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World War, 1939-1945.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Abrant/Drummond films

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000080-ACC undated-0012
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of nine 16mm WWII pilot films showing aerial attacks. The silent, black and white films depict the activities of the 19th Tactical Air Command and show gun camera footage.

Dates: 1944 May-1945 January
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / Abrant/Drummond films

Bob Blair collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000063-ACC 2013-0005
Scope and Contents The Bob Blair Collection documents the wartime activity of a civilian newsreel cameraman, providing information about the policies governing the work of civilian reporters covering the D-Day landings. The collection also provides photo documentation of life as a NBC news cameraman in the early days of broadcast news. These records document the high points of Blair’s work in television news. The Blair Collection also includes significant equipment holdings that demonstrate the physical nature...
Dates: 1920-1993; Majority of material found in 1943-1960
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / Bob Blair collection

Fox Movietone News collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000001-ACC 1980-0001
Scope and Contents The collection contains seven million feet of nitrate motion picture film and four million feet of safety motion picture film documenting the national and global politics and culture from 1919 through 1934 and from September 1942 through August 1944. Paper holdings provide detailed notes generated by original camera crews as well as ephemera related to individual stories.Within the collection are elements from two distinct newsreel products. One is a silent newsreel, Fox News,...
Dates: 1919-1944
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / Fox Movietone News collection

J.B. Doty film collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000096-ACC 1993-0001
Scope and Contents

Six reels of 16mm black and white film (2,502 feet), probably filmed in the 1940s, depicting activities likely related to World War II.

Dates: 1940s
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / J.B. Doty film collection

Jennie Clarkson Dreher papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-15025
Summary Papers, 1797, 1859-1994 and undated, consisting of manuscripts, bound volumes, pamphlets, and photographs collected by Jennie Clarkson Dreher. Speeches given in Columbia, Gainesville, FL, and Wilmington reflect her interest in the preservation of historic buildings and gardens, the Robert Mills House and the Boyleston Gardens being two examples. Pamphlets issued by the Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1898-1947, promotional material for Chicora College, 1916, and yearbooks of the...
Dates: 1797-1994; Majority of material found within 1898-1994
Found in: South Caroliniana Library / Jennie Clarkson Dreher papers

John Herchak home movies collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000082-ACC 1999-0002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one film donated by the film maker, John Bernard Herchak, showing life onbaord the USS Knox, stationed in the Pacific Theatre of Operations at the end of WWII.

Dates: Probably filmed between 1944-1946
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / John Herchak home movies collection

Louis L. Hess collection

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000105-ACC 2013-0012
Scope and Contents

Business records, photographs, motion picture film and other materials related to the activities of newsreel cameraman, audio engineer and journalist Louis L. Hess.

Dates: 1923-1993
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / Louis L. Hess collection

Pittman Shay collection of Major General Ralph P. Cousins

 Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2017-1
Scope and Contents Born in Texas on December 1, 1891, Ralph P. Cousins attended West Point Academy and went on to serve in the United States Air Force until his retirement in 1946. He was involved in the Mexican Expedition, fought overseas in World War I, and performed various leadership tasks before and during World War II. Cousins earned a Masters of Science degree at Yale University in 1922. During 1923, he oversaw Air Corps radio communications and installations, a system, which would eventually become the...
Dates: 1915-1965
Found in: Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections / Pittman Shay collection of Major General Ralph P. Cousins

United States Marine Corps film repository

 Collection
Identifier: COD0000145-ACC 2015-0003
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of footage from 1941 to the mid-1970s. There are 12,300 reels of 16mm and 35mm film in the initial transfer. The footage was recorded by Marine Corps photographers and includes combat film from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The films also document training, testing, and public relations activities.

Dates: 1940s-1970s
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / United States Marine Corps film repository

USS Knox, Probably filmed between 1944 and 1946

 Item
Scope and Contents This film shows scenes of: a house and the front and back garden of the house, a man in a suit with a walking stick is seen with a pipe in his mouth, a playing field with a man on a palmino horse, other people on horseback in cowboy like outfits, horses are shown in front of a barn, boys in suits, a man on horseback and a line of people on horseback with flags, a parade of people with flags of various states, then a polo match, with one man in a yellow jersey with an R on it. Close up of a...
Dates: Probably filmed between 1944 and 1946
Found in: Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) / COD0000082-ACC 1999-0002, John Herchak home movies collection

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