Show-Business at War

The history of the Corps, from Colonial times to the present day (1942, that is). The film's midsection details the arduous training procedure of the Few and the Proud at Parris Island and elsewhere. Finally, wartime newsreel footage is adroitly blended with dramatized re-enactments to illustrate the contributions - and the utter necessity-of the marines in WW II.

A nine-minute tour of famed Brooklyn amusement park Coney Island, focusing on the brightly-lit rides and attractions and the people who flock to the park at night to get away from the daytime heat during the summer.

Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.

The film used no professional actors, instead relying on residents of the town where most of the filming took place: New London, Connecticut.