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Archival Film Footage on the World War II Homefront

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1900's - 1910's - 1930's 1940's 1980's 220349 220349 220349 COL&B/W SD 13.13.06
13.20.18 [Air Force Now - Project Warrior - Igor Sikorsky]
Russian aviation engineer Sikorsky: Retrospective

Native American Indian silhouette on horse at dawn and titles "Project Warrior" superimpose. Presenter CU.
Son at grave of Igor Sikorsky, early aviation engineer. CU son and early plane model in foreground
13.14.12 WW1 firing guns and explosions, soldiers out of trenches. Igor Sikorsky. Still first prototype biplane bomber . Women throw flowers at soldiers. Storming of Winter Palace? Pile of guns. Orthodox priest. Russian palace on fire (staged). Waves crashing on rocks. Immigrants. Statue of Liberty.
Stills: biplane in front of small hangar with sign 'Sikorsky" in Long Island. Manufacturing plane in garden. Pilots in front of plane.
All-metal twin-engine airliner. S-38. Plane factory. 13.15.42 Sikorsky at new plant in Stratford, Connecticut with Lindbergh. S-40 amphibious plane in flight, interior S-40 cockpit with control panel, S-40 on sea.
Sikorsky's son talks about Sikorsky's first interest about aviation stemming from Leonardo da Vinci and reading Jules Verne. Da Vinci early helicopter sketch.
13.16.39 Early helicopter failed experiments.
Aged Sikorsky talks re helicopter. Younger Sikorsky pilots early helicopter VS-300 (B/W & COL). Early helicopter lands on water . Pearl Harbor and newspaper headlines. XR-4 first army helicopter in flight and inside, flies around Capitol. Various World War Two locations and uses, rescue helicopter, large helicopter.
13.19.19 helicopter lifts up house. Reaches boat on fire at sea. Lifting wounded? man. Dropping food in Africa? and people on ground run to collect rations. Lifting man on rope. Igor Sikorsky out of plane with man in uniform. Still Sikorsky as old man. Helicopter acrobatics.

1918 & 1945
220411 220411 220411 b/w Sd 01.41.35
01.50.15 Story With Two Endings
WWII Troopship - wives cheering - kisses.
01.42.25 Book - pages open at chapter one and flicked over to The End ?
1918 - Printing press - newspaper headlines Armistice - end of World War One celebrations - crowds - troops marching parade
01.43.08 1920 Car factory - stock market - crowds of women in hats into department store. Shopping for clothes - crowds like sale scrum. Brief shots agriculture and industry. Prices go up in shops. Warehouse and factory. Warehouses overstocked with goods. Closed factories - unemployment - depression. Grocery shop closes down. Rural scene - farmer with equipment - notice Sheriff's Sale - bankruptcy. Deserted railyards. Coal mine closed - sign No Men wanted. Flashback end WWI and montage shots to show economic problems after war.
01.45.37 WWII Military marching - - brief shots - Crowds of men going to work in factory - shoppers in department store - factory with smoking chimneys - combine harvester - Beach and fairground scenes - happy people. Split screen showing economic disaster following WWI and what hopefully will happen after WWII
01.46.23 Mr Charles Trowbridge - economist ? - speaks to camera re importance of stable prices after the war. Graphic shows cost of living. Continues speaking over brief shot of woman in butchers shop. Montage people enjoying themselves - beach - kids playground - tennis - cinema. Queue for War Bonds - men going to work - Woman shopping in small self service grocery store- ration book. Military marching. Montage of 20's depression and contemporary wealth.

1938 - 1940's 220331 220331 220331 b/w Sd 14.01.05
14.03.35 Every War Bond Kills a Jap - Japanese atrocities
Inside factory floor, workers stop to listen to speech. Work in factories.
Japanese soldiers attacking Chinese (?) women and children, man buried alive, burning buildings. Two Chinese (?) being executed. Dead children in streets, disfigured bodies loaded on truck. US prisoner of war executed. Japanese soldiers running out on battlefield.
Views San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, new York. 100 dollar war bonds. Forging, plane, lorries, tanks, shells, guns stacked at warehouse and other war industry, intercut with dead Japs soldiers.
War loan.

194? 220475 220475 220475
B/W SD 16.38.43
16.40.50 War Film Bulletin No.12 - Help Save Tires Now
re Factory and various uses of rubber
Manufacturing synthetic rubber. Large vat and montage factory. Piles of tyres. Jeeps in various situations incl. rough terrain. Cannons wheeled through rivers and mud. Columns of vehicles. Rubber landing crafts. Man at sea in buoy. Tire production line. Civilian cars on road and motorway w/ superimposed text guidelines to save rubber . Inflating tires; truck on road; man looks at worn out, smooth tires. Narration encourages sharing car. Parking lot. Poster to encourage saving tires 'They've got more important places to go than you!"

