Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 28]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 28]

1941

Part 1 shows horse racing at Arlington Park, Illinois; a yacht regatta in Larchmont, New York Part 2, United States Lend-lease equipment is unloaded by Britain troops in Egypt. Part 3, Dutch pilots pose and speak in New York City. Part 4, merchant seamen board the training ship American Sailor. Part 5 shows French General Petain in Vichy on Bastille Day. A flashback shows Paris on Bastille Day in 1939; German troops march through the city. Gov. Gen. Boisson inspects Vichy troops in Dakar, W. Africa. Gen. Weygand salutes a crowd in Casablanca. Part 6 shows Japanese in Los Angeles; Pres. Roosevelt at his home in Hyde Park; temporary White House offices in Poughkeepsie, New York; Japanese Amb. Nomura; Philippine troops marching in review; and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Part 7, British women paint stockings on their legs.

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