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NOSE ART & PINUPS

NOSE ART - Colour footage

220364	00:00:22 00:09:59	1940s	SD	COL
	The Memphis Belle - A Story of a Flying Fortress - Reel One Rural England, pan barns to planes amid grain field. Ground crews working on Flying Fortress & fuelling. Stacks of bombs, carted to plane, fused & loading. Pilots & crews briefed; church service, crews on last briefing & into plane. Starting motors, taxiing & take off. Nose Art Dame Satan, pinup, Old Bill. Aerials airfield & estates.
220364	00:29:21 - 00:40:00	1940s	SD	COL
	The Memphis Belle A Story of a Flying Fortress Reel Four Crews out of planes, wounded into ambulances. Blood Transfusion given aboard plane. Happy. Bombers landing. Damaged planes. Nose art. CU of damage. Crews smiling; decorated. Crew in arriving plane & view from landing bomber. Taking in & kissing ground & gun & Memphis Belle pinup mascot. Decorated crew. Arrival of King George & Queen Elizabeth and shaking hands with crew. General Acre ? and General Devas ? (US Commander European Operations) Planes taking off.
220839	12:34:21 - 12:43:17	1944?	SIL	COL
	Miscellaneous War Film - Film roll 5 - Part Two Men around jeeps inspecting artillery shells; working on artillery weapons. CU ÒMazolaÓ cooking oil can. Men moving off silhouetted in sunset. Men sitting in twilight as officers in combat gear read orders. Paratroopers? with US flag on left shoulder. Planes ÒWindy CityÓ, ÒBobbie Ellen 3Ó, ÒDinkyÓ, ÒPhiladelphia ExpressÓ on portable metal runway. Men under wings of plane. Plane landing on airfield. Jeep towing small artillery pieces. Planes and gliders in flat area. DC-3 taxiing for takeoff, towing glider with paratroopers? GI shaving at mirror of jeep. Two-star general (General Gavin?) Glider Olga III loaded. Men climbing into gliders. Nose art - pinups and Òold Ôcouchez avecÕ is back againÓ written on nose. Signalman signals for gliders towed by DC-3s to take off. NB Use of this footage requires a credit as follows: ÒIncludes footage from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of CongressÓ
LN 501-044	04:13:38 - 04:23:00	1940s	SIL	COL
	The 303 Bombardment Group Part 1 The Men and their bird of War - Outstanding in the field of battle. Molesworth England B-17 flying Fortresses lined up on airfield (colour poor) 04.14.38 closer shots of B-17s on tarmac (colour good ) CU plane name Hunga-Dunga crew walk under wing. CU plane name Garbage. Various shots air force personnel pose and joke for camera. CU plane name Zombie - various other nose art including Jerry Jinx - Hostess Wanted - Sky Wolf - Thumper with painting of Disney rabbit. 04.16.53 Crew - nose art Idaho Potato Peeler - Hell Cat - The 8 Ball - The Duchess - One OÕClock Jump - The Devil Himself - Delta Rebel no. 2 - Knock Out Dropper - Lady Fairweather - The Green Hornet - Texas Wreck - propellers turning Crew
220305	06:24:55 - 06:35:11	1945	SIL	COL
	Ganossu Airfield and Fukouka Japan at end of WWII American B-17 planes parked on muddy airfield. Nose art Your Gal with soldiers boarding plane nearby. Wrecked Japanese aircraft on field. American plane takes off. Various shots scrap Japanese aircraft including interiors cockpits. 2nd October Scenes around dock area. Damaged buildings - piles of Japanese helmets by docks. US soldiers walk along 06:27:48 Military personnel including Australians standing outside building - refugees civilians and military along street. 06:29:15 5Oct. Koreans gathered on docks. 06:29:32 Scenes of Miss Ellen Berney talking to Japanese soldier - acts as interpreter for Sgt Paul Sturbes. Train pulls out of railway station. 06:29:50 Steam Ship loaded with Japanese returning from Korea. 06:31:12 US soldiers enter building. Troops 1st Battalion 38th march along road towards Fukuoka Town - Japanese tanks parked along roadside. 06:32:42 Scrap planes on Ganossu airfield - planes destroyed by Typhoon. Scrap metal. Crowd assembled outside building. Young male Japanese do physical training in open air (callisthenics).

