- Title: P-218-23
- Summary: DECADES: NEWSREEL STORIES FROM DECEMBER 1944-JANUARY 1945
- Description:01:00:45 - WINTER WARFARE ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING WWII.LIED TANKS, TRUCKS MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE. MUDDY ROADS MAKE MOVEMENT SLOW AND UGLY. SOLDIERS PUT ON LONG JOHNS TO COMBAT COLD. 01:01:13 - GENERAL IKE VISITS BRITISH SECOND ARMY 01:01:30 - GENERAL PATTON ADDRESSES GROUP OF OFFICERS & GIVES GOOD LUCK SALUTE.GENERAL GEORGE PATTON STANDS ON TABLE TO ADDRESS HIS OFFICERS AND TANK MEN. 01:01:39 - DRIVE INTO GERMANY THROUGH TOWN & COUNTRYSIDE. AMERICAN TANKS AND ARTILLERY BOMBARD ENEMY POSITIONS. GROUND UNITED INCH FORWARD IN WOODED COUNTRY. WOUNDED YANK IS TREATED BY MEDIC. REMOVED BY STRETCHER BEARERS. SOLDIER CARRIES WOUNDED BUDDY ON SHOULDERS. 01:02:07 - VARIOUS SHOTS DOG FIGHTS INCLUDE GERMAN NEW JET PLANE. VARIOUS SHOTS INTENSE STREET FIGHTING IN CITIES, TOWNS. 01:03:07 - PAN GRAPHIC SHOTS DEAD ENEMY SOLDIERS. SURRENDERING GERMAN SOLDIERS CARRYING THEIR WOUNDED. SCARED FACES OF YOUNG GERMAN SOLDIERS WITH THEIRHANDS UP. 01:03:18 - THOUSANDS OF GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR 01:03:56 - "GI'S PLAY SANTA" - SIGN WITH ARROW: "CAMP UPTON (NY)" - WOUNDED, CONVALESCENT GI'S IN HOSPITAL WARD, MANY OF THEM FATHERS THAT COULD NOT GO HOME, REPAIR, MAKE NEW AND SHINING, MORE THAN 10,000 TOYS DONATED BY NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES. THEY WORK IN IN THEIR HOSPITAL BEDS, IN WHEEL CHAIRS AND IN SHOPS. 01:04:24 - GIS CARRY BOXES OF REPAIRED TOYS TO TRUCK, DRIVE OFF TO DELIVER THEM TO NEARBY ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS VICTIMS. GREAT SHOTS GIS DISTRIBUTING TOYS TO CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL BEDS. 01:05:14 - STARVING CITIZENS OF ATHENS, GREECE WATCH UNRRA FOOD SHIPMENTS ARRIVE WITH GREE PREMIERE PAPANDREOU & BRITISH GENERAL SCOBIE PRESENT 01:05:54 - PAN PARTISANS WHO LED THE FIGHT AGAINST GERMANS AND WERE LATER FIRED UPON BY BRITISH. THEY LED FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNIST LED EAMOS (?), THE PARTY CLAIMING WIDE SUPPORT AMONG THE GREEK POPULACE. 