Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 17]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [OCT. 17]

1940

Part 1, scrap steel is loaded aboard a Japanese freighter in Los Angeles. Part 2, the ocean liner Monterey leaves San Francisco to bring U.S. citizens from the Far East. Part 3 shows Tom Mix and the auto in which he died. Part 4, corn huskers compete in Blytheville, Ark. Part 5, Charles A. Lindbergh discusses isolationism. Part 6, football: Texas A&M vs. U.C.L.A.; Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech. Part 7, the Dionne quintuplets listen to a radio broadcast by British Princess Elizabeth. Part 8 shows Americans registering for the draft. Flashbacks show President Wilson drawing a draft number from a fish bowl in 1917; and recruits entering a camp and drilling. President Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie discuss conscription.

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