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| Public Domain Films And Royalty Free Stock Footage |
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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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Available in High Definition formats: (72 hr. turn-around)
1920 x 1080 24p MAC or PC - Quicktime |
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| NTSC Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| PAL Quicktime format: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| keywords: pacific military bases, roles of women in war, track and field events, mail via movie film, battle of midway |
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Synopsis: U.S. Rushes To Build New Bases In The Pacific, New Roles For Women In War, Sport Fans Hail Big Athletic Meet, , Soldiers Get Mail Via Movie Film, U.S. Victory At Midway Filmed Under Fire... (read more) |
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Information: 1942 10 min BW |
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This title includes these newsreel stories:
U.S. rushes to build new seaplane bases in the Pacific stocking supplies and war material for invasion, defense, and as a base for long range patrol aircraft or flying boats.
New roles for women in the war. U.S. Navy nurses line up for inspection in their new summer uniforms. Shows women enlisting in all branches of service. Shows WAC Colonel Oveta C. Hobby. Women of the Motorcycle Corp are trained as dispatch carriers riding motorcycles.
Sport fans hail the American Athletic Union track meet held in New York City. Harold Davis won the 100 meter dash and Cornelius “Dutch” Warmerdam cleared over 15-feet in the pole vault.
Fast new mail service for "mail from home" to soldiers overseas. Letters written on special forms are stamped and posted as regular mail. Each letter passed by the censor is photographed on small rolls of 16mm microfilm for ease of shipment. On arrival letters are enlarged to a readable size.
U.S naval victory in the Pacific is filmed under fire as a Japanese invasion fleet is attacked near Midway Island. Shows damaged Japanese warships. Back in port Admiral Nimitz present medals of Valor. Shows line of Bombers being built at a U.S. aircraft manufacturing plant, more images of airplanes under construction. B-17 Liberator Bomber rolls out of aircraft factory. Naval Midshipmen march in final review upon graduation and receive their wartime commissions in Memorial Hall, hats are tossed in the air.
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