01:06:04 - CHURCHILL ANNOUNCES DISBANDING ALL GUERRILLA BANDS UNTIL ELECTIONS CAN BE HELD. 01:06:16 - BROOKLYN WOMEN SEND SAND, EARTH & WATER SAMPLES OF BROOKLYN TO TROOPS STATIONED AT LOWRY FIELD, COLORADO 01:06:33 - GREAT SHOTS BROOKLYN BRIDGE; BASEBALL GAME IN PROGRESS AT EBBETS FIELD WITH BELOVED DODGERS. CLOWNS IN STANDS AND ON FIELD, ENTERTAINING DODGER FANS. SIGN; "DEM-BE-YU-TI-FULL BUM 01:06:48 - GREAT SHOTS CROWDED BEACH AT CONEY ISLAND. CU MAN TAKING MOUTHFUL OF FROM ICE CREAM CONE. TWO LOVERS LAYING IN SAND ON BEACH, CU BACK SHOTS SEXY BATHING BEAUTY WALKING AWAY FROM CAMERA TO SURF. 01:07:05 - VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG GIRLS GETTING SAMPLES OF SMELLY WATER FROM GOWANAS CANAL, ANOTHER GETTING SAND FROM BEACH ON CONEY ISLAND, YOUNG WOMAN TAKES GLASS OF SMELLY WATER FROM GOWANAS CANAL, SCOOP OF SMELLY BROOKLYN EARTH, AND OTHER UNIQUELY BROOKLYN STUFF TO SEND TO THEIR LOVED ONES IN COLORADO. 01:07:12 - GIRLS GET TOGETHER AND PACK UP THE SAMPLES, AND OF COURSE THE LATEST copy OF BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. WOMAN TURNS HER FACE IN DISGUST AS SHE SMELLS GOWANAS WATER BEFORE IT IS SEALED IN JAR. 01:07:32 - GREAT SHOTS REACTIONS AS GIS IN COLORADO OPEN THEIR BROOKLYN MEMENTOS. CU GI OPENS JAR OF GOWANAS CANAL WATER, TURNS HIS FACE AWAY IN DISGUST. GI SMELLS BROOKLYN EARTH SAVORS IT. 01:07:59 - SURPRISE GERMAN OFFENSIVE AHS AMERICAN TROOPS IN RETREAT. DIGGING TRENCHES IN SNOW- COVERED COUNTRYSIDE. BATTLE OF THE BULGE 01:08:07 - AMERICAN SOLDIERS MIRED IN MUD AS THEY RETREAT DUE TO GERMAN COUNTER OFFENSIVE (BEGINNING OF BATTLE OF THE BULGE). GIS GO BACK TO TRENCHES, REMINISCENT TO WW1 TRENCH WARFARE. SHOTS OF GIS HUDDLED IN TRENCHES ALONG WESTERN FRONT. 01:08:49 - CAPTURED GERMAN FILMS SHOW PREPARATIONS FOR WAR AS GOEBBELS ISSUES NEW MOBILIZATION DECREES, CLAMPS DOWN ON ENTERTAINMENT, ORDERS 60-HOUR WORK WEEK 01:09:04 - VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN WOMEN GOING TO WORK, WORKING IN FACTORIES MAKING WEAPONS IN DESPERATE HOPE THAT TIME, AND V-BOMBS AND GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS WILL TURN TIDE IN. THEIR FAVOR. 01:09:17 - LINES OF GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR, POWS 01:09:29 - VON RUNSTEDT'S STRATEGIC RESERVES OF SOLDIERS 01:09:30 - FRESH GERMAN SOLDIERS FROM THE I MILLION GENERAL VON RUNDSTEDT STRATEGIC RESERVE ON THE MOVE.. PAN GERMAN PLANES AT AIRFIELD, WHOSE EXISTENCE WE HAD ALMOST DISMISSED. 01:09:41 - PANZER UNITS THAT HAVE WAITED FOR THE SURPRISE ATTACK. VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN ARTILLERY FIRING CANNON, GERMAN SOLDIERS CHARGING FORWARD. VARIOUS SHOTS U. S. ARTILLERY STRIKING BACK. 01:10:48 - GENERAL IKE & MEMBERS OF ALLIED HIGH COMMAND PLAN, CHECK OUT WAR MAPS. 01:10:59 - SANTA CLAUS AT ST. LOUIS ZOO GIVES PRESENTS TO CHIMPAZEES 01:11:08 - 5 CHIMPANZEES AT ST LOUIS ZOO IN SHORTS AND T-SHIRTS LINE UP TO VISIT SANTA MAKE THEIR CHRISTMAS REQUESTS. ONE REQUESTED A BANANA, GOT A HELMET. SANTA POUTS IT ON HIM. THE REST GOT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. THEY ALL GOT TOGETHER TO PLAY. CHIMP BAND PLAY BANJO, BASE DRUM, CONGA DRUM, ALL STOP TO EAT GOODIES. ANIMAL ANTICS. 