Salvage

Salvage Office of War Information Donald M. Nelson narrates over scenics of USA. Night & neon advertising signs; sign: Shoot the Works. Pan past junk yard, cars on parkway interchange in New York City area. Speaks to camera saying “we need things we used to throw away...” “We’ve got to learn to save as our enemies did...” “I’m going to take you into one of our secret defense plants...” 10:31:55 Guard swings open metal gate; interior of tank factory & working on tracks. “Will Charlie, this is one of the last rubber tracks we’ll get...if we don’t get rubber we’ll have to stop making good tanks.” Treads mounted; tires on jeep, on plane. Scrap rubber piled. Throwing out rubber from garage; checking medicine chest, other rubber piled up. 10:33:05 LS of large factory; int. women & men at large machines. “Let me show you a plant where shells are made.” CU machines & cartridges, sheets of powder held up. Sign “save waste fats for explosives!” 10:33:38 CU Kitchen spatula lifting ham slice out of frying pan, grease put thru cloth into tin can & puts into ice-box. Giving to butcher who pays her. Fats dumped into tanks & processed. Steel mill, men shoveling chemicals into furnace. Foreman SOF on need of scrap in rolling mill. Scrap in farm yard & thrown into truck from barn. Men taking scrap to yard. Nelson talks about tin cans; only want where we have plants. “Do not bring in your tin cans until the call goes out.” 10:35:56 Woman preparing can for salvage, cleaning, cutting off tops & flattening. Adds kitchen pans & utensils. Boys gathering scrap. Large junkyard. People bring scrap to Official Salvage Depot (signs). 10:37:35 Montage: scrap dumped, tank run-over, planes, jeeps, artillery fired. The End. WWII Homefront; Metals; 1940s; War Effort Plea; WW2;