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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
Contributor:
Carpenter, Ken, 1901-1984, narrator.
Cook, Elisha, Jr., actor.
Whitney, Peter, 1916-1972, actor.
Capra, Frank, 1897-1991, film producer.
Heisler, Stuart, 1896-1979, film director.
Moss, Carlton, actor, screenwriter.
Broadus, William, actor.
Brooks, Clarence, actor.
United States. Army Air Forces. Motion Picture Unit, 1st, film production company.
United States. War Department, film production company.
United States. Army Pictorial Service, film production company.
Topics Entertainment (Firm), film distribution company.
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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