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1942 - Conquer By The Clock

Reel Number: 220709-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1942

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 07:29:03

TC Ends: 07:40:20

Duration: 00:11:17

Conquer By The Clock “One slip-up on the home front assembly line can mean disaster on the battlefield!” Clock on wall. Typewriter typing; CU “WAR” from newspaper headline “ US declares war”. Arms rolling up sleeves and picking up tools. Grandfather clock ticks and dials turn superimposed on workers shoveling coal, operating machines, welding. Clocks, metronome & hourglass and superimposed on turning globe and workers, smoking factory chimneys. Brooklyn Navy Yard shipbuilding. Tanks and bombers out of factory. Corn harvested. Troops marching. 07:32:41 Women on assembly line at rifle cartridge factory. Woman worker takes cigarette break and fails to check cartridge batch. CU girl smoking as packets roll out of assembly line. Montage & superimpositions trains, world maps, seas. 07:34:13 Troops in jungle (dramatized) arrest Japanese; GI gets shot because of faulty cartridge. Executive at desk looks at food order; looks at clock; goes out to baseball match. Secretary puts urgent telegraph on desk. Supplies shipped. Cu calendar. Ship sails off and is torpedoed. Man on lifeboat w/ other dead. Montage clock, clouds, globe turning, time-zone clock. CUs watches and clocks superimposed on ammunition production line, workers in factory, clocking in, steel mill, welding and heavy machinery. Marching troops. War production; WWII; WW2; 1942; Homefront; War Efforts; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.

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