The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 65 (1945)
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Channel: Nuclear Vault · 2016 · Education
The Army-Navy Screen Magazine Number 65, 1945 01 Guilty: Short film about the trial and sentencing of Vichy leader Marshal Petain. 02 Another Chance: Short animated film about the forthcoming United Nations organization. Naively explains how international disputes will be settled in the future. 03 Ernie Pyle's New Mexico: Short film about New Mexico. The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 65 1945: the entire newsreel. The Army-Navy Screen Magazine was produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictorial Service, under the supervision of Col. Frank Capra, who came up with the idea. It was released twice a month and shown to military troops as a 20-minute newsreel. "By the end of the war, the Army-Navy Screen Magazine reached an enormous weekly audience of 4.2 million. It had become for American soldiers all over the world a communal experience that greatly influenced their perception of the war." It featured short documentary films, news from back home, and short training films like Dr. Seuss' Private Snafu cartoons. I've uploaded the entire Screen Magazine and also each segment as a separate file (some editions are comprised of 1 long film, though). Description at the National Archives: "Reel 1 shows the trial of Marshal Petain at the Palace of Justice in Paris: Daladier, Laval, and Leon Blum testify; Petain is sentenced to death; and the sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. An animated cartoon analyzes the operation of the United Nations showing how a hypothetical dispute would be settled. Reel 2 is a tribute to war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Shows views in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Silver City, N.M.; Carlsbad Caverns; the Rio Grande; a Pueblo reservation; lead, zinc, and silver mining; harvesting crops; and views of Pyle's home in New Mexico."
