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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44051)
VICTORIES IN SOUTH FRANCE
After the successful opening of the Fourth Front in Southern France, General Patch’s Seventh Army advances village by village in pursuit of the retreating Hun. Gallantly assisting in the liberation of their homeland is the F.F.I., several members of which are decorated by General Patch with the Silver Star. Allied bombings and naval fire had completed the destruction of the harbor of Toulon. Hulks of the French fleet, previously scuttled there by the conquered French, are grim reminders of the low estate to which France had fallen.
DEWEY’S TRIUMPHAL TOUR
G.O.P. Presidential nominee, Gov. Thomas Dewey is wildly acclaimed in Valentine, Nebr. where a huge barbecue is held in his honor with cow boys, and Indian chiefs in full war bonnets in attendance as his guard of honor. At Sheridan, Wyoming the voters add their voices to the tide of popularity which is mounting for this crusader. At her husband’s side, in restrained silence, Mrs. Dewey is playing her part too, in this carefully conducted campaign.
QUEBEC PARLEY FINALE
A state dinner in the Chateau Frontennac is attended by the English speaking chiefs of staff and be-jeweled ladies. At The Citadel, the parliamentary heads of the three participating nations receive the LLD from McGill. And Mrs. Churchill orally sums up the significance of the conference.
S.S. “JOHN P. HARRIS”
Savannah, GA.—Mrs. Elanor Harris christens a Liberty ship in honor of her deceased husband who had been Senator from Pennsylvania and a pioneer movie exhibitor.
PENDLETON ROUND UP
Pendleton, Oregon opens its 33rd annual rough riding classic. The broncos, Brahma bulls and the spectators enjoy it—but the inglorious riders hobble off the field.
THE “KILLER” HURRICANE
EAST COAST, U.S.A.—A tropical twister roaring northward over the Atlantic, generates 100 mile per hour side winds which causes $4,000,000 damage in the seaside resort of Atlantic City . . . disrupts home life in N.Y.C. suburbs . . . casts sea-going cabin cruisers high on the shores of Long Island . . . and moves bungalows into roadways in New England. It killed 30 people.
MICHIGAN 12, SEAHAWKS 7
Ann Arbor, Mich.—The Wolverines and the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks open the season with an early season pigskin thriller. The under-dog collegians out pass and out score their heavier and more experienced opponents. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44052)
F.D.R. OPENS FORMAL CAMPAIGN
Washington, D.C.—The International Teamsters wildly cheer President Roosevelt as he delivers his first acknowledged campaign speech at a dinner which they are holding. He states that the same energy which is producing victory must be applied to still larger tasks. He accuses the Republicans of botching their previous assignment. He promises that “the fruits of victory will not be apples offered on street corners.”
DEWEY COVERS WEST COAST
At Eugene, Oregon, Governor Dewey is wildly greeted.
At San Francisco, tremendous crowds turn out to hear him reveal his plans which call for America attaining the objectives of the New Deal—“not through plunging the country into war, but by providing jobs and opportunity for all.” In Los Angeles, 95,000 persons (a record political audience) crowd into the huge Coliseum to hear the Republican standard bearer plead for a broadening of the present social security system.
BRUSSELS THANKSGIVING
At the City Hall, one week after liberation, a huge Thanksgiving Benediction is held. The Prime Minister expresses Belgium’s gratitude to the Allies, particularly to Canada (who trained Belgian pilots) for the expulsion of the enemy.
STRAFING NAZI TRANSPORT
Flying with the fighters of the 8th and 9th U.S. Air Force Fighter Command we watch Nazi communications get destroyed. The boilers of locomotives are blown up, tank cars are exploded, and long freight trains are strafed from end to end. On the ground, we see the carnage which has been created by such flights. Piles of wrecked freight cars, and strings of flat cars loaded with fighting armor which never reached the front, attest to the effectiveness of this same strafing.
XMAS MAIL FOR THE G.I.’S
Postmaster General Walker announces that Christmas mail for the servicemen overseas must be mailed between Sept. 15th and Oct. 15th.
GREAT LAKES 27, PUDUE 18
Great Lakes, Ill.—In a nip and tuck grid battle the Bluejackets outscore the Boilermakers, with spectacular passes and quick opening line plunges.
