US ARMY SIGNAL CORPS PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER, LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. ; SCENES OF PHILIPPINE OPERATION WW II Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 3233 DC SOURCE: AFCF (Proj 8151) Card 1 of 2 233-1 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 455' ea, Silent US ARMY SIGNAL CORPS PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER Long Island City, N.Y.; 22 Dec 1944 Ints, an Army motion picture sound crew shooting scenes for a training film on the 30 cal water-cooled MG. The scene being photographed is a soldier pointing out the details of the MG which is set on a table. LS of the entrance to Building 1. An Army passenger car leaves the entrance and drives around the corner. A girl is driving the car. Another car enters the arcade of the building. LS, front view of Building #1 from the 36th St side. As the Army car appears again and drives under the arcade. CU, sign: "US Army Signal Corps Photographic Center". Int, addt'l scenes of the shooting of training film on the MG. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/sj Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 Signal Corps 111 ADC 3233 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (Proj 8151) Card 2 of 2 233-2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 455' ea, Silent SCENES OF PHILIPPINE OPERATION WW II NO CAPTIONS Gen Douglas MacArthur gets out of jeep, walks in field accompanied by several men. MacArthur and others examine the inscription at the base of a huge concrete cross. The Gen and his party in a graveyard which is near the cross monument. MacArthur and a group of soldiers watch smoke in the distance. This may be the attack on Clark Field, Tarlac. A group of soldiers standing at Gen MacArthur's jeep; the General is talking to them. Pan from the General's jeep past wrecked Japanese plane or planes. An abandoned wrecked Japanese gun. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY. NF/sj

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities