Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-821

00:01:40 100	MACARTHUR RETURNS TO THE PHILIPPINES AERIAL MONTAGE ALLIED PLANES STRAFING JAPANESE SHIPS IN MINDANAO HARBOR, ONE OF WHICH SUDDENLY BLOWS UP IN HUGE SECONDARY EXPLOSION. AS SEEN FROM WING CAMERAS OF ATTACKING PLANE. FIRE AND BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM SHIP.
00:02:22 142	JAPANESE PLANE IS HIT DURING DOG FIGHT. AS SEEN FROM CAMERA OF ATTACKING PLANE. AERIAL GROUND POSITIONS BEING STRAFED AND BOMBED.
00:03:10 190	ANIMATED MAP SHOWS ALLIED FORCES ATTACKING LEYTE IN PHILIPPINES. SHIPS OF TASK FORCE HEADING FOR PHILIPPINES. CU ADMIRAL HALSEY LOOKS AT MAP ON DESK, LOOKS UP AT CAMERA.
00:03:13 193	GENERAL WAINWRIGHT BEFORE HIS CAPTURE ON BATAAN. AMERICAN PRISONERS ARE LED BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS ON INFAMOUS "DEATH MARCH" DURING FALL OF PHILIPPINES. AMERICAN SOLDIERS WITH HANDS UP. JAPANESE GUARDS
00:03:35 215	MONTAGE GENERAL MACARTHUR WALKS ON PHILIPPINE SOIL MAKING GOOD HIS PROMISE TO RETURN.
00:03:51 231	RED CROSS PARCELS FOR WAR PRISONERS. MONTAGE HUNDREDS OF FEMALE WORKERS AT AMERICAN PACKAGING CENTER WORK AT TABLES PACKING FOODSTUFFS INTO CARTONS. CU DISPLAY OF CANNED ITEMS FORMING PLANNED DIET THAT GO INTO CARTONS FOR SHIPMENT TO POWS
00:04:18 258	YOUNG MAN DUMPS CARTON OF GOODS IN FRONT OF THE LADIES DOING THE PACKING. CARTONS ARE PUSHED ALONG ON CONVEYOR INTO MACHINE WHICH AUTOMATICALLY SEALS THEM.
00:04:50 290	SEALED CARTONS MOVE ALONG CONVEYOR, DOWN CHUTE AND ON ANOTHER CONVEYOR LEADING TO TRUCK OUTSIDE BUILDING.
00:05:05 305	URUGUAY MILITARY ACADEMY MARKS 59TH ANNIVERSARY. URUGUAY PRESIDENT AMATEGA ARRIVES AT ACADEMY BY LIMO. SPEECHES ARE MADE. CU MONTAGE FACES OF PRESIDENT & GENERALS ATTENDING. CADETS MARCH IN REVIEW.
00:06:33 393	GIANT CALCULATOR AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY SOLVES PROBLEMS IN MATHEMATICS. U.S. SAILORS ATTEND HUGE VINTAGE CALCULATOR WHOSE SIZE TAKES UP WALL IN LARGE ROOM. MATHEMATICIAN WRITES VOLUMES TO FIGURE OUT PROBLEM DONE IN MINUTES BY CALCULATOR.
00:06:50 410	MATHEMATICIAN SETS LEVERS ON THE HUGE PANEL BOARD TO SET UP THE CALCULATOR. CU SAILOR LOADS MACHINE WITH YARDS OF WIDE FILM LIKE PAPER AS THOUGH HE WAS LOADING FILM IN MOVIE CAMERA.
00:07:14 434	WAVE WATCHES TYPEWRITER AUTOMATICALLY TYPE OUT ANSWER TO PROBLEM.
00:07:24 444	BATTLE FOR PELELIU ISLAND IN FINAL STAGES. TANK FIRE INTO JAPANESE BUNKERS. BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM HUGE EXPLOSION IN DISTANCE.
00:07:52 472	JAPANESE SOLDIER APPEARS ON HILL & THROWS YARD LONG GRENADE BEFORE BEING HIT. EXPLOSION, HEAVY WHITE SMOKE. MARINE HOLDS SUB-MACHINE GUN WITH ONE HAND AND FIRES DOWN INTO TUNNEL IN JUNGLE GROUND. ANOTHER MARINE DROPS HAND GRENADE INTO HOLE IN GROUND.
