Dating to 1944, these two newsreel segments are extracts from a longer Army-Navy Screen Magazine of the Screen. The first segment concerns the Polish city of Lublin, after the retreating Germans have been forced out. The second segment shows the State of Texas and its contributions to the WWII effort.
Opening title: Report From Lublin (:06-:13). Bombed out buildings in WWII. On July 24, 1944, the advancing Russian Army drove Germans from Polish city of Lublin. Liberated Poles are shown as Russian T-72 tanks rumble through the town. Women give soldiers flowers. Bombed out buildings and a tank. The city was in ruins. Tanks on the city streets. Refugees walk the streets. Lublin Castle, a prison where many Poles including Jews were taken – is an awful sight: dead bodies strewn all over the place, shot and killed by the Germans, bodies left where the fell, note: gruesome footage of bodies. People forlornly examine the bodies. People shown grieving outside the castle. Lines of bodies. Bodies taken out of the building. Over 700 were killed. People mourn and have a service for the dead (:14-2:58). Note: during the German occupation between 1939 to 1944, between 40,000 and 80,000 inmates, many of them Polish resistance fighters and Jews, passed through the walls of the Castle. Just before withdrawing in 1944, the Nazis massacred all remaining prisoners.
Title: Report from Texas, horses run by (2:59-3:11). Cattle herded side by side. Airplanes fly over Texas. Soldiers march. Skyline of Dallas, TX. Nightlife in Amarillo, TX. Skyscraper in Houston, TX. Hotel Nimitz in Fredericksburg, TX. Ft. Worth, TX city limits sign. Pampa, TX sign. Kerrville, TX. Alamo in San Antonio, TX. Water tower in Kilgore, TX. El Paso, Beaumont, Wichita Falls, San Angelo, and Austin, TX. Cattle grazes in the distance. Sheep ranch. Fields, dairy farms, turkey farm, oil fields, shipyards. Men weld. Airplanes on the tarmac at Randolph Field (3:30). Oil is pumped. Fields are plowed. Rice fields. Magnesium. Water plant. Hotel Nimitz (3:44) in Fredericksburg, at (3:49) the Ft. Worth City Limits, followed by Pampa (3:53) and San Antonio (3:59), sign for El Paso (4:07), Austin, San Angelo. Cotton picked by hand (3:12-5:57). Grains are being harvested. Helium plants. Carbon black is produced. Sulphur brought from underground pipes. Trainloads are shipped. Cattle roam the plains. Ft Worth Stock Exchange. Sheep. Goats. Turkey farm. Texas in wartime continues to work and thrive. People work on planes. Women work in a factory. A woman feeds her livestock. Women pick cotton. Shipbuilding (5:00). North American Aviation plant (5:12) producing P-51 Mustangs. A mechanic works on a machine. Engineer looks at a pump. Welders work. Indian Village on the Texas border. Men work on the reservation in the logging capacity (5:58-9:48). U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines plant (6:07). State university at Austin. More women than men in college during wartime. Capitol building. Men near the Texas flag. P-51 gunnery tests (7:53). Rosie the Riveter women at work (8:00/9:01). Picking cotton by hand (8:30). Locomotive at Houston Shipbuilding (9:09). Indian Agency Office (9:27) on Texas’ only Indian Reservation, native American children listen to an elder. Women shop in cosmopolitan Dallas (10:18). Woman waits for her date. Church service. Cattle ranch — Ed C. Henke Ranch – the sons are off fighting the war. Dad and his young son milk the cows. Child plays with eggs. Pigs fed food. Woman churns butter. Women hang laundry on the line. Dad and son ride horses. Mrs. Henke gathers wood for the stove. Cattle gather. Sheep gather. Son rides horse. Mrs. Henke reviews food in jars. Son goes hunting and carries young dead buck back. Stream slowly goes. Son teaches child how to fish. Henke family heads for church. Church service as reverend prays. People sing a hymn (9:49-15:03). No end credits.
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