UNITED NEWS [Series Title]

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  • Title: UNITED NEWS [Series Title]
  • Film Number: UNY 121
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  • Summary: Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel, featuring President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill concluding the Quebec Conference; improvised public transport in Rome, capital of Italy; a visit by Brazilian General Cavalho to the US Military Academy at West Point, and American combat cameramen in action in Pacific, possibly on Guam.
  • Description: Part 1: United News main titles. 'Roosevelt and Churchill end Quebec talks'; Churchill, Roosevelt and their parties seated on castle rampart. Close-ups including Princess Alice. Eleanor Roosevelt and MacKenzie King. Mrs Roosevelt, Mrs Churchill and Princess Alice chatting together. The President's Scottish terrier Fala performs. Further shots of Roosevelt and Churchill. An evening ball thrown by MacKenzie King, with General Marshall, General Arnold, Field Marshal Dill and Admiral King. A man in academic dress (from McGill University) gives a speech. Churchill and Roosevelt, also in academic dress; they receive hoods of Doctors of Law from Registrar T H Matthews. Mrs Churchill speaks of looking forward to 'splendid successes', Britain's 'just pride' of successes in Europe, and the score yet to be settled with Japan. Part 2: 'Emergency transportation in Rome'. City street scene in Rome. A tricycle moped/charabanc. Passengers boarding. Horse-drawn charabancs. Part 3: 'Brazilian general honors cadets at West Point'; motorcade arriving. Band playing. A colour party approaches. Brazilian officer, General Cavalho, ties decorates the West Point banner with the Order of Military Merit. Close-up Cavalho. Close-up Major-General Francis Wilby, superintendent of West Point. Cavalho meets officer cadets. March past by cadets. Part 4: 'Combat cameramen in the Pacific'; wide shot with landing craft coming ashore. A beach crowded with American troops. Soldiers going forward. Well known shot from Tarawa showing American troops foreground with Japanese soldiers running across the midground. Tarawa shot of attack on bunker. Group of US Marine Corps combat cameramen on Guam, posing with their cameras. A group of cameramen being briefed by an officer with a notebook; close-up of the notebook shows diagrams with annotations such as 'Fire direction - need four angles' and 'get concealed camera shots - low angle'. The cameramen are dismissed. They accompany a patrol. Cameramen take cover as an infantrymen opens fire with his rifle. A cine cameraman using his camera as a smoke bomb explodes in front of him; a soldier fires a Browning Automatic Rifle in the background. Dead Japanese soldier. Another smoke bomb explodes. Dead Japanese. Two cameramen have a chat and a cigarette. Photographing the ruins of a coastal village (on Guam?). End title.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: UNY 121
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-09-22
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: Office of War Information (Sponsor) United Newsreel Corporation (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer (person) Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (person) Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (person) King, William L MacKenzie (person) Marshall, George C (person) Dill, John Greer (person) Arnold, Henry H (person) United States Marine Corps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Rome, Latium, Italy (geography) Pacific 1939-1945 (theme) Italy 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 615 ft; Running time: 8 mins
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