How Strong is the Enemy pt 2: Pearl Harbor/Japanese Strength
How Strong is the Enemy pt 2: Pearl Harbor/Japanese Strength
Continuation of U.S. Government film made for war workers, using film from the Axis countries - -captured films and newsreels - -to encourage American civilians engaged in war production to work hard to defeat the still-powerful enemies. Pic w/ symbols of Germany & Japan, "HOW STRONG ARE THEY?" This section looks at Japan.
How Strong is the Enemy pt 2: Pearl Harbor/Japanese Strength
Japanese Army - -various shots of troops - -w/ rifles looking out over a valley. Cavalry on a mountain road. MS troops at machine gun emplacement.
How Strong is the Enemy pt 2: Pearl Harbor/Japanese Strength
PEARL HARBOR: captured Japanese film. Var shots Japanese warships at sea. VO: "Japanese task force on the approaches to Pearl Harbor." CUs Japanese officers. MS/MLS pan on Japanese pilots' briefing on flight deck (Mitsuo Fuchida in shot?) Pilots hurrying to airplanes. LS airplanes on aircraft carrier and crews, waiting to be cleared for takeoff. High ang MS hand waves flag as signal. Various pans as planes taxi and take off. Various air-to-air shots of the Japanese airplanes. Aerial views of the attack on Pearl Harbor; not surprisingly it's rather shaky but still very good footage of the explosions, ships burning.Headline "U.S. Pacific Fleet Annihilated!" (VO: "For English-speaking Asia, they put on English headlines."
How Strong is the Enemy pt 2: Pearl Harbor/Japanese Strength
Animation showing Japanese aggression - - the Japanese sun symbol reaching out over whole of East Asia. Var shots of Japanese Army - crossing river, CU machine gun, LS tank, as shows the valuable resources Japan has gained in the areas seized. Japanese troops loading bundles of food. LSs workers in rice paddy using primitive methods. LS more farm workers harvest wheat (?) at foot of steep hills. Workers carrying crates. LS Chinese (?) do farm work, guarded by Japanese soldiers with rifles.
How Strong is the Enemy pt 2: Pearl Harbor/Japanese Strength
Scenes of busy modern area in Japanese city. Japanese troops march toward cam. Montage of war production: GV Japanese armaments factory. MS soldiers. MS women war workers in factory. VO mentions a subject population of 385 million people. MS Chinese workers showing IDs to Japanese guard. Workers breaking rocks. Scenes of skilled workers in plant making missiles. Molten metal being poured; white hot steel beam being pounded. Var MSs/ CUs workers soldering, etc.
How Strong is the Enemy pt 2: Pearl Harbor/Japanese Strength
Burning Japanese aircraft. VO says despite losses they have more & better planes now than at time of Pearl Harbor attack. Var shots of Japanese war planes in flight. Map animation shows Japanese strategic position - -a web of powerful bases, each supported by others - -interlocking bases and interior lines of supply. "We have only dented these defenses." MS pan on Japanese corpses, blown to bits. U.S. soldiers in jungle, looking at corpses.