1940 1944 220329 220329 220329 b/w Sd 11.52.24
12.03.36 Highballing to Victory.
On the use of rubber in the war.
1940: Nazi rally, Hitler speaking. Nazi soldiers in battle. Hitler and 2 others look at Eiffel Tower.
1944: French civilians at liberation smashing portraits of Hitler, carrying banner, holding newspaper 'Paris is liberated", crowds celebrating. American troops into French cities and villages from Normandy southwards. Red Ball Express convoys carrying American equipment through French towns. US plane bombers on ground and in flight.
Russia: Crane. Army lorries.
Italy: Guns wheeled into position. Army motorcycle.
Tanks, vehicles. Aerial view army vehicles parked. Large pile of tyres with workers.
USA: Inside tyre manufacturing factory. Woman worker. Vehicles on road in US streets and roads, towns and countryside. Military convoys. Shows the decline in civilian transportation. Describes the formal and combat wear on military truck and aeroplanes tires.
Port, trucks lifted onto ships. Burning at sea. Car graveyard. Burning and wrecked army vehicles by side of road, burning tyres.
Italy, winding mountain road. Vehicle exploding.
War planes taking off. Crash landing with tyre exploding, other plane crashes, planes burning.
World map with China and New Guinea.
Chinese soldiers in convoy equipped with American weapons in jungle.
Aerial view airfield in India, other views, weapon loaded into plane. Taking off. In flight over Himalayas, aerial view mountains going to China.
Aerial view Burma airfield (Michenau??). Bulldozer, dump truck, plane. Burma mountains, Lito Road (Burma Road)construction with Chinese coolies incl. children. US Army truck onto raft on river.
Road in S-E Asia with US army vehicles. Weapons carriers and construction equipment.
CU various army vehicles carrying supplies or weapons.

1940 220259 182608 &181532 / col 13.30.47
13.40.47 Symphony in F, R2 - Colour
Factory smokestacks, unload crude rubber from ships & onto conveyor; tire factory; trucks hauling bags of ?? & manufacturing plastic parts. Painting tractors, trucks. Pouring steel. V-8 motors on line. Factory freight RR. Glass blower; pouring plate glass, polishing, inspecting, bundling plexiglass, fitted in car. Unloading upholstery, cutting, finished interior. Final body assembly & driving off platform. Cars trucked. Counter to 28 millionth delivered. Puppets celebrate w/ pixillated parts self assembling. World's Fair, happy couple watching animated exhibit re V-8 Engine.

1940 LN 501-272
220771 220771 B/W SIL 06:35:0 7 - 06:35:46 [Boeing Bomber assembled and Tested]
Construction in factory. Boeing takeoff. Inside cockpit.

1940's ? 220351 220351 220351 Footage Farm colour Sd 01.01.00
01.14.50 Mainline USA - Produced and directed by Carl Dudley
Statue of Liberty against blue sky. Scenic / stock shots USA including mountains, coastline, Mount Rushmore - Capitol - Church like building - waterfall - Ferry on river - city street scenes. American diesel train towards and past camera sign on front Monon. Short shots work related - combine harvester - digger - smoking chimneys of factory - train through countryside.
01.02.52 Production shots - Interior steel mill - car assembly line.
01.03.15 Storybook, page turns. Following to represent the historical development of transportation Scenic shots fields, waterfall - tracking shot through farm land. Pony express rider - stagecoach - horse drawn wagon - cornfield - horse drawn wagon loaded with barrels. Map of USA
01.04.22 Old Steam train belching out black smoke towards camera - side shot same. More modern steam train past camera at speed. Various shots other trains.
01.05.40 Steam goods train passes in front of large building - short sequence of shots - mining - family at dinner - trying on jacket in shop - putting coal on domestic fire - car pulling into driveway
01.06.13 Wheat field - grocery shelf - consumables - family at dinner. Pennsylvania coal mine - coal transported by train. Copper mine - Iron mine - tree felled for lumber - cattle in water hole - oil transported by train - tractors on train - steam trains on track by lake.
01.07.18 Section dealing with the railroad transportation of people rather than goods. New York ? Interior railway station - hands packing suitcase for holiday - tickets - steam train. Various shots different passenger trains, interior carriages - dining cars, lounge and club cars - sleeping cars. Man typing on train. Tracking shot from train through countryside. Short sequence vacations - men riding horses - fishing in lake - crowded beach - horse riding - in motor boat - on toboggan - yacht sailing. Waterfall
01.09.22 Section on the rail industry's importance to the National economy as a buyer of goods. Top tracking shot over railway yard - moving train wheels by magnetic crane. Various shots different trains. Loading food onto train - interior dining car. Lumber transported by train. Back view man carrying money bag entering Bank of America
01.10.53 Railroad workers leaving yard. Worker arrives home, greeted by family. Various short shots different sorts of railroad workers including office workers - train drivers - track laying. Various shots train.
01.11.22 Pan up Empire State Building - financial district
01.11.36 Locomotives in yard - railway station exterior - cleaning locos. - goods wagons - track laying - railroad snow plough. Train towards camera. US troops boarding train ( short ) - Streets and highways, rivers and airports. Exterior school - athletics meeting - American football match - all helped " by railroad taxes "
01.13.08 Diesel and steam trains along. Various improvements in railways.

1940's 220196 220196 182090 / B/W sd 01.39.09
01.42.10 Tanks Roll Off By The Thousands - Arms production - tank factory
Tanks on trials - factory - tanks leaving by train - loaded onto ships - ships leaving for Europe - tanks on battlefield

