Newsbriefs (1944)

Item title reads - Newsbriefs. Various locations. Various shots as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) get out of a car and meet Major General James Doolittle of the U.S. 8th Army Air Corps, and other officers. They walk along and meet ground personnel and aircraft crews, various shots as they chat. They return to the car and drive away. M/S pan up bows of the . “Missouri“, the workers wave madly. M/S as daughter of the Senator of Missouri smashes the champagne bottle onto the bow and the ship slides away. C/U of soldier holding the Piat antitank projector. Soldiers demonstrate it for cameramen, various shots as the bombs are fired and tank explodes. Various shots of men from . (His Majesty’s Canadian Ship) Cornwallis getting fit for active service. They jump over bars and vaulting horses, do forward rolls and mass P.T. exercises. L/S as they all run in for dinner. Various shots as the Greek Patriarch carries out a baptismal service for Greek army pers