Lady Bird Johnson's Home Movie #40, HM40: Australia Revisited 1966
Channel: TheLBJLibrary
Date: 2012-08-04

Home Movie #40: Australia Revisited, 1966 (1942) Narration:  Silent film with professional narrator, possibly William Conrad. Technical Notes:  Mostly color footage but some black & white; almost entirely outdoor footage.  (For WWII Australia scenes.  See also HM 6) Rights: No usage fees [apart from Pearl Harbor attack footage, which is from an unknown original source; copyright warnings apply to that segment.]

LBJ and CTJ leaving the United States 

LBJ and CTJ leaving helicopter and boarding Air Force One.
Map showing route from United States to Australia.
LBJ inside Air Force One looking out the windows. 
Map of Australia.
Crowd scenes at Sydney's airport.
LBJ and CTJ arriving by plane, greeting
  people, and taking motorcade through streets.

Attack on Pearl Harbor and LBJ in Washington, 1941.

Planes attacking Pearl Harbor and the damaged ships.
Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (night). 
LBJ (in suit) pointing to map of Australia. 

LBJ in Australia, 1942.

Australian Provision House and Navy House. 
LBJ (in Naval uniform) leaving Navy House and downtown street scenes.
US officers and Australians sitting around tables relaxing. 
LBJ (in tan uniform) talking to US and Australian military men at air base?
LBJ (in uniform) sitting on cannon monument in park.
LBJ (in uniform) on beach examining barbed wire and ships.
Outside scenes of Melbourne hospital and    inside views of wounded service men. 

Airstrips being built in New Guinea, and planes taking off and landing; LBJ inside one of the planes.

Natives cutting cane for airstrip in New Guinea,  and completed airstrip.
Planes taking off with fighter escorts.
LBJ inside a plane. 
Air fight between bombers and fighters, and several planes landing on their bellies.
Men surveying a crashed plane. 

Japanese bombing Darwin, and LBJ examining the damage.

Japanese planes bombing Darwin.
LBJ surveying damaged planes and hangers.
Houses in Darwin destroyed, and docks damaged.
Temporary military living,quarters.
US planes hidden near air strip.
LBJ leaning over an improvised oven.
Scenes of military men talking near their camp.

LBJ in aircraft searching for the enemy and forced to land in the Australian bush, 
near North Gregory.

Men scrambling to their planes, and aircraft taking off.
Men inside plane searching for the enemy.  
Plane landing and scenes of Australian landscape.
 Men examining plane with kangaroos nearby.
 A rancher arrives by truck to help.
 Australian family in convertible. 
Australian landscape: rock formations, forests, animals.
US servicemen in North Gregory streets.
LBJ talking to residents of North Gregory.
Street scenes of store signs, town buildings, and people.
LBJ and others back at the plane, refueling.
Other military men talking near the plane.
LBJ near petrol cans and leaving with the crew to board the plane.

LBJ and CTJ Johnson in motorcade leaving Australia, 1966.

LBJ and CTJ in motorcade moving through crowds of Australians and leaving Australia.
Map of Australia and route back to United States.

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