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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 31
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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine Number 31, 1944 01 5th Army Mobile Expeditionary Station : Short film about the Armed Forces Network and 5th Army Mobile Expeditionary Radio Station. 02 Honorable Discharge : Short film about wounded veterans, including paratrooper Ralph Gordon or Borden (?), Robert Butler, ex-boxer Salvatore Grimaldi or Grinaldi(?). Shows the wedding ceremony of the latter. Can't quite place the familiar narrator [edit: figured it out - Jackson Beck from Superman]. 03 Private Snafu - Censored : Short animated film about the importance of censorship. The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 31 1944 : the entire newsreel The Army-Navy Screen Magazine was produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictorial Service, under the supervision of Col. Frank Capra, who came up with the idea. It was released twice a month and shown to military troops as a 20-minute newsreel. " By the end of the war, the Army-Navy Screen Magazine reached an enormous weekly audience of 4.2 million. It had become for American soldiers all over the world a communal experience that greatly influenced their perception of the war. " It featured short documentary films, news from back home, and short training films li…
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United States. Army Signal Corps’ Army Pictorial Service
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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine, World War II: Homefront, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy, Dancing Soldiers, United States Employment Service, Disabled veterans -- Rehabilitation -- United States, WWII, Command Performance, World War II, Armed Forces Network, World War, 1939-1945, This Is The Army, Dietrich, Marlene, 1901-1992, United States. Army, War Manpower Commission, Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989, Bob Hope, US Army, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons, United States. -- Army -- Army, 5th, World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American, People with disabilities -- United States -- History
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