American actress Carole Landis performs as a "Pinup Girl" for American GIs during World War II. A studio is decorated for the performance. A cameraman stands in the studio. A camera set in the studio. Carole Landis stands behind a cardboard cutout of a plump figure of a woman. She comes in the front and sings. She dances and holds an umbrella while singing. Carole Landis wears gradually more revealing outfits as the Pinup Girl song progresses.
American film actress, Carole Landis, records a performance for American troops during World War II. She wears shorts and halter outfit and sings "Shine on Harvest Moon", while pretending to milk a cow. She then climbs upon a moon-in-the-sky prop and poses, while chorus sings the song and words are displayed for audience to sing-along.
An animated film shows cartoon character Private Snafu in the United States. Private Snafu works and complains about his work. He is admitted in a hospital. Technical Fairy, First Class arrives and places Private Snafu as in charge of a camp. Private Snafu permits the discipline to break down. The troops enjoy themselves. The troops sit with girls in a Jeep. Private Snafu sits in a camp and is attended by several women. Technical Fairy, First Class informs Private Snafu about the attack of enemy on the camp. Private Snafu calls for his troops. The enemy attacks unopposed. Private Snafu hides himself in the ground. The enemy aircraft attacks him. A Nazi German sign on the enemy aircraft. (World War II period).
World War 2 activities of the British in Great Britain. Industrial areas in Britain with opening shot of steel mill area, heaps of coal, and smoke pollution pouring from industrial stacks. An advertisement shows old country towns in Southern England. Other advertisements show Dunkeld Cathedral and a country vacation in Southern California. The countryside with bucolic fields and pasture scenes in view. Cattle grazing in a field. Exterior wide view of steel mills of Sheffield. A village with a flowing stream. Old castles in England. A shipyard on the River Clyde with ships anchored. Old cathedrals. Industrial cities of Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester are shown with aerial and elevated views of industrial stacks and smoke pollution from industry. A train passes by an industrial plant in Leeds. Interior views of a war materiel munitions factory in Great Britain in which British men and women war prodution workers are making war ammunition, shells, and ordnance.
Prewar and early World War 2 conditions of the British in Great Britain. War ammunition for Britain transported from the United States to Britain as part of lend lease plan. Also war materiel sent the other way around from the United Kingdom to the United States, as the war progressed. A map showing the path between the United States and Great Britain through the Atlantic Ocean. Tanks for Russia from Britain. Aircraft and guns for the United States by Lend Lease. Tons of food and clothing in large containers for troops in Britain. Clusters of houses and buildings. Two men on a bridge. A lane in Britain. People in the lane. Tanks prepare for war. British soldiers in uniform. A woman seated at a vanity putting on lipstick makeup. Men and women in the streets in England. A man turns to notice the legs of a woman as she walks by. View of legs of many women walking by, not wearing stockings due to rationing. Brief shot of driver in a car in the United States as he hands his gas ration ticket to the gas station attendant. Back in England, scene as a man goes to a pub for whiskey. The pub keeper laughs at him as there is none. Men in a field harvesting grains for making industrial alcohol. Soldier painting word "Hitler" onto a bomb shell. Cartons of whiskey being transported to the United States as pay for the material that comes in to Britain. A man opens cartons from the U.S. with 'Made in U.S.A.' painted on it. Images of American made industrial machine goods purchased by the British, including machinery signs for "Cincinnati Bickford", "The Ohio Machine Tool Company", "Niles Tool Works, Hamilton Ohio", "The Cincinnati Planer Co.", "American Hole Wizard", and "Barnes Drill Company, Rockford, Illinois" A woman worker moves a large planer or drill press into position. Crane at a ship dock is seen moving a large wooden crate with "Ford" label on it. A man goes to buy cigarettes. A 'No cigarettes today' board. If there were cigarettes he would have paid the cost of the cigarettes and the tax to the shopkeeper. Close up view of coins on a table and large portion going to British taxes to pay for war. A newspaper headline which says "Britain spends 49,000,000 per day on war." Several industrial plants in Britain, with smoke and pollution rising from chimneys and stacks during high output war effort. Laborers working at a construction site, including brick layers, who pay 29% tax. Rich men who pay 97½ % tax: A man in a nice car parked in front of a church. He leads a bride in a wedding gown and possibly the Bride's father toward the doors of the church. Various views of British workers and workmen walking in and out of factories. British citizens in ration lines. Sheep being herded on pasture land in Australia. Vessels in ocean used by the British for supplies to Russia. Aircraft from the U.S. on board a ship, and British troops arriving on a ship dock.
Conditions of people and children in Great Britain during World War II. British people, who have been on short ration for two years due to the war, on the streets. Children given food, more than the ration of an adult. The young children drink milk. They appear to be in a group center, likely for children evacuated for their protection. A boy paints on a large paper. A girl sleeps.
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