Palin is curious where the ROTC training was taking place, and about the history of Governor’s Day.Īttention: If you can enlighten her about this campus wartime montage, add your comments below. We then see cadets practicing on a green, a soldier cleaning his rifle and footage of a military parade that must have been part of the Governor’s Day celebration. It shows cadets deftly assembling and loading an anti-aircraft gun (and talking on the field “gun telephone”), two men discussing a blackboard’s “meteorological message” and then working on a chart. The film begins with a title card announcing an “exhibition drill” at 11 a.m.
The films range from shadowy black and white snippets to thoughtfully produced color productions. The top ten 1941 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Wikipedia. The year 1941 in film involved some significant events. In the autumn of 1941, nearly 2,000 inexperienced Canadian soldiers were sent to Hong Kong at the request of the British government as a symbolic show of strength that would deter a Japanese attack on the colony. Lost and Found Films is an occasional UW Today series in which readers help identify and explain historic bits of film from the 1930s through the 1970s unearthed from the UW Audio Visual Materials Library by film archivist Hannah Palin. A list of the films produced in Mexico in 1941 (see 1941 in film): Wikipedia. This film is part of the Valour and the Horror series, three controversial films on Canadian involvement in World War II.
It’s the work of a unit called University Campus Studios and may have been a promotional film for that studio. It shows cadets in the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps drilling, practicing with and cleaning weapons and loading shells into a 155-mm anti-aircraft gun. “Governor’s Day,” which dates from 1941, is a silent, 16 mm color film a bit short of four minutes long. The University of Washington prepares for war in “Governor’s Day,” the latest installment of the Lost and Found Films series.
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