Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 5]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 5]

1942

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Part 1, Winston Churchill inspects bombers on an airfield and tours a British tank factory. Part 2 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie signs an agreement with British officials for Ethiopia's Independence. Part 3, Gen. Doolittle tours an aircraft plant in California. Part 4 shows Grand Coulee dam. Part 5 shows the U.S. Information Services and its chief Lowell Mellett in Washington, D.C., girls swim in the Wellesley College pool. Part 7 shows the launching of cargo vessels. Part 8, troops, nurses, and materiel land in Australia. Shows Gen. Brett. Gen. Royce directs the rescue of stranded U.S. airmen. Part 9 shows armadillos in the Cleveland zoo and an alpaca and kangaroos in the Bronx Zoo. Variant Control Numbers

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Brett, George H. (George Howard), 1886-1963

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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993

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Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975

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