Clark Gable and Irenne Dunne launch Liberty ship named after actress Carole Lombard, who lost her life in a plane crash while on bond tour
MS Crowd mounting stands / PAN Down to crowd on stand / CU Captain Clark Gable, U. S. Army Air Corps, at microphone; he wears military uniform; he waves his hat to VO applause and walks away / crowd watching launch of the USS Carole Lombard / CU actress Irene Dunne, who sponsored and christened ship, practices with bottle; Mrs. Walter (Madalynne) Lang, who was secretary to Carole Lombard, Gable, and movie producer Louis B. Mayer, in bg / rear shot Dunne hits ship with bottle; ship starts down slipway / CU Gable, Dunne, and Mayer looking up / LS ship going down slipway / CU ship reaches water / CU Gable, Dunne, and Mayer / CU name "Carole Lombard" on the ship / high angle shot Dunne, holding a bouquet, walks with others
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Editorial #:
1720735495
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 15, 1944
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:00:50:05
Location:
San Pedro, California, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr005712_05_01
- Louis B Mayer,
- 1940-1949,
- Actor,
- Actress,
- Applauding,
- Archival,
- Army,
- Arts Culture and Entertainment,
- Beginnings,
- Black And White,
- Bottle,
- Bouquet,
- California,
- Carole Lombard,
- Celebrities,
- Ceremony,
- Champagne,
- Clark Gable,
- Conflict,
- Container Ship,
- Crowd of People,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Gable,
- HD Format,
- Hat,
- High Angle View,
- Horizontal,
- Identity,
- Irene Dunne,
- Looking Up,
- Microphone,
- Military Ship,
- Military Uniform,
- Movie,
- Moving Down,
- Navy,
- Newsreel,
- Panning,
- People,
- Produced Segment,
- Producer,
- Reaching,
- Real Time Video,
- Ship,
- Ship Launch,
- Spectator,
- Sponsor,
- US Military,
- US Navy,
- USA,
- Uniform,
- United States Army Air Corps,
- Video with Sound,
- Walking,
- Walter Lang,
- War,
- Watching,
- Water,
- World War II,