NEWS PARADE OF THE YEAR 1940

Year Published: 1940

Format: 16mm

Description: "News Parade of the Year 1940" (sound version) is a black-and-white newsreel film that showcases news events for the year 1940. Made by Castle Films, segments include: EUROPE'S TOTAL WAR!, FATE'S IRONY!: Nazis and French sign armistice at Compiégne, BRITAIN'S HEROIC STAND!, AMERICAN DESTROYERS TO BRITAIN!: Fifty World War vessels are exchanged for naval bases, AMERICAN DEFENSE BEGINS!: Nation rallies to strengthen land, air, and sea might, FIRST PEACE-TIME DRAFT!: Sixteen million American youths register, FIRST THIRD TERM PRESIDENT!: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Wendell L. Willkie in hard fought election. Opening credits: Castle Films logo (0:09). German soldiers unload gear on a Danish dock (0:26). German soldiers march through what is perhaps downtown Copenhagen, Danes dressed in winter coats look on from sidewalks (0:28). Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is escorted by military personnel (0:34). Belgian refugees packed onto cart clutch belongings (0:41). Belgian King Leopold III salutes line of Belgian infantry while on horseback (likely footage from World War I) (0:45). British destroyer gun crew covering Allied troops wading through the surf during the evacuation of Dunkirk, France (0:55). Battle of France: Smoke billows from explosions, debris flies, destroyed row homes (1:03). Infantry men lay low in field (1:08). Benito Mussolini makes impassioned speech from Venice Palace balcony, Rome (1:15). Piazza Venezia filled with massed crowed (1:16). Adolf Hitler Saluting as He, Hermann Goering and Others Arriving at Compiégne to Receive the French Surrender (1:25). Statue Marechal Foch (1:33). Hitler and other Nazi officials board The Compiégne Wagon (1:40). French delegation arrives at Forest of Compiégne (1:53). Close-up Phillipe Pétain (2:42). Interior of train car as armistice signed (2:52). Italian invasion of British Somaliland: Italian battleship fires at Somaliland coast, mortars hit brick and stone buildings, explosions and debris (3:00). "Britain’s Heroic Stand:" Montage British soldiers in battle, Soldiers set out in rows of perhaps Leyland Armored Cars, perhaps RAF Hawker Hurricane fly in coordination (3:27). Smoke billows after German plane crashes into field (3:59). Battle of Britain 1940: German Bomb Raiders bomb military, cargo, and supply ships headed for England (4:01). General Charles de Gaulle reviews French troops in perhaps London (4:24). The Blitz (London): Montage of destruction, smoke and flames, sounds of sirens, backlit rescue personnel (4:29). Londoners cramped in bomb shelter laugh and recline while reading newspapers and magazine (4:41). Choir sings to crowd in bomb shelter (4:49). Montage of Blitz attack aftermath in London continues: warehouse buildings on fire, smoke, debris, sirens (5:00). Fireman lifts up destroyed department store mannequin (5:24). Actor removes head of Hitler dummy (5:30). Destroyed London double-decker bus hangs out of frame of building (5:34). King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II inspecting bomb damage at Buckingham Palace with workmen, hold piece of German missile (5:41). Destruction of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London: two priests look at ruins of a destroyed altar (5:55). Workmen clear and pile pieces of destroyed RAF fighter jets, pieces of Nazi planes with swastikas (6:12). Excerpt Winston Churchill speech on Nazi Propaganda & Uniting Against Hitler (1939) (6:21). Destroyers-for-bases deal: US Navy men board 50 retired destroyers at Canadian port (6:49). Montage American military contribution: Camera pans barrel of anti-aircraft weapon, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses (7:22). US Army Airmen parachute out of plane during drill (7:53). United States Navy WWII destroyers at sea, gun fire, smoke billows (8:15). American President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act law/ the draft (8:28). Rows of young American men in suits and felt fedoras line up for draft service (8:35). Close-up, American World War II Draft Registration card (8:41). Secretary of War Henry Stimson, blindfolded, picks draft number capsules from fishbowl for FDR to announce (8:45). Confetti flies, crowds cheer, Wendell L. Willkie receives cheers of 40,000s Chicagoans during parade (9:07). Close-up FDR smiling, sitting among other officials, wearing fedora (9:27). United States Capitol Dome framed by bare trees and snow-covered shrubs (9:34).

