- Title: V-2382
- Summary: PEARL HARBOR NEWSREELS:
- Description:00:03:45 - BATTLESHIP AT ANCHOR IN HARBOR. 00:04:00 - SAILORS DEBARKING, BOARDING WARSHIP AT DOCK. 00:04:07 - EMPEROR HIROHITO RIDING WHITE HORSE AS HE REVIEWS JAPANESE TROOPS. 00:04:12 - HIROHITO 0N HORSE REVIEWS TANK UNITS. 00:04:17 - JAPANESE UNITS WITH EYES RIGHT, RIFLES AT PARADE REST FOLLOW THE EMPEROR. 00:04:20 - HIROHITO SITS ON WHITE HORSE AS TROOPS MARCH BEFORE HIM 00:04:22 - SECRETARY OF STATE HULL POSES WITH JAPANESE AMBASSADOR YAMORA & SPECIAL ENVOY KURUSU. ALL WEARING OVERCOATS & FEDORAS. WALK INTO WHITE HOUSE. 00:04:36 - TITLE: "JAPS STRIKE WITHOUT WARNING!" VIEW JAPANESE BOMBERS IN FLIGHT ABOVE CLOUDS. 00:04:48 - STREET SCENE IN HONOLULU, HAWAII BEFORE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR. 00:05:00 - PEOPLE RUNNING ABOUT IN STREET CARRYING PERSONAL BELONGINGS. SMOKE RISING FROM EXPLOSIONS AS PEOPLE QUICKLY & CALMLY EVACUATE DANGER ZONE, 00:05:30 - INTERCEPTOR PLANE TAKES OFF 00:05:35 - VIEW JAPANESE BOMBERS IN AIR. SHOTS OF AMERICAN FIGHTER PLANES ON ATTACK 00:05:45 - PAN SMOKE RISING FROM HOMES HIT BY INCENDIARY BOMBS AS PEOPLE MOVE FURNITURE INTO STREETS. 00:05:59 - WATER GUSHES FROM GROUND AFTER WATER MAIN RUPTURES. PAN TO HEAVY SNOKE RISING SKYWARD IN DISTANCE. 00:06:10 - VIEW SQUADRON OF AMERICAN OBSOLETE BI-PLANES PEELING OFF FOR ATTACK. 00:06:34 - VARIOUS VIEWS DOCTORS & NURSES SETTING UP TRIAGE UNDER PALM TREES AS CASUALTIES ARE BROUGHT ON STRETCHERS. 00:06:45 - CU CRUDE SIGN WITH ARROW ATTACHED TO PALM TREE: "FIRST AID STATION, WAIKIKI". 00:06:50 - MEDICS PLACE WOUNDED CIVILIANS ON MAKE-SHIFT OPERATING TABLES. 00:06:55 - VARIOUS VIEWS WOMEN ATTEND TO CHILDREN IN SHELTER AT UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII 00:07:00 - CU CHILD LYING ON STOMACH ON MATTRESSES. WOMAN HOLDING CHILD IN ARMS 00:07:02 - TWO WOMEN HOLD UP NEWSPAPER WITH HEADLINES: "WAR!", "OAHU BOMBED BY JAPANESE PLANES". 00:07:10 - PAN BOMBED OUT SCHOOL BUILDING. 00:07:15 - VARIOUS SHOTS CARS RIDDLED WITH BULLET HOLES. 00:07:20 - PAN RESIDENTIAL HOMES WRECKED BY BOMBING. 00:07:36 - PAN PILES OF TWISTED STEEL WHICH CONTAIN PARTS OF JAPANESE AIRCRAFT. MEN SIFT THROUGH PILE WITH RAKES & BY HAND 00:07:43 - U.S. TROOPS WITH WWI HELMETS RUN OUT OF UNDERGROUND BUNKER FORTIFIED WITH SAND BAGS RIFLES IN HAND. 00:07:53 - VARIOUS VIEWS SOLDIER IN BUNKERS MANNING MACHINE GUNS 00:08:00 - SMALL TWO-MAN JAPANESE SUBMARINE LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES SITS ON EDGE OF BEACH AFTER CAPTURE. 00:08:10 - CU SOLDIERS HOLD UP MILITARY UNIFORM OF CAPTAIN 00:08:15 - GIS PATROL BEACH AS SUB ROLLS IN THE WAVES.. 