LET'S JOIN THE NAVY!
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Year Published: 1930s
Format: 16mm
Description: This mid-1930s U.S. Navy promotional short, filmed by Paramount Pictures, shows off the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa, a New-Orleans-class cruiser (heavy cruiser). The ship would later serve in WWII (Pacific theater). Sub-topics of the film include: life on a Navy ship, flag signaling / signal practice, passing the Panama Canal / electric mules at Panama canal, Navy seaplanes, and Navy formations. Title: "Let’s Join The Navy! Come aboard and see what life is like on one of Uncle Sam’s modern cruisers…the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa…" Narrated by Alois Havrilla; Paramount Pictorial (0:06). USS Tuscaloosa moves quickly in open ocean near Atlantic coastline (30 knots) (0:17). USS Tuscaloosa crew asleep in foldable bunks (0:40). Sailors wake up, stow bunks (0:45). Sailors emerge on deck, begin cleaning, sweeping ("brush brigade") (0:55). Ship kitchens aboard USS Tuscaloosa, setting dishes from crates, serving food (1:17). Sailors sit down to meals on ship (1:25). Officers in uniform on bridge look out through binoculars, stand at wheel, near signals (Navy ship technology) (1:34). Sailor studies indicators/ship gauges while turning wheel (1:50). Wake of the ship (1:55). Anchor being dropped near Panama Canal (2:05). Sailors gather at bow, look out at Colon Harbor / Panama Canal entrance on Atlantic side (2:10). Electric mules being rigged to battlecruiser; sailors prepare ship to move through canal locks; frantic activity on deck of USS Tuscaloosa (2:26). Lock opens at Panama Canal (2:37). Electric mule moves up canal locks; ship passes through Panama Canal, hills visible behind (2:40). Airplane flies over USS Tuscaloosa; aerial view of ship (2:55). Edge of ship’s hull in water as it moves at high speed (3:00). Sailor in uniform blows bugle on deck (3:05). Sailors retrieve signal flags and fly signal flags (signal practice) (3:10). Signal flags waving on battle cruiser ship (3:25). Sailor tends ropes of signal flags on deck (3:28). Signal flags shown descending (3:30). Sailors drilling, lined up, officers inspecting; Marine detachment drills with rifles in uniform (manual of arms ) (3:35). At flagman’s signal to take off, seaplane (12-S-4 Tuscaloosa) takes off from deck of USS Tuscaloosa battle cruiser (3:55). Aerial view from seaplane toward USS Tuscaloosa on open water (4:04). Tuscaloosa seaplane lands on ocean (4:09). Seaplanes being lifted by hook and cable onto deck of USS Tuscaloosa (4:12). USS Tuscaloosa moves through open ocean (steam, wake, hull, waves) (4:22). American flag waving with USS Tuscaloosa in background (4:30). Fleet of US Navy ships in formation (likely Fleet Problem XVI or Fleet problem XVII) (4:33). Various Navy ships move through open water and rough waves; Navy ships fire in formation; waves crashing into bow (4:37). Sailors near large American flag on deck of US Navy ship with another ship on ocean in background (4:52). "The End" over Paramount Pictures’ famous Mountain logo (5:01). USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) was a New Orleans-class cruiser. Commissioned in 1934, she spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Caribbean, participating in several European wartime operations. In early 1945, she transferred to the Pacific and assisted in shore bombardment of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She earned 7 battle stars for her service in World War II. Never damaged in battle, she led a charmed life compared to her six sister ships, three of which were sunk and the other three heavily damaged. She was decommissioned in early 1946 and scrapped in 1959.
