# Solons Visit Front,1944/12/29

(1) "Members of the Military Affairs Committee, including Clare Booth Luce, visit various fronts where our troops are engaged. And General Patton shows them part of his remarkable army, in action." (2) Blackout Gear Trains Air Pilots - "The Franks 'Blackout Suit' for airmen is demonstrated on a centrifuge machine at the University of Toronto. The liquid chambers within the suit counteracts the centrifugal pressure which a pilot encounters when diving and twisting in combat action." (3) Fashions Footsteps (Exclusive) - "Leave it to Delman, exclusive foot-war designer, to come out with 'footstools' of every description to add heighth to a gal's perspective. And the fabric ones are as chic as the beauties who model them." (4) Germans Halted - "The nazi propaganda machine intensively goes to work on improving morale on the home front. Nazi newsreels (a captured portion af which is used herewith) are toned up, Hitler visits military hospitals and reviews pompous military parades, Captured Allied equipment is used as targets in military shows. The Push Begins - S.S. General Sepp Dietrich wheels the S.S. and the Wermacht into the attack. Swarms of camouflaged tanks and tank destroyers race into action, preceded by barrages from multiple rocket firers. Miniature doodle bugs (radio controlled) cross open fields and explode. Bazookas and flamethrowers blaze into action. Then, concentrations of captured Yank troops are shown. The Attack Stalls - When the weather clears, Allied planes…

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1944
- Genres: History, News
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/1944-12-29_Solons_Visit_Front)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.