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Send Your Tin Cans To War

Reel Number: 221397-11

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1943

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 16:23:31

TC Ends: 16:26:13

Duration: 00:02:42

Send Your Tin Cans To War Office of War Information Bulletin Dump truck unloading tin cans. 16:23:47 Donald Nelson speaks to camera (SOF) asks housewives to clean tin cans, remove labels, cut out lids & flatten. Trucks dumping into large container & railroad cars of tin cans out of train yards. Unloading trucks, railroad cars & then detinning, baled & shipped to steel mill. Molten pure tin poured into molds. Ingots moved thru factories, tin cans being filled & packed for war shipment. Loading cartons into army trucks. 16:25:55 Army sergeant in field opening tin can & eating from mess kit. The End. Instructional Films; WWII Homefront Propaganda; WW2 Salvage;

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