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00:00 Credits: United States Marine Corps; pages of a humorous book about becoming a citizen
00:50 Humorist Robert Benchley in a uniform with numerous medals speaks about becoming a civilian; he mangles the message
02:43 women at poolside; one dives
02:52 a couple kisses; men and women by the pool; a woman with a low cut bathing suit gives a Marine a sandwich
03:17 a gaggle of women with a lone man, and a man on his stomach watches women's legs passing; others diving
03:42 women give a man a cigarette and a drink
03:53 'Separation Centers'
04:07 men in the pool playing with a ball; baseball
04:13 Benchley in a different uniform with a sexy woman; he walks forward to join a group; a man falls to the floor
05:02 men at leisure in a Separation Center
05:17 VS a Marine joins an interviewer [Hugh Beaumont] in the center; they talk about him going into civilian life; men talk about employment
06:06 man at an 'insurance' desks; 'Civil Service Commission'; 'Education'; 'USE9'
06:18 Marine and Beaumont talk about education and other resources available to the servicemen; CU a 'rehabilitation officer' card; they laugh
07:20 Benchley with a pamphlet, 'going back to civilian life'; he fixes his tie; a lapel button; he sprinkles moth balls on his uniform
08:20 he cheerfully walks down the street in civilian clothing and enters a bar and orders a beer; military police; back in his uniform, Benchley sees a portrait resembling himself; it talks
09:46 he joins Beaumont; they talk about his service and previous nonsensical job; fishing
Time: 1940s
Setting: United States
People: Robert Benchley, Hugh Beaumont
Objects: swimming pools, bathing suits, cigarettes, United States, United States Marine Corps, post-war, WWII, humor, kissing, legs, bars, beer, Separation Centers,
Subjects: Post-War Civilians
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