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Suggestion Box
Illustrates seemingly minor suggestions and improvements that individuals in various types of workplaces have made to increase production and salvage materials during wartime. This film shows how even just one small adjustment can increase savings…
Road to Berlin
This film focuses on the many aspects of the wartime production and supply dissemination "chain", from creating goods to navigating the dangerous delivery of shipments. "A Nazi submarine 'wolf pack' racing to intercept a convoy carrying urgently…
Report from Russia
A film intended to show U.S. audiences the lives of their allied civilian counterparts in Russia. Shows the defense of Moscow during air raids, Soviet war bond drives, agricultural and industrial productivity. Emphasizes the role of women in the…
Price of Freedom
This film "outlines the role that industry is playing in our war effort. Production of munitions and the operation of the payroll withdrawal plan for War Bonds are among the subjects treated." ("Free Film Reviews", Movie Makers, January, 1943, 34.)…
Pincers on Japan
"Pincers on Japan" notes that "Alaska and the Northern Pacific are highly vulnerable to bombing and parachute attack ... it is in this area that the New World will feel the impact of Japan." The film describes Canada's place in the strategy of the…
Our Enemy: The Japanese
"Originally produced by March of Time as one of a series of three Navy training films, this picture will lead to a better and clearer understanding of the nature of our enemy. It is authentically narrated by our former ambassador to Japan, Joseph C.…
My Japan
Presented as an authentic message from the Japanese people to the American people, this film is actually a fake newsreel designed to counter any views the American moviegoer might have had about the Japanese being a backwards nation. The film employs…
Machine Shop Work: Operations on the Vertical Drill: No. 2: Countersinking, Counterboring and Spot Facing
As part of the war effort, the U. S. Office of Education released 48 films in 1941 and 1942 to train factory workers and shipbuilders under a project called Victory Training Films. The success of these titles helped convince the federal government…
Machine Shop Work: Bench Work: No. 4 Reaming With Straight Hand Reamers
As part of the war effort, the U. S. Office of Education released 48 films in 1941 and 1942 to train factory workers and shipbuilders under a project called Victory Training Films. The success of these titles helped convince the federal government…
Machine Shop Work: Bench Work: No. 2: Scraping Flat Surfaces
As part of the war effort, the U. S. Office of Education released 48 films in 1941 and 1942 to train factory workers and shipbuilders under a project called Victory Training Films. The success of these titles helped convince the federal government…