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

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

1944

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Part 1, paratroops train at Fort Benning, Georgia. Part 2, the battleship Kearsarge, outfitted as a salvage vessel, attempts unsuccessfully to raise the sunken destroyer Turner in New York bay. Part 3, a volcano near Paracutin, Mexico, erupts, the lava engulfs the village, and people flee. Part 4, WAVES march in review for Mayor LaGuardia and naval officers at Hunter College and work in cornfields in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Part 5, shows the V-1 bomb in the air, Londoners in air raid shelters, children at a railroad station awaiting evacuation, and London ruins and injured caused by the bombs. Part 6, is a trailer on the Merchant Marine.

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