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WWII - Color, 1944, USA Hollywood Films for Government: Devil Boats

Reel Number: 250114-07

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: USA

Location: Detroit,Melville,Michigan,Rhode Island

TC Begins: 11:03:08

TC Ends: 11:23:49

Duration: 00:20:41

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 11:03:35 Pinup girl, MS & CU to camera. 11:03:50 PT Boat / motor torpedo boat at speed from another; various guns, views. 11:04:15 Montage: sentries outside factory, workers across parking lot; women & men working assembling. Forman overseeing. 11:04:57 Crane lifting / launching PT boat. 11:05:14 Chimneys of Detroit Packard factory. Int. w/ furnace, molten metal, ingots melted & poured. Manufacturing of motor w/ crankcase; welding; assembling. On elevator rolling motor out. Man painting on motor, interrupted by navy officer. 11:06:50 Officers drilling. Officers arrive at Melville, Rhode Island PT Base. MCU. Base sign: Motor Torpedo Boat Training Center. Sailors marching down road; watching officers. MCU of heroic officers: Foster, Campbell, Robinson, Hal Snowball, Taylor. 11:08:07 Lt. Foster onto platform & addresses new officers, listening. LS speaking; CU listening. 11:08:47 CU Loudspeaker on pole (brief) intercut w/ officers listening. 11:09:05 Signal flags; ls of torpedo boat & men boarding. Cast off & CU of wake. POV over water; CU hand on throttle. POV back to line of boats following. CUs guns, torpedoes, depth charges. MCU Captain at wheel showing others how to handle it. Man pretends to get sick. 11:11:29 Recreation / exercise w/ medicine ball, boxing, judo wrestling. Montage of navigation, classroom, radio lessons. 11:12:25 Torpedo instruction; diving instruction w/ helmets; gunnery; motor instruction. Semaphore signaling; inspection; sailor / enlisted men. 11:13:56 Overhead of many PT boats at sea. Gunnery practice. 11:14:38 Officers looking at bulletin board. 11:15:05 Two offices practice w/ broom as rifle. 11:15:38 PT boats on water, training w/ smoke screen. Men talking. 11:16:54 Graduation, certificates & salutes. PT Boats leave briefing barge & out to sea. CUs. pet kitten mascot. Commander down to engine room & sees red paint on motor. 11:18:28 Binocular shot of Japanese tanker; battle stations & firing as making close pass. Sinking. PT on water, Japanese submarine & PT boat towards diving sub; firing guns. Dropping depth charges, explosions GOOD. Sub underwater & explosions nearby. Oil bubbling to surface. Jap diving on PT boat. 11:21:18 CU Jap pilot in plane; strafing passes; gunner hit. Guns firing, plane hit. Japanese fleet seen. 11:22:32 Aircraft carrier & planes take off; Navy scout planes in flight; US bombers over & bombing w/ miniatures of exploding ships. PT boat firing torpedoes, sinking ships (miniatures). PT Boats. The End. WW2; Pacific; Hollywood Recruiting Film; Propaganda; Color; Naval Training; WWII; Narrative War Film; NOTE: Good color. Some staged scenes. NOTE: Any continuous 11 minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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