- Title: VM-403
- Summary: MOVIETONEWS:
- Description:00:00:43 - CHURCHILL ARRIVES IN U.S. (DECEMBER 1941) PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON, DC AFTER SECRET TRIP FROM ENGLAND. FDR & CHURCHILL SIT AT DESK IN WHITE HOUSE, AIDES FROM THEIR MILITARY & ECONOMIC STAFF STAND BEHIND THEM. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS "THE DEFEAT OF HITLERISM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD" 00:01:36 - CHURCHILL'S ADDRESS TO CONGRESS (DECEMBER 1941) REPRESENTATIVES OF BOTH HOUSES STAND & APPLAUD AS CHURCHILL TAKES PODIUM IN THE U.S SENATE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS. MAKES LONG IMPRESSIVE SPEECH SUMMING UP THE WAR SITUATION FOR THE AMERICAN LEGISLATORS. SOUND BYTE: "ASSUME THE INITIATIVE UPON AN AMPLE SCALE"; "WE SHALL NEVER CEASE TO PERSEVERE AGAINST THEM (THE JAPANESE) UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN TAUGHT A LESSON WHICH THEY & THE WORLD WILL NEVER FORGET"; BRITAIN & AMERICAN WILL WALK TOGETHER IN THE FUTURE "IN MAJESTY, IN JUSTICE & IN PEACE". 00:06:24 - WELLES ADDRESSES THE PAN-AMERICAN PARLEY IN BAZIL UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE SUMNER WELLES ARRIVES AT RIO DE JANIERO FOR WESTWERN HEMISPHERE CONFERENCE. WELCOMED BY BRAZIL PRESIDENT VARGAS. WELLES MAKES SPEECH ASKING SOLID FRONT AGAINST GERMANY, ITALY AND JAPAN. NO PEACE UNTIL HITLERISM & PARASITES ARE UTTERLY OBLITERATED. (JANUARY 1942) 00:08:26 - NAVY ATTACK ON JAPANESE ISLANDS (FEBRUARY 1942) ACTUAL BATTLE SCENES AGAINST ENEMY STRONGHOLDS ON GILBERT ISLAND & MARSHALL ISLAND. 00:08:30 - DAWN AS SEEN FROM ON BOARD U.S. WARSHIP 00:08:34 - DOZENS OF CARRIER DECK HANDS PHYSICALLY ROLL OUT FIGHTER PLANE AND BOMBS ONTO FLIGHT DECK. 00:08:42 - PLANES TAKE OFF FROM AIRCRAFT CARRIER DECK 00:08:51 - U.S. WARSHIP 00:08:55 - SEAPLANES ARE CATAPULTED INTO THE AIR. 00:09:00 - PLANES FLYING OVER SHIP CONVOYS 00:09:09 - SHIPS OF SQUADRON LET LOOSE WITH SALVO AFER SALVO. WARSHIP GUNS FIRE AWAY AT JAPANESE SHORE. HEAVY ARTILLERY CANNONS FIRE 00:09:24 - SIXTEEN JAPANESE SHIPS BLASTED INLCUDING CRUISER & AIRCRAFT CARRIER. TRANSPORT CAPSIZED 00:09:32 - GI LOOKS UP WITH BINOCULARS FROM SHIP'S DECK 00:09:35 - SQUADRON OF JAPANESE BOMBERS IN SKY 00:09:38 - ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE AT JAPANESE PLANES. ELS FLASHES FROM JAPANESE GUNS ARE SEEN AS PLANES COME IN TO ATTACK U.S. WARSHIPS. FLAK-FILLED SKY 00:10:05 - CU SHOT OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN. BELT OF BULLETS GO THROUGH GUN. 00:10:08 - ELS JAPANESE PLANE, HIT BY AMERICAN GUNFIRE TRYS TO CRASH INTO CARROER WARSHIP ON THE WAY DOWN. MISSES AS IT CRASHES INTO SEA. 00:10:31 - AMERICAN WARSHIPS 00:10:35 - ADMIRAL HALSEY & AIDES PERUSE WAR MAP IN HIS QUARTERS ON COMMAND VESSEL. LEADS FIRST OFFENSIVE STROKE OF U.S. PACIFIC FLEET 00:10:56 - AMERICA ON THE MARCH PRESIDENT FDR CONVENES PACIFIC WAR COUNCIL IN WASHINGTON, DC. BRITAIN'S AMBASSADOR LORD HALIFAX & MINISTERS OF AUSTRALIA, CANADA, NETHERLANDS, NEW ZEALAND & CHINA SIT AROUND FDR AT TABLE 00:11:33 - PETAIN RECALLS LAVAL TO POWER IN VICHY REGIME UNDER NAZI REGIME, ARCH-COLLABORATIONIST IS REINSTATED AS VICE-PREMIER. (APRIL 1942) 00:11:40 - FRENCH FLAG RISES ON FLAG POLE 00:11:42 - THOUSANDS OF FRENCH WAR VETERANS WEARING BERETS & ARM BANDS REMINISCENT OF NAZI REGIME KNEEL ON ONE KNEE AND SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO PETAIN AND HIS VICHY GOVERNMENT WHICH COLLABORATES WITH NAZIS. 00:11:50 - VETERANS JUMP TO THEIR FEET & GIVE NAZI SALUTE. 00:11:55 - ADMIRAL DARLAN ON LEFT AS PETAIN RECIEVE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE 00:12:09 - PREMIER LAVAL SITS WITH HIS VICHY GOVERNMENT MEMBERS, INCLUDING PETAIN. 00:12:18 - CU PETAIN 00:12:37 - JAPANESE CITIES WERE BOMBED BY U.S. ARMY PLANES. RAID ON TOKYO & OTHER CITIES CARRIED OUT BY LAND BOMBERS. (MAY 1942) 00:12:41 - AMERICAN ARMY BOMBER SQUADRON IN FLIGHT. 00:12:54 - 1932 JAPANESE PROPAGANDA FILM SHOWING TOKYO UNDER SIMULATED ATTACK. AERIAL SMOKE RISING FROM BOMBED BUILDING IN TOKYO AFTER AIR RAID DRILL. JAPANESE SOLDIER LOOKS OUT AT SMOKING CITY, FROM ROOF OF BUILDING. REALISTIC SCENES SHOWING SMOKE RISING FROM MANY BUILDINGS DURING AIR RAID DRILL. 00:13:12 - JAPANESE SOLDIERS GUIDE POPULACE TO AIR RAID SHELTERS. 00:13:20 - JAPANESE SOLDIERS WEARING SURGICAL MASKS FORM DAISY CHAIN AS THEY PASS BUCKETS OF WATER TO PUT OUT FIRE. 00:13:29 - AERIAL HEAVY SMOKE RISES FROM BUILDINGS BELOW 00:13:54 - SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, ON HIS EMPIRE MISSION, MEETS IMPORTANT LEADERS OF INDIA TO CONFER ON "INDIAN PROBLEM" WITH VICEROY IN NEW DELHI. (MAY 1942) 00:14:03 - WITH YOUNG PANDIT NEHRU. 00:14:15 - MAHATMA GANDHI EXITS AUTO. MEETS WITH STAFFORD. 00:14:56 - MEXICAN PRESIDENT CAMACHO 00:14:58 - BRITAIN SUPPLIES RUSSIA WITH MECHANIZED FIGHTING VEHICLES TO AID IN BATTLE AGAINST NAZI. (JUNE 1942) LONG FLAT COLUMN OF TANKS SIT ON FLAT RAILROAD CARS IN ENGLAND FOR SHIPMENT TO RUSSIA. 