'NOSE ART' - B/W footage

220313	02:34:22 - 02:37:43	1940s	SIL	B/W
	WWII - Italy - Piper Cub Liaison Plane Piper Cub coming in very low over building & landing on dock w/ LST in background. Men watching (several landings). Aerial of crane & dozen or so planes by ship. Nose Art: She Dood It. Piper loaded aboard LST. High angle views of crane lifting. Aerial over LST with Piper Cub taking off from deck. Aerial of several Piper Cubs in air over large fleet or convoy.
221131	01:12:02 - 01:26:22 Bombing of Dresden 1945 SiIL B/W Including: 01:20:21 Dawn shots aircraft return to base. American 8th AF Molesworth? CUs props turning. Nose art Hells Angels. Various shots aircraft taking off & en route for daylight raid. Contrails. Bombs drop. Good daylight bombing of Germany w/ smoking buildings, more bombs dropped. Burning buildings. Incendiary carpet bombing. A-A bombing.
220415	08:01:02 - 08:08:29	1943	SD	B/W
	All-American Reel 1 Contrasts war humour and Seriousness. Under-Secretary Patterson and General Arnold. Army cameraman films air battle. Footage reviewed by General Arnold and Air Force Intelligence groups. Film can labelled ÔThe MenÓ. Camp life in various locations - makeshift baths, showers and laundrette. Pacific natives helping Allies. Good nose art with Dopey, Pluto, naked ladies and other cartoon characters and jokes. Wounded suffering in camp hospital. Army burials. P-38s takes off from Adak. Fighter pilots rest by hut then rush to their planes in the Pacific. Air combat and heroic pilots land and get off planes.
220643	04:35:46 - 04:45:44	1944	SIL	B/W
	73rd Bombardment Wing at Isley Field POV pilot as plane taxiis down runway on landing. Air to air from inside pilotÕs cabin of B-29s in flight. Bombadier. Air to air shots planes in formation - clouds. Aircraft on hard stand. Shot of runway POV pilot. Pilot flies into sunset. Air to air planes flying in formation. Cameraman. Good top shot B-29. Ground shots - aircraft taxiis past - nose art Dauntless Dotty with glamour girl.
220643	04:00:07 - 04:09:49	1945	SIL	B/W
	B-29s on Iwo Jima Aircraft lands and taxiis. Lookout post in sand dunes, tents and military vehicles along side of airstrip. Tent with sign re coffee shop. Interior men drinking coffee. Plane making emergency landing. Injured man helped to jeep. Ground crew looking at damaged aircraft. Wounded crew removed and taken on stretcher. Bullet holes in fuselage. Another plane lands. Bullet holes, ground crew. Airmen standing next to B-29. Various shots B-29s landing for emergency repairs, service and refuelling after missions to Japan. Serviced by detachment A, 21st Bomber Command provisional unit. Plane landing - nose art glamour girl and writing A-Broad Eleven Yanks. Chow time, men digging hole. Crew working on engine of B-29. Various shots repairs. NB This reel includes 10 second shot of ÒSilver PlateÓ B-29, type used in atomic drop with turrets removed taxiing past.
220472	10:24:29 - 10:25:43	1945	SD	B/W
	Army And Navy War Planes Scrapped As Out Of Date B-29s cut up in plant. Scrap taken out in skips. Useful parts taken off. Metal scrap heap. Aerial aircraft graveyard in Arkansas; pinup nose art on flying fortresses. Obsolete planes lined up and standing on nose.

