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Pre-WWII - 1938, USA: Navy Readied; Naval Appropriations Bill Debated; Kennedy Family To Europe; Turin Wedding. ca Mar38

Reel Number: 220687-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL and SD

Year / Date: 1938,1930s

Country: Italy,USA

Location: At sea off California,New York City,NYC,turin,Washington, DC

TC Begins: 19:52:58

TC Ends: 19:56:06

Duration: 00:03:08

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Pre-WWII - 1938, USA: Navy Readied; Naval Appropriations Bill Debated; Kennedy Family To Europe; Turin Wedding Intertitle: US Fleet Faces Important Battle Tests in Pacific 19:53:04 SI. Montage: Interior of armament factory w/ large naval gun barrels moved by overhead crane (brief); pouring molten steel; CU ingot crushed by forge; interior of barrel w/ rifling; testing propellor on stand; fighter planes overhead. 19:53:28 SOF Map w/ naval officer pointing out details: “And we’ll cover about this area”. 19:53:36 Signaler on board ship handed message & sending w/ flashing lights; officer lowering binoculars; sailor signaling w/ semaphores; officer & sailors on bridge; working in engine room. 19:53:46 Sd (narration cut & not useful) Battleship bow thru waves on naval maneuvers; firing broadsides; seaplane launched; column of battleships & firing. 19:54:05 Interior armament factory & turning large; inspecting / checking; crane moving suspended barrel. 19:54:11 Biplanes taxiing; sailors work on engines; surface launch of torpedo.. 19:54:20 SOF Intertitle: Personalities In The News. Democrat Senator Pittman, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman: “In this period when every instrument of peace has been abandoned, & all the great powers of the world are building navies to the maximum of their power, it the duty of our government to build & maintain an invincible navy.” 19:54:52 SOF Conservative Republican Senator Owen Brewster of Maine: “Our friends do not tell you that a 4 Billion dollar naval building program is now underway. This billion dollar increase is absolutely unnecessary for the defense of the United States.” (arguing against naval appropriation bill) 19:55:18 Si. Intertitle: New York, N.Y. Ambassador Joseph Kennedy’s children posing on shipboard to sail to England: John, Robert, Kathleen, Edward. CUs mother, Rose, Joe, Bobby, Eunice, Kathleen, Edward / Teddy. Rose laughing & waving ship. 19:55:45 Si. Intertitle: Turin, Italy. Duke of Genoa, nephew of King Victor Emmanuel posing w/ Maria Luisa Gandolfi in front of crowd in church doorway at wedding. Crowds held back as they walk to car & leave chased chased by crowd. War Preparations; Readiness; Industry; Celebrities; Congressional Politics; Budget Debate; 1930s; Wealth; Family; Society; Pre-WW2; Navy Training Exercise; NOTE: If requested will provide 19:52:58 - 19:59:17 (2 cards) at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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