00:08:40 520	MONTAGE MARINE OFFICERS & MEN LINED UP & SALUTING FLAG BEING RAISED OVER ISLAND.
00:08:49 529	ALLIED ARMIES BREAK GOTHIC LINE IN ITALY LONG COLUMN OF TRUCKS AND MILITARY VEHICLES RIDE ALONG WINDING APPENINE MOUNTAIN DIRT ROADS.
00:09:14 554	MONTAGE MORTAR CREWS AND TANKS PUMP SHELLS INTO NAZI POSITIONS. EXPLODING SHELLS ON DISTANT HILLS.
00:09:50 590	TANK TRAPS AND FORTIFICATIONS ALONG GOTHIC LINE. LONG COLUMNS OF ALLIED TROOPS WALK ON BOTH SIDES OF MOUNTAIN ROAD.
00:10:05 605	ALLIES CAPTURE GREAT FRENCH PORT OF BREST. AERIAL VIEW OF THE AREA. GIS RAISE AMERICAN FLAG ON BOMBED-OUT FORTIFICATION, WAVE TO CAMERA.
00:10:22 622	GENERAL ROBERTS ACCEPTS SURRENDER BY GERMAN GENERALS. GENERAL REMKE, COMMANDANT OF BREST, WALKS WITH HIS GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG. GERMAN OFFICER PRISONERS HAVE REUNION, GREET EACH OTHER WITH NAZI SALUTE.
00:11:07 667	HUGE COLUMN OF PRISONERS KICK UP CLOUD OF DUST AS THEY MARCH TO REAR. AERIAL PAN OF PORT WITH U-BOAT PENS AND BOMBED OUT CITY OF BREST.
00:12:29 749	USS BATTLESHIP IOWA JOINS NAVY MONTAGE U.S. MEN & WOMEN MARINES MARCH IN NAVY DAY PARADE IN WASHINGTON, DC. FOLLOWED BY NAVY MEN AND WOMEN.
00:13:16 796	HUGE BATTLESHIP IOWA AT SEA. BOW OF IOWA AS IT CUTS THROUGH THE WAVES. AS SEEN FROM ABOVE. CAPTAIN OF IOWA POSES, LOOKS THROUGH BINOCULARS. IOWA'S HUGE 16 INCH GUNS FIRE SALVO. GUNNERS FIRE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND OTHER CANNONS IN TEST.
00:14:00 840	ARMY PAINTINGS ON EXHIBITION. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, GROUP OF WOMEN ARE ESCORTED ON TOUR OF GALLERY. MONTAGE VARIETY OF PAINTINGS ON WALL.
00:14:40 880	SCHOOLBOYS LEARN HOME-MAKING SKILLS. CLASSROOM OF PRETEEN BOYS AT MARYLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SIT AT TABLES & SEW. WOMAN INSTRUCTOR. CU BOY THREADS NEEDLE. BOY SEWING WITH NEEDLE ANOTHER BOY BITING OFF THREAD.
00:15:04 904	PRETEENAGE BOY AT SEWING MACHINE, RUNNING MATERIAL THROUGH THE MACHINE.
00:15:10 910	GROUP OF BOYS WITH APRONS, BEHIND COUNTER IN KITCHEN LEARNING TO BAKE AND COOK. BOY MIXES INGREDIENTS HANDS IT TO ANOTHER WHO PLACES IT IN FRYING PAN AND ON THE STOVE.
00:15:23 923	BOY PLACES PIE IN OVEN. ANOTHER BOY REMOVES SCRAMBLED EGGS FROM FRYING PAN WITH SPATULA. BOY REMOVES BISCUITS FROM OVEN, SMELLS THEM, WINKS AT CAMERA.
00:15:35 935	169TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES MARINES. MARINE BAND MARCHES IN PARADE AS SEEN FROM ABOVE. MARINES IN LANDING CRAFTS HEADING FOR ENEMY BEACH. MARINES WITH HEADS CROUCHED RUNS ALONG BEACH UNDER FIRE.
