Film 'Sunset in the Pacific' shows United States Marine Corps photographers taking pictures and filming motion pictures in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Night view of a huge explosion. Two photographers shoot still pictures from behind a rock. Marines advance on beachhead. Combat cameraman with a 35 mm movie camera crawls over ground and into a trench. Flood waters flow through a valley, smashing into homes and shacks. Photographers shoot stills with speed graphic. Movie studio camera operator using 35mm motion picture film camera on platform or boom to capture motion picture film images of a American Legion Parade in New York City. Legionaries march with the American flag in hand. Two camera operators film couples dancing in a ballroom, on what appears to be a Hollywood movie set. Band plays in the background. Sailor watches as chief photographer explains working of 35mm movie camera.
Cameraman using 35mm motion picture camera takes motion pictures of natives using movie camera in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A Pacific native climbing palm tree. Small sailboat underway in a shallow harbor. Huts among palm trees on a Pacific Island. Natives cross footbridge with fishing nets and repair the nets. Men watch the native girls dancing. Women and children watch the dance. Natives walk with poles on shoulders. Man plays guitar while two native girls sit and listen to him.
United States Marine Corp photographers take pictures with 35mm movie camera in the Pacific Theater during World War II. View of sunset. Huge explosions at night during night battle against Japanese enemy. Next scene is day time with Marines in many foxholes and bomb craters in exposed battlefield area on Pacific Island during combat. Two Marines hunched over and moving between positiions. Marines receiving enemy fire. Several scenes showing combat photographers (some dramatized) taking up positions in ditches and fox holes to record combat action with still cameras and motion picture cameras. Actual battle scenes of Marines pinned down by incoming enemy fire on an Island. Marines coming ashore on landing craft at beach area and marching in a group up a road. Marine combat cameramen in a ditch capturing action with motion picture movie camera. Titles of films are seen next on screen, reading 'With marines at Tarawa', 'Memphis Belle', 'Fighting Lady' and 'The True Glory'. Marine photographers check and clean parts of motion picture camera. Marine types on a portable typewriter beside him.
United States Marine Corp photographers take pictures and film surroundings in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bomb damaged church with its broken bell. Native boy feeds a pig. Native women look at the destroyed church. Photographer speaks with native children and shows them his still camera. He takes pictures of young native women. Women wash clothes outside straw huts. American flag on a pole in the foreground.
United States Marine Corp photographers with 35mm motion picture camera in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Marine photographer boards ship with a tripod and movie camera. United States Marine Corps troops walk up gangplank to board the ship. Sailors handles lines and removes lines from bitts. Photographer films Marines from a ship deck. The ship departing from the harbor.
United States Marine Corp cameraman filming with motion picture camera in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Marine photographer films on a ship's deck with a tripod and movie camera. United States Marine Corps stand on ship's deck. Fleet of ships underway. Commanding officer on ship's deck. Two Marines speak over a telephone. Marine reads a letter. Crewman plays with monkey seated on barrel of a gun. Three crew members sleep beside one another.
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