Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 8]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 8]

1941

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Part 1, Brazilian Pres. Vargas and labor groups parade in Rio de Janeiro. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., deplanes in Rio de Janeiro. Models display British fashions. Part 2, bombers are manufactured and tested at the Lockheed plant in Burbank, California. A pilot puts on an oxygen mask and takes off in a P-38 airplane. Igor Sikorski flys a helicopter in Stratford, Connecticut. Flashbacks show earlier models of helicopters. Shows a hummingbird. Part 3, Hank Greenberg enlists in the Army. Flashbacks show him playing with the Detroit Tigers. Part 4, Secs. Stimson and Knox, Sen. Wheeler, Charles A. Lindbergh, and Wendell Willkie discuss Navy escorts of convoys to Great Britain. Also shows the White House, Treas. Sec. Morgenthau, and Gen. Marshall.

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