Newsreels featuring warships in the Atlantic

Identifier
irn1003109
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.541.1
  • RG-60.3637
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1941
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • RKO radio recording (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • March of Time, Inc. (Producer)
  • WarnerMedia (Producer)

Scope and Content

TIME weekly newsmagazine: "Crisis in the Atlantic", 1941. The March of Time, "The Atlantic 1941" LS, three warships in convoy. One sends blinker signal. INTs, captain and two attendants in ship's cabin. Aircraft carriers, battleships and destroyers in Atlantic Ocean. Full screen view, US fighter planes depart. LSs, MSs, Navy Dept building in Washington DC, as civilian workers enter. Sec of Navy, Frank Knox exits from car. Knox at naval dedication ceremony. Animation: comparative shipping tonnage of US, British, and Axis powers. US operators in code room send messages. CU, newspaper clipping: "Donovan back with advice for defense of US."

Note(s)

  • These are all cuts from March of Time subject and are only composite in part. All scenes are short and in most cases incomplete.

Subjects

  • SHIPS
  • NEWSPAPERS
  • FIGHTING
  • UNITED STATES
  • MARCH OF TIME
  • MAPS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)

Places

  • Washington, DC, United States

Genre

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