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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine 53
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The Army-Navy Screen Magazine Number 53, 1945 Combat Report : Short film about the Signal Corps Photographic Center and how combat film and training film are processed. Includes a retrospective of past Army-Navy Screen Magazine segments. 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 Snafu cartoons. I've uploaded the entire Screen Magazine and also each segment as a separate file (some editions are comprised of 1 long film, though). Description at the National Archives : "On Signal Corps photographic activities. Reel 1, film is carried into the laboratory at Astoria, N.Y. Shows a cameraman at work and brief scenes of the Pearl harbor attack, inter…
Directors & creators
United States. Army Signal Corps’ Army Pictorial Service
Subjects
The Army-Navy Screen Magazine, United States. Army, United States. -- Army -- Signal Corps, World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground Movements, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons, World War II: Homefront, WWII, World War II, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography
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