Welcomed Visitors Aka Welcome Visitors (1941)

Item title reads - Welcome visitors. Brisbane, Australia. L/S of American destroyer in Brisbane harbour, the camera pans across Guards on deck. Various shots as sailors run off the ship. Children run up and ask for autographs from them. M/S as two sailors get in a taxi. Various shots of the sailors in the city, mostly chatting up girls and getting telephone numbers. M/S of American sailor with two Australian soldiers, various shots as a group of American and Australian servicemen share cigarettes. C/U of one American sailor drinking from a paper cup and winking. M/S as another puts it to his mouth and taps the bottom to get every last drop out. M/S of American Stars and Stripes flag. Cataloguer’s note: there is another version of this item containing some of the same footage entitled ’US Destroyers Visit Australia’ in 41/79 on *PM1131*. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CL