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Newsreels: 1944 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1944 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1944. Our Public Domain Stock Footage newsreels cover every major world event, the not so major events, strides in technology, the lives of public figures, fads and trends. Newsreels 1944 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1944. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44071)
PUSHING BACK THE NAZIS
Allied ships enter the port of Antwerp carrying valuable war materiel . . . Gen. Eisenhower visits Gen. Montgomery and inspects the British 2nd Army . . . The Allies are confronted with the Mass River which is swollen seven times its normal size . . . elsewhere snow and mud provide obstacles . . . American rifles, machine guns and artillery are constantly in action . . . Allied wounded are many . . . and 5,000 Nazis are taken prisoner.
ON TO ORMOC
Yanks cautiously advance towards Ormoc, on Leyte. G.I.’s are wounded and killed. Frank Prist jr., of Acme News Pictures, is killed, while Irving Smith of Universal Newsreel (seated alongside) miraculously escapes while trying to aid him. Prist is appropriately buried. At Tacloban, sorely needed clothing is issued to Filipino families. All are appreciative, from grandpa to baby sister.
FOOD FOR GREECE
Athens—British General Scobie and Premier Papandreu supervise the distribution of food to the Greek people.
NOBEL PRIZE AWARDS
N .Y. C. – The six American residents receive their awards in the U.S.A., due to the war. Then Darryl Zanuck delivers a speech in which he says Nazi films must be suppressed as tools of war propaganda.
THREE CUSHION CHAMPS
N. Y. C.—Although Willie Hoppe, veteran 3-cushion champ executes some dazzling shots he meets his 1944 master in Welker Cochran, the new champ. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44072)
THE BOMBING OF TOKYO (First Pictures)
At Saipan, after briefing, the members of the 21st Bombing Command take to their B-29 Super Fortresses and roar into the sky—destination Tokyo! They shower tons of bombs and incendiaries on the huge sprawling city as they hit factories, steel mills and docks. Mass civilian evacuation of Tokyo was ordered after this raid.
JAPS RAID SAIPAN
Saipan is attacked by Jap raiders, 14 of which are shot down, after they had started several spectacular fires and caused minor damage.
BLIZZARD IN CANADA
Canada suffers worst blizzard in 72 years. Traffic is blocked, department stores close and pedestrians are up against it. But, the milkman gets through.
THE BOMBING OF MANILA
U.S. Navy carrier-planes swarm in on Manila and give it a severe going over, from the shore-line deep into the heart of the city. Returning to their flat tops, some of the damaged ships make miraculous landings.
PICK UP RESCUE
U.S. Army Air Forces develop revolutionary air pick-up technique to rescue stranded airmen. Subject in unique harness, is picked up by nylon rope from low flying planes in which he is reeled.
PRO FOOTBALL CHAMPS
Polo Grounds—Greenbay Packers out-pass and out-speed the N.Y. Giants to win pro flag, 14 to 7. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44073)
THE NAZI COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
Events within Germany leading to the present “power drive” in the West, are pictured in captured German newsreels. Theaters are shut down—women are drafted for war work—trolley tow idle trucks to save gasoline—robot bombs are launched—and at the front, the Nazi military carries on despite the appearance of American air fleets. Allied cameras show Yank heavy artillery in action—Nazi prisoners are collared—near St. Nazaire, France, an exchange of Allied and Nazi prisoners is effected through the American Red Cross.
SEAMEN NEEDED
The U.S. Maritime Service needs officers and men from 17 to 50, according to Capt. Harry H. Dreany. Training scenes, loading and convoy scenes give an idea of the scope of the Maritime Service.
PLANE ROCKETS
U.S. Army Air Base, Dover, Dela.—A P-47 and a P-28 equipped with wing rockets, dive at 300 m.p.h. and discharge wing rockets at 600 m.p.h. into a Sherman tank, causing heavy destruction.
CHILDREN’S GREETING
Children from foreign diplomats’ families in Washington, D.C. voice their annual season’s greetings to the people of the United States. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44074)
THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE
The mighty Russian machine lays siege to Vilna, capital of Lithuania. After five days of intensive fighting, including a cleanout of nests of snipers, the city is occupied. 5,000 Nazis are killed and 8,000 taken prisoner.
