A Ship Is Born (1942)
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Short Warner Brothers documentary film about the United States Maritime Service (Merchant Marines). Produced for the U.S. Maritime Commission and U.S. Coast Guard.
Begins with a shipyard and shipbuilding and then shows Merchant Marine training at the United States Maritime Service Training Station in Port Hueneme, California.
Kind of goofy. Oddly, it was nominated for an Academy Award in 1943 for "Best Documentary."
I want to thank you for posting this. This is probably the movie that my dad watched when he was 19 that caused him to volunteer for the USMS. He wrote about it, and I always wondered about it until I found your video tonight. Bits of history like this help us piece together the puzzles of the past.
Real men, real Americans.
My father was in merchant marines in WW2 - sailed on Liberty ships across Atlantic. He always said Liberty ship engines were so cranky and difficult to maintain - he later worked on T2 tankers having turbine engines. He didn't receive full benefits that regular military people got in retirement years (Congress decision). When he developed dementia I discovered he didn't qualify for nursing home benefits - I wound up taking care of him. So much for that government saving money mentality that seems prominent today.
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My father was Merchant Marine during ww 2 also. I remember when the American Legion recognized and how happy he was to join. I sure wish I could hear his sea stories again.Hand Salute Charles W Goodspeed
I put myself into it being 1942 (I was 4 years old)
when things were extremely bad for the US in regard to war
and can feel a bit of assurance seeing this at my my local theater.
Matt NY
@Lew Rodd looking back we know that to be true..in hindsight.
If you look at the constant barrage of war propaganda being put out by the US government to its citizens, they would portray a dire situation in all phases of the war. Food,gas and goods were all rationed but being the United States even then they didn’t know how good they had it. So yes the optical was that the country was in a perilous state and everyone had to remain optimistic and work towards the war effort.
It’s easy now to see just how comfortable Americans were at home during the war but at the time it was a non stop output of ads and print that sort of convinced people they actually had it worse than they did.
My Dad, Denver Dulmage was in the Merchant Marines during World War II.
wonderful.......watching for the 2nd time....
My mom was a welder in 1942 at the Jacksonville Shipyard. She remembers the evening Nazi U-Boat 123 sank the SS Gulfamerica off Jacksonville Beach.
These were the days
How many films just like this one were originally shot in colour, but likely now exist only in black and white?
Colorado is still one of the top accession states for the US Merchant Marine Academy, the last relic of the US Maritime Service training programs.
And Colorado doesn’t even have ocean access and doesn’t border any ocean. Peculiar place to have it located.
Good question on color. I suspect that the colors had faded/shifted such that the color version looks bad, but when converted to shares of gray, it looks just fine. Or, I suppose this might have been converted from a b/w 35mm (or 16mm) master. Nuclear Vault ????
Many colour films had B/W copies made for distribution either because of cost or were converted for broadcast on early TV. Later the masters may then be lost, damaged or destroyed leaving only the B/W copies.
Been there and done that.. The British version anyway..
Open question to Germany, Japan and Italy: "What the F were you thinking, exactly?"
James Hackett looks like Val Kilmer.....
Hollywood BS . . . . mixing NAVY. . . and civilian crewmen . . . .I was NAVY 50 -54. . .brother was MM . . no such training . . .
Anymore I can't stand these propaganda films.
Then don't watch them....simple as that.
have you ever served or done any thing for this country I was born in 1943 but remember solders and sailors all over Chicago . It was a different time and it was a good time back then we loved our country .