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MOVIE MAKERS
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Your own war films
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tropical uniform, so that the action passes for the real article.
Other maps and headlines portray Japan's quick seizure of Malaya, Singapore and the Straits Settlements. Maps and some scenes of naval units in action tell the story of the battle of Macassar Strait.
After a title or two summarize the effect of these first serious blows by the enemy, my scene shifts to America, and it shows the effects of the war upon the people at home. Submarine warfare off our Atlantic Coast, civilian defense activities and war bond drives are interesting features of this part of the film. There is also some footage concerning itself with our new mobilization, the ever increasing army, torpedo boats on patrol, the Panama Canal on guard and a splendid final scene which shows the troops passing in review in front of the Statue of Liberty.
In my second "episode," I dealt with the second three month period of the war. In this reel, we get news worth cheering about, and I tell the story of the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway with the help of some excellent newsreel shots. Then, too, there is the bombing of Tokio and the tragic fall of Bataan. On the home front, sugar and gasoline rationing add a touch of wry humor.
My latest "episode" will show the defeat of the Axis in Africa after the brilliant successes of the Americans, English and French in Tunisia, all pictured dramatically in 16mm. newsreels. On the home front, it will include a sequence of well organized civilian defense drills, a sequence of the progress of the home victory garden, worked by the family, and a sequence of the empty roads and highways on weekends, which tells the story of gasoline rationing that bites deeper.
I find that my movie of World War II is a project of ever increasing interest. Naturally, I should prefer that it had ended as a short feature; but, when it is completed, it will be a most valuable part of my film library. It will be priceless, not only because it is a record of the war itself, but because, woven throughout the plot will be the secondary plot of my own family and friends at war. As war affects peoples everywhere, so it affects you — and the privations and perhaps suffering that we all gladly undergo will give your picture and mine a note of realism and a personal quality never before attained by amateur movie makers.
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