01:12:03 - BATTLE FOR LEYTE IN PHILLIPINES AS ISLAND OFFENSIVES SPEED UP 01:12:16 - JUNGLE WARFARE SCENES - GENERAL MACARTHUR AND PRESIDENT OSMENA, VISITS TROOPS IN LEYTE, HAS CEREMONY FOR THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO LIBERATE THIS CITY FROM JAPANESE. 01:12:36 - VARIOUS SHOTS GENERAL MACARTHUR AND GENERAL KRUGER, MAPPING NEW PLANS TO SPEED THE INVASION OF PHILIPPINES THAT BEGAN 0N OCTOBER 19 ON LEYTE. CU VIEW BATTLE MAP. 01:12:56 - SURPRISE LANDING AT ORMOC THAT SPLIT JAPANESE FORCES & INVASION OF MINDORO 01:13:47 - BITTER BATTLES THROUGH SWAMPS & JUNGLES ON WAY TO MANILA 01:14:38 - TO 01 24 35 - YEAR-END REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS 1944 01:15:11 - CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS 01:15:15 - VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG COUPLE WITH TWO CHILDREN SEATED IN LIVING ROOM ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1944, OPENING GIFTS BY FIREPLACE AND CHRISTMAS TREE, WHILE WAR IN EUROPE GOES ON WITH INTENSITY. VARIOUS SHOTS ARTILLERY FIRING IN BELGIUM, GI WITH BANDAGED FACE BEING CARRIED ON STRETCHER; HUNDREDS WHITE CROSSES IN GI CEMETERY. 01:15:25 - SCENES OF WWII FROM BELGIUM, ATLANTIC. INJURY & DEATH 01:15:54 - HEADLINES OF D-DAY, GUAM INVADED, PARIS LIBERATED, PHILIPPINES, TOKYO BOMBED 01:16:07 - FAMOUS SHOTS MACARTHUR WADING TO SHORE IN PHILIPPINES, FULFILLS HIS PROMISE TO RETURN. 01:16:12 - HOME FRONT WAR INDUSTRY.MONTAGE AMERICAN WORKERS IN DEFENSE PLANTS MAKING ARMS, ETC 01:16:28 - MONTAGE OF EVENTS: NEW INCOME TAX, DEWEY, FDR RE-ELECTION, BASEBALL WORLD SERIES, DEATH OF AL SMITH & WILLKIE, ARMY-NAVY FOOTBALL GAME 01:16:33 - THOMAS DEWEY WAVES TO CROWD AFTER BEING SELECTED BY GOP TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT, .AGAINST FDR'S 4TH TERM. MS FDR WITH HIS VICE PRESIDENT TRUMAN. FDR WAS RE-ELECTED. 01:16:37 - AERIAL VIEW 1944 WORLD SERIES IN PROGRESS. ST LOUIS BROWNS VS ST. LOUIS CARDINALS. 01:16:41 - CU SHOTS ALFRED E. SMITH AND WENDELL WILLKIE 01:16:47 - GREAT NAVY VS ARMY FOOTBALL GAME, SHOWS ARMY;S PHENOM GLEN DAVIS MAKING TOUCHDOWN. sports, college football 01:17:16 - D-DAY, WAR IN EUROPE - MAPS SHOWING OUR GAINS IN PACIFIC WAR, AND EUROPE. GENERAL EISENHOWER MEETS WITH ALLIED COMMANDERS, PLOTS 01:17:22 - D-DAY SHOTS SQUADRONS BOMBERS BOMBING FORTRESS GERMANY. 