1940's 220336 220336 220336 b/w Sd 21.01.00
21.17.14 Special Delivery - Japan - US armaments - Pacific War
Educational film about weapons.
Guns firing on land and from war ships. Explosions on land. Ground bombed seen from plane. Firing broadside from ship. Building in town being destroyed. Rubble and carcasses of buildings. Bombs dropped from planes. Field guns carried on vehicles.
American street with civilians and military. Various types of ammunition manufactured on production line. Shell makers, shell loaders, plane bombs, rocket powder and explosives. Workers lighting cigarettes.
Female worker (actress) being interviewed about safety risks in ammunition factories. Male workers (actors) interviewed. Grandma says she makes bombs too. They all ask questions over images of battle in Pacific, ground battle, firing guns in field and in front of house. Convoy crossing river. US troops in dug trench. Compares gun and Howitzer.
21.07.37 range table shows firing range and trajectory for different weapons with animation. Sound of all of them fired together. Corpses.
Rockets fired on ground and from plane. Rocket launcher on truck. Bazooka.
21.10.01 Explaining mechanical recoil: gun hanging in air, propelled back by shot. Government building in Manila fired at. Troops on high position with flag flying, near sea. Shells fired, explains why US uses so much ammunition. Shows map of Pacific area. Bombers flying, bombs inside plane. Explains how many bombs inside a plane. Bomber drops all its bombs together. Night, bombs burning seen from plane. Smoke bombs falling with trail. Flying over bombed city or industrial area. Destroyed bridges, docks, arsenal, factories. Targeting ship. Fleet of bombers. Large number of bombs dropped.
21.15.17 War casualties on stretchers, corpse in front of tank wheels. Fighting, raising flag. Blind man with patch on eye disembarking ship led by other soldiers. More Pacific battle on ground. American factory workers making bombs. Rows of shells and bombs fresh out of plant. Shells installed in plane, loaded in guns, passed from hand to hand.

1940s LN 501-037 220313 LN 501-037 B/W Sd 15.22.40
15.27.28 WWII - Homefront - CBS Playhouse Radio Broadcast
Black quartet, The Charioteers, singing 'Golden Slippers' before CBS mic, small orchestra behind. Fred McMurray & Rita Hayworth at one mic; Ginnie Simms, Don Wilson & Lou Holtz at another. Applause at end of song. MCU of Quartet singing again. 01:26:15 McMurray & Hayworth in MCU applaud. 01:27:20 Simms, Wilson & Holtz in MCU. Applaud. Audience applauding (sd) with both civilians & military. Control booth w/ both civilians & military.

1940s LN 501-037 220313 LN 501-037 B/W Sd 15.49.47
15.52.09 WWII - Homefront - Entertainment, Joe Louis - Al Jolson
7 black soldiers outside of Warner Brothers sound stage; stop talking & salute passing officer. CU of Joe Louis. 02.50.29 Sd. of Al Jolson singing 'When You are Far From Home...Mammy...'

1940s LN 501-037 220313 LN 501-037 B/W Si 15.52.13
15.54.48 WWII - Homefront - Entertainer, Loretta Young, Military Hospital
Ext. of military hospital. Loretta Young escorted in; other soldiers walking past. Int. Loretta Young sitting between beds talking w/ soldiers, passes ash tray. Eats life saver & gives to guy smoking. CU of her & him. She goes to different bed & talks with soldier.

1940s LN 501-037 220313 LN 501-037 B/W Si 15.54.49
15.57.47 WWII - Homefront - Entertainers
Ciro's sign in neon, not lit, lit. Interior w/ Anne Shirley, Joan Davis and others with officers. Dancing crowded around tables. Shirley in CU. 02.56.00 Presentation of bombardier's wings to Anne Shirley. MOS. Edgar Bergan & 2 soldiers at table. doing hand puppet tricks.

1940's LN 501-145 220594 220594 B/W Si 03.15.34
03.19.20 Chrysler Tank Factory -
Top shot production - cu wheels / tracks. Welding - tank lifted on overhead crane onto flat cars for transportation. Engineers working on tanks. Artillery / armaments. Finished tank driving down factory line. Men working on tanks.

1940s LN 501-252
LN 501-252 LN 501-252 B/W SD 16:57:31 - 17:06:56 American Scene #6, The: Steel Town Reel 1 of 2
WWII
GVs Youngstown, Ohio: Steel mills, clapboard houses. City centre street scenes. Bus stop and people getting on bus. Shoe shop window. Workers on way to factory. Freight trains bringing in iron ore, coal and limestone. Ore unloaded by cranes and conveyed up to top of blast furnace. Smelting ore into iron in blast furnace. Iron poured into furnace. Valve operator controlling blast.
17:02:05 Italian immigrant worker seen at home with family and kids by Christmas tree; opening presents.
Tracking shot in open hearth. Workers shovel dolomite into furnace. Charging scrap iron. Operator at gigantic bucket full of hot iron - iron poured into furnace. Foremen - their teenage boys playing football; good crowd cheering shots. Teenager in school principal's office. Physics class - looking at internal combustion engine. School cafeteria scene. Kids out of school.

1940s LN 501-252
LN 501-252 LN 501-252 B/W SD 17:07:26 - 17:13:57 American Scene #6, The: Steel Town Reel 2 of 2
WWII
Workers in open hearth. -Steel workers' symphony orchestra. Tapping the furnace. Giant ladle. Ingots carried over to blooming mill. Shaping ingots. Worker's union - Labour management meeting. Steel sheets out of machines.
Workers out of factory (mostly men). Good views steel mill exterior with smoke.

