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).
U.S. Army Nurses at their tent area in, Pacific combat zone, read notice of movie being shown at 7 PM on the airfield. They groom themselves in readiness to attend. Group of servicemen and women gathered at airfield outdoor movie, as C-47 airplane lands on runway beside them. U.S. Army aviators riding in a jeep to a U.S. Army Air Corps Theater, in Naples, Italy. View of servicemen gathering inside the theater. Sign outside the theater announcing the various films being presented that day. Part of the sign reads: "Movie, 3:30 and 7:30, 'Girl Crazy,'Sorry Joe, But No civilians may attend these shows (that includes girls!)" View of servicemen and women leaving the theater after the show. Army truck carrying movies to an outpost on the Italian front. Soldiers open the rear of truck and place announcement reading: "Now showing, 'Battle of Russia,' and Erol Flynn in 'Northern Pursuit.'" They set screen on side of truck and place projector on ground. U.S. troops gather to see the movie. U.S. Army 155mm guns firing on front lines in Italian campaign. Troops seated on a Sherman tank as others gather to watch a movie. In another location, troops gather to watch a movie on a screen set up on the front of a C-47 airplane. Building used for movie theater in a cold climate, with snow-covered mountains behind. Ambulatory wounded soldiers enter a cabin set up for showing movies, on a hospital ship. Audience of wounded servicemen and nurses tending them sit and watch a hollywood production. View of motion picture project being started. Smiling faces and expressions of the audience members as they laugh at comic scenes.
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