01:17:34 - CU HAND MAKES CHECK MARK ON JUNE 6, 1944 (D-DAY). CLOCK SHOWING ZERO HOUR. CU GI MOUTHING WORD "FIRE!". PARATROOPS DROPPING FROM SKY, LANDING CRAFT HITTING BEACHES IN NORMANDY; 01:18:34 - LIBERATION OF PARIS. BATTLE SCENES ON BEACH. TROOPS MOVING INLAND. AMERICAN TANKS RIDING UNDER EIFFEL TOWER IN PARIS. HUGE CROWDS MAKING "V" SIGNS WITH FINGERS. FRENCH GIRLS KISSING GIS. 01:19:03 - BRUSSELS LIBERATED, SIEGFRIED LINE. AERIAL VIEW SIEGFRIED LINE AS TROOPS ENTER GERMANY. MAP SHOWS RUSSIAN MASSIVE GAINS IN RUSSIA. SHOT JOSEF STALIN. RUSSIAN TROOPS ADVANCING. 01:19:19 - RUSSIAN RED ARMY ENTERS POLAND, SWEEPS BALKANS, YUGOSLAVIA 01:19:34 - HUGE ARTILLERY AND ROCKET BOMBARDMENTS LIGHT UP THE NIGHT. 01:19:40 - ROMANIA QUITS AXIS 01:19:47 - SHOT ADOLPH HITLER IN HEYDAY, NOW REPORTED INSANE. MS HEINRICH HIMMLER. 01:19:56 - HOME FRONT SHORTAGES 01:20:13 - B-29S TAKING OFF TO BOMB TOKYO. MACARTHUR WADING ASHORE WITH HIS COMMANDERS, FULFILLING HIS PROMISE, "I SHALL RETURN". MORE BATTLE SCENES IN PACIFIC. JAPANESE PLANE TAKING NOSE DIVE AND CRASHING, EXPLODING. 01:21:27 - VARIOUS SHOTS OUR NAVY WARSHIPS AT SEA. MCU ADMIRAL NIMITZ AT HIS DESK. ADMIRAL HALSEY POSING. 01:21:48 - FDR & CHURCHILL MEET IN QUEBEC, CANADA. VARIOUS SHOTS MEETINGS WITH FDR, CHURCHILL, OTHERS. HUNGER IN ITALY, RIOTS IN LANDS WE LIBERATED. CROWDS IN FRANCE GET VIOLENT WITH NAZI COLLABORATORS. 01:22:36 - NAZI INSPIRED SNIPERS OPEN FIRE ON GREAT WELCOMING PARADE FOR GENERAL DEGAUL. GRAPHIC VIEW DEAD BODIES IN STREET. VOICE OVER, "GERMANY MADE THE WAR, SHE MUST NOT WIN THE PEACE" 01:23:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS JAPANESE ATROCITIES. BEATING UP CIVILIANS, BAYONETING CHILDREN, CELEBRATING VICTORIES WITH THEIR BANZAI GESTURES. VOICE OVER, THE WAR HAS LONG TO GO AGAINST THESE "MONKEY MEN". (DEROGATORY DESCRIPTION GIVEN THE HATEFUL ENEMY) 01:24:12 - GOOD SHOTS THOUSANDS AMERICAN HELMETED SOLDIERS MARCHING TOWARDS CAMERA. .....END 01:24:33 - "TRAGEDY IN WARSAW" - VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN PANZER DIVISIONS ENTERING WARSAW AFTER 20 DAY SIEGE IN 1939. THE BEGINNING OF BRUTAL GERMAN OCCUPATION. BUT, ALREADY THE POLISH CITIZENS WERE PLOTTING THEIR MOVEMENT OF RESISTANCE WHICH EXPLODED OPENLY LAST AUGUST, AS RED ARMY SEEMED ABOUT TO ATTACK AND LIBERATE THE CITY. 01:25:25 - 01:25:25 - NEW SMUGGLED UNDERGROUND FILM SHOWS WARSAW GHETTO IN RUINS. SHOTS OF UNDERGROUND FIGHTERS COMING OUT OF HIDING PLACES WITHIN GHETTO, TO FIGHT THE NAZIS WHEN RED ARMY NEARED CITY GATES. 