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First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces / The United States Army Air Forces present ; [and 3 other titles].
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Official training film (United States. War Department) ; 21-1419.
- Official training film (United States. War Department) ; 1-335.
- Hollywood goes to war! ; disc 16.
- Hollywood goes to war! ; [disc 16]
- Official training film (United States. War Department)
- Official training film ; T.F. 1-335
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War and motion pictures.
- United States. Army Air Forces. Motion Picture Unit, 1st.
- United States.
- Camouflage (Military science).
- African American soldiers--History.
- African American soldiers.
- United States. Army--African American troops--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Animated films.
- Instructional films.
- Propaganda films.
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- 1st Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces
- Baptism of fire
- Camouflage
- Place of Publication:
- [Renton, WA] : TOPICS Entertainment, 2011.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation.
- digital optical
- NTSC
- video file DVD video NTSC region 1
- Summary:
- (First Motion Picture Unit) A survey of the Army Air Forces unit, based in the Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, which specialized in producing motion pictures for all the U.S. Armed Forces.
- (Fighting men : baptism of fire) Dramatizes some of the coping mechanisms which help in dealing with the reality of combat.
- (Camouflage : a cartoon in Technicolor) A very elementary overview of the uses of camouflage in wartime.
- (The Negro soldier) Part recruiting, part home-front morale-building, part history, this shows the history of African-American fighting men from Crispus Attucks to the present. An extended section follows a recruit from induction to OCS.
- Contents:
- First Motion Picture Unit (21 min.)
- Fighting men : baptism of fire / produced by Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps (31 min.)
- Camouflage : a cartoon in Technicolor / a product of the First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces (20 min.)
- The Negro soldier / The War Department presents ; produced by the War Department, Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, with the cooperation of the Signal Corps ; [director, Stuart Heisler ; writer, Carlton Moss ; producer, Frank Capra] (40 min.).
- Participant:
- (First Motion Picture Unit) Narrator, Ken Carpenter.
- (Fighting men : Baptism of fire) Elisha Cook, Jr., Peter Whitney.
- (The Negro soldier) Wiliam Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Carlton Moss.
- Credits:
- (The Negro soldier) Music, Army Air Forces Orchestra.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of two short documentary motion pictures produced in 1943 (First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces, and Fighting men : baptism of fire) and two short documentary motion pictures produced in 1944 (Camouflage : a cartoon in Technicolor, and The Negro soldier).
- Contains:
- Fighting men : baptism of fire
- Camouflage : a cartoon in Technicolor
- Negro soldier
- OCLC:
- 760003831
- Publisher Number:
- 21214-00 TOPICS Entertainment
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