Film Record: New Guinea Newsreel

Still image of Douglas MacArthur in New Guinea Newsreel in Movie Makers, Jan. 1946, 16.

Date produced: 1944

Filmmaker(s):

Lewis B. Sebring

Languages:

English

Length:

300 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1944 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"When Lewis B. Sebring. jr., went from the United States early in 1942. as a war correspondent accredited to General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, he wisely left his camera at home. There was no telling what dangers and difficulties lay ahead. Months later, after the Japanese had been driven back across the Owen Stanley Mountains, after the battles of Buna, Salamaua and others, there seemed to be more time and opportunity for personal movie making. Happily, Mr. Sebring managed to borrow a good 16mm. camera, and New Guinea Newsreel is one of the exciting results. Keyed by the expert titles of a news writer, it presents a series of well rounded sequences on such colorful subjects as a visit by General MacArthur; a cine interview with Major Richard I. Bong, top American air ace of the war to date; an informal exhibition of Japanese souvenirs, and a moving Easter service, somber against the gray dawn of a New Guinea foreshore." Movie Makers, Dec. 1944, 496.

Locations:

• New Guinea (Filming)

Subjects:

• Nature
•      Geography
• Politics
•      War
•           Military

Genre:

• Newsreel

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Screenings:

• Screened publicly by Sebring in Schenectady on over 15 occasions in 1944: Schenectady, N.Y.
• Screened by the Mount Vernon Movie Makers in 1945: Mount Vernon, N.Y.
• Screened by the Movie Group of the Schenectady Photographic Society in 1945: Schenectady, N.Y.
• Screened by the Metropolitan Motion Picture Club in 1946: New York City, N.Y.

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