UNITED NEWS [Series Title]

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  • Title: UNITED NEWS [Series Title]
  • Film Number: UNY 78
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  • Summary: Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel, featuring Princess Juliana of the Netherlands' visit to Dutch Guiana; a volcanic eruption on Niuafo'ou in Tonga; the move of a flock of sheep over the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state; the agricultural work of a large French Canadian family, and American forces in action at Bougainville, in the Solomon Islands.
  • Description: Part 1: United News main titles. 'Princess Juliana makes first visit to Dutch Guiana'. Aerial footage with Hudson in flight over ocean cloudscape. Aircraft interior with Princess Juliana and party. Close-up Princess Juliana. Escorting aircraft. Aerial view; passing over people below, standing in a 'V' shape. A decorated archway inscribed 'Welkom Ukh Prinses Juliana'. Motorcade passing in the capital Paramaribo (now capital of Suriname). Guianan people cheering. A parade and march past of Dutch and American troops. A multi-ethnic women's unit passes. A crowd of Guianan women waving Dutch flags. A woman with a large novelty hat marked 'De Hoop' ('The Hope'). A woman meets Juliana. Juliana walks through a crowd; local children casts flowers or leaves before her feet. Local tribal people welcome Juliana. A number of black men, wearing elaborate dress with peaked or top hats, gorgets and one man with a large staff (like a bandmaster's mace). One older man, wearing a bicorne hat, large epaulettes and a gorget, doffs his hat. An ensign flying in a high wind. The royal party aboard a motor launch and waving to people on the banks. Part 2: 'Remote Pacific island scene of volcanic eruption'. Aerial footage shows a towering pillar of white smoke, steam or ash over the island of Niuafo'ou, most northern isle of Tonga. View of the coastline with plumes of steam rising from the water. Further spectacular views. Aerial views of a small settlement. More views of the pillar of smoke etc. Part 3: 'Sheep herds move to new pastures in US Far West'. Seen from an overlooking point, a sheepdog corrals a large flock of sheep. The flock near the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state. Some good views of the flock is led across the top of the dam. Part 4: 'Big family solves labor problem for Canadian farmer'. M. and Mme L'Heureux with a young child in arms. A line of fourteen young people of various ages, followed by the parents with two toddlers, leaving a building (a barn?). Forking stooks of wheat (?) onto a wagon. Pulling up potatoes. The family sit together, cross themselves, and eat together. The family loading produce onto a lorry (marked G.O Durand - Boucher). Women spinning at looms. The women doing laundry. Mass of laundry hanging to dry. Toddler shining shoes (a wider shot shows he is surrounded by shoes). Part 5: 'US forces attack Japanese base on Bougainville'. Panning view of the assault force at sea. Rear Admiral Theodore Wilkinson and Major-General Vandegrift in discussion aboard ship, probably USS George Clymer (an Arthur Middleton Class attack transport, pennant APA-27). US Marines gearing up on deck. A Buffalo amphibian is lowered over the side of the ship. Wide view of USS George Clymer. Troops climbing down a net to waiting landing craft including PA 27-2. Troops boarding PA 27-3. PA 27-7 and PA 27-14 passing. View from ship with landing craft underway. Landing craft heading ashore at Empress Augusta Bay. Men keeping watch aboard ship. Aircraft bomb the landing beaches; incoming fire can be seen splashing the water around the boats. Closer view, from a landing craft, of PA 27-40 (?) and PA 27-9; the latter has a signaller aboard waving signal flags. Officers in discussion. Guns aboard the assault ship firing. Wide shot; anothe assault ship fires tracer towards the shore. View from a landing craft with aircraft overhead. View of PA 27-5 underway (sailing right-to-left). More aircraft passing with a .30-calibre machine gun in foreground. PA 27-20 with men disembarking. Men running ashore. Men filing off the cameraman's landing craft. Marines on the beach. Unloading stores from PA 27-18 and 27-10. Beach; a jeep drives through shot and there are parked lorries and a bulldozer. Marines pass a Buffalo amphibian named 'Our Gal Sal' (3-A-1). Marines outside a wooden hut. Frontal view of a Japanese bunker, giving a good view of its timber and earth construction with narrow aperture but wide field of fire. Japanese corpses lying in an around a shallow trench. Marines (in striking camouflage uniform) pass a hut. A beached landing craft PA 27-25 with a human chain passing supplies. End titles.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: UNY 78
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
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  • Production Date: 1943-11
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: Office of War Information (Sponsor) United Newsreel Corporation (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands (person) Wilkinson, Theodore Stark (person) Vandegrift, Alexander Archer (person) United States Navy, USS GEORGE CLYMER, attack transport (1941) (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Surinam SR (geography) Niuafo'ou, Tonga (geography) Washington State, USA (geography) Canada (geography) Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville, Solomon Islands (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 950 ft; Running time: 11 mins
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