1941 - 1944 SN 099-002 200528 200496 SN 099-002 col 00.00.38
00.20.06 Life-Line Of The Nation ( Lifeline )
Scenics steam train through snow covered pass - different steam train - Steam train over bridge - Freight cars through snow Freight train with military equipment. Various shots different locomotives etc narration re importance of RR to nation at war. Lovely shot steam train against winter sky.
10.02.14 Capitol building - Military meeting with RR managers planning the use of trains in war,
10.02.46 Radio mast NBC radio announcer broadcasting re attack on Pearl Harbor and
people listening to the radio.
10.03.28 Various shots locomotives - steam and diesel. Loading military trucks, tanks, soldiers, troops marching , navy. CU steam engine - tanks and military equipment on freight cars, played out of station by military band. Freight cars carrying military equipment arrive embarkation areas - troops and equipment loaded on transport ships.
10.06.00 Various shots different trains and freight. Industry--mining - lumber - livestock - food, iron ore mine, etc. Ore loaded onto trains and transported to docks where it is dumped into lake carriers . Cargo ship and tugs .
10.08.14 Coal transported by rail. Steel mill. Transporting Eastern Oil by rail for Petroleum. Shipyards, shipyard worker talking to camera re building ships and the importance of RR transportation. Launch of naval ship
10.10.42 Interior office, typing pool, pins on map re freight car movements women at teletype machine 9/2/44. Warehouse owner being told by RR official that cars must be unloaded and released. Train switching. Montage of names on freight cars. all using same lines for war effort. Ship which ferries fully laden ship across frozen lake. Railroad linking Canada, US & Mexico. 10.13.50 Overhead crane
in factory - train wheels - RR employees using heavy machinery . Track inspection and maintenance. Postal service - mailbags - Railway Express truck. Maintaining and cleaning engines. Train guard. Interior signal box - train terminal. Shots old steam trains. Railway workers clocking on and off. Paperboy, man home to wife & daughter reads newspaper re war. Headlines Allies advance on All Fronts. Man goes to bed , on bedside cabinet photographs of two sons in forces.
10.16.50 Newspaper presses - Headlines Germany Quits Different paper headlines Tokyo Topples . Various shots different trains. interior dining and sleeping cars on passenger train. Various shots day and night trains . Pledge from The American Railroads.

1941 LN 501-106 LN 501-106 LN 501-106 b/w Si 05.49.29
05.53.50 [Factory & Smoking Chimneys]
Crane filling RR car with sand; large building in background. Man riding electric tractor with scrap past camera. Moving large motor out & hoisted onto truck. View of factory yard, semi out. Men unload wrapped large boxes onto small wagon. Chimney smoking in MCU. 3 chimneys.

1941 220463 220463 220463 b/w Sd 09.24.35
09.34.40 Beating Time WWII Homefront - armament production
On the need for rapid production of defence material.
Clocks ticking - montage short shots - men in office - family at dinner - radio studio - FDR - Congress.
Crowds of workers arrive for work clocking in. " Tom " typical American worker gets out of bed after alarm clock goes off, shaving, breakfast and leaves for work. Traffic scenes - car park. Workers entering gates. Tom takes over from last shift. Shows metal-milling machines, boring mills, steel foundries, presses, and forges in operation. Office - draughtsmen and engineers at boards. Scientist in lab. Managers confer - crowded office. New workers - medicals - receive orientation lectures and are trained. Shows excavation and construction work as General Electric plants progress. Restricted areas in factory. Aviation instruments, electric flying suits, turbo superchargers - radio equipment being assembled, pack howitzers, portable power plants and searchlights, auxiliary turbine generators, reduction gears, and turbines are finished and tested. Ships outfitted with G.E. turbines are launched. Montage workers in different factories.
pendulum - hooter blowing. Tom on his way home after finishing shift. Pan over industrial area.

1941 LN 501-139 LN 501-139 LN 501-139 b/w Si 10.33.41
10.34.30 Akron Ohio - Here's How to Save Rubber
Demonstration of how to prolong the life of car tyres and conserve rubber for defence needs. Interior factory, tank treads - large tyres wheeled out of factory into yard. Car being driven badly to show how wear occurs - braking / skidding / going over kerbs. Tire with rip. Motor car driven slowly towards camera. CU bald tyre

1941 LN 501-139 LN 501-139 LN 501-139 b/w Si 10.41.22
10.41.46 National Defence - Seattle - Knudsen Inspects Plane Plant
Chief knudsen on tour of North West defence factories. Group walking through aircraft factory.

1942 220269 220269 182735 / B/W si 02.15.25 Women & men working on motors on stands (focus prob.). A-20 (Fighter-Bomber) engine line. Pratt-Whitney engine line w/ black workers stacking parts. Man w/ tatoos working on wing; Pulling out large bomber tires from rack with Racist 'Tokio Kid' above. (09:19:48) Grandmotherly women working on installation for fuel & oil lines.
WWII Homefront - Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, CA]

1942 220269 220269 182735 / B/W si 02.18.44 Douglas Aircraft Factory. Dolly shot past older men (over 65 yrs old) filing parts on bench. Master machinist instructing woman at metal lathe; old man working on multiple-bit drill press w/ sign behind 'When you're AWOL you're working for the Axis'. Old men at grinders, & filing at bench. Women sewing in upholstry department. MCU of woman in kerchief at Singer sewing machine. MS woman welding with acetylene torches. CU.

1942 220269 220269 182735 / B/W si 02.24.19 Douglas Aircraft, El Segundo, CA. Sailor moves wing past camera; interior of hanger with Scout Bomber (SBD) pushed out by sailor trainees & civilians. SBD on line as Commander & two Lts. inspect & accept. Sailor trainees working on planes. Interior of SBD production line. Worker installing cartridge box. Young Chinese man working on engine. 09:28:36 Douglas Aircraft plant w/ assembly line of A-20 (Fighter-Bomber) & B-17F (Super flying Fortresses) & C 47 (Army Cargo Transports). Various shots. LS B17F assembly line. A-20 Assembly line.

1942 220269 220269 182735 / B/W si 02.28.11 Engine pulling 12' gun out of Washington Navy Yard factory. Other shots through yard of 12' gun. Gun taken off
train & placed on chocks in yard.