01:25:31 - UNDERGROUND PRESS PRINTING ANTI-NAZI LITERATURE. POLISH FIGHTERS PAINTING SLOGANS ON PUBLIC WALLS. HITLER HUNG IN EFFIGY. THEN SABOTAGE. BRIDGES BLOWN UP, TRAINS WRECKED. 01:25:53 - UNDERGROUND IS CRUSHED AFTER UPRISING & SABOTAGE 01:26:17 - POLISH SURRENDER AS RUSSIAN ATTACK FAILED TO LIBERATE WARSAW, PLUNGING THE CITY IN AGONY.. 01:26:25 - GRAPHIC SHOTS BONES OF DEAD HORSES IN STREET AFTER THEY WERE KILLED FOR THEIR MEAT. DESPERATE MEN AND WOMEN ON FOOD LINERS WITH BOWLS IN HAND, HOPING TO GET A BOWL OF SOUP. 01:26:37 - AMERICAN SOLDIERS CLEAN UP DAMAGE OF BLITZED LONDON RUINS AS DUNCAN SANDYS, MINISTER OF WORKS GIVES THANKS 01:26:56 - VARIOUS SHOTS BRITISH PEOPLE, FIREMEN, FIGHTING FIRES AFTER GERMAN BLITZ WHICH LASTED 5 YEARS. SHOTS OF SOME OF THE 3000 AMERICAN GIS HELPING TO CLEAR DEBRIS LEFT BY THE BOMBING. 01:27:07 - BRITISH MINISTERS VISIT SITES WHERE U. S.. GIS USING SHOVELS AND BRAWN TO CLEAR THE MASSIVE DEBRIS. MS U. S. SOLDIER MAKES STATEMENT TO CAMERA AS HE WORKS. 01:27:41 - GERMAN ESPIONAGE IN GREENLAND AS NAZIS SET UP RADIO STATION TO REPORT ON NORTHERN CONDITIONS TO U-BOAT SUBMARINES. COAST GUARD LEARNS OF PLOT 01:28:29 - VARIOUS SHOTS ARMED COAST GUARDSMEN LOCATE AND ATTACK THE BASE. PAN CAPTURED EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES PARACHUTED TO THE GERMANS. 01:29:31 - TO 01 31 46 - TO 01 31 46 "REPORT TO AMERICA" - MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS AMERICAN ARTILLERY BOMBARDING ENEMY ON EUROPEAN WESTERN FRONT DURING THE LAST BITTER WEEKS OF 1944. 01:29:58 - GENERAL IKE MEETS WITH REPRESENTATIVE SOLDIERS OF AMERICAN, BRITISH, CANADIAN, FRENCH ARMIES. CU IKE SPEAKS. 01:30:20 - FDR DELIVERS REALISTIC MESSAGE FROM WASHINGTON, DC DEVOID OF OPTIMISM 01:30:24 - FDR VOICE OVER MESSAGE TO AMERICAN PEOPLE, SITTING IN LIVING ROOM, WOMAN HANGING BANNER WITH 3 STARS ON WINDOW, INDICATION 3 SONS IN SERVICE; GIS STANDING AND PRAYING AT BATTLEFIELD MASS; AMERICAN TANKS, TROOPS ROLLING FORWARD ON ROADS; WOUNDED GIS BEING TREATED AT BATTLEFIELD; SHOTS OF GI CEMETERY AS VOICE OVER SPEAKS WORDS OF LINCOLN AFTER CIVIL WAR. 01:31:47 - SECRET WEAPON: WAR SCIENCE BEATS AIR "BLACKOUT" FOR ALLIED FLIERS BY TRAINING IN CENTRIFUGE 01:31:53 - "WAR SCIENCE BREAKS AIR BLACKOUT" - VARIOUS SHOTS DOG FIGHTS WITH PLANES DIVING AT MORE THEN 500 MILES PER HOUR, CAUSING MANY PILOTS TO LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS ("BLACK OUT)). 