The War 1941-1944
The War 1941-1944
The War 1941-1944
The War 1941-1944
DO NOT USE Title scroll, "This a news review of the significant events of the war between 1941 and 1944. It is a factual record made from American and Allied newsreels and service films. There is no film record of the heroic resistance of those in occupied countries. That part of the story cannot be shown, but it is known and honored wherever men fight to be free."
The War 1941-1944
DO NOT USE "United Films Presents: News Review Number Two, The War 1941-1944" "Christmas 1941" (Title superimposed over snowy backdrop)
The War 1941-1944
FG artillery firing and exploding. TLS/High Angle View of city burning and skeletal buildings remaining. MCU child in bed crying w/ eyepatch. MS blind man w/canes walking down street. MS white people w/ suitcases walking. VO "There never was a blacker Christmas for the civilized world than the Christmas of 1941." MS German midsections soldiers (Grossdeutschland Division) grabbing standing rifles, wearing helmets. TLS white people walking, homes lost. MS woman wiping tears from her eyes, holds child. MS marching German soldiers w/ serious & wide eyes, one has the Iron Cross. MS/pan to woman kneeling, crying, pleading w/ white bandana, dead person at her knees. MCU dead woman in FG w/ crying child on her lap. MCU dead woman on side faces camera. MS/pan Asian boy pulling woman holding child from dead man. MS Asian boy crying.
The War 1941-1944
MS spinning globe. Map of Europe, Germany highlighted in black w/ swastika/Nazi flag, black expands to show German expansion/occupation in 1930's & 1940's, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, Greece & Russia. Map of Fascist Italy w/flag expansion/occupation represented by expanding black into Albania, Ethiopia. MS/pan to Japan w/flag expansion/occupation Formosa, Korea, China, base in French Indochina w/treaty w/Vichy, fortified Marshall & Mariana islands.
The War 1941-1944
Japanese soldiers (Imperial Japanese Army) swords raised above heads cheering. MS Japanese soldiers hand raised in celebration. MCU serious looking Cordell Hull, (American, United States Secretary of State). MS newspaper printer. MS white people buying papers. MS Saburo Kurusu (Japanese Ambassador to Germany/diplomat) in spectacles, black suit & hat getting off Pam-American Airways airplane in Washington, D.C., tips hat smiling-1941. MS Saburo Kurusu & other Japanese diplomats walking through a doorway. MS Saburo Kurusu exiting a building.
The War 1941-1944
TLS Japanese aircraft carriers. TLS Japanese airplane (Japanese Army Air Force/ Mitsubishi Zero). CU of Japanese pilot w/goggles. TLS bombing (Pearl Harbor, HA December, 7 1941) black smoke rising from United States Navy Ships. TLS/HA of naval base. MS globe, Hawaiian Islands labeled & distance from U.S. & Japan marked. TLS Japanese Zero flying low drops a bomb. MS U.S. naval soldiers obscured by smoke. TLS sinking & burning naval ship. MS U.S. airplane parked & cut in half. MCU/HA nurse tending to wounded white man, bloody white cloth covers half his face, pulls "U.S. Navy blanket over his face." TLS/HA/pan nurses & navy officers in white tending to wounded. MS Japanese soldier looking through binoculars. MS Japanese soldiers flag in FG.
The War 1941-1944
DO NOT USE Scroll, "The Berlin-Tokyo Axis was on the road to its objective...the conquest of the world. This was the crisis that faced the civilized world at Christmas, 1941. Out of the crisis was born the idea of the idea of the United Nations."
The War 1941-1944
TLS President FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt) seated at desk with figures, crowd stands behind. MS FDR watches foreign leaders sign pact of mutual aid against aggressors. ECU pact document w/signatures.
The War 1941-1944
DO NOT USE Scroll document text, "Each government pledges itself to employ its full resources, military or economic, against those members of the Tri-Partite pact and its adherents with which such governments is at war. Each government pledges itself to cooperate with the governments signatory hereto and not to make a separate armistice or peace with the enemies."
The War 1941-1944
TLS FDR & foreign leaders around table. MS QUEEN ELIZABETH I (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother/Mum) & PHILLIP MOUNTBATTEN, Duke of Edinburgh (in Royal Navy uniform) MS WINSTON CHURCHILL (Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill) in pinstripes & bowler hat w/cigar marching down street. MS/pan Winston Churchill w/armband (Civil Defense?) surveying wreckage. TLS devastated London. TLS wrecked interior factories & buildings, Soviet Union. TLS people along zig zag paths. MCU smiling boy. MS Chinese men walking in pointy hats. MS Chinese boatmen & propeller/paddle. TLS Chinese traveling in boat. TLS/HA United States industrial cities. war work. MS/pan interior factories, white men working. MCU men working, refitting machinery. CU hands working. MCU women working/being trained, men working. MS white boy hands black boy tool.
The War 1941-1944
MCU military recruiter. MS/pan male volunteers for military service. TLS U.S. soldier training, running with rifles, smoke around. TLS trucks & tanks driving. MS soldiers loading a mortar shell. MS soldiers w/bayonets jabbing dummies & running on. MS U.S. Marines carrying U.S. flag & Marine flag. MCU Marines striding past the camera carrying .3 in M1903 rifle w/bayonet.
The War 1941-1944
MS/CU soldiers in uniform from different countries: Americans, British, British dominion, Russia, Chinese, Czechoslovakia, Greek, India, Norway, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Java, Poland, Netherlands, Philippines, France (under CHARLES DEGAULLE, his men wearing the Cross of Lorraine).
The War 1941-1944
DO NOT USE Scroll text, "But while these men were still training, and while machines of war were still in the making, the United Nations suffered defeat after defeat."
The War 1941-1944
TLS Naval destroyer. TLS/HA looking starboard on destroyer water crashing over front. MCU Nazi (National Socialist German Workers Party) flag flying w/iron cross in corner. TLS German Submarine, U-boat, submerging. TLS periscope. TLS torpedo traveling in the water, leaving wake. TLS explosion on naval ship, VO, "This was the battle of the Atlantic in 1942. TLS naval ships, destroyers, cargo vessels exploding, smoking, burning or sinking. TLS men in the water, men on lifeboat rowing, climbing into lifeboats. MS men dragged across deck, water thrown on them.
The War 1941-1944
DO NOT USE Title, "Russia Spring 1942."
The War 1941-1944
TLS Russian, Soviet infantry firing anti-aircraft gun. MCU Russian, Soviet soldiers in the Red Army watching. TLS Russian soldiers on horseback riding away from camera. CU man grabbing large caliber artillery, looking through a scope. TLS Russian soldiers stepping through rubble. CU young girl blowing nose/wiping eyes. MS dead frozen men hanging from nooses, some snow covering them. CU/pan frightening body of dead woman & man. MS Russian soldiers in moving trucks look at camera. TLS plow through a field towards camera. TLS/pan electrical wires, industrial area. TLS white Russian civilians gathering hay into wagons. MS girl dumping crop into bag held by boy. TLS/pan fields burning. TLS bridges, dams, railroads, power plants exploding. MS people on road w/belongings in wagons. MCU woman carrying child, child stares into camera, VO "nothing was left that might be of use to the enemy."