1. The thousand days (21:20)

Date:
[1943]
Summary:
Describes the Canadian effort in World War II including news footage of Churchill addressing the Canadian Parliament, the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway, and Canadian tank and aircraft production.

2. Study of Government (14:40)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
Indiana U Instructional Support Services
Summary:
[motion picture] Orients students to the opportunities and experiences for the study of government at a typical college or university. Emphasizes that government cannot be taken for granted and that everyone is a part of the government. Demonstrates various areas of government for study: American government, politics, public administration, comparative and internal relations, and immediate controversial problems. Concludes with the generalization that the study of government is democracy at work.

3. Semper Paratus (06:12)

Date:
194u
Main contributors:
The Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:

5. The World at War (43:15)

Date:
194u
Main contributors:
The Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures; Samuel Spewack
Summary:

9. Pincers on Japan (18:58)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
National Film Board of Canada
Summary:
"Canada's place in the strategy of Pacific warfare is the subject of this wartime film. Convoys, carrying the sinews of war, steam out from her ports, while along her western coast lookouts and patrol boats keep constant vigil. The close cooperation between the United States and Canada in the Pacific is illustrated."--NFB website.

11. Atacama Desert (16:43)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States Information Agency, United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Summary:
Begins with a brief geography lesson to orient North American viewers to the size and climate of Chile. Scenes of indigenous shepherding in desert villages are followed by a visit to the Christmas celebration of the Virgin of Andecollo. Scenes at a giant open-pit copper mine at Chuquicamata show the extraction process from blasting ore to refining. Narration states that the Atacama holds the world's largest source of nitrate; a history of this lucrative industry is summarized. The mineral riches of the region go to market at the sea ports of Tocapilla and Antofagasta. The wealth from Chile's natural resources are shown accruing in the prosperous, modern cities of Valparaiso and Santiago.

12. Bill Jack vs. Adolf Hitler (18:11)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Shows how the Jack and Heintz Company, in Cleveland, greatly increased its output during World War II through improved personnel policies.

13. Brazil's Fishing School (14:52)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States Information Agency, United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Summary:
Tells the story of Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas's favorite project, the Marambaia Fishing School, located fifty miles south of Rio de Janeiro on the Bay of Ilha Grande. Illustrates how the unique project trains Brazilian boys in such fishing arts as handling and building small boats, making and repairing nets, and catching many varieties fish from sardines to sharks. Detailed depiction of sardine processing and cannery, and the catching and processing of sharks for various derivative products. Narration addressed to northern audiences emphasizes that learning innovative ideas such as this school are a benefit of U.S. alliance with Brazil.

14. Brazilian Quartz Goes to War (10:04)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States Information Agency, United States. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Summary:
The value of Brazilian quartz to the allied war effort is shown as narration proclaims "two-way radio is the one really new instrument in the armory of warfare." Explains the value of quartz in radio communication, showing how a wafer of its crystal makes possible the simultaneous broadcasting of many stations without overlapping. The film emphasizes the necessity for international cooperation in the war effort. Shows quartz mining in Brazil: pictures the hard manual labor involved in mining Brazilian quartz, the inspection, the exportation of most of it to the United States, and the laboratory cutting of it to fit the complex instruments of World War II. Personages: President Roosevelt, Brazilian President Vargas, Joseph Stalin, General Marshall, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (see U.S. National Archives and Records Administration catalog record http://research.archives.gov/description/40254).

17. Crops For Combat (09:35)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture, United States. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Summary:

18. Discipline: Giving Orders (13:49)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
United States Navy, Division of Personnel Supervision and Management, United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, Atlas Educational Film Company
Summary:
U.S. Navy training film intended to instruct managers how to maintain workplace discipline effectively. Dramatic scenarios contrast ineffective managerial styles with better approaches. Stresses the importance of disciplining a worker properly and giving orders clearly. Shows the results obtained in an office where emphasis is placed on gaining the workers' confidence. Narration states that "we are engaged in a war in which time is a weapon." Women clerical workers are shown gossiping until their boss enters the room, as the narrator points out that "hours are wasted in every day of the year" in many workplaces. The film shows that the remedy for this waste is to maintain discipline, and recommends that "a good supervisor steers a course between harshness and leniency."

19. Evening care (07:08)

Date:
1943
Summary:
Stresses that the obligation of each hospital corpsman in the Navy is to be cheerful and make each patient comfortable. Demonstrates an alcohol rub which will prevent pressure sores.

20. Farmer At War (10:55)

Date:
1943
Main contributors:
Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures, The War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry
Summary:
Shows how Pennsylvania Dutch communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania solved farming problems caused by the war. Emphasizes that the population is largely of German ancestry. Extra physical effort and cooperative farming compensate for shortages of manpower and machinery. Shows farmers doing farm chores, such as milking, feeding, and picking corn without the labor of young men gone to war. A cooperative meets and discusses sharing of scarce farm machinery after church. Contains scenes of farm life in the homes of several farmers. Profile of farmer Moses Zimmerman shows how increased production is being achieved with less farm labor, families are adopting to food rationing.