01:32:06 - MILITARY SCIENTIST IN TORONTO, CANADA HAVING SECRETLY EXPERIMENTED FOR 5 YEARS, FINALLY OVERCOME PROBLEM WITH USE OF SPECIAL SUIT. VARIOUS SHOTS EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS, SHOWS PILOT BACKING OUT THEN QUICKLY REVIVING HIMSELF. 01:33:27 - MS PILOT IN LOCKER ROOM PUTS ON HIS NEW FLYING SUIT, THEN ENTERS EXPERIMENTAL COCKPIT TO TEST IT. 01:34:17 - CAPTURED NAZI FILMS OF HITLER GANG. HITLER IN BERLIN. "THE HITLER GANG HOLDS ON" - CAPTURED NAZI FILM SHOWS THE FANATICAL FOE WE FACE.. .VARIOUS SHOTS GOERING AT THE MILITARY SERVICES HELD FOR THOSE KILLED ON ATTEMPT ON HITLER'S LIFE LAST YEAR. GOERING LAYS WREATH. 01:35:11 - HITLER VISITING HOSPITAL AND THOSE WOUNDED IN BOMBING ATTEMPT. SOME BELIEVE THIS IS NOT THE REAL HITLER AND HITLER IS DEAD. HUGE CROWD CHEER HITLER AS HE LEAVES HOSPITAL 01:36:05 - MAJOR REIMER, COMMANDER OF THE "DOG BATTALION", REVIEWS HIS MEN. GIVES NAZI SALUTE AS MEN GOOSE STEP IN PARADE. GOOD FACE SHOTS GERMAN STERN FACED SOLDIERS STANDING AT ATTENTION. 01:36:19 - GERMAN COMBAT FILMS FROM WESTERN FRONT. VARIOUS SHOTS GERMAN TROOPS ON THE MARCH ON WESTERN FRONT. SOLDIER HANDS OUT NEWSPAPERS TO GERMAN TROOPS PASSING ON BICYCLES, TELLING THEM THAT EISENHOWER'S ATTACK DID NOT TAKE GERMANS BY SURPRISE. NAZI TROOPS ,MOVE INTO THE WOODS FOR A SURPRISE ATTACK ON THE ADVANCING ALLIED TROOPS. 01:36:59 - GERMAN ARTILLERY AND TANKS, ROCKETS, FIRING AT ALLIED POSITIONS. MORE ACTION SHOTS GERMAN TROOPS FIRING FROM THEIR HIDDEN POSITIONS IN WOODS. 01:38:30 - MEETING OF HIGH LEVEL NAZI LEADERS, INCLUDES GOERING, GOEBBELS, AND HITLER. 01:39:04 - "NEW CONGRESS FACES NEW WARTIME PROBLEMS" - 79TH CONGRESS CONVENES IN WASHINGTON - PAN NEW CONGRESS WOMEN MRS. CHASE WOODHOUSE OF CONNECTICUT AND HELEN GAHAGEN DOUGLAS OF CALIFORNIA POSE FOR CAMERA OUTSIDE CAPITAL DOME. 01:39:23 - ALSO [POSING, TWO EX-SOLDIERS, N MELVIN PRICE AND WILLIAM GAY GREEN. CU TWO BROTHERS ELECTED FROM DIFFERENT STATES, MAX ROBY (?) FROM MISSOURI AND GEORGE ROBY (?) FROM OKLAHOMA. MCU STREET CLEANER WILLIAM J. GALLAGHER OF MINNESOTA, WAS SWEPT INTO OFFICE AFTER 4 TRIES, WAVES HIS HAT TO CAMERA. 01:39:46 - GLEN TAYLOR FROM IDAHO SETS UP CHAIR AND GUITAR ON DOME STEPS, SETS THE WASHINGTON HOUSING PROBLEM TO MUSIC, SINGS "OH GIVE US A HOME IN THE CAPITOL DOME ..........". POLITICS, ODDITY 01:40:04 - ABOVE SHOTS WARTIME CONGRESS IN SESSION. ZOOM IN WAR MOBILIZATION DIRECTOR BURNS, CALLS FOE ALL-OUT WAR PRODUCTION. VARIOUS SHOTS DEFENSE PLANTS, BOMBS ON CONVEYOR BELTS AND IN STOCK PILES. BURN ALSO PUTS A BAN ON HORSE RACING FOR THE DURATION. 