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Admiral Halsey reports (Movietone News)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Newsreel extract circa 1945. Washington DC, Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey speaks to camera on taking command of the sea from the Japanese.F04908
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Aircraft recognition test no. 5
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Maker: Trade Films
Official War Department training film TF I-3712 produced under supervision of the Bureau of Aeronautics for the Bureau of Naval Personnel by Trade Films. This film tests aircraft recognition without i...F02367
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1. Army and Navy warplanes scrapped 2. Sailing ship "Danmark" goes home 3. Wounded soldiers learn to use new artificial limbs 4. Harbours of Pacific coast cleared of submarine nets 5. B24 in test crash 6. Army - Navy gridiron upset 7. Film reports from Japan MacArthur honoured 8. Bikini Atoll A-bomb test (Extracts from U.S. Movietone Newsreels)
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1. Army and Navy warplanes scrapped. 2. Sailing ship 'Danmark' goes home. 3. Wounded soldiers learn to use new artificial limbs. 4. Harbours of Pacific coast cleared of submarine nets. 5. B-24 in ...F03508
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Battle front action from Guadalcanal
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United States ships, Henderson Airfield and United States Marines at Guadalcanal. Identified personnel: Lieutenant-General Alexander Vandegrift and Majora-General Vogel.F00819
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Cast away
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Maker: Willard Pictures
A United States Navy training film produced for the Bureau Of Aeronautics by Willard Pictures on survival at sea for downed aircrew.F02297
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Commandments for health: drinking water
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Maker: Hugh Harman Productions
A United States Navy training film produced by Hugh Harman Productions. An animated cartoon on the use of drinking water from only designated sources. Shows the hazards of using water from non-designa...F02507
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Fall of Corregidor in Manila Bay 7th May (Nippon News 102)
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Maker: Nippon Eigasha Nippon News
Extract from Nippon News newsreel covering the United States surrender at Corregidor, Manila Bay, Philippines. Japanese Navy and Army officers moving away from camera along mountain track. Officers st...F06814
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Guadalcanal: America's first offensive (Crusade in the Pacific part 7)
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Maker: March of Time Television
United States March of Time television documentary using historic combat and newsreel footage. Covers the battle of Guadalcanal and the campaign in the Solomon Islands. Shows the amphibious landing at...F04959
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Gunsight Mk 18 operation mock-up turret
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Maker: Jam Handy Organization Inc
Official War Department training film produced for the United States Navy by the Jam Handy Organization Inc. Uses animated diagrams and a mock up turret to show the workings of the Gunsight Mk18 as us...F02344
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Japanese film taken in various prison camps for the Red Cross, Geneva
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Maker: Unknown
The film begins from the point of view of a camera on board a moving vehicle, part of a motorcade that passes Australian and allied prisoners of war who stand to attention along both sides of the road...F07458
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"Jeheemy" (Amphibious warfare)
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Maker: US Navy
United States Navy training film MN-430a. This film illustrates the Jeheemy, a mobile gantry-type structure for the salvage of Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP). The film illustrates the method o...F05071
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1. Marshall Islands, US Navy aerial blitz before invasion 2. Chinese shipbuilders aid allies. (News From Home No. 78)
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1. (1 min 49 sec) Softening up bombardment by US Navy aircraft from Admiral Mitscher's TF58 before the Marshall Islands invasion (Movietone News) 2. (2 min 24 sec) Chinese workmen build ships for the ...F00770
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Naval pyrotechnics
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An official United States Navy film illustrating the correct use of flares in emergency aircraft landings at night.F02325
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RAAF combat magazine No 1
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Maker: Department of Information
Department of Information film assembled from Gaumont British, Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and Paramount newsreels. Topics covered are: Item 1. The camera gun (Gaumont British News). Shows Sp...F02517
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[RAAF Iwakuni 1948 & Korea 1950]
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Maker: Unknown
The film includes a street parade comprised of local population and military service personnel; the Australian base; scenes at the airfield; crew loading ammunition;crew unloading and carrying air car...F03391
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Recognition of the SC-1 Sea Hawk
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Maker: Jam Handy Organization Inc
Official War Department training film TF I-3723 produced for the United States Navy by Jam Handy Organization Inc. Uses stills and animated drawings to illustrate the main recognition features of the ...F02341
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1. Red Cross train brings Darwin wounded 2. Aboriginal children refugees from bombs 3. Nurses escape from Singapore 4. American Admiral of Anzac area interviewed. (Cinesound News No. 542)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 542. 1. Red Cross train brings Darwin wounded. Interviews with patients on their arrival in the South. 2. Aboriginal children refugees from bombs. Children fro...F00568
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Reginald Evans recalls the rescue of PT-109, 2 August 1943
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Maker: NBC
A kinescope recording on 16mm film of an item from the NBC televsion's Jack Paar Program on the PT-109 commanded by Lieutenant John F Kennedy the then current President of the United States of America...F03487
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Rickenbacker returns after Pacific ordeal. (News From Home. No. 23.)
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Maker: News from Home
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker returns in rescue plane (Catalina aircraft) after 21 days adrift at sea and tells of his experiences. Commentary by Ernest Walsh, Fox Movietone International.F00719
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Services stage boxing show (News From Home. No. 67)
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United States Navy (USN) and Australian Army stage an interservice boxing match at the Melbourne stadium. Commentary by Jack Davey.F00760
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Smoke defence against air attacks (War Department film bulletin Issue No. 57)
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Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
A United States War Department Film Bulletin Issue No 57 produced by the Signal Corps Photographic Center on the use of smoke generators to protect large installations and facilities against air attac...F02512
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The crane M20 (Amphibious warfare)
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Maker: US Navy
A United States Navy training film. This film features the 20-ton mobile beach salvage crane hauled by a D8 caterpillar tractor; power for the crane is supplied from the tractor winch. The crane is tr...F05102
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The Gray marine diesel goes to war - GM unit injector removal and replacement
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Maker: Wilding Picture Productions
Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training film USC 211 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Command Library (copy 'C'). Instruction o...AWM2018.451.10
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Thunderstorms
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Maker: Walt Disney Productions
A United States Navy training film MN-119c-AH produced by Walt Disney Productions under the supervision of the Bureau of Aeronatics. Uses animated diagrams to illustrate the two basic types of thunder...F02426
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Victory march Melbourne
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Maker: Pentreath, Albert Stanley
During the afternoon of the 24 August 1945 some twenty thousand men and women took part in a Victory march through Melbourne, Vic. The salute was taken by Sir Winston Dugan, Governor of Victoria. The ...F07309
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1. WAAAF sports 2. ACF parcels 3. Action in the South West Pacific. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 52)
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1. (1 min 34 sec) Airwomen contest races at Sydney meeting 2. (1 min 21 sec) Australian comforts depot in Melbourne pack parcels, troops and army nurses in Northern Territory receive parcels 3. (2 min...F00374
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War in South West Pacific 1. Uncle Sam strikes from Guadalcanal 2. Buna mission captured
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (2 min 30 sec) Solomon Islands, American strikes from Guadalcanal. Activity at Henderson Airfield. Phot. US Signal Corps, arranged by Frank Coffey, commentary by Jack Davey, Movietone News 2. (2 mi...F00826