00:08:19 - TITLE: "AMERICA'S ANSWER!" ABOVE VIEW PRESIDENT FDR ADDRESSING JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS ON DECEMBER 8, 1941. VICE PRESIDENT WALLACE & SPEAKER HOUSE RAYBURN SIT IN BKGD. "HOSTILITIES EXIST, THERE IS NO BLINKING AT THE FACT, THAT OUR PEOPLE, OUR TERRITORY AND OUR INTEREST ARE IN GRAVE DANGER". "SINCE THE UNPROVOKED AND DASTARDLY ATTACK BY JAPAN ON SUNDAY DECEMBER 7, 1941, A STATE OF WAR HAS EXISTED BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE JAPANESE EMPIRE". 00:09:50 - ABOVE VIEW ALL OF CONGRESS STANDING AND CHEERING WILDLY. 1 HOUR & 20 MINUTES LATER, CONGRESS DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN. 00:09:57 - VARIOUS VIEWS LONG LINES OF AMERICAN YOUNG MEN LINE UP ALONGSIDE GOVERNMENT BUILDING TO RECRUIT FOR MILITARY SERVICE 00:10:05 - CROWDS INSIDE STAND FOR HOURS, EAGER TO ENLIST. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN SIGNING UP. 00:10:10 - VARIOUS VIEWS HUGE PILES OF SANDBAGS PILED UP AGAINST IMPORTANT BUILDINGS IN SAN FRANCISCO TO PROTECT AGAINST EXPECTED JAPANESE AIR ATTACKS. 00:10:24 - FLEET OF U.S. SUBMARINES CRUISING ALONG IN OCEAN. 00:10:34 - VIEW INSIDE SUB AS CAPTAIN PEERS THROUGH PERISCOPE. 00:10:39 - ABOVE VIEW SUBMARINE'S DECK GUN FLOODS WITH WATER AS SUB SUBMERGES. 00:10:44 - EXPLOSION NEAR WARSHIP AS IT DROPS DEPTH CHARGE. 00:10:49 - CU DEPTH CHARGE ROLLING DOWN RACK & INTO WATER. HUGE EXPLOSION FOLLOWS. 00:11:00 - VARIOUS VIEWS WARSHIPS AT SEA. ACCOMPANY FREIGHTERS. 00:11:10 - OMINOUS PERISCOPE BREAKING WATER. 00:11:15 - NAVY MAN PEERING THROUGH BINOCULARS LOOKING FOR GERMAN SUBS. 00:11:20 - GERMAN SUBMARINE (U-BOAT) CRUISING ON WATER. 00:11:25 - GERMAN SAILORS FIRING DECK GUN. 00:11:30 - ALLIED FREIGHTER BEING HIT BY SHELLS. HEAVY SMOKE INUNDATES FREIGHTER UNTILL IT ROLLS OVER AND SINKS. 00:11:41 - ALLIED OIL TANKER UNDER ATTACK RECEIVES DIRECT HITS FROM U-BOAT DECK CANNON. 00:11:46 - GERMAN DECK GUN FIRES. 00:11:51 - MORE DIRECT HITS ON TANKER. 00:11:56 - TANKER GOING UNDER AS SOUND OF GERMAN SAILORS CHEERING IS HEARD AND DECK GUN FIRES AGAIN. 00:12:01 - SURVIVORS IN LIFEBOATS ROW AFTER BEING CAST ADRIFT IN VAST SEA BY GERMANS. 00:12:11 - VARIOUS VIEWS U.S. BATTLESHIPS AT SEA LINED UP ONE BEHIND OTHER AND SIDE BY SIDE. 00:12:25 - SAILORS SENDING SIGNALS WITH BLINKING LIGHT AND FLAGS. 00:12:30 - SEAPLANE IS LAUNCHED FROM BATTLESHIP LAUNCHER. 00:12:35 - VARIOUS VIEWS AMERICAN FIGHTER BI-PLANES IN FORMATION. 00:12:41 - FDR SITS AT DESK IN OVAL OFFICE ADDRESSES NATION OVER MICROPHONE. "WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS WAR AND WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE PEACE THAT FOLLOWS". 00:12:54 - BATTLESHIPS AT SEA LINED UP ONE BEHIND THE OTHER. 00:13:04 - VIEW U.S. BI-PLANE FIGHTERS IN FORMATION SPELLING OUT U.S.A. AS SEEN FROM GROUND. 00:13:40 - TITLE "PEARL HARBOR, DEC. 7, 1941" B-25 MITCHELL BOMBER WITH CAMERAMAN AL BRICK ABOARD TAXIS TO HALT ON RUNWAY. 