00:15:56 956	SHIRTLESS GROUP OF MARINES STRUGGLE AS THEY PULL A PIECE OF ARTILLERY THROUGH JUNGLE MUD. MARINES STAND OVER AND FIRE RIFLES INTO ENEMY UNDERGROUND BUNKER
00:16:10 970	SQUADRON OF MARINE FIGHTER PLANES IN FLIGHT. U.S. FLAG BEING RAISED ON PALM TREE IN SOUTH PACIFIC. MARINES HEAD TOWARDS BEACH IN CHEST-HIGH WATER. MARINES SLOWLY ADVANCE IN JUNGLE SWAMP IN ANKLE-DEEP WATER
00:16:33 993	GROUP OF MARINES HOLD OPEN A LARGE JAPANESE FLAG. MORE SHOTS OF MARINES UNDER FIRE. MARINES LINE UP AT JUNGLE OUTPOST TO RECEIVE MAIL FROM HOME PAN OF MARINES SALUTING. MARINES CARRY WOUNDED BUDDY ON STRETCHER.
00:17:18 1038	U.S. FLAG FLIES OVER MARINE CEMETERY ON SOUTH PACIFIC ISLAND.
00:17:22 1042	CHAPLAIN GIVES LAST RITES TO WOUNDED MARINE AS OTHERS HOLD BOTTLE OF PLASMA OVER HIM. LINE OF MARINES STANDING AND FIRING WEAPONS INTO JUNGLE.
00:17:26 1046	BACK OF HEAD OF MARINE WEARING HIS HELMET COCKED, AS HE SALUTES FLAG FLYING ABOVE HIM.
00:17:31 1051	ANTWERP FREED; AACHEN CAPTURED.
00:17:37 1057	GERMAN TROOPS ON TRUCK SPEED DOWN CITY STREET AS THEY EVACUATE FROM ON-COMING ALLIED FORCES.
00:17:46 1066	BELGIAN CITIZENS THROW DOWN GERMAN PROPAGANDA BILLBOARD. GERMAN SOLDIERS WORK UNDER HOOD OF CAR, GIVE UP AND START PUSHING IT IN HASTE TO GET OUT OF TOWN. PASSING BELGIAN CITIZENS WATCH.
00:17:58 1078	BELGIAN FLAG IS UNFURLED AND HUNG OUTSIDE APARTMENT WINDOW.
00:18:02 1082	CROWD MEETS ALLIED TANKS AS THEY RIDE INTO CITY. CITIZENS HITCH RIDE ON TANKS. BRITISH FLAG HANGS FROM WINDOW. GERMAN OFFICERS ARE THREATENED BY BELGIAN CROWD AS THEY SURRENDER.
00:18:30 1110	FRENCH PARTISANS GUARD LARGE GROUP OF MARCHING GERMAN PRISONERS. CROWDS GATHER AROUND BRITISH TANKS IN STREETS.
00:19:00 1140	BOMBS FALL ON CITY OF AACHEN, 1ST GERMAN CITY TO FALL. PLANES DIVE BOMB CITY. HUGE ARTILLERY & TANK GUNS FIRE INTO CITY STILL OCCUPIED BY FIGHTING GERMANS
00:19:35 1175	GIS CROUCH AS THEY ADVANCE SLOWLY DOWN BOMBED OUT STREET IN AACHEN. WHITE FLAG OF SURRENDER HANGS FROM WINDOW
00:19:54 1194	GI SPEAKS OVER HIS HAND-HELD RADIO. TANKS WITH SOLDIERS TAKING COVER BEHIND, MOVES SLOWLY DOWN CITY STREET.
00:20:08 1208	GI MACHINE-GUNNER FIRES INTO WINDOW OF BOMBED OUT APARTMENT HOUSE. TANK FIRES POINT-BLANK INTO BUILDING. TRACER BULLETS FROM GI MACHINE GUN ARE SEEN RAKING A CITY STREET.
00:20:44 1244	BOMBED-OUT BUILDINGS ON FIRE. MISSING WALL ON APARTMENT HOUSE, EXPOSING ROOMS. PAN OF RUBBLE THAT ONCE WAS AACHEN.
00:20:59 1259	TAPE ENDS.