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foreign April 9th Norway invaded the battle of the continent becomes Europe's Total War one month later Holland Falls beloved Queen Wilhelmina seeks Refuge abroad millions of thousands reenact the tragic migration of 1914. May 28th Leopold King of the Belgian surrenders and the world despairs [Music] Dunkirk here 300 000 Delight Soldiers battle and swim to safety under an infernal fire [Music] June 5th the critical Battle of France Begins for three terrifying weeks the armies of aegon fall back in the face of overwhelming mechanized might leave while France fights for its life Italy marches beside Germany six weeks after Holland and Belgium were crashed tragic history is enacted at Campagna the image of General post watches as another conqueror arrives he boards the same railroad car where fosh himself gave the Armistice terms to the defeated Germany of 1918. these Nazi officials come with different emotions then those other Germans 22 years before this time France plenty potentiary seeking terms instead of giving them arrive to learn the fate of their Republic [Music] Grim formality when Victor and vanquished meet [Music] with terms stated adult Hitler allows time for the French to telephone the Vichy government foreign ly silently the French delegates follow for conference with the man who became Premier France only six days before [Music] who must give the answer [Music] five Hearts returned to the historic car bearing their faithful message [Music] France has decided the knee is proud in submission with a flourish of Patrick pens foreign [Music] foreign [Music] another German plane meets its Masters [Music] each ship becomes a target for the Raiders bombs its ship is set on getting [Music] suppliesman discuss to all ashore [Music] under Brave General de Gaulle three Frenchmen still fight Germany London waves of Nazi planes warm Westward to the world's largest city some reach London's warehouses tenements and great dogs [Music] londoners take the shelter unafraid old and young their Spirits undis made foreign [Applause] [Music] bomb pandemonium rages for hours days and months London Burns by night the day life finds undaunted Griffin confidence as the job of figuring out proceeds even the dummies get attention we mean dummy [Music] Buckingham Palace symbol of Empire residents of Britain's monarchs does not escape the Nazi Reign of Steel King George and Queen Elizabeth examine a piece of the missile that demolished a part of their palace Hall foreign [Music] Falls Cathedral where royalty and commoner worship also suffered a bomb pierces the roof destroys an altar but spares other pleasured monuments the heroic araf takes an ever-increasing toll Nazi planes have fallen on English soil by the thousands [Music] May well be that the final Extinction of a baleful domination will pave the way to a broader solidarity of all the men in all the land than we could ever have planned if we had not marched together through the fire and to Britain short of war in exchange for Atlantic Naval bases in English possessions 50 discarded World War destroyers are reconditioned and a Canadian fourth Americans transfer the sorely needed Warframe Millions for artillery Millions for tanks and everything foreign s thousands of them while American plants are turning out other thousands for Britain American Army Airmen were the first to experiment with parachutes for War years before Russia and Germany made use of them in actual conflict [Music] as Japan casts its lot with the Axis powers the United States speeds the building of its first two ocean Navy foreign [Music] with the stroke of a pen President Roosevelt sets in motion the nation's Machinery while drafting all men between the ages of 21 and 35. October 16th on this day millions of American Youth in every corner of the nation register for military service history repeats itself a World War drama is reenacted the same fish ball from which capsules were drawn for the wartime draft of 1917 again serves for the country's first peacetime call thank you America throbs to the beef of the most startling presidential campaign in many decades Wendell Wilkie arouses amazing devotion and respect in his frenulous bid for the White House President Roosevelt also has given thunderous receptions for the first time in history a president of the United States is re-elected for a third term foreign

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