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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…
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: 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…
Wartime Factory
Argues that the men and women working in a British airplane factory are the true secret weapon that will win the war against the Nazis. Shows an average day at the factory where work goes on around the clock. Maintaining peak efficiency is…
Tanks: A Defense Report on Film
"Official OEM film. Shows the mass production of America's fighting 'land ships.' Narrated by Orson Welles." (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 11.) This film details how "the roaring, plunging, vehicle…
Machine Shop Work: Action, Use and Care of Single Point Cutting Tools: No. 2: Fundamentals of End Cutting Tools
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…
It’s Up To Us
This film focuses on the conservation of important natural elements such as rubber, oil and metal needed to win the war. Viewers are shown various ways in which they can change daily habits to get the most out of these materials. "How to conserve…
Canada Carries On: The Battle of Brains
Stating that "from the start of the war Canada has realized the importance of mechanization" the film emphasizes the role of Canadian scientists and the National Research Council in developing superior precision weapons for modern mechanized warfare.…