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Vilna Fighting; Norway Bombing; Leyte School 221778-11 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[WWIII - 1944, Newsreel, USA:  Vilna Fighting; Norway Bombing; Leyte School; Homefront; Lend-Lease]
Animated title of flags moving across turning globe.
09:05:36  Intertitle:  Russians In New Drive.  Large Russian tanks past on Vilna dirt road.  MCU Russian Generals talking.  Soldiers marching.  LS across city w/ smoke / haze.  MS USSR artillery firing, Vilna in background, explosions in city.  Soldiers moving toward buildings; MS flames out window of burning building.  View out of building window w/ dead in street, soldier running across.  MS dead, soldiers advance past.  Pan bricked windows.  Artillery fired at warehouse, others.  Nazi soldiers surrendering & walking.  Shots of dead.  Aerial over damaged buildings.  Captured prisoners of war / POWs marched past by guards on horseback.
09:07:08  Intertitle:  RAF Blasts Nazi Ships.  Aerials of aircraft across land & water to Norway & dive bombing / strafing ships in Norwegian harbors w/ ships firing - tracers.  Aerial of aircraft formation returning.
09:08:12  Intertitle:  Leyte School Reopened.  Ext of large building w/ roof missing.  Boys carrying desks inside, girls watching.  Men & women in warehouse w/ stacks of text books.  Jeep filled w/ boys driven past waving children.  Children at desks in classroom; MS Teacher / nun & girls at desk, blackboard .  Nun writing God Bless America.
09:09:04  Intertitle:  Movie Heads Plan 'March Of Dimes'.  Large group wearing ribbons posing outside ?? (source film printed out of frame 09:09:14 - 09:09:21).  Basil O'Conner, President of Polio Foundation / National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, w/ ornate pledge certificate from Spyos Skouras.
09:09:33  Intertitle:  One-Woman Lend-Lease.  Woman / Carlota Oppenheimer in kitchen preparing bread for baking on kitchen counter; carries large cake; stacks of baked fruitbread / fruitcake.  At cupboard w/ large number of jars of canned fruit for American troops in England.  US officers w/ Oppenheimer looking at chickens; butler serves glasses to GIs in house talking, toast Oppenheimer.  Fresh vegetables dumped into trailer & officers leave in jeep.
09:10:23  Intertitle:  Fashions For The Beach.  Summer hats & print dresses at NYC Hotel Pierre Fashion Show,  Purses, dress w/ safety pin pattern, model winks w/ hat.  Many models & styles.
09:11:29  Intertitle:  Air Route To Russia.  Laying asphalt on Canada runway, constructing barracks, building Royal Canadian Air Force Watson Lake Yukon Territory Observation Tower.   Aerial over oil refineries & storage tanks.  USAAF fuel truck fueling C-47; LS fighter planes on flight line for lend-lease; MS & Russian pilots out of Operations building talking w/ American & Canadian (?) pilots.  Engines started, C-47 taking off, aerial over arctic bushes on mountainside.  Planes in formation.
09:13:01  End title:  Buy Bonds, The End.
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