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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44011)
YANK PARATROOPERS DAZZLE CHURCHILL
General Dwight Eisenhower leads the British Prime Minister to a reviewing stand as huge American transport plans warm up their motors at secret fields. We board one of the giant planes and mingle with the crew as the ship takes off. Clean cut young Americans, trained to razor’s edge, they sit like eagles waiting the GO signal. Their commander passes out smokes, and has one himself. A ground camera picks up the action, revealing scores and scores of huge C-47’s droning along overhead. The paratroopers leap—and before long the sky is filled with one of the most beautiful pictures, of its kind, that has ever been filmed. The sky is absolutely filled with bulging chutes as these “invasion spea-head” troops, float to earth. The General breaks into a smile and the Prime Minister is stirred. And the American paratroopers await D day.
2,500 TONS OF BOMBS ON CASSINO
(These historic pictures will be studied by military students for generations to ocme.)
Stubburn Germans are so strongly entrenched in fortress city Cassino that the Allies turn 550 huge bombers loose on a target area measuring 1,400 yds. by 440 yards—the heart of the city. Stick after stick of gigantic bombs fall into the area, and debris flies sky high. The surface town is reduced to rubble. Then more bombers roar over, and reduce it to powder. But the Germans went deeper into their caves and successfully resisted Allied infantry when the bombings ceased. Impressive services are held at American graves, and finis is not written to the Cassino action yet.
SENTRIES AT AIRE’S BORDER
Lest secret information of the Allied moves be smuggled into neutral Eire by Axis agents, Yank and British patrols are on the double alert on the border of North Ireland, Ulster and Eire. The innocent native folk cheerfully produce their identifications, amid the rustic beauty of their quiet countryside.
NAVY YARD FASHION SHOW
Philadelphia—The Navy Ship Yard gals stage a fashion show that more than does them proud. Their natural trim lines are set off in splendor that would set any landlubber on his pinnaker.
SAN FRANSCISCO FIRE
Government warehouse goes up in flames, creating spectacular scenes as the military helps local fire fighters to extinguish blaze.
CLOWNS ON SKIS (Exclusive)
Ste. Marguerite, Quebec—Rather than shedding crocodile tears because their skiing season is ended at Mt Baldy, skiers stage their annual Sugar Derby masquerade. It’s a nightmare on a mountain side.
‘GATORS SKIN ALONG
Los Angeles—Alligators put on a show for convalescent service men that commands plenty of attention. They slide the water chute, and act as mounts in a thick-skinned sweepstakes. Their keeper is judge—and she is more than fair.
JITTERY JITTERBUGS
Australian youngsters cut the rugs into little pieces as they slam each other around on the dance floor. They Lend it—they Lease it—then they kick it around for awhile. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44014)
WHAT OF MacARTHUR
1944, an election YEAR, FINDS America’s buzzing with the questions—“What about MacArthur?”
The General appears as a personage in our reel, who is being banqueted in Australia, the continent which he saved from the Jap. He speaks with all the conviction and honesty of which a human being is capable, reiterating his promise that he will return to the Philippines. But our study brings more than a mere statement—it gives the movie audiences of the nation a long sought opportunity to study this American dwelling in far off places, to adjudge his character, and to form an individual estimate of his caliber as a man among men.
THE CRISIS IN IRELAND
Neutral Ireland is feeling the pressures of a global war. She refuses America’s request to deport Axis diplomats, fearing war would result. The blockades which follow are beginning to cause extreme hardship. Already, coal and gasoline are scarce. We spend St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin and watch the simple, open-faced people go about their ordinary living. Deeply religious, the Colleens and the trim Irish troops are observed, silently praying that their beloved country be spared from further privations. Meantime, the statesmen are shaping the country’s destiny. Prime Minister DeValera and U.S. Minister Grey are seen, exceptionally busy. In truth, Ireland’s fate is in the balance.
NAZIS DESTROY, AND RUN
Captured Nazi film show their armies in retreat. We watch them dynamite huge buildings and blow them sky high—then they apply the torch to oil dumps. We see them systematically destroy railways. But inexorably, the pendulum is swinging.
