Supervising Women Workers
A short from the "Problems of Supervision" series of educational films released in 1944 to aid in the increasing of factory efficiency through the solving of interpersonal problems that reduce the rate of production. In this film, a line supervisor discusses the challenges of supervising the new wartime workforce of women with his foreman. According to the film, these problems arise out of women not being familiar with technology and technical language. Solutions to these challenges include a training regime that breaks down factory labor into easy to understand steps, use plain language, define technical terms, and to use tools appropriate for gender. Women are presented as being good at repetitive labor requiring a high degree of manual dexterity. Male factory managers are warned not to get romantically involved with any women workers and are given techniques to deal with the highly emotional nature of women workers. According to the film, "A foreman will always have the eternal feminine to contend with."
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1944
Indiana University Goes to War
Filmed principally on the campus of Indiana University, this film depicts the activities of various organizations and classes as they contribute to the war effort. Shows IU President Herman B. Wells meeting with deans and administrators to make curricular changes to meet new demands. Shots of classes in medicine, nursing, nutrition, physical education, military training, practice teaching, sciences, language, law, etc., show many students at their daily work. Reflects the tempo of a university campus geared to a wartime program. "Indiana University Goes to War" was sponsored by the Indiana University Alumni Association.
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E. Ross Bartley: director; Charles T. Chapman: photography
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Women at War
Explores the role of women in the war effort. Shows British women caring for evacuee children, working in the land army, as ambulance drivers and auto mechanics, in defense factories, ferrying planes for the R.A.F., and operating rest centers.
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Mary Welsh: commentary writer; Janet Murrow: commentator; Louise Birt: editor; John G. Winant, American Ambassador to Great Britain: introduction
Suggestion Box
<span>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 and boost production. Encourages viewers to provide resourceful suggestions that, if tested and approved, can be circulated to factories around the country and benefit industry as a whole.</span>
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On the War Bond Front
Presents a recent history of the war savings program from its inception in July 1941 to January, 1943, with special emphasis on the activities of retail stores and the payroll savings plan. Buiyng war bonds is described as another front on the war.
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The Gardens of Victory
"How the fighting forces and the people of our Allied nations and the starving families of the conquered countries are depending more and more on the United States for their vital food supply. How each person can do his part to relieve this food shortage by having victory gardens in every vacant lot or space." (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 12.)
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Basil Ruysdael: narrator
The Work of the Rescue Unit
<span>Presents the training of civilians for rescue work during World War II. Shows the procedures for assigning volunteers to the type of work for which they are prepared and training them to perform as a unit. Follows a squad from the sounding of the alarm, going to the scene, surveying the wreckage and taking notes, and tunneling for buried victims, to the orderly departure of the squad from the scene.</span>
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Target Lights
<span>A training film addressed to members of the civilian defense corps to teach communities to prepare their homes for air raid blackouts. Introduced with the statement "these are the things you must learn to teach." "This film is an illustrated narrative of the method of preparing any home for a 'black-out'. It illustrates the vital importance to every family of knowing what to do and just how to do it. No details are omitted and the instructions are clear and well illustrated. Preparation of a shelter room is described and illustrated." (Frank Frankowiak, "Analysis and Evaluation of 16mm Motion Pictures Library Available at Indiana State Teachers College" (thesis), June, 1948, 109.)</span>
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What To Do in a Gas Attack
<span>This film explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties. It is explained that gas may not destroy cities the same way bombs do but rather its intended purpose “is to spread fear and panic, to destroy our morale, and cripple our war production.” Viewers are told that their best form of defense is to be prepared and know what to do after an attack.</span>
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Sherman Price: Written, Directed, Produced By
The Trimbles of Maple Street
A fictional story illustrates the civil defense block plan, showing how neighbors can share and work together to extend resources to support the war effort.
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John McDonald: story; Charles Cromer: story; Don Malkames: photography