Main Street on the March!

1941
Approved
20 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThe film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people ... Alles lesenThe film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were comp... Alles lesenThe film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is inte... Alles lesen

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- 1 wins total

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John Nesbitt

Narrator
(Synchronisation)

Raymond Gram Swing

Self
(Archivtonaufnahmen)
(Synchronisation)

Neville Chamberlain

Self
(Archivtonaufnahmen)
(Synchronisation)

H.V. Kaltenborn

Self
(Archivtonaufnahmen)
(Synchronisation)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self
(Archivfilmmaterial)
(as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

Winston Churchill

Self
(Archivfilmmaterial)
(Synchronisation)

George C. Marshall

Self
(Archivfilmmaterial)

William S. Knudsen

Self
(Archivfilmmaterial)

Harold R. Stark

Self
(Archivfilmmaterial)
(as Admiral Harold R. Stark)

Barbara Bedford

Nurse
(Nicht genannt)

Margaret Bert

Mrs. Schulte
(Nicht genannt)

Robert Blake

Schulte Child
(Nicht genannt)

Naomi Childers

Window Shopper
(Nicht genannt)

Mark Daniels

Engineer
(Nicht genannt)

Robert Homans

Lighthouse Keeper
(Nicht genannt)

Milton Kibbee

Rod Meakin, News Vendor
(Nicht genannt)

May McAvoy

Window Shopper
(Nicht genannt)

Charles Middleton

Farmer
(Nicht genannt)

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Oscar-Winning Short

Main Street on the March! (1941)

** (out of 4)

John Nesbitt narrates this Oscar-winning (Best Short) film about all the "Main Street" locations across America and how they united on the morning of December 7, 1941. The short starts off in 1940 as Americans are learning about the war and how various other countries are falling to Germany. We learn about the attitudes of people and what was being asked of them to help the country. I've seen many of these WWII shorts the past several years and I was a little surprised to learn that this one here won an Oscar. Yes, I'm sure this was quite shocking when originally viewed a few weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack but today the film seems rather rushed. I never really got caught up in any of the actual story as I felt other films did a better job at talking about these events. While watching this short I also kept wondering where exactly it was trying to go as the story goes back and forth a little too much for such a short running time.

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The speech where President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown asking Congress for 50,000 airplanes occurred on May 16, 1940. This was just six days after Germany's attack had begun on western Europe in WWII. It has become known as his "Ominous Days" speech.

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Self - Narrator: Shock. Grief. Then, on every Main Street, a rising, burning fury. In the terrible daylight of Sunday, December 7th, 132 million individuals became one. Main Street had become, at last, America. Behind it the land and its people. We, the American people: Lutheran, Methodist, Jew, Catholic, Quaker, Christian Scientist, holy roller, and all the rest of us; Republican, Democrats; rich men, poor men, working men, loafers; geniuses and jitterbugs.