Now showing
The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 25
About this film
The Army-Navy Screen Magazine Number 25, 1944 01 Munda Outpost : Short film about African-American Army engineers in the Pacific Theater. They are stationed on Munda in the Solomon Islands and are building an airstrip. 02 Strictly G.I. - Honorable Discharge : Short film about a surplus jeep that is decommissioned and used on a Kansas ranch to help round up cattle. 03 The Eastern Front : Short film about the Soviet Army and Stalingrad. 04 Private Snafu - A Lecture On Camouflage : Short animated training film on camouflage, starring Pvt Snafu. The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 25 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 like Dr. Seuss' Private…
Directors & creators
United States. Army Signal Corps’ Army Pictorial Service
Subjects
The Army-Navy Screen Magazine, World War II, Jeep, Ranching, World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American, Camouflage (Military science), World War, 1939-1945, Camouflage, World War II: Homefront, Jeep automobile -- Maintenance and repair -- Handbooks, manuals, etc, WWII, Great Patriotic War, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front, US Army, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands, United States. Army, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands -- New Georgia, Stalingrad, Battle Of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons, Military Engineering, Великая Отечественная Война, Ranches
More from this pool