PINUPS in WORLD WAR II

220313	02:19:03 - 02:22:38	1940s	SD	B/W
	Ginnie Simms & Soldier at NBC Studio w/ Audience GI timer at stand in control booth. On stage GI & Ginnie Simms before all-White audience & at NBC mic. GI pretends he's talking to his wife, asking for more candy & permission to go to party w/ Simms. Audience laughs. Multiple takes. MCU of each. CU of soldiers laughing.
220313	02:22:40 - 02:27:28	1940s	SD	B/W
	WWII - Home front - CBS Playhouse Radio Broadcast Black quartet, The Charioteers, singing 'Golden Slippers' before CBS mic, small orchestra behind. 02:25:12 Fred McMurray & Rita Hayworth at one mic; Ginnie Simms, Don Wilson & Lou Holtz at another. Applause at end of song. MCU of Quartet singing again. 01:26:15 McMurray & Hayworth in MCU applaud. 01:27:20 Simms, Wilson & Holtz in MCU. Applaud. Audience applauding (SD) with both civilians & military. Control booth w/both civilians & military.
220313	02:52:13 - 02:54:48	1940s	SIL	B/W
	WWII - Home front - Entertainer, Loretta Young, Military Hospital Ext. of military hospital. Loretta Young escorted in; other soldiers walking past. Int. Loretta Young sitting between beds talking w/ soldiers, passes ashtray. Eats lifesaver & gives to guy smoking. CU of her & him. She goes to different bed & talks with soldier.
220313	02:54:49 - 02:57:47	1940s	SIL	B/W
	WWII - Home front - Entertainers Ciro's sign in neon, not lit, lit. Interior w/ Anne Shirley, Joan Davis and others with officers. Dancing crowded around tables. Shirley in CU. 02:56:00 Presentation of bombardierÕs wings to Anne Shirley. MOS. Edgar Bergen & 2 soldiers at table. Doing hand puppet tricks.
220326	05:24:31 - 05:37:25	1940s	SD	B/W
	Photography Fights Dramatisation of operations of naval photographic interpretation team on island in Pacific ocean Inside home, housewife serving husband breakfast, husband reads in paper that Johnson boy they know now takes pictures for army in South Pacific. Couple donÕt understand how photography helps war effort. Alert sounds off in encampment barracks, Johnson boy and others not in uniform. Phone call for Johnson. Man talks next to pinup on wall. Johnson analyses aerial photograph to reveal Japanese troops are constructing airstrip on an island. Interrupted by bombing, run outside, explosions. Soldiers look out from hiding. Plane flying, man under plane. Analysing photograph of airstrip with drawing. Johnson on phone confirms airstrip. Outdoors moving equipment on cart under palm trees. War ships. War planes on strip, take off, drop bombs, explosions on land. battleship firing broadside. Overhead moving shots land bombed. Smoke clears. Film closes with husband and wife at home Comment from military at desk explains need of photography and encourages to buy war bonds. Bell tolls.
220332	15:34:55 - 15:40:22	1940s	SD	B/W
	Yankee Noodle - Improvisation on the battlefield Plane factory, track along planes. Hut in jungle, pin-up picture with soldier next. Clever devices and labour-saving ideas built by US troops with minimal means: primitive washing machines, mine-exploding device, Aeroplane tyre maker, wrench, mobile power supply mounted on car and others. Plane emergency brake with parachute.
LN 501-044	04:33:01 - 04:42:50	1940s	SIL	B/W
	The 303 Bombardment Group - The Men and their bird of War - Outstanding in the field of battle. Tents around perimeter of airfield. Military cars parked under trees. Washing lines between trees. 04:34:00 Two airman and women in uniform down road - entrance to AFB and top shot town. 04:34:23 Turret of castle - trees. 04:34:36 Shot from hill of Molesworth - green surrounded by trees - large house by lake. 04:35:39 Clock tower of what could once have been cricket pavilion but is now Headquarters COPC ? Officers relaxing in deckchairs reading newspapers. Playing croquet - tennis courts - trees. 04:38:04 top shot town 04:38:21 Stars and Stripes flying from flagpole. 04:38:30 Country road with hand painted centre white line. 04:38:47 US military cars and jeep parked in courtyard. Lake with swans - flowers 04:40:29 large house and nissen huts in grounds - more good shots house which is presumably Headquarters - Fountain and lake. Men in swimming pool and sunbathing around edge, one with girl in bikini. Various shots over town and of house.
