18361. 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.

18362. 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.

18363. 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...

18364. 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...

18365. 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...

18366. 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...

18367. 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...

18368. 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...

18369. 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...

18372. Hong Kong Blues (03:10)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
R.C.M. Productions; Sam Coslow; Josef Berne
Summary:
[motion picture]

18373. How the ear functions (12:26)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Diagrams and photographs show the external, middle, and inner ear and their component parts. Illustrates the auditory canal, ear drum, malleus, labyrinth, stapes, semicircular canals, vestibule, c...

18374. How the eye functions (12:04)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Shows the functions of the various parts of the eye by diagrammatic drawings and explanatory notes. A classroom film.

18375. I understand (03:37)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
The Radio Rogues; Minoco Productions, Inc.
Summary:
The Radio Rogues performing the popular song "I Understand". Includes impersonations of Rudy Vallee, Peter Lorre, and Ned Sparks.

18376. It's Up to Us (11:18)

Date:
1941
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 hab...

18377. Iwo Jima (03:27)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States Marine Corps; War Finance Department of the U.S. Treasury Department

18378. Japanese Relocation (10:07)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Immediately following Pearl Harbor, one of the critical problems facing the United States was what to do with the 100,000 people of Japanese descent living up and down the Pacific Coast. The immedi...

18379. Kentucky pioneers (11:12)

Date:
1941
Summary:
Follows two pioneer families along the difficult and dangerous Wilderness Road to the Kentucky frontier fort at Harrod's Station. Describes the hardships encountered in establishing a new home in ...

18380. Lazybones (03:08)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
R.C.M. Productions; Sam Coslow; Dudley Murphy
Summary:
[motion picture]