18441. Northwest by air (15:16)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows how Canada's northwest airlines have conquered the almost impenetrable natural barriers of rivers and mountains on the Pacific coast. Reveals how air bases were built, supplied, and serviced ...

18442. Out of Bed into Action (16:26)

Date:
1944
Summary:
This film outlines the convalescent training program for hospitalized U.S. airmen in World War II. It is designed to acquaint the convalescent with the program in which he will take part. Patients ...

18444. Photography fights (13:36)

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 sta...

18445. 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 pat...

18446. Placing the right man on the job (12:28)

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

18447. Planing Rough Surfaces To Dimensions (16:41)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Shows how to adjust the table for the desired thickness; how to set the feed rolls for the proper speed; how to feed with the grain; and how to surface short pieces and glued stock.

18448. Planning and laying out work (09:58)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
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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.

18449. Principles of home canning (10:58)

Date:
1944
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; Natalie K. Fitch
Summary:
Shows the steps in the canning of foods that are governed by principles of bacteriology, sterilization, other factors of temperature control, timing, and hermetic sealing. Shows the boiling-water-b...

18450. Quadrilaterals (12:51)

Date:
1944
Summary:
Illustrates and explains the chief properties of the important quadrilaterals such as the parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, square, trapezoid, and trapezium.