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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220414-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Japan,USA
Location: Seattle, Washington
TC Begins: 06:44:20
TC Ends: 06:53:04
Duration: 00:08:44
Birth of the B-29 R1 of 2 Explosions, volcano eruption montage. 'Japan, land of the Little People'. Anti-japanese propaganda based on ceremonies, farming, Japanese military parading. 06:45:23 Parade; Martial arts; militry fighting in China, executions; troops banzai; farming, building roads; city scenes w/ modern buildings & night life. Silk mills, made in Japan stamps. Steel mill. Hirohito reviewing troops. Bombers taking off from Hornet to bomb Tokyo. Aerials over Tokyo burning (brief). 06:48:06 Doolittle statement. Hanger door opens & freight trains into aircraft factory. CU feet & workers into plants inspected. Time clock. Huge factory interior, aircraft production, posters re B-29 Super Fortress. 06:49:42 Moving aluminum, plating, forming. Blacks working. Black & White women riveting at bench; riveting jigs. Wings hoisted & moved by woman in crane. Men & women assembling inside gas tanks.Engines mounted. Nose sections assembled. Many sections partially constructed. Excellent footage of aircraft production / construction. WWII Home Front; Military Aviation; Boeing; WW2 War Effort;