WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 139 - AMERICAN VARIANT [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: WAR PICTORIAL NEWS NO 139 - AMERICAN VARIANT [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: WPN 290
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  • Summary: An edition of the British official newsreel "War Pictorial News", produced by the Ministry of Information, Middle East aimed at an American audience (most likely US Forces).
  • Description: I. 'FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY.' This item duplicates Item II of WPN 139. II. 'NEW GUINEA- AN EPIC OF JUNGLE WARFARE.' This item duplicates Item III of WPN 139. III. 'CHIANG KAI-SHEK HOST TO ALLIED LEADERS IN ASIA.' Lord Louis Mountbatten chats to General Joseph Stilwell at a meeting hosted by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at Chungking. Mountbatten and Stilwell pose for photographs with Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. IV. 'US ARMY NURSES TRAIN UNDER FIRE FOR DUTY OVERSEAS.' United States Army nurses crawl under barbed wire in full battle gear during a live-firing exercise. An instructor fires a water-cooled Browning .30-inch machine gun over the heads of the prone female nurses (The Browning has been pre-set for height). Extended footage shows the live-firing exercise. US Army nurses disembark into knee-high surf from a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI), their progress made easier by helpful infantrymen who carry their personal effects. V. '44 NATIONS MEET IN THE US- PLEDGE WORLD RELIEF.' Panoramic footage shows a tented refugee camp in French North Africa (or Syria). Italian refugees wheel bicycles and carry belongings. An Italian child helps with the cooking on an open fire that burns by a roadside. Elderly Italians speak to officials at a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA) office at an undisclosed location. Interior footage shows delegates at the inaugural meeting of UNRRA held in the United States. Andrei A Gromyko signs the agreement to establish UNRRA and is shown shaking hands with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lord Halifax signs for Britain. Roosevelt makes a brief speech (mute).
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: WPN 290
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-01-03
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information, Middle East (Production sponsor) War Pictorial News (Production company) Martin, Charles (Production individual) Keating, Rex1910-02-142005-01British newsreel commentator, WW2 period (Production cast)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person) Stilwell, Joseph Warren (person) Somerville, James Fownes (person) Chiang Kai-shek (person) Soong, Mei-ling (person) Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (person) Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (person) Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich (person) United States Army & [nurses] (regiment/service) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: training, United States - specialist: nurses (object name) refugees, African - settlement (object name) operations, Allied military - relief (object name) China & Chungking (geography) White House, Washington DC, United States of America (geography) (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: Arabic
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 718 ft; Running time: 8 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

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