Summary

DOCUMENTARIES

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Title: DOCUMENTARIES
File Number: DN-LB-634 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 1942, 1943
Description: 04:01:15 Vultee Aircraft Plant, ca 1942 Si. R1 04:07:00 Vultee Aircraft Plant R2 - B-36 taxiing camera pans to R to follow. 04:09:35 Vultee Aircraft Plant R3 - l) Woman worker, welding aircraft part. 2) worker arranging aircraft parts. 3) Women workers riveting aircraft part. 4) Women tightening spark plug cables on radial engine. 5) Woman operating lathe. 6) woman working on electrical parts. 7) woman operating drill press. 8) Same as scene 3. 9) Assembly line women working on fuselage frames. 10) Woman adjusting electrical "Jack Box". 11) Women spraying airplane part. 04:18:36 Vultee Aircraft Plant R4 - 1) Truck shot BT-l3s on flight line. 2) BT-13 taking off, camera pans to R. 3) Line of semi-finished BT-13s being worked on. 4) Several BT-13s on ramp. 5) Same as sc 2. 6) BT-13 makes 2 dives at camera. 7) BT-13s in bg. 8) Line of BT-Bs. 9) CU Civilians examining BT-13. 10) pilot examining BT-13. 11) Line of BT-13s. Hangar in bg. 12) Various shots of semi-finished BT-13s. 13) Various shots of plant. 14) Welder at work on engine mount. 15) Riveters at work. 16) Line of BT-13s. 17) Men at work under wing of BT-13. 18) Line of BT-13s. 19) CU BT-13 men working on same. 20) Row of wings of BT-13. 21) CU Man working on tail wheel of BT-13. 04 24:13 1942, Aircraft carrier Essex launched Henry Ford on his 79th birthday - , inspects the first Ford automobile manufactured Old auto show w racing across the Connecticut countryside Pilgrims to cathedral in Quebec Catholic Ceremony Tanks in action and assembly line Military court gives death sentences to Nazi German spies -Shows F.B.I. agents with incendiary devices carried by the Germans who landed on the Atlantic shore from a submarine. Personages: John Edgar Hoover Atty. General Biddle Stratosphere air maneuvers, flyers don high altitude suits. 04:34:15 1943, Reservists train for navy & marines Surfing in Australia Bizerte falls, the 2nd Army and the British 8th Army capture Bizerte and are welcomed by its citizens. Hordes of German prisoners are captured. Shows Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery General Marshall attends a meeting of the allied war council. Shows the council on the White House lawn. FDR & Churchill meet.
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