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War, The No. 2 (Army Edition) Symphony On The Sands; North Atlantic; Japanese in China R1 of 2

Reel Number: 250010-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940s

Country: China,USA

Location: California,North Atlantic

TC Begins: 20:03:47

TC Ends: 20:12:49

Duration: 00:09:02

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. 20:04:24 Night, pan crowd of servicemen & stage. Mme Litvinoff onto stage & introduces Leopold Stokowski who conducts 100 piece Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony concert at a desert air base in the U.S. SOF: General Gilman (sp?), Mr. Stokowski...it was certainly worth coming out to the desert to have such welcome...I’m not sure it wasn’t worth coming all the way from Moscow...” Much cheering. 20:06:15 Edward G. Robinson SOF: “What do you hear from the mob? Now what do you think, here I am muscle’n in on this concert racket. How about it, you know - high brow music. I want to tell you mugs, from now on you’re going to buy your symphonies from me, or I’ll sick my mob on you!....” Goes on to talk about the soldier who wrote the music... 20:07:06 Stowkowski conducting music. 20:07:34 Music over pictures / staged scenes of besieged Leningrad 20:08:08 Title: Merchant Marine. U-Boat! 20:08:13 Rough weather w/ submarine visible in front. CU Nazi navy / naval flag. Sub; freighter hit, sinking tanker, more ships sinking. Periscope thru water. Torpedo track / wake & ship exploding. Staged men escaping ships. Good deck awash, men in lifeboats. 20:09:10 Line of merchant ships under construction, launchings. GOOD. 20:09:27 Merchant sailors at sonar school. 20:09:38 Ship at stormy sea, depth charges fired & dropped w/ submarine hit in North Atlantic. PBY planes, bombs dropped at sea; large convoy. 20:10:24 Art Title: Seized From The Japs. Japanese newsreel films of Japanese infantry crossing pontoon bridge in China, wading a river, pulling horse-drawn artillery thru mire / mud, across paddies, fighting, occupying a Chinese village. Cheering Banzai. WWII - 1940s; Entertaining Troops; WW2; Fighting; Battles; NOTE: Negative source sound track has some crackling. 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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