“RED CROSS HOME NURSING”
War Bulletin No. 26 |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44054)
INVASION OF PALAU
Pepelie Island, in the formidable Palau group which guards the approach to the Philippines, receives a full scale bombardment from a U.S. task force. LST’s disgorge amtracs, which churn shore-ward loaded with fighting U.S. Marines. In the furious action, our wounded are quickly cared for, as Marine tanks and artillery blaze into action. The flame throwers move in, and he landing is secure. That the jap losses were terrific is seen, not only in their ruined equipment, but in the hundreds of their grotesque corpses which litter the conquered ground.
AT THE SIEGFRIED LINE
In Belgium, Yank columns, protected by tank-artillery fire and heavy mortars, cautiously advance and destroy suicide Nazi machine gun nests and snipers. Belgian villages are entered where ruined buildings and destroyed enemy equipment fill the entire scene. Ecstatic girls wave American flags at the G.I.’s.
Then the battle is joined at a point in the Siegfried Line which Hitler had personally dedicated in 1939. A Nazi village nearby is consumed in flames, and the doughboys enter advance pillboxes in the sprawling defense line.
PARISIAN BICYCLES
Although built for one, Parisian bicycles are doing double duty. The excess baggage aboard may be a bass viol, a dog, a neighbor girl—or just as likely it’s a G.I. Joe.
“ARMY AT WAR” IN ART
N.Y.C.—Prior to a national tour of movie houses in large cities, a collection of war zone paintings and sketches is previewed by Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau and other art ctitics.
B-24 CRASH LANDING
Langley Field, VA.—Natl. Advisory Committee for Aeronautics “ditches” a land based B-24 Liberator bomber into the James River, to study it’s stress and strain reactions.
LT. GEN. COURTNEY HODGES
The Commander of America’s First Army is observed in Belgium, in audience with Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey, Commander of the British Second Army.
N.C. PRE-FLIGHT 21, NAVY 14
Annapolis, MD.—Navy, a heavy pre-season favorite to win National gridiron honors, is sunk by the North Caroline Pre-Flighters, whose roster is sprinkled with former collegian allstars. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44056)
FOUR GREAT AMERICANS
Thomas E. Dewey—At a tremendous rally in Wheeling, West Virginia the G.O.P, Presidential candidate in his best mid-campaign style accuses “his opponent” of bidding for the Communist vote by “pardoning Earl Browder from prison in time to organize the fourth term campaign.
Franklin D. Roosevelt—The President denies that he seeks the Communist party’s support in his electioneering for a fourth term. He lauds Russia as a fighting Ally.
Wendell L. Willkie—After too brief a time in the international scene, this vital American crusader dies at the age of 52. Thousands of mourners file into the Fifth Ave. Presbyterian Church for a last look at this man of courage . . . Flashbacks reveal his interesting life.
Alfred E. Smith—160,000 mourners congregate at St. Patrick’s Cathedral where the last rites are pontifically observed for this popular American from New York.
QUADS LEARN THREE R’S
Galveston, Texas—The Badgett quadruplets, now 5? years old, enter school. Typical kids, they eagerly draw crayon pictures, but dancing class—that’s their dish.
CARDS WIN SERIES
St. Louis Mo.—After the Brownies win the first and third games, the Cardinals cop the second, fourth, fifth and sixth games to become the World’s Champions. Series features fine pitching which produced record number of strikeouts—and sparkling fielding. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44057)
BRITISH BLITZ NAZI CONVOY
Off the Lowlands, R.A.F. fighter planes swoop down on a frantic Nazi convoy (which is attempting to run supplies to beleagured garrisons ashore.) Torrents of lead rain on the scurrying ships—rockets spurt shipward—and another convoy is broken up. The Nazi return fire is heavy, but it si wasted.
TRAITORS IN ITALY
Prisoner Peitro Caruso (ex-police chief) hobbles into court on charges of handing 50 hostages to the Nazis. Adjudged guilty, he hobbles out, is strapped into a chair, last rites are administered, and a firing squad blows off the top of his head. Donato Caretta, former Fascist prison director, is present at Caruso’s trial as a witness. A mob gets hold of him, beats him up, then drowns him in the Tibor. His body is fished is fished out a hung head downward, from a window in the prison he once ruled.
XMAS BIRDS
British Columbia, Canada—Local farmers are raising 12,000 choice turkeys to supply Merry Xmas dinners for the troops over seas. But the last days of the over-stuffed birds are happy ones.
RODEO IN N.Y.
Madison Square Garden—Wide-eyed kids and grown-ups go into ecstasy as the Rodeo returns to the Big Town. Heroic cameramen risked their all, to get some of these shots.