1942 220269 220269 182735 / B/W si 02.37.53 Goodyear Tire Co. CU Sign: War Industry Don't Park Day or Night; smokestack behind. Sign on roof & US flag. Workers crossing street to plant & traffic visible. War sign visible. Int. Women cutting, glueing, moving life rafts w/ male supervisor. Filling rafts from airhose. Cu applying cement on handles & filling. Navy officer & plant officials watch demonstration of inflation; Officer checks watch. CU raft inflating when tugged. Ext. Sign. Int. assy of rafts & inspecting seams. Men cutting rubber w/ hand cutter. CU women taping. Sign 'When You're AWOL you're working for the Axis'.

1942 220269 220269 182735 / B/W si 02.44.46 Kaiser Shipyards. LS Men working on steel plates on ground. Blacks & women riveting in CU & MCU. Lowering sections & welding into place. Cutting w/ torches on fore peak assy. Moving mast by crane & hoisting onto ship; 2 cranes moving 75 ton deck house onto ship & lowering into place. POV from camera up on crane overlooking many ways, with scaffolding about ships. Changing shift & men walking off; climbing out from sections of steel. Welders. Gantrys moving deck hosue. Sign Kaiser Company over entrance; many workers toward camera. Women. Modern plant with hills in background. Dusk & welding steel. Ship decorated for launching.

1942 220481 220481 220481
B/W SD 04:41:06 - 04:42:41 America's Battle of Production
New Army Pontoon Bridge: Inflated rubber bridge set up and tanks drives through.

Bombs for US Planes: Bomb factory. Missiles on production line.
Plane Factories Speed Up: Aircraft manufacturing.

1942 LN 100-216 220709 220709 B/W SD 07:29:36 - 07:40:20 Conquer By The Clock
"One slip-up on the home front assembly line can mean disaster on the battlefield!"
Clock on wall. Typewriter typing; CU "WAR" from newspaper headline " US declares war". Arms rolling up sleeves and picking up tools. Grandfather clock ticks and dials turn superimposed on workers shovelling coal , operating machines, welding. Clocks, metronome & hourglass and superimposed on turning globe and workers, smoking factory chimneys. Brooklyn Navy Yard shipbuilding. Tanks and bombers out of factory. Corn harvested. Troops marching.
07:32:41 Women on assembly line at rifle cartridge factory. Woman worker takes cigarette break and fails to check cartridge batch. Cu girl smoking as packets roll out of assembly line. Montage& superimpositions trains, world maps, seas.
07:34:13 Troops in jungle (dramatised) arrest Japanese; GI gets shot because of faulty cartridge.
Executive at desk looks at food order; looks at clock; goes out to baseball match. Secretary puts urgent telegraph on desk. Supplies shipped. Cu calendar. Ship sails off and is torpedoed. Man on lifeboat w/ other dead.
Montage clock, clouds, gl;obe turning, time-zone clock. CUs watches and clocks superimposed on ammunition production line, , workers in factory, clocking in, steel mill, welding and heavy machinery. Marching troops.
War production

1942 LN 501-020 LN 501-020 LN 501-020 B/W Si 04.58.05
05.06.28 WWII - Homefront - FDR ( Roosevelt ) & Henry Kaiser
President Roosevelts Tour of War Plants, Sept, 18th - 30th 1942
Wounded sailors visited by FDR & naval officers some in wheelchairs . Talking in open top car. FDR past. POV from train. FDR with officer in car outside train. Beside midget submarine, car surrounded by secret service. Docks & ships in background. FDR with Henry Kaiser in car. FDR's daughter shaking hands with Kaiser. Car past workers along dock, FDR waves. Ships under construction. Motorcade past camera. FDR talking with ??? FDR in car inside huge building watching molten metal poured. Shaking hands with sailors. Submarine on RR car. FDR's daughter introducing people to FDR. Talking with Kaiser. Launching large ship which was built in ten days & sliding down ways. Pan over several ships in shipyard. Handshaking beside train.

1943 ? LN 501-078 LN 501-078 LN 501-078 B/W Sd 07.21.02
07.29.14 WWII USA Homefront - War work
Machinist sitting making ? Birdcage hanging over machine with sign " Watch and Pray " Line of men in factory at lathes - pin-up girls posters. Man working at lathe with vase of flowers which he keeps smelling. Various shots factory. Sign Time is Short Remember our promise, delivery of the finest automatic pilot March 31 - Lets go gang, its up to us to see that its kept. Man smoking pipe working on machine. Poster, Quiet please, War worker Resting. Board on wall with St Louis and Cleveland. Fishbowl on top of radio. CU fishbowl which has sign One For All - All for One JAHCO Labor

1943 LN 501-131 LN 501-131 LN 501-131 b/w Sd 03.21.43
03.23.07 New Synthetic Rubber Factory World's Largest
Exterior rubber factory - rail tracks - storage tanks for Butadiene - shots of plant and thusands of workers. Interiors man made rubber manufacture - liquid pouring into vats - rolling process. Synthetic rubber " cake " off production line.

1943 LN 501-141 LN 501-141 LN 501-141 b/w Sd 15.30.25
15.39.15 A Community at War
Dayton, Ohio, solves its labour problems.
Homefront War Workers - production - organised labour.
Reel 1, Good montage of armament factories - men and women workers. Newspaper clippings - jobs vacant - idle factory. Animated graphic re production goals and manpower shortage.
15.32.35 Long Aerial views Dayton Ohio including homes and factories
15.33.05 Street scenes Dayton - meeeting April 7th 1943 re war production and lack of manpower. Committee formed after meeting comprising of Union leaders - Company heads and government representatives - Industrialists and Military . War Manpower Commission spokesmen help draft plans.
15.36.32 Two men hitching lift on highway leading to dayton. Travel - Trains - cu car wheel . Crowds on streets - queues everywhere - no vacancy signs. Influx of workers unprepared for. Crowds trying to get on train.
15.37.20 War Manpower Commission meeting. Various office shots gathering information from trade and industry. Typewriter - girl typing commission report.

