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Language of Description: French

  1. US Army weapons tested

    Staff Film Report, no. 65; Combat Bulletin, no. 65 Reel 2: Shows details in transporting, emplacing, manipulating, and firing the "Little David," the Army's 914mm mortar. 09:04:50 "Activities on Okinawa" US soldier is reunited with parts of his native family on Okinawa. On Okinawa, coral is dug, crushed by machines, hauled in trucks, and used to repair Kadena airstrip. Motors from wrecked trucks are steam cleaned and repaired. An M-4 tank is rigged with antipersonnel mines; General Hodges watches tests of the apparatus. Shows scenes during and after an ammunition dump fire; General F.C. Wal...

  2. US propaganda film on racial prejudice; Chinese peasants at work for US

    Film Communique - 12th issue. "Weapon of War" A US propaganda film "exclusive for the men and women of American industry." Animated cartoons showing Nazi efforts to spread dissension (racial and religious hatred) in the US. 09:18:08 "Great Floor of China" An airstrip is drained, surfaced, and tamped by Chinese peasants using primitive implements.

  3. Liberation of So. France; US reclaims Guam

    Film Communique - 12th issue. Large-scale mission of US military airplanes, paratroopers liberating the South of France. Map of US. Guam is bombarded by naval guns and from the air. Assault parties land on a beach. A Japanese freighter is hit. Troops drive through the jungle. Wounded are evacuated. Guam freed on July 25, 1944.

  4. Various wartime scenes

    A film report examining Nazi methods to control morale. Consisting mostly of captured films. Civilians leave bombed cities and receive food. Shows Goering and Himmler and explains their civilian defense responsibilities. Streets are cleared and antiaircraft guns fire during an air raid. Shows wrecked planes, US POWs, and a bomber being shot down. A newsreel shows boxing, Axis troops, and, on the Russian front, mud, demolitions activities, and tanks being strafed.

  5. Various wartime scenes

    A film report examining Nazi methods to control morale. Consisting mostly of captured films. POWs on the Russian front. Shows Goebbels and describes SS operations. Explains the high morale of German combat units in France. Describes a new cargo plane, a demolitions tank, and the V-1 bomb. Shows Hitler and Himmler and CUs of German POWs.

  6. French liberation in Paris: FFI and Germans fight

    Reel 1: Half-tracks, tanks, and infantry move through the streets of Paris. FFI placards, announcing France's liberation, are posted. FFI trucks move through Paris. Snipers fire from windows at German troops. FFI recruits are sworn in and armed. Grenades are thrown at German vehicles. Street barricades are erected.

  7. French liberation: FFI, Germans, collaborators, POWs

    Reel 2: FFI and German units fight in the streets. Collaborationists are rounded up. Gestapo torture chambers are examined; prisoners are released. FFI wounded are treated. A rifle is seized from a wounded German. FFI riflemen fire from barricades at German tanks. Shows smashed German vehicles and German POWs. Allied tanks and motorized info enter the city. The tricolor is raised and German signs torn down. Machine guns and rifles are fired at German snipers in the Place de la Concorde.

  8. French liberation: Resisting Germans; de Gaulle

    Reel 3: Armed tanks and infantry rout resisting Germans from the Arc de Triomphe. General de Gaulle addresses the populace and places a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

  9. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 1: Allied troops and war material go aboard transports for the invasion of France. Soldiers (actors) discuss the war.

  10. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 2: Shows Nazi, fascist, and Japanese leaders and their followers, including Adolf Hitler, Pierre Laval, Oswald Mosley, Fritz Kuhn, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Rudolph Hess, Julius Streicher, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Benito Mussolini. Flashbacks to World War I show the German Kaiser reviewing troops, French posting mobilization orders, the French taxicab army leaving Paris, scenes of the battles at Verdun and Chemin des Dames, Llo...

  11. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 3: French peasants hide their parachutes and a French priest (actor) hides the fliers and tells them of the French defeat. The fliers are secreted back across the English Channel. French soldiers retreat as the Germans advance. Gen. Petain calls for collaboration with Germany. General de Gaulle broadcasts a call for continued French resistance and speaks to French officers on a warship. Petain visits Hitler. Germans execute French hostages an...