CONSTELLATION—RECORD MAKER
Washington, D.C.—The new Lockheed C-69 crosses the U.S.A. in 6 hrs. and 58 min., nonstop. Powered by four 2,200 horsepower Wright radial engines, with a troop capacity of 100, this huge “Flying Shark” now enters upon U.S. Army transport duties.
SOUTHERN TWISTER
Georgia and South Carolina are visited by a tornado which kills forty persons, injures over three hundred and razes property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
HALLORAN HEROES
Halloran General Hospital, N.Y.C.—Paratrooper Leonard of Buffalo and Private Zych of Staten Island receive Purple Hearts from Major Jeannette Blech.
FLEA-WEIGHT FISTICUFFS
Annapolis, MD.—Aspiring to graduate the Academy in the1960’s, these youngsters from naval families train their sights on each other in the padded ring. Their aim is not so good, nor is their will to fight. But what can you expect from 4-year-olds? |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44016)
THE BURMA CAMPAIGNS
In Burma we see Admiral Lord Mountbatten, the late Major General Wingate and the ace air-director, Colonel “Flip Corkan” watching Colonial troops depart fro heavy action. We move out into the muddy combat areas and watch air transports drop bales of rice and munitions. Allied tanks and infantry are slogging through. Further afield we encounter General Stilwell’s Chinese armies (armed with Yank equipment), then we watch them advance through the jungle country. The refugees pour in, and they hungrily seize the rice issued them. All of which gives one a better insight into these vital Burma campaigns which are aimed at driving a wedge into the present Japanese Empire.
JAPS OBLITERATED AT SEA
Saipan Island, Marianas—A Yank task force meets Jap air opposition. Long rows of antiaircraft guns blaze away, 5-inch guns on the carriers roar. The sky is filled with tracers and flak bursts—and we see Jap planes diving head on, deep into the Pacific Ocean. Explosians mark their watery graves.
SHAMROCK DECORATIONS
Cassino Front—General Alexander engages in the ceremony of the shamrocks, on March 17th, with an Irish Regiment.
ANZIO ROCKET GUNS
At Anzio, the British press their speedy rocket guns into action providing eerie, flashing night pictures.
COTTON COLLNESS (Exclusive)
Hotel Pierre, N.Y.C.—Sea Island Cottons make engaging cotton clothes for the weaker sex, when Joseph Halpert designs them. Polka dots, stipes and fluffy ruffles—the clothes are as fetching as the models.
AVIATION SALVAGE
Alameda Naval Air Station, Calif.—Damaged combat planes provide tons of valuable parts, in huge salvage program. And Butch O’Hare’s famous bullet riddled plane provides inspiration as well as salvage parts.
CAVALRY LOSES HORSES
Los Angeles, Calif—The 2nd Cavalry Division reluctantly releases its horses for auction, as gasoline replaces oats and hay in today’s speedy warfare. Fortunate kids are some of the new owners.
VINEGAR JOE’S BIRTHDAY
North Burma—General Stilwell, 61, receives a birthday cake with the inscription – “Happy Birthday Uncle Joe.” He slices it and hands a chunk to a Colonel, his son. Then the entire staff pitches in.
THREE STRIPERS
Bronx, N.Y.—Three capricious tiger cubs from the Bronx Zoo are bottle babies in Mrs. Martini’s apartment. They mug around in safety as their mother growls for their hides, back in the zoo.
NAZI SUB BATTLE
A Nazi sub surfaces in the Atlantic, and begins a battle royal with a U. S. Navy seaplane tender. The sub loses. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44017)
COMMANDO KELLY RETURNS HOME
Sergeant Charles Kelly, 23 recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for exterminating 40 Nazis in one day, finally returns to Pittsburgh, Pa. His whole excited family is there, Mom and his six brothers—and apparently everyone in the Smoky City. Pittsburgh gives its hero the keys to the city, then a parade takes place, to end all parades. Our microphone caught the globe-trotting Sergeant at Washington, D.C., in his simple recital of a fighting soldier’s creed—“they all are fighting to come home.”
TIRPITZ BLITZED
Norwar—A mighty Carrier Force unleashes scores of planes which straddle the hiding Nazi battle wagon with 8 tons of bombs. 24 direct hits are made.
