Description
Universal Newsreel
Volume 12, 1940 Jan 17
On The Finnish Winter War Front.
The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (Russia) and Finland in 1939-1940.
Scenes of destroyed buildings in Finland. Shows wounded Finnish soldiers and civilians in hospital.
Shows burial of a citizen of Finland.
Shows Finnish soldiers marching along a snow-covered road. Each Finnish soldier carries a white camouflage suit. Shows two Finnish women (female) soldiers on top of tower on watch for approach of Russian troops. Finnish artillery firing at Russian truck supply convoy. Shows captured Russian soldiers and destroyed equipment in the far north and along the Mannerheim Line. Shows bodies of dead Russian soldiers.
British Submarine Returns To Port In England.
The British submarine HMS Ursula (N-59), sister-ship of undersea craft sunk by the Germans, returns to England after sinking the German cruiser Leipzig near Wilhelmshaven. Note: It was later learned the German cruiser Leipzig in fact had been missed and the torpedoes had instead hit the German destroyer escort F9 which exploded and quickly sunk. Shows the crew of the British sub leaving the submarine and being greeted at dockside.
Shows the 1st Canadian Infantry Division arriving in England. CU of Canadian soldiers waving from deck of troop transport ship. Later they are reviewed by Leslie Horc-Belisha, British Secretary of State For War. Leslie Horc-Belisha later removed as war secretary.
French 16 Inch Railway Guns Shell German Lines.
French gunners shell German lines (positions) with 16 inch railway rifles. Shows French soldiers moving 16-inch railroad artillery guns into position. Gun crew arming artillery shells with “artillery fuzes” (artillery fuse). CU of loading and firing 16 inch railway gun.
The Duchess of Windsor “does her bit” by establishing a package forwarding agency to send parcels to the troops.
Women at war in France. Eighteen-hundred French women and girls work in plane factories turning out bomber aircraft. CU of French woman operating a drill press. French woman operating a rivet gun in French airplane factory.
Quadruplets Born In Jasper, Alabama.
Mrs. Clyde Short, wife of a coal miner, gives birth to three daughters, “Faith, Hope, and Charity” and a son Franklin. An improvised incubator is used in the fight to keep the babies alive. CU of Mr & Mrs Clyde Short proud parents of the quadruplets. CU of the quadruplets.
Pope And King Exchange Visits.
Rome Italy. Scenes of impressive religious splendor as Pope Pius XII and King Victor Emmanuel of Italy exchange visits. Epochal ceremonies signifying closer relations between Church and State in the work for Peace!
“Grilled Chicken,” Newest Sun Tan Idea.
Girls in Miami Beach, Florida get sun tan. At a novel clinic at the Floridian Hotel, they’ll “toast” the girls, spray on a sun tan with a gun, and hang the girls up to dry. Spray on sun tan.
Football-Green Bay Packers Tops All-Star Team.
18,000 football fans in Hollywood California watch as the Green Bay Packers crush a National All-Star team chosen from other teams in the professional league 16 to 7 with field goals and a pass that nets 92 yards for a touchdown.
Goofy Wresting.
In Lake Worth Florida a ton of slippery, juicy tomatoes turns a wrestling ring into a mad-house of flailing, bespattered wrestlers giving their “all” in the goofiest wrestling seen in years.
Notre Dame Head Becomes A Bishop.
Scores of the members of the American hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church gathered in the Sacred Heart Church on the Notre Dame campus for the consecration of the Most Reverend John F. O’Hara, C.S.C, as titular bishop of Milasa.
Benjamin Franklin Honored.
Benjamin Franklin is honored as the University of Pennsylvania opens bicentennial year. Shows speakers in front of Benjamin Franklin statue on University of Pennsylvania campus. CU of Benjamin Franklin statue.
Runtime: 00:10:04
Sound: no
File: high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422.
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