Manpower
Office of War Information
Montage: Crowded pedestrians, people leaving factories; working in steel mill; Housewife changing vacuum bag; campus w/ students; women playing cards; men looking for work; nearly deserted employment office; machinist at heavy lathe or ??; riveter; man at gates of war plant trying to hire men entering. Workers lined up outside factory waiting to get job. Homeless on railroad station platform. Men sharing bed in room in shifts.
16:16:14 Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commission, speaking to camera (SOF). Baltimore test area w/ men at map, office meetings. Man speaking to microphone telling union members to not change jobs w/o clearing thru union. Employers signing agreement. Three women going thru surveys. Man (SOF) who’s a beer salesman agrees to be a pipefitter; given leave. Working on shipbuilding at dockyard. Small businessman going to work in factory.
16:18:23 Department store manager tells employees (SOF) they’ve got to go to work in war industry.
16:18:32 Shop floor in war plant w/ machinists working. Unemployed negroes & Blacks in low-skilled jobs trained for gas & arc welding. “How am I doing?” “Okay”.
16:19:38 Woman on bicycle at Western Union office delivering messages. Others working at service station, lubricating car on hoist. Woman doing crocheting, then working with wiring harnesses. Training women in factory. Training in gas welding; woman operating lathe; line of women at drill presses; others riveting in aircraft industry. Pay line & envelopes. Women drilling.
16:21:26 Woman & man punching time clock. Women taking small kids to day care. Large line of combines; young people working on farm. Gallup Poll in newspaper. Employment office & young man in; physically handicapped at work bench. Woman looking at display of war products.
16:22:48 Montage: women in plant, men in steel mill; artillery firing, picking vegetables, manufacturing, factories & steel mill w/ sparks. The End.
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Manpower Office of War Information Montage: Crowded pedestrians, people leaving factories; working in steel mill; Housewife changing vacuum bag; campus w/ students; women playing cards; men looking for work; nearly deserted employment office; machinist at heavy lathe or ??; riveter; man at gates of war plant trying to hire men entering. Workers lined up outside factory waiting to get job. Homeless on railroad station platform. Men sharing bed in room in shifts. 16:16:14 Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commission, speaking to camera (SOF). Baltimore test area w/ men at map, office meetings. Man speaking to microphone telling union members to not change jobs w/o clearing thru union. Employers signing agreement. Three women going thru surveys. Man (SOF) who’s a beer salesman agrees to be a pipefitter; given leave. Working on shipbuilding at dockyard. Small businessman going to work in factory. 16:18:23 Department store manager tells employees (SOF) they’ve got to go to work in war industry. 16:18:32 Shop floor in war plant w/ machinists working. Unemployed negroes & Blacks in low-skilled jobs trained for gas & arc welding. “How am I doing?” “Okay”. 16:19:38 Woman on bicycle at Western Union office delivering messages. Others working at service station, lubricating car on hoist. Woman doing crocheting, then working with wiring harnesses. Training women in factory. Training in gas welding; woman operating lathe; line of women at drill presses; others riveting in aircraft industry. Pay line & envelopes. Women drilling. 16:21:26 Woman & man punching time clock. Women taking small kids to day care. Large line of combines; young people working on farm. Gallup Poll in newspaper. Employment office & young man in; physically handicapped at work bench. Woman looking at display of war products. 16:22:48 Montage: women in plant, men in steel mill; artillery firing, picking vegetables, manufacturing, factories & steel mill w/ sparks. The End. WWII Homefront Propaganda; Jobs Advertising; Training; Incentives;