R.A.F. BLASTS SHIPS
Norwar—R.A.F. Mosquitoes and British Beaufighters dive from mile high levels to set enemy ships on fire with gun and cannon fire, and rockets.
MARCH OF DIMES LEADERS
Washington, D. C.—Eighty motion picture executives, including Spyros Skouras and Nicholas Schenck, present Basil O’Connor with a resolution pledging the industry’s support in the fight against Infantile Paralysis.
SCHOOLS RE-OPEN
Leyte—Private, public and parochial schools merge their classes and re-open in remaining school buildings.
N. W. STAGING AREA
Canada—A huge chain of inland air ports, co-operatively built by the U. S. and Canada, provides direct access to Alaska and Russia.
MRS. OPPENHEIMER—HOST
England—Mrs. Carlotta Oppenheimer is host par excellence as she serves home cooked meals to groups of American soldiers, then sends them back to camp with bushels of fresh vegetables.
RESORT FASHIONS (Exclusive)
Hotel Pierre, N. Y. C.—Joseph Halpert presents his advance showing of distinctive character prints. Gorgeous models and unusual accessories complete the show. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44075)
GREENLAND FREED OF NAZIS
Nazi weather and radio stations in Greenland are located and destroyed by the U.S. Coast Guard who dynamites its way through the Arctic ice fields to reach the enemy. Sleek German trawlers are destroyed or captured, and the Nazis are driven from their North Atlantic observation posts.
THE WAR IN POLAND
World War II opens in Poland as the Panzer divisions strike Warsaw and burn large portions of it. Peace is signed in a railway coach and starving Poles eat every shred of meat from the carcasses of horses. The Poles go underground. They publish 110 newspapers, commit continuous sabotage, daub the city with signs of defiance and hang Hitler in effigy. In 1944 they arise prematurely and are smitten down. Their ghetto is completely destroyed.
YANKS SHELL KEHL
Yanks in Strasbourg shell Kehl, the Nazi city on the opposite banks of the Rhine, with telling effect.
AMBASSADOR BONNET
Washington, D.C.—Ambassador Henri Bonnet takes over the French embassy on behalf of the deGualle provisional government.
GUARD DEMOBILIZED
Hyde Park, England.—The Home Guard, 7,000 strong, pass by the Royal Family in their final review before “standing down.”
TEXAS AMAZONS (Exclusive)
Houston, Texas—Mildred Burke, World’s Champion Woman Wrestler, defends her title against Mae Weston convincingly. The rules are thrown out of the ring, and so is Mac—three times. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1944 (UE44076)
THE NAZI COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
GERMAN HOME FRONT
The Nazi propaganda machine intensively goes to work on improving morale on the home front. Nazi newsreels (a captured portion of which is used herewith) are toned up, Hitler visits military hospitals and reviews pompous military parades. Captured Allied equipment is used as targets in military shows.
THE PUSH BEGINS
S.S. General Sepp Dietrick wheels the S.S. and the Wermacht into the attack. Swarms of camouflaged tanks and tank destroyers race into action, preceded by barrages from multiple rocket fires. Miniature doodle bugs (radio controlled) cross open fields and explode. Bazookas and flamethrowers blaze into action. Then, concentrations of captured Yank troops are shown.
THE ATTACK STALLS
When the weather clears, Allied planes zoom up and start knocking Nazi planes out of the sky. Then they uproot and destroy Nazi transport in some of the most spectacular scenes ever filmed.
CONGRESSMEN TOUR WAR FRONTS
Member of the Military Affairs Committee, including Clare Booth Luce, visit various fronts where our troops are engaged. And General Patton shows them part of his remarkable army, in action.
DELMAN’S LATEST (Exclusive)
Leave it to Delman, exclusive foot-wear designer, to come out with “footstools” of every description to add heighth to a gal’s perspective. And the fabric ones are as chic as the beauties who model them.
THE BLACKOUT SUIT
The Franks “Blackout Suit” for airmen is demonstrated on a centrifuge machine at the University of Toronto. The liquid chambers within the suit counteracts the centrifugal pressure which a pilot encounters when diving and twisting in combat action. |
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