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Short films shot by Mt. Olive man during WWII available on-line

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published July 21, 2017 at 6:09 AM EDT
N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

A brief look at everyday life for U-S Servicemen in the Pacific Theatre during World War II is now available online through the North Carolina state archives. George Olsen has more.

The state archives recently posted two short unedited amateur films shot in 1943 by a Mount Olive man stationed in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Daniel D. Price was stationed with the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 38th Air Materials Squadron on the island of Guadalcancal in 1943. One film, in black and white, shows servicemen swimming at a beach and providing laundry operations. The other, in color, shows Price and his friend Bill Carroll travelling on Guadalcanal in a U-S Army Jeep… until it gets stuck in a muddy creek. The short films can be viewed at the state archives’ You Tube page. The original films have been preserved through a grant by the National Film Preservation Foundation. I’m George Olsen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ5c8lNbv18&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmGpGiCbpsI
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George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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