Mr. And Mrs. America
Mr. And Mrs. America
A WWII War Bonds propaganda film addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. America", with love from the United States Treasury Department. Buy bonds to support our troops and to secure our freedoms.
Mr. And Mrs. America
Opening credits. CU Presidential Seal; MSs President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT sitting at desk, talking to camera: "I do not need to tell you that we are still locked in a deadly struggle with our enemies, the enemies of our ways of life. The war is still the chief job of each one of us, the greatest production of which we are capable: faithful adherence to regulations that make it possible to supply our men in battle with everything they need; and buying and holding war bonds. These are things we at home must do to speed victory. In the past three year, more than 86 million Americans have invested billions of dollars in bonds. Never before have so many people held such a direct share in a great national effort. To save, to buy & to hold all that we can of war bonds. This is a small service to ask of us who do not fight, yet it is one of the biggest things we can do for our fighting men." CU $100 war bond addressed to Mr. & Mrs. America of Everywhere USA.
Mr. And Mrs. America
TLSs deck cannons of USN battleships firing, day and night. TLS/MSs U.S. Army soldiers and Marines making beach landings in Europe and South Pacific (respectively). MSs soldiers firing mortars. MS soldiers patroling country road, tank passing by. TLS two pontoons being hit with artillery fire, exploding. MS sailor using rope to climb from a crippled ship to a rescue ship. TLS/MSs Marines patroling, fighting in South Pacific. MSs beachhead littered with dead Japanese soldiers. MS three leathernecks with captured Japanese flag. MSs wounded American soliders being carried on stretchers; in field hospitals; being loaded onto planes (mess of gauze and tape). MSs field surgeons and nurses working on wounded at field hospital. MSs solider being bandaged. MS four wounded soldiers being lifted onto ship. Panning MS wounded Marine on Jeep, two buddies attending to him, one holding an IV drip. CU $100 war bond, front & back. Combat, war, WWII, casualities, enemy, armed forces, conflict.
Mr. And Mrs. America
MS of CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President PHILLIP MURRAY speaking about organized labor's support for war bonds. MSs of AFL (American Federation of Labor) President WILLIAM GREEN doing the same. MS US Army soldier playing bugle, blowing Taps; MS American flag flying at half-mast in cemetery; MS chaplain speaking at burial mass; MSs soliders at mass. TLS/MSs dead American soldiers on beaches. MS burial at sea for three USN sailors. MS/CU handmade grave marker of "unknown American flyer who fought and died bravely for his country". TLS/MSs gravestones and markers in cemetaries. MS President of the United States Chamber of Commerce ERIC JOHNSTON saying that the "great industrial machine fo America has performed miracles during this war and will cpontinue to meet any demand placed upon it until victory is ours"; "the bonds that you buy today and hold in the future give you a vital stake in the America that is and the America that is to be.
Mr. And Mrs. America
Patriotic montage to "America the Beautiful": LS New York City (Manhattan) skyline, Brooklyn Bridge in FG; TLS train turning corner in countryside; TLS twin-propeller United Airlines commercial plane taking off; Aerial of snowy mountains; TLS horses pulling cart filled w/ harvested wheat; TLS horses, sheep & chickens grazing at farm; TLS Caucasian college graduates in caps & gowns filing along path; paning MS Caucasian boys at Pee Wee football practice (leather helmets & some padding); MS two white men fly-fishing in river, waterfall in BG; TLS two farm combines harvesting in field; MS three smokestacks spewing smoke; MS white male industrial workers filing into building; TLS waves crashing onto shore. MS young Caucasian woman saying she's going to use her war bonds "for a little house in the suburbs". MS dapper African-American man saying he's going to use his war bonds for his son's education as soon as he comes back from the war. MS middle-aged white woman w/ heavy accent saying that she's going to buy a home in the country when her son comes back. MS creepy white man w/ accent saying "my boy is going to go to a good American college". MS unidentified USN Chief Petty Officer saying he buys war bonds every payday. MS greasy balding gap-toothed Caucasian man saying that when his brother comes home they're going to open up a gas station; if that doesn't work, then they're try something else. MS young Army soldiers in dress uniform saying pretty much the same as the last scrub.
Mr. And Mrs. America
MSs Secretary of the Treasury HENRY MORGANTHAL [Morgenthau] pitching war bonds, assuring their solidity and security and maximum return. MSs young white working class family of three sitting in parlor of home, looking through mail, flipping through magazie of dream homes (the American Dream). CU bonds falling into pile, diss to MSs American "GI" telling the audience to put their green into bonds. CU flag made out to be war bond flying from flagpole, followed by MS American flag.