Complete Record: This mid-1930s U.S. Navy promotional short, filmed by Paramount Pictures, shows off the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa, a New-Orleans-class cruiser (heavy cruiser). The ship would later serve in WWII (Pacific theater). Sub-topics of the film include: life on a Navy ship, flag signaling / signal practice, passing the Panama Canal / electric mules at Panama canal, Navy seaplanes, and Navy formations. Title: "Let’s Join The Navy! Come aboard and see what life is like on one of Uncle Sam’s modern cruisers…the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa…" Narrated by Alois Havrilla; Paramount Pictorial (0:06). USS Tuscaloosa moves quickly in open ocean near Atlantic coastline (30 knots) (0:17). USS Tuscaloosa crew asleep in foldable bunks (0:40). Sailors wake up, stow bunks (0:45). Sailors emerge on deck, begin cleaning, sweeping ("brush brigade") (0:55). Ship kitchens aboard USS Tuscaloosa, setting dishes from crates, serving food (1:17). Sailors sit down to meals on ship (1:25). Officers in uniform on bridge look out through binoculars, stand at wheel, near signals (Navy ship technology) (1:34). Sailor studies indicators/ship gauges while turning wheel (1:50). Wake of the ship (1:55). Anchor being dropped near Panama Canal (2:05). Sailors gather at bow, look out at Colon Harbor / Panama Canal entrance on Atlantic side (2:10). Electric mules being rigged to battlecruiser; sailors prepare ship to move through canal locks; frantic activity on deck of USS Tuscaloosa (2:26). Lock opens at Panama Canal (2:37). Electric mule moves up canal locks; ship passes through Panama Canal, hills visible behind (2:40). Airplane flies over USS Tuscaloosa; aerial view of ship (2:55). Edge of ship’s hull in water as it moves at high speed (3:00). Sailor in uniform blows bugle on deck (3:05). Sailors retrieve signal flags and fly signal flags (signal practice) (3:10). Signal flags waving on battle cruiser ship (3:25). Sailor tends ropes of signal flags on deck (3:28). Signal flags shown descending (3:30). Sailors drilling, lined up, officers inspecting; Marine detachment drills with rifles in uniform (manual of arms ) (3:35). At flagman’s signal to take off, seaplane (12-S-4 Tuscaloosa) takes off from deck of USS Tuscaloosa battle cruiser (3:55). Aerial view from seaplane toward USS Tuscaloosa on open water (4:04). Tuscaloosa seaplane lands on ocean (4:09). Seaplanes being lifted by hook and cable onto deck of USS Tuscaloosa (4:12). USS Tuscaloosa moves through open ocean (steam, wake, hull, waves) (4:22). American flag waving with USS Tuscaloosa in background (4:30). Fleet of US Navy ships in formation (likely Fleet Problem XVI or Fleet problem XVII) (4:33). Various Navy ships move through open water and rough waves; Navy ships fire in formation; waves crashing into bow (4:37). Sailors near large American flag on deck of US Navy ship with another ship on ocean in background (4:52). "The End" over Paramount Pictures’ famous Mountain logo (5:01). USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) was a New Orleans-class cruiser. Commissioned in 1934, she spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Caribbean, participating in several European wartime operations. In early 1945, she transferred to the Pacific and assisted in shore bombardment of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She earned 7 battle stars for her service in World War II. Never damaged in battle, she led a charmed life compared to her six sister ships, three of which were sunk and the other three heavily damaged. She was decommissioned in early 1946 and scrapped in 1959.
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founding her way down the Atlantic coast at 30 knots one of Uncle Sam's new treaty ships the battle cruiser tuscaloosa 10,000 tons of potential fighting fury for her displacement she's the maximum in mobility armament and speed a floating steel fortress that spells home to her crew of a thousand men no proverbial sailors hammock here but comfortable bunks that are gob hates to leave when the bugler pipes revelry and every sailor loads his own mattress yes sir its rise and shine everything on board must be spotless from powerful guns to wooden decks the brush brigade goes into action boy that's the stuff that gives a man plenty of appetite and below decks they're getting ready to satisfy gobs of dishes for hundra guards with ham an Uncle Sam certainly does the right thing by his seagoing nephews on the bridge highly trained officers are assisted by the finest instruments that modern science can devise a complete system of signals keeps the bridge in intimate contact with the engine room so that the tuscaloosa spouses of horsepower are under instant control as she travels over the high seas and now we drop anchor at the entrance to the Panama Canal going through the big is one of the thrills in a job flight this is the harbor of kalan on the Atlantic side you now the powerful electric mules are ready to take the test elusive hoarders and she begins to move through the elaborate series of laws thumb job for these little giants and it's a quick passing the Pacific Oceans inside when Uncle Sam sweet goes places believe me it goes in a hurry full speed ahead now as real Navy work begins signal practice and all those boys click it handling the flags each one represents either a letter of the alphabet or a signal encode soldiers of the sea drilling at sea the government maintains the detachment of Marines on the Tuscaloosa and they go through the manual of arms just as though they were on the parade ground the eyes of the fleet he claimed that opponent from the dust that as we move through the law she's plane hasn't potential fusing range of hundreds of miles and may be used either for reconnoiter or for attack their landing field the Rolling Pacific returning them to the ship is a ticklish job but a hook at the end of a cable does the trace and now with steamed up once more the tuscaloosa moves on a plowed unit in Uncle Sam's mighty arm of National Defense the United States Navy
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