"'FAGS TO FIGHTING FORCES" CAMPAIGN - 1 A man interviews the Canadian Postmaster General in his office. On behalf of "average Canadian citizens," the interviewer thanks the Postmaster for Postal Service’s assistance in Canada's WWII "Fags For Fighting Forces" war effort which sent "fags" (cigarettes) to Canadian soldiers fighting around the world.
Date: 1940s - COLOR Source: Film: 16P Length: 00:00:09:00, With Audio
"'FAGS TO FIGHTING FORCES" CAMPAIGN - 2 A man interviews the Canadian Postmaster General in his office. The interviewer asks the Postmaster what the "average Canadian citizen" can do to assist the Postal Service’s assistance in Canada's WWII "Fags For Fighting Forces" war effort which sent "fags" (cigarettes) to Canadian soldiers fighting around the world.
Date: 1940s - COLOR Source: Film: 16P Length: 00:00:14:00, With Audio
"AN ARMY MARCHES ON ITS STOMACH" - WW II Part of a war effort promotional film encouraging women to become cooks: CU legs marching, a kitchen without a cook, and men banging cups on a table.
"BATTLE HYMN" HERO, COL. HESS VISITS KOREAN CHILDREN Air Force Colonel Dean Hess, the famed "Flying Parson" of World War Two andrnKorea, revisits the hundreds of Korean orphans who are now his wards, after his rescue of them from battle zones and founding of an orphanage. A modern new building is under construction now--to which is pledged his earnings from his book 'Battle Hymn" and the forthcoming U-I film of the same name.
"FAGS FOR FIGHTING FORCES" WAR PROCLAMATION A proclamation promoting Canada's WWII "Fags For Fighting Forces" war effort which sent "fags" (cigarettes) to Canadian soldiers fighting around the world. Shot begins with the Canadian crest and dissolves onto a parchment paper proclamation (which scrolls upward) announcing the "unsung labors of the Canadian Postal Corps...to direct that flow of Fags for Fighting Forces....so essentially needed for the boys over there." Triumphant fanfare music plays in the background. Obviously there is immense comedic potential for this shot.
Date: 1940s - COLOR Source: Film: 16P Length: 00:00:59:00, With Audio
10 BILLION INVESTED IN OIL INDUSTRY SINCE WWII - ANIMATION VO and clever animated graphic of a laurel wreath and the number 10 billion written across an oil refinery while VO talks about how the oil industry has not rested on their laurels since WWII but have invested over 10 billion dollars to serve America in peace or war.
1938 ANSCHLUSS (UNION) OF AUSTRIA & GERMANY German troops sweep into Austria during her March 1938 annexation into Greater Germany by the Nazi regime. Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart becomes the new Chancellor of Austria as Kurt von Schuschnigg resigns and is imprisoned in Vienna's Belvedere Castle. The Anschluss (Union) is soon completed and crowds everywhere welcome Hitler and his armies with great enthusiasm.
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