Two Down and One to Go! (1945-05, silent)

Description: Content notice: Nazi iconography, racism, and casualties of war.

Documentary short film produced by the army and directed by Frank Capra with creative animation simplifying the global conflict of World War II in visual terms comprehensible by anyone. Produced to explain to the American public the final thrust of the Allied war effort in Europe and plans for the return of American forces. (Picture element only).

Motion Picture Herald Magazine, 12 May 1945: "U. S. Army Short Subject Explains Real V-E Day Meaning to Public" for additional information about production and distribution of "Two Down and One to Go." archive.org/details/motionpictureher159unse/page/n83 accessed on: 2024-01-17

Can states: "DJ 8000 - DJ 8886 2 DOWN + 1 TO GO / Animation missing - includes - shots of Tojo on horse - / AP Inc 1002"; "AP Inc Can 1002 Two Down + 1 to Go"

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Subjects: 1940s, World War II, War, Film and media art

Tags: axis powers; allied powers; World War II; Frank Capra; Hollywood; Henry Stimson; jets; fighter planes; VE Day; animations; animated globe; fanciful animation of World War II; animated arrows; animated compass; animated letter "V"; saluting the flag; American Flags; soldiers; allied war effort; Imperial Japanese army; racism; demonizing Japan; war casualties; bodies on stretchers; battlefields; explosions; combat; Nazis; swastikas; Nazi iconography; Ford plant; Detroit; eight smokestacks; saluting; American flag; women in uniform; men in uniform; Liberty bell;

Film Sponsor: Office of War Information

Creator:

Credits: Director: Frank Capra
Produced by Army Pictorial Service
for the War Department General Staff
Office of War Information
War Activities Committee, Motion Picture Industry, co-distributor

Distributor: Office of War Information

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1945-05

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: government, military, animation

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: finegrain master, positive

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: none

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 311