Summary

Universal Newsreel

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Title: Universal Newsreel
File Number: DN-LB-549 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1944
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 20:01:19:00 B W 1944 07Dec44 Sd Strasbourg, France Allied Vise Tightens On Rhineland. Troops move forward fire grenades crossing field wounded helped back. GIs moving through houses and backyards. Mortars fired and medics go to aid wounded man with injured leg. Wounded smoking cigarette carried on stretcher. Yank with cigar gives water canteen to another. CU sign: Strasburg. LS of people moving in streets. People wave at US tanks. Canal flooded full from rains. Sign: Stadtmitte. City center and heavy damage to buildings. Machine guns firing. American jeeps burning after hit by German shell. People standing on street litter with tiny Nazi flags. Inspecting German artillery left behind. CU sign: Mulhausen. Villages burning from torching by retreating Germans. French troops move along safety of buildings rounding up Germans at Gestapo Headquarters. Lines of German POWs brought to rear. WWII Europe Front. Fighting. Alsace-Lorraine 20:04:12:00 B W 1944 Sd Carrier Force Hits At Manila. AV of Aircraft carrier unit or task force. Ships thru heavy sea. MCU of Adm Radford. Briefing of pilots who get up and run across deck to planes. David MacCampbell (sp?) smiling in plane with many Japanese flags on plane. Japanese attack on aircraft carriers with bombs around and plane burning on deck. Aircraft carrier burning and firemen fighting. Plane shot down in flames. Guns firing. AVs over burning fires in Manila. WWII Pacific Front Navy Air Force Philippines Kamikaze. 20:05:44:00 B W 1944 Sd New York City Somervell Calls On NAM For Material. Members of the National Association of Manufacturers, in their War on Reconversion Congress meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, listening to Somervell speech: `American Industry and American Workers must rededicate themselves, here and now, to an upsurge in production on the homefront so that our forces on all fronts shall be limited in their uses of materiel only by our ability to get it to them and by elbow room on the fighting front in which to use it. The kind of war we shall fight is in the balance. The decision as to the weight that we shall throw into the scales is your decision and this is the time for decision. And I know what it will be. Thank you.' WWII Homefront Industry Supplies Patriotism Patriotic speech Business Manufacturing. 20:06:54:00 B W 1944 Sd Nation Needs Nurses Aides. Field hospital with tents and red cross banners. Wounded drinking coffee. Nurses in US in and out of hospital. MCU of several with civil defense patches. In nursing classes and treating wounded and working in hospital and rehabilitation. CU of Nurse. Appeal. WWII Homefront. 20:07:47:00 B W 1944 Sd Madison Square Garden, New York Basketball Season In Full Swing. NYU 53, Rochester 39 in opening game seen from high angle and along court. Cheering students. Long swish shot. Fast ball handling. Good shooting. Sports 1944 College Basketball. WWII homefront End: 20:08:49:00 20:08:56:00 B W 1944 11Dec44 Sd New York City Army Needs Must Be Met NAM Is Told. National Association of Manufacturers War & Reconversion Congress of America meeting at Waldorf-Astoria hotel listens to speech by board chairman E.C. Crawford upon his return from Europe: `We face a powerful enemy, many lives will be lost before there is victory in Europe. General Somervell in his speech Wednesday stated that we are committed to fight with the overwhelming superiority of materiel, material rather than lives. Now without seeing the fighting and the mud and the destruction, one can have no conception of the terrific rate of consumption of raw materials. I repeat, we returned deeply stirred, deadly serious in our determination to make Americans understand this. You ask me how long will this war last and I will give you the impression that came to me as I sat there in that 12th Army Headquarters. Our armies can sit there in front of that line one month, two months, six months, one year unless we expend vast quantities of materiels or lives. Yes General Somervell summarized it: Lives or material and the materials must be those determined by the condition of the war as it develops. Lets us be thankful that our war material needs are in the hands of this great supply officer. The GI is hungry for the assurance that we will not let him down said General Eisenhower. Don't worry about the morale of our boys, just back them up. And we solemnly pledged ourselves to return, to bring you this message, to travel this land over and tell all men who love their country that it is time to re-enlist in the battle for freedom.' Applause. Visuals: High angle of banquet tables and standing ovation, Men at dias tables, Crawford in front of men in tuxedos speaks. They give him standing ovation at end. Patriotic speech WWII manufacturing homefront Business leaders Industry 20:10:58:00 B W 1944 Sd Allied Drive bogs Down In Italy. Fifth Army in fog and mud. GI washing boots. Trucks axle deep in mud directed through mud. GIs with feet in CU. GIs in doorway watching streetful of water. People look out of second story window. Men push motorcycle through deep water. Woman walking through knee deep water. Flooding weather rains. WWII Italian Front. 20:12:07:00 B W 1944 Sd Germany A Nazi View Of The War View down road with wrecked US equipment along western front. Germans looking at burning equipment of tanks and planes. Captured allied soldiers in prison stockades. CU of jacket with name: Patchie P.A. Jersey on back. Other views of captured allied GIs with German guard. WWII German front German propaganda. 20:12:52:00 B W 1944 Sd Moscow, USSR Churchill Holds Talks With Stalin. Posing for picture with Anthony Eden and Molotov. Stalin with pipe in mouth, Churchill in uniform. Churchill w cigar walking with Stalin, salutes Stalin. Stalin watching Churchill tip hat and Stalin waves handkerchief as plane takes off. Large plane in air. WWII Allies Conference Diplomacy Diplomats. 20:13:42:00 - 20:14:48:00 B W 1944 Sd Washington, DC Giants Rout Redskins 31-0. Eastern professional football title won by New York. Crowded stadium on sunny day. Pass for touchdown. Sammy Baugh short pass for Giants. Runner flipped when going over middle. Herbert passes for Giants score. Giants intercept pass and run for touchdown. 1944 sports. WWII homefront. Continued on 1945 list.
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