL. 00:08:29 - MONTAGE USS GUNSHIP OAHU WITH SURVIVORS, STEAMS DOWN RIVER IN SHANGHI AND PLACED ON FLAGSHIP USS AUGUSTA. CAMERAMAN ERIC MAYELL GREETED BY ADMIRAL YARNELL 00:10:40 - MONTAGE FLAG DRAPED CASKET IS HOISTED ABOARD AUGUSTA. COFFIN OF PETTY OFFICER ENSINGER. FLAGS FLY AT HALF MAST 00:11:12 - THE FALL OF MADRID ENDS SPANISH REVOLUTION WAR (MARCH 1939). FRANCO TAKES COMMAND. MORE PICTURES OF BOMBED-OUT CITY 00:11:42 - MONTAGE SOLDIER PASSES FOOD FROM TRUCK TO OUTSTRETCHED ARMS 00:12:35 - FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER BONNET & RUMANIAN AMBASSADOR TATARESCO SIGN A NEW TRADE TREATY-PACT, IN PARIS, TO OFFSET NAZI INFLUENCE. (APRIL 1939) 00:13:03 - MONTAGE ITALIAN TROOPS LAND IN ALBANIA AS ITALY SIEZES THE LITTLE KINGDOM NATION. (APRIL 1939) 00:13:23 - MONTAGE ITALIAN TROOPS WALK THEIR BICYCLES THRU TOWN & ROADS 00:13:39 - MONTAGE COUNT CIANO, REPRESENTING IL DUCE, MUSSOLINI, GREETED IN TIRANA, CAPITAL OF ALBANIA 00:14:14 - BASEBALL MANAGER JIMMY DYKES OF WHITE SOX & GABBY HARTNETT OF THE CHICAGO CUBS WITH CRIPPLED PITCHER MONTE STRATTON. (MAY 1939) 00:14:28 - CU DIZZY DEAN & MONTE STRATTON SPEAK AT BENEFIT GAME BETWEEN 2 TEAMS. FOR MONTE WHO LOST LEG IN HUNTING ACCIDENT 00:14:48 - AERIAL CROWDED STANDS 00:14:51 - DIZZY DEAN WARMS UP 00:15:15 - LOU GEHRIG PLAYS FIRST BASE FOR LAST GAME 00:15:33 - CU GEHRIG AT BAT 00:15:43 - GEHRIG ON THE BENCH WITH FELLOW PLAYERS. VOLUNTARILY BENCHES HIMSELF. 00:15:49 - CU GEHRIG TIPS HAT, FAREWELL 00:15:56 - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BUILDING COMMEMORATION. MOMA (MAY 1939) 00:16:10 - JOHN HAYES WHITNEY, MRS. WM. EMMETT, A. GOODYEAR, NELSON ROCKEFELLER, MRS. JOHN SHEPPARD, EDSEL FORD, AND MRS. JOHN PARKINSON, POSE 00:16:21 - MONTAGE MODERN ART & SURREALIST PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES ARE SHOWN 00:17:28 - CUs BRITISH LORD HALIFAX, FRANCE'S BONNET & RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR NEGOTIATE ANTI-AGGRESSION PACT AT LEAGUE OF NATIONS IN GENEVA. (JUNE 1939) 00:17:55 - MONTAGE WATER SKIERS HAVE ELIMINATION CONTEST IN NEW YORK. (JUNE 1939) 00:18:25 - MONTAGE SKIERS IN GROUPS & INDIVIDUALS DO THEIR THING 00:19:46 - AERIAL JAPANESE SOLDIERS ASSEMBLE IN MOUNTAINOUS NORTH CHINA, IN THE SHANSI PROVINCE. (MAY 1939) 00:19:53 - MONTAGE JAPANESE ARTILLERY BOMBARD CHINESE POSITIONS IN MOUNTAIN. ATTACK & CAPTURE CHINESE MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLD JUST NORTH OF SWATOW. 00:19:56 - ELS SHELL EXPLODES ON MOUNTAIN TOP 00:20:21 - "MYSTERY WAR" IN CENTRAL ASIA CONTINUES. (MAY 1939) JAPANESE BOMB RUSSIA POSITIONS IN MANCHURIA, MONGOLIA. ARTILLERY BATTLES, AIR RAIDS, CAPTURED TANKS, ARMORED CARS 00:20:47 - ELS RUSSIAN BOMBER IS SHOT DOWN 00:21:01 - MONTAGE CAPTURED WOUNDED RUSSIAN PRISONERS 00:21:54 - GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER VON RIBBENTROP FLIES TO MOSCOW, RUSSIA TO SIGN NON-AGGRESSION TREATY (AUGUST 1939) 00:22:21 - PAN DANZIG HARBOR. BALTIC SEAPORT PROCLAIMS NAZI LOYALTY & CLOSES ITS POLISH FRONTIER. 00:22:24 - TROOPS PUT BARRICADES ACROSS ROAD. 00:22:37 - CU U.S. POSTMASTER GENERAL FARLEY TELLS OF VISIT TO VATICAN TO MEET POPE PIUS XII 00:22:57 - FRENCH PREMIER DALADIER EXITS BUILDING AFTER CRISIS CABINET MEETING CONCERNING GERMANY 00:23:06 - CU PEOPLE GRAB FRENCH NEWSPAPERS CONCERNING EVENT 00:23:20 - CROWDS OF MEN ASSEMBLE TO RECRUIT IN FRENCH ARMY 00:23:25 - ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN IN PARIS STREET 00:23:36 - ENGLAND'S KING GEORGE'S LIMO ENTERS GATES OF BUCKINGHAM PALACE. GEORGE RETURNS TO LONDON. GIVES GOVERNMENT POWER TO ACT. 00:23:51 - PRIME MINISTER CHAMBERLAIN & WIFE EXIT 10 DOWNING STREET TO LIMO AS CROWDS CHEER. GETS APPROVAL OF PARLIAMENT 00:24:09 - CU NEWSBOY CARRIES SIGNS, "BRITAINS TOLD TO LEAVE GERMANY" AND "AMERICANS TOLD TO LEAVE BRITAIN" 00:24:16 - MONTAGE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS IN BRITISH STREETS 00:24:30 - FOREIGN MINISTER LORD HALIFAX SPEAKS TO NATION. STATES THAT BRITAIN BACKS POLAND.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1937
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-324