This is followed by Cooper at night walking the deck of his first command, still in sepia, and aircraft taking off at night. After some aerial shots of a task force at sea and an aircraft landing on a carrier, still in black-and-white, a shot of a sailor in combat gear silhouetted against the sky is in color, but filtered to make it sepia, a technique similar to that used on the transitional shot of Dorothy opening the door of her house to reveal Munchkinland in The Wizard of Oz. in which Brennan and Cooper argue with a senator who wants to stop building carriers. The change comes just after a scene showing a contentious meeting in Washington D.C. Near the end of the film, the film changes from black and white to Technicolor in order to unobtrusively use actual combat film shot in color. Production finally wrapped on January 5, 1949. Additional work took place at the Burbank studios to cover interiors and process shots. Navy provided access to naval facilities with costs amounting to as much as $24,000 a day ($270,700 today) being incurred when an admiral's barge and jet fighters were commandeered. Principal photography began in late 1948 on the escort carrier, USS Bairoko to replicate USS Langley, as well as Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego. Navy, when the production received permission to proceed with a film, a decision was made to shoot the first segments in black-and-white to merge into the original footage of the USS Langley, the first American aircraft carrier, and USS Saratoga. Encouraged by the offer of support from the U.S. Navy footage documenting the rise of naval aviation as well as Technicolor footage filmed during the war in the Pacific, including the Battle of Midway, the Japanese attack on USS Yorktown and a kamikaze attack on USS Franklin. Navy gun camera film such as the downing of a Japanese Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boat by a Grumman F6F Hellcat, created an authentic look. Especially as in real life, Franklin had already been knocked out of the war before the invasion of Okinawa began.Īs appearing in Task Force, (main roles and screen credits identified):
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While much of the archive footage used for the ship commanded by Scott was of the USS Franklin, the actual situation more closely resembles the attacks on USS Bunker Hill. Four years after the end of the war, Scott, as a rear admiral, retires and joins Mary, who is waiting for him on the dock. for repairs and the war ends when they arrive in at the Navy Yard in New York City. When his carrier flight deck is badly damaged by Japanese torpedo aircraft, the ship is forced to withdraw to the U.S. During the Battle of Okinawa, the fleet, with Scott as the captain of the carrier USS Franklin, proves its worth. to plead for more carriers and eventually a carrier fleet is produced. After Japan invades Manchuria, Scott is offered a civilian sales position selling aircraft in Europe, but remains in the Navy.Īfter Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, Scott's ship, USS Enterprise, is heavily involved in action at the Battle of Midway.
The Scotts spend two years in Hawaii and then move to Annapolis, where Scott, now a lieutenant commander, is to teach naval aviation but his outspoken stand in favor of aircraft carriers in combat causes him to lose a promotion. Throughout, Scott has the help and friendship of his mentor and superior officer, Pete Richard ( Walter Brennan). Congress, and marries Mary Morgan ( Jane Wyatt), the widow of a fellow flier who died in a crash during a carrier takeoff aboard USS Langley (CV-1).
During that period, he antagonizes powerful people in the U.S. naval aviation and the power of the aircraft carrier.
"Scotty" Scott ( Gary Cooper) spends 28 years, from 1921 to 1949, promoting U.S. Victor Mature in bar with Leo Genn and Luciana Paluzzi Some edge wear,light soiling and staining,pin holes - GRADE: FN.As a 1917 graduate of the Naval Academy, Naval Aviator Jonathan L. Ideal for display, great for collectors, or someone who wants a great decorative piece for their home or office. Indeed, exquisitely representative lobby cards can often times be far more valuable than any other memorabilia associated with a particular movie. Collectors of these cards search not just for rarity and popularity but also for scenes that quintessentially capture the movies they depict. A typical set included a Title Card (TC) and seven so-called Scene Cards (SC). Early lobby cards were black and white, set on card stock, and horizontal in format. Sometimes studios produced as many as 16 lobby cards for a single film. Unlike today's title poster ''one sheets,'' which usually feature only one or two glimpses of a film, lobby cards displayed eight separate scenes.
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Movie lobby cards were once employed to entice audience goers and highlight crucial frames from films. This is an original lobby card, not a reproduction.
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