  12. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American anti-war propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 4: Shows French POWs in a German camp, the Free French fleet and air squadrons, scuttled French warships in Toulon, and advancing Allied troops. French troops are reviewed by de Gaulle and in Great Britain, and Russian and French underground fighters kill German sentries, blow up bridges, and ambush German motorcycle columns. Germans seize and execute French hostages.

  13. Red Cross ship at NY harbor

    REEL 1: Unedited footage shows people aboard the Red Cross ship Gripsholm in New York harbor: Navy officials, Japanese girls, Japanese men boarding a bus; Japanese disembarking; and the sick being helped off the ship.

  14. Red Cross ship at NY harbor

    REEL 2: Unedited footage shows personal baggage in the hold of the Red Cross ship Gripsholm, Japanese children, the ship's frozen food locker, Japanese aboard the ship, and railway passenger trains.

  15. Oil fields in Italy, Hungary, Rumania

    Consists mostly of views of social and economic conditions in Italy, Hungary, the Danube, and Rumania. (with intertitles) NARA calls this story reel one, but the slate indicates that it is Part 2, and shows several oil fields in Italy: Naples, wells near the River Po and Montechino, Cento Pozzi, Venice (nice shots of gonodals on the Grand Canal), as well as the Hungarian market of Mezokovesa near Budapest, Hungary. A grain mill and oil barges on the Danube. An oil port in Giurgiu, Rumania. A view of Russe, Bulgaria on the river. Army encampments with irrigation and cultivation. Roma (?). A ...

  16. Romanian oil fields; Roma/Sinti in the area

    Consists mostly of views of social and economic conditions in Italy, Hungary, and Rumania. With English intertitles. Part 3 shows activities at the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti and Moreni. Vendors of drinks/fruit: MS of men and women seated on slabs with posts all about them. Next to them are baskets of fruit and pails. Wagon with log on it passes in front of them. MCU of same group as woman walks by with basket. MS, 2 men with pole that has basket at each end are selling to a third man. One man has pole on shoulder, other has pole on ground. Man buying fruit having his bag weighed. 11:44...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews in New York City

    Jewish section, NYC. LS Jewish street, Jewish Daily Forward building. LS Jewish street, The Day Newspaper office. CU books on stand. CU newspaper stand. LS Jewish street, CU man at cart.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- London, England: Military, political leaders, Downing Street

    805 D 11:51:00 May 1940. British Army mililtary officers enter War Office between Trafalgar Square and Westminister. Dutch officers getting out of car, entering building, talking on steps. Major General Beith (Ian Hay), Director of Public Relations at the War Office, meets with Richard de Rochemont and Maurice Lancaster (mute). 805 E 11:54:17 June 1940. Scenes at No.10 Downing Street, as military and political leaders arrive and depart by car and taxi. Among them, a rear view of Anthony Eden going into No.10. Also shown are Alfred Duff-Cooper, Brendon Bracken, C.R. Atlee, Sir Dudley Pound, ...

  19. Sen. Wheeler; British/US troops; Rehabilitation

    (LIB 6748) 01:01:21 Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Orly Field, Paris, France, May 19, 1945. Seq: Senators Wheeler, Homer, Capeheart, Ernest MacFarland, Albert Hawles, Major General Frank Stoner and Admiral Joseph R. Redman are greeted at airport by General William S. Rambough and Major General Smith (?). CU, Senator Wheeler and US Ambassador Caffrey speaking. 01:03:34 Bremen Enclave to 29th Infantry Division. Bremerhaven, Germany, May 20, 1945. Seq: Elements of the British 2nd Army, 51st Highland Division, transfer command to the Ninth US Army's 29th Infantry Division. CUs, MSs, Major General C...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tito; Yugoslavia

    LS of the village of Kumrovec with sign in FG. CU of sign. General view of the house where Marshall Tito was born (the house is open to the public); one sees the room where he came to life. MS of Tito's house entrance with visitors entering. CU of the plate reading: "To our dear chief Josip Broz Tito, Marshall of Yugoslavia, member of honor of the Motor-car club of St. Peter on the mountains." Shots of Marshall Tito at his home in Dedinje, Belgrade. Marshall in field uniform walking into his study and sitting at desk. Various shots of Marshall Tito going through his morning mail and dictati...