WWII - 1942, USA Homefront: Conquer By The Clock

Title. 21:15:17 Montage: Clock on wall. Typewriter typing; CU “WAR” from newspaper headline “ US declares war”. Arms rolling up sleeves & picking up tools. Grandfather clock ticks & dials turn superimposed on workers shovelling coal, operating machines, welding. Clocks, metronome & hourglass & superimposed on turning globe and workers, smoking factory chimneys. Brooklyn Navy Yard shipbuilding. Tanks & bombers out of factory. Corn harvested. Rifles assembled. Troops marching. 21:17:52 Montage: women on assembly line at rifle cartridge factory. Woman worker takes cigarette break & fails to check cartridge batch. CU girl smoking as packets roll out of assembly line. Montage & superimpositions of trains, world maps, seas. 21:19:25 Troops in jungle (dramatized) arrest Japanese; GI gets shot because of faulty cartridge. 21:20:54 Executive at desk looks at food order; looks at clock; goes out to baseball game. Secretary puts urgent telegraph on desk. Supplies shipped. CU calendar. Ship sails leaves, torpedo firing, bubbles of wake in water, explosion & ship is torpedoed. Man on lifeboat w/ other dead. 21:23:17 Montage clock, clouds, globe turning, time-zone clock. CUs watches & clocks superimposed on ammunition production line, workers to factories, clocking in, steel mill, CUs welding & CUs heavy machinery. 21:25:09 Clocks, hands in CU turning, end in V over marching troops. The End. War Production Lines; WWII; WW2; 1942; USA Homefront; War Efforts;