01:40:29 - MS WORKER PUTS UP SIGN AT RACE TRACK: "NOTICE, TRACK CLOSED". TRACK EMPLOYEES LINE UP FOR JOBS AT DEFENSE PLANTS. VARIOUS SHOTS TRACK FILLED WITH FANS, HORSE TAKING OFF IN RACE. RACE IN PROGRESS. 01:41:10 - MS GREAT SHOT RACE HORSE MAN O' WAR" WITH TRAINER. CU FACE SHOTS JOCKEY EARL SANDY, POSES. 01:41:27 - MCU RACE HORSE IN STALL, LAUGHS AT CAMERA. ANIMAL ANTICS, HORSE RACING, SPORTS. 01:41:28 - FBI FOILS GERMAN NAZI SPY PLOT. RECREATION OF TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC IN GERMAN SUBMARINE, LANDING ON MAINE COAST, TRAVELING TO BOSTON, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA 01:41:44 - VARIOUS SHOTS NAZI SABOTEURS, posing, WHO WERE SEEN BY A NUMBER OF AMERICANS, LANDING IN RUBBER BOAT AFTER BEING DROPPED OFF BY NAZI SUBMARINE., AND WERE CONSTANTLY UNDER OBSERVATION BY FBI. 01:42:22 - MS SHOTS OF SPIES, AMERICAN WILLIAM COLEPAUGH & GERMAN ERICH GIMPEL 01:42:33 - SUPPLIES OF SHORT-WAVE RADIO TRANSMITTER, WEAPONS, $60,000. FAKE DOCUMENTS: BLANK CERTIFICATES OF DISCHARGE FROM NAVAL RESERVE, PHONY BIRTH CERTIFICATE, BLANK DRAFT CLASSIFICATION FORMS 01:43:17 - FACE SHOTS OF 8 SPIES CAPTURED IN 1942 DURING TRIAL, OF WHICH 6 WERE FOUND GUILTY AND EXECUTED. 01:43:25 - MCU NEWLY ELECTED FBI DIRECTER J. EDGAR HOOVER, SPEAKS ON SUBJECT OF ESPIONAGE. 01:43:49 - ORANGE BOWL" - "HUGE CROWD IN STANDS WATCH GEORGIA TECH VS OKLAHOMA TULSAS, IN MIAMI STADIUM. ABOVE SHOTS GAME IN PROGRESS. TULSA'S JABLONSKI TAKES IT IN FOR A 2ND TULSA TOUCHDOWN AT HALF TIME. SPORTS, COLLEGE FOOTBALL. 01:44:11 - VARIOUS SHOTS ORANGE BOWL HALF-TIME ACTIVITIES FEATURES ORANGE BOWL QUEEN AND MAYPOLE DANCE.. 01:44:16 - VARIOUS ABOVE SHOTS 2ND HALF IN PROGRESS. WHITE TAKES ONE IN FOR GEORGIA'S 3RD SCORE- TULSA WINS GAME 26 TO 12. 01:44:54 - ROSE BOWL: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TROJANS VS. TENNESSEE IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA WITH PLAYS BY JIM HARDY 01:44:58 - AERIAL VIEW 91,000 FANS FILL STADIUM FOR 30TH ROSE BOWL GAME BETWEEN UNBEATEN SO. CALIFORNIA TROJANS VS TENNESSEE. VARIOUS SHOTS GAME IN PROGRESS. SO. CALIF WINS 25 - 0. FANS RUN ON FIELD, TEAR DOWN GOAL POSTS. SPORTS, COLLEGE FOOTBALL 01:46:29 - SLAB OF SIDEWALK REMOVED FROM BOYHOOD HOME OF AL SMITH ON OLIVER STREET IN NEW YORK CITY TO BE PLACED ON BRIDGE OF NEW LIBERTY SHIP TO BE NAMED AFTER LATE GOVERNOR 01:46:43 - A LARGE SLAB OF ASPHALT IS REMOVED BY BY WORKERS AND BLESSED BY NEIGHBORHOOD PRIEST. THE SLAB WILL BE PLACED ON BRIDGE OF NEW LIBERTY SHIP NAMED FOR THE LATE NEW YORK GOVERNOR., SO THAT THE HELMSMAN WILL ALWAYS STAND ON THE SIDEWALK OF NEW YORK. CU SHOT AL SMITH. 