1942 Paramount News Christmas Issue - 1942

Date: 1st January 1942

Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

SLATE INFORMATION: Christmas 1942 - Paramount News - for the 16th year wishes all a Merry Christmas

Various Locations:

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Exterior of Paramount Pictures Inc. - Paramount News building

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Various shots of film turning on spools

Cameramen outside White House

SLATE: Big News

Father Christmas blowing kisses

Christmas pudding with steam rising

Fireplace with stockings hung up and decorated Christmas tree beside

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Horse and carriage along through snow

SLATE: The Season's Faith...

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Choirboys singing in church (unheard)

Silhouette of churchman carrying cross

Various shots of stained glass windows

Choir boys singing

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Exterior shots of church

Close Shots of parcels being handed out

Christmas card opened to show message inside 'To our President'

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Franklin D Roosevelt (US President) carving meat at Christmas dinner table

Close Shot of Roosevelt

Christmas card with message 'To America's Men'

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Various shots of US troops marching - including army, air force and marines

Men walking along road

Close Shot of welder welding

Farmer tilling ground with horse drawn plough

Christmas card with message 'To America's Women'

TRACKING SHOT past Women firefighters lined up

Women soldiers sitting in rows

Women wrens marching

Nurses at work in hospital ward

Women workers clocking in at factory

Woman working machinery in factory

Women RAF members loading bombs onto plane

Christmas card with message 'To America's Children'

Young children waving

Young children looking through railings

Wren at wheel of boat

Female sheriffs (?) lined up saluting

Women standing, with their hands held out, beside US flag

SLATE: Gifts for Other Lands

Christmas card with message 'To our Allies'

Flags of nations beside each other

Monument on hill

Soldier sanding piece of wood

Troops marching past tattered flag

Map of China

Chinese flag waving

General Chiang Kai-shek (Chairman of Nationalist Govt of China) and wife Madame Chiang Kai-shek

TGV Square

Troops running with guns at the ready

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth waving from balcony with Union flag montaged over

Close Shot of soldier

Line of national flags on flagpoles

Industrial scene

Winston Churchill (British PM) waving his hat in air as walking with crowd of press men

Christmas card with message 'To Even our Enemies'

Cartoon image of Nazi soldier crying as hat is removed and head squashed (it is an egg)

Japanese building

Blossom trees in flower

Soldier (Chinese or Japanese?) saluting

Map of Italy

LS Boats along canal in Venice

Close Shots of people's faces

Military man (Mussolini?)

White House with Christmas tree outside

Night shot of same

Carols by candle light

Christmas tree being decorated

Various shots being handed out of soldiers and sailors

Soldiers sitting eating

Soldier marching past Christmas tree

Cross on hillside with message supered 'Peace on Earth... Good Will Towards Men'

SLATE: The End

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