Summary

1942 UNITED NEWS 4

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Title: 1942 UNITED NEWS 4
File Number: HD-7 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 01/01/1942
Subjects: Aerials
Description: B W 1942 Newsreels from 1942, almost all WWII-related. B W 1942 RG 208, Roll 17 00:00:51:00 B W 1942 ROOSEVELT AWARDS WARSHIP TO NORWAY. President FDR and Crown Princess Martha of Norway in car princess boards ship, is saluted by sailors. 00:01:38:00 B W 1942 US ARMY TESTS NEWEST TANKS. Unusual tank called the General Lee" VS tanks in action, knocking down trees and crossing rivers. 00:02:30:00 B W 1942 MEXICO HAILS DAY OF LIBERTY. Military parade in the Plaza de la Constitucion in Mexico City EWS President Comacho in reviewing stand marching soldiers, good. 00:03:55:00 B W 1942 US PLANTS SPEED WAR PRODUCTION. Smokestacks, PAN to factory car assembly line, good dolly shots factory workers assemble airplane engines jeeps leave factory. 00:06:48:00 B W 1942 BRAZIL BOLSTERS FOREIGN RELATIONS. Nelson Rockefeller arrives in Brazil to ratify trade agreement President Getulio Vargas at ceremony dignitaries sign documents. 00:08:10:00 B W 1942 AIRBORNE TROOPS IN MOCK ATTACK. Paratroopers board transport plane parachutes in sky equipment loaded on airplane, and unloaded soldiers fire mortar. B W 1942 RG 208, Roll 18 00:10:12:00 B W 1942 US FORCES GUARD WEST INDIES OIL. Bomber airplane taking off AVs of oil tankers oil refineries in Aruba guarded by soldiers. 00:11:08:00 B W 1942 NEW CHUTE SPEEDS HOSPITAL RESCUES. Firemen demonstrate new fire-escape invention, a canvas tube that hangs from window people slide down the chute to the ground. 00:11:55:00 B W 1942 TANK DESTROYERS PASS ARMY TEST! Good shots of soldiers training under fire: lots of soldiers cross river, crawl across field, under barbed wire soldiers practice house-to-house combat, shoot guns at cottage shells explode in field, good. 00:13:12:00 B W 1942 WORLD'S CHAMPION COTTON PICKER! Cotton-picking contest: VS people picking cotton in field young black man is winner, poses with stack of 1000 dollar bills. 00:14:00:00 B W 1942 US LAUNCHES NEW CARRIER LEXINGTON. Ship christening, unidentified woman says, "I christen thee Lexington", breaks champagne bottle ship is launched on ramp. 00:14:40:00 B W 1942 WAR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. New Guinea tribesmen aid Allied war effort - transport supplies in dugout canoe, porters carry boxes through jungle military officials examine captured Japanese midget submarine sailors load shells into artillery cannons battleship fires guns dead bodies of Japanese soldiers Japanese POWs. B W 1942 RG 208, Roll 19 00:20:00:00 B W 1942 US BOMBERS RAID NAZI-HELD FRANCE. Airmen prepare for bombing mission, VS soldier writes message on bomb, "This is only the start" bombs drop from bomb bay AVs of bombs falling. 00:23:42:00 B W 1942 ONE-MAN FACTORY WINS US AWARD. Man is given a medal for his contribution to the war effort husband and wife kiss for news cameras. 00:24:30:00 B W 1942 ACTION IN THE ALEUTIANS! Soldiers set up camp on Aleutian Islands amphibious landing men unload supplies. 00:25:55:00 B W 1942 ROOSEVELT TOURS US WAR PLANTS. FDR in car Secret Service agents ride on sideboard of cars FDR in car shakes hands with line of wounded sailors. B W 1942 RG 208, Roll 20 00:29:20:00 B W 1942 ROOSEVELT'S WAR TOUR OF NATION. FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt with their grandchildren motorcade, FDR reviews troops at Randolph Field, Texas squadron of fighter planes and bombers, air-to-air. 00:30:50:00 B W 1942 POLISH-AMERICANS HONOR PULASKI. Parade, Fifth Avenue, New York City, to honor Count Polaski, hero of the American Revolution. 