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Scenes from "Road to Home" starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Navy Department film to help sailors returning to civilian life (WW2)
Hollywood actor and comedian Bob Hope appears in navy uniform and is joined by singer Bing Crosby, to introduce a movie called 'Road to Home.' Hope and Crosby play two sailors and use comical dialogue to explain the demobilization process of separating from the Navy and returning to civilian life in World War II. Comic scenes show Hope and Crosby in various costumes, times and circumstances, excerpted from their series of Road show films. They discuss the U.S. program to return 2 million army, navy, marines and military men back into civilian life, and emphasize the importance of waiting to be properly mustered out and not to go AWOL (absent without leave), just because the war is over.
Scenes from "Road to Home" starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. U.S. Navy film to facilitate return of sailors to civilian life
Hollywood movie stars Bob Hope and Bing Crosby play sailors preparing to return to civilian life after the end of World War 2. Includes comical sketches from the Hope and Crosby Road Show series of movies. They discuss sailors and soldiers receiving money for college and other benefits following separation from the military. Both, Hope and Crosby, turn serious at the end and exhort sailors to be patient and follow proper procedures in leaving active duty so they will each receive an honorable discharge and all benefits to which they are entitled.
New U.S. Navy recruits arrive at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Chicago, Illinois
New recruits for the U.S. Navy line up on a train platform after arriving in Chicago. Sailors in uniform organize the recruits into groups. The next scene shows the recruits, carrying personal belongings, being escorted through the gates of the Great lakes Naval Training Center. Several U.S. Navy officers step from an official staff car and are seen posing in front of a flag pole at the Navy Station. The senior officer is Captain William A. Moffett, USN, Commandant of the center, flanked by a Lieutenant Commander and a Lieutenant, and two other officers in the background. Captain Moffett is later seen observing the new recruits as they are escorted on the base. Next, the recruits are seen carrying white towels as they march to a building where they will be issued personal clothing and uniforms. Later they are seen marching in their new summer uniforms, carrying their original civilian luggage. Under the watchful eyes of the officers, the new sailors use their new mess kits to get food from a chow line. Captain Moffett watches and converses with other officers (not seen). The recruits are next seen, in winter blues, exiting a building carrying their bedding, and presumably headed toward their billets. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Sailors in training sit in an amphitheater while a band plays at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station
U.S. sailors in training at the Great Lakes Training Center, sit in an amphitheater, in a glade, as a band plays. Camera pans over the large filled circular seating area. The sailors all rise at a command, and salute the colors, as the National Anthem is played. They then take their seats, again. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Sailors graduating from Basic training demonstrate marching skills at U.S. Naval training Center in Chicago,United States.
Graduation Day for a class of recruits at the U.S. Naval Training Center, Chicago, Illinois. Captain William A. Moffett, USN, Commandant of the center is on a reviewing stand with his Lieutenant Commander, assistant. A French military officer and two French officials, are also present. Spectators are crowded around the reviewing stand. The new sailors are seen, from atop the administration building, lined up in formation behind the Center's flag pole from which a large American flag flies. Others are marching in review past the stand, which is now filled with high-ranking naval officers. The spectators around the reviewing stand can also be seen better. In next sequence, a huge Navy brass band marches toward the reviewing stand en masse and then executes to the rear march by columns, all while playing their instruments. They remain in place and play during the rest of the activities. More massed sailors march, followed by several contingents pulling French 75 artillery pieces. Spectators can be seen all around the parade grounds. Beginning as a huge single formation covering more than half the parade ground, sailors start marching in maneuvers that create patterns. Then a square formation of sailors marches along the field, enclosing a moving color guard, like a fortress. Closeup of new sailors marching with shouldered arms. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
An animated cartoon turtle shows ways to protect oneself in case of an atomic attack in the United States
From the civil defense film "Duck and Cover" in the United States. Animation: Burt the turtle walks along a path carrying a flower in his hand. A monkey holding a burning cracker leans from a tree. The cracker bursts. A burnt tree. The turtle covers himself. Children sit in a classroom and a professor teaches ways to protect themselves during a nuclear attack. The children hide under the benches.
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