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News Review 1943 No 1 Reel-1
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keywords: wwii, president franklin d. roosevelt, war plants, war effort, army west point, annapolis naval academy
Synopsis: Americans Rally To President's Call For War, American Industrial Might Mobilizes For War, Americans Go To War 11 Million Strong...(read more)
- Date: 1943
- Duration: 00:10:40
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Americans Rally To President's Call For War
United States President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Excerpts from President Roosevelt's "A Date Which Will Live In Infamy"speech: "No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory". "With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God".
130,000,000 Americans Rally To The Presidents Call. America goes to war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Shows mass military enlistment of Americas in the cities. Shows long lines of Americans waiting to join (volunteer for) military service in WWII. Images of Joe Dimaggio, Joe Louis, Elliott Roosevelt (the President's son), Tyrone Power, Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Warren Pershing, and Justice Frank Murphy of the Supreme Court, enter the service.
American Industrial Might Mobilizes For War
American industry is converted to production of weapons, equipment, and supplies for war. Scenes of steel mills and steel mill workers producing steel, production of aluminum for the aircraft industry. Panning view of oil well derricks, field of oil well derricks. Scene of oil refinery producing aviation gasoline.
Images of hydro-electric dams that produced electrical power for the WW2 industries. Shows WWII men and women workers at various industrial plants and factories in America. Shows production of ammunition and assemble of military rifles, machine guns, torpedoes, artillery shells, bombs, anti-aircraft guns, and giant guns for war ships and coastal defense. Shows assemble of Scout Cars (jeeps). Shows tanks being built on an assemble line of tanks. Scenes of a tank factory.
Henry Kaiser assembles a model liberty ship. Scenes of a Henry Kaiser shipyard building liberty ships.
Shows the launch of the Liberty Ship Robert E. Peary that was built in 4-days, 15-hours, 29-minutes after its keel was in place.
Interior scenes of giant aircraft factories. Women workers at war. Shows women assembling planes and aircraft of all types. CU of woman at work with rivet gun, "Rosie the Riveter at work". Shows assemble of aircraft engines. Shows assembly of bombers. Various views of the inside of a huge aircraft factory, aircraft workers, and bomber aircraft being built.
Americans Go To War 11 Million Strong
The war commanders General Marshall and Admiral King reports to Admiral Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff. Shows a United States Military Academy at West Point and a United States Naval Academy at Annapolis graduation class. Graduation class at the Naval Academy tosses their caps into the air. Gene Tunney, heavy weight boxing champion, directs physical training of soldiers. Shows training of Merchant Marine seamen, seaman jumps from platform into pool with burning oil on top of water. Field training under live fire, soldiers crawl through an infiltration course as a machine fires live rounds overhead.