1943 LN 501-141 LN 501-141 LN 501-141 b/w Sd 15.39.45
15.48.50 A Community at War Reel 2
Dayton, Ohio, solves its labour problems.
Homefront War Workers - production - organised labour.
Reel 2 Designers at drawing boards - office workers. Commission has decided that many of the unfilled jobs could be done by women. Women committee members visiting homes - knocking on doors - talking to housewives to try to recruit them to get a war job. One young mother being interviewed has to stop young son from falling over fence.
15.40.51 Day nursery - mothers leaving children - kissing goodbye. Kids eating and at play. Recruitment campaign intercut shots of daily life of women. Pamphlet War Worker. Motion picture cameras filming women at work for use in publicity. Interior cinema, brief shots audience - on screen in advertising film re Dayton Women are Marching to War.
15.43.07 Dayton Radio station conduct live interviews in factory with women workers. Scenes in middle class living room where four women are playing bridge and listening to radio broadcast. Shots Dayton with Billboards - newspapers - recruitment. Workers in factory. Aerial shots Dayton. Disabled workers - deaf mute girls cleaning lenses - blind man - handicapped man - old men all working for the war effort. Part time workers recruited including teachers and students. Women queue at counters to enlist for war work US employment services offices. Womens hands intercut doing domestic and industrial jobs - sewing / wiring - manicurist / filing in factory - cocktail shaker / using grinder - polishing shoes / polishing metalwork. Interior employment offices where industries are interviewing and hiring on the spot.
15.46.31 Workers pouring out of factory at end of shift. Streets. Store hours staggered to accomodate war workers. Shoppers at night. Department store interiors. Banks open at night - groups of workers cashing cheques. Beauty salon and barbers night shift. Exterior clubs, interior bowling alley - couples dancing on street - interior dance hall
15.48.35 Temporary accomodation for workers.

1943 LN 501-166 LN 501-166 LN 501-166 B/W SD 03.38.45
03.47.57 [[WWII - Bonds; Women; Cloverleafs; Kitchen] Homefront
War workers into plant; forging steel. CU of bond posters & bonds. Montage of good factory workers, office workrs. Bond rally at baseball field. Oldtimers w/ Babe Ruth hitting, Dimaggio running. Others hitting. Army office & men on field. Ships at dock,equipment, men in field. CU office sign: Gen Somervell, speaking. Maj Gen Loughry, Chief of Finance talking about soldiers buying bonds. Various meetings of officers. Forms being filled out; tanks & equipment past camera.. Line of 2 motor bombers taking off. Blacks marching; train runby; Men running ashore at dawn. Paratroops marching out; bailing out; Woman out of sleeping bag. Mail, sorting by women & at machines. Punch cards Women at file cabinets. Printing. CU bonds. Automatic envelope stuffer putting bonds into envelopes for posting out. Postman & Gold Star in window. Soldiers military parade in DC. Cloverleaf & highways with traffic - streamlined car; Rockettes; symphony; football. Beauty parade with cameramen, one under stairs as girls walk over. Women shopping Nylons in shop window - interior, women buy stockings. Man carries bride over threshold. Kitchen - Woman & 2 kids cooking; steaks, pies, pig.
Bonds appeal

1944 LN 501-078 LN 501-078 LN 501-078 B/W Si 07.29.32
07.39.38 WWII USA Homefront - Kaiser Shipyards
LS of dockyard panned across. Frame of ship under construction & large gantry cranes moving about; moving sheets of steel. Partially constructed portions of ships on ground. Freighters under construction in water with tug past. Ship Boulder Victory. Workers leaving or entering. Men welding on ship; one woman lowers mask. Another woman welding. Jack raising deck portion moved by tractor past camera. Raising large deck structure and swinging into place, workers on large steel plates seen from above. Kaiser Co. sign. Workers heading to work past guards; workers leaving toward camera.

1944 200518 200518 200518 Sd 01.08.06
01.10.44 War Bond Appeal - 6
Bells ringing ( for whom the bells are tolling ) Various battle scenes - US soldiers fighting and injured. Bodies. Wreaths laid in war cemetery
01.09.45 America homefront - industrials - machinery - steel factories - armament factories.
01.10.11 Casualities.

1944 220328 220328 220328 b/w Sd 09.04.35
09.09.07 Animation - Snafu - Homefront - first showing to Civilian audiences
An animated cartoon shows Private Snafu, in the Arctic, going back to camp in blizzard - sitting on stove to keep warm - Snafu imagines the folks at home having a good time - watching a magic television set which shows that people at home are working for the war effort.

