Start Over Date 1943 Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

1. Road to Berlin (19:04)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Using dramatized events and newsreels, this film shows the organizing done during World War II to ship war supplies to the military. Shows the work of the Army Transportation Corps in providing shi...

2. V-62 Independence (1:04:10)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
U.S. Park Service Department of the Interior
Summary:
Source material used for the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.

3. Indiana University Goes to War (20:31)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Filmed principally on the campus of Indiana University, this film depicts the activities of various organizations and classes as they contribute to the war effort. Shows President Wells meeting wi...

5. They deliver the goods (16:29)

Date:
1943
Summary:
How our fighting equipment gets through to our fighting men in quantity and on time. The mountains of supplies for combat loaded at ports of embarkation are unloaded under combat conditions and und...

6. The high plain (20:21)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Tells the story of the typical great agricultural estate in the highest farming land in the world--Bolivia. A landlord, whose family has owned his land for three hundred years, controls the labor ...

7. Wealth of the Andes (16:36)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Pictures a train trip to the Cero de Pasco mining district deep in the Peruvian Andes. Shows that copper and lead constitute the "wealth of the Andes". Discusses the construction problems that made...

8. The winged scourge (malaria) (10:34)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Shows various methods of combatting and eliminating the anopheles mosquito. Animated cartoon featuring the Seven Dwarfs.

9. War on wheels (21:37)

Date:
1943
Summary:
The story of an American truck convoy ambushed by German tanks and rescued by a group of United States medium tanks. Graphically illustrates the importance of war production during World War II. Bi...

10. Brazilian quartz goes to war (10:47)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Emphasizes the role quartz plays in war communications, showing how a wafer of its crystal makes possible the simultaneous broadcasting of many stations without overlapping. Pictures the hard manua...

11. It's the brain that counts (18:35)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Based on the writings of Bertha Rachel Palmer, the film tells the story of a young man injured after drinking too much. The doctor who is treating him explains the effect alcohol has on his body.

12. Central Australia and Elsewhere in Australia (1:11:00)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should note that this film may contain images of deceased persons. This home movie contains material mainly from three visits the Gair family ...

13. Round the World Trip 1939 : Part 3 – USA and Canada (51:57)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:
McRobbie-Gair Family Home Movies Collection: Following the European leg of their trip, the Gairs then sailed from Southampton to New York on the Queen Mary but there is no footage of this trip as M...

14. Various Military Parades and School Sporting Events (20:47)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
Richard Leslie Gair (1892-1970)
Summary:
McRobbie-Gair Family Home Movies Collection: This home movie contains mainly footage of a large military parade in Melbourne, Australia. It is most likely of an ANZAC day parade. ANZAC day is one o...

39. Evening care (07:08)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Stresses that the obligation of each hospital corpsman in the Navy is to be cheerful and make each patient comfortable. Demonstrates an alcohol rub which will prevent pressure sores.

40. Beds and appliances (10:47)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Demonstrates the method of making a bunk and a bed, adjusting a bed, ways of raising the patient's head and knees, keeping the weight of the cover off the patient's feet, and the use of a fracture ...

41. U.S. news review. Issue no. 4 (17:26)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
This newsreel covers six subjects. "The Raiders of Timor": recounts how Australian troops were forced to hide in the mountains on the island of Timor when the Japanese military conquered the island...

42. Atacama Desert (16:43)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States Information Agency; United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Summary:
Begins with a brief geography lesson to orient North American viewers to the size and climate of Chile. Scenes of indigenous shepherding in desert villages are followed by a visit to the Christmas ...

43. Negro colleges in war time (08:28)

Alternative title:
Negro colleges in wartime
Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
Presents the wartime activities of four African American colleges--Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Prairie View College in Texas, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Hampton Institute in Virg...

44. Troop train (11:01)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
Shows the movement across the country in 1943 of the 201st Armored Division.

45. Paratroops (09:00)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
"A quick overview of the weeks spent in learning to jump, tumble, and fall, in practice jumping from a tower and from a dummy plane, in packing the parachute one's life depends on, in learning to j...

46. When work is done (09:04)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
Tells how Sylacauga, Alabama, a small town crowded with war plant workers, solved its housing and recreation problems.

48. Road to Berlin (18:48)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Summary:
Using dramatized events and newsreels, this film shows the organizing done during World War II to ship war supplies to the military. Shows the work of the Army Transportation Corps in providing shi...

49. Take A Letter, Please (21:29)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics; United States Navy, Division of Personnel Supervision and Management
Summary:
U.S. Navy training film intended to improve dictation technique through humorous demonstration of common faults. After a series of vignettes where inept and ineffective styles of dictation to a ste...

50. Our enemy-- the Japanese (20:53)

Alternative title:
Enemy Japan
Date:
1943
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
"Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as "primitive, murde...