THE FIGHTING 92ND
In Italy—The all-Black U.S. 92nd Division celebrates its 27th year of existence by pouring withering fire into the Nazi ranks. Gen. Mark Clark shows his estimation of them as he visits their wounded and personally pins purple Hearts on many of their number.
WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING (Exclusive)
N.Y.C.—Lovely models loll for hours in their comfy Tommie pajamas. Suddenly, a wolf appears in their midst—dressed in a Berger nightie. But he’s so comfortable—he wants to sleep.
ELI’S 17, CORNELL 6 (Exclusive)
Yale Bowl—Yale, the pre-game under dog, pulls the chestnuts out of the fire, as its inexperienced eleven starts to click, for a win over Cornell. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44058)
GLOBAL WARFARE
Romania—Enemy film seized by the 15th U. S. Army Air Force shows the tremendous destruction which their planes had wrought upon the invaluable Ploesti oil fields, in their series of raids. The wrecked refineries, oil storage tanks, railway systems and aircraft plants are mute evidence that the raids were highly accurate. And even King Michael can’t put out the roaring oil fires which burn continuously by day and by night.
Morotai, in the Halmaharas—After this strategic island, just 300 miles below the Philippines, receives a merciless naval bombardment, U. S. troops from huge Landing Boats, wade ashore in the worst landing beach they have encountered. General MacArthur joins his men ashore, and the air strip is captured.
Pelelie, In the Palaus U. S.—Infantry and Marines are brought ashore by Landing Barges and alligators. They leap ashore and enter into a pitched, flaming battle. So severe is the action that Damon Parer, the newsreel cameraman who made these pictures, was killed while securing them.
Siege of Tengchung—Controlling the juncture of the Ledo Road and Burma Road, this key point was fiercely defended by the Japs against the American-trained Chinese 20th Group Army. Equipped with Bazookas, 75mm. howitzers, heavy caliber mortars and flame throwers, the Chinese exterminate 2,000 Japs and turn in a major victory.
ARMY 69, PITT 7
West Point—The Army football squad swamps the Pittsburgh Panther, as a galaxy of all-star backs have a field day at the expense of the Pitt eleven.
GA. TECH 27, AUBURN 0 (Exclusive)
Atlanta, GA.—The Rambling ‘Recks run rough shod over Auburn as 17,000 raving fans are thrilled by the exploits of one Dinky Bowen, half back. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44059)
PHILIPPINES INVADED
U.S. Navy destroys Jap air bases, planes and shipping as MacArthur opens invasion.
DEWEY AND F.D.R.
N.Y.C. Gov. Dewey raps one-man rule and endorses world combine to avoid World War III.
The White House Pres. Roosevelt opens Ntl. Community Fund Drive with stirring appeal.
FALL OF BREST
Brest, Nazi submarine base, becomes a city in ruins before Allies capture it and 36,000 Nazis.
ICE CAPADE, 1945
Philadelphia. Huge ice show dazzles crowds with it’s grace and beauty. And the clowns use a live girl for a skipping rope. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44060)
F.D.R. COVERS NEW YORK CITY
In Al Smith style, President Roosevelt tours four boroughs of New York City in an open car. War bases and Ebbets Field are visited in Brooklyn. Hunter College (Wave Training base in the Bronx), Harlem, Times Square, and the garment district complete the itinerary. In his evening address before the Foreign Policy Association at the Waldorf-Astoria, he endorses a ‘League of Nations’ which he believes the “judgment of the seasoned and mature American public” is prepared to accept.
DEWEY ASKS FOR A CHANCE
Pittsburgh, PA.—Thomas E. Dewey states that since “the Communists and the PAC have kidnapped the Democratic Party, resentful Democrats are joining the G.O.P. in demanding a change in The White House.”
H.M.S. SEA FORTS
Guarding the Channel Roads near London, are huge steel and concrete boxes jutting out of the sea on high stilts. On duty, the ack ack crews drive off mine-laying enemy planes, and detect jet bombs. Off duty, they throw Ludo dice.
OHIO STATE 26, GREAT LAKES 6 (National, except Atlanta)
Columbus, O.—Season’s record crowd of 73,000 watch unbeaten gridiron giants in titanic clash which features dazzling runs, terrific line play, and pass interception.
FIRE KILLS 200
Cleveland, O.—Explosion at liquid gas plant causes worst fire in city’s history, destroying 50 city blocks, injuring several hundred and causing $5,000,000 damage.
GEORGIA TECH 17, NAVY 15 (Atlanta only)
Georgians are served another tasty gridiron dish as the Yellow Jackets aim for football crown with win over powerful Annapolis eleven. |
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