Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 20]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 20]

1942

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Part 1, delegates, including Sumner Welles, Chile's Rosetti, and Argentina's Quenasa arrive in Rio de Janeiro for an inter-American conference. Also shows Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha. Part 2, Mrs. Roosevelt watches Nelson Rockefeller open a Latin American exhibit in New York City. Part 3, Igor Sikorsky watches Mrs. Henry A. Wallace christen the plane "Excalibur" in Stratford, Connecticut. Part 4, midgets work in aircraft fuselages at an aircraft plant in Newark, New Jersey. Part 5, girl skiers enlist in the American Women's Volunteer Services (AWVS) and evacuate a school by dog sled in an air raid drill. Part 6 shown mountains near Las Vegas where an airliner carrying Carole Lombard and others crashed. Includes flashbacks to Lombard's career and her husband Clark Gable. Part 7, Free French forces under Adm. Muselier land on St. Pierre and Miquelon. Shown the Free French fleet, including the submarine Surcouf, in the harbor.

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