00:14:30 - BRICK WALKS AWAY FROM PLANE. POSES FOR CAMERA. 00:14:38 - VARIOUS AERIAL VIEWS AMERICAN WARSHIPS AT SEA ON WAY TO PEARL HARBOR FOLLOWING MANEUVERS 00:15:00 - ABOVE PAN WARSHIPS & DOCK FACILITIES ABLAZE. HEAVY SMOKE RISING DURING DEVASTATING ATTACK. FAMED SHOTS U.S. BATTLESHIP "ARIZONA" AT MOMENT CHANCE BOMB WENT DOWN FORWARD STACK & EXPLODED FORWARD MAGAZINE. NUMEROUS HUGE SECONDARY EXPLOSIONS FOLLOW IN RAPID ORDER. M 00:15:35 - "ARIZONA" LISTS TO SIDE AS IT SINKS. 00:15:45 - PAN BLACK SMOKE COVERING AREA AS CONTINUOUS EXPLOSIONS ARE HEARD. 00:15:47 - BATTLESHIPS "TENNESSEE" & "WEST VIRGINIA" ARE HIT & ON FIRE WITH HEAVY SMOKE RISING TO SKY. PAN SMOKE & FIRE IN HARBOR. 00:16:16 - BATTLESHIP "MARYLAND" ON FIRE ALONGSIDE CAPSIZED BATTLESHIP "OKLAHOMA". 00:16:29 - PAN SMOLDERING "WEST VIRGINIA". FIRE BOATS TRAIN HOSES ON SMOKING "TENNESSEE". 00:16:39 - PAN DAMAGED, SMOKING "MARYLAND" & CAPSIZED "OKLAHOMA" LYING ON ITS SIDE. SAILORS STANDING ON THE HULL. 00:16:59 - ONE OF THREE DESTROYERS HIT BARELY AFLOAT. 00:17:08 - DESTROYED AIRPORT FACILITY WITH DAMAGED SEAPLANES. PAN WRECKAGE OF 90 NAVY PLANES DESTROYED 00:17:34 - PAN DAMAGE TO HANGERS & PLANES AT HICKAM FIELD. 00:18:00 - PAN REMAINS OF PLANES AT FIELD. GROTESQUE VIEW FRONT HALF OF PLANE FACING SKYWARD AFTER BACK HALF WAS BLOWN OFF. 00:18:12 - PAN VARIOUS VIEWS DAMAGE TO SEA PLANES & HANGARS BEING REPAIRED AT FIELD. 00:18:35 - DAMAGED BATTLESHIPS IN HARBOR BEING REPAIRED INCLUDE THE "WEST VIRGINIA" & "TENNESSEE". SAILORS CLEANING UP ON DECK OF BATTLESHIP "NEVADA". "WEST VIRGINIA" BEING RAISED FROM SHALLOW BOTTOM OF HARBOR. 00:19:07 - BATTLESHIP "CALIFORNIA" AFTER BEING RAISED FROM BOTTOM 00:19:15 - WATER BEING PUMPED OVER SIDE TO FLOAT THE MIGHTY CRAFT. 00:19:20 - MINE LAYER "OKLALA" SLOWLY SURFACES FROM UNDER WATER AS PONTOONS BRING HER UP. VESSEL EMERGES & RIGHTS SELF. 00:19:45 - BATTLESHIP "WEST VIRGINIA" SALVAGED TO POINT WHERE IT IS READY TO GO TO DRYDOCK FOR RE-FITTING. WEST VIRGINIA IN DRY DOCK. 00:19:57 - CU RUSTED HULL SHOWS NAME "WEST VIRGINIA". 00:20:04 - BATTLESHIP "WEST VIRGINIA" STEAMS OUT OF HARBOR TO RE-JOIN FLEET. 00:20:10 - BATTLESHIP "CALIFORNIA" BEING TOWED TO DRYDOCK FOR RE-FITTING. CU VIEW OF RUSTED HULL OF "CALIFORNIA" 00:20:45 - "CALIFORNIA" LEAVING HARBOR FOR ACTION. SAILORS ON DECK WAVING. 00:21:00 - "NEVADA" WITH CREW LINED ON ITS DECK STEAMS OUT TO SEA TO RE-JOIN FLEET. 00:21:10 - VARIOUS VIEWS WARSHIPS AT SEA FIRING GUNS 00:21:39 - CU ELDERLY CAMERAMAN AL BRICK IN ARMY UNIFORM SPEAKS TO CAMERA, SAYS "WE WON'T BE SATISFIED 'TILL WE SLAP THE JAPS RIGHT OFF THE MAP".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1941
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-2382