UNITED NEWS [Series Title]

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  • Title: UNITED NEWS [Series Title]
  • Film Number: UNY 109
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  • Summary: Edition of US-produced wartime newsreel, featuring the nomination of Thomas Dewey as Republican candidate for the 1944 Presidential Election; the installation of a new government in Italy under Prime Minister Bonomi; US President Roosevelt signs the GI Bill into law, and the construction of airfields in China for the operation of United States Army Air Forces' B-29 heavy bombers against Japan.
  • Description: Part 1: United News main title. 'Republicans nominate Dewey'; high wide shot over Chicago. View of Chicago Stadium. Sign 'Welcome G.O.P'. Interior with banner 'Bricker official headquarters'. Stairwell with another sign 'Greetings Ohio Department of Adjutant General - Bricker for President'. John Bricker waves for the camera. Senator Robert Taft in cheery conversation with a woman. At Dewey's headquarters. Shots of discussions between Governor Alfred Landon (1936 Republican candidate for President) and Congressman Martin. Wendell Wilkie (1940 Republican candidate for President) at his desk, looking at camera. A newspaper seller holds up an edition of the Chicago Daily News with headline 'It's all Dewey as G.O.P meets'. People entering the stadium. Interior of the hall with delegates and placards from various states. Radio commentators from CBS and NBC. Pressmen and cameramen at work. Delegates, including a Native American from South Dakota. Delegates applaud. Chairman Spangler strikes a gavel. Governor Earl Warren of California on the podium. Dewey in his study, with close-up. Part 2: 'New government installed in Rome'; panning view of the city. Interior; discussions in progress. Close-up Ivanoe Bonomi (Italian Prime Minister in 1921). Bonomi and Count Sforza. Close-up American officer, Colonel Charles Poletti. Outside a crowd of civilians. Men reading an edition of L'Unita announcing the new government's policy. American military policemen with a notice 'Fifth Army - Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving - Sunday 11 June, 1000 hours, Santa Maria Degli Angeli - All Allied troops welcome'. Close-up of the sign. Troops (apparently all American) filing into the church. General Mark Clark emerges and exchanges greetings with clergymen. Part 3: 'Roosevelt signs "Soldier's Bill"'; interior Oval Office in Washington D.C.; Roosevelt at his desk signing a piece of legislation with his Cabinet (?) arrayed around him. Wide shot of a large country house (a rehabilitation centre?); American troops, some on crutches or using walking sticks, go inside. Interior; a bedroom with troops relaxing with newspapers while another affixes a 'pin-up' to his wall. A man receives physiotherapy. Men using a library. Men doing woodwork as occupational therapy. Life drawing. Tending livestock. Part 4: 'China builds airfields for B-29 bombers'; wide shot of an airfield site with large numbers of Chinese labourers. Map of the Pacific with the Japanese strategic perimeter and the new airfields marked. Chinese labourers, many with yokes or wheelbarrows. At work with hand tools. Shots of labourers digging, breaking rocks etc. Laying rocks. Labourers walking on a waterwheel. Carting away buckets of mud. Workers take rice from a wooden barrel. Man eating from a bowl of rice. Using a large roller. B-29 Superfortress in flight. B-29 landing on the strip. End title.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: UNY 109
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-30
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: Office of War Information (Sponsor) United Newsreel Corporation (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Dewey, Thomas Edmund (person) Bonomi, Ivanoe (person) Sforza, Carlo (person) Clark, Mark Wayne (person) United States Army Air Forces, 14th Air Force (regiment/service) United States Army, 5th Army (regiment/service) Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (person)
  • Keywords: Chicago, Illinois (geography) China (geography) Washington D.C. (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 698 ft; Running time: 8 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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