00:15:31 - JAPANESE DEFEAT IN MIDWAY SEA BATTLE (JUME 1942) 00:15:42 - ARTILLERY GUNS FIRE. 00:15:46 - FLAK-FILLED SKY AS U.S. WARSHIP GUNS FIRE AT ATTACKING JAPANESE FIGHTER PLANES 00:15:53 - JAPANESE TORPEDO PLANES FLIES LOW & DROPS BOMBS INTO WATER. 00:16:01 - JAPANESE PLANE EXPLODES AS IT IS HIT BY GUNFIRE 00:16:16 - JAPANESE DESTROYERS LAY DOWN SMOKE SCREEN TO HIDE THEIR SHIPS FROM AIR ATTACK. 00:16:28 - AERIAL SHIPS MANEUVER IN CIRCLE TO AVOID U.S. BOMBS. 00:16:56 - AERIAL LARGE JAPANESE CRUISER OF MOGAMI CLASS BURNS. 00:17:24 - CU PHOTO TAKEN OF DAMAGED CRUISER 00:17:40 - BATTLE OF MIDWAY VETERANS TELL THEIR STORY 00:17:58 - SHIPPING LEND-LEASE AID (JULY 1942) TANKS & PLANES ARE LOADED ONTO SHIP AT AMERICAN PORT TO GO TO ALLY THROUGH LEND-LEASE PROGRAM. 00:18:12 - BOMBER TAKES OFF FROM PUBLIC HIGHWAY. 00:18:22 - BIG CONVOY BATTLE IN MEDITERRANEAN FILMED UNDER FIRE (JULY 1942) 2 BRITISH CONVOYS TO MALTA ENCOUNTER AXIS PLANES & ITALIAN FLEET. 00:18:33 - BATTLESHIP CONVOY 00:18:37 - WARSHIP FIRES DEPTH CHARGES INTO OCEAN TO COMBAT GERMAN U-BOATS 00:18:49 - WARSHIPS FIRE ATTACKING AIRCRAFT. 00:19:04 - ENEMY PLANE CRASHES INTO THE SEA. 00:19:09 - WARSHIPS LAY DOWN THICK BLACK SMOKE SCREN TO SHIELD CONVOY. 00:19:24 - FIRING GUNS AT SHORELINE 00:19:31 - MONTAGE WARSHIP ANTI-AIRCRAFT & CANNONS FIRE AT PLANES FILLING THE SKY WITH BOMB BURSTS & TRACER FIRE. BOMBS EXPLODE IN NEARBY WATERS. 00:20:10 - ENSIGNIA IS VISIBLE AS ITALIAN TORPEDO PLANE SOARS DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. THE PLANE CRASHES INTO SEA. 00:20:36 - U.S. SPEEDS WAR AID TO CHINA BY WAY OF BASE IN INDIA (JULY 1942) AMERICAN SUPPLIES ARRIVE AT PORT IN INDIA, WHERE U.S. TROOPS ARE ENCAMPED AT MILITARY CENTER. FROM THERE TANKS, PLANES & AMMUNITION IS AIR-FERRIED TO CHINA. 00:20:49 - HUGE WOODEN CARGO CRATE LOWER WITH CRANE 00:20:53 - INDIAN MEN PUSHING HUGE RAILROAD CAR LOADED WITH CRATE 00:21:00 - MONTAGE HUGE CRATES AND TANKS ARE LOADED ONTO FLAT RAILROAD CARS AFTER BEING UNLOADED FROM SHIPS BY LONGSHOREMEN IN INDIA. 00:21:08 - LONG CARAVAN OF CAMELS SLOWLY PULLING CARTS LOADED WITH AMMUNITION CRATES MAKE STRANGE SCENE AS THEY ENTER AN AIR BASE IN INDIA. 00:21:25 - U.S. GROUND CREWS ASSEMBLE FIGHTER PLANE IN HANGAR. 00:21:32 - MUNITIONS CRATES FROM CARAVAN ARE LOADED ON CARGO PLANES FOR SHIPMENT TO CHINA. 00:21:39 - ADMIRAL HALSEY? TALKS TO PILOTS ON AIRFIELD 00:21:42 - LINE OF TROOPS WAITING TO GET ON PLANE 00:21:46 - CHINESE PILOTS BRIEFED IN INDIA. TAJ MAHAL IN BGD 00:21:53 - CHINESE PILOTS CLIMB INTO FIGHTER PLANES, SHUTTING CANOPY & TAKE OFF FOR CHINA 00:22:05 - FIGHT FOR EGYPT (JULY 1942) BRITISH ARMY OF THE NILE STOP NAZI PANZERS IN DRIVE ON ALEXANDRIA. 