1944 220328 220328 220328 b/w Sd 09.09.08
09.25.39 What Makes a Battle - Armaments production and supply - Pacific War - Marshall Islands
Stock piles of war supplies. Montage armament production - factory interiors and transport. Troops boarding tranport ships. Transport ships in convoy heading for Marshall Islands - animated map - Aircraft carriers in convoy - planes take off - aircraft in formation - strafing Japanese hangars. Kamikaze planes shot down. Naval guns firing. Ships in convoy - Ships firing at Roy and Namur - 4th Marines climbing into landing assault craft - battle scenes - landing craft heading for shore and on beach ( film jumps ) Troops on beach setting up radio communications - firing shells - troops run between foxholes - troops through jungle - troops helping injured - one with eyes bandaged - casuality on stretcher. Firing rifles under sniper fire. Explosion, dead Japanese soldiers. Beach scenes after battle, supply dump organised. Ships at sea - 7th infantry in landing craft their object is to take Kwajalein. Troops landing on two small islands either side of Kwajalein - stores and ammunition brought ashore. Firing artillery at Kwajalein - piles of shell cases. Infantry hit the beach at Kwajalein - battle scenes - firing. Tanks and artillery move up. Troops using flame throwers. Japanese soldiers surrender - medic treats japanese prisoner. POW Prisoners of war - damaged aircraft and buildings. Japanese foxhole and artillery. Medics treat wounded American soldiers. Injured on stretchers transferred to hospital ship. Beach littered with bodies of Japanese. Dead U*S troops laid in rows, details / paperwork - fingerprint taken from body - graves. Funeral service on beach - good shot troops in silhouette firing salute
09.21.31 - 09.22.57 Film Fault on ptc by three star General
09.22.58 Three star General piece to camera " As General Eisenhowers deputy in ETO .... talks about importance of work done on the homefront - American productive genius. Appeal for fifth war loan. Shots repeated

1944 220414 220414 220414 b/w Sd 06.44.20
06.53.04 Birth of the B-29
Explosions, volcano eruption montage. 'Japan, land of the Little People'. Anti-japanese propaganda based on ceremonies, farming, modern buildings & night life. Silk mills, made in Japan stamps. Steel mill. Japanese military parading. Dead marines. Bombers t.o. from Hornet. Aerials over Tokyo burning.
06.48.06 Doolittle statement. Freight trains into aircraft factory.
CU feet & workers into plants inspected. Time clock. Huge factory interior - aircraft production - posters re B-29 Super Fortress. Moving aluminum, plating, forming (blacks working). Women riveting at bench; riveting jigs. Wings hoisted & moved. Engines mounted. Nose sections assembled. Excellent footage of aircraft production

1944 220414 220414 220414 b/w Sd 06.53.05
07.03.40 Birth of the B-29
POV from crane over factory floor. Pressurised compartments - Armoured glass observation bubble. CU women & men working, young & old, blacks & whites. Good shots to show vastness of factory . Final assembly of B-29 superfortress. Putting on insignia. Towing out. Workers looking up as sound of plane taking off. In air, very long sustained shot. Models of earlier / smaller bombers. Aircraft in flight CU of wing flaps. Landing gear dropping. Plane landing in China.
07.01.17 Flashback to Chinese breaking rocks & wheeling to build airfields by hand; tamping, rolling. 07.02.40 B-29 Unloading, briefing, taking off again. In flight above clouds. Excellent footage of aircraft production

1944 LN 501-098 220527 220527 b/w SD 20:21:54 - 23:24:38 Fight Waste Trailer - War Film Bulletin No. 13
Sgt. Booth in wheelchair - disabled after losing leg in Africa campaign. Nurse adjusting artificial limb. Sgt. Booth speaking re help from all Americans.
23:22:31 American family home - young boy enters front door and sits at dinner table with parents. Two empty chairs of family members who are serving overseas. Brief shots re homefront - Dad working in factory, mother looking after family and working as nurses aid in hospital. Re conserving electricity - turning off lights - mother puts vacuum cleaner in cupboard - turns down central heating controls - cooking eggs and bacon for breakfast - conserving waste fat in empty can.
23:23:50 Scrap metal and old newspapers collected for war effort. Mother at sewing machine repairing old clothes for donation to Salvation army. On screen list re how to fight waste.

1944 LN 501-141 LN 501-141 LN 501-141 b/w Sd 15.11.21
15.19.04 People to People Reel 2
Four British trades union men on an exchange visit.
Visit to the Chrysler plant in Detroit - The operations of multiple drills are observed at Chrysler Tank Arsenal, Detroit. Armament factory. Woman worker. British delegate visits Labor leaders home.
15.12.34 Los Angeles - British delegate at home of Union leader - having drinks in the garden.
15.13.05 The headquarters of the Screen Actors' Guild in Los Angeles is visited, Shows Edward Arnold, George Murphy, Dick Powell, Jane Wyman, Helen Hayes, and Lena Horne. Screen Actors Guild union card. Union rep and host leaving suburban home by car.
15.14.31 The assembly of Ventura and Constellation airplanes is viewed at the Lockheed plant in Los Angeles. Outdoor production lines under camouflage. Stratosphere Transport plane taking off. Turntable Drill presses and electric spot welders are used. Safety signs. Machinery and factory shots. Looking through window into first aid department. Car sharing.
15.17.53 Outdoor cafeteria scenes. Flying Fortress wing on jig. Wing on overhead crane. Flying Fortress on apron.

1944 LN 501-217 220682 220682 B/W SD 18:55:34 - 19:00:31
[WWII - Homefront - American Bureau of Shipping]
Ext. of American Bureau of Shipping. Doorway & man out. Man in & people past. Int. of meeting. 'an adequate Merchant Marine is absolutely essential to national economy...we must maintain a fleet to act as a naval auxilliary in case of another war..' Men listening. Multiple takes, stilted delivery. MCU of men listening & smoking.

1944 LN 501-217 220682 220682 B/W SIL 18:51:17 - 18:55:32
[WWII - Homefront - US Merchant Marine Building, NYC]
Pedestrians on sidewalk outside Merchant Marine bldg. Traffic on street looking North on Broadway w/ buses pasing.
18:51:59 Men in office around table w/ W.W. Schwenk, Atlantic Coast Director of WSA Div. HQ. looking at report and data book (Secret war Shipping Admin. Data Book). CU cover. CU sign: Office of Atlantic Coast Director, War Shipping Adm Entrance.

