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Attack

Item number (ISN):

383054

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1944

Item number (ISN):

383054

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

WILLIAMS, Ginette

Accession:

2007-0125

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1944

Production company:

Office of War Information

Production credit:

producer, Frank Capra; script, Robert Presnell, Sr., narrator, Leo Glenn; Burgess Meredith; Anthony Veiller

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

RKO Radio Pictures

Description:

Film about the battle for New Britain. Allied forces attack the Japanese at Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester in 1943. Walter Krueger and Dougals MacArthur are shown in New Guinea, prior to the attack on New Britain.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Presented for the first time in Canada by the National War Finance Committee.~2. Presented by the U.S. War Department, produced under the the supervision of the commander-in-chief, South West Pacific Area.~3. Photographed by the United States Army Signal Corps.~4. Acknowledgement is made to the United States Army Air Force for aerial scenes. ~5. Released by the U.S. Office of War Information.~6. The introduction to the Canadian presentation states that no combat scenes have been staged or re-enacted and that the film is authentic "in every detail".~7. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and exhbited under the auspices of the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry.

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Vault ISN:

449995

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2008-03-0016
2008-03-0017

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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