Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California during World War II. Models of US, Allied and enemy aircraft in the model department. Men work on the models. Military trucks parked in a garage. Motor pool personnel board the trucks and drive out of the garage. Men work inside a factory. They work on machinery. A sign board outside a plaster shop reads: 'All work done in the plaster shop must be requisitioned'. Men prepare statues. A man shows a uniform to another man.
Activities during World War 2 of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. A sign reads: 'Editorial Department'. Men at work inside. View of many motion picture film cans. The personnel are seated at moviola machines and seen editing various films scenes to make a film. View of the moviola in use from over the right shoulder of one of the film editors.
Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. A sign reads: 'Special Photographic Effects'. Men work inside a building for special camera effects in a film. A guard tower. Military artists aboard rafts underway at sea during a film. They discuss amongst themselves.
Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. Men standing outside the sound department. They work for synchronization of sound with dialogs and actions of a film. Men seated in the music department play different musical instruments. The unit bugler blows a chow call. Personnel being served. They eat in a mess hall.
Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. A training of combat camera crew. Soldiers march with rifles. They stand in formation. Training of crew members during field maneuvers. Cameramen take photographs and record battle scenes on a battlefield. A bomb explodes near the cameramen. (World War II period).
World War II activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. Airplanes parked at an air base. Camera equipment being loaded into United States Army Air Force Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan and a United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) A-20 Havoc aircraft for aerial photography. Men in the cockpit of an airplane. A large formation of A-20s in flight. USAAF Curtiss P-40 aircraft in flight. The engine of a USAAF C-47 Skytrain stops and starts. A PT-17 aircraft flying at low altitude over airfields. A USAAF BT-13 Valiant performs an aileron roll. A USAAF Martin B-26C Marauder drops a large life raft and the BT-13 Valiant spins down. The U.S. flag atop a flag pole. Unit personnel at a retreat ceremony in a part of the main building.
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