’44 AMERICAN MOTHER
Pittsburgh, Pa.—Mrs. John M. Philips, newly selected American Mother for ’44, gathers her children and grand-children about her and speaks on the true significance of Mother’s Day—particularly to the service man.
G.I. VOTE APPLICATIONS
Washington, D.C.—37,000,000 postal card applications for November voting ballots roll off the U.S. Government printing presses.
TORNADO TUNNEL
Seattle, Wash.—The Boeing Aircraft Co. completes a wind tunnel which generates wind velocities of 700 miles per hour. A $10,000 model of a super Flying Fortress is tested.
MONTREAL PLANE CRASH
Give members of the RAF Transport Command are killed as their Liberator bomber, headed for England, crashes into the Griffintown section of Montreal and kills ten civilians.
CREEK RECEIVES C.M.H.
In Italy—Lt. Ernest Childers, 26, a Creek Indian from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is decorated by Gen. Devers. He rose from a hospital bed and opened the ay for his battalion to advance, thereby earning the Congressional Medal of Honor.
THE DOUBLE “W” SHIFT (Exclusive)
DANVERS, MASS.—A new shift has been added in industry—it’s the “Win the War” shift. High school students from nearby communities work after school hours until 9:00 P.M. daily, turning out fluorescent tubes at the Sylvania Electrical plant. It’s a carefully worked out program which captivates the youngster.
CORN CRISIS
Mid-Western States—The U.S. Government, alarmed by the growing practice of holding corn for better prices or feeding it to cattle, appeals to the farmer’s patriotism to release their grain. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44018)
VICTORY AT BOUGAINVILLE
General Robert S. Beightler’s 37th Infantry proves its prowess as it cuts the Jap Sixth Division to pieces in fierce, bloody fighting on this Solomon Island stronghold. We watch the navy, airfore, tank battalions and infantry use all the weapons in the book in annihilating the enemy. 8,000 Japs are killed and 22,000 are effectively isolated from aid from aid or reinforcement. A telling victory, whose significance will be better understood as American might rolls Westward toward the Philippines.
THE STRANGE MONTGOMERY WARD CASE
Chicago, Ill.—When Sewell Avery (Montgomery Ward Chairman), challenged a W.L.B. ruling, the company’s case was promptly certified to Pres. Roosevelt. Consequently, the Dept. of Commerce took over this mail order and retail establishment, the Attorney General of the U.S. personally journeyed to the scene of trouble – and U.S. troops deployed in the premises and forcibly ousted the 69-year-old executive into the street.
All of which bestirs the nation, and makes startling pictures.
YANK-AUSSIE ROMANCE
Melbourne—300 Australian girls who have married Yanks or are being wooed by them, form a club. They learn about America and its strange national dishes—then the wives bundle up the babies for a trip to the land “up top.”
BON HOMME RICHARD LAUNCHED
N.Y. Navy Yard—27,000 ton aircraft carrier of the Essex class is given historic name and ceremoniously launched, the thirteenth flat top of this class to be launched, since Pearl Harbor.
NIMITZ AND MacARTHUR
Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Ocean Areas, and General Douglas MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of Southwest Pacific Areas, are shown poring over their maps, to coordinate their activities.
SPEEDY KIDDY KARTING
Palisades Park, N.J.—After their diapers are changed and their gills wetted with mild, a field of one-year-old Barney Oldfields have a race on walk-o-mobiles. The winner is too tired to coo. Queen of the walk, she sips her milk and sleeps.
DRUNK OR SOBER?
Badger Creek Sanctuary, Victoria—When two platypuses swim into view with a baby platypus, you don’t know if you’re drunk or sober, or something. They’re built like badgers, have snouts like ducks, feet like mallards, they swim like fish, and they are as frisky as monkeys. They’re the missing link to nothing. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44019)
AMERICA’S AIR INVASION UNDER WAY
Revealing pictures of U.S. Flying Fortresses roaring out their overture to the ’44 Invasion of Europe. Banks of clouds over Ludwigshaven do not prevent a huge fleet of Flying Forts from dropping 1,400 tons of bombs, with deadly precision, on Germany’s second larges inland port. One Fort breaks in two, and spins earthward; another with its landing gear shot away, floats in and makes a perfect belly landing.
ACTION AT ANZIO
Yanks use ultra modern weapons to successfully storm Nazis in hide out. Sullen prisoners reflect stubborn Nazi will to hang on, until their entire Nazi nation is struck to earth.
BREAD FOR ITALY
Allied Control Commission routs grain ships to Italy to replenish larder of fallen nation. Bakers smile as they roll the dough—natives crowd the shops for their white bread.
EXECUTIVES VISIT FLAT TOP
Atlantic Coast—Business and labor leaders observe an aircraft carrier on maneuvers, learning from pilots, crews and executive staff, how industry can best aid war effort.
RESCUED BY MOUNTAIN CAT (Exclusive)
Mt. Hood, Ore. – U.S. Forest Service reveals mechanized “mountain cat,” which speeds through the snow, at precipitous heights and grades, to effect rescue of any air pilots who may land in deserted spots.
JERSEY FOREST FIRE
30,000 acres of prime Jersey forests are endangered as giant forest fire, thriving on “spring dryness,” shoots flames higher than the tree tops, until it is finally subjugated.
MONTY SPEAKS
Gen. Montgomery, British idol, sprightly reassures audience of English workers, saying there is no question about final victory.
MAY POLE TIME
San Francisco, Calif. – Mayor Lapham crowns Marlene Rock, Queen of the May, as flocks of little gals cavort about the May Pole in their colorful juvenile pageant.
ADMIRAL DECORATES ADMIRAL
Annapolis, MD.—Rear Admiral Saldias, Supt. Of Peru’s Naval Academy, decorates Rear Admiral Beardall, Supt. Of U. S. Naval Academy with the ‘Gran Official de la Orden “En Sol Del Peru”.’ Then the corps parades.
WACS IN HAWAII
A company of WACs arrive at “The Cross Roads of the Pacific.” We watch them at work, at mess, at play, and at leisure—date time. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44020)
EQUIPMENT FOR INVASION
At a U.S.A. port we see the materials of war being feverishly loaded into vessels. Planes are lashed to the decks of bulging ships, ships that are loaded to the water line with freight for the invasion. Slowly, then, the ships converge, to set sail in convoy. In Britain we come upon acres and acres of piled up material and equipment, for the invasion armies on the Second Front. Tires, soap, tobacco, candy and refuse cans form part of the military chattels. Rolling stock (for continental railways!), tanks, ducks, pontoons, trucks, ambulances, guns and bombs are seen. Then unending rows of planes show that the battle of production has been won in America. Now the military takes over.
MAYTIME SNOW PLOWS
Chinook Pass, Wash.—Giant plows clear mountain roadways of 15ft. snow drifts, in the shadow of stately Mt. Ranier.
NEW DUDS FOR G.I. JANES
N.Y.C.—Enlistees in the various girl service corps model their new styles. Numerous changes are noted, including marked improvement in the uniforms of the WACs.
FLAT TOPS FOR BRITAIN
Canada West Coast—Aboard one of the 38 Yankee-built aircraft carriers of the 10,000 ton class (which the U.S. has furnished the British Navy under Lend-Lease), we watch a cargo of Yankee-built planes swoop aboard their new nest. They fold their wings and take the elevator to the storage deck below.
WACS FROM CALIFORNIA (Exclusive)
Los Angeles—190 California girls decide to “Follow the Boys to Victory” by enlisting in the WACs. Their parents see them entrain for Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
LAKE COMPOUNCE’S RAILWAY (Exclusive)
Bristol, Conn.—Resort purchases the late William Gillette’s miniature railway, lock, stock and barrel, Gov. Baldwin drives the golden spike inaugurating service—then the adults pile in to enjoy the scenic wonders of this resort—from this “kid’s” train.
U.S. GIRLS IN SOLOMONS
Guadalcanal—American Navy nurses arrive in tropic outpost to take up hospital duties G.I.s welcome them with smiles and cameras.
THE KENTUCKY DERBY
Churchill Downs, KY. – Jockey Conn McCreary pilots Pensive, Calumet’s 7-1 shot into the lead, one eighth mile from the finish, then streaks on to a $65,200 victory; Stir Up, the favorite gallops in third. |
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