220475	16:37:06 - 16:38:38	1944	SD	B/W
	Hollywood Spotlight - Troops of Santa Ana Base Entertained By Hope And Crosby Audience of soldiers. Girls dancing on stage and doing conga with soldiers. Bing Crosby and Bob Hope sing ÒMersey DotesÓ (mares eat oats).
220336	21:33:44 - 21:53:39	1940s	SD	B/W
	All-Star Bond Rally - two reels Betty Grable - Harry James - Frank Sinatra - Harpo Marx - Bing Crosby Couple buy cinema tickets to see ÒAll-Star Bond RallyÓ. Man is refused discount for being in WWI, wife nags. Bob Hope asks to buy war bonds. Betty Grable and the Bombardiers on stage do song and dance number with tap dancing. Presenter looks through newspaper. Presenter talks to couple in audience. Harry James, trumpeter, and his orchestra. Presenter dances with girls from Betty Grable show. 21:41:18 Henry James introduces Sinatra who sings. Bob Hope makes jokes. Harpo Marx chases girl on stage and plays harp. Bob Hope makes moving speech about war victory bonds. Woman in audience wipes tear. Soldier relaxing in hospital looking at drawings and pictures of Pin Ups in magazine. Woman in picture talks to soldier. Other pinups and actresses talking to pilot in plane, man in bed, soldier in rain, Officer, etc. Soldier firing gun talks to kid in picture who replies. 21:50:58 Bing Crosby on stage sings ÔBuy a BondÓ Couple comes out of theatre, wife tells husband to buy war bonds. Picture with beaver ÒDam the enemy, buy war bondsÓ.
220436	01:20:58 - 01:29:03	1943?	SD	B/W
	WWII USA Home front - War work Machinist sitting making ? Birdcage hanging over machine with sign ÒWatch and PrayÓ. Line of men in factory at lathes - pin-up girls posters. Man working at lathe with vase of flowers which he keeps smelling. Various shots factory. Sign Time is Short Remember our promise, delivery of the finest automatic pilot March 31 - Lets go gang, its up to us to see that its kept. Man smoking pipe working on machine. Poster, Quiet please, War worker Resting. Board on wall with St Louis and Cleveland. Fishbowl on top of radio. CU fishbowl which has sign One For All - All for One JAHCO Labor.
220478	22:02:15 - 22:03:57	1945	SD	B/W
	Flashes Of The War - Bigger And Bigger Bombs For Hitler 2-ton bomb taken out of hangar and loaded on plane. 4-ton bomb: 8,000 super-blockbuster carried on cart and loaded. 6-tonner Ófactory busterÓ carried to plane and loaded. 22:03:02 Allied Headquarters In A Wine Cellar - Allied HQ in underground cellar in Italy. CU piles of money (dollars?) being counted (soldierÕs pay). Pictures of pinups on wall. Soldier at typewriter under pinup photos. 22:03:34 Coast Guard Displays 10 men In A Jeep - new super jeep that can be used as troop carrier demonstrated on Long Island beach.
220479	01:29:45 - 01:30.47	1945	SD	B/W
	GI Dream Fashions Silhouette soldier in bedroom with pinup posters lighting cigarette. Woman in spangled dress with shawl. Woman in evening dress poses in front of boyfriend GIÕs photo. Dress with bow in front. Woman in evening dress reads letter.
220471	07:22:24 - 07:23:21	1945	SD	B/W
	Broadway Brings Night Club Cheer To Wounded Vets Performance for audience of vets lying on stretchers at hospital theatre. Cancan dance, then girls chat with men. Men clap.
220468	01:50:25 - 01:51:01	1945	SD	B/W
	GIs See Water Show Opening new swimming pool at General hospital. Young spectators. Pretty girls perform synchronised swimming / water choreography for GIs. Pinup on diving board with two men in funny costumes touching her legs - all fall in water. Photographers. Come out of water all soaked. Man dives flat on stomach. Audience laughs. Title: Buy that extra war bond today
220473	12:20:30 - 12:21:20	1945	SD	B/W
	Wounded GIs Learn To Snap Their Own Pinup Pictures Camp Edward convalescent hospital - GIs take photos of girl posing. Girls in bikini surrounded by men with cameras.
220295	17:07:07 - 17:07:44	1946	SD	B/W
	Pin-Ups Stunt at Palisades Amusement Park Pan over pin-up cards. They fall and real pin-ups behind. Thornton models lounge in front of their pictures & sailors admire the pictures while commander watches; heads break through & many sailors run up.

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