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Dublin Core
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Title
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WWII Propaganda Films and IU:
Audiovisual Production, Distribution, and Education
Subject
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World War II Propaganda Films
Moving Image
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https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/653702sr43
Color/Black & White
B&W
Duration
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18:56
Sound/Silent
Sound
Original Format
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16mm print
Alternate Title
Weapon of War
Nation of Origin
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U.S.
Geographic Coverage
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China
France
Guam
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Film Communique: Twelfth Issue
Description
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The twelfth issue of a series of compilation films from the U.S. War Office includes four shorts. <br /><br /><em>Weapon of War</em> from the Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps’ First Motion Picture Unit: uses animation featuring the voice talents of Mel Blanc to show how American solidarity defeated the Nazi’s most dangerous “weapon of war”: racial and religious hatred intended to sow conflict before a military assault. 0:00-6:16. <br /><em><br />Great Floor</em> by the Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit: shows the creation of a landing strip in China through the labor of 70,000 Chinese villagers using pre-industrial technologies under the direction of a small crew of American Army engineers. 6:18-10:44. <br /><em><br />Sky Guys</em> by the Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit: depicts the start of the Liberation of southern France from the viewpoint of Army paratroopers. 10:45-12:47. <br /><em><br />Coming Home</em> by the Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit: Documentation of the American Navy assault on the island of Guam to retake the American territory from the Japanese. Includes footage of wounded and dead Japanese and American soldiers. 12:48-18:50.
Creator
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U.S. War Office
Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps' First Motion Picture Unit
Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit
Contributor
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Mel Blanc: voices in "Weapon of War"
Date Issued
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1944
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https://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/media/653702sr43
1944
animation
Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit
Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps First Motion Picture Unit
bombers
China
Guam
Marines
Nazis
paratroops
U.S. War Office