Motion Picture MP2016-9
Administrative Information
News film compilation of World War II footage from December 1941 and February 1942 (Castle Films # 128), depicting the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; and the burning of the ship S.S. Normandie while it was being converted to the naval troop ship U.S.S. Lafayette at Pier 88 in New York.
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Shot List
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0:00 Bombing of Pearl Harbor!
0:08 Pearl Harbor, U.S. Naval bastion in the mid-Pacific
0:29 Actual motion pictures of Japs sneak-blow released by U.S. Navy!
1:08 200 Jap planes leave tons of wreckage throughout harbor!
1:42 Decks beneath water, U.S. Destroyer Shaw – a complete loss!
1:59 U.S.S. Utah, 33 year old target ship sinks in the mud!
2:59 Battleship Arizona bursts into flame after bomb drops through funnel and explodes!
3:35 The massive control tower heels over!
4:12 The once-mighty battleship now a mass of twisted steel!
4:47 True to best traditions of U.S. Navy, the Arizona’s gun crew fired to the last!
5:30 America fights back! Amid the din of bursting bombs, a light cruiser moves out to meet the enemy!
5:52 BURNING OF S.S. NORMANDIE!
5:59 June 3, 1935…the luxury liner Normandie proudly steams into New York harbor!
6:35 Taken over by U.S. as a prize of war!
6:57 Feb. 9, 1942…the $60,000,000 liner bursts into flame!
8:05 Rear Admiral Andrews of the Third Naval District orders all hands ashore!
8:32 The next morning the 83,000 ton vessel is capsized by the tide!
8:59 The crippled remains of what was to be the U.S.S. Lafayette, the world’s greatest naval auxiliary!