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Robert Benchley shares his navy experiences with an expert in the United States.

Rehabilitation of U.S. sailors. A dramatization: Robert Benchley sleeps on a sofa. His portrait on a wall. He talks to his own portrait. He talks to an expert about his experiences while working in the navy. The sailors get their physical checkup done.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031666
Sailors discuss returning to civilian life and Robert Benchley's pajamas in the United States.

Rehabilitation of U.S. sailors. A dramatization: Sailors discuss about their experience of an interview. Robert Benchley enters a room. The sailors are amazed to see his pajamas. They move near him and discuss his pajamas. He goes to sleep and dreams: He stands near a piano. He goes to get another drink. A woman approaches him but he does not find her attractive, until he has several more drinks and she turns into movie star Ava Gardner (who makes a cameo appearance in this scene).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 6 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031667
A gathering of sailors for official discharge from the navy in the United States.

U.S. sailors being honorably discharged at end of World War 2, as soldiers and sailors were separating from the military. Dramatization: A sailor sits in front of an officer during an exit interview before going back to civilian life. A gathering of sailors at a separation center for official discharge from the U.S. Navy. The sailors receive certificates of discharge. Robert Benchley dreams of his welcome. Sailors return home after World War 2.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031668
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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031669
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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 6 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031670
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)

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031676
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