Genres: Sponsored films. / Collection: IUL Moving Image Archive / Language: English

Date:: 1941
Main contributors:: General Motors Corporation
Summary:: Focuses on the conservation of important natural elements such as rubber, oil and metal needed to support the U.S. Victory Program. Viewers are shown various ways in which they can change daily habits to get the most out of these materials.

Date:: 1941
Main contributors:: Howard, Sydney, 1885-1946
Summary:: Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.

Date:: 1943
Main contributors:: United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:: Presents the wartime activities of four African American colleges--Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Prairie View College in Texas, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Hampton Institute in Virginia.

Date:: 1943
Main contributors:: United States. Department of the Treasury.
Summary:: 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.

Date:: 1943
Main contributors:: United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:: "A quick overview of the weeks spent in learning to jump, tumble, and fall, in practice jumping from a tower and from a dummy plane, in packing the parachute one's life depends on, in learning to jump from a plane in half a second, to guide a chute by working the shroud cords, to land without splintering a leg, to disengage the chute and come up fighting."--War Films, Bulletin of the Extension Division, Indiana University, February, 1943.

Date:: 1945
Main contributors:: United States. Army Air Forces.
Summary:: Shows how the Army Air Forces during World War II flew wounded men from Pacific battle areas to hospitals and home towns in the United States. Uses a mix of actuality footage and fictional reenactments to follow a soldier from being wounded in action, cared for by medics on the battlefield, undergoing surgery in a mobile hospital near the front lines, recuperating in Guam, being shipped back to the United States, and convalescing in hospital near the soldier's home town.

Date:: 1944
Main contributors:: Quackenbush, Robert S., 1904-1985
Summary:: Dramatization showing how Navy photographers and photographic interpreters provided the intelligence necessary to launch a strike against a Japanese airfield in the Solomon Islands. Ends with a statement by Commander R.S. Quackenbush, Jr. urging viewers to purchase war bonds.

Date:: 1944
Main contributors:: See Other Contributors
Summary:: Dramatized cases of five different workers, unsatisfactory in particular jobs, who are reassigned to other jobs more suitable to their abilities and capacities.

Date:: 1944
Main contributors:: See Other Contributors
Summary:: A plant supervisor talks to his son, who has built a boat in the basement too large to go through the door, about planning a job in advance; and recounts several illustrative experiences at the plant.

Date:: 1942
Main contributors:: Constable, J. M.
Summary:: Presents the general aims of the civilian defense program during World War II. Describes the training and duties of the air raid warden. Closes with a proclamation by Governor Schricker.

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