Overview
- Description
- Second issue of the Film Communique series, an Official War Department Training Film. Includes two news segments.
"A Day With the A-36's" Follows through a day with the A-36 a lightweight attack bomber - adapted from the P-51 Mustang. Shows glimpses of the ground life of the men who service and fly the planes. Footage shot from plane-mounted cameras on a bombing mission against Nazi targets in Sicily.
"Report From Berlin" with excerpts of a captured German newsreel, showing Nazi rallies and government ceremonies. Reports on war industry exceeding production goals, with scenes from factories, shipyards and munitions production. Narrated commentary presents the film to American war workers in order that they see the face and production capabilities of the enemy. - Film Title
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Film Communique [Second Issue]
- Duration
- 00:18:59
- Date
-
Event:
1943
- Locale
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Sicily,
Italy
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Metro Theatre Center Foundation
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Museum obtained digital copies of films from the collections of the Metro Theatre Center Foundation in February 2020.
- Copied From
- 16mm print
- Film Source
- Metro Theatre Center Foundation
- File Number
- Source Archive Number: 2019_0173_0001
- Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:50:39
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