1944 LN 501-217 220682 220682 B/W SIL 19:00:41 - 19:08:43
[WWII - Homefront - Catalina Island & Avalon Bay w/ Casino]
LS of Catalina Island & pan over Maritime Service Station to Avalon Bay & casino & dock. LS from water; shot of Casino & past in boat. Many small boats. Approaching dock. Houses on hill. Merchant Marine men into building. Lt. Comdr. Casilli USNR Exec. Officer & Lt. Comm. Z.K. Fonyo USMC training officer. CU US Maritime Services Adm Offices. CU Maritime Service Training Station sign. Pan over barracks, lane w/ names; men run toward camera for noon muster. Trainees march to class past camera. POV from ship looking down on dock. Cargo booms from Casino balcony. Men working winches under watch of instructors. Trainees in MS.

1945 220329 220329 220329 b/w Sd 11.19.42
11.31.53
Don't Be a Sucker - Part 1 of 2
Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice.
Reel 1 shows a fake wrestling match and "crooked" gambling games.
Innocent young man gambles w/ crooks on train. other man with girl in bar kisses him, knocked out by girls' partner in crime in street. Faces superimposed on dice.
Waiter carries beers in train compartment, pan to young man and out of window to fields. Factories, cityscape, crowds, ploughing fields, factory chimneys, workers in mines, department store, Black child plays with whites, cattle, churches, fisherman mending nets.
An agitator addresses a street crowd, one black amongst them; he almost convinces one man in the audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons (actor speaking English). German at home with wife and kids in uniform. Nazi rally, Hitler (actor), meeting in restaurant raided by Nazis, posters torn, Jewish man beaten out of shop, Catholic priest arrested. Superimposed images Hitler, rallys, nazi soldiers marching. Book burning, exodus, BBC radio speaker, Goebbels (not actor), priests, German teacher explains Nazi racial theories; the teacher is dragged away by SS soldiers.

1945 220468 220468 220468 B/W SD 01.25.02
01.26.09 Weapons For War - New Oxygen Tanks For Planes Do Not Explode When Shot
Factory scenes: Steel bands put on oxygen tanks. Test by gunfire at Akron, Ohio.

1945 220475 220475 220475
B/W SD 16.21.10
16.21.53 War Industry - Girls, Your Nylon Is Going Into Giant Tires for B-29s
Tire factory. Woman's legs behind nylon strings. Cu testing tyres. Man handles giant tire and compare size with normal and small tires.

1945 220476 220476 220476
B/W SD 18.18.39
18.19.13 50,000th Tank Leaves Plant
Women factory workers. Tank out of plant. Sign "50,000th combat vehicle from Ford Motor Co." on wall. Tank past row of other tanks.

1945 220478 220478 220478
B/W SD 22:02:15 - 22:03:57 Flashes Of The War - Bigger And Bigger Bombs For Hitler
2-ton bomb taken out of hangar and loaded on plane.
4-ton bomb: 8,000 super-blockbuster carried on cart and loaded.
6-tonner "factory buster" carried to plane and loaded.
22:03:02 Allied Headquarters In A Wine Cellar - Allied HQ in underground cellar in Italy. CU piles of money (dollars?) being counted (soldier's pay). Pictures of pinups on wall. Soldier at typewriter under pinup photos.
22:03:34 Coast Guard Displays 10 men In A Jeep - new super jeep that can be used as troop carrier demonstrated on Long Island beach.

1945 220480 220480 220480
B/W SD 03:07:02 - 03:08:24 Good News Girls! Nylon stockings Are Back Again
Narrated by Lew Lehr.
Nylon stocking factory. Stockings manufactured and put on shapes.
Three women's legs stick out of black curtain; women emerge from behind curtains and lift up their skirts top show off tights. Woman rolls up stockings.
Erotica

1945 LN 501-186 LN 501-186 LN 501-186 B/W Si 04.51.38
05.01.22 Modern Factories - Plexiglass and Steel Manufacture
Exterior factory. Exterior Teckna Company Plastics. Exterior Pimble Glass ? factory. Exterior plastics plant, man arrives and gets out of car. Interior production - men polishing plexiglass bubbles . Woman measuring dimensions. Girl using machine to test shatter point ? Closer shots tests.
04.56.57 Ornaments and homeware items made from perspex displayed on table.
04.57.14 Good shot smoking chimneys - industrial area - steam train moving slowly. Docks - dredgers.
04.59.38 Interior - steel - molten metal.

1945? 220468 220468 220468 B/W SD 02.17.45
02.18.58 Reconversion in America
Factories returned to peacetime manufacturing rather than armament: Pittsburgh aluminium factory makes pots and pans Dayton Ohio plant making refrigerators. Woman opens fridge and stores food item in freezer. NJ plants: cars off production line. Car on road. Fold-out tent set-up in field

c 1944 200492 182619 &170201 / B/W Sd 17.17.54
17.22.02
[In The Service of America, Part II] Entry 2 of 2
(17.17.54)LS Factories with smoking chimneys. Jeeps driven off, M-4 tanks, M-10 tank destroyers, DUKWs amphibian jeeps, armoured cars, glider on airfield and in flight. Supercharger reactor.
(17.19.22) Inside Ford factory plant, men and women workers assembling aircraft engine. Pratt & Whitney engine assembled. Young people being taught assembly of engines at Ford Aircraft School. Engine going to testing.