00:22:19 - BRITISH SOLDIERS USE PICKS & SHOVELS AS THEY DIG IN AFTER WITHDRAWAL IN LYBIA. 00:22:28 - GUN POSITIONS ARE SET UP FOR LAST STAND DEFENSE OF ALEXANDRIA NAVAL BASE. CU CANNON IS RAISED WITH BARREL FACING CAMERA. 00:22:32 - REENFORCEMENT LINE OF TRUCKS & EQUIPMENT RIDE IN ALONGSIDE CHUGGING LOCOMOTIVE PULLING BOX CARS LADEN WITH SUPPLIES. PAN. 00:22:35 - BRITISH GENERAL SIR CLAUDE AUFFENLECK PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS FOR SIGNS OF ROMMEL'S FORCES. 00:22:43 - MONTAGE VAST QUANTITIES OF SUPPLIES & REINFORCEMENTS ROLL INTO ALEXANDRIA, TURNING THE TIDE AGAINST GERMANS. CONVOYS OF WAR MATERIALS 00:22:58 - TWO PLANES FLYING CLOSE TOGETHER 00:23:02 - AERIAL AXIS SUPPLIES TRUCK KICKING UP DUST 00:23:04 - CU BOMBER PILOT IN COCKPIT 00:23:06 - CU FINGERS PUSH BUTTONS, BOMBS DROP 00:23:07 - AERIAL BOMBS DROP ON GERMAN COLUMNS IN DESERT. 00:23:13 - LOW LEVEL BOMBERS SWOOP DOWN AND HIT NAZI PLANES ON GROUND. BOMBS SEEN EXPLODING AS SEEN FROM REAR OF PLANE AS IT SWOOPS UP AFTER ATTACK. 00:23:43 - DESERT FIGHTING IN EGYPT (AUGUST 1942) AMERICAN ACES JOIN RAF IN BLASTING AXIS SUPPLY PORT. GROUND CREWS ROLL BOMBS OUT TO BOMBERS IN EGYPT. 00:23:45 - AMERICAN CONSOLIDATED LIBERATOR U.S. BOMBER TAKES OFF. 00:23:50 - BRITISH BOMBER TAXIS & TAKES OFF 00:23:55 - AERIAL BOMBS FALL ON BENGAZI BELOW. 00:24:03 - CU SPINNING PROPS OF BOMBER IN FLIGHT 00:24:05 - AERIAL & GROUND-LEVEL BRITISH SPITFIRES TAKING OF FROM DESERT BASE BELOW CAUSING LONG SAND CLOUDS BEHIND THEM. 00:24:13 - BRITISH SOLDIERS STRING TELEPHONE WIRES FROM ROLLING TRUCK WHILE UNDER FIRE. GERMAN SHELLS BURST AROUND THEM AS 00:24:23 - INFANTRY ADVANCES UNDER FIRE. LAY ON DESERT GROUND AS SHELLS BURST AROUND THEM 00:24:31 - AXIS PRISONERS. TRUCKS ARE LOADED WITH GERMAN PRISONERS. 00:24:55 - BRAZIL DECLARES WAR AGAINST AXIS POWERS (AUGUST 1942). PEOPLE OF BRAZIL RISE IN ANGER AGAINST DEPREDATIONS OF NAZI & ITALIAN U-BOATS ON THEIR NEUTRAL SHIPPING. 00:24:59 - HUGE ANGRY BRAZLIAN CROWD PROTEST IN RIO. RE: SINKING OF BRAZILIAN VESSELS BY GERMANY 00:25:22 - HANG CARDBOARD CUT-OUT OF HITLER BY FEET IN EFFIGY. 00:25:32 - BRAZILIAN ARMY MARCHES IN RIO DE JANIERO AS BRAZIL DECLARES WAR. 00:25:45 - PRESIDENT VARGAS & CABINET 00:25:49 - MILITARY TRUCKS FILLED WITH SOLDIERS IN MILITARY PARADE 00:25:58 - PRESIDENT FDR TAKES PUFF FROM CIGARETTE AS HE SITS WITH VARGAS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1941
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-403