The 13th Annual Academy Awards presentation and banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Hollywood actors and actresses seated at various tables, including Myrna Loy, Bob Hope with wife Dolores Hope, Ronald Reagan, Tyrone Power, and others. Second take shot of the same group applauding and smiling. Host Walter Wanger presents Bob Hope with a Special Award in recognition of his unselfish services to the Motion Picture Industry. Oscar trophies are visible on a table.
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.
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.
Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) and LCMs loaded with helmeted American soldiers shove off to invade Attu in Aleutian Island, Alaska Ships cut through choppy sea and fog en route the sea. A transport ship as beam of light from its searchlight shines through the fog. Landing barges move through choppy waters for invasion point. (World War II period).
United States crashed C-64 plane turned up side down in snow as men work on it in Aleutian Island, Alaska. Buildings at Attu harbor with ships underway in the background. Trucks move past the camp area at Alexai Point.
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska. CEO of Exxon Lawrence G. Rawl points to a chart and explains. A helicopter ready to take off. Ships carrying personnel and equipment head to the oil spill zone. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Samuel Knox Skinner and Commandant of the United States Coast Guard Paul Alexander Yost, Jr. disembark from aircraft. Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound and oil containment booms being deployed. Vice Admiral of U.S. Coast Guard Clyde E Robbins with other officers.
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