00:31:28:00 B W 1942 US TROOPS GUARD NEW CALEDONIA! Melanesian tribesmen in grass skirts perform dance for Allied officers jeeps drive through countryside, cross stream. 00:32:44:00 B W 1942 HOME TOWN HAILS AIR FORCE HERO. Big home-town celebration for returning war hero, Captain Alvin Muller husband and wife kiss for camera. 00:33:38:00 B W 1942 ANTI-AIRCRAFT MARKSMANSHIP! Convoy of trucks in desert soldiers fire antiaircraft guns. 00:35:04:00 B W 1942 BRAZIL GRADUATES NEW AIR OFFICERS. US Secretary of Navy Frank Knox President Vargas greets Brazilian air force cadets AV, statue of Jesus Christ of Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro. 00:36:00:00 B W 1942 AMERICAN CONVOYS GIRDLE GLOBE! Graduation ceremony of the Merchant Marine academy training exercise, sailors climb ropes airplane factory, brief shots trucks are lifted onto cargo ship mechant ships in harbor ship's galley, black cook stirs pot men eat dinner. B W 1942 RG 208, Roll 21 00:39:28:00 B W 1942 US PACIFIC WAR HEROES DECORATED. Navy ceremony at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, honoring war heroes sailors stand at attention two sailors examine their medals medals are awarded to Red Cross nurses. 00:40:20:00 B W 1942 CANADIAN TIMBER FOR WAR PLANES. Good footage of logging: two men sawing enormous spruce tree tree falling over, two shots men saw logs logs on freight train. 00:41:00:00 B W 1942 MICKEY MOUSE GOES TO WAR. Walt Disney in studio conferring with artists cartoon dog Pluto painted on side of war plane. 00:42:04:00 B W 1942 PACIFIC COAST DEFENSE ON ALERT. VS American defense preparations in WWII: blimp-shaped reconnaissance balloons antiaircraft guns are camouflaged under phony house facade and phony sliding tennis court. 00:43:36:00 B W 1942 INDUCTION DAY FOR ARMY DOGS. Sled dogs are recruited for military duty. Dogs pull wheeled cart down dirt road military men examine puppies, put them in buckets, cute. 00:44:16:00 B W 1942 US WAR SUPPLIES REINFORCE CHINESE. General Stilwell reviews Chinese troops medical examination of Chinese soldiers Chinese soldiers shoot guns and mortars, target practice Wendell Willkie greets Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Willkie greets Generals Stilwell and Chennault Chinese soldiers march past review stand. B W 1942 RG 208, Roll 22 00:48:16:00 B W 1942 ALLIED AIRMEN WIN NEW WINGS. Military air show at Montreal Stadium Canadian troops marching in parade, including women of the Royal Canadian Air Force. 00:49:40:00 B W 1942 READY-MADE HOMES FOR WAR WORKERS. VS workers assembling panels for prefabricated houses construction workers work on house housing development, house INT and EXT. 00:50:40:00 B W 1942 BRITISH SAILORS AID US HARVEST. British sailors on shore leave work on US farms in Virginia men pitching hay, drinking beer. 00:51:28:00 B W 1942 SANDS PRODUCE OIL IN CANADA. Scientists learn to extract oil from sand: geologist examines sandy cliff face with pickax dynamite explosion factory scenes, lots of sludge. 00:52:24:00 B W 1942 NATION HAILS US NAVY DAY. Naval parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City Red Cross nurses marching British Navy good shot of little boy saluting while his sister waves a flag, patriotism. 00:53:18:00 B W 1942 TEST WORLD'S LARGEST AUTOBUS. Enormous bus (in Santa Fe?) used to transport war workers its top swivels as it goes around corners. 00:54:10:00 B W 1942 AMERICA'S BATTLE IN THE SOLOMONS. Battleships on heavy seas American scout plane crashes in ocean, distant pilot rescued, taken aboard life boat amphibious landing dead Japanese soldiers American soldiers fire cannons captured from the Japanese, and a flamethrower Japanese POWs, Solomon Islands airstrip
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