The United States Service Bands (1943)Service bands from the Army Air Corps, Navy, Marines, and Army perform patriotic songs in front of iconic landmark buildings like the Capitol and the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Director:Jean Negulesco |
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Title: The United States Service Bands (1943)
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edited from 'The Rear Gunner'
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Service bands from the Army Air Corps, Navy, Marines, and Army perform patriotic songs in front of iconic landmark buildings like the Capitol and the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials.
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jefferson memorial | battleship | lincoln memorial | landing craft | paratrooper |Certificate:
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1943 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Jefferson Memorial - 900 Ohio Drive SW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA See more »Company Credits
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Music by Jacques Offenbach from "Geneviève de Brabant"
Lyrics by Henry C. Davis
Sung by a chorus during the Marines section
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Edited entirely from other musical shorts. See more »Soundtracks
"The Marines Hymn"(uncredited)
Music by Jacques Offenbach from "Geneviève de Brabant"
Lyrics by Henry C. Davis
Sung by a chorus during the Marines section
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United States Service Bands, The (1943)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This Warner shot is pretty much a hack job version with earlier shorts being edited down to one. Songs from THE UNITED STATES ARMY BAND, THE UNITED STATES MARINE BAND and THE UNITED STATES NAVY BAND are all edited down into this film so if you haven't seen any of them you might get a kick out of this. Personally, I've seen those shorts and I think you'd do yourself justice by spending the 24-minutes watching those three instead of viewing them in an edited down 8-minute version. The music here is certainly good as the bands really do nice justice to the songs they're performing but if you enjoy what you see and hear here then you'll certainly want to see the expanded versions.