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10081. Western front (20:22)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Wilding Picture Productions
Summary:
Begins with a short summary of American attitudes to the War in Europe and how the U.S. underestimated the militaristic tendencies of the Japanese. Argues that the Chinese have been fighting World ...

10082. Winning your wings (18:32)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Stewart, James, 1908-1997
Summary:
Starring Lt. James Stewart, this WWII recruitment film shows jobs, training and education provided to men between the ages of 18 and 26 who enlist in the U.S. Army Air Forces.

10083. Wooden face of Totonicapan (09:50)

Date:
1942
Summary:
Shows a workman producing one of the wooden masks used in religious festivals in Guatemala. Then pictures a religious procession at Solosa, with its effigies of Christ, and a special worship servi...

10084. World of plenty (44:42)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Rotha, Paul, 1907-1984.
Summary:
Uses found footage and animated diagrams to discuss the production, distribution, and consumption of food; the pre-war problems of overproduction and the anomaly of glutted markets and hungry peopl...

10085. Yale Winter 1942 (04:56)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Edward R. Feil
Summary:
Home movie shot by Ed Feil during his time as a student at Yale. Primarily shows 2 football games from Fall 1942: Yale vs. Dartmouth and Yale vs. Brown. Also shows the Yale campus with focus on Nat...

10087. You Can't Eat Tobacco (13:18)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
Mary L. DeGive; Margaret T. Cussler
Summary:
A social issue film directed at the problems of public health and malnutrition among rural southern tenant-farming communities. The film points directly to exploitative practices of the tobacco ind...

10088. Youth farm volunteers (04:57)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Bureau of Motion Pictures
Summary:
Shows how the Extension Service of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture helped recruit and place young people from towns and cities on farms during World War II to combat farm labor shortage.

10089. Aggression and destruction games : balloons (17:33)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Two boys, both between the ages of four and five, are subjects in a study of aggressive and destructive impulses. The film shows how differently two children, but a few months apart in age and fro...

10090. Alaska : reservoir of resources (10:40)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Reviews Alaska's geographical features, locates its three great climatic regions, and indicates the major factors that make Alaska a true reservoir of resources. Depicts activities in the seven gr...

10091. Army in overalls (07:32)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Shows the Civilian Conservation Corps working with Army engineers to improve and expand military reservations in the United States. A defense report on film.

10092. Building a bomber : a defense report on film (19:10)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States. Office for Emergency Management
Summary:
"Step-by-step manufacture and assembly of the B-26 medium bomber in the Glenn Martin plant at Baltimore."--War Films, Bulletin of the Extension Division, Indiana University, February, 1943.

10093. Defending the City's Health (11:14)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Erpi Classroom Films Inc.; Wilson G. Smillie
Summary:
Modern community hygiene controls are presented. How the death rate from communicable diseases has been reduced through scientific advances and social controls. The effective functioning of a pub...

10094. Drilling and tapping cast steel (18:58)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Technique of drilling and tapping blind holes in cast steel on a radial drill. A drill jig with loose bushings is used for locating the holes. Setting up the work on the table of the machine, sett...

10095. Drilling, boring and reaming work held in chuck (10:57)

Date:
1941
Summary:
This film gives the operations followed when cutting a tapered hole in a solid forged gear blank. Operations of entering the piece in a chuck, rough facing drilling, taper-boring, and reaming. Che...

10097. Eskimo children (11:01)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Henry R. Collins, Jr.
Summary:
Portrays representative activities of an Eskimo family living on Nunivak Island, off the Alaskan coast. Focuses on the children and looks at the Eskimo solution to the problems of food, shelter, c...

10098. Fixed gages (17:00)

Date:
1941
Summary:
An explanation and definition of the various forms of fixed gages, a demonstration in the correct use and care of fixed gages. Emphasizes their importance in modern mass production. A series of vie...

10099. Give me liberty (20:57)

Date:
1941
Summary:
The scene is Virginia, 1765, just after the King's tax proclamation has been read and the legislature is in an uproar. Ensuing events lead to a protest meeting held by patriots at Richmond, at whic...

10100. Harvests For Tomorrow (26:29)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Summary:
Documents farming practices in the New England states, showing the prosperity that fertile soils brought to hardworking farmers who cleared the hilly land. That fertile soil, rich in minerals, accu...