01:47:01 - SEXY CADET NURSES AS MODELS FOR ARTIST WHO PAINTS WOMEN ON PLASTER CASTS OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS AT SCHICK GENERAL HOSPITAL IN CLINTON, IOWA 01:47:02 - "DECORATIONS HELP SICK GI'S" GIS IN SHICK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR WOUNDED AMERICAN GI'S, GET THEIR BODY CASTS DECORATED BY ARTIST. ARTIST PAINTS PORTRAITS ON CHEST CASTS, OF TWO FEMALE WACS POSING FOR HIM. GREAT PAINTINGS ON CHEAT, BACK AND LEG CASTS. 01:47:49 - REPRESENTATIVES OF UNITED NATIONS MEET IN WASHINGTON TO SIGN NEW CHARTER ESTABLISHING MUTUAL "INFORMATION SERVICE" FOR COMMUNICATIONS. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 01:47:55 - GOOD SHOTS BEVY OF MOVIE CAMERAMEN WITH THEIR CAMERAS ON TRIPODS, BEVY PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING FLASH CAMERA SHOTS AS UNITED NATIONS MEMBERS ASSEMBLE TO SIGN NEW ACCORD FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. MCU ELMER DAVIS, DIRECTOR OF THE O. W. I. SIGNS FOR THE U. S. 01:48:27 - TO 01:51:24 - PRESIDENT FDR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ON STATE OF NATION DISCUSSING OUR ROLE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS & GRAVE TASKS THAT LIE AHEAD ON HOME FRONT. RECOMMENDS NATIONAL SERVICE ACT 01:49:52 - LEGISLATION FOR USE OF 4-Fs IN WAR EFFORT 01:50:05 - PROVISIONS TO COMBAT SHORTAGE OF NURSES 01:50:16 - UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING AFTER WWII. FDR COMPLETES SPEECH. 01:51:26 - "THE NORDEN BOMB SIGHT" - NORDEN BOMB SIGHT, THE MOST D SECRETS OF THE WAR", IS REMOVED FROM BOMBER AFTER BOMB RUN. VARIOUS SHOTS BOMBARDIER AT HIS POST IN FLIGHT, USING THE BOMB SIGHT. 01:51:55 - SECRET MISSION SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND AS PILOTS ARE BRIEFED."SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND" - PLOTS BEING BRIEFED BEFORE BOMB RUN. BOMB BEING LOADED ON BOMBERS. BOMBER SQUADRONS IN FLIGHT. 01:52:43 - CU BOMBARDIER AT HIS BOMB SIGHT. BOMBER GUN CREWS FIRING AT NAZI FIGHTERS. BOMBARDIER DROPS BOMBS.AERIAL VIEW EXPLODING BOMBS ON GROUND.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1944
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: P-218-23