America, the war years. Volume 1, 1941-1942

DVD 2003

Contemporary newsreels and combat footage give glimpses of the United States during World War II, with reports on military campaigns, war production, and life on the home front during 1940-1941.

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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
optical
videodisc
DVD
video file DVD
monochrome

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Alternate title on film: America, the war years : from Pearl Harbor to Casablanca, 1941-1942
From Pearl Harbor to Casablanca, 1941-1942
Universal newsreel

Notes:

Newsreel footage originally produced in 1941 and 1942 by Universal Newsreel and United News
Narrator (of most segments): Graham McNamee

Contents:

volume 1. 1941 (50 minutes) New Years in N.Y.
New Congress hears president pledge war aid
Lease-Lend Bill passes
Miami, Fla.
Belmont Park, N.Y.
Jitterbug and jive
Stanley cup
DeGaulle in England
Women defense workers
Seattle black-out
French Indo-China
Airplane manufacturing plant
American troops in Newfoundland
Libya
U.S. to guard Greenland
Yankees baseball
Detroit Tigers baseball
Washington Navy yard
Paratroops at Fr. Benning, Ga.
Carol exiled King of Romania
Jack Benny
Malta bombed
Eritrea
Churchill in England
U.S. in move to halt Japs
Hess flees from Reich
9th Army Corps
Portsmouth, N.H. submarines
Belmont Park
First pictures of sea fight
Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia
Speed boat races
Aerial acrobats
Nazis war in Russia
Soviet-Japanese Friendship Pact
21-yr-olds drafted
Army air force at Mitchel Field
Siege of Tobruk
Special report: Japs-U.S. at war
America on the alert
volume 2. 1942 (50 minutes) Movie stars join war effort
U.S. motorcycle dispatch riders
U.S. Navy pilots test flying boat
Tennis match (Bobby Riggs)
Gas shortages and food rationing
G.I. mail call
Who's on first? (Abbott and Costello)
U.S. arms manufacturing plants
Midway
Horse races for Army relief fund
America salutes women workers in war effort
Private Snafu gripes
Marines on Guadalcanal
Jeep assembly plant
Hollywood canteen
Alaska Highway completed
Warship production
British pursue Rommel in Libya
Rodeo thrills soldiers
Ready made homes for war workers
British sailors aid U.S. Harvest
World's largest autobus tested
RAF blasts Nazis
U.S. Navy day
New roles for women in war
Soldiers get mail
U.S. carrier beats off air attack
Academy Awards, 1942
Plants speed anti-aircraft guns
China plans army of 26 million
N.Y. hails U.N. war heroes

Control Number:

3077420

UPC:

723721047764

Other Authors:

GoodTime Entertainment (Firm)
McNamee, Graham, 1888-1942
United Newsreel Corporation

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