Second issue of the Film Communique series. Includes two short segments:

A Day With the A-36's Follows through a day with the A-36 a lightweight attack bomber - adapted from the P-51 Mustang. Shows glimpses of the ground life of the men who service and fly the planes. Footage shot from plane-mounted cameras on a bombing mission against Nazi targets in Sicily.

Report From Berlin Excerpts of a captured German newsreel, showing Nazi rallies and government ceremonies. Reports on war industry exceeding production goals, with scenes from factories, shipyards and munitions production. Narrated commentary presents the film to U.S. war workers in order that they see the face and production capabilities of the enemy, spoken English translation follows German newsreel narration.

]]> 1943]]> "Deals with the importance of oil production in America for purposes of warfare. Shows America producing billions of gallons of oil from flax, cotton seed, peanuts, and soybeans-now that import of oil from tropical trees has been cut off. Closing scenes show condensed foods and fats being sent to armies while numerous by-products are used in wartime industries" (Indiana University Extension Division Visual Aids Catalog Supplement, September 1945, 38). ]]> United States. Department of Agriculture]]> United States. Agricultural Adjustment Agency]]> 1943]]> United States Navy, Division of Personnel Supervision and Management : produced for ]]> United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics : produced by ]]> Atlas Educational Film Company]]> 1943]]> United States Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics ]]> United States Navy, Division of Personnel Supervision and Management]]> 1943]]> United States Information Agency ]]> United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]]> 1943]]> United States Information Agency ]]> United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]]> 1943]]> The value of Brazilian quartz to the allied war effort is shown as narration proclaims "two-way radio is the one really new instrument in the armory of warfare." Explains the value of quartz in radio communication, showing how a wafer of its crystal makes possible the simultaneous broadcasting of many stations without overlapping. The film emphasizes the necessity for international cooperation in the war effort. Shows quartz mining in Brazil:pictures the hard manual labor involved in mining Brazilian quartz, the inspection, the exportation of most of it to the United States, and the laboratory cutting of it to fit the complex instruments of World War II. Personages: President Roosevelt, Brazilian President Vargas, Joseph Stalin, General Marshall, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (see U.S. National Archives and Records Administration catalog record http://research.archives.gov/description/40254).

]]> United States Information Agency ]]> United States. United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]]> 1943]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps ]]> 1943]]> This film focuses on the many aspects of the wartime production and supply dissemination "chain", from creating goods to navigating the dangerous delivery of shipments. "A Nazi submarine 'wolf pack' racing to intercept a convoy carrying urgently needed supplies - and the race against time by those who handle these supplies and load the convoy - furnish the dramatic elements in this film. The picture brings out the importance of the many jobs, both big and small, performed by men and women who are vital links in the life line to the front and whose war work has received little publicity or praise." (Supplement to Visual Aids Catalog, Indiana University Extension Division, 1945, 15)

]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps ]]> 1943]]> U.S. War Department Special Service Division Army Service Forces]]> U.S. Signal Corps]]> Frank Capra: producer]]> Stuart Heisler: director]]> 1943]]>