Description
Object description
Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel; a review of the year 1944, and a look ahead to 1945.
Content description
Part 1: United News main titles. Live '1944' title, camera pans past to 1945. Artillery bombardment. Troopship at sea. American troops in the Pacific. A wounded soldier, his face a mask of bandages, is carried past camera on a stretcher. Views of cemeteries. A close-up of a Life Magazine list of casualties. Headlines over images; '5th Takes Rome - Nazis Flee, City Spared' (Daily Mirror), 'Big Invasion Begins! Landings in France' (Times Herald), 'Guam Invaders win Beachheads' (San Francisco News), 'Paris Liberated, French announce: Yanks gain 80 mi. in south', 'MacArthur back in Philippines' (Pittsburgh Press), 'Tokyo Bombed by B-29s'. Footage of heavy industrial work. Dewey, Truman and Roosevelt. Knox and Wendell Willkie. Roosevelt, Map of the Pacific; the map rotates to show Europe. Eisenhower and his generals. Allied aircraft bomb France. Watches count down to D-Day; naval bombardment. Parachutists. British troops come ashore. Utah beach. American troops in Cherbourg. German prisoners. Liberation of Paris. French civilians cheering. De Gaulle. American wounded. Siegfried line. Americans enter Aachen. Map showing Soviet advance in Eastern Europe. Stalin. Red Army troops going forward. Artillery and rocket fire. Footage of Hitler. Animation of a swastika crumbling. Himmler in SS uniform. New York at night. Animated map of the Pacific with American advances. B-29 bomber takes off. MacArthur returns to the Philippines. Combat cameramen at work. American troops in action in the Pacific. Marching and driving through mud. US Navy at sea. Naval gunfire and gun camera footage. Churchill and Roosevelt together. Dumbarton Oaks conference. Views of idyllic pastoral countryside. Turning over a calendar with New Years Eve celebrations. Building B-29s. American troops in the field. Wounded recuperating. Artillery bombardment. Map of Europe with Germany retreating within its borders. Map of the US over images of war manufacturing. American troops on the march. Closing sequence with glittering '1945'. End title.
Physical description
35mm
