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WWII - 1941, Preparations: USA Homefront; Ambassador to London; North Africa Fighting. Mar41

Reel Number: 250159-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1941,1940s

Country: England,Libya,United Kingdom,USA

Location: Baltimore,DC,London,North Africa,Washington

TC Begins: 06:00:16

TC Ends: 06:05:45

Duration: 00:05:29

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1941, Preparations: USA Homefront; Ambassador to London; North Africa Fighting. Mar41 Intertitle: To Mobilize U.S. Labor. Two Unid. men w/ Paul V. McNutt, head of Federal Security Agency at desk signing paper calling for unemployed craftsmen to register w/ government. CUs MOS of McNutt. 06:01:32 Intertitle: Baltimore, MD. High angle / HA Workers leaving Glenn Martin B-26 bomber plant. Martin and ?? looking at drawings w/ construction in background. Int. of large metalworking shop; CU lathe; forming machines & men removing parts & wiping die. Dipping metal in bath. Fuselage sections in row, moved by crane & wings & motors added. Removing paper covering showing British markings on fuselage. Crating for shipment w/ CU stenciled: British Purchasing Commission, New York. Tractor pulling crate. 06:02:34 Intertitle: Washington, DC. LS across rows of large gun barrels at Washington Navy Yard w/ men working; MS floor, men stop & put on gas masks & run past. Line of workers in gas masks. CU. 06:03:02 Fort Ord, California w/ Cavalry soldier fitting gas mask on horse, troops wearing masks riding off w/ wagons. Several on horseback riding ahead of smoke screen, others w/ wagons run out of cloud. 06:03:25 Intertitle: Newfoundland. Anchored transport ship w/ snow covered mountain behind. View from water of fishing town docks. MCU soldiers in heavy winter coats w/ rifles down ship gangway, at attention on dock w/ US flag. CU Army officer. 06:03:48 Soldiers in white camouflage in snow manning machine guns; wearing snowshoes moving them on sleds. CU soldier talking on field telephone; troops on skiis marching, skiing down hill. 06:04:05 Intertitle: England. King George VI greeting US ambassador John Winant & military officer (British?) getting off train on arrival, London. Walking to car. 06:04:30 Intertitle: Libya. British soldiers firing howitzer barrage. Explosions, smoke, bouncing guns in North African desert. Vehicles, planes, tanks moving (one w/ kangeroo on front). Infantry advance w/ fixed bayonets. Along canal . Prisoners taken. Burning oil fires on canal bank w/ buildings nearby. Burning vehicle, column of British troops up village street, natives saluting; soldier pick up puppies; radio antennas, floating cranes in water. WW2 Civilian Mobilization; Homefront; Military Training; Diplomacy; Aviation Manufacturing; Fighting; NOTE: 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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