Sunset In The Pacific

4-engine plane landing on runway; officer disembarks & hands small package to sailor & brought to US Coast Guard Photographic Laboratory. Darkroom & echnicians developing film. Image appears - night firing. Film of two photographers in fatigues; one shooting stills, other movies from trench on battlefield. Marines advance from beach. 00:51:12 Main title: Sunset In The Pacific 00:51:32 Civilian photographer w/ Speedgraphic, placing film packet in camera. Staged model of flood pouring thru valley, into homes & shacks. Newsreel cameraman & soundman, parade New York City. 35mm movie cameraman on moving crane in studio, film set - ballroom scene being photographed; photographers, directors and crew, band playing in BG. 00:52:23 Sailor watches as Chief Photographer explains workings of 35MM movie camera. 00:52:35 Montage: Pacific native climbing palm tree; small sailboat. Natives cross footbridge w/ fishing nets, repair fishing nets, beat ceremonial drums, native girls dance; playing guitar at sunset. 00:53:26 Night firing during night battle. Battlefield showing guns firing; photographer in fatigues w/ still camera in trench; another w/ film camera. Marines landing. Titles of Warner Bros. color war films: W/ The Marines At Tarawa, The Memphis Belle, Beachead to Berlin etc. 00:54:26 Battlefield, photographer cleans lens. Women past wrecked buildings. Marine talk w/ children. Children outside church made of straw; U.S. flag in FG. 00:55:32 Photographer boards ship w/ tripod & gear. Troops board transport ship & men counted. Ship leaves harbor; photographer behind movie camera on tripod aboard ship. 00:56:32 LSTs anchored in harbor. Convoy at sea, activities on deck; sleeping; man gets head shaved in Neptune Ceremony; mascot dog & puppies w/ tiny doghouses. 00:58:06 Officer briefing men on coming invasion. Welding onboard ship. (Men are Coast Guard personnel). Playing cards onboard ship, playing acey-deuce, writing letters, etc. Listening to intercom. Abrupt end. WWII Navy Daily Life; WW2;