“MESSAGE FROM MALTA” 1943 SIEGE OF MALTA WWII ALLIED PROPAGANDA FILM XD31241

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1943 Allied propaganda film from the United States Office of War Information (OWI) and the War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry (WACMPI) documents the plight of the people of Malta during World War II (TRT: 10:55). Opening titles: “The United States Government Presents, Message From Malta, Edited by Office of War Information Film Unit” (0:08). Pan over a smoke filled sky. Smouldering buildings in a deserted landscape. Narration: “This is a picture of the people of Malta under fire” (0:22). Ruins of a bombed brick building in an urban area. Fire trucks loaded with men in hardhats leave a station. Men shovel through heaps of rubble (0:59). Women and children sit in a pile of ruins as a military officer passes. Inside a decimated opera house. Medieval armor is removed from a